At eight o'clock in the evening, British time, the European Broadcasting Union kicked off the first semi-final of the sixty-seventh edition of Eurovision. A gala, held at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, in which 15 countries participated: Norway, Malta, Serbia, Latvia, Portugal, Ireland, Croatia, Switzerland, Israel, Moldova, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Netherlands and Finland.

The winner of the third season of The Voice of Switzerland, who presented a song called Watergun, is Noa Kirel.