US Edition🇪🇸 Spain: RTVE Releases Rules for Benidorm Fest 2026
- RTVE has released the guidelines for Benidorm Fest 2026, Spain’s national competition to select its entry for Eurovision 2026, with the application period starting on June 5, 2025.
- The edition will be the fifth consecutive year using Benidorm Fest, with 16 to 20 acts chosen based on song quality to compete in two semi-finals and a final in early 2026.
- Voting will include 50% national jury, 25% demoscopic panel from the Spanish population, and 25% public vote via RTVE Play app, with a creative team overseeing stage production.
- The winning entry will receive €150,000 gross, split as €100,000 for performers and €50,000 for songwriters, while entries must meet nationality and language requirements.
- Benidorm Fest 2026 aims to improve festival growth and preparation time for artists ahead of Eurovision’s 70th edition, to be held in Austria in May 2026.
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TVE publishes the foundations of Benidorm Fest 2026 and opens its registration period until September 24th with great news.
The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, advanced it last week in Congress, and this Wednesday has been confirmed: public television has changed the bases of the...
The reception of songs will be open until the 24th of September and new bases have been established.These are the novelties of Benidorm Fest 2026
When Melody’s participation in Eurovision is still hot and the steps taken by the winner of Benidorm Fest 2025 after her 24th place in the competition, RTVE has already taken to work with the contest to choose the representative of Spain for 2026. And it comes with new features. To begin, there will be a cash prize for the winner, but not only for him; the demoscopic vote returns, there will be creative direction for the first time. And, in addi…
RTVE Removes a Clause so Abusive for Its Representative in Eurovision that It Is Forced to Revoke It
RTVE has had to reculate. In the initial bases of the Benidorm Fest 2026, the corporation introduced a clause that completely limited the media presence of the Spanish representative in Eurovision outside the public chain. The text said literally: “You will not be able to participate in programs, interviews or spaces or similar acts of other media than RTVE from the selection to participate in the Benidorm Fest and until its completion, and in t…
RTVE has announced the opening of the registration deadline for Benidorm Fest 2026, the selection process that will determine the next representative of Spain at the Eurovision Festival. From Thursday 5 June at 10 a.m. and until 24 September at 23.59 a.m., interested artists will be able to submit their proposals through the form enabled on the official website of the public entity, where the participation bases are also available. In this fifth…
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