Romania: Semi-finalists for Selecţia Naţională 2018 announced

Five shows will take place across Romania in the next couple of months: Selecţia Naţională 2018 will select the Romanian entry at Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon. 60 songs have proceeded through to the semi-finals of Selecţia Naţională 2018. The public will decide the winner to represent Romania in Lisbon at Eurovision 2018. The final to be held on 25 February 2018.

Selecţia Naţională – Semi-finalists

• Lina – "A Love Worth Falling For"
• Erminio Sinni & Titziana Camelin – "All The Love Away"
• Save – "All We Need"
• Jukebox Feat Bella Santiago – "Auzi Cum Bate"
• Alessandro Dănescu – "Breaking Up"
• Feli – "Bună De Iubit"
• Zavera – "Come Back To Me"
• Zoltan – "Dacă Dragostea E Oarbă"
• Mareş Pană – "Daydremer"
• Tiri – "Deşert De Sentimente"
• Johnny Bădulescu – "Devoted"
• Meriem – "End The Battle"
• Sergiu Bolota – "Every Little Thing"
• Dora Gaitanovici – "Fără Tine"
• Aurel Dincă – "Fire In The Sky"
• Freia – "Fix Me"
• Teodora Dinu – "Fly"
• Hellen – "From Underneath"
• The Humans – "Goodbye"
• M I H A I – "Heaven"
• Paula Crişan – "I Am Here"
• Iliana – "I Won't Lie"
• Tavi Clonda – "King"
• Vyros – "La La La"
• Jessie Baneş – "Lightning Strikes"
• Evermorph – "Live Your Life"
• Romeo Zaharia – "Maybe This Time"
•  Eduard Santha – "Mesom Romales"
• Echoes – "Mirror"
• Cristian Siminonescu – "Nirvana"
• Alex Florea – "Nobody Told Me It Would Hurt"
• Othello – "Noi Suntem Pădure"
• Alice Jeckel – "Out Of The Dark"
• Diana Brătan – "Paint It Rainbow"
• Dan Manciulea – "Rază De Soare"
• Carolina Gorun – "Reach Out For The Stars"
• Waleska – "Reborn"
• Lion's Roar – "Rekindle The Flame"
• Elena Hasna – "Revival"
• Liviu Anghel – "Rise Up"
• Miruna Diaconescu – "Run For You"
• Serena – "Safari"
• Alexandru Ungureanu – "Sail With Me"
• Eliza Chifu – "So Good Without You"
• Manuel Chivari – "Somebody To Love"
• Maria Suciu – "Sweet Nothing"
• Cornel – "Take Me Away"
• Pragu De Sus – "Te Voi Chema"
• Tom Leo Wiart – "Teardrop Rain"
• Denisa Trofim – "Tears"
• Claudia Andas – "The One"
• Elena Turcu – "The Perfect Fall"
• Ayona – "The Story Goes On"
• Endless Feat Maria Grosu – "Thinking About You"
• Ioana Ciornea – "Time After Time"
• Bernice Chiţiul – "Too Busy For My Heart"
• Xandra – "Try"
• Nicoleta Ţicală – "Una Oportunidad"
• Alexia & Matei – "Walking On Water"
• Rafael – "We Are One"

Selecţia Naţională 2018

In Selecţia Naţională 2018 there will be five heats and one final. 12 songs will compete in each of the five heats, where 15 songs will qualify for the final of Selecţia Naţională 2018 on 25 February 2018.

The jury members of Selecţia Naţională are:

• Marian Ionescu –Founder of the band Directia 5.
• Ilinca – Romania 2017: "Yodel It!" (with Alex Florea) – finished 7th.
• Nicu Patoi – Has been part of the Romanian music industry for over 30 years
• Liliana Stefan – Composer, Producer and lyricist.
• Viorel Gavrila – Member of the Union of Composers and Musicologists of Bucharest

Romania in Eurovision Song Contest

Romania had its debut in 1994, and has been participating 18 times since. They have never won the contest, but came 3rd in 2005 (Luminita Anghel & Sistem - "Let Me Try") and 2010 (Paula Seling & Ovi - "Playing With Fire").

Romania was expelled from Eurovision 2016 due to unpaid dept to EBU, so the winner of Selecţia Naţională 2016, Ovidiu Anton didn't participate in Stockholm.

Since the introductions of semi-finals in 2004, Romania has qualified to the Grand Final 13 out of 13 times.