After announcing the 24 participating artists a month ago, and a slight change of line-up in-between, Croatian broadcaster HRT has now released the songs and confirmed the Semi-Final running orders for Dora 2026.
🇭🇷 Dora 2026 set for February 12, 13 and 15
Overall, 24 acts will take part in Croatia’s Eurovision 2026 selection process, Dora 2026. Across two nights, two live Semi-Finals will take place on February 12 and February 13. Each Semi-Final will feature 12 acts. HRT has now confirmed the running orders of these Semi-Finals as follows:
Semi-Final 1
- Lima Len – “Raketa“
- Jasmina Makota – “Higher“
- Ananda – “Dora“
- Tony Sky – “O ne!“
- Fran Uccellini – “Ako bolje bude sutra“
- Ema Bubić – “Vrijeme za nas“
- Noelle – “Uninterrupted“
- Alen Đuras – “From Ashes To Flame“
- Fenksta – “Memento Mori“
- Cold Snap – “Mucho Macho“
- ToMa – “Ledina“
- LELEK – “Andromeda“
Semi-Final 2
- Ritam Noir – “Profumi di mare“
- Irma – “Ni traga“
- Gabrijel Ivić – “Light Up“
- Zevin – “My Mind“
- Ivan Sever – “Crying Eyes“
- Lana Mandarić – “Tama“
- Stela Rade – “Nema te“
- Devin – “Over Me“
- Kandžija – “3 ujutro“
- Marko Kutlić – “Neotuđivo“
- Sergej – “Scream“
- Lara Demarin – “Mantra“
A total of 8 acts from each Semi-Final will advance to the Grand Final of Dora 2026 on February 15. The Final will be held at the HRT studios in Zagreb. The winner will represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 taking place in Vienna, Austria this May.
Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Croatia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest as an independent country since 1993, and their only absences were in 2014 and 2015. Croatia are currently enjoying a newfound success in the contest following a run of poor results in the 2010s. In 2024 it was the turn of Baby Lasagna to represent the Balkan nation with the entry, ‘Rim Tim Tagi Dim’. During the Malmö contest, Baby Lasagna achieved Croatia’s best result in the contest with second place, scoring 547 points.
Earlier this year, Marko Bošnjak won Dora 2025 with his entry ‘Poison Cake’. Unfortunately it failed to make the Basel final, achieving 12th place in the first Semi-Final.
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