The Eurovision Song Contest is waltzing back to Vienna .

Custom dictates that the country of the contest’s winner hosts the next edition, so Austria was duly set as the location when JJ won Eurovision 2025 with ‘Wasted Love’.

The Austrian capital, Vienna, has been selected as the location for the upcoming 70 th Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place on May 16 next year.

Historically, Vienna was home to Beethoven and scores of European composers, and come 2026, musicians and singers will perform their Eurovision numbers in the city’s Wiener Stadthalle, Austria’s largest indoor arena.

Vienna is familiar ground for Eurovision. It first hosted the Contest in 1967 after Udo Jürgens’ win with ‘Merci Chérie’ – and then again in 2015, following Conchita Wurst’s victory in 2014 with

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