The Icelandic broadcaster RÚV has just announced the participating artists and released their songs for Söngvakeppnin 2020.

10 songs has been selected to compete in this year's Söngvakeppnin – Five songs for each Semi-final.

Ten participating songs, one winner. Who will follow Hatari? Listen to the songs and share your thoughts.

All the songs have to be performed in Icelandic language in the Semi-finals. In the Final it's optional for each singer if he/she will perform the song in Icelandic or in English.

Final

29 February 2020

Running Artist Song 1 Ísold & Helga Meet Me Halfway 2 Daði & Gagnamagnið Think About Things 3 Nína Dagbjört Echo 4 Iva Oculis videre 5 DIMMA Almyrkvi

Ísold & Helga – "Meet Me Halfway"

Daði & Gagnamagnið – "Think About Things"

Nína Dagbjört – "Echo"

Iva – "Oculis videre"

DIMMA – "Almyrkvi"

Semi-final 1 8 February 2020 Running Artist Icelandic English 1 Kid Isak Ævintýri 2 Elísabet Elta þig Haunting 3 Brynja Mary Augun þín In Your Eyes 4 Ísold & Helga finalist Klukkan tifar Meet Me Halfway 5 DIMMA finalist Almyrkvi Result Semi-final 1: DIMMA and Ísold & Helga qualified for the final "Ævintýri" "Ævintýri" Kid Isak "Elta þig" "Elta þig" "Haunting" "Haunting" Elísabet "Augun þín" "Augun þín" "In Your Eyes" "In Your Eyes" Brynja Mary "Klukkan tifar" "Klukkan tifar" "Meet Me Halfway" Ísold & Helga "Almyrkvi" DIMMA

Semi-final 2 15 February 2020 Running Artist Icelandic English 1 Daði Freyr finalist Gagnamagnið Think About Things 2 Hildur Vala Fellibylur 3 Iva finalist Oculis Videre Oculis Videre 4 Nína wildcard Ekkó Echo 5 Matti Matt Dreyma Result Semi-final 2: Iva, Daði & Gagnamagnið and Nína qualified for the final "Gagnamagnið" "Gagnamagnið" "Think About Things" Daði Freyr "Fellibylur" "Fellibylur" Hildur Vala "Oculis Videre" "Oculis Videre" "Oculis Videre" Iva "Ekkó" "Ekkó" "Echo" Nína "Dreyma" "Dreyma" Matti Matt

Söngvakeppnin 2020

This contest has usually been the way Iceland's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest is chosen, since their debut in ESC.

The format of Söngvakeppnin 2020 will be exactly the same as last year, with two Semi-finals and a Final:

Semi-final 1: 8 February 2020

Semi-final 2: 15 February 2020

Final: 29 February 2020

Five songs are competing in each semi-final. Four songs qualify to the grand final (two from each semi). The last spot is awarded by RÚV, giving the opportunity to a fifth act to perform in the final event.

The outcome will be decided by the combination of an expert judging panel and the public votes. The two semi-finals will take place in Háskólabíó Conference Hall, while the final will take place in Laugardalshöll. Both venues are located in the country's biggest city, Reykjavik.

RÚV will broadcast all three shows.

Iceland 1999: Selma Björnsdóttir - "All Out Of Luck"

Iceland's debut in Eurovision Song Contest was back in 1986, and has been participating 32 times since.

Best result are two second-places with Yohanna in 2009 and Selma in 1999.

Iceland 1999: Selma Björnsdóttir - "All Out Of Luck"

Since the introduction of Semi-finals in 2004 Iceland qualified to the Grand Final 9 out of 16 times.

Iceland is the only Northern European country that has yet to win the Eurovision Song Contest.