Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Country	Finland
National selection
Selection process	Artist: Internal selection; Song: Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2018
Selection date(s)	Artist: 7 November 2017; Song: 3 March 2018
Selected entrant	Saara Aalto
Selected song	"Monsters"
Selected songwriter(s)	Saara Aalto; Joy Deb; Linnea Deb; Ki Fitzgerald;
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Qualified (10th, 108 points)
Final result	25th, 46 points
Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Finland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Monsters" written by Saara Aalto, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb and Ki Fitzgerald. The song was performed by Saara Aalto, who was internally selected by the Finnish broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) in November 2017 to represent the nation at the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal. The national final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2018 was organised in order to select the song that Aalto would perform. Three songs were selected to compete in the national final on 3 March 2018 where the 50/50 combination of votes from eight international jury groups and votes from the public selected "Monsters" as the winning song.

Finland was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 8 May 2018. Performing during the show in position 15, "Monsters" was announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 12 May. It was later revealed that Finland placed tenth out of the 19 participating countries in the semi-final with 108 points. In the final, Finland performed in position 17 and placed twenty-fifth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 46 points.