Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Söngvakeppnin 2019 is the fourteenth edition of Söngvakeppnin, the music competition that selects Iceland's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Ten songs in total competed in Söngvakeppnin 2019, where the winner was determined after two semi-finals and a final. The two semi-finals took place at the Háskólabíó conference hall in Reykjavík on 9 and 16 February 2019, with five songs competing in each. The final took place at the Laugardalshöll in Reykjavík on 2 March 2019, where the top two songs from each semi-final competed.[2] In addition to that, the Icelandic national broadcaster reserved a right to advance a wildcard act to the final out of the remaining non-qualifying acts from both semi-finals.[3]

RÚV opened a submission period between 20 September 2018 and 22 October 2018 in order for interested parties to submit their entries. The submitted songs were not allowed to exceed three minutes. Songs have to contain lyrics in Icelandic for the performance in the semi-final, and be performed in the language they are intended to be performed at Eurovision in the final of Söngvakeppnin.

The first semi-final took place on 9 February 2019 and five of the competing acts performed. The top two entries decided solely by televoting advanced to the final.

The second semi-final took place on 16 February 2019 and five of the competing acts performed. The top two entries decided solely by televoting advanced to the final.

The final tookplace on 2 March 2019 with the 4 qualifiers from the semi-finals, and a wildcard entry selected by the producers. The top two entries based on a 50/50 combination of the votes from international juries and televoting advanced to the superfinal, where the winner was decided by aggregating the results from the first round to the televotes of the second.

Iceland performed thirteenth in the first semi-final, following the entry from Australia and preceding the entry from Estonia. At the end of the show, they were announced as one of the ten countries to qualify for the grand final, the country's first qualification since 2014. Subsequently, at the semi-final winners' press conference, the qualifying contestants all drew to see which half of the final they would compete in. Iceland was drawn to compete in the second half. It was later revealed that Iceland placed third in the semi-final, receiving a total of 221 points: 151 points from the televoting and 70 points from the juries.

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released during the grand final.[8] While announcing the final result points, flags of Palestine were unveiled by the group.

The following five members comprised the Icelandic jury:[8]

• Hrafnhildur Halldorsdottir – Chairperson – radio host, singer
• Oskar Einarsson
• Maria Olafsdottir – singer, represented Iceland in the 2015 contest
• Johann Hjorleifsson – drummer
• Lovisa Arnadottir – communication manager

Split voting results from Iceland (Semi-final 1)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		H. Halldorsdottir	O. Einarsson	M. Olafsdottir	J. Hjorleifsson	L. Arnadottir	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	12	12	4	13	4	10	1	11
02	Montenegro	11	15	13	15	16	15		16
03	Finland	13	9	10	14	14	13		9	2
04	Poland	7	11	12	6	7	12		3	8
05	Slovenia	8	4	5	10	3	6	5	6	5
06	Czech Republic	10	3	2	3	1	2	10	1	12
07	Hungary	9	6	8	11	6	11		8	3
08	Belarus	14	7	3	7	8	8	3	5	6
09	Serbia	6	8	6	1	11	5	6	14
10	Belgium	5	10	7	9	2	7	4	10	1
11	Georgia	16	13	14	12	13	14		15
12	Australia	4	2	1	2	5	1	12	2	10
13	Iceland
14	Estonia	1	5	11	5	10	4	7	4	7
15	Portugal	15	16	16	16	15	16		13
16	Greece	3	1	9	8	9	3	8	12
17	San Marino	2	14	15	4	12	9	2	7	4

Split voting results from Iceland (final)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		H. Halldorsdottir	O. Einarsson	M. Olafsdottir	J. Hjorleifsson	L. Arnadottir	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Malta	15	16	8	7	21	15		12
02	Albania	25	20	24	18	23	23		23
03	Czech Republic	10	10	3	2	9	5	6	9	2
04	Germany	14	24	5	22	16	17		22
05	Russia	9	6	12	24	17	14		18
06	Denmark	8	13	13	6	20	12		7	4
07	San Marino	19	23	25	20	25	24		10	1
08	North Macedonia	3	9	11	1	8	3	8	16
09	Sweden	2	1	1	4	3	1	12	3	8
10	Slovenia	16	19	15	15	5	16		15
11	Cyprus	23	17	9	19	12	18		19
12	Netherlands	7	3	4	17	4	4	7	6	5
13	Greece	22	21	21	23	18	22		21
14	Israel	24	25	23	14	24	21		25
15	Norway	17	5	14	8	13	11		1	12
16	United Kingdom	21	18	18	11	14	19		24
17	Iceland
18	Estonia	4	15	17	12	15	13		8	3
19	Belarus	18	14	16	21	19	20		17
20	Azerbaijan	5	7	10	9	6	7	4	13
21	France	11	11	6	13	7	10	1	14
22	Italy	12	8	20	16	1	8	3	5	6
23	Serbia	13	12	7	3	11	9	2	20
24	Switzerland	6	4	19	10	2	6	5	4	7
25	Australia	1	2	2	5	10	2	10	2	10
26	Spain	20	22	22	25	22	25		11