🇪🇪 Estonia: Vanilla Ninja Won by 1% of Vote in Eesti Laul 2026 Superfinal

Just four percentage points covered the top three of Eesti Laul 2026, with all three super finalists receiving over 30% of the votes cast.

The Superfinal of Eesti Laul 2026 was one of the closest results in recent national selection history, with all of the top three covered by less than 5 percentage points. In the end the winner was determined by a difference of 1 percentage point, with Vanilla Ninja narrowly beating NOËP to victory.

Artist Song Result NOËP “Days Like This” 34% Ollie “Slave” 31% Vanilla Ninja “Too Epic to Be True” 35%

The full results of Eesti Laul 2026 will be revealed by ERR in the coming days.

A total of 12 artists competed in the final of Eesti Laul 2026. The results were decided over two rounds of voting. In the first round, an international jury (50%) and public voting (50%) chose three songs to advance to the superfinal. The jurors were:

Renato Milone (Italy) – Producer, composer and sound engineer
Linnea Deb (Sweden) – Songwriter for nine entries at the Eurovision Song Contest including 2015 winner “Heroes”
Paul Jordan (United Kingdom) – Eurovision expert
Rosa Linn (Armenia) – Represented Armenia at Eurovision 2022 with “Snap”, going on to have a viral hit with the song
Andrea Stople (United States) – Singer and songwriter
Kevin Hughes (United Kingdom) – Music and pop culture expert, currently a radio presenter on Heart Radio
Maria Faust (Estonia) – Composer and saxophonist

The results of the first round were:

Artist Song Jury Points Televote Points Result Clicherik & Mäx “Jolly Roger” 4 7 11 7th Robert Linna “Metsik roos” (Wild rose) 5 1 6 11th Grete Paia “Taevas jäi üles” 1 6 7 10th Laura Prits “Warrior” 6 2 8 9th Uliana Olhyna “Rhythm of Nature” 3 5 8 8th Ollie “Slave” 12 Unknown Unknown 1st Marta Pikani “Kell kuus” 2 3 5 12th NOËP “Days Like This” 9 Unknown Unknown Superfinalist Getter Jaani “The Game” 8 9 17 5th ANT x Minimal Wind “Wounds (Don’t Wanna Fall)” 10 4 14 6th Vanilla Ninja “Too Epic to Be True” 7 12 19 Superfinalist Stockholm Cowboys “Last Man Standing” 11 8 19 4th

Vanilla Ninja will perform “Too Epic to Be True” in the second half of the first semi-final on May 12. They will return to the Eurovision Song Contest having represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Source: ERR

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest+

Estonia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 alongside six other countries. At the contest in Dublin, they were represented by Silvi Vrait, who finished second last, scoring just 2 points. In 2001, Estonia won the Eurovision Song Contest for the only time to date. They were represented by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL, who performed the song “Everybody” and took a surprise victory in Copenhagen. After the success of the late-90s and early 00s, Estonia failed to qualify for the final from 2004-2008. In 2009, Estonia launched a new selection show, Eesti Laul, and has since qualified for the final on 11 out of 16 attempts.