{"id":50575,"date":"2026-05-16T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/bulgaria-wins-eurovision-for-the-first-time-in-history-ukraine-takes-9th-place\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:11:10","slug":"bulgaria-wins-eurovision-for-the-first-time-in-history-ukraine-takes-9th-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/bulgaria-wins-eurovision-for-the-first-time-in-history-ukraine-takes-9th-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria wins Eurovision for the first time in history, Ukraine takes 9th place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, Bulgaria has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, represented by DARA with the song &quot;Bangaranga.&quot; The final of the contest took place on Saturday evening, and Ukraine&#039;s representative, Leleka, finished in ninth place. This was reported by UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>The Ukrainian performer presented the song &quot;Ridnym,&quot; with which she managed to break into the top ten contestants.<\/p>\n<p>According to the results of the professional jury&#039;s voting, Ukraine received 54 points.<\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/img\/2026\/05\/16\/1778972819-1788-large.webp\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian singer&#039;s final result was significantly improved by points from viewers voting around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Leleka took ninth place in the final Eurovision 2026 standings.<\/p>\n<p>For Bulgaria, this victory was the first in the entire history of the country&#039;s participation in Eurovision.<\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/img\/2026\/05\/16\/1778972887-2175-large.webp\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p>According to the rules, the next Eurovision Song Contest in 2027 is to be hosted by Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in history, Bulgaria has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, represented by DARA with the song &quot;Bangaranga.&quot; The final of the contest took place on Saturday evening, and Ukraine&#039;s representative, Leleka, finished in ninth place. This was reported by UNN. Details The Ukrainian performer presented the song &quot;Ridnym,&quot; with which she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}