The eleven acts competing in the first Eurovision Song Contest Asia are travelling to Bangkok for a week of rehearsals ahead of the Grand Final on Saturday 14 November at the One Bangkok Forum. The contest, the first Asian edition of the long-running European song competition, will be broadcast live from 19:30 Indochina Time, with national television coverage in every participating country and a stream on Eurovision's YouTube channel.

Woody Milintachinda and Cindy Bishop will host the final, which was announced by Thai broadcaster Channel 3 and Voxovation on 25 September. The European Broadcasting Union has confirmed the running order for the live show, with Vietnam opening and Malaysia closing.

Vietnam's Toc Tien opens the show with EM TIEN, followed by Cambodia's Monetrey with I Let You Go, Laos's Thinla with BAE, Mongolia's Beck with Chamguigeer (Without You), Bhutan's Nyendra with Lhayi Semo, and the Philippines' CARMELLE with Sobra-Sobra. Bangladesh's Beatmosphere perform Tumi Ele, hosts Thailand are represented by MANG x DAOU with Aroma, South Korea's JUNHEE performs DEEP DIVE, Nepal's Pratik Himal Rai sings Ananta Maya, and Malaysia's Aina Abdul closes with Bluest Sky.

Singer and actor Jeff Satur has been announced as a guest performer for the final, adding a high-profile Thai name to a night that already carries the weight of a first edition. The announcement came as the acts began arriving in Bangkok for rehearsals and preparations.

The official album for the competition has also been released, a week ahead of the show, featuring ten of the eleven competing songs. The Thai entry, Aroma, is the one song missing from the album. The release also revealed reworked versions of the songs from Bangladesh, Laos and Mongolia.

China, Japan and India are absent from the debut line-up. Negotiations with Chinese and Japanese broadcasters continued beyond the production deadline, leaving eleven participating countries rather than a possible thirteen. Organisers have said they hope Chinese and Japanese entries could join in 2027, although neither has been confirmed.

The line-up also brings together countries with recent tensions. Thailand and Cambodia will share the stage after fighting along their disputed border, while other participating countries have their own disagreements, including disputes over Mekong River water and overlapping South China Sea claims involving Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

A preview show takes place on 13 November, the day before the final. The launch comes during a difficult year for the European original, whose 2026 audience fell by 35 million as five countries boycotted over Israel's participation. The Bangkok final will decide who lifts the first Eurovision Asia trophy.