Season 5

Participation
After won in Helsinki, Finland with Ruben's "Burn Down This Room", the fifth season of the GiraVision Song Contest was held in Oslo, Norway. A total of 44 countries have signed up to compete in the contest.

Changes

 * Worldchart artists were allowed this season, but only with songs with under 70 million views.

Countries
A total of 44 countries chose to participate in the fifth GiraVision contest. Four countries made their debut while another country withdrew.
 * The debuting countries are Armenia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand.
 * No countries returned this season.
 * The withdrawing country is Hungary.

Returning Artists
Here are the artists that are participating in Season 5 that have participated before:

Semi-Final 1
The first semi-final premiered on October 11, 2020. ,, and had to vote in this semi-final. The jury of did not vote in this semi-final; therefore, half of their points were taken off.

Semi-Final 2
The second semi-final premiered on October 11, 2020. ,, and had to vote in this semi-final.

Grand Final
The Grand Final premiered on October 20, 2020.