Iceland will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. The Icelandic broadcaster Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) will organise the national final Söngvakeppnin 2017 in order to select the Icelandic entry for the 2017 contest in Kiev, Ukraine.

Prior to the 2017 Contest, Iceland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times since its first entry in 1986. Iceland's best placing in the contest to this point was second, which it achieved on two occasions: in 1999 with the song "All Out of Luck" performed by Selma and in 2009 with the song "Is It True?" performed by Yohanna. Since the introduction of a semi-final to the format of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004, Iceland has failed to qualify to the final five times. In 2016, Iceland failed to qualify to the final with the song "Hear Them Calling" performed by Greta Salóme.

RÚV confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest on 22 August 2016. The Icelandic national broadcaster, Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV), broadcasts the event within Iceland and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. Since 2006, Iceland has used a national final to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, a method that has once again return for the selection of their 2017 participation.

Söngvakeppnin 2017 will be the twelfth edition of Söngvakeppnin, the music competition that selects Iceland's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The show will consist of two semi-finals, taken place on the 25 February and the 4 March 2017 in Háskólabíó, the final of the competition is scheduled to take place on 11 March 2017 in Laugardalshöllin, the national indoor arena. Six songs will compete in each semi-final, with the top 3 from each advancing to the Grand Final, decided by public televoting. The final will consist of six entries that, via 50/50 public televoting and jury voting, will be shortened to a top 2, winning entry will be determined by the 'gold final' in which the top two entries in the final will battle it out for the title of Iceland's 2017 Eurovision entry, decided by public tele-voting.

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