Besides Singapore, other countries signaled their interest in hosting the 2018 contest: Hong Kong and Australia. Singapore has said it will spend $4 million to host the contest. The city of Sydney and New South Wales have both indicated that they will commit big funds. Hong Kong has also “made a play” towards hosting this contest.

The host broadcaster's representatives will meet with the Eurovision Asia Song Contest Reference Group at the ABU headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. During the meeting, host broadcaster officials will attend a workshop covering several topics related to hosting the Eurovision Asia Song Contest and learn from the experiences of past host broadcasters of the Eurovision Song Contest. They also will have the opportunity to present their first plans for the 2018 contest, including multiple proposals for host cities and venues.

After the idea had already been adopted in March 2016, the competition was officially confirmed on 18 August 2017. The format will closely resemble that of the Eurovision Song Contest. The only difference is that there will be only a live final, instead of including two semi-finals, with up to 20 countries taking part.

Despite early assumptions that a country must have a broadcaster which is a full member of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union to take part, it has since been confirmed that the contest is open to all Asian countries, regardless of whether or not they have a public broadcaster. Several countries have provisionally confirmed their participation in the contest, while information from most other countries regarding their participation has not yet been disclosed. India,Indonesia and Vietnam ave all been featured on the Eurovision Asia website in order to showcase their music and culture, but their broadcasters have not revealed an interest in participating as of yet.

Participating countries