La selezione dei partecipanti all’Eurovision Song Contest spetta alle emittenti televisive competenti dei singoli stati. A loro spetta la scelta del metodo di selezione: una selezione interna (quindi cantante e/o brano vengono scelti dall’emittente stessa), come accade solitamente per San Marino o Australia, oppure può organizzare un festival musicale (il pubblico sceglie un vincitore che viene invitato a partecipare all’Eurovision Song Contest), come accade in Norvegia (Norsk Melodi Grand Prix), Svezia (Melodifestivalen), Italia (Festival di Sanremo), Grecia (Ellinikós Telikós) e molti altri. Il vincitore dell’eventuale festival però non è obbligato a partecipare all’Eurovision Song Contest né tanto meno è obbligato ad esibirsi con la canzone vincitrice, ad esempio Iva Zanicchi ha vinto il Festival di Sanremo nel 1969, in coppia con Bobby Solo, con la canzone “Zingara”, ma all’Eurovision Song Contest si presentò da sola con il brano “Due grosse lacrime bianche”. Con il tempo buona parte delle emittenti sta abbandonando la selezione interna in favore del festival musicale.

I partecipanti non devono obbligatoriamente avere vincoli di nazionalità (ad esempio nel 1988 la Svizzera vinse con la cantante canadese Céline Dion) e le canzoni non hanno restrizioni riguardanti la lingua (anche se nelle prime edizioni vigeva un obbligo di cantare in una delle lingue ufficiali del proprio paese).

L‘Eurovision Song Contest 2025 sarà la 69ª edizione dell’annuale concorso canoro. Il concorso si svolgerà presso la St. Jakobshalle a Basilea, in Svizzera, dal 13 al 17 maggio 2025, in seguito alla vittoria di Nemo con la canzone The Code nell’edizione precedente; sarà la terza edizione della manifestazione a svolgersi in Svizzera, dopo quelle del 1956 e 1989. Il concorso si articolerà, come dal 2008, in due semifinali e una finale.

In seguito ad alcune controversie avvenute durante l’edizione 2024, relative all’organizzazione generale dell’evento, l’Unione europea di radiodiffusione (UER) ha annunciato la creazione di due nuovi posizioni che si affiancheranno a quella del superiore esecutivo: il direttore esecutivo del concorso, ricoperta dal britannico Martin Green, e dal responsabile del marchio e commerciale dell’evento. Il 4 giugno 2024 sono stati annunciati i due produttori esecutivi dell’evento: Reto Peritz (responsabile del dipartimento dell’intrattenimento della SRF) e Moritz Stadler (responsabile del dipartimento delle operazioni della RTS), mentre la regia sarà affidata a Yves Schifferle (capodelegazione della Svizzera all’Eurovision Song Contest). Rimangono invariate le posizioni di Christer Björkman (capodelegazione svedese dal 2002 al 2021, nonché produttore dell’edizione 2013 e 2016) come direttore artistico e Tobias Åberg (produttore tecnico della manifestazione dal 2016) come produttore tecnico; ad essi si aggiungono anche Nadja Burkhardt-Tracol come responsabile dell’evento, Manfred Winz come responsabile delle finanze, Aurore Chatard come responsabile della sicurezza e Kevin Stuber come responsabile legale.

All’indomani della vittoria svizzera all’edizione 2024, ospitata dalla città svedese di Malmö, la delegazione svizzera ha espresso l’interesse dell’emittente pubblica SRG SSR a organizzare la manifestazione musicale. A stretto giro ha seguito l’interesse a ospitare l’evento di diverse città tra cui Basilea (St. Jakob-Park e St. Jakobshalle), Bienne-Berna (Festhalle Bern), Friburgo (BCF Arena), Ginevra (Palexpo), San Gallo (Olma Hall) e Zurigo (Hallenstadion).

Il 27 maggio 2024 la SRG SSR ha annunciato e presentato il bando per ospitare la manifestazione, tramite il quale tutte le città interessate avrebbero potuto presentare ufficialmente la propria candidatura entro la fine di giugno. Le prime città a confermare le proprie candidature per ospitare l’evento sono state Basilea e Zurigo, seguite da Bienne-Berna e Ginevra, mentre San Gallo ha ritirato la sua candidatura poiché non rispetta i criteri per ospitare l’evento.

Il 19 luglio 2024 la SRG SSR ha comunicato che la scelta è stata ristretta alle città di Ginevra e Basilea, che rispettano tutte le necessità del concorso, scartando di conseguenza Zurigo e Berna. Il successivo 30 agosto, sul canale YouTube ufficiale della manifestazione canora, è stato confermato che la sede dell’Eurovision Song Contest 2025 sarebbe stata la St. Jakobshalle di Basilea.

Articolazione del processo. Il processo di selezione della scelta si è articolato nel seguente modo: le città interessate hanno preso visione dei criteri fondamentali per ospitare la manifestazione; alle stesse città sono state poi concesse quattro settimane per preparare i propri piani e progetti per ospitare l’evento; nel mese di giugno l’emittente organizzatrice ha valutato le candidature in base ai criteri fondamentali; entro la metà di luglio l’emittente organizzatrice ha visitato le città selezionate e i progetti preparati sono stati inviati all’Unione europea di radiodiffusione che ha decretato, di concerto con le emittenti organizzatrici ed entro il mese di agosto, la città ospitante.

Criteri fondamentali: la sede deve essere al coperto, dotata di aria condizionata secondo gli standard vigenti, e inoltre ben perimetrabile; la sede deve avere una capacità al 70% della capienza massima compresa tra gli 8 000 e i 10 000 spettatori; la sede deve essere dotata di un’area principale che consenta la realizzazione di un allestimento di alto livello con altezze disponibili di almeno 18 metri, buone capacità di carico sul tetto e facile accesso al carico; la sede deve essere disponibile per sei settimane prima dell’evento, le due settimane dello show e quella successiva per il disallestimento; la sede deve avere a disposizione una vicina sala stampa che possa accogliere almeno 1 000 giornalisti; la sede deve avere aree a raso e di facile accesso, contigue e integrate nel perimetro dell’infrastruttura per il supporto tecnico-logistico di 5 000 metri quadrati; la città deve avere a disposizione oltre 2 000 camere d’albergo nelle aree contigue all’evento; la città deve avere un aeroporto internazionale non più lontano di un’ora e mezza dalla sede dell’evento.

Eurovision Song Contest 2024 ← Eurovision Song Contest 2025 → Eurovision Song Contest 2026

🇦🇲 Armenia • 🇦🇺 Australia • 🇦🇹 Austria • 🇬🇷 Greece • 🇮🇪 Ireland • 🇱🇻 Latvia • 🇱🇹 Lithuania • 🇲🇪 Montenegro • 🇨🇿 Czechia • 🇩🇰 Denmark • 🇫🇮 Finland • 🇬🇪 Georgia • 🇮🇱 Israel • 🇱🇺 Luxembourg • 🇲🇹 Malta • 🇷🇸 Serbia

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• Country: 🇦🇲 Armenia
• National selection – Selection process: Depi Evratesil 2025
• Selection date(s): 16 February 2025
• Host venue: –
• Presenter(s): –
• Host broadcaster: Public Television of Armenia, Հայաստանի Հանրային Հեռուստաընկերություն, Hayastani Hanrayin Herrustaynkerut’yun; 1TV / Հ1 (ARMTV, AMPTV)
• Participants – Number of entries: –
• Voting system: –
• Selection entrant: PARG (Պարգ; Pargev Vardanyan,Պարգեւ Վարդանյան)
• Selection song: “SURVIVOR” (Վերապրած)
• Selected songwriter(s): Alex Wilke, Armen Paul, Benjamin Alasu, Eva Voskanian, Jon Aljidi, Joshua Curran, Martin Mooradian, Pargev Vardanyan, Peter Boström, Thomas G:son
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 5º SF 2: Qualified (10th, 51 points)
• Final result: 18º FI: 20th, 72 points

Armenia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Survivor”, written by Alex Wilke, Armen Paul, Benjamin Alasu, Eva Voskanian, Jon Aljidi, Joshua Curran, Martin Mooradian, Pargev Vardanian, Peter Boström, and Thomas G:son, and performed by Vardanian himself under his stage name Parg. The Armenian participating broadcaster, Public Television of Armenia (AMPTV), organised the national final Depi Evratesil 2025 to select its entry for the contest.

Armenia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 5. At the end of the show, “Survivor” was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking a fourth consecutive qualification for the country. It was later revealed that Armenia placed tenth out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 51 points. In the final, Armenia performed in position 18 and placed twentieth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 72 points

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, Public Television of Armenia (AMPTV) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Armenia sixteen times since its first entry in 2006. Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, had been fourth place, achieved on two occasions: in 2008 with the song “Qélé, Qélé” performed by Sirusho and in 2014 with the song “Not Alone” performed by Aram Mp3. It had, to this point, failed to qualify to the final on three occasions, namely in 2011, 2018, and 2019. AMPTV briefly withdrew from the contest on two occasions: in 2012 due to long-standing tensions with then-host country Azerbaijan, and in 2021 due to social and political crises in the aftermath of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. In 2024, “Jako” performed by Ladaniva qualified to the final and placed eighth. 

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, AMPTV organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. It had used various methods to select its entry in the past, such as internal selections and a live televised national final to choose the performer, song or both to compete at Eurovision. Between 2014 and 2016, and again between 2022 and 2024, the broadcaster internally selected both the artist and the song, while the national final Depi Evratesil was organised in 2017, 2018 and 2020. AMPTV confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 30 November 2024, announcing that its entry would again be selected through Depi Evratesil.

2.Before Eurovision. 

2.1.Depi Evratesil 2025. Depi Evratesil 2025 was the fourth edition of Depi Evratesil, the national final organised by AMPTV in order to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition took place on 16 February 2025 at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan, hosted by Ani Khachikyan and 2014 Armenian entrant Aram Mp3.^] The show was broadcast on Armenia 1, as well as online via the broadcaster’s website 1tv.am and internationally via the Eurovision Song Contest’s official YouTube channel.

Competing entries. On 6 December 2024, AMPTV opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for the competition until 10 January 2025. All entrants were to be citizens or residents of Armenia or of Armenian descent, while songwriters could be of any nationality. At the closing of the window, over 50 entries had been submitted. Twelve finalists were selected by a jury following an audition round and revealed on 6 February 2025, while their songs, originally set to be unveiled on the day of the final, were released on 9 February 2025. Among the selected competing artists was Athena Manoukian, who had been due to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 before its cancellation, as well as Anahit Adamyan, who represented Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 alongside Mary Vardanyan.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Altsight	“Dare to Dream”	Sargis Burnazyan
Anahit Adamyan	“Tiny Little Boo”	Boris Adamyan, Nick Egibyan
Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia	“Wild”	Gasoiia, Maya Sinanyan, Tokionine
Arsen feat. Kamil	“Will You Marry Me?”	Mariam Shahinyan, Vahram Petrosyan
Athena Manoukian	“Daqueenation”	Athena Manoukian, DJ Paco
Flora Bichakhchyan	“Prayer”	Flora Bichakhchyan
Gevorg Harutyunyan	“Hey Man”	Eva Voskanyan, Gevorg Harutyunyan, Lilit Bleyan, Lilit Navasardyan, Nare Navasardyan
Mels	“Losing”	Arthur Armeni, Robert Koloyan, Tokionine
Milena Mirijanyan	“Romantic Net”	Nick Egibyan
Parg	“Survivor”	Alex Wilke, Armen Paul, Benjamin Alasu, Eva Voskanian, Joshua Curran, Martin Mooradian, Pargev Vardanyan, Thomas G:son
Sevagir	“Falling”	Em Kalmukhyan
Simon	“Ay paparey bye” (Այ պապարեյ բյե)	Lilit Navasardyan, Nare Navasardyan

Final – 16 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury		Televote		Total	Place
			Intl.	National	Votes	Points
1	Parg	“Survivor”	62	68	7,087	84	214	1
2	Sevagir	“Falling”	15	20	553	0	35	12
3	Anahit Adamyan	“Tiny Little Boo”	32	29	2,271	35	96	5
4	Mels	“Losing”	25	38	2,006	28	91	6
5	Simon	“Ay paparey bye“	76	72	4,337	49	197	2
6	Flora Bichakhchyan	“Prayer”	32	22	1,697	21	75	8
7	Gevorg Harutyunyan	“Hey Man”	20	16	2,850	42	78	7
8	Altsight	“Dare to Dream”	29	12	263	0	41	11
9	Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia	“Wild”	25	34	4,969	56	115	4
10	Arsen feat. Kamil	“Will You Marry Me?”	11	24	905	7	42	9
11	Milena Mirijanyan	“Romantic Net”	19	9	1,302	14	42	9
12	Athena Manoukian	“Daqueenation”	60	62	5,062	70	192	3

3.3.Voting.

3.3.1.Points awarded to Armenia.

Points awarded to Armenia (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Armenia (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Georgia  Israel
10 points
8 points	France  Greece
7 points
6 points
5 points	Lithuania
4 points
3 points	Czechia
2 points
1 point	Latvia  Malta  Serbia

Points awarded to Armenia (Final)

Points awarded to Armenia (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Georgia	Malta
10 points		France
8 points	France
7 points
6 points	Israel
5 points		Israel
4 points		Latvia
3 points		Georgia  Greece
2 points	Cyprus  Greece	Serbia
1 point		Denmark  Ireland  Montenegro

3.3.2.Points awarded by Armenia.

Points awarded by Armenia (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Armenia (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Greece
10 points	Georgia
8 points	Austria
7 points	Malta
6 points	Finland
5 points	Czech Republic
4 points	Latvia
3 points	Denmark
2 points	Israel
1 point	Lithuania

Points awarded by Armenia (Final)

Points awarded by Armenia (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Estonia	France
10 points	France	Finland
8 points	Greece	Austria
7 points	Austria	Switzerland
6 points	Sweden	Sweden
5 points	Germany	Malta
4 points	Norway	Ukraine
3 points	Albania	Netherlands
2 points	Netherlands	Estonia
1 point	Finland	Latvia

3.3.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Armenian jury:

• Arthur Manukyan
• Simon Hovhannisyan
• Kristina Avagimyan
• Lilit Navasardyan
• Lilit Osipyan

Detailed voting results from Armenia (Semi-final 2)

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	14
02	Montenegro	12
03	Ireland	11
04	Latvia	7	4
05	Armenia
06	Austria	3	8
07	Greece	1	12
08	Lithuania	10	1
09	Malta	4	7
10	Georgia	2	10
11	Denmark	8	3
12	Czechia	6	5
13	Luxembourg	13
14	Israel	9	2
15	Serbia	15
16	Finland	5	6

Detailed voting results from Armenia (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	16	19	14	24	14	18		7	4
02	Luxembourg	24	24	23	23	22	24		19
03	Estonia	8	4	6	21	17	9	2	1	12
04	Israel	25	25	21	22	25	25		11
05	Lithuania	18	14	7	19	10	14		14
06	Spain	14	18	16	18	16	17		20
07	Ukraine	7	5	9	9	8	7	4	25
08	United Kingdom	22	13	15	8	9	13		24
09	Austria	4	3	3	3	4	3	8	4	7
10	Iceland	23	20	24	25	18	23		23
11	Latvia	11	8	13	7	7	10	1	16
12	Netherlands	5	11	8	6	19	8	3	9	2
13	Finland	2	2	2	2	2	2	10	10	1
14	Italy	13	12	12	14	5	11		13
15	Poland	15	23	17	17	20	21		17
16	Germany	12	9	11	12	13	12		6	5
17	Greece	19	10	20	13	11	15		3	8
18	Armenia
19	Switzerland	3	21	4	5	3	4	7	18
20	Malta	10	7	5	10	6	6	5	12
21	Portugal	9	17	19	20	15	16		15
22	Denmark	17	15	18	15	21	19		22
23	Sweden	6	6	10	4	12	5	6	5	6
24	France	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	2	10
25	San Marino	21	22	22	11	24	20		21
26	Albania	20	16	25	16	23	22		8	3

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Australia  was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Milkshake Man”, written by Amy Sheppard, George Sheppard, Jason Bovino, and Marty Zambotto, and performed by Zambotto under his project Go-Jo. The Australian participating broadcaster, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), internally selected its entry for the contest.

Australia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, which took place on 15 May 2025. Performing during the show in position 1, Australia was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Australia placed 11th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 41 points.

1.Background. The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) had broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in Australia since 1983, and the contest had gained a cult following over that time, primarily due to the country’s strong political and cultural ties with Europe. Paying tribute to this, the 2014 semi-finals included an interval act featuring Australian singer Jessica Mauboy. Australian singers had also participated at Eurovision representing other countries, including Olivia Newton-John (United Kingdom 1974), two-time winner Johnny Logan (Ireland 1980 and 1987), Gina G (United Kingdom 1996), and Jane Comerford as lead singer of Texas Lightning (Germany 2006).

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited SBS to participate in the contest representing Australia for the first time in 2015, as a guest participant to celebrate the 60th edition of the event, being granted automatic entry into the final along with the “Big Five” (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) and the host country (Austria). It had since competed in every edition of the contest, i.e. nine times, being required to qualify from its semi-final since 2016. In 2024, it entered the song “One Milkali (One Blood)” by Electric Fields, which failed to qualify for the final, ending in 11th place in the first semi-final with 41 points.

2.Before Eurovision.

2.1.Internal selection. On 25 February 2025, SBS announced that it had internally selected the Australian entrant and entry for the contest, and revealed them that day: the entrant was Go-Jo with the song “Milkshake Man”. The song was written by Go-Jo alongside Amy Sheppard, George Sheppard, and Jason Bovino, all current or former members of the band Sheppard, which competed in the first edition of Eurovision – Australia Decides in 2019 with “On My Way”.

3.At Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Australia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the first half of the show. Go-Jo was later drawn to open the semi-final. At the end of the show, the country was not announced among the 10 qualifiers, and Australia did not qualify for the final.

3.1.Voting.

3.1.1.Points awarded to Australia.

Points awarded to Australia (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Australia (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points	Latvia  Lithuania
5 points	Finland  Malta  United Kingdom
4 points
3 points	Denmark  Ireland
2 points	Austria  Germany  Rest of the World
1 point	Czechia  Georgia

3.1.2.Points awarded by Australia.

Points awarded by Australia (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Australia (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points	Israel
10 points	Finland
8 points	Malta
7 points	Latvia
6 points	Denmark
5 points	Greece
4 points	Luxembourg
3 points	Austria
2 points	Ireland
1 point	Lithuania

Points awarded by Australia (Final)

Points awarded by Australia (Final)

Points	Televote	Jury
12 points	Israel	Greece
10 points	Finland	Latvia
8 points	Sweden	Malta
7 points	Greece	Austria
6 points	Estonia	Sweden
5 points	Malta	Poland
4 points	Albania	Denmark
3 points	Austria	Estonia
2 points	Latvia	Finland
1 point	Poland	Switzerland

3.1.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Australian jury:

• Andrew Lambrou
• Robbie Buck
• Claire Rebecca Howell
• Kylie Alexandra Burtland
• Simone Nicoloso Dow

Detailed voting results from Australia (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	9	2
04	Latvia	4	7
05	Armenia	12
06	Austria	8	3
07	Greece	6	5
08	Lithuania	10	1
09	Malta	3	8
10	Georgia	13
11	Denmark	5	6
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	7	4
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland	2	10

Detailed voting results from Australia (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	23	14	21	18	13	20		22
02	Luxembourg	5	15	20	15	18	16		17
03	Estonia	17	9	1	13	9	8	3	5	6
04	Israel	21	13	19	19	19	22		1	12
05	Lithuania	26	12	2	9	11	11		20
06	Spain	13	16	8	17	20	17		15
07	Ukraine	24	23	26	11	21	24		21
08	United Kingdom	14	17	9	12	4	13		19
09	Austria	7	2	18	3	7	4	7	8	3
10	Iceland	25	21	3	16	25	15		11
11	Latvia	6	4	4	2	8	2	10	9	2
12	Netherlands	16	10	25	23	24	19		16
13	Finland	9	8	12	6	5	9	2	2	10
14	Italy	20	25	11	22	22	21		14
15	Poland	15	6	10	5	2	6	5	10	1
16	Germany	10	22	13	25	12	18		12
17	Greece	4	1	16	7	1	1	12	4	7
18	Armenia	19	19	17	24	14	23		23
19	Switzerland	3	7	14	10	15	10	1	24
20	Malta	1	20	15	4	3	3	8	6	5
21	Portugal	18	24	23	21	23	25		25
22	Denmark	2	11	22	8	6	7	4	13
23	Sweden	11	5	5	1	17	5	6	3	8
24	France	12	3	6	20	16	12		18
25	San Marino	22	26	24	26	26	26		26
26	Albania	8	18	7	14	10	14		7	4

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• Country: 🇦🇹 Austria
• National selection – Selection process: Internal selection 2025
• Selection date(s): Artist: 30 January 2025 Ι Song: 6 March 2025  
• Host venue: –
• Presenter(s): –
• Host broadcaster: Österreichischer Rundfunk (ÖRF)
• Participants – Number of entries: –
• Voting system: –
• Selection entrant: JJ
• Selection song: “Wasted Love”
• Selected songwriter(s): Johannes Pietsch, Teodora Špirić, Thomas Thurner
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 6º SF 2: Qualified (5th, 104 points)
• Final result: 9º FI: 1st, 436 points

Austria was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Wasted Love”, written by Johannes Pietsch, Teodora Špirić, and Thomas Thurner, and performed by Pietsch himself under his stage name JJ.^[1] The Austrian participating broadcaster, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), internally selected its entry for the contest, which it ultimately won.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Austria fifty-six times since its first entry in 1957. It had won the contest on two occasions: in 1966 with the song “Merci, Chérie” performed by Udo Jürgens and in 2014 with the song “Rise Like a Phoenix” performed by Conchita Wurst.^[2] Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, Austria had featured in only nine finals. Its least successful result had been last place, which it had achieved on eight occasions, most recently in 2012. It had also received nul points on four occasions; in 1962, 1988, 1991, and 2015.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, ORF organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. ORF confirmed its intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 7 September 2024. From 2011 to 2013 as well as in 2015 and 2016, ORF set up national finals with several artists to choose both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Austria, with both the public and a panel of jury members involved in the selection. In 2014 and since 2017, ORF has held an internal selection to choose the artist and song, a method which was continued to select its entry for the 2025 contest.

2.Before Eurovision. 

Internal selection. ORF collaborated with music experts Eberhard Forcher (who had worked on the selection of the Austrian entries since 2016) and Peter Schreiber on its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, with all interested artists being invited to submit their songs between 3 July 2024 and 15 September 2024. Applicants were required to be professional artists, and those without a song were also able to apply but were required to submit audio samples or reference songs from them. A songwriting camp was also held in Vienna in August 2024 to create songs for the selection.In October 2024, it was reported by Austrian media that eight entries from seven artists, including Dodo Muhrer (who represented Austria in 2015 as part of The Makemakes), Johannes Pietsch, Kayla Krystin, Nnoa and Philip Piller, had been shortlisted following a live casting round at the ORF studios.

On 30 January 2025, “Wasted Love” performed by Pietsch, under the stage name JJ, was announced by ORF as the Austrian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 during the radio show Ö3-Wecker, aired on Ö3. Written by JJ alongside Teodora Špirić (who represented Austria in 2023) and Thomas Thurner, “Wasted Love” was selected from the eight shortlisted entries by a panel of 30 local and international music industry and Eurovision experts as well as 30 international OGAE fan club representatives from five countries and the ORF Eurovision Song Contest Team. The presentation of the song took place on 6 March 2025 during Ö3-Wecker.

3.At Eurovision. During the Eurovision Song Contest, Austria participated in the second semifinal and managed to qualify for the Grand Final finishing in 5th place with 104 points. During the final, They won with 436 points, winning the jury voting with 258 points and finishing 4th in the televoting with 178 points, making it their third Eurovision win after 1966 & 2014.

3.2.Voting.

3.2.1.Points awarded to Austria.

Points awarded to Austria (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Austria (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points
10 points	Greece
8 points	Armenia  Lithuania
7 points	Denmark  Finland  Latvia  Malta  Montenegro
6 points	Czechia  Georgia  Ireland  Israel  Serbia
5 points	Germany
4 points	Luxembourg
3 points	Australia
2 points
1 point	France

Points awarded to Austria (Final)

Points awarded to Austria (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points		Belgium  Finland  Germany  Ireland  Latvia  Netherlands  Norway  Sweden
10 points	Azerbaijan  Greece  Malta  Serbia  Slovenia	Croatia  Greece  Luxembourg  Slovenia
8 points	Israel	Armenia  Iceland  Montenegro  Serbia  United Kingdom
7 points	Armenia  Finland  Poland  Portugal	Albania  Australia  Cyprus  Estonia  Malta  Poland  Spain   Switzerland
6 points	Albania  Cyprus  Germany   Switzerland  Ukraine	Israel  Portugal
5 points	Croatia  Georgia  Lithuania  San Marino	Denmark
4 points	Czechia  Ireland  Italy  Latvia  Spain	France  Lithuania
3 points	Australia  Belgium  Denmark  Iceland  Montenegro  Netherlands
2 points	France
1 point	Norway  Rest of the World	Ukraine

3.2.2.Points awarded by Austria.

Points awarded by Austria (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Austria (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Israel
10 points	Serbia
8 points	Latvia
7 points	Greece
6 points	Luxembourg
5 points	Czechia
4 points	Finland
3 points	Denmark
2 points	Australia
1 point	Malta

Points awarded by Austria (Final)

Points awarded by Austria (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Germany	Finland
10 points	Italy	Malta
8 points	Estonia	Denmark
7 points	Israel	United Kingdom
6 points	Albania	France
5 points	Poland	Sweden
4 points	Sweden	Latvia
3 points	Netherlands	Estonia
2 points	Finland	Netherlands
1 point	Iceland	Luxembourg

3.2.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Austrian jury:

• Julian Guba
• Mark Duran
• Katharina Aigner
• Marlene Scharf
• Nina Hochrainer

Detailed voting results from Austria (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	9	2
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	13
04	Latvia	3	8
05	Armenia	12
06	Austria
07	Greece	4	7
08	Lithuania	11
09	Malta	10	1
10	Georgia	14
11	Denmark	8	3
12	Czechia	6	5
13	Luxembourg	5	6
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	2	10
16	Finland	7	4

Detailed voting results from Austria (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	19	17	11	12	25	21		16
02	Luxembourg	20	5	12	7	19	10	1	17
03	Estonia	14	4	9	10	14	8	3	3	8
04	Israel	16	15	15	11	4	12		4	7
05	Lithuania	15	16	21	25	18	23		19
06	Spain	17	9	17	17	22	20		23
07	Ukraine	24	14	16	23	24	24		13
08	United Kingdom	10	1	3	2	13	4	7	24
09	Austria
10	Iceland	12	6	22	24	8	16		10	1
11	Latvia	23	13	4	8	7	7	4	12
12	Netherlands	6	12	18	6	15	9	2	8	3
13	Finland	1	3	5	5	2	1	12	9	2
14	Italy	11	11	6	14	16	15		2	10
15	Poland	22	10	20	19	23	22		6	5
16	Germany	13	18	8	9	9	14		1	12
17	Greece	21	22	19	18	17	25		11
18	Armenia	7	8	14	15	12	13		18
19	Switzerland	3	19	13	13	20	11		15
20	Malta	4	2	1	3	11	2	10	21
21	Portugal	25	7	23	21	21	19		25
22	Denmark	2	21	2	1	6	3	8	20
23	Sweden	8	25	10	16	1	6	5	7	4
24	France	18	20	7	4	3	5	6	14
25	San Marino	9	23	24	22	5	17		22
26	Albania	5	24	25	20	10	18		5	6

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• Country: 🇬🇷 Greece
• National selection – Selection process: Ethnikós Telikós 2025 (Εθνικός Τελικός 2025)
• Selection date(s): 30 January 2025 
• Host venue: –
• Presenter(s): –
• Host broadcaster: Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση A.E., Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi A.E., Greek Radio [and] Television S.A.’ (ERT, ΕΡΤ)
• Participants – Number of entries: –
• Voting system: –
• Selection entrant: Klavdia
• Selection song: “Asteromáta” (Αστερομάτα)
• Selected songwriter(s): Arcade, Klavdia Papadopoulou
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 7º SF 2: Qualified (4th, 112 points)
• Final result: 17º FI: 6th, 231 points

Greece was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Asteromata“, written by Arcade and Klavdia and performed by Klavdia herself. The Greek participating broadcaster, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), organised the national final Ethnikós Telikós 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Greece was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025; it was later selected to perform in position 7. At the end of the show, Greece was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Greece placed 4th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 112 points. In the final, Greece performed in position 17 and placed 6th out of the 26 performing countries, scoring a total of 231 points and giving Greece its best result since 2013.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, Greece had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 44 times since its debut in 1974. The nation has won the contest once to this point, in 2005 with the song “My Number One” performed by Helena Paparizou. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, it managed to qualify for the final with each of its entries for several years. Between 2004 and 2013, it achieved nine top ten placements in the final. The first entry to not qualify to the final was “Utopian Land” performed by Argo in 2016. Its 16th-place finish in the semi-final marked its worst placing at the contest and led to its absence from the final for the first time since 2000, when it did not send an entry. In the 2018 contest, it failed to qualify for the second time with “Oniro mou” by Yianna Terzi, finishing 14th in the semi-final. After failing to qualify for final for the third time in 2023 with “What They Say” by Victor Vernicos, it returned to the final in 2024 with “Zari” by Marina Satti, placing 11th with 126 points.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. ERT predecessor, National Radio Television Foundation (EIRT) debuted in the contest in 1974 and then ERT participated from 1975 until 2013, when the broadcaster was shut down by a government directive. It was replaced firstly with the interim Dimosia Tileorasi (DT) and then later by the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) broadcaster, before reverting to the ERT name by the new government in June 2015. The Greek broadcaster had selected its entries in the past both internally and through the national final format Ellinikós Telikós. ERT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 14 September 2024, and announced on 18 September that a national final would be organised for the first time since 2017 to select its representative.

2.Before Eurovision. 

2.1.Ethnikós Telikós 2025. Ethnikós Telikós 2025 (Εθνικός Τελικός) was the national final developed by ERT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition took place on 30 January 2025 at the Christmas Theater in Galatsi, hosted by Sakis Rouvas (who represented Greece in 2004 and in 2009 and hosted Eurovision 2006) and Helena Paparizou (who represented Greece in 2001 as part of Antique, and won in 2005), with Fokas Evangelinos serving as the artistic director. The show was broadcast on ERT1, ERT World, Second Programme and Voice of Greece, as well as online on ERT’s over-the-top media service ERTFLIX International and the Eurovision Song Contest’s official YouTube channel. The national final was watched by 833,000 viewers in Greece with a market share of 18.3%, making it the highest rated show of that day.

Competing entries. On 18 October 2024, ERT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for consideration by the broadcaster by 10 November 2024. Artists were required to be Greek citizens, be permanent residents in Greece or be of Greek descent, while songwriters could be of any nationality and submit up to two songs. 187 songs were received by the submission deadline and a seven-member jury selected twelve entries to participate in the national final alongside three backup entries. The jury consisted of Michalis Hatzigiannis (composer and singer), Yiannis Dimitriadis (journalist and radio producer), Kleopatra Eleftheriadou (soprano and actress), Stefania (singer), Nektarios Tyrakis (lyricist), Maria Hatzigianni (director) and Dimitris Chorianopoulos (music producer). The competing entries were revealed on 10 January 2025 during the ERT1 show Proian se eidon; Salina Gavala and Tsiak were disqualified before the scheduled announcement as they had previously made the title of their song public, which went against the rules of the competition, and were replaced by Nafsica Gavrilaki. Among the selected competing artists was Constantinos Christoforou who previously represented Cyprus in 1996, 2002, and 2005, as well as Xannova Xan, who previously represented Greece in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as Kalli.   

Ethnikós Telikós 2025 contestants

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Andy Nicolas	“Lost My Way”	Andreas Koutsonikolas Tim Aeby
Barbz	“Sirens”	Barbara Argyrou Emil Vogel
Constantinos Christoforou and Kostas Karafotis	“Paradeisos” (Παράδεισος)	Constantinos Christoforou Rodoula Papalamprianou
Dinamiss	“Odyssey”	Eleni Dina Maria Dina
Evangelia	“Vale” (Βάλε)	Evangelia Psarakis Gino “the Ghost” Borri Jay Stolar Jordan Palmer Solmeister Stelios Vamvakas
Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros	“High Road”	Georgina Kalaitzoglou Yiannis Vlaseros
Klavdia	“Asteromata” (Αστερομάτα)	Arcade
Kostas Ageris	“Gi mou” (Γη μου)	Kostas Ageris
Nafsica Gavrilaki  Replacement entry	“Unhurt Me”	Dimitrios Koubis Nafsica Gavrilaki
Rikki	“Elevator (Up and Down)”	Anton Aerts Apostolis Mallias Konstantinos Katikaridis
Salina Gavala and Tsiak  Entry disqualified	“Tha matho na agapo” (Θα μάθω να αγαπώ)	Babis Stokas Panagiotis Tsiakalakis
Thanos Lambrou	“Free Love”	Andreas Georgiou Andreas Vasiliou Thanos Lambrou
Xannova Xan	“Play It!”	Dimitri Stassos Freja Blomberg Kalli Georgellis Maria Broberg Peter Boström

Backup entries

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Nafsica Gavrilaki	“Unhurt Me”	Dimitrios Koubis Nafsica Gavrilaki
Panagiotis Tsakalakos	“Money (Priceless Love)”	Christos Ioannidis Panagiotis Tsakalakos
Stavros Salampasopoulos	“Superhero”	Christina Koilani Stavros Salampasopoulos

Final – 30 January 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury		Televote	Total	Place
			Greek	Intl.
1	Rikki	“Elevator (Up and Down)”	8	4	2	14	7
2	Thanos Lambrou	“Free Love”	1	7	4	12	9
3	Kostas Ageris	“Gi mou“	7	1	10	18	6
4	Andy Nicolas	“Lost My Way”	3	5	0	8	10
5	Klavdia	“Asteromata“	12	8	24	44	1
6	Constantinos Christoforou and Kostas Karafotis	“Paradeisos“	5	0	8	13	8
7	Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros	“High Road”	0	2	6	8	10
8	Barbz	“Sirens”	6	10	14	30	3
9	Evangelia	“Vale“	10	12	20	42	2
10	Dinamiss	“Odyssey”	4	4	16	24	4
11	Nafsica Gavrilaki	“Unhurt Me”	0	0	0	0	12
12	Xannova Xan	“Play It!”	2	6	12	20	5

3.1.Voting.

3.2.1.Points awarded to Greece.

Points awarded to Greece (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Greece (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Armenia
10 points	Germany  Luxembourg  Montenegro  Serbia
8 points	Israel  Malta
7 points	Austria  France  Rest of the World
6 points
5 points	Australia  Georgia
4 points	Czechia  Denmark
3 points	United Kingdom
2 points
1 point	Finland  Ireland

Points awarded to Greece (Final)

Points awarded to Greece (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Albania  Cyprus  San Marino	Australia  Cyprus  Israel  Montenegro
10 points	Germany  Luxembourg	Malta
8 points	Armenia  Serbia	France
7 points	Australia  Israel  Rest of the World   Switzerland
6 points	Belgium	Albania  Germany  Serbia
5 points	Netherlands	Georgia
4 points	France  Montenegro	Croatia  Poland
3 points	Sweden	Finland  Ireland
2 points	Italy  United Kingdom
1 point		Portugal  United Kingdom

3.2.2.Points awarded by Greece.

Points awarded by Greece (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Greece (Semi-final 2) Score Televote 12 points  Israel 10 points  Austria 8 points  Armenia 7 points  Luxembourg 6 points  Malta 5 points  Georgia 4 points  Lithuania 3 points  Latvia 2 points  Finland 1 point  Serbia

Points awarded by Greece (Final)

Points awarded by Greece (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Albania	France
10 points	Austria	Austria
8 points	Estonia	Netherlands
7 points	Israel	Sweden
6 points	Netherlands	Switzerland
5 points	France	Germany
4 points	Norway	Italy
3 points	Germany	Armenia
2 points	Armenia	Albania
1 point	Sweden	Israel

3.2.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Greek jury:

• George Polychroniou
• Ioannis Vasilopoulos
• Vangelis Konstantinidis
• Margarita Mitilinaiou
• Mirela Pachou

Detailed voting results from Greece (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	14
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	12
04	Latvia	8	3
05	Armenia	3	8
06	Austria	2	10
07	Greece
08	Lithuania	7	4
09	Malta	5	6
10	Georgia	6	5
11	Denmark	11
12	Czechia	13
13	Luxembourg	4	7
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	10	1
16	Finland	9	2

Detailed voting results from Greece (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	11	23	22	14	18	22		7	4
02	Luxembourg	22	16	4	15	16	14		16
03	Estonia	5	19	20	6	25	12		3	8
04	Israel	16	7	7	19	7	10	1	4	7
05	Lithuania	23	25	24	25	21	25		12
06	Spain	13	10	19	10	20	16		14
07	Ukraine	21	22	21	24	10	23		19
08	United Kingdom	9	24	15	23	17	20		23
09	Austria	1	3	2	3	2	2	10	2	10
10	Iceland	17	9	16	18	15	17		13
11	Latvia	25	13	13	22	4	13		21
12	Netherlands	2	2	10	2	11	3	8	5	6
13	Finland	10	17	11	21	24	18		15
14	Italy	19	14	5	9	5	7	4	11
15	Poland	18	20	18	17	22	24		18
16	Germany	4	12	9	11	6	6	5	8	3
17	Greece
18	Armenia	7	5	23	8	12	8	3	9	2
19	Switzerland	20	4	8	20	1	5	6	20
20	Malta	6	18	12	5	23	11		17
21	Portugal	24	15	14	12	13	19		24
22	Denmark	14	8	17	13	14	15		25
23	Sweden	8	6	3	4	9	4	7	10	1
24	France	3	1	1	1	3	1	12	6	5
25	San Marino	15	11	25	16	19	21		22
26	Albania	12	21	6	7	8	9	2	1	12

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• Country: 🇮🇪 Ireland
• National selection – Selection process: Eurosong 2025: The Late Late show Special
• Selection date(s): 7 February 2025
• Host venue: Studio 4, RTÉ Television Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4
• Presenter(s): Patick Kielty
• Host broadcaster: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
• Participants – Number of entries: 
• Voting system:
• Selection entrant: EMMY 
• Selection song: “Laika Party”
• Selected songwriter(s): Emmy Kristine Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Erlend Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Henrik Østlund, Larissa Tormey, Truls Marius Aarra
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 3º SF 2: Failed to qualify (13th, 28 points)
• Final result: –

Ireland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Laika Party”, written by Emmy Kristine Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Erlend Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Henrik Østlund, Larissa Tormey and Truls Marius Aarra, and performed by Emmy herself. The Irish participating broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), organised the national final Eurosong 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Ireland was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025. Performing during the show in position 3, “Laika Party” was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Ireland placed 13th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 28 points.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and its predecessor national broadcasters have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty-six times since RÉ’s first entry in 1965. They have won the contest a record seven times in total. Their first win came in 1970, with “All Kinds of Everything” performed by Dana. Ireland holds the record for being the only country to win the contest three times in a row (in 1992, 1993, and 1994), as well as having the only three-time winner (Johnny Logan, who won in 1980 as a singer, 1987 as a singer-songwriter, and again in 1992 as a songwriter). Since 2013, only three Irish entries managed to qualify for the final: “Only Love Survives” by Ryan Dolan which placed 26th (last) in the final in 2013, “Together” by Ryan O’Shaughnessy which placed 16th in the final in 2018, and “Doomsday Blue” by Bambie Thug which placed sixth in the final in 2024, with the latter marking the country’s highest placing since 2000.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTÉ organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. RTÉ confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 23 September 2024. From 2016 to 2021, RTÉ held an internal selection to choose the artist and song to represent Ireland at the contest, while RTÉ set up the national final Eurosong since 2022 to choose both the song and performer, with both the public and jury involved in the selection. For the 2025 contest, RTÉ announced the return of Eurosong.

2.Before Eurovision. 

2.1.Eurosong 2025. Eurosong 2025 was the national final format developed by RTÉ in order to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It was held on 7 February 2025, once again during a special edition of The Late Late Show, broadcast on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player and hosted by Patrick Kielty. The national final was watched by 484,000 viewers in Ireland with a market share of 46%.

Competing entries. On 23 September 2024, RTÉ opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for the competition until 18 November 2024. At the closing of the window, 380 entries had been submitted.

The competing entries were selected by a jury panel with members appointed by RTÉ among music industry professionals and Eurovision fans and presided by head of delegation Michael Kealy, both from the received submissions and by direct invitation of established artists. Five finalists were selected from these based on the ten favourites of each jury member, and an additional one through a “fast-track” procedure. They were revealed daily between 20 and 24 January 2025 on The Ray D’Arcy Show, broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Adgy	“Run into the Night”	Andrew Carr, Jennie Carr, Ivan Klymenko
Bobbi Arlo	“Powerplay”	Bobbi Arlo, Theofilos Pouzbouris
Emmy	“Laika Party”	Emmy Kristine Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Erlend Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Henrik Østlund, Larissa Tormey, Truls Marius Aarra
Niyl	“Growth”	Niall O’Halloran
Reylta	“Fire”	Caoimhe Glynn, Cian O’Donoghue, Ryan O’Shaughnessy
Samantha Mumba	“My Way”	Brandon Avery Smith, Samantha Mumba

Final – 7 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury		Televote	Total	Place
			Intl.	National
1	Adgy	“Run into the Night”	2	2	6	10	6
2	Bobbi Arlo	“Powerplay”	6	6	8	20	3
3	Reylta	“Fire”	8	8	2	18	5
4	Samantha Mumba	“My Way”	12	10	4	26	2
5	Niyl	“Growth”	4	4	10	18	4
6	Emmy	“Laika Party”	10	12	12	34	1

Calls for boycott. On 8 May 2025, more than 350 independent Irish television and film producers have signed an open letter urging the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to reconsider Israel’s participation in the contest. The letter came in response to a statement made by Eurovision director Martin Green, who defended the EBU’s decision to allow Israel to remain in the competition. The following day, a protest outside RTÉ in Dublin urged the broadcaster to boycott the contest over Israel’s participation, citing alleged war crimes in Gaza and accusing Israel of using the contest to “culture wash” its actions. The demonstration featured actor Stephen Rea, several artists, activists, and union representatives. Protesters referenced the suspension of Russia and Belarus as precedent and noted support from over 70 former Eurovision contestants. While RTÉ Director-General Kevin Bakhurst said that it would not pull out from the contest, he confirmed that he, along with RTÉ’s Director of Video, Steve Carson, held a meeting with the EBU regarding Israel’s participation.

3.At Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025.^[18] During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Ireland was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.

At the end of the show, Ireland was not announced among the top 10 entries in the second semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final.

3.1.Voting. 

3.1.1.Points awarded to Ireland.

Points awarded to Ireland (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Ireland (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points	United Kingdom
6 points	Malta
5 points
4 points	Latvia
3 points
2 points	Australia  Denmark  Finland  Lithuania  Luxembourg
1 point	Rest of the World

3.1.2.Points awarded by Ireland.

Points awarded by Ireland (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Ireland (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points	Israel
10 points	Lithuania
8 points	Latvia
7 points	Finland
6 points	Austria
5 points	Denmark
4 points	Malta
3 points	Australia
2 points	Luxembourg
1 point	Greece

Points awarded by Ireland (Final)

Points awarded by Ireland (Final)

Points	Televote	Jury
12 points	Poland	Austria
10 points	Israel	Netherlands
8 points	Lithuania	France
7 points	Ukraine	Israel
6 points	Estonia	Malta
5 points	Finland	Sweden
4 points	Austria	Finland
3 points	Latvia	Greece
2 points	Sweden	United Kingdom
1 point	Spain	Armenia

3.1.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Irish jury:

• Dermont McEvoy
• Edward Porter
• Kofi Appiah
• Helen Jordan Guthrie
• Tara Murray

Detailed voting results from Ireland (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	8	3
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland
04	Latvia	3	8
05	Armenia	12
06	Austria	5	6
07	Greece	10	1
08	Lithuania	2	10
09	Malta	7	4
10	Georgia	13
11	Denmark	6	5
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	9	2
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland	4	7

Detailed voting results from Ireland (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	12	12	17	21	17	19		23
02	Luxembourg	13	10	15	12	7	14		24
03	Estonia	10	23	3	10	26	11		5	6
04	Israel	23	2	20	4	3	4	7	2	10
05	Lithuania	19	26	21	7	23	17		3	8
06	Spain	9	18	4	14	19	13		10	1
07	Ukraine	18	25	19	26	21	25		4	7
08	United Kingdom	17	7	5	9	9	9	2	18
09	Austria	1	3	1	1	1	1	12	7	4
10	Iceland	24	8	16	25	12	15		14
11	Latvia	25	24	8	22	25	22		8	3
12	Netherlands	4	1	9	2	5	2	10	16
13	Finland	5	13	2	17	8	7	4	6	5
14	Italy	11	11	24	18	16	16		13
15	Poland	16	21	12	16	20	23		1	12
16	Germany	14	22	23	11	15	21		11
17	Greece	8	20	11	3	11	8	3	19
18	Armenia	15	14	22	6	4	10	1	25
19	Switzerland	7	6	13	15	13	12		20
20	Malta	2	9	7	5	18	5	6	17
21	Portugal	21	19	25	24	24	26		21
22	Denmark	26	15	14	23	10	20		22
23	Sweden	3	5	18	8	6	6	5	9	2
24	France	6	4	6	13	2	3	8	15
25	San Marino	22	16	26	20	22	24		26
26	Albania	20	17	10	19	14	18		12

• Country: 🇱🇻 Latvia
• National selection:
• Selection process: Supernova 2025
• Selection date(s): Semi-final (Pusfināls): 1 February 2025 Ι Final (Fināls): 8 February 2025
• Host venue: Rīgas Kinostudija, Rīga
• Presenter(s): Ketija Šēnberga, Lauris Reiniks
• Host broadcaster: Latvijas Televīzija (LTV)
• Participants – Number of entries: 96 (1st round), 20 (after selection), 10 (final)
• Voting system: 50% Jury 50% Televoting
• Selection entrant: Tautumeitas
• Selection song: “Bur man laimi” (Bring me happiness) 
• Selected songwriter(s): Asnate Rancāne, Aurēlija Rancāne, Elvis Lintiņš, Gabriēla Zvaigznīte, Laura Līcīte
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 4º SF 2: Qualified (2nd, 130 points)
• Final result: 11º FI: 13th, 158 points

Latvia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Bur man laimi“, written by Asnate Rancāne, Aurēlija Rancāne, Elvis Lintiņš, Gabriēla Zvaigznīte, and Laura Līcīte, and performed by themselves as Tautumeitas. The Latvian participating broadcaster, Public Broadcasting of Latvia (LSM), organised the national final Supernova 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Latvia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 4. At the end of the show, “Bur man laimi” was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking a second consecutive qualification for the country. It was later revealed that Latvia placed second out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 130 points, which matched the country’s highest semi-final placing previously achieved in 2015. In the final, Latvia performed in position 11 and placed thirteenth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 158 points, including a seventh place finish with the juries. This marked Latvia’s highest placing since 2015.

1.Background. Prior to the  2025 contest, Latvian Television (LTV) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Latvia 24 times since its first entry in 2000. It won the contest once in 2002 with the song “I Wanna” performed by Marie N. Following the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, it was able to qualify for the final between 2005 and 2008. Between 2009 and 2014, it failed to qualify to the final for six consecutive years before managing to qualify to the final in 2015 and 2016. Having once again failed to qualify to the final for six consecutive contests between 2017 and 2023, it managed to qualify to the final in 2024 with the song “Hollow” performed by Dons, placing 16th with a score of 64 points.

After a restructuring that led to the incorporation of LTV into the current Public Broadcasting of Latvia (LSM) on 2 January 2025, it is the latter who will participate in the 2025 contest. As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, LSM organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 16 July 2024. LTV selected their entries for Eurovision through a national final. Since their debut in 2000 until 2012, LTV had organised the selection show Eirodziesma, which was rebranded and retooled as Dziesma in 2013 and 2014. Since 2015, LTV organised the Supernova national final in order to select its entry, and on 24 July 2024, the broadcaster announced that it would return with organising Supernova 2025 in order to select its entry for the 2025 contest.

2.Before Eurovision. 

2.1.Supernova 2025. Supernova2025 was the tenth edition of the national final format used to select Latvia’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition commenced on 1 February 2025 with a semi-final and concluded with a final on 8 February 2025. The two shows in the competition took place at the Riga Film Studio in Riga, hosted by Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks and broadcast on LTV1 as well as online via the streaming platform Replay.lv and the official Supernova website supernova.lsm.lv. Alternative broadcasts of the final also occurred on LTV7 with a sign language translation as well as online at lsm.lv.

Format. The format of the competition consisted of two shows: a semi-final and a final. The semi-final, held on 1 February 2025, featured nineteen competing entries from which the top ten advanced to the final from each show. LTV also had the right to advance a wildcard act to the final from the remaining non-qualifying entries in the semi-final, but ultimately opted against doing so. The final, held on 8 February 2025, selected the Latvian entry for Basel from the remaining ten entries. Results during the semi-final and final shows were determined by the 50/50 combination of votes from a jury panel and a public televote, with both the jury and public vote assigning points from 1-8, 10 and 12 to the competing songs. Ties were decided in favour of the entries that received higher points from the public. Viewers were able to vote via telephone or SMS, with a single SMS counting as ten individual votes.

The jury voted in each show and selected entries to advance in the competition. The panel consisted of:

• Reinis Sējāns – musician, composer and producer, represented Latvia in 2006 as part of Cosmos
• Anna Platpīre – content editor for LTV
• Una Stade – singer, composer, vocal coach and conductor
• Mārtiņš Pabērzis – presenter of Latvijas Radio 5 – Pieci.lv
• Saulius Urbonavičius – television producer, represented Lithuania in 2006 as part of LT United
• Tommi Kyyrä – deputy director of IFPI Finland
• Rob Gruschke – Dutch music industry collective rights manager
• Grettel Killing – Estonian music industry professional and artist manager

2.1.1.Competing entries. On 20 August 2024, LTV opened a song submission window for artists to apply, with the deadline set for 21 October 2024. Performers were required to be Latvian nationals or permanent residents of Latvia, while songwriters and producers could be from any country. Additionally, a songwriting camp was held in Riga in late August 2024 in order to create songs to be submitted for the competition. At the end of the submission period, 96 entries had been received. The participants were selected by a jury composed of representatives of the Latvian music and television industry, as well as foreign professionals, and were announced on 20 November 2024 on the programme Rīta Panorāma, broadcast on LTV1.

Among the selected competing artists were Justs and Citi Zēni, who represented Latvia in 2016 and 2022, respectively. On 28 January 2025, it was announced that Grēta had withdrawn her participation due to health problems.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Adelina (Adelina Jurevica)	“Electric Love” (Elektriskā mīlestība)	Adelina Jurevica, Nicolas Jirahos (Purple Juice)
Bel Tempo and Legzdina (BEl temp un legzdina: Jūlijs Melngailis un Andis Ansons, un Elīza Legzdiņa)	“The Water” (Ūdens)	Andis Ansons, Elīza Legzdiņa, Jūlijs Melngailis
Chris Noah (Krists Indrišonoks)	“Romance Isn’t Dead” (Romantika nav mirusi)	Kristofer Harris, Krists Indrišonoks
Citi Zēni (Jānis Pētersons, Dagnis Roziņš, Reinis Višķeris, Krišjānis Ozols, Roberts Memmēns, Toms Jēkabs Kagainis)	“Ramtai”	Dagnis Roziņš, Emmy Kristine Guttulsrud Kristiansen, Jānis Pētersons, Mikus Frišfelds, Oscar Immanuel Mathisen, Toms Jēkabs Kagainis
Emilija (Emilija Bērziņa)	“Heartbeat” (Sirdspuksti)	Emilija Bērziņa, Kaiya Campbell, Niels Sakko
Grēta Grantiņa	“Monster” (Briesmonis)	Emma Gale, Grēta Grantiņa, Jēkabs Ludvigs Kalmanis, Kristaps Ērglis, Simon Davis
Julianna (Julianna Tīruma)	“Something in the Water” (Kaut kas ūdenī)	Julianna Tīruma
Justs (Justs Sirmais)	“Fit Right” (Iederēties)	Aluel Ayok-Loewenberg, Justs Sirmais, Oskars Uhans, Rūdolfs Budze
Katrīna Gupalo	“Scarlett Challenger” (Skārletas izaicinājums)	Edgars Vilcāns, Katrīna Gupalo
KoBra	“Zelts”	KoBra (Katrīna Kovaļuka, Krišjānis Brasliņš)
Luka (Elizabete Lukaševiča)	“Stronger” (Stiprāks)	Elizabete Lukaševiča, Kaspars Ansons, Philippus Jacob Kumerling
Markus Riva (Miķelis Ļaksa)	“Bigger than This” (Lielāks nekā šis)	Markus Riva, Roman Nepomiashchyi
Marta (Marta Grigale)	“Lovable” (Mīļais)	Jānis Jačmenkins, Joel Werner, Marta Grigale, Michaela Stridbeck, Reinis Straume
Palú (Olga Palušina)	“Delusional” (Murgains)	Jorens Daugulis, Olga Palušina, Roberts Memmēns
Rūta Dūduma (Rūta Dūduma-Ķirse)	“Chemical” (Ķīmisks)	Jēkabs Ludvigs Kalmanis, Rūta Dūduma-Ķirse, Tilde Wall
Sinerģija (Madaras Fogelmanes un Martes Līces)	“Bound by the Light” (Gaismas saistīti)	Madara Fogelmane
Tautumeitas (Asnate Rancāne, Aurēlija Rancāne, Laura Marta Līcīte, Laura Liepiņa, Gabriēla Zvaigznīte)	“Bur man laimi“	Asnate Rancāne, Aurēlija Rancāne, Elvis Lintiņš, Gabriēla Zvaigznīte, Laura Līcīte
Tepat (Madara Dzene, Matīss Barons, Eduards Bariss, Krišjānis Laizāns, Enriko Korvisons un Andris Žabris)	“Sadzejot“	Andris Žabris, Eduards Bariss, Enriko Luiss Korvisons-Rohass, Krišjānis Laizāns, Matīss Barons, Madara Dzene
The Ludvig (Jēkabs Ludvigs Kalmanis)	“Līgo“	Ārijs Šķepasts, Jānis Ķirsis, Jēkabs Ludvigs Kalmanis
Toms Kalderauskis	“Domāju, tu nāc“	Kate Elpo, Toms Kalderauskis

2.1.2.Semi-final. The semi-final took place on 1 February 2025 where nineteen acts competed. The top ten entries qualified to the final based on the combination of votes from a jury panel and the Latvian public.

Semi-final – 1 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Result
1	Marta	“Lovable”	Eliminated
2	Tepat	“Sadzejot“	Advanced
3	Justs	“Fit Right”	Eliminated
4	KoBra	“Zelts”	Eliminated
5	Adelina	“Electric Love”	Eliminated
6	Citi Zēni	“Ramtai“	Advanced
7	Emilija	“Heartbeat”	Advanced
8	Bel Tempo and Legzdina	“The Water”	Advanced
9	Palú	“Delusional”	Advanced
10	The Ludvig	“Līgo“	Advanced
11	Luka	“Stronger”	Eliminated
12	Chris Noah	“Romance Isn’t Dead”	Advanced
13	Toms Kalderauskis	“Domāju, tu nāc“	Eliminated
14	Julianna	“Something in the Water”	Eliminated
15	Tautumeitas	“Bur man laimi“	Advanced
16	Rūta Dūduma	“Chemical”	Eliminated
17	Katrīna Gupalo	“Scarlett Challenger”	Eliminated
18	Sinerģija	“Bound by the Light”	Advanced
19	Markus Riva	“Bigger than This”	Advanced

Final. The final took place on 8 February 2025 where the ten entries that qualified from the semi-final competed. The combination of votes from a jury panel and the Latvian public resulted in a tie for first place among three songs, but since “Bur man laimi” performed by Tautumeitas received the most votes from the latter, it was declared the winner. In addition to the competing entries, the show featured multiple guest performances by 2015 Latvian entrant Aminata.

Final – 8 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Chris Noah	“Romance Isn’t Dead”	7	27,808	7	14	5
2	Palú	“Delusional”	4	6,309	3	7	7
3	Sinerģija	“Bound by the Light”	3	6,184	2	5	9
4	Citi Zēni	“Ramtai“	12	22,562	6	18	3
5	Tepat	“Sadzejot“	2	4,848	1	3	10
6	The Ludvig	“Līgo“	5	69,933	12	17	4
7	Markus Riva	“Bigger than This”	1	18,927	5	6	8
8	Tautumeitas	“Bur man laimi“	8	61,028	10	18	1
9	Bel Tempo and Legzdina	“The Water”	6	15,047	4	10	6
10	Emilija	“Heartbeat”	10	56,577	8	18	2

Ratings.

Viewing figures by show

Show	Air date	Viewership	Avg. rating (%)
Semi-final	1 February 2025	158,700	9.2%
Final	8 February 2025	179,100	10.4%

Promotion. The group received a budget of €5,000 from the Latvian Music Producers Association (LaIPA) for promotional activities.

3.At Eurovision. Latvia performed in the Second Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel on May 15. In January, they were drawn to perform in the first half of the semi-final, and they were later allocated 4th in the running order. Tautumeitas qualified for the final in 2nd place with 130 points.

In the Grand Final, Latvia received 116 points from the juries, which included 12 points from Denmark, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom. They also received 42 points from the televote, with 12 points also from Lithuania. They finished in 13th place with 158 points, Latvia’s best result in Eurovision since 2015.

3.2.Voting.

3.2.1.Points awarded to Latvia.

Points awarded to Latvia (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Latvia (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Lithuania
10 points	Czechia  Finland  Rest of the World
8 points	Austria  Denmark  Germany  Ireland  United Kingdom
7 points	Australia  Georgia  Luxembourg
6 points	France
5 points
4 points	Armenia  Israel  Serbia
3 points	Greece  Malta  Montenegro
2 points
1 point

Points awarded to Latvia (Final)

Points awarded to Latvia (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Lithuania	Denmark  Lithuania  United Kingdom
10 points		Australia
8 points	Estonia  Ukraine	Georgia  San Marino
7 points		Belgium  Croatia  Israel  Portugal
6 points		Norway  Ukraine
5 points
4 points		Austria
3 points	Finland  Ireland  United Kingdom	Estonia  Netherlands
2 points	Australia  Poland	Luxembourg
1 point	Luxembourg	Armenia  Serbia

3.2.2.Points awarded by Latvia.

Points awarded by Latvia (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Latvia (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Lithuania
10 points	Israel
8 points	Finland
7 points	Austria
6 points	Australia
5 points	Luxembourg
4 points	Ireland
3 points	Georgia
2 points	Denmark
1 point	Armenia

 

Points awarded by Latvia (Final)

Points awarded by Latvia (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Estonia	Austria
10 points	Lithuania	Finland
8 points	Sweden	Switzerland
7 points	Israel	Lithuania
6 points	Ukraine	France
5 points	Germany	Malta
4 points	Austria	Armenia
3 points	Finland	Luxembourg
2 points	Italy	Germany
1 point	Norway	Estonia

3.2.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Latvian jury:

• Rodrigo Fomins
• Toms Andris Putniņš
• Kristīne Pāže
• Liena Edvardsa
• Una Stade

Detailed voting results from Latvia (Semi-final 2)

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	5	6
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	7	4
04	Latvia
05	Armenia	10	1
06	Austria	4	7
07	Greece	13
08	Lithuania	1	12
09	Malta	12
10	Georgia	8	3
11	Denmark	9	2
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	6	5
14	Israel	2	10
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland	3	8

Detailed voting results from Latvia (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	17	10	25	15	13	18		10	1
02	Luxembourg	16	21	5	11	3	8	3	17
03	Estonia	5	6	18	10	12	10	1	1	12
04	Israel	24	25	13	21	11	23		4	7
05	Lithuania	6	3	10	5	6	4	7	2	10
06	Spain	23	17	21	24	2	13		22
07	Ukraine	8	4	19	16	20	12		5	6
08	United Kingdom	25	20	24	23	19	25		24
09	Austria	1	2	4	1	15	1	12	7	4
10	Iceland	15	11	16	17	24	20		13
11	Latvia
12	Netherlands	4	9	20	18	21	14		11
13	Finland	3	1	2	2	17	2	10	8	3
14	Italy	12	15	14	7	4	11		9	2
15	Poland	22	22	8	25	23	21		19
16	Germany	13	18	7	4	9	9	2	6	5
17	Greece	14	19	17	13	14	19		20
18	Armenia	18	12	9	9	1	7	4	18
19	Switzerland	9	8	3	3	7	3	8	14
20	Malta	10	13	1	6	18	6	5	21
21	Portugal	21	23	23	12	5	17		16
22	Denmark	19	14	6	20	10	16		23
23	Sweden	7	7	12	14	22	15		3	8
24	France	2	5	11	8	8	5	6	15
25	San Marino	20	24	22	22	16	24		25
26	Albania	11	16	15	19	25	22		12

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• Country: 🇱🇹 Lithuania
• National selection – Selection process: EUROVIZIJA.LT 2025
• Selection date(s): Semi-finals (Pusfinaliai): 11 January 2025^[a], 18 January 2025, 25 January 2025, 1 February 2025, 8 February 2025 Ι Final (Finalas): 15 February 2025
• Host venue:  Semi-finals (Pusfinaliai): LRT Studios, Vilnius Ι Final (Finalas): Žalgirio Arena, Kaunas
• Presenter(s): Gabrielė Martirosian, Nombeko Augustė, Rimvydas Černiauskas
• Host broadcaster: Lietuvos radijas ir televizija (LRT)
• Participants – Number of entries: 45
• Voting system: Semi-finals / Final: 50% Jury 50% Televoting Ι Superfinale: 100% Televoting
• Selection entrant: Katarsis
• Selection song: “Tavo akys” (Your eyes)
• Selected songwriter(s): Lukas Radzevičius
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 8º SF 2: Qualified (6th, 103 points)
• Final result: º FI: 16th, 96 points

Lithuania was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Tavo akys“, written by Lukas Radzevičius, and performed by the band Katarsis. The Lithuanian participating broadcaster, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), organised the national final Eurovizija.LT 2025 to select its entry for the contest.

Lithuania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 8. At the end of the show, “Tavo akys” was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking a fifth consecutive qualification for the country. It was later revealed that Lithuania placed sixth out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 103 points. In the final, Lithuania performed in position 5 and placed sixteenth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 96 points.

1.Background. Prior to 2025, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Lithuania twenty-four times since its debut in 1994. Its best placing was achieved in 2006, with the song “We Are the Winners” performed by LT United, which finished in sixth place in the final. Since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, LRT has managed to qualify for the final thirteen times. It was represented in 2024 by the song “Luktelk“, performed by Silvester Belt, who qualified for the final and finished 14th overall with 90 points. 

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, LRT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. LRT has used a national final to select all of its Eurovision entries, with the exception of its debut entry in 1994. Between 2020 and 2023, the national final format Pabandom iš naujo! was used to select its entry. In 2024, LRT introduced a new format, titled Eurovizija.LT. LRT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest in mid-June 2024; two months later, the broadcaster started accepting applications for Eurovizija.LT 2025. 

2.Before Eurovision.

2.1.Eurovizija.LT. Eurovizija.LT2025 was the national final format organized by LRT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It was held between 11 January and 15 February 2025 and was hosted by Gabrielė Martirosian, Nombeko Augustė Khotseng, and Rimvydas Černiauskas. The shows were broadcast on LRT televizija and LRT Lituanica, as well as online via the broadcaster’s website lrt.lt and official LRT YouTube channel.

2.1.1.Format. The competition saw 44 entries compete across five semi-finals, held between 11 January and 8 February 2024, and a final on 15 February 2024. A 50/50 combination of jury and public vote determined the ranking in each phase, with the top two entries from each semi-final (out of the nine total) qualifying for the final; the top three entries from the final moving on to a final televoting round selecting the winner. In case of a tie in any of the previous stages, the jury ranking would take precedence. The score system was the same used at the Eurovision Song Contest: the top ten entries from each of the jury vote and the televote are assigned 1–8, 10 and 12 points.

Performances for the semi-finals were pre-recorded, while they were delivered live in the final.

2.1.2.Competing entries. On 13 August 2024, LRT opened a submission platform for interested artists, lasting until 11 November 2024, later the deadline was extended to 25 November 2024. Each applicant could only submit one entry. Performers were required to be citizens of the European Union who have a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, while songwriters could be of any nationality, though citizens of countries “hostile to Lithuania” were not allowed to submit entries. The selected artists are able to withdraw until 20 December 2024. 81 entries were submitted at the conclusion of the submission period.

On 11 December 2024, the list of the 45 participating artists and songs was released by LRT. On 13 December, Evelina Gancewska was disqualified from the competition as her competing song “Aurora” had already made the line-up of the Croatian national selection, Dora 2025, and was replaced by Austėja Lukaitė, who later withdrew from the competition herself because she was unable to attend the filming of her semi-final due to a flu. Among the selected competing artists were Vilija and Ieva Zasimauskaitė, who represented Lithuania in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Gebrasy, Indrė] and Laimonas (as part of Il Senso), Justinas Lapatinskas, Liepa, Lion Ceccah (formerly known as Alen Chicco), Mario Junes, Petunija, Queens of Roses and Siga (as part of Žalvarinis) have all competed in previous editions of the Lithuanian national selection and advanced to the final.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Aistay	“Meilę sapnavau“	Aistė Tomkevičiūtė-Pajaujienė Elad Lahmany Monika Arbutavičienė
Amari	“Sirens Call”	Paulius Stanulionis Vitalij Puzyriov Marija Jogminė Justinas Jogminas
Amoralu	“Freedom”	Lukrecija Vasiliauskaitė Viktorija Krivickaitė Rokas Mikaliūnas Deimantas Tumas
Anyanya	“Running Out of Time”	Anyanya Udongwo Serhii Yeromenko Timothy Akuboh Judah Chima
Austėja Lukaitė Replacement entry, later withdrawn	“Kas esu be tavęs?“	Žilvinas Žusinas
Black Biceps	“Visaip man reik“	Vitalij Valentinovič
Donata	“Empower”	Ylva Persson Linda Persson Janne Hyöty
Euften	“Goodbye Hell”	Rafael Artesero José Juan Santana Elvinas Skliutas
Evelina Gancewska Entry withdrawn	“Aurora”	Valentina Gyerek Ylva Persson Linda Persson
Ewa	“Tell Me Lie”	Eva Navickaitė
Freya Alley	“Lalala”	Kamilė Balčytytė Laurence Hobbs
Gebrasy	“Whole”	Titas Astafejevas Audrius Petrauskas
Gøya	“After Storm”	Marija Grabštaitė Marijus Adomaitis
Godo Yorke	“<3 neparodai“	Goda Sasnauskaitė Paulius Večeris Nadiia Sazonova Pedro Joaquim Borges
Halummi	“The Flame”	Kotryna Zaskevičiūtė Pablo Lago
Hansanova	“Leilydo“	Giedrius Balčiūnas
Ieva Zasimauskaitė	“Don’t You Ever Leave Me”	Ieva Zasimauskaitė Donatas Kelmelis
Indrė and Laimonas	“Namo“	Stanislavas Stavickis
Jokūbas Jankauskas	“Far Away”	Jokūbas Jankauskas
Joseph June	“Ko man nesakei“	Vytautas Gumbelevičius
Justė Baradulinaitė	“Tired”	Titas Astafejevas Audrius Petrauskas
Justinas	“Alright”	Titas Astafejevas Audrius Petrauskas
Káro	“Love Bug”	Karolė Virbickaitė Peder Etholm Idsoe
Katarsis	“Tavo akys“	Lukas Radzevičius
Liepa	“Ar mylėtum“	Elena Jurgaitytė Nombeko Augustė Khotseng[a]
Lion Ceccah	“Drobė“	Tomas Alenčikas Aurimas Galvelis
Lit	“You’re Not Alone”	Justinas Chachlauskas Raigardas Tautkus Frederik Nnaji
Mantas Ben [lt]	“Svajonės po 12“	Mantas Bendžius
Mario Junes	“Bury Me”	Marius Kijauskas Faustas Venckus
Matas Ligeika	“Saule“	Matas Ligeika Nombeko Augustė Khotseng[a] Rokas Jančiauskas
Matt Len	“Not Alone”	Matas Lenktis Vitalij Rodevič
Meidė	“Gyvatės“	Meidė Šlamaitė Paulius Vaicekauskas
Noy	“Just Take Me on a Date”	Nojus Žebrauskas Alvydas Mačiulskas
Ofelija	“Širdelė“	Liepa Maknavičiūtė
Petunija	“Į saldumą“	Kęstutis Vaitkevičius Agnė Šiaulytė-Vaitkevičė
Queens of Roses	“Taip!“	Elena Jurgaitytė Nombeko Augustė Khotseng[a]
Rūta Budreckaitė	“Tai kur namai“	Dovydas Lazdinis Rūta Budreckaitė
Siga	“Walking with My Shadow”	Sigita Jonynaitė-Žostautienė
Sophie Ali	“The Bluest Bell”	Gytis Valickas Jokūbas Tulaba Sophie Ali
Sun Francisco	“Atsimerkt“	Giedrė Ivanova Maksimas Ivanovas
The Ditties	“Zui Zu Bi”	Veronika Čičinskaitė-Golovanova Paulius Vaicekauskas
Thomas G	“Highest Goals”	Tomas Gailiūnas Dovydas Lazdinis
Tomas Dirgėla	“Pašok“	Tomas Dirgėla Germanas Skoris
Ustin	“You’re the One”	Justinas Mejeris Salomėja Vaisiūnaitė
Viktorija Faith	“Scary Beautiful”	Oskar Linderoth Amy Hay Aidan O’Connor Dennis Svennebäck
Vilija	“Liesti negalima“	Vilija Matačiūnaitė

Jury members. Unlike last year, the jury members commented on the contestants’ performances in all shows. The jury consisted of five people in the semi-finals, and 11 jury members participated in the final.

Jury members by show

Jury member	Semi-finals					Final	Occupation(s)
	1	2	3	4	5
Ramūnas Zilnys							music reviewer, radio host, Eurovision commentator
Ieva Narkutė							singer-songwriter
Vytautas Bikus							composer, songwriter of Lithuanian entries in 2015 and 2018
Monika Liu							2022 Lithuanian representative
Leonas Somovas							producer and composer
Unė Liandzbergytė							radio host
Gerūta Griniūtė							radio host, former Eurovision commentator
Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano							singer-songwriter
Kamilė Gudmonaitė							theater director, singer, member of Kamanių Šilelis [lt]
Kristupas Naraškevičius							TV and radio host
Darius Užkuraitis							radio host, former Eurovision commentator
Vaidas Baumila							2015 Lithuanian representative
Inga Jankauskaitė							actress, singer-songwriter
Giedrė Kilčiauskienė							singer-songwriter

Semi-finals. The five semi-finals of the competition were filmed on 8, 14, 15, 20, and 21 January 2025 at the LRT studios in Vilnius and were aired on 11, 18, 25 January, 1, and 8 February 2025. In each semi-final, 9 of the 45 competing acts performed, with the top two entries progressing to the final.

After the results of the 5th semi-final, it was announced that Black Biceps and Liepa also qualified for the final as wildcards. Both artists received the most audience support from the contestants who did not make it to the finals, and they also only missed out on the finals due to jury tie-breakers.

Each semi-final opened with a performance of dancers staged by choreographer Marijanas Staniulėnas. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, interval acts performed:

• Gabrielius Vagelis performed “Pasilik” in the first semi-final;
• Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano and Edilija Nikartaitė-Geltona1 performed “Saulė” in the second semi-final;
• Rūta Mur with Leonas Somovas performed “Saugok širdį” in the third semi-final;
• Nombeko Augustė performed “Vaikštai per mane” in the fourth semi-final;
• Paulina Paukštaitytė performed “Pasilik Praeity” in the fifth semi-final.

  Qualifier   Wildcard qualifier   Entry withdrawn

Semi-final 1 – 11 January 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Lit	“You’re Not Alone”	6	297	4	10	6
2	Mantas Ben	“Svajonės po 12“	8	384	6	14	3
3	Rūta Budreckaitė	“Tai kur namai“	4	706	8	12	5
4	Anyanya Qualifier	“Running Out of Time”	12	1,058	12	24	1
5	Aistay	“Meilę sapnavau“	2	55	2	4	9
6	Ewa	“Tell Me Lie”	7	442	7	14	4
7	Viktorija Faith	“Scary Beautiful”	5	159	3	8	7
8	Justė Baradulinaitė Qualifier	“Tired”	10	827	10	20	2
9	Euften	“Goodbye Hell”	3	299	5	8	8

Semi-final 2 – 18 January 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Halummi	“The Flame”	6	427	5	11	5
2	Noy Qualifier	“Just Take Me on a Date”	10	1,019	12	22	2
3	Jokūbas Jankauskas	“Far Away”	8	633	8	16	3
4	Petunija Qualifier	“Į saldumą“	12	863	10	22	1
5	Freya Alley	“Lalala”	4	476	6	10	6
6	Káro	“Love Bug”	5	349	4	9	7
7	Vilija	“Liesti negalima“	7	610	7	14	4
8	Tomas Dirgėla	“Pašok“	3	236	3	6	8
—	Austėja Lukaitė Entry withdrawn	“Kas esu be tavęs?“	Withdrew[b]

Semi-final 3 – 25 January 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Amari	“Sirens Call”	3	426	5	8	7
2	Thomas G	“Highest Goals”	2	540	6	8	8
3	Queens of Roses	“Taip!“	7	544	7	14	4
4	Gøya Qualifier	“After Storm”	10	1,220	10	20	2
5	Hansanova	“Leilydo“	4	304	3	7	9
6	Meidė	“Gyvatės“	5	424	4	9	5
7	Gebrasy Qualifier	“Whole”	12	742	8	20	1
8	Indrė and Laimonas	“Namo“	6	272	2	8	6
9	Black Biceps Wildcard qualifier	“Visaip man reik“	8	2,868	12	20	3

Semi-final 4 – 1 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Siga	“Walking With My Shadow”	2	344	3	5	9
2	Ustin	“You’re the One”	5	672	5	10	6
3	Godo Yorke	“<3 neparodai“	4	252	2	6	8
4	Joseph June	“Ko man nesakei?“	3	711	6	9	7
5	Amoralu Qualifier	“Freedom”	10	820	7	17	2
6	Katarsis Qualifier	“Tavo akys“	12	2,507	12	24	1
7	Liepa Wildcard qualifier	“Ar mylėtum“	7	2,218	10	17	3
8	Mario Junes	“Bury Me”	6	573	4	10	5
9	The Ditties	“Zui zu bi“	8	1,254	8	16	4

Semi-final 5 – 8 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Donata	“Empower”	6	283	5	11	5
2	Matas Ligeika	“Saule“	10	470	7	17	3
3	Ieva Zasimauskaitė	“Don’t You Ever Leave Me”	7	635	8	15	4
4	Matt Len	“Not Alone”	5	290	6	11	6
5	Ofelija	“Širdelė“	4	121	3	7	7
6	Sun Francisco	“Atsimerkt“	3	125	4	7	8
7	Justinas	“Alright”	2	103	2	4	9
8	Sophie Ali Qualifier	“The Bluest Bell”	8	1,271	10	18	2
9	Lion Ceccah Qualifier	“Drobė“	12	1,993	12	24	1

Final. The live final of the competition took place on 15 February 2025 at the Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas. The final was opened by a performance of dancers staged by choreographer Marijanas Staniulėnas, followed by a parade of participants presenting all twelve finalists. In addition to the performances of the competing entries Rokas Yan performed medley of his songs (including a joint song with former Lithuanian representatives Monika Liu and Vaidas Baumila), Silvester Belt performed 2024 Lithuanian Eurovision entry “Luktelk” and Monika Marija, Gabrielius Vagelis, Vilius Popendikis and Nombeko Augustė Khotseng together performed medley of famous Eurovision songs as the interval acts.^[29] A combination of the votes of a jury (50%) and the public (50%) selected three songs for a superfinal, where a televoting round determined the winner.

Due to a technical error during the superfinal, most votes had not been counted at the time of reveal of the results. During the broadcast, it was stated that “Tavo akys” received 9,374 votes, that “Drobė” received 3,828, and that “Ar mylėtum” received 2,198 votes. Three days later, it was revealed that “Tavo akys” had received 15,889, “Drobė” had received 11,225, and “Ar mylėtum” had received 6,655 votes. Upon counting all the votes, the results of the superfinal remained the same.

Final – 15 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury		Televote		Total	Place
			Votes	Points	Votes	Points
1	Noy	“Just Take Me on a Date”	15	0	589	0	0	12
2	Gøya	“After Storm”	77	6	2,389	5	11	6
3	Liepa Qualifier	“Ar mylėtum“	79	7	6,964	7	14	3
4	Gebrasy	“Whole”	38	0	659	0	0	11
5	Amoralu	“Freedom”	101	8	2,298	4	12	5
6	Anyanya	“Running Out of Time”	68	2	3,046	6	8	7
7	Justė Baradulinaitė	“Tired”	40	1	915	1	2	10
8	Katarsis Qualifier	“Tavo akys“	120	12	10,714	12	24	1
9	Petunija	“Į saldumą“	69	4	1,807	3	7	8
10	Sophie Ali	“The Bluest Bell”	68	3	1,726	2	5	9
11	Lion Ceccah Qualifier	“Drobė“	113	10	7,964	10	20	2
12	Black Biceps	“Visaip man reik“	70	5	6,993	8	13	4

Superfinal – 15 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Place
1	Katarsis	“Tavo akys“	15,889	1
2	Liepa	“Ar mylėtum“	6,655	3
3	Lion Ceccah	“Drobė“	11,255	2

Notes.

• a^ abc Introduced as KHot during broadcast
• b^ Austėja Lukaitė was originally supposed to compete in the second semi-final but she was unable to attend the filming due to a flu.

3.At Eurovision. Lithuania participated in the Second Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel. In January, they were drawn to perform in the first half of the semi-final, and the producer later chose for them to perform eighth. On 15th May 2025, Lithuania qualified for the Grand Final, finishing 6th with 103 points.

In the Grand Final, Lithuania received 34 points from the juries and 62 points in the televote. They finished in 16th place with 96 points.

3.3.Voting. 

3.3.1.Points awarded to Lithuania.

Points awarded to Lithuania (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Lithuania (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Latvia
10 points	Ireland  United Kingdom
8 points	Czechia  Georgia  Luxembourg
7 points	Germany
6 points	Denmark  Finland
5 points	France  Montenegro  Rest of the World  Serbia
4 points	Greece
3 points
2 points	Malta
1 point	Armenia  Australia

Points awarded to Lithuania (Final)

Points awarded to Lithuania (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Ukraine
10 points	Latvia
8 points	Ireland  United Kingdom
7 points		Latvia
6 points	Georgia  Poland	Poland  United Kingdom
5 points		Czechia
4 points	Luxembourg  Norway	Netherlands
3 points		Montenegro  San Marino
2 points	Denmark
1 point	Estonia  Finland

3.3.2.Points awarded by Lithuania.

Points awarded by Lithuania (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Lithuania (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Latvia
10 points	Israel
8 points	Austria
7 points	Finland
6 points	Australia
5 points	Armenia
4 points	Denmark
3 points	Georgia
2 points	Ireland
1 point	Luxembourg

Points awarded by Lithuania (Final)

Points awarded by Lithuania (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Latvia	Latvia
10 points	Estonia	Italy
8 points	Germany	Netherlands
7 points	Ukraine	Estonia
6 points	Italy	Portugal
5 points	Austria	Germany
4 points	Sweden	Austria
3 points	Israel	Switzerland
2 points	Norway	Ukraine
1 point	Netherlands	Sweden

3.3.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Lithuanian jury:

• Pijus Vasiliauskas-Brazauskas
• Vaidotas Stackevičius
• Eglė Kernagytė Dambrauskė
• Raminta Naujanytė
• Rosita Čivilytė

Detailed voting results from Lithuania (Semi-final 2)

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	5	6
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	9	2
04	Latvia	1	12
05	Armenia	6	5
06	Austria	3	8
07	Greece	12
08	Lithuania
09	Malta	13
10	Georgia	8	3
11	Denmark	7	4
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	10	1
14	Israel	2	10
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland	4	7

Detailed voting results from Lithuania (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	14	19	14	19	19	23		9	2
02	Luxembourg	19	20	17	20	10	21		20
03	Estonia	4	4	5	9	9	4	7	2	10
04	Israel	11	14	22	12	14	17		8	3
05	Lithuania
06	Spain	18	18	18	10	18	19		24
07	Ukraine	9	6	6	5	11	9	2	4	7
08	United Kingdom	17	7	9	17	23	14		25
09	Austria	7	11	11	2	5	7	4	6	5
10	Iceland	22	17	10	24	16	20		14
11	Latvia	2	1	3	1	4	1	12	1	12
12	Netherlands	12	10	2	14	2	3	8	10	1
13	Finland	21	8	12	8	17	13		11
14	Italy	1	2	1	4	8	2	10	5	6
15	Poland	16	13	21	16	20	22		15
16	Germany	20	3	13	13	1	6	5	3	8
17	Greece	10	25	23	7	22	15		21
18	Armenia	6	12	16	18	12	12		18
19	Switzerland	5	15	7	3	13	8	3	17
20	Malta	25	23	25	25	25	25		23
21	Portugal	3	5	4	11	15	5	6	12
22	Denmark	15	22	15	15	21	24		22
23	Sweden	23	21	8	21	3	10	1	7	4
24	France	13	16	19	6	6	11		16
25	San Marino	24	24	20	22	7	18		19
26	Albania	8	9	24	23	24	16		13

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• Country: 🇲🇪 Montenegro
• National selection – Selection process: Montesong 2024 (Монтесонг 2024)
• Selection date(s): 27 November 2024 8 December 2024
• Host venue: Спортска дворана Воцо, Подгорица, Црна Гора
• Presenter(s): Marko Todorović i Vladana Vučinić; Lazar Radulović i Andrea Šekularac (GreenRoom)
• Host broadcaster: Radio i televizija Crne Gore (RTCG)
• Participants – Number of entries: 16 – 16
• Voting system: 
• Selection entrant: NeonoeN (НеоноеН) Nina Žižić
• Selection song: “Clickbait” (Цлицкбаит) “Dobrodošli”
• Selected songwriter(s): Ilija Pejović Boris Subotić, Darko Dimitrov, Violeta Mihajlovska Milić
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 2º SF 2: Failed to qualify (16th, points)
• Final result: –

Montenegro was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Dobrodošli“, written by Boris Subotić, Darko Dimitrov, and Violeta Mihajlovska Milić, and performed by Nina Žižić. The Montenegrin participating broadcaster, Radio and Television of Montenegro (RTCG), organised the national final Montesong 2024 to select its entry for the contest. The song “Clickbait” performed by Neonoen won the national final, however, the band withdrew due to a controversy over having previously performed their song in June 2023, with runner-up Žižić later announced as their replacement.

Montenegro was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 15 May 2025. Performing during the show in position 2, “Dobrodošli” was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Montenegro placed last out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 12 points, marking the first time Montenegro finished last in a Eurovision event.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, Radio i televizija Crne Gore (RTCG) has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Montenegro as an independent country twelve times since its first entry in 2007. Its best placing in the contest was thirteenth position, which it achieved in 2015 with the song “Adio” performed by Knez. In 2014, Montenegro qualified to the final for the first time since it began participating, and have since featured in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest one more time in 2015. RTCG briefly withdrew from the competition between 2010 and 2011, as well as in 2021, 2023, and 2024, citing “modest results” and/or financial difficulties as the reason for its absences. In 2022, Montenegro failed to qualify for the final with the song “Breathe” performed by Vladana Vučinić.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTCG organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. On 6 January 2024, RTCG outlined its aim to introduce a popular music festival, which could serve as its selection process for the 2025 contest, dependent on funding. On 7 August 2024, RTCG published a document outlining the rules of Montesong 2024. An official confirmation of both participation in the 2025 contest and the organisation of a national final was announced by RTCG on 15 August 2024. RTCG had used various methods to select the Montenegrin entry in the past, such as internal selections and televised national finals to choose the performer, song or both to compete at Eurovision. The reintroduction of a national final for the 2025 contest marked the first time since 2019 that the broadcaster organised a national selection, with Montevizija held in 2018 and 2019.

2.Before Eurovision.

2.1.Montesong 2024. Montesong 2024 was the national final format organised by RTCG to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Organised in a collaboration between the broadcaster and the Association of Variety Performers of Montenegro, a live final was initially scheduled for 26 November 2024, with an awards ceremony to be held the following day. However, the event was later revised to a final on 27 November 2024. The competition took place at the Voco Hall in Podgorica, and was hosted by Marko Todorović and Vladana Vučinić, the latter of whom represented Montenegro in 2022, alongside Lazar Radulović and Andrea Šekularac reporting from the green room. The show was broadcast live on TVCG 1, MNE Play, and via the event’s YouTube channel.

Format. The competition consisted of a live final held on 27 November 2024. Sixteen entries competed. The winner was selected through a 50/50 combination of votes from a 7-member jury and from a public televote, with the same system used to award points in the Eurovision Song Contest final: the jury and the public each awarded one set of 12, 10 and 8–1 points to their 10 favourite entries. In case of a tie following the addition of the jury and the televoting points together, the song that received more 12 points from individual members of the jury had an advantage. This process was to be repeated with other points, in descending order, until the tie could be broken. In the public televote, only one vote per phone number was permitted. The professional jury consisted of both local music professionals and music representatives from across Europe.

2.1.1.Competing entries. On 7 August 2024, RTCG opened a submission platform for interested artists and composers, which remained open until 1 October 2024. Performers are required to be citizens of Montenegro, while songwriters may be of any nationality. All submitted songs are required to be written in at least 51% of one of the official languages of Montenegro. From there, a committee set up by the broadcaster reviewed the submissions and selected sixteen songs for the competition. The panel consisted of Boris Šarančić (entertainment editor for TVCG), Dražen Bauković (journalist and editor of music shows), Eva Papović (music editor at TVCG), Ana Petrović (music editor at RCG), Renata Perazić (musician and author), Marija Božović (musician and author), and Natalija Pavićević (songwriter). Each juror judged each song using a points system, giving a maximum of 50 points for composition, 30 points for lyrics and 20 points for production, meaning each song could earn a maximum of 100 points. However, songs had to achieve at least 75 points from this process in order to reach the competition stage. RTCG also stipulated that it had the right to internally select its entry for the contest if no submitted entry reached the threshold. At a press conference on 5 September 2024, Montesong director Danijel Alibabić, who represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2005 as part of No Name, confirmed that up to sixteen entries would be performed in the national final. On 2 October 2024, RTCG revealed that it had received 32 submissions, and that they would allow any further late applications due to postal delays. In total, 37 submissions were received, with 4 of those being disqualified. The competing entries (plus three backups) were announced on 10 October 2024 during the RTCG show Jutarnji program, which was broadcast on TVCG 1. On 4 November 2024, Boban Rajović withdrew from the competition due to personal comittments, and RTCG confirmed that reserve artist, Tamara Živković, would replace his entry for the contes. 

Among the competing artists was Nina Žižić, who provided uncredited vocals for Who See at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. Also among the competing acts were Kejt, who competed in Montevizija 2018, Marko Vukčević, lead singer of Neonoen, who competed in Evropesma–Europjesma 2004 as member of the group Evropa and in Montevizija and Evropesma–Europjesma 2005 as a solo artist, Milena Vučić, who competed in Evropesma–Europjesma 2004 as member of the group Negre and in Montevizija and Evropesma–Europjesma 2006 as a solo artist. Among the backup entries was Danijel Popović, who won Jugovizija 1983, Yugoslavia’s national final for Eurovision, and subsequently represented the country in the 1983 contest with the song “Džuli”; he competed in Yugoslavia’s national selection a further four times: in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1991. He previously applied his entry “Kano kastigan” to Dora 2023, Croatia’s national selection for the 2023 contest.^[24] The competing songs were released on 10 November 2024.

Montesong 2024 contestants

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Anastasija Koprolčec Анастасија Копролчец	“Kraj” (Крај)	Bojan Marović, Stevan Milanović Бојан Маровић, Стеван Милановић
Band 9 Бенд 9	“Stop War”	Milić Šarović Милић Шаровић
Boban Rajović Бобан Рајовић (Entry withdrawn)	“Suze” (Сузе)	Branislav Glušac, Goran Ratković, Miladin Bogosavljević Горан Ратковић, Миладин Богосављевић, Бранислав Глушац
Dolce Hera	“Repeat”	Aleksandra Prelević Palladino, M. Čaćić, Todor Tadić Александра Прелевић „Palladino”, Тодор Тадић, М. Ћаћић
Đurđa Ђурђа	“To ljubav je” (То љубав је)	Đurđa Petrović Poljak, Jonas Jensen, Kristina Kovač, Olivér Patocska Кристина Ковач, Оливер Патоцска, Ђурђа Петровић Пољак, Јонас Јенсен
Glumci Band Глумци бенд	“San” (Сан)	Dragana Tripković, Mladen Nikčević Младен Никчевић, Драгана Трипковић
Isak Šabanović Исак Шабановић	“Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto” (Љето, љето, љето)	Leontina Vukomanović, Nemanja Filipović Леонтина Вукомановић, Немања Филиповић
Kejt [Катарина Богићевић]	“Obala raja” (Обала раја)	Hugo Smeh, Katarina Bogićević Катарина Богићевић (Кејт), Хуго Смех
Luka Perazić and Rade Vukčević Лука Перазић и Раде Вукчевић	“Dva srca” (Два срца)	Rade Vukčević Раде Вукчевић
Luka Radović Лука Радовић	“Kada dođe maj” (Када дође мај)	Luka Radović Лука Радовић
Milena Vučić [Милена Вучић]	“Škorpija” (Шкорпија)	Alen Stajić, Marko Peruničić, Nebojša Arežina, Sanja Vučić Небојша Арежина, Марко Перуничић, Ален Стајић, Сања Вучић
Nemanja Petrović Немања Петровић	“Među zvijezdama” (Међу звијездама)	Branislav Opačić Бранислав Опачић
Neonoen	“Clickbait”	Ilija Pejović Илија Пејовић
Nina Žižić Нина Жижић	“Dobro došli” (Добро дошли)	Boris Subotić, Darko Dimitrov, Violeta Mihajlovska Борис Суботић, Виолета Михајловска, Дарко Димитров
Tina Džankić Тина Џанкић	“Nova” (Нова)	Anja Zagorac, Vladimir Maraš Владимир Мараш, Ања Загорац
Verica Čuljković Верица Чуљковић	“Čuješ li” (Чујеш ли?)	Verica Čuljković Верица Чуљковић

Reserve entries

Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)
Тамара Живковић (Replacement entry)	“Poguban let” (Погубан лет)	Montenegrin	Boris Subotić
Hanibal Ханибал	“Čuvaj me” (Чувај ме)	Montenegrin	Igor Perović, Slaven Ivanović
Danijel Popović Данијел Поповић	“Kano kastigan” (Кано кастиган)	Unknown	Unknown

Reserve entries

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Tamara Živković Тамара Живковић (Replacement entry)	“Poguban let” (Погубан лет)	TBA
	“Čuvaj me” (Чувај ме)
	“Kano kastigan” (Кано кастиган)

Final. The  final took place on 27 November 2024 at 20:00 CET. The running order was revealed on 19 November. The song “Clickbait” performed by the group Neonoen won the contest. It finished second in the jury vote, and second in the televote. The jury consisted of: Hari Varešanović, who represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2006 as part of Hari Mata Hari; Nuša Derenda, who represented Slovenia in 2001; Dado Topić, who represented Croatia in 2007 with the group Dragonfly; Elena Risteska, who represented Macedonia in 2006; Tijana Bogićević, who represented Serbia in 2017; Emmelie de Forest, who represented Denmark in 2013 and won the 2013 contest; and Danijel Popović, who represented Yugoslavia in 1983.

In addition to the competing artists, guests included Sergej Ćetković, who represented Montenegro in 2014, and event director Danijel Alibabić, who represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2005 as part of No Name. Guest performances featured at the opening of the show included Danijel Popović, who performed his 1983 Eurovision song “Džuli”, and co-host Vladana Vučinić, who performed “Respira“, an Italian language version of her 2022 Eurovision entry “Breathe”. During the interval between the last competing song and the announcement of the votes, additional guest performances included Sergej Ćetković, performing his 2014 Eurovision song “Moj svijet“, Elena Risteska, who performed “Muka mi je“, and Emmelie de Forest, who performed her 2013 Eurovision winning song “Only Teardrops”.

A total of 3,262 votes were successfully cast according to RTCG, however the figure announced during the show was 2,233. The broadcaster explained that the discrepancy was due to a delay in communicating the updated number of received votes. Bogićević accidentally awarded her 8 points to “Repeat” instead of “Dva srca“, which she disclosed while announcing her pointss.

Final – 27 November 2024

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury		Televote		Total	Place
			Votes	Points	Votes	Points
1	Anastasija Koprolčec	“Kraj“	9	0	57	0	0	15
2	Tina Džankić	“Nova“	34	5	154	3	8	7
3	Nemanja Petrović	“Među zvijezdama“	18	1	109	0	1	12
4	Bend 9	“Stop War”	2	0	143	0	0	16
5	Tamara Živković	“Poguban let“	39	6	107	0	6	9
6	Luka Radović	“Kada dođe maj“	5	0	147	1	1	13
7	Đurđa	“To ljubav je“	26	4	328	8	12	4
8	Kejt	“Obala raja“	45	7	152	2	9	5
9	Nina Žižić	“Dobrodošli“	59	12	316	7	19	2
10	Neonoen	“Clickbait”	54	10	443	10	20	1
11	Isak Šabanović	“Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto“	24	2	241	5	7	8
12	Glumci Bend	“San“	4	0	288	6	6	10
13	Dolce Hera	“Repeat”	8	0	84	0	0	14
14	Baryak	“Dva srca“	25	3	476	12	15	3
15	Verica Čuljković	“Čuješ li“	6	0	168	4	4	11
16	Milena Vučić	“Škorpija“	48	8	49	0	8	6

Detailed jury results

Draw	Song	H. Varešanović	N. Derenda	D. Topić	E. Risteska	T. Bogićević	E. de Forest	D. Popović	Total
1	“Kraj“	3			2	1	3		9
2	“Nova“	4	10	3	4	4	4	5	34
3	“Među zvijezdama“	12	1				1	4	18
4	“Stop War“			2					2
5	“Poguban let“	10	5	5	1	3	5	10	39
6	“Kad dođe maj“	5							5
7	“To ljubav je“	7	3	1	3	2	10		26
8	“Obala raja“		8	8	10	6	6	7	47
9	“Dobrodošli“	6	4	7	12	10	8	12	59
10	“Clickbait”		6	10	6	12	12	8	54
11	“Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto“	1	7		5	5		6	24
12	“San“			4					4
13	“Repeat”					8[a]			8
14	“Dva srca“		2	12	8			3	25
15	“Čuješ li?“	2					2	2	6
16	“Škorpija“	8	12	6	7	7	7	1	48

3.At Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025. All nations with the exceptions of the host country and the “Big Five” (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) were required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progressed to the final. On 28 January 2025, an allocation draw was held to determine which of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show, each country would perform in; the EBU split up the competing countries into different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. Montenegro was scheduled for the first half of the second semi-final. The shows’ producers then decided the running order for the semi-finals; Montenegro was set to perform in position 2.

In Montenegro, RTCG broadcast all shows on TVCG 1 with live commentary from Dražen Bauković in Podgorica.

Performance.Nina Žižić took part in technical rehearsals on 5 and 9 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 14 and 15 May. The stage performance retained elements of the national final performance, with the delegation focusing on enhancing the aesthetic quality to suit the larger stage. The performance saw Žižić perform alone in an outfit designed by Serbian fashion designer Amina Hasanbegović. The stage performance was designed by Dalibor Ivanković, Boris Subotić and Aleksandar Maričić – the same trio which directed Žižić’s national final performance.

Semi-final. Montenegro performed in position 2, following the entry from Australia and before the entry from Ireland. At the end of the show, the country was not announced as a qualifier for the final, extending Montenegro’s run as the country with the longest non-qualification streak. It was later revealed that Montenegro placed last out of the sixteen participating countries in the second semi-final with 12 points, marking the first time the country had finished last in a Eurovision event.

3.1.Voting. Below is a breakdown of points awarded by and to Montenegro in the second semi-final and in the final. Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting in the final vote, while the semi-final vote was based entirely on the vote of the public. The Montenegrin jury consisted of Gavrilo Radunović, Željko Vukčević, Bojana Nenezić, Jelena Božović and Marija Božović. In the second semi-final, Montenegro placed 16th with 12 points, all of which came from Serbia. Over the course of the contest, Montenegro awarded its 12 points to Serbia in the second semi-final, and to Greece (jury) and Albania (televote) in the final.

RTCG appointed Marko Vukčević as its spokesperson to announce the Montenegrin jury’s votes in the final.

3.1.1.Points awarded to Montenegro.

Points awarded to Montenegro (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Montenegro (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points	Serbia
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point

Points awarded by Montenegro (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Montenegro (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points	Serbia
10 points	Greece
8 points	Israel
7 points	Austria
6 points	Finland
5 points	Lithuania
4 points	Malta
3 points	Latvia
2 points	Denmark
1 point	Luxembourg

Points awarded by Montenegro (Final)

Points awarded by Montenegro (Final)

Points	Televote	Jury
12 points	Albania	Greece
10 points	Estonia	Albania
8 points	Luxembourg	Austria
7 points	Israel	Switzerland
6 points	Ukraine	France
5 points	Sweden	Malta
4 points	Greece	Luxembourg
3 points	Austria	Lithuania
2 points	France	Netherlands
1 point	Italy	Armenia

3.1.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Montenegrin jury:

• Gavrilo Radunović
• Željko Vukčević
• Bojana Nenezić
• Jelena Božović
• Marija Božović

Detailed voting results from Montenegro (Semi-final 2)

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	13
02	Montenegro
03	Ireland	12
04	Latvia	8	3
05	Armenia	11
06	Austria	4	7
07	Greece	2	10
08	Lithuania	6	5
09	Malta	7	4
10	Georgia	15
11	Denmark	9	2
12	Czechia	14
13	Luxembourg	10	1
14	Israel	3	8
15	Serbia	1	12
16	Finland	5	6

Detailed voting by Montenegro (final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	21	20	14	20	19	21		14
02	Luxembourg	3	9	12	14	5	7	4	3	8
03	Estonia	12	3	10	17	14	12		2	10
04	Israel	19	26	26	6	3	13		4	7
05	Lithuania	4	5	11	10	24	8	3	16
06	Spain	18	15	21	21	21	23		23
07	Ukraine	25	19	25	11	25	20		5	6
08	United Kingdom	11	13	17	15	23	16		26
09	Austria	2	11	5	4	2	3	8	8	3
10	Iceland	26	25	23	24	22	26		22
11	Latvia	9	8	6	16	9	11		13
12	Netherlands	8	7	9	7	13	9	2	20
13	Finland	15	24	13	26	18	19		11
14	Italy	24	17	18	18	20	24		10	1
15	Poland	23	16	20	12	17	18		17
16	Germany	22	23	16	23	10	17		12
17	Greece	1	2	2	1	1	1	12	7	4
18	Armenia	6	12	7	8	12	10	1	15
19	Switzerland	13	4	1	5	15	4	7	25
20	Malta	7	6	4	9	7	6	5	19
21	Portugal	20	22	24	25	26	25		21
22	Denmark	17	14	15	13	8	14		24
23	Sweden	16	21	19	22	16	22		6	5
24	France	10	18	8	2	4	5	6	9	2
25	San Marino	14	10	22	19	11	15		18
26	Albania	5	1	3	3	6	2	10	1	12

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• Country: 🇨🇿 Czechia
• National selection – Selection process: Internal selection
• Selection date(s): Artist: 11 December 2024, Song: 7 March 2025
• Host venue:
• Presenter(s):
• Host broadcaster: Česká televize (ČT)
• Participants – Number of entries:
• Voting system:
• Selection entrant: ADONXS
• Selection song: “Kiss Kiss Goodbye”
• Selected songwriter(s): Adam Pavlovčin, Adriano Lopes da Silva, George Masters-Clark, Inés Coulon, Lorenzo Calvo, Michaela Charvátová, Ronald Janeček
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 12º SF 2: Failed to qualify (12th, 29 points)
• Final result: –

The Czech Republic, presented as Czechia, was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Kiss Kiss Goodbye”, written by Adam Pavlovčin, Adriano Lopes da Silva, George Masters-Clark, Inés Coulon, Lorenzo Calvo, Michaela Charvátová, and Ronald Janeček, and performed by Pavlovčin under his stage name Adonxs. The Czech participating broadcaster, Czech Television (ČT), internally selected its entry for the contest.

Czechia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025. Performing during the show in position 5, “Kiss Kiss Goodbye” was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Czechia placed 12th out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final, with 29 points.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest,  Czech Television (ČT) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing the Czech Republic, presented as Czechia since 2023, twelve times since its first entry in 2007. Its best result in the contest was sixth, achieved in 2018 with the song “Lie to Me” performed by Mikolas Josef. It competed in the contest on three consecutive occasions between 2007 and 2009 without qualifying to the final, after which ČT withdrew between 2010 and 2014, citing low viewing figures and poor results as reasons for its absence. Since returning to the contest in 2015, the Czech Republic has thus far managed to qualify for the final on five occasions. In 2024, “Pedestal” performed by Aiko failed to qualify for the final.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, ČT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster had used both national finals and internal selections to select its entries in the past. Between 2018 and 2024, with the exception of 2021 when the entry was internally selected, it had used the national final format ESCZ (formerly titled Eurovision Song CZ) as its selection method for the contest. On 6 September 2024, ČT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest; plans regarding the selection were announced on 9 September 2024, with its entry to be selected internally.

2.Before Eurovision.

2.1.Internal selection 2025. Upon confirming its participation in the contest on 6 September 2024, ČT opened a submission window for interested artists and composers lasting until 30 September 2024. At least one of the performers was required to be based in the Czech Republic for an entry to qualify to compete, while songwriters could be of any nationality; for the first time, applying composers were not required to indicate a performer for their song, who would be selected afterwards. 

On 11 December 2024, ČT announced that Slovak singer Adam Pavlovčin, under the stage name Adonxs, would represent Czechia in Basel, while the song “Kiss Kiss Goodbye” was announced as the Czech entry on 31 January 2025. Adonxs and the song were selected in various rounds by a ten-member international jury consisting of music professionals and former Eurovision entrants, a demoscopic jury consisting of 900 members from three countries, and a focus group. An acoustic version of the song was presented to the public on 4 February 2025 during the first semi-final of the 2025 Maltese national final, while its studio cut was released on 7 March alongside an accompanying music video.

3.At Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will take place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and will consist of two semi-finals to be held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, the Czech Republic was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the second half of the show. Adonxs was later drawn to perform 12th, after Denmark’s Sissal and before Luxembourg’s Laura Thorn. Adonxs did not make it through to the final.

3.3.Voting.

3.3.1.Points awarded to the Czech Republic.

Points awarded to Czech Republic (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points	Rest of the World
7 points
6 points
5 points	Armenia  Austria  Luxembourg
4 points
3 points	Georgia  Israel
2 points
1 point

Points awarded by Czech Republic (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Czech Republic (Semi-final 2)

Points	Televote
12 points	Israel
10 points	Latvia
8 points	Lithuania
7 points	Finland
6 points	Austria
5 points	Denmark
4 points	Greece
3 points	Armenia
2 points	Malta
1 point	Australia

Points awarded by Czech Republic (Final)

Points awarded by Czech Republic (Final)

Points	Televote	Jury
12 points	Ukraine	Germany
10 points	Israel	United Kingdom
8 points	Poland	France
7 points	Sweden	Netherlands
6 points	Estonia	Norway
5 points	Albania	Lithuania
4 points	Austria	Portugal
3 points	Finland	Italy
2 points	Norway	Malta
1 point	Germany	Denmark

3.3.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Czech jury:

• Adam Řičica
• Miroslav Helcl
• Petr Kotvald
• Alexandra Langošová
• Anna Vašátková

Detailed voting results from Czech Republic (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	10	1
02	Montenegro	13
03	Ireland	12
04	Latvia	2	10
05	Armenia	8	3
06	Austria	5	6
07	Greece	7	4
08	Lithuania	3	8
09	Malta	9	2
10	Georgia	15
11	Denmark	6	5
12	Czechia
13	Luxembourg	11
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland	4	7

Detailed voting results from Czech Republic (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	21	17	17	1	2	5	6	9	2
02	Luxembourg	16	9	15	9	17	19		23
03	Estonia	14	15	8	17	8	18		5	6
04	Israel	11	13	14	12	4	14		2	10
05	Lithuania	3	12	4	11	6	6	5	14
06	Spain	22	11	20	10	18	21		21
07	Ukraine	19	22	21	19	19	23		1	12
08	United Kingdom	1	10	3	13	5	2	10	26
09	Austria	13	18	25	24	14	22		7	4
10	Iceland	23	24	23	6	23	20		12
11	Latvia	4	8	6	23	21	11		13
12	Netherlands	20	1	10	2	22	4	7	18
13	Finland	10	23	9	7	20	17		8	3
14	Italy	2	14	5	14	13	8	3	15
15	Poland	25	19	24	16	24	24		3	8
16	Germany	5	20	1	3	7	1	12	10	1
17	Greece	17	5	18	15	11	16		11
18	Armenia	18	2	19	25	12	13		16
19	Switzerland	8	4	7	22	15	12		20
20	Malta	9	7	16	5	9	9	2	19
21	Portugal	6	6	2	20	10	7	4	25
22	Denmark	12	26	13	18	1	10	1	22
23	Sweden	15	21	11	4	16	15		4	7
24	France	7	3	12	8	3	3	8	17
25	San Marino	26	25	26	26	26	26		24
26	Albania	24	16	22	21	25	25		6	5

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• Country: 🇩🇰 Denmark
• National selection – Selection process: Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025
• Selection date(s):
• Host venue: Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning, Denmark.
• Presenter(s): Stéphanie Surrugue, Sara Bro
• Host broadcaster: Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR)
• Participants – Number of entries: 8
• Voting system:
• Selection entrant: Sissal
• Selection song: “Hallucination”
• Selected songwriter(s): Chris Rohde-Frisk, Lina Spangsberg, Linnea Deb, Malthe Johansen, Marcus Winther-John, Melanie Wehbe, Sissal Jóhanna Norðberg Niclasen
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 11º SF 2: Qualified (8th, 61 points)
• Final result: 23rd, 47 points

Denmark was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Hallucination”, written by Chris Rohde-Frisk, Line Spangsberg, Linnea Deb, Malthe Johansen, Marcus Winther-John [da], Melanie Wehbe, and Sissal Jóhanna Norðberg Niclasen, and performed by Sissal herself. The Danish participating broadcaster, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), organised the national final Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Denmark was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 11. At the end of the show, “Hallucination” was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking the first qualification for the country since 2019. It was later revealed that Denmark placed eighth out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 61 points. In the final, Denmark performed in position 22 and placed twenty-third out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 47 points.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Denmark fifty-one times since its first entry in 1957.^[1] It had won the contest, to this point, on three occasions: in 1963 with the song “Dansevise” performed by Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann, in 2000 with the song “Fly on the Wings of Love” performed by Olsen Brothers, and in 2013 with the song “Only Teardrops” performed by Emmelie de Forest. Since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, it had failed to qualify to the final eight times, including in 2024, when the song “Sand” performed by Saba placed 12th in the second semi-final.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, DR organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster had selected all of its Eurovision entries thus far through the national final Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. DR confirmed its intention to participate at the 2025 contest on 6 May 2024, announcing that Dansk Melodi Grand Prix would again be organised in order to select its entry for the contest.

2.Before Eurovision.

2.1.Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025. Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025 was the 55th edition of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (DMGP), the music competition that selects Denmark’s entries for the Eurovision Song Contest. The event was held on 1 March 2025 at the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning, hosted by Sara Bro and Stéphanie Surrugue and televised on DR1 as well as streamed online at DRTV. The national final was watched by 736,443 viewers in Denmark with a market share of 59.9%.

Format. Eight songs competed in one show where the winner was determined over two rounds of voting. In the first round, the top three songs based on the combination of votes from a public vote and a 20-member jury panel qualified to the superfinal. In the superfinal, the winner was determined again by the votes of the jury and public. The jury panel was composed of 10 international members and 10 Danish members, while viewers were able to vote via SMS or a mobile application specifically designed for the competition. Prior to the show, the public was provided with one free vote on the app to cast a vote each day between 24 and 28 February 2025, while viewers using the app during the show were also provided with one free vote. The live orchestra, present since the 2020 edition, was not used for this year.

Danish jury members

Carsten Helmig Nilsson Clara Amalie Christiansen Jacob Mejer Nielsen Jesper Mejlvang Lise Hvid Bach Michael Hammerbo Mike Paudi Simon Falk Thomas Andreasen Tine Lesner

International jury members

Albania: Andri Xhahu  Belgium: Wim Dehandschutter  Finland: Anni Lavi  Greece: Maria Kozakou  Portugal: Nina Pinto  Serbia: Milica Fajgelj  Spain: Adrián Valiente  Sweden: Lizbet Brittsten   Switzerland: Michel Imhof  United Kingdom: Callum Rowe

Competing entries. DR opened a submission period between 16 September 2024 and 27 October 2024 for artists and composers to submit their entries. At least one of the lyricists, composers or artists must be a citizen of Denmark, the Faroe Islands or Greenland, or have a strong connection to Denmark in order to qualify to compete. A selection committee selected four songs from the entries submitted to the broadcaster, while an additional four songs were created in songwriting camps that featured Danish and international songwriters invited by DR to compete. The music producer of DMGP, Erik Struve Hansen, stated that the broadcaster had sought out “songs that both do well in DMGP and have potential in Eurovision”. DR held a press meet and greet at the DR Byen in Copenhagen on 6 February 2025 where the competing artists and songs were announced and officially presented. Among the artists was Tim Schou who represented Denmark in 2011 as a member of A Friend in London.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Adel the Second	“The Unluckiest Boy Alive”	Oliver Adelborg, Søren Christensen
Andreas Kruse	“Hear My Prayer”	Andreas Kruse, Linda Dale, Malthe August, Rasmus “Majalle” Olsen
Hervé Toure	“Allez allez“	Christian Juncker, Hervé Toure, Jakob Groth
Maria Mathea	“Air”	Emil Adler Lei, Julie Aagaard, Maria Broberg
Mariya	“I Belong to Me”	Dino Medanhodzic, Jimmy Thörnfeldt, Julie Aagaard, Mariya Apollonia
Max Ulver	“Supernova”	Frederik Nordsø, Fridolin Nordsø, Remee Sigvardt Jackman
Sissal	“Hallucination”	Chris Rohde-Frisk, Lina Spangsberg, Linnea Deb, Malthe Johansen, Marcus Winther-John, Melanie Wehbe
Tim Schou	“Proud”	Benjamin Rosenbohm, Emil Adler Lei, Joachim Ersgaard, Tim Schou

Final – 1 March 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Result
1	Mariya	“I Belong to Me”	Eliminated
2	Tim Schou	“Proud”	Advanced
3	Max Ulver	“Supernova”	Eliminated
4	Hervé Toure	“Allez allez“	Eliminated
5	Maria Mathea	“Air”	Eliminated
6	Adel the Second	“The Unluckiest Boy Alive”	Advanced
7	Sissal	“Hallucination”	Advanced
8	Andreas Kruse	“Hear My Prayer”	Eliminated

Superfinal – 1 March 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Tim Schou	“Proud”	14	23	37	2
2	Adel the Second	“The Unluckiest Boy Alive”	16	9	25	3
3	Sissal	“Hallucination”	20	18	38	1

3.At Eurovision. The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will take place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and will consist of two semi-finals to be held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Denmark was drawn to compete in the second semi-final, performing in the second half of the show. Sissal was later drawn to perform 11th, ahead of Georgia’s Mariam Shengelia and before Czechia’s Adonxs. Denmark qualified for the final.

3.2.Voting.

3.2.1.Points awarded to Denmark.

Points awarded to Denmark (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Denmark (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points
10 points
8 points	Finland
7 points
6 points	Australia  United Kingdom
5 points	Czechia  Ireland
4 points	Germany  Lithuania  Malta  Rest of the World
3 points	Armenia  Austria  France
2 points	Latvia  Montenegro
1 point	Israel  Luxembourg

Points awarded to Denmark (Final)

Points awarded to Denmark (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points
10 points		Georgia  United Kingdom
8 points		Austria
7 points		Italy
6 points
5 points		Serbia
4 points		Australia
3 points
2 points	Iceland
1 point		Czechia

3.2.2.Points awarded by Denmark.

Points awarded by Denmark (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Denmark (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Israel
10 points	Finland
8 points	Latvia
7 points	Austria
6 points	Lithuania
5 points	Luxembourg
4 points	Greece
3 points	Australia
2 points	Ireland
1 point	Malta

Points awarded by Denmark (Final)

Points awarded by Denmark (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Sweden	Latvia
10 points	Iceland	Switzerland
8 points	Israel	Italy
7 points	Poland	Sweden
6 points	Estonia	Finland
5 points	Finland	Austria
4 points	Ukraine	United Kingdom
3 points	Austria	Israel
2 points	Lithuania	Ukraine
1 point	Germany	Armenia

3.2.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Danish jury:

• Anders Ugilt Andersen
• Mads Enggaard Jørgensen
• Peter Düring
• Anne Dorte Michelsen
• Katrine Muff Enevoldsen

Detailed voting results from Denmark (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	8	3
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	9	2
04	Latvia	3	8
05	Armenia	12
06	Austria	4	7
07	Greece	7	4
08	Lithuania	5	6
09	Malta	10	1
10	Georgia	14
11	Denmark
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	6	5
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	13
16	Finland	2	10

Detailed voting results from Denmark (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	19	18	13	12	20	20		12
02	Luxembourg	6	17	17	16	11	15		18
03	Estonia	15	25	20	8	10	16		5	6
04	Israel	7	11	4	21	8	8	3	3	8
05	Lithuania	21	23	25	15	14	22		9	2
06	Spain	23	9	16	23	19	19		21
07	Ukraine	13	21	21	3	6	9	2	7	4
08	United Kingdom	5	2	15	9	9	7	4	20
09	Austria	4	3	12	5	15	6	5	8	3
10	Iceland	2	16	19	20	13	13		2	10
11	Latvia	3	1	5	7	3	1	12	11
12	Netherlands	16	12	14	18	24	21		14
13	Finland	9	8	2	6	5	5	6	6	5
14	Italy	12	10	6	1	1	3	8	13
15	Poland	20	19	18	19	21	24		4	7
16	Germany	22	20	11	10	25	18		10	1
17	Greece	17	4	7	14	16	11		15
18	Armenia	1	13	23	24	17	10	1	23
19	Switzerland	11	6	1	4	2	2	10	19
20	Malta	10	7	9	22	7	12		24
21	Portugal	25	22	24	13	18	23		22
22	Denmark
23	Sweden	8	14	3	2	4	4	7	1	12
24	France	14	5	8	17	12	14		17
25	San Marino	18	24	22	25	23	25		25
26	Albania	24	15	10	11	22	17		16

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• Country: 🇫🇮 Finland
• National selection:
• Selection process: Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu – UMK 2025 (Contest for New Music)
• Selection date(s): 8 February 2025
• Host venue: Nokia Arena (Nokia Areena), Tampere
• Presenter(s): Sanni and Jasmin Beloued
• Host broadcaster: Yleisradio (Yle), TV1, Yle Areena, YleX, Yle Radio Suomi, Yle X3M
• Participants – Number of entries: 
• Voting system: 
• Selection entrant: Erika Vikman
• Selection song: “ICH KOMME” (I’m coming)
• Selected songwriter(s): Christel Roosberg, Jori Roosberg
• Final performance: 
• Semi-final result: 16º SF 2: Qualified (3rd, 115 points)
• Final result: 13º FI: 11th, 196 points

Finland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song “Ich komme“, written by Christel Roosberg and Jori Roosberg, and performed by Erika Vikman. The Finnish participating broadcaster, Yleisradio (Yle), organised the national final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Finland was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 16. At the end of the show, “Ich komme” was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking Finland’s fifth consecutive qualification. It was later revealed that Finland placed third out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 115 points. In the final, Finland performed in position 13 and placed eleventh out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 196 points.

1.Background. Prior to the 2025 contest, Yleisradio (Yle) has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Finland fifty-seven times since its first entry in 1961. It had won the contest once in 2006 with the song “Hard Rock Hallelujah” performed by Lordi. In the 2024 contest, “No Rules!” performed by Windows95man managed to qualify Finland to the final and placed nineteenth.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, Yle organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Yle had been selecting its entries for the contest through national final competitions that had varied in format over the years. Between 1961 and 2011, a selection show that was often titled Suomen euroviisukarsinta highlighted that the purpose of the program was to select a song for Eurovision. Since 2012, the broadcaster had organised the selection show Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), which focuses on showcasing new music with the winning song being selected as the Finnish Eurovision entry for that year. Yle confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 3 June 2024, announcing that its entry would again be selected through Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu.

2.Before Eurovision.

2.1.Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025. Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu2025 was the fourteenth edition of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), the music competition organised by Yle to select its entries for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition consisted of a final on 8 February 2025, held at Nokia Arena in Tampere and hosted by Sanni and Jasmin Beloued.

2.1.1.Competing entries. A submission period was opened by Yle which lasted between 19 August 2024 and 25 August 2024.At least one of the writers and the lead singer(s) had to hold Finnish citizenship or live in Finland permanently in order for the entry to qualify to compete. A panel of nine experts appointed by Yle alongside five audience juries selected seven entries for the competition from 485 received submissions, a new record during the current format of the competition. The experts were Tapio Hakanen (Head of Music at YleX), Aija Puurtinen (lecturer at Sibelius Academy and UMK vocal coach), Amie Borgar (Head of Music at Yle X3M and Yle Vega), Johan Lindroos (Head of Music at Yle Radio Suomi), Katri Norrlin (music editor at YleX), Samuli Väänänen (Senior Editor at Spotify), Jani Juntunen (Head of Radio Music at Nelonen Media), Saara Everi (Head of Marketing at PME Records) and Marcus Sjöström (Head of Music at Radio NRJ Finland). The competing entries were announced in a televised programme on 8 January 2025, hosted by Mikko Silvennoinen, Eva Frantz, Jasmin Beloued, Katri Norrlin and Sanni, while their music videos were released between 9 and 17 January.

On 22 January 2025, it was announced that One Morning Left had been disqualified due to a contract violation; the band published a statement on the same day, announcing it was being disbanded due to child grooming allegations made against its lead vocalist, Mika Lahti. Yle stated that they would not be replaced.

Key:   Entry disqualified

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Costee	“Sekaisin“	Jussi Tiainen Teemu Javanainen [fi] Tomi Tamminen
Erika Vikman	“Ich komme“	Christel Roosberg Jori Roosberg [fi]
Goldielocks	“Made Of”	Ella Mäntynen Lauri Mäntynen Topi Kilpinen
Neea River	“Nightmares”	Ilkka Wirtanen [fi] Neea Jokinen Petri Alanko [fi]
Nelli Matula	“Hitaammin hautaan“	Antti Riihimäki [fi] Kaisa Korhonen [fi] Nelli Matula
One Morning Left	“Puppy”	Johannes Naukkarinen Juuso Turkki Leevi Luoto Mika Lahti Saku Ahola
Viivi	“Aina“	Antti Riihimäki Emma Johansson Joonas Keronen Lauri Halavaara Viivi Korhonen

Final – 8 February 2025

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote			Total	Place
				Votes	Percentage	Points
1	Costee	“Sekaisin“	40	16,700	4.88%	43	83	6
2	Neea River	“Nightmares”	24	23,302	6.80%	60	84	5
3	Goldielocks	“Made Of”	74	88,937	25.96%	229	303	2
4	Viivi	“Aina“	38	38,837	11.34%	100	138	3
5	Nelli Matula	“Hitaammin hautaan“	50	34,177	9.98%	88	138	4
6	Erika Vikman	“Ich komme“	68	140,590	41.04%	362	430	1

Detailed international jury votes

Draw	Song								Total
1	“Sekaisin“	6	10	6	4	6	6	2	40
2	“Nightmares”	8	4	2	2	2	2	4	24
3	“Made Of”	10	12	12	10	12	10	8	74
4	“Aina“	2	8	4	6	4	4	10	38
5	“Hitaammin hautaan“	4	2	10	12	8	8	6	50
6	“Ich komme”	12	6	8	8	10	12	12	68
International jury spokespersons
– Baby Lasagna  – Jesse Wijnans  – Silvester Belt  – Alessandra Busignani  – Luis Mesa Cabello  – Tommy Cash  – Mélanie Freymond

Local and international broadcasters of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)
Finland	Yle	Yle TV1	Mikko Silvennoinen (Finnish), Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos (Swedish), Jaakko Oleander-Turja (English), Levan Tvaltvadze (Russian), Galyna Sergeyeva (Ukrainian), Miguel Peltomaa, Silva Belghiti and Silja Ruonala (Finnish Sign Language), Robin Hänninen (Finland-Swedish Sign Language), Linda Tammela (Northern Sami), Heli Huovinen (Inari Sami)
		Yle Areena
		YleX	—
		Yle Radio Suomi
		Yle X3M	Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos (Swedish)
Netherlands	OutTV[a]		GJ Kooijman and Krista Siegfrids
Spain	Ten		Luis Mesa Cabello

3.1.Voting.

3.1.1.Points awarded to Finland.

Points awarded to Finland (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded to Finland (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points
10 points	Australia  Denmark  Malta
8 points	Latvia  Serbia
7 points	Czechia  Ireland  Lithuania
6 points	Armenia  Germany  Luxembourg  Montenegro  Rest of the World
5 points
4 points	Austria  Georgia  United Kingdom
3 points
2 points	France  Greece  Israel
1 point

Points awarded to Finland (Final)

Points awarded to Finland (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points		Austria
10 points	Australia  Estonia  Sweden	Armenia  Estonia  Latvia
8 points		Norway
7 points	Croatia  Malta
6 points	Netherlands  Norway  Serbia  Spain	Denmark  Malta  Sweden
5 points	Azerbaijan  Denmark  Iceland  Ireland  Rest of the World	United Kingdom
4 points	United Kingdom	Belgium  Ireland
3 points	Czechia  Latvia	Switzerland
2 points	Austria	Australia
1 point	Armenia  Israel  Poland	Iceland  Italy

3.1.2.Points awarded by Finland.

Points awarded by Finland (Semi-final 2)

Points awarded by Finland (Semi-final 2)

Score	Televote
12 points	Israel
10 points	Latvia
8 points	Denmark
7 points	Austria
6 points	Lithuania
5 points	Australia
4 points	Luxembourg
3 points	Malta
2 points	Ireland
1 point	Greece

Points awarded by Finland (Final)

Points awarded by Finland (Final)

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points	Sweden	Austria
10 points	Israel	Sweden
8 points	Estonia	France
7 points	Austria	Malta
6 points	Iceland	Switzerland
5 points	Germany	United Kingdom
4 points	Albania	Estonia
3 points	Latvia	Greece
2 points	Ukraine	Israel
1 point	Lithuania	Germany

3.1.3.Detailed voting results. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation’s televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Finnish jury:

• Miikka Maunula
• Panu Hattunen
• Arja Koriseva
• Hana von Hertzen
• Neea Jokinen

Detailed voting results from Finland (Semi-final 2) 

Draw	Country	Televote
		Rank	Points
01	Australia	6	5
02	Montenegro	15
03	Ireland	9	2
04	Latvia	2	10
05	Armenia	12
06	Austria	4	7
07	Greece	10	1
08	Lithuania	5	6
09	Malta	8	3
10	Georgia	13
11	Denmark	3	8
12	Czechia	11
13	Luxembourg	7	4
14	Israel	1	12
15	Serbia	14
16	Finland

Detailed voting results from Finland (Final)

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Norway	15	16	14	9	13	19		15
02	Luxembourg	20	12	17	17	20	20		13
03	Estonia	8	6	5	14	14	7	4	3	8
04	Israel	5	18	6	20	12	9	2	2	10
05	Lithuania	16	15	25	4	21	14		10	1
06	Spain	10	13	11	13	11	16		19
07	Ukraine	19	21	24	18	25	24		9	2
08	United Kingdom	9	20	8	2	15	6	5	25
09	Austria	1	2	2	1	1	1	12	4	7
10	Iceland	6	23	12	11	16	13		5	6
11	Latvia	11	14	21	6	10	11		8	3
12	Netherlands	24	5	15	22	22	18		12
13	Finland
14	Italy	17	25	13	25	17	22		11
15	Poland	22	24	23	16	18	23		22
16	Germany	13	17	20	5	8	10	1	6	5
17	Greece	12	7	7	24	5	8	3	18
18	Armenia	21	10	10	19	6	12		20
19	Switzerland	3	4	16	15	7	5	6	21
20	Malta	7	9	4	7	4	4	7	17
21	Portugal	23	22	19	21	24	25		24
22	Denmark	18	19	9	10	9	15		16
23	Sweden	2	1	1	3	3	2	10	1	12
24	France	4	3	3	12	2	3	8	14
25	San Marino	25	11	18	23	19	21		23
26	Albania	14	8	22	8	23	17		7	4

Notes.

• a^ Also available in Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Spain and Sweden

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