# Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

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

## 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.

## Before Eurovision
### Ethnikós Telikós 2025

Ethnikós Telikós 2025 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 [el] (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.
Entry disqualified Replacement entry
Ethnikós Telikós 2025 contestants :
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
| Andy Nicolas | "Lost My Way" | Andreas KoutsonikolasTim Aeby |
| Barbz | "Sirens" | Barbara ArgyrouEmil Vogel |
| Constantinos Christoforou and Kostas Karafotis [el] | "Paradeisos" (Παράδεισος) | Constantinos ChristoforouRodoula Papalamprianou |
| Dinamiss | "Odyssey" | Eleni DinaMaria Dina |
| Evangelia | "Vale" (Βάλε) | Evangelia PsarakisGino "the Ghost" BorriJay StolarJordan PalmerSolmeisterStelios Vamvakas |
| Georgina Kalais and John Vlaseros | "High Road" | Georgina KalaitzoglouYiannis Vlaseros |
| Klavdia | "Asteromata" (Αστερομάτα) | Arcade |
| Kostas Ageris [el] | "Gi mou" (Γη μου) | Kostas Ageris |
| Nafsica Gavrilaki | "Unhurt Me" | Dimitrios KoubisNafsica Gavrilaki |
| Rikki | "Elevator (Up and Down)" | Anton AertsApostolis MalliasKonstantinos Katikaridis |
| Salina Gavala [el] and Tsiak | "Tha matho na agapo" (Θα μάθω να αγαπώ) | Babis StokasPanagiotis Tsiakalakis |
| Thanos Lambrou | "Free Love" | Andreas GeorgiouAndreas VasiliouThanos Lambrou |
| Xannova Xan | "Play It!" | Dimitri StassosFreja BlombergKalli GeorgellisMaria BrobergPeter Boström |
Backup entries :
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
| Nafsica Gavrilaki | "Unhurt Me" | Dimitrios KoubisNafsica Gavrilaki |
| Panagiotis Tsakalakos | "Money (Priceless Love)" | Christos IoannidisPanagiotis Tsakalakos |
| Stavros Salampasopoulos | "Superhero" | Christina KoilaniStavros Salampasopoulos |

#### Final

The final took place on 30 January 2025, with the running order decided by a draw on 20 January. Twelve songs competed and the winner, "Asteromata" performed by Klavdia, was selected by a combination of public voting conducted through SMS (50%), Greek jury voting (25%) and international jury voting (25%). The Greek jury consisted of Michalis Hatzigiannis (composer and singer), Jenny Melita (journalist and presenter), Fotis Sergoulopoulos [el] (presenter), Margarita Mytilineou [el] (director of the radio stations Ellinikos and Pride) and Giannis Christodoulopoulos [el] (composer), while the international jury consisted of Martin Holmen [no] (presenter and radio producer at NRK), Olivier Auclair (Head of Entertainment at RTBF), Léa Ivanne (French singer-songwriter and vocal coach), Wilkin William Edmund Roy (director of music programmes at the BBC) and Simona Martorelli (director of International Relations and European Affairs at RAI).
In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by hosts Sakis Rouvas and Helena Paparizou performing three Eurovision entries accompanied by an orchestra: "Waterloo" (Sweden 1974), "Hold Me Now" (Ireland 1987), and "Krassi, thalassa ke t' agori mou" (Greece 1974), followed by Marina Satti (who represented Greece in 2024) performing her entry "Zari". During the interval, Rouvas performed his entries, "Shake It" (2004) and "This Is Our Night" (2009), Paparizou performed her entries "Die for You" (2001) and "My Number One" (2005), and Theo Evan (who is set to represent Cyprus in 2025) performed "Fuego", the song which represented Cyprus in 2018.
Final – 30 January 2025 :
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Jury | Televote | Total | Place |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Greek | Intl. | Televote | Total | Place |
| 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 |