Eurovision Song Contest 2025

The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 was the 69th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-finals took take place on the 13 and 15 May and the grand final on 17 May 2025. The contest was held in Basel, Switzerland, following their win at the 2024 contest with the song "The Code" by Nemo. Montenegro took part in the contest breaking a 2 year leave, while Moldova withdrew 4 days after their national final because they didn't have enough money or skilled singers. 37 countries took part in the contest. The winner was JJ, representing Austria with the song "Wasted Love".

 Overview 
The Grand Final of Eurovision 2025 was planned to have 26 countries taking part. These include the Big 5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom), the host country Switzerland and ten countries from each of the two semi-finals.

 Semi-Final 1 
The first semi-final took place on 13 May 2025 at 21:00 CEST. Fifteen countries competed in this first semi-final while Italy, Spain and Switzerland also performed. All countries from this semi-final were able to vote, as well as viewers from non-participating countries under one "rest of the world" online vote. The ten countries with the most votes qualified for the final.

+ First semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025  Country Artist Song Points Place 1  Væb "Róa" 97 6th 2  Justyna Steczkowska "Gaja" 85 7th 3  Klemen "How Much Time Do We Have Left" 23 13th 4  Tommy Cash "Espresso Macchiato" 113 5th 5  Ziferblat "Bird of Pray" 137 1st 6  KAJ "Bara bada bastu" 118 4th 7  Napa "Deslocado" 56 9th 8  Kyle Alessandro "Lighter" 82 8th 9  Red Sebastian "Strobe Lights" 23 14th 10  Mamagama "Run with U" 7 15th 11  Gabry Ponte "Tutta l'Italia" 46 10th 12  Shkodra Elektronike "Zjerm" 122 2nd 13  Claude "C'est la vie" 121 3rd 14  Marko Bošnjak "Poison Cake" 28 12th 15  Theo Evan "Shh" 44 11th

 Semi-Final 2 
The second semi-final took place on 15 May 2025 at 21:00 CEST. Sixteen countries competed in this second semi-final while France, Germany and the United Kingdom also performed. All countries from this semi-final were able to vote, as well as viewers from non-participating countries under one "rest of the world" online vote. The ten countries with the most votes qualified for the final.

+ Second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025  Country Artist Song Points Place 1  Go-Jo "Milkshake Man" 41 11th 2  Nina Žižić "Dobrodošli" 12 16th 3  Emmy "Laika Party" 28 13th 4  Tautumeitas "Bur man laimi" 130 2nd 5  Parg "Survivor" 51 10th 6  JJ "Wasted Love" 104 5th 7  Klavdia "Asteromata" 112 4th 8  Katarsis "Tavo akys" 103 6th 9  Miriana Conte "Serving" 53 9th 10  Mariam Shengelia "Freedom" 28 15th 11  Sissal "Hallucination" 61 8th 12  Adonxs "Kiss Kiss Goodbye" 29 12th 13  Laura Thorn "La poupée monte le son" 62 7th 14  Yuval Raphael "New Day Will Rise" 203 1st 15  Princ "Mila" 28 14th 16  Erika Vikman "Ich komme" 115 3rd

 Final 
The final took place on 17 May 2025 at 21:00 CEST. The finalists included Switzerland, the Big 5 and twenty countries which qualified from the semi-finals. A voting system of points was used to determine the winner. Half of the points were awarded by national juries from each participating country and the other half of the points were awarded by televotes from each country plus the "Rest of the World" online vote.

+ Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025  Country Artist Song Points Place 1  Kyle Alessandro "Lighter" 89 18th 2  Laura Thorn "La poupée monte le son" 47 22nd 3  Tommy Cash "Espresso Macchiato" 356 3rd 4  Yuval Raphael "New Day Will Rise" 357 2nd 5  Katarsis "Tavo akys" 96 16th 6  Melody "Esa diva" 37 24th 7  Ziferblat "Bird of Pray" 218 9th 8  Remember Monday "What the Hell Just Happened?"  88 19th 9  JJ "Wasted Love" 436 1st 10  Væb "Róa" 33 25th 11  Tautumeitas "Bur man laimi" 158 13th 12  Claude "C'est la vie" 175 12th 13  Erika Vikman "Ich komme" 196 11th 14  Lucio Corsi "Volevo essere un duro" 256 5th 15  Justyna Steczkowska "Gaja" 156 14th 16  Abor & Tynna "Baller" 151 15th 17  Klavdia "Asteromata" 231 6th 18  Parg "Survivor"  72 20th 19  Zoë Më "Voyage" 214 10th 20  Miriana Conte "Serving" 91 17th 21  Napa "Deslocado" 50 21st 22  Sissal "Hallucination" 47 23rd 23  KAJ "Bara bada bastu" 321 4th 24  Louane "Maman" 230 7th 25  Gabry Ponte "Tutta l'Italia" 27 26th 26  Shkodra Elektronike "Zjerm" 218 8th

 Spokespersons 
The spokespersons were announced the 12-point score from their respective country's national jury in the following order:

 Keyyo
 Safura
 Ingrid Sammut
 Chantal Janzen
 Lorella Flego]
 Lusine Tovmasyan
 Fabienne Zwally
 Senhit
 Jerry Heil
 Tom Hugo
 Philipp Hansa

 Topo Gigio
 Iolanda

 Doris Pinčić
 Dons
 Nicky Byrne
 Aleksandra Budka
 Neonoen|Marko Vukčević



 Sophie Ellis-Bextor
 Chanel

 Silia Kapsis
 Michael Schulte

 Eden Golan
 Andri Xhahu
 Silvester Belt
 Hera Björk
 Loukas Hamatsos
 Kristjan Jakobson
 Nutsa Buzaladze
  and Sven Epiney

Detailed voting results
Semi-Final 1
+ 12 points awarded in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025  Recipient Countries giving 12 points 4  , , ,  3  , ,  2  ,   ,  1  Rest of the World              

Semi-Final 2
+ 12 points awarded in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025  Recipient Countries giving 12 points 13  Rest of the World, , , , , , , , , , , ,  2  ,  1          

Final
 Split results Place Combined Jury Televoting Country Points Country Points Country Points 1   436   258  297 2  357  214  258 3  356  180  195 4  321  159  178 5  256  133  173 6  231  126  158 7  230  116  139 8  218  105  126 9  218  98  108 10  214  88  97 11  196  88  74 12  175  83  67 13  158  77  62 14  156  60  50 15  151  60  42 16  96  45  42 17  91  45  33 18  89  42  30 19  88  37  24 20  72  34  18 21  50  27  13 22  47  23  10 23  47  22  8 24  37  17  2 25  33  9  0 26  27  0  0

12 Points
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