14 May 2025, 09:24
By Hannah Watkin
Eurovision 2025 will be coming live from Basel, Switzerland.
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Eurovision is back!
Yes, it’s somehow been another year since the many nations of Europe (plus a few more from further afield) get together to entertain the world with a night-long celebration of music.
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Here’s all there is to know about 2025’s Eurovision Song Contest...
When is Eurovision 2025?
The 2025 Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals will be held on Tuesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 15 at Basel’s St Jakobshalle indoor arena.
The final, held at the same venue, will take place on Saturday, May 17.
Each show will begin at 8pm BST (9pm CEST).
Who is representing the UK at Eurovision 2025?
The UK are this year being represented by harmonising country trio Remember Monday.
The country group, made up of members Charlotte Steele, Lauren Byrne and Holly-Anne Hull will be performing their entry ‘What The Hell Just Happened?’ with the hope that it will bring in votes from Eurovision viewers across the continent (and beyond!).
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You may recognise Remember Monday from their appearance on The Voice UK in 2019, or from their other popular songs ‘Laugh About It’ and‘Hysterical Women’.
Is Celine Dion performing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025?
Currently its unknown if global superstar Celine Dion will grace the Eurovision Song Contest, much like she did the Paris Olympic Games last year.
However, it seems as if she won't be performing.
Celine is linked to the Basel competition after she won the ESC for Switzerland back in 1988 when she was relatively unknown, with her song 'Ne partez pas sans moi'.
In March 2025, Eurovision's Swiss organisers said Celine "simply belonged" to Switzerland and ESC.
At the first semi-final on Tuesday, May 13, Celine appeared on video to share a message with viewers.
"I'd love nothing more than to be with you," she said, seemingly suggesting she wouldn't be turning up later in the week.
What countries are performing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025?
Ahead of the semi-finals, as is always the case with Eurovision, the only countrieswe know will be performing in the final are the so-called Big Five: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK; plus last year’s winner, Switzerland.
20 more acts (10 each night) will be chosen from the performers at each of this week’s semi-finals.
Until all the acts are chosen for the final, the final’s performance order will not be known.
Here’s a list of every Eurovision 2025 entry:
Finalists:
- UK – Remember Monday, ‘What The Hell Just Happened?’
- France – Louane, ‘maman’
- Germany – Abor & Tynna, ‘Baller’
- Italy – Lucio Corsi, ‘Volevo Essere Un Duro’
- Spain – Melody, ‘ESA DIVA’
- Switzerland – Zoë Më, ‘Voyage’
First semi-final performers (finalists in bold):
- Albania – Shkodra Elektronike, ‘Zjerm’
- Azerbaijan – Mamagama, ‘Run With U’ (knocked-out)
- Belgium – Red Sebastian, ‘Strobe Lights’ (knocked-out)
- Croatia – Marko Bošnjak, ‘Poison Cake’ (knocked-out)
- Cyprus – Theo Evan, ‘Shh’ (knocked-out)
- Estonia – Tommy Cash, ‘Espresso Macchiato’
- Iceland - VÆB, ‘RÓA’
- Netherlands – Claude, ‘C’est La Vie’
- Norway – Kyle Alessandro, ‘Lighter’
- Poland – Justyna Steczkowska, 'GAJA'
- Portugal – NAPA, ‘Desclocado’
- San Marino – Gabry Ponte, ‘Tutta L’Italia’
- Slovenia – Klemen, ‘How Much Time Do We Have Left’ (knocked-out)
- Sweden – KAJ, ‘Bara Bada Bastu’
- Ukraine – Ziferblat, ‘Bird of Pray’
Second semi-final performers:
- Armenia – PARG, ‘SURVIVOR’
- Australia – Go-Jo, ‘Milkshake Man’
- Austria – JJ, ‘Wasted Love’
- Czechia – ADONXS, ‘Kiss Kiss Goodbye’
- Denmark – Sissal, ‘Hallucination’
- Finland – Erika Vikman, ‘ICH KOMME’
- Georgia – Mariam Shengelia, ‘Freedom’
- Greece – Klavia, 'Asteromáta’
- Ireland – EMMY, ‘Laika Party’
- Israel – Yuval Raphael, ‘New Day Will Rise’
- Latvia – Tautumeitas, ‘Bur Man Laimi’
- Lithuania – Katarsis, ‘Tavo Akys’
- Luxembourg – Laura Thorn, ‘La Poupée Monte Le Son’
- Malta – Miriana Conte, ‘SERVING’
- Montenegro – Nina Žižić, ‘Dobrodošli’
- Serbia – Princ, ‘Mila’
