Eurovision 2025: Grand Final

 

We've reached the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest!

This year’s contest was held in Basel, Switzerland, following Nemo’s win with 'The Code' in 2024. It’s the third time Switzerland has hosted Eurovision - first in Lugano in 1956 (the inaugural contest), then in Lausanne in 1989.

The event took place at St. Jakobshalle, a venue typically used for indoor sports and concerts, hosting both semi-finals and the Grand Final. The three live shows were presented by Hazel Brugger (an American-German-Swiss slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, and TV presenter) and Sandra Studer (Swiss TV presenter and singer). Michelle Hunziker (Swiss-Italian TV presenter and former model) joined as the third host for the Grand Final. Graham Norton once again served as the United Kingdom’s commentator and disco diva Sophie Ellis-Bextor appeared as the UK’s jury spokesperson.

A total of 37 countries participated, with 26 advancing to the Grand Final. These included the “Big Five” (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom), last year’s winner Switzerland, and the top 10 qualifiers from each semi-final.

As always the winner was decided by a combination of two scores. In each show, after all songs have been performed, each country gives two sets of points (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12) to their favourite songs; one set is given by a jury of five music industry professionals from that country, and one set given by viewers watching the show in that country.

Just like last year, we deiced to play along and judged the performances ourselves using five categories that captures the Eurovision spirit:

• Song Quality - Is it a bop, a ballad, or a bathroom break?
• Vocal Performance - Did they nail it or just wail it?
• Staging & Visuals - Lasers! Costumes! Giant props! Did it dazzle?
• Eurovision Factor - Key changes, glitter, chaos - how extra was it?
• Entertainment Value - Did it make us cheer, cry, or text five friends?

COUNTRY	ACT	SONG	OUR RANKING	JURY POINTS	JURY RANKING	PUBLIC POINTS	PUBLIC RANKING	FINAL POINTS	FINAL RANKING
Austria	JJ	Wasted Love	17	258	1	178	4	436	1
Israel	Yuval Raphael	New Day Will Rise	20	60	14	297	1	357	2
Estonia	Tommy Cash	Espresso Macchiato	9	98	9	258	2	356	3
Sweden	KAJ	Bara Bada Bastu	1	126	6	195	3	321	4
Italy	Lucio Corsi	Volevo Essere Un Duro	24	159	4	97	10	256	5
Greece	Klavdia	Asteromáta	3	105	8	126	8	231	6
France	Louane	maman	5	180	3	50	14	230	7
Albania	Shkodra Elektronike	Zjerm	13	45	16	173	5	218	8
Ukraine	Ziferblat	Bird of Pray	17	60	14	158	6	218	8
Switzerland	Zoë Më	Voyage	13	214	2	0	25	214	10
Finland	Erika Vikman	ICH KOMME	21	88	10	108	9	196	11
Netherlands	Claude	C'est La Vie	21	133	5	42	15	175	12
Latvia	Tautumeitas	Bur Man Laimi	5	116	7	42	15	158	13
Poland	Justyna Steczkowska	GAJA	5	17	24	139	7	156	14
Germany	Abor & Tynna	Baller	13	77	13	74	11	151	15
Lithuania	Katarsis	Tavo Akys	17	34	20	62	13	96	16
Malta	Miriana Conte	SERVING	2	83	12	8	23	91	17
Norway	Kyle Alessandro	Lighter	21	22	23	67	12	89	18
United Kingdom	Remember Monday	What The Hell Just Happened?	3	88	10	0	25	88	19
Armenia	PARG	SURVIVOR	11	42	18	30	18	72	20
Portugal	NAPA	Deslocado	24	37	19	13	21	50	21
Denmark	Sissal	Hallucination	13	45	16	2	24	47	22
Luxembourg	Laura Thorn	La Poupée Monte Le Son	5	23	22	24	19	47	22
Spain	Melody	ESA DIVA	9	27	21	10	22	37	24
Iceland	VÆB	RÓA	11	0	26	33	17	33	25
San Marino	Gabry Ponte	Tutta L'Italia	26	9	25	18	20	27	26

Our favourite was Sweden.

The winner was Austria.