Austria wins Eurovision 2025 with JJ's song 'Wasted Love'

• The 69th edition of Eurovision has passed in the book of history writing as big winner Austria with JJ singing 'Wasted Love'

  After months of national selections and preparations and two weeks of ongoing rehearsals and two semifinals, Eurovision 2025  concluded with the Grand Final Live Show taking place at St'Jakobshalle Arena in Basel, Switzerland.

  Switzerland's Nemo broke the code and achieved to bring the trophy home offering to Switzerland the victory for the first time since 1988 with Celine Dion. 

   

  The story so far

  How we ended up in Basel? Switzerland's Nemo broke the code and achieved to bring the trophy home offering to Switzerland the victory for the first time since 1988 with Celine Dion.  A total of 37 countries confirmed to take part in the 69th edition of the contest under the slogan of 'United by Music'.

  The Hosts

  Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer alongside with Michelle Hunziker had the honor to guide the audience through this evening's show. 

   

  Opening act

   The show opened with the 2025 victorious entry The code performed by last year's winner Nemo.

   

   

  The Flag Parade

  Folllowing the Opening act the show progressed with the traditional flag parade of the competing delegates.

   

  Competing countries

  A total of 26 countries will be competing in this evening's show. The 20 qualifiers from the 1st and 2nd  semi final shows along with the pre-qualified Big-5 countries and last year's winners, Switzerland, , will take the stage for their final performance. 

  The running order has been decided by the producers and is set as below for the 26 competing acts: 

   

  Norway: Kyle Alessandro -Lighter 

   

   

  Luxembourg: Laura Thorn - La poupée monte le son

   

  Estonia: Tommy Cash - Espresso macchiato

   

  Israel: Yuval Raphael - New Day Will Rise

   

  Lithuania: Katarsis - Tavo akys 

   

  Spain: Melody - Esa diva

   

  Ukraine: Ziferblat - Bird of pray

   

  United Kingdom: Remember Monday -  What the hell just happened?

   

  Austria: JJ - Wasted Love 

   

  Iceland: VÆB - Róa

  Latvia: Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi 

   

  Netherlands: Claude - C’est la vie

   

  Finland: Erika Vikman - Ich komme

   

  Italy: Lucio Corsi - Volevo essere un duro

   

  Poland: Justyna Steczkowska - Gaja

   

   

  Germany: Abor & Tynna -  Baller 

   

   

  Greece: Klavdia - Asteromáta

   

   

  Armenia: PARG - Survivor 

   

  Switzerland: Zoë Më - Voyage

   

   

  Malta: Miriana Conte - Serving

   

   

  Portugal: NAPA - Deslocado

   

   

  Denmark: Sissal - Hallucination

   

   

  Sweden: KAJ - Bara bada bastu

   

   

  France: Louane -  maman

   

   

  San Marino: Gabry Ponte - Tutta l’Italia 

   

   

  Albania: Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm 

   

  Interval Acts

  Peter, Sue & Marc (1971, 1976, 1979 and 1981), Paola del Medico (1969 and 1980), Luca Hänni (2019) and Gjon’s Tears (2020 and 2021) all former Swiss representatives graced the stage once the competing performances  were over. 

  In addition this year's show treated the audience with a on stage battle between the Eurovision stars and televoting winners Baby Lasagna (Croatia 2024) and Käärijä (Finland 2023) both runner ups of their respective contest. Also Sandra Studer performed her own Canzone per te (Switzerland, 1991), as well as from Michelle Hunziker with Nel blu dipinto di blu (Italy, 1958).

  Voting process

  The final outcome of the competition was determined 50% by the national juries' votes and the rest 50% by the public vote. With the jury votes casted last evening during the Jury show, the results of which were announced today by the national spokespersons, the rest 50% were determined this evening by the televoting, and were announced in the second part of the results presentation declaring the final winner! 

  Results

  The televote will open at the start of the show just before the opening entry takes to the stage. Viewers not based in  the thirty-seven competing countries will also be able to vote in the Rest of the World vote. The online only platform opened 24 hours befofe tonight’s Grand Final after last night’s Jury Show.  The  Rest of the World voters have to watch clips of all the competing performances before they cast their votes.

  Voting is available via the official Eurovision app, as well as via telephone and SMS numbers displayed on screen in the participating countries. Download the official app through the following links:

   

  Jury voting ranking 

  This is how the jury voting scoreboard looked once all  37 national juries had announced their points:

  

   

  Televoting results and overall winner

  This is how the final scoreboard turned out after adding the public votes in: 

   

  Congratulations to JJ from Austria who won Eurovision 2025 with his amazing performance of 'Wasted Love'.

   

  Winner's Interview

   

   

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv

  Cover photo: EBU/ Corinne Cumming

  Video Source: Y.T Eurovision channel

AUTHORS

Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.