Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

Even after the surprise result on Saturday night, Sweden retains its status as bookmakers' favourite. Because the juries didn't tank them on Saturday, the expectation is Eurovision juries won't either. With a good televote score expected and possible decent support from the juries, we may still see Sweden victorious. That'll bruise Måns' ego.

It has been very muted, but I guess they don't care because they know a big televote score is coming. I've only seen one "This is good enough to win" post on social media so far, with most comments saying it's very generic. Taking politics out of it completely, it would be a terrible shame if Israel won because the song just isn't good enough, the same as with Hurricane last year.

Regardless of how it does at Eurovision I could see the UK entry going viral on TikTok after the contest, similar to Snap.

Israel is just a rejigged version of their entry last year. They will likely get a decent televote again (undeservedly) but won't threaten the win.

Regarding Sweden the juries in Melfest liked it but the juries in Eurovision will have plenty of songs to put above it. Just because a song does well with international juries in a nf doesn't mean they will do well with juries in Eurovision, see what happened to Queen of Kings. With the televote I think it'll do well but I can't see eastern and southern Europe going for it. There could also be 'Swede Fatigue'... to be honest I don't want Eurovision to go back to Sweden just yet.

Switzerland is a pleasant song but a bit underwhelming. I think it will get some jury love but be blanked in the televote. Typical host country entry.

The deadline to have all entries submitted and cleared by the EBU passed two days ago, so someone somewhere (well, in Geneva) knows the complete lineup for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. I wondered if there was a deadline for the public reveal of a song, but it appears there isn't, and if a country so choses, it can keep its entry secret until the release of the official album, which usually happens in mid-April.

We know we'll hear France during the rugby this weekend (will it be shown on TV here I wonder? Normally half-time is used for punditry), so I think all we're waiting on is the solution to the Maltese problem and whatever Georgia is doing.

Until we hear from Georgia, we won't know the full lineup for Ireland's semi, but based on what we've heard so far, despite avoiding perennial qualifiers Sweden and Ukraine, I think we are, unfortunately, in the stronger semi.

Once we know Georgia, France and Malta, the next big announcement should be the semi-final running orders, which usually come out towards the end of March. Some fans on social media seem to be predicting that EMMY may be the one to open the second semi…

Yeah, not a bad video - although I was expecting something more ‘fluffy’ along the lines of this (the benchmark by which all spaceship-set music videos should be set)… 🙂

Not Irish-looking? When I went to school, there was Norwegian written on the blackboard all the time! 🤣

I think France's song is stunning and will be appreciated more as we get closer to Eurovision. The reveal in a big stadium wasn't really fitting for the song, and the hype didn't help, so I get why people were a bit underwhelmed. It's already shortening again in the odds though, after falling a bit last night.

I hope this is staged in a very intimate manner at Eurovision. It's very raw and emotional and feels so much more authentic than Mon Amour last year.

France unveiling the song in the Stade de France was not really a great idea (though I understand why they did it). It made the song sound a bit flat and mediocre, when it's actually much stronger in the studio version - it's definitely a contender.

He seemed sound enough to me in the past, but I definitely got an arrogant and egotistical vibe off him this year.

Sweden definitely dodged a bullet earlier this month. This would have been horrendous publicity surrounding one of the favourites, maybe even many calls for him to withdraw from the Contest.