When is Eurovision 2025? Date, UK entry, latest odds and more revealed
Warm up your vocal chords.
The nights are getting lighter and spring is getting nearer – which means we’re not far away from the Eurovision Song Contest for 2025.
Eurovision is a legendary event in the TV calendar of any pop fan when the continent shows off its musical brightest and best on the worldwide stage.
On Friday morning, BBC Radio 2 DJ Scott Mills gave us the world premiere of the UK’s entry for 2025 – Remembering Monday’s What the Hell Just Happned?
In 2024, it was Switzerland’s Nemo, with their song The Code, who reigned supreme over the continent, giving the country its first Eurovision win since Celine Dion’s victory in 1988.
The UK’s Olly Alexander finished in 18th place last year – this year, Remembering Monday will be hoping to land the UK’s first Eurovision win since 1997.
Here’s everything you need to know about the contest for 2025.
When is Eurovision 2025? Sweden were the hosts in 2024 after their win in 2023 (Picture: Alamy/PA)The Eurovision Song Contest for 2025 will take place between May 13 and May 17, 2025, giving music fans almost a full week of live musical action.
Semi-final number one will take place on May 13 and the second semi-final will take place on May 15, before the Eurovision Song Contest final goes out live on Saturday, May 17.
The UK qualifies for the Eurovision final every year because it’s one of the ‘Big Five’ – five countries who get to the final every year because they pay significant amounts of money to Eurovision.
The UK is in the Big Five alongside France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, meaning they don’t have to go through the semi-finals every single year.
Every other country that enters Eurovision has to qualify for the final via the semi-finals – the shows on May 13 and May 15 will be dedicated to those countries trying to reach Saturday’s live final.
Who is the UK’s Eurovision entry for 2025?The UK’s Eurovision Song Contest entry for 2025 was announced today as The Voice UK stars Remember Monday, with their song What the Hell Just Happened?
BBC radio DJ Scott Mills confirmed the news on his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, giving the song its worldwide premiere before interviewing the trio – Holly-Anne, Charlotte, and Lauren.
In January, Scott had teased that he was already very much aware of who the UK’s entry was going to be for Eurovision 2025 – and that he’d heard the song.
He said at the time: ‘By the way, I’m probably not supposed to say this – I heard our Eurovision song yesterday. Can’t say who it’s by, I can’t say… they locked me in a room.’
Remember Monday are already ‘living the dream’ (Picture: Radio 2/Instagram)He promised fans, however, that the song was ‘good’ with millions hoping Remember Monday will perform better than Olly Alexander’s Dizzy, which finished 18th in 2024.
Speaking about the song, Remember Monday told the BBC: ‘What The Hell Just Happened is exactly how we’re feeling right now! It’s all very surreal.
‘Our friendship goes so far back, and we definitely never imagined that we’d be doing anything like this – the fact that we’re getting the chance to live that dream as three best friends is just wild.’
The UK came close to winning the competition in 2022 when Sam Ryder’s Spaceman was only beaten to the crown by Ukraine, ultimately finishing as runner-up.
Which European countries have confirmed their Eurovision entries for 2025? Covers your ears! But not for the reason you think… (Picture: @mirianaconte)Several countries have already confirmed their entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Among those who have already put their songs forward are Estonia, Iceland, Poland, Slovenia, Ukraine, Albania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia, and Norway all ready to compete in semi-final one.
Portugal, Sweden, Cyprus, and San Marino are also competing in semi-final one but have not yet registered their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
In semi-final two, submissions have been made by Armenia, Australia (guest), Austria, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Luxembourg, Malta, and Serbia.
From the semi-final two line-up, the only country yet to confirm their entry is Georgia, with a full announcement expected later this month.
The entry already catching the eye of the European public is Malta’s – their entrant Miriana Conte has a song called Kant, which translates literally to ‘Singing’ in English.
But in the song Miriana bends her pronunciation of the word ‘Kant’ in order to make it sound like an explicit word that wouldn’t usually be broadcast on TV.
We’ll leave you to work out what it is.
Eurovision 2025 odds Nemo will be handing the trophy over to the winner in 2025 (Picture: REUTERS)Having won the Eurovision Song Contest seven times already, Sweden are once again the bookmakers’ favourites to take home the trophy in 2025.
Many bookmakers are giving them a 19 percent chance of victory despite the fact that they haven’t even announced their entry for 2025 yet.
Closest to them in the bookmakers’ leaderboard are France and Finland, with a respective 13% and 8% chance of winning according to those watching closely.
The UK is currently a little further back, with UK bookmakers giving Remember Monday a solid chance of finishing in the top half after the release of their song What the Hell Just Happened?
But the song has only just been released, which means it has two months to build up a head of steam before the grand Eurovision Song Contest final on May 17, 2025.
Watch Eurovision across the BBC between May 13 and May 17, 2025.
This article was first published on March 3, 2025.
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