Watch Tonight: Live From Basel the Eurovision 2025 Grand Final Show

• The Grand final show of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place this evening at 21:00 CEST in Basel's St' Jakobshalle Arena to declare the winner of this year's competition.

  This is it people! After months of national selections and preparations and two weeks of ongoing rehearsals and two semifinals, Eurovision 2025 is about to conclude with the Grand Final Live Show taking place at  St' Jakobshalle Arena in Basel, Switzerland  at 21:00 CEST.

  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. 

  Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer alongside with Michelle Hunziker will have the honor to guide the audience through this evening's show. The show opens with the traditional flag parade an the 2025 victorious entry The code performed by last year's winner Nemo.

   

  The competing countries

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

  1. Norway: Kyle Alessandro -Lighter 
  2. Luxembourg: Laura Thorn - La poupée monte le son
  3. Estonia: Tommy Cash - Espresso macchiato
  4. Israel: Yuval Raphael - New Day Will Rise
  5. Lithuania: Katarsis - Tavo akys 
  6. Spain: Melody - Esa diva
  7. Ukraine: Ziferblat - Bird of pray
  8. United Kingdom: Remember Monday -  What the hell just happened?
  9. Austria: JJ - Wasted Love 
  10. Iceland: VÆB - Róa
  11. Latvia: Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi 
  12. Netherlands: Claude - C’est la vie
  13. Finland: Erika Vikman - Ich komme
  14. Italy: Lucio Corsi - Volevo essere un duro
  15. Poland: Justyna Steczkowska - Gaja
  16. Germany: Abor & Tynna -  Baller 
  17. Greece: Klavdia - Asteromáta
  18. Armenia: PARG - Survivor 
  19. Switzerland: Zoë Më - Voyage
  20. Malta: Miriana Conte - Serving
  21. Portugal: NAPA - Deslocado
  22. Denmark: Sissal - Hallucination
  23. Sweden: KAJ - Bara bada bastu
  24. France: Louane -  maman
  25. San Marino: Gabry Ponte - Tutta l’Italia 
  26. 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 forner Swiss representatives will be gracing the stage once the competing performances  are over. 

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

  Before the show progresses to the announcement a tribute to Céline Dion will take place while the rumors and speculations that she will be present are going wild these last monents.

   

   

  Voting process & Results

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

  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:

  • Download for Android
  • Download for iOS

  All details on the voting, including the time windows during which you can cast your vote, are available right here.

   

  How to Watch the Grand Final Show

  The Grand final show of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest is set to hit the screen at 21:00 CEST. You can watch the show either in one of the participating broadcaster or streamed on the official Eurovision Youtube Channel  or through the national broadcasters found HERE.

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv

  Cover photo: EBU/ Corrine Cumming

   

   

   

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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.