A total of 175 songs have been submitted to ERR to represent Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
ERR has announced that 175 songs have been submitted to compete in Eesti Laul 2025. 65 songs submitted are in Estonian with 110 songs in foreign languages including English, French, Italian and German.
Once the song submission window has ended, a professional jury of 35 members will select 15 entries to advance to the final. From the entries that were not originally selected, a public vote will choose a 16th entry to advance to the final. The 15 finalists will be announced in November with songs revealed on November 6, the sixteenth finalist will be announced at the start of January.
Eesti Laul 2025 will only consist of one show; a grand final on February 15. This will be the first time since 2010 that Eesti Laul will consist of only one show. The voting in the final will take place over two rounds. In the first round, a seven-member international expert and public voting will select three entries to advance to the superfinal.
In the superfinal, public voting alone will decide the winner. The winner of Eesti Laul 2025 will represent Estonia in Eurovision 2025 in Basel.
Image source: Sarah Louise Bennet – EBU | Source: ERR
Estonia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 alongside six other countries. In 2001 Estonia won the Eurovision Song Contest for the only time to date. They won with the song “Everybody”, performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL, who took a surprise victory in Copenhagen. After the success of the late-90s and early 00s, Estonia failed to qualify for the final from 2004-2008. In 2009 Estonia launched a new selection show, Eesti Laul. They have qualified for the final on 10 out of 15 attempts since.
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