Following two years of internal selection, Slovenia is bringing back TV show EMA as their national selection for Eurovision 2025. Broadcaster RTVLSO has now unveiled the 12 acts who will be competing for the ticket to Basel.
There are a few names that Eurovision fans may recognise.
July Jones previously competed at EMA in 2022. A fan favourite with her entry “Girls Can Do Anything,” she ultimately finished in fifth place.
Klemen Slakonja has also graced the EMA stage before — as host of the 2020 edition. Even though he wasn’t competing, Klemen still showcased his singing abilities during the iconic interval performance where he recreated Slovenia’s 25 Eurovision entries up until that point.
EMA 2025: Competing acts
- Eva Pavli – “Niti”
- KiKi – “O-ou!”
- Jon Vitezič – “Vse ti dam”
- Trine – “Grace”
- Klemen – “How much time do we have left?”
- Žan Videc – “Pusti da gori”
- ANNA – “Čau”
- July Jones – “New Religion”
- ZveN – “Divja”
- PolarAce – “Kind”
- Astrid & The Scandals – “Touché”
- RAI – “Frederick’s Dead”
EMA 2025 is scheduled for Saturday 1 February. The show will take place over two rounds.
The first round will see five jury groups voting between the 12 acts. The five juries are:
- Music jury (singers, musicians, producers, songwriters creators etc.)
- Television jury (editors, presenters, directors, choreographers etc.)
- Radio jury (radio editors, journalists, presenters, etc.)
- OGAE Slovenia jury
- International Eurovision influencer jury (bloggers, vloggers, online journalists etc.)
The top two from this jury vote will move on to the superfinal, at which point the power transfers solely to the Slovenian public to decide on who will head to Eurovision 2025.
Are you excited by the EMA 2025 competing acts? Whose song are you already hyped to hear? Let us know in the comments below.
Give July the trophy already
This kind of selection is WORSE than internal selection. It PRETENDS to give a decision to the public, while in the reality the public has extremely low impact: it can just select one of the two from the jury favorites. All for PAID clicks and deception. What a shame.
I do remember that Klemen interval act very fondly. It’d be nice if he won but the song has to deliver.
From the title alone it sounds like a very standard Broadway musical act. So dont know
There is way more to Klemen than mentioned here, he’s a Slovenian icon in terms of hosting, acting, parodies, music and imitations. Synonymous with Ema, he hosted it 4 times, always iconic, in 2012 it was literally the best TV show of the year. It will be very interesting what style of song he comes up with, but on name alone, he is the absolute favourite. Even ahead of July.
Jon and Astrid competeted in Ema Freš before (with Astrid being notably robbed), the rest are pretty unknown to me.
Klemen is crazy talented, love his parodies. He could deliver something truly iconic to Eurovision
I loved him as a TV presenter and his parodies were top notch but purely based on the title of the song, I’m pretty sure he’s going to sing a forgettable ballad. Hope I’m wrong though.