Riga calling! Tonight, Latvia kicked off another year of Supernova with the show’s semi-final. Ten years after the first edition of the country’s selection show, LTV hoped to select an act that will follow in Dons’ footsteps as a Eurovision qualifier. But before that, nineteen acts had to become ten.
The Ludvig led our readers’ poll and can be called one of the favourites ahead of the Supernova 2025 semi-final.
Supernova 2025 was broadcast at 21:10 EET (that’s 20:10 CET) on LTV. The show lasted until 23:45 EET (or 22:45 CET). You could watch the show live on LTV1 via their website.
Supernova 2025 semi-final: guide
Nineteen acts competed in the semi-final of Supernova 2025. That’s one down from the original twenty acts announced. Grēta Grantiņa withdrew earlier this week due to health problems.
Despite that, the Latvian audience saw a varied show, with Marta opening the semi with “Lovable”, while Supernova veteran Markus Riva will close with “Bigger Than This”.
A combination of a jury panel vote and televoting decided the ten acts that will proceed to the final on 8 February. Favourites as Citi Zeni, The Ludvig and Tautumeitas were among the qualifiers.
Supernova 2025 semi-final results
- Marta “Lovable”
- Tepat “Sadzejot” (QUALIFIED)
- Justs “Fit Right”
- KoBra “Zelts”
- Adelina “Electric Love”
- Citi Zēni “Ramtai” (QUALIFIED)
- Emilija “Heartbeat” (QUALIFIED)
- Bel Tempo and Legzdina “The Water” (QUALIFIED)
- Palú “Delusional” (QUALIFIED)
- The Ludvig “Līgo” (QUALIFIED)
- Luka “Stronger”
- Chris Noah “Romance Isn’t Dead” (QUALIFIED)
- Toms Kalderauskis “Domāju, tu nāc”
- Julianna “Something in the Water”
- Tautumeitas “Bur man laimi” (QUALIFIED)
- Rūta Dūduma “Chemical”
- Katrīna Gupalo “Scarlett Challenger”
- Sinerģija “Bound by the Light” (QUALIFIED)
- Markus Riva “Bigger than This” (QUALIFIED)
Who do you want to see go through to the Supernova final? Who is your favourite act? Let us know in the comments down below!
I really can’t choose between Tautumeitas and Tepat; both have really good stagings and their songs are absolute bangers. Citi Zeni are a close second (it took some time to grow on me) I wish that KoBra had qualified though, they would’ve deserved it. I think we can all agree that The Ludvig needs some tweaks to the staging and then they’re ready to go. I actually didn’t like the song at first and I was so surprised at why everyone loved it lol. I get it now ?
“the water” is a grower.
still have some hope here.
Tautumeitas winning would be absolutely legendary.
A lot of people hating on the Ludvig and crticising his ‘alpha’ energy but that might be enough for the audience to get on board with him. I compare him with BL since they are both at stages where their songs could do amazingly or terribly and I have to say, although BL had the stage, Ludvig is ahead on voice already. He only needs a bit of work. Now what he really needs to do is add more smoke, pyros and dancers into the staging and sing the choruses properly. The last chorus where he tries to sustain a… Read more »
For me – Tautumeitas, Chris Noah or Legzdina ftw.
All would EASILY qualify.
Are the results out(who was first through tenth) or do we only know who qualified in random order?
Random order
So no matter what everyone says !
It’s clear two race now
Emilia with heartbeat
vs
Tautumeitas bur man laimi
Shocking bad live perforfoance from citi z?ni and from Ludvig
You can agree or disagree with me but it’s true now!
The Ludvig clearly has the best song. But the staging he gave was very awkward and sometimes his singing could be improved. More smoke and pyros are needed. And he needs to rethink the role of the dancers and what they will do.
Seriously aweful results… Most of my pre-live-semi-favourites didnt make it… I really cannot understand why Justs didnt make it? His song is excellent, and he sang pretty OK as well… was it the suit that failed him? Ruta Duduma gave an excellent vocal performance as well.. cannot understand why she didnt qualify either. The Ludvig performance really disappointed me as well. Had such high hopes for it – but he was trying to engage audience and make it a concert performance, which is the big NO NO in Eurovision world. It is a TV-show – do that at ESC and… Read more »
https://www.reddit.com/r/eurovision/s/q8mwNoLgQw
Citi Zeni and The Ludvig flopped big time. Tautumeitas for the win.
Tautumeitas have a horrible song tho
KoBra DIDN’T EVEN QUALIFY? Yeah, screw you, Latvia… 🙁
What an impressive semi-final. Well done Latvia!
The Ludvig is my favourite to win. For the final they could remove the girls touching the lead singer – it is not needed in this song and would improve the quality of the song.
So many great performances for the final.
won’t be surprised if rivas wins this
the girl with “heartbeat” didn’t even sing the chorus
Unfortunately I think The Ludvig and Citi Zeni’s stage performance didn’t elevate their song whereas Tautumeitas were incredible and the stage performance is Eurovision ready.
Yesss I agree with you ?- Tautumeitas and Emilija is only ready performance for Eurovision-
Yeah the song is horrible tho…like it’s a clear Nq…no melody, catchy hook, nothing. Just some screeching ladies
That was an excellent show and very good choices for Latvia. I like at least 5-6 of their finalists and for me Latvia is already a safe bet for qualification. Supernova also in running for the best national final of the season, I really didn’t see that coming.
Yeah I agree surprisingly good show
The Water would easily be in my TOP 5 in 2025 if they choose it.
Love it too! Not sure it is a song for ESC but I am so happy that it exists and I can play on repeat!
Same! They’re in a lane of their own. Not all Eurovision songs have to be hight camp and drama. Favourite song of the season so far
It has been on a loop for me at Spotify, so good.
Who are the finalists?
Supernova 2025 might be the biggest surprise of the year for me re: national selections. Wonderful production and some very good songs and performances. Well done!!!!
“Scarlett Challenger” <3
Ok big massively shift after live show – contenders to win now is Emilia with heartbeat and Tautu meitas with bur man laimi! – leaving Citi zeni and Ludvig outsiders now! As a telovoting was showed!
Do you have proof of this?
Yess there was quick sneak peek if you whatched the whole show – they showed in mid of voting televote results in percentages!
Remember that was only a partial result.
Televoting reveal in the semi tends not to be very representative of what actually happens in the final tho
Yesss you are right but they actually show us what’s the trend and where votes are going!
Oh trust me, they intentionally choose an early voting screen to bait out more people to vote for their favorites. This discussion about some wildcard being in the top is always there. The lead for Emilija you saw was from her fans wanting her to be in the final, people here do not actually want the song to flop.
There is however the issue that so many different songs are competing for the win, that someone out of left field could somehow go through in the end
Tautumeitas is winning Supernova 2025. Period.
they might win the juries, but in televote I doubt they’ll win…
Emilia will win televote if nothing will be changed drastically on other performances
RIP scarlett challenger fans. Seems that song is staying in the semi
Bigger than what? Fits of laughter!!
Aparently big enough to make the final
“Scarlet challenger” is in my top 2 of the season so far. What a brilliant performance! The staging was so effective! Fabulous!!!!
Scarlet challenger is a car? Did I understand that right?
Challenger is a car, Scarlett aka scarlet red is a colour…
Song 15 here is really stunning. I was worried about how these ladies would stage a song like this, but that’s Eurovision worthy
It really was the most Eurovision-ready performance
Latvia is doing so well this year, it really shows.
Not this guy stealing Dons’ Supernova staging with a vastly inferior song
The Latvian selection is so good this year. Although it’s *just* a semifinal most songs could be in the final of other selections. I can see why “L?go” is considered an early favourite, it was very well performed and The Ludvig works the stage very well. I enjoyed “Ramtai” too, although the staging was a bit bizarre for me. Well done Latvia, I’ll keep an eye on the Supernova final.
It would be *so nice* if subtitles were available in English for the pre-recorded segments when artists present their songs. They surely have very interesting things to say. I’d love to know what they are talking about.
Supernova is very enjoyable this year. Kudos!!! Some songs sound even better than in studio version!!
Ramtai is so much better than Eat Your Salad. I apreciate that they went full bizarre with the staging. This is fun
It’s actually my number one favorite for Supernova 2025, which is a huge turn around because I really hated Eat Your Salad in 2022 (in fact, it was my last place for Eurovision 2022). If they had sent something like Ramtai three years ago, I would have placed Latvia a lot higher. I don’t think they’ll return this time, but I am glad to know that they are capable of composing awesome songs.
The production of this show is shockingly amazing.
I think Dons’ qualification last year gave Latvia the kick in the pants it needed after such a long time wasting away in the semi finals. Let’s hope they can repeat the trick again this year!
I agree I looked like small Eurovision semifinal for real