A new Eurovision star has emerged from Finland. The country choose its entry for the song contest on Saturday. After a stellar show from six acts, it was Erika Vikman who emerged victorious at UMK 2025 with the song “Ich Komme.”
Erika now has the honour of waving the Finnish flag in Basel this May.
UMK 2025: Results
As in recent years, the final outcome will be determined 25% by international juries and 75% by public voting.
Jury vote
- Goldielocks – 74 points
- Erika Vikman – 68 points
- Nelli Matula – 50 points
- Costee – 40 points
- Viivi – 38 points
- Neea River – 24 points
Public vote
- Erika Vikman – 362 points
- Goldielocks – 229 points
- Viivi – 100 points
- Nelli Matula – 88 points
- Neea River – 60 points
- Costee – 43 points
Overall results
- Erika Vikman – 430 points
- Goldielocks – 303 points
- Viivi – 138 points
- Nelli Matula – 138 points
- Neea River – 84 points
- Costee – 83 points
Running order
- Costee – “Sekaisin”
- Neea River – “Nightmares”
- Goldielocks – “Made Of”
- Viivi – “Aina”
- Nelli Matula – “Hitaammin hautaan”
- Erika Vikman – “Ich komme”
Are you excited to see Erika Vikman win UMK 2025? How well do you think Finland will fair at Eurovision in May? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
just dreadful, so vulgar !!
Do the rules allow for her standing on a floating mic at the EVSC? Health n safety n all that
What is this? We want One Morning Left. This trash is really sad.
Ummm, does someone want to tell xaxax…?
Seems that Finland would continue to send “different” entries in order to reach to the final; not focusing on musical quality.
Malta, “I’m serving c*nt.” Finland, “And I’m c*mming.”
This year’s ESC is for sure not going to be straight-laced and will be quite provoking.
I don’t get the hype
Who would have thought, eurovision fans being sucker for the UK 2024 trash but can’t appreciate Erika ???
Luxurious song paired with golden stage presence, this will do well in Basel!
Luxurious?? haha. So trashy.
“Ich Komme” is a weak song. All other songs were rather average. I can not believe there were not better songs from the not chosen ones…
Lemme guess: ur from Sweeden
There were by Goldielocks
Finland trying shock value again to get votes. Last year man in nude underwear and now woman with a phallic symbol singing about coming.
Think this is the best song picked so far love when the chorus kicks in. I was hopeing for a bit more stageing wise. Its a tough one to call for Finland. Erika needs to go for it with a song like this. However lets face it there is a campy and almost rediculous vibe to her as a performer. It feels like a Carry on film when ever she is on screen. Hope this doesn’t ruin her chances with the jury’s.
Just as their entry last year; this song is musically also not good
So far you’ve commented with several names once again such as Jonas and David, I suppose you use name Roger soon?
I talked about this in 2024 when you were bashing Ukraine on constant basis while glorifying Croatia.
Is this your great plan to minimize competition? Are you going to not answer yet again?
This Jonas does not speak for all
Jonases
No he does not, not to be confused with you, but hopefully people won’t be too blind to notice there’s same icon on all comments that this person makes.
Let me quess, you’re from… Sweden!! Bitter, so bitter … ??
Pure crap
Is that you Goldielocks???
Really bland, average song 🙁
So far you’ve commented with names Fabian, Thomas and David in this article, all negative!
In 2024 you commented same way in negative manner towards Ukraine while praising Croatia using different names. What on earth is your problem?
https://wiwibloggs.com/2024/05/01/ukraines-alyona-alyona-jerry-heil-reveal-tanu-muino-as-stage-director/281422/#comment-1444789
Here you comment as “Michael” in 2024, what is your point? Do answer, I’ve asked this from you multiple times.
Anonymous91 is that you?
LOL I was thinking that
I don’t get the hype… people are screaming „wow, amazing show!!“ but what show did they see? Did I miss something? Erika was only running from the back of the stage to the front, then back again and ended her performance on a golden microphone stand and thats it…is this years overall quality so bad that we call this kind of lazy performance „amazing“ now?
Sometimes performance can be powerful just with vocals and the way you present yourself rather than dancing, gimmics or tricks.
tbh i didnt like any of the songs this year in UMK however fair play to her the performance i thought was the best even though i dont like the song
Much better than her previous attempt. Overall it was the better option, though I think there’s room for improvement in the scenography. If I didn’t know what the song means I wouldn’t have understand what was all of this about…
understood**
I don’t understand |German
I don’t speak German but I can if you like OOOOOWWWWWWWWW
If someone thinks this wins Eurovision they are delulu. This is top 10 at best.
You don’t have to win to be a Eurovision legend 🙂
Unfortunately nowadays you don’t need much talent to become a “legend”
Legendary status requires more than talent 😉
The song itself doesn’t give me immediate “winner vibes” but omg the show, the production, the quality of Erika’s performance and the whole UMK production is next level, Finland is soooooo ready to win the whole thing and I can’t wait for Eurovision in Helsinki someday soon. Will be rooting for Erika and I hope she gets a top 10 finish!
Nah, next time it’ll be Rovaniemi.
Good energy and that’s pretty much it. Overall, very boring song.
I don’t understand the Hip about this. She doesn’t sing, she doesn’t dance, the song is terrible, but despite this, she will go to the Esc
You’ll find that many many people disagree with you, that’s why she won 🙂
Sie kommt für mich nicht… Finland 2,5/12
This is screaming top 5 or potential winner at the moment.
I don’t like. Quite poor song for me
Thank you Finland for sending another low-quality song for this year 🙁
Some people think sexy equals low quality. But they are not comparable.
Because they’re old fashioned prudes and probably hetros as well
Is this Erika lesbian?
It’s too obvious to be sexy
Cheap cheap cheap
Need some bird food?
Last time Finland send a solo woman who sang in Finnish was in 1998, so it was about time.
Yeah hope it will stay in Finnish !!
Edea were a band, so 1996
Ah yes, totally forgot, but hey it’s been almost 30 years!
I was going to say “wait, Pernilla?” but then remembered she sang in Swedish XD
Thank God I’m not the only one forgetting things!
I can see this doing very well easy qualifier from the semis as it’s in 2nd half of 2nd semi which is more open than the 1st. Can see it doing well with public but won’t reach the heights of Karijja but left side of scoreboard is very plausible as the umk performance thankfully for me wasn’t too sexual for my taste like the music video.
Yeah, the music video did put me off, but this was a real classier way of displaying confident sexuality without being crass.
I preferred the live performance over the official video too!
Great song, after watching Melodifestivalen it was refreshing hearing actual voice rather than backtrack. She took that stage and owned it!
That’s my small point of view… but, when I listen to the songs already known to compete, I think this ESC will be the worst, I’m afraid
Top 3
Love this, winner alert!
Thank god these lyrics are in finnish..
Not bad. It has a powerful perfomance, a bit of punk madness that also Kaarja had and I love this kind of things, but I don’t think It is a contender to win. Maybe top 10
So happy to finally see Erika at Eurovision. I’ve been a big fan of her music since mid-2020 and I really hope the staging for this can be elevated slightly more. The minimalist nature of it really works, but I do think she needs a couple people on stage with her.
Great song for Finland this year! But I guess the scene show/and/or outfit has to change to be more family-friendly according to the new rules. Someone would maybe say the undertone in the songtitle is almost too much already?
It’s a masterclass in taste and respect compared to Malta
If people want family friendly they should just stick to junior Eurovision. Eurovision should be an adult contest and reflect the shift in music we see in the music industry… we need songs like Troye Sivans Rush, Sabrina Carpenters Hot to go and Kylie Minogue’s Padam Padam. Sex sells and it should be embraced, as a young gay guy seeing dizzy performed last year made me feel so liberated and free.
I agree… otherwise what is even the point of the junior contest?
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. With EBU’s new rules (which I personally not am a big fan of) we will probably see a less sexy and more family-oriented show this year. If I understand the rules right Erika V will probably have to do changes to fit into these. Also the lyrics (though in Finnish) leave very little for the imagination 😉
It’s a family show I watched Eurovision when I was a child and I bet most of you did. I want good songs that’s it. Last year Ollie and Finland dit worse than expected. This is not in bed with Madonna but Eurovision.
One of the worst Finnish entries 🙁
As much as I love wanted to watch the internet implode if someone else won – I’m ok with Erika winning. From the whole night it was only her and Goldielocks that were amazing. Though I think the staging needs to improve a bit – maybe some dancers? Larger stage would feel rather empty with just Erika alone, despite her commanding presence.
I don’t mean to insult the artist, but this is cheap. Is she powerful on stage? Yes, but so what? Goldielocks was 100 levels above that both in songwriting and staging. Performance isn’t everything. ESC winners almost always have a strong presence, song, AND some sort-of meaning behind their performance. So disappointing, Finland.
Oh no two Erika’s… When there’s a target group for this, it will be the same as Erika’s, both ladies are not the strongest vocalists and both songs have the same vibe. I think this one is a bit more catchy than ‘ich komme’ I’m not a fan of either one of them.
I guess your comment was supposed to be for Miriana Conte. Otherwise I cannot understand what you mean. This song IS ich komme.
Yes, I’m sorry I’m partially blind and wiwi bloggs is not the most user friendly, but people will get the message 😉
Lena PH microphone thing but make it in the style of windows95man. I’m glad there is variety this year. But it’s not my winner.
I prefer this in the final to stir things up rather than some bland tune with no meaning.
Awful!
Oh my… I really do not like this 🙁
This is definitely potential winner of ESC 2025. Kaarija’s vocals were not good and he had to compete with someone who would probably win every edition with this voting format. We’ll see if Mans’ song will be the contender, but I see TOP 5 finish for Finland.
I hope the Eurovision stage allows her to transmit the same vibes this performance gives, because this looks incredible. Visually speaking, this is impactful in the best way possible.
See the International jury preferred Goldilocks!
But just lightly more than they did Erika. Their difference was only 6 points, so they liked Erika too.
Although I have adored Erika’s 2020 entry, I’m quite torn on this one. The verses sound intriguing, then chorus destroys all the momentum built (with Are you sleeping Brother John rip-off).
It should get a good chunk of televote points, but I’d be reserved around these televote winner predicitions.
If Ollys result is anything to go by and then the conservative old prudes it might not do as well as people think it will.
Great winner. But the staging of Goldielocks was amazing.
It was always going to be Erika. Great song, great staging, amazing vocals. Personally I preferred Goldielocks but this is a strong song too. Contender? Maybe
Wunderbar! Erika Vikman coming to Eurovision five years later with a Finnish meeting German superproduction for Basel 2025. This is going to be epic.