Twelve acts took to the stage in Yerevan in Depi Evratesil 2025, battling for the honour to represent Armenia at Eurovision 2025. In the end, PARG emerged victorious, with the song “Survivor”.
For the first time since 2020, Armenia has reverted to a national selection to determine its Eurovision entry. Depi Evratesil 2025 brought together twelve artists hoping for the honour of representing the country at Eurovision.
The Depi Evratesil 2025 lineup included reigning 2020 queen Athena Manoukian, who hoped to take the crown once more after a certain pandemic derailed her previous Eurovision participation. It also included Depi Evratesil returnees such as Kamil and Gevorg Harutyunyan, a Junior Eurovision runner-up in Anahit Adamyan and a New Wave champion in Anahit Hakobyan.
But in the end, another name rose from the lineup, taking second place with the Armenian and international juries, before running away with the public vote.
“Survivor” — PARG (Depi Evratesil 2025)
Depi Evratesil 2025 results
The winner of Depi Evratesil 2025 was determined by a combination of juries and public vote.
Armenian jury vote
- Simon – 72 points
- PARG – 68 points
- Athena Manoukian – 62 points
- Mels – 38 points
- Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia – 34 points
- Anahit Adamyan – 29 points
- Arsen ft. Kamil – 24 points
- Flora Bichakhchyan – 22 points
- Sevagir – 20 points
- Gevorg Harutyunyan – 16 points
- Altsight – 12 points
- Milena Mirijanyan – 9 points
International jury vote
- Simon – 76 points
- PARG – 62 points
- Athena Manoukian – 60 points
- Anahit Adamyan – 32 points
- Flora Bichakhcyan – 32 points
- Altsight – 29 points
- Mels – 25 points
- Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia – 25 points
- Gevorg Harutyunyan – 20 points
- Milena Mirijanyan – 19 points
- Sevagir – 15 points
- Arsen ft. Kamil – 11 points
Public vote
- PARG – 84 points
- Athena Manoukian – 70 points
- Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia – 56 points
- Simon – 49 points
- Gevorg Harutyunyan – 42 points
- Anahit Adamyan – 35 points
- Mels – 28 points
- Flora Bichakhchyan – 21 points
- Milena Mirijanyan – 14 points
- Arsen ft. Kamil – 7 points
- Sevagir – 0 points
- Altsight – 0 points
Overall results
- PARG – 214 points
- Simon – 197 points
- Athena Manoukian – 192 points
- Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia – 115 points
- Anahit Adamyan – 96 points
- Mels – 91 points
- Gevorg Harutyunyan – 78 points
- Flora Bichakhchyan – 75 points
- Arsen ft. Kamil – 42 points
- Milena Mirijanyan – 42 points
- Altsight – 41 points
- Sevagir – 35 points
What do you think of the results of Depi Evratesil 2025? How will PARG do in Basel? Let us know in the comments below.
Depi Evratesil 2025 running order
- PARG – “Survivor”
- Sevagir – “Falling”
- Anahit Adamyan – “Tiny Little Boo”
- Mels – “Losing”
- Simon – “Ay Paparey Bye”
- Flora Bichakhchyan – “Prayer”
- Gevorg Harutyunyan – “Hey Man”
- Altsight – “Dare to Dream”
- Anahit Hakobyan and Gasoiia – “Wild”
- Arsen ft. Kamil – “Will You Marry Me?”
- Milena Mirijanyan – “Romantic Net”
- Athena Manoukian – “DaQueenation”
Horrible entries this year. Parg has a great stage presence and looks good, but he’s also screaming out of tune. It looks like a bad performance from 2002 Eurovision. Seems like Armenia doesn’t care anymore.
I would gladly kneel in front of the King!
So far my last place – Armenia 1/12
Was trying to figure out what was bugging me about this song, and I realised it just sounds like a kid’s bop. Like a pirate song.
It’s all a bit cringe, a bit tryhard. And the poor English pronunciation and the laugh? Just sing it in Armenian.
We’ve had plenty of ‘Survivors’ before. This is no longer convincing and certainly not original. He is a good singer and looks great, but it turns out the song is just a noisy 3 minutes.
It’s a shame because last year Armenia was authentic.
Honestly, I couldn’t see any of the Armenian DE songs making it to the ESC final. If I had to pick one, I thought Athena’s song had the best shot since it left the strongest impression on me. She’s good, but the song – nah.
Survivor might have a chance to land somewhere in the top 20 at the grand final—if they revamp it properly and deliver a strong stage performance.
Good luck to Parg ?
When I listened to the songs in their studio versions, I had a few favourites. Watching the show live was making me feel like I’m listening to entirely different songs. The only people I could somewhat tolerate were Athena and Simon. Parg wasn’t the worst, but he’ll need to work on that performance to have a chance at qualifying. Fortunately there’s enough time for that.
There were issues with the sound. Singers were hearing themselves with a delay. This is the most Terribly thing that can happen. Telling you as a singer.
There were issues with the sound: It had been turn on.
Let’s just accept most of these people can’t sing and move on.
I really hope Dimitris will approach Athena and that Cyprus will internally select her for 2026.
Congrats Armenia with selecting your ESC25 entry.
Listening to studio versions, this is one of the 2-3 that I liked, so I’m happy with the result. More than anything else, I’m glad that national vote beat the international jury. International juries, although useful to broadcasters for many reasons, are another factor that brings us closer to a contest where songs all follow the same clichés and have little authentic left. Imagine Sanremo with an international jury…
It’s a shame that Sevagir ended last. One of the best songs overall this year! Definitely gonna listen to it more
To me it sounds mostly like noise, sadly. His vocal is OK I guess. Last time Armenia had a NF they revamped the song thoroughly for Eurovision; let’s see if they do that again.
this is the one of the worst years so far ….very bad songs overall ….
Even with the sound mixing issues of the whole NF he sounded very decent. By far the best option, and I like that Armenia kept the trend of picking local artists to give the opportunity and even better that the public winner got the win. Parg was part of the same project with Brunette who performed in a club years after getting broader recognition. As for the song, it has the potential – knowing Armenian delegation they will definitely tweak and get the best out of this track. I would really love to see most of the song in Armenian,… Read more »
This wonderful work of art was written by 8 people, including Thomas G:son. If songwriters don’t want to be replaced by AI, maybe they should start writing better songs.
Till so far not my choices of songs, only I love is Spain
Really? I mean I agree in the fact that this Eurovision is shaping as a weak one but I consider Spain as one of the weakest songs for the moment 😐 To each their own of course.
OMG this year! It is horrendous so far! A few good but many bad.. this song is not it
Armenian here. Yes, absolutely atrocious. All of them.
He’s very hot, but please work on your English.
As a fellow stay-aliver, I don’t hate it. It’s… different.
What are Parg’s lyrics about? What did Parg survive or stay-alive?
Illness, accident?
He’s survived a wiwibloggs comments section 😀
: )
Yeah, it seems many people can’t even handle that and freak out in life so quickly.
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Very funny ?
Sorry, that question mark us not supposed to be there…
But stil notl figured out what he survived and stay-alived then..
We ( Eurovision fandom ) hear 10 songs like this in nacional selection season..
But regular viewers on Eurovision final night will hear only one or two…Among ladies hangin from the ceiling, he has a chance to stand out and pickup some points – slide in top 10 in semis on looks and “rock” vibe alone
This is actually so so bad, yikes
It’s gibberish and painful to hear. Screaming dead last any past covid years but there is so much competition for this place this year.
It’s not a winner clearly.
In 2026 we are heading to Scandinavia seeing how this season is going but please don’t let it be Sweden once again… No matter how much I love eating candy, I cant eat it for every meal.
Well, streets are saying Mans is coming with an extraordinary staging for Melfest lol
Sick of Sweden and that zemerlow
Damm …the voices sounded so bad live!
G:Son wrote this? Yeah, it’s a Melfest reject. Not crazy bad, but not impressive either
Wait, so we’re suddenly acting like Survivor was some kind of Melfest recycling project just because G:son was involved? Bruh., he was one of several writers, including Parg himself. This situation is nowhere near what Azerbaijan does every year – buying a fully packaged entry with zero local involvement. Is this some kind of attempt to draw parallels, mirror, and whitewash Azerbaijan? Nice try)
They could have chosen Maléna’s “Flashing Lights”. It was way better.
I take back my earlier comment about him being fit, I just watched his performance. Apologies!
Armenia 4/12
Think they made the right choice. He was the best on the night
The toxic macho vibes that PARG gives off are not the values we follow Eurovision for…
Hahahahahaha
Sureeeee. Let’s pretend like the gays aren’t gonna drool for him lol
Are you one of “the gays”?
My membership has lapsed, I forgot to renew my subscription.
There’s nothing toxic here and masculinity is beautiful.
That being said the song is DOA.
At least he is hot ?
FIT!
I don’t understand the comments? I just watched the live performance, it was the first time I heard the song and I think that was INCREDIBLE. Armenia knows how to do staging, if Parg can nail the vocals and improve the pronunciation, I can see this doing really really well, especially in a weak year like this. There are a lot of female singers and ethnic entries selected so far, so something a little more mainstream might end up standing out. Well done!
“If Parg can nail the vocals and improve the pronunciation”
High bar
we hear 10 of songs just like this in melodifestivalen every year. there is no way this one will stand out, im getting srbuk vibes (decent song but forgettable, nq)
100%
Bit of a mixed bag. It’s got a good catchy chorus, verses are not great.
I think this song would greatly improve if it was sung in their own language.
In english it has a cringe factor with lyrics like this….
Not Armenia either.
Honestly, it’s unlistenable. An offence against the English language
null points
Since he’s a Putin supporter, it wouldn’t surprise me if someone “helped” him reaching the necessary amount of votes.
Where did you get this information? Did he tell you about it privately? ?
We’re gonna need a source on this one.
I’m happy with the overall results. Parg, Simon, and Athena were my top three choices anyway. I do think that both Parg and Simon would have been good candidates for Armenia. Good luck to our boy Parg!
Another one performing first and winning the public vote after Malta’s KANT.
It was a weak national final, none of the songs were good (let’s be honest) but congrats to the Armenian broadcaster for producing a great show.
PARG looks good and the song is fun but honestly nothing great here and lyrics are cringe.
I miss Jako!
NQ and Srbuk result probably
Look on the bright side—we’ve got a major thirst trap for eurovision.
It’s a very good song, very anthemic, very powerful and very empowering, it reminds me a bit of Imagine Dragons style and it’s a compliment. I’m going to listen to it a lot I’m sure.
It will stand out imo and could be very successful in Eurovision.
Good luck Parg, good luck Armenia!
Overall it was just meh even Athena. I think that Armenia will be NQ this year.
Everyone cannot be a NQ this year !
11 countries will unfortunately not qualify to the final this year. Make sure it’s not your country.
Not everyone: We’ve got Zjerm.
Great. This Athena was soooo cliché (and she dont even speak armenian)
Well done !!!!
What language is he singing in?
English, would you believe that?
Your English skills seem to be quite bad.
I’ve been watching his performance with automatic captioning turned on, it was hilarious!
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Parg was really a good choice, Simon would be too, but maybe too risky? Athena wa great, but the song really wasn’t good enough. Chains on you was miles better and a real contender, this song definitely not. I hope she comes back with a strong song and gets to ESC eventually. It’s good that the public voted the best song and not just the biggest name like some countries always do *caugh* Slovenia.
Very shouty isnt he. Ahh well.
Yes, he is shouting a lot. Passionate performance but the song and his singing (shouting) style are something off my checklist.
In a good or bad way?
From the great “Jako” to this. Thomas G:son, I hate you. Nothing against Parg but this song is horrible. I was rooting for “Wild” but the live performance didn’t convince me.
Lol, what’s up with you? G:Son isn’t even the main songwriter behind Survivor—he’s just one of 5 or 6, including Parg himself.
Armenia officially joined Azerbaijan in its taste to send Melfest rejects. I feel sorry for us. What can I say?
That song would never make a Melodifestivalen heat!
That’s literally the meaning of Melfest REJECT 😉
Every year, Melfest is filled with entries far less impressive than Survivor, so let’s not give it too much credit.
G:Son is one of several writers, including Parg himself. This situation is nowhere near what Azerbaijan does every year – buying a fully packaged entry with zero local involvement. Is this some kind of attempt to draw parallels, mirror, and whitewash Azerbaijan? You failed.
I’m Armenian myself. Why should I whitewash Azerbaijan? I still condemn their war crimes. I didn’t want to be in parallel with Aze but this guy made everything to let that happen. Oh yeah, Parg is the one who was dancing to Imagine Dragons when all reasonable Armenians asked that group not to have a gig in Aze. Parg actually sided with genocide whitewashers. This may redeem your criticism I hope…
Look, let’s just focus on Survivor, alright? You know exactly why you’re exaggerating and trying to draw funny parallel with Azerbaijan. The fact is, Survivor is not some Melfest reject – several Armenian songwriters were involved, and G:Son is somewhere in the middle on the list. This song was written specifically for Parg, and he’s even credited as a songwriter. So let’s drop the nonsense – comparing Azerbaijan’s habit of buying fully packaged entries with Armenia, which consistently produces its own songs, is just ridiculous. Now, about whitewashing. I’m talking about you doing it by unfairly lumping Armenia in with… Read more »