The results of the Eurovision 2025 semi-finals are out — and there are plenty of surprises in store. For instance, grand final winner JJ placed fifth in Semi-Final 2. Read on for more…
Eurovision 2025: Semi-Final Results
Semi-Final 1
1. 
Ukraine: Ziferblat – “Bird of Pray” (137 points)
2. 
Albania: Shkodra Elektronike – “Zjerm” (122)
3. 
Netherlands: Claude – “C’est La Vie” (121)
4. 
Sweden: KAJ – “Bara Bada Bastu” (118)
5. 
Estonia: Tommy Cash – “Espresso Macchiato” (113)
6. 
Iceland: VÆB – “RÓA” (97)
7. 
Poland: Justyna Steczkowska – “GAJA” (85)
8. 
Norway: Kyle Alessandro – “Lighter” (82)
9. 
Portugal: NAPA – “Deslocado” (56)
10. 
San Marino: Gabry Ponte – “Tutta L’Italia” (46)
11. 
Cyprus: Theo Evan – “Shh” (44)
12. 
Croatia: Marko Bosnjak – “Poison Cake” (28)
13. 
Slovenia: Klemen – “How Much Time Do We Have Left” (23)
13. 
Belgium: Red Sebastian – “Strobe Lights” (23)
15. 
Azerbaijan: Mamagama – “Run With U” (7)
Semi-Final 2
1. 
Israel: Yuval Raphael – “New Day Will Rise” (203 points)
2. 
Latvia: Tautumeitas – “Bur Man Laimi” (130)
3. 🇫🇮 Finland: Erika Vikman – “ICH KOMME” (115)
4. 🇬🇷 Greece: Klavdia – “Asteromáta” (112)
5. 
Austria: JJ – “Wasted Love” (104)
6. 🇱🇹 Lithuania: Katarsis – “Tavo Akys” (103)
7. 
Luxembourg: Laura Thorn – “La Poupée Monte Le Son” (62)
8. 
Denmark: Sissal – “Hallucination” (61)
9. 
Malta: Miriana Conte – “SERVING” (53)
10. 
Armenia: PARG – “SURVIVOR” (52)
11. 
Australia: Go-Jo – “Milkshake Man” (41)
12. 
Czechia: ADONXS – “Kiss Kiss Goodbye” (29)
13. 
Ireland: EMMY – “Laika Party” (28)
14. 
Serbia: Princ – “Mila” (28)
15. 
Georgia: Mariam Shengelia – “Freedom” (28)
16. 
Montenegro: Nina Žižić – “Dobrodošli” (12)
I think the use of Israeli bots won it for Israel. But that is only my personal opinion.
I almost forgot:
May the post-Eurovision Summer 2025… begin!
But this time, it’s not a depressing season. The results were a turn off, and JJ achieved them through compromise.
We need juries back in the semis! We all know why Ukraine and Israel won the semis and it wasn’t about the music
ukraine’s song was genuinely good but not winner material
I really enjoyed it but it should have been around 7th in semi
It wouldn’t matter. Ukraine had 137p. They would still qualify.
Let’s point out that San Marino was just 2 points away from Cyprus and if Italy was in another Semi they wouldnt have qualified..
As much as I love and have voted for San Marino in the grand final, it’s obvious that this song resonated much better with the Italian public than the rest of Europe. I wonder if the facts that singing about Italy while representing San Marino and while we had the original Italy participating and a parody of Italy as well played a role.
Now with Austria 2026 I just hope for better hosts that 2015 who were awful
This year’s voting was more problematic than I can remember. The juries seemed to me more political and inconsistent than ever (with the small exception that they thankfully helped the amazing Swiss entry). The televoting is being systematically manipulated by Israel and that doesn’t seem to end soon as they are determined to use the contest for their propaganda purposes. Ukraine keeps on getting pity votes, that also wrongly influence the final result, but at least these votes come from genuine feelings of solidarity. Also the semi final results were messy: this tells me that not many people vote during… Read more »
I really don’t know what will happen next year . The mindset of any credible artist would really think twice of entering a contest where their result is dictated on a political level . It’s become very much based on countries with people voting who are not even watching the show. Many voting for Israel have done so under instructions and never even seen Eurovision . Ukraine also is a problem , sympathy voting. Why would anyone put themselves through this? I’m happy enough with the eventual winner and sure most are but at what cost . If this continues… Read more »
It’s easy- Ukraine and Israel with the biggest diasporas in Europe win the tele vote
Totally unfair for other countries
True, but we also can’t tell how much they would score without politics. There’s always a doubt.
If this continues it puts the whole contest into disrepute. Very depressing to see this . The public voting is too open to be orchestrated, the juries less so , but there is still some neighbour voting .
We can live with 100% public votes, but we will get joke acts winning every year. So, OK, the public voice is being heard, but is this the direction we want the contest to go?
We don’t want it to go that way , the jury is the lesser of two evils
Juries saved Malta from total embarrassment, who woud have thought.
Malta was so wonderful at the NF. They went over the top in ESC, it wasn’t sexy, it was a turn off. They ruined the act.
This show needs urgently a revamp and also no renewal of the Moroccan oil sponsorship which is an Israeli company. Then EBU’s hands won’t be tied when it comes to removing Israel from the competition.
Oh Jesus, stop with the conspiracy. Moroccanoil has no say, the most they could do is withdraw and in that case they would be easily replaced by another company. These kinds of decisions are made by the Reference Group and there’s simply no support for the decision you propose. It is widely known that many broadcasters are strictly against it, with at least one Big 5 member stating that they will withdraw if Israel is banned. That’s why EBU’s hands are tied, not because of Moroccanoil which is completely irrelevant.
A few counters on that: 1. The EBU will have a discussion on the future inclusion of KAN anyhow. (This was recent news.) 2. A promised withdrawal or two (even from a member of the Big 5) over the issue doesn’t tie EBU’s hands. Technically, the decision is still theirs. 3. Broadcasters will have to make way for streaming services in the near future. That’ll be an interesting change. 4. While I agree that the Moroccanoil sponsor is practically irrelevant to the situation, it also evidently would not be savvy from a marketing perspective for such a sponsor to continue… Read more »
I find it very hard to believe that Israel got 12 points from so many countries in semi 2 (including my country Ireland).
Something stinks in ESC and needs to be got rid of.
Indeed, it was like witnessing a Belarussian election…where the sitting government get 90% of the so called votes…
Even Irish Jury gave 7 points to Israel.
Maybe you live in a bubble.
“Something stinks in ESC and needs to be got rid of.”
This sounds like the Final Solution.
Slogan adopted as Final Solution, Intifada revolution.
Na zism and Isla mic Jihad go hand in hand.
EBU should really consider: *Have all semis with Jury atleast 30-40% and Public 60-70% to balance and prevent the diaspora,bloc voting,vote buying and fan based system. *In Grand Final-I don’t how but jury votes should be thoroughly check , it should be diverse but equal regardless of genre(radio/audience friendly, novelty/wacky etc.) ESC 2025 is so worst, imagine seems the jury forgot or never saw that Poland, Iceland exist. And also Sweden, with their generics juries used to favoring them but now they send a novelty song and they are totally neglected and they got one 12pts. only. Juries were giving… Read more »
At least the jury saved Switzerland. Was it that bad or forgettable?
It’s so weird seeing Austria a winner below Latvia, just weird. But I’m happy, and I hope we’ll see more songs in our language next year! Thank you for voting! <3
For the first time ever, I am not going deep the morning after Eurovision to go see the reactions, videos, comments. Usually that’s how I spend the 3-4 days after the finals. I feel hurt this time, can’t explain it. Can’t watch them. I need some time off
Take care x
To be honest, it wasn’t a good year song wise from the beginning. Of course the fans are upset.
Latvia second in their semi, amazing! And Belgium wasn’t even close…
Why wouldn’t they ? Displaced Ukrainian population all over Europe voting for Ukraine
And Israel has a huge diaspora all over Europe
It’s really time to end the farce of the public vote which has ruined Eurovision actually
Both juries and public vote are problematic. There has to be a third way.
I can’t say for Ukraine because their diaspora is due to a d4mn w4r so it is not up to them that they left their country but Israel is a political vote. If what you so call diaspora was all over Europe they would also always qualify and yet ‘somehow’ they both did ‘amazing’ with the televote those two past editions huh, wonder what happened since then. There will always be political voting but at the very least before then there was a concensus for a winner, yesterday we saw how they could pay to almost win, had the jury… Read more »
SF1 – I had Azerbaijan as my dead-last prediction, and I was right. The studio version is pretty good, but the performance was just a bit too bland for me. Ukraine topping was a pleasant surprise for me, considering nearly everyone thought they would be a borderline NQ (I predicted around 7th). I’m pretty surprised that Belgium came 14th, when I thought they’d be 11th… and Croatia was 12th?! I… don’t get it. I guess that’s all I will say lol SF2 – So proud of Latvia and I’m glad people really enjoyed it! I think I’m even more surprised… Read more »
Y’all my blood is boiling right now I just emailed EBU to do something in Eurovision next year I told them to make it 50% jury and 50% televote I also told them this is getting unfair when other small countries like Malta and San Marino who thankfully qualified but barely was outclassed by some mediocre songs like Israel and Ukraine who BOUGHT the votes for Eurovision which isn’t fair… I SENT THEM AN EMAIL I WILL KEEP YOU GUYS UPDATED
Chill down, Karen. Go outside and touch some grass.
Honestly i side with Karen this time
That’s ok. At least you’re not sending emails everywhere while obviously being frustrated.
Well, Ukraine and Israel are one issue. Another issue is the fact Austria was only 5th in their semi! They were far from being the public favorites. But juries saved us from Estonia or Israel winning. All options are bad.
I see a lot of people asking for the juries back in the semis. The consequence of this is that the televote winner will most likely win the final. There needs to be as few jury bait songs in the final as possible so that a small number of songs can dominate the jury vote in the final. If the jury vote is spread in the final, the televote winner will tend to win the overall contest.
The other option is that the juries really need to start supporting the televote friendly songs – I saw that beginning to happen a little last night and was pleasantly surprised how many points Estonia got from the jury
Espresso Macchiato is the best ESC parody song so far, in my opinion. Artistically it was worth points from juries anyway (again in my opinion).
Estonia was the first ‘joke song’ in Eurovision with smart lyrics and rhymes.
Even though a but cringe on the outside, the song itself was intelligently created.
(I didn’t like the groupie stage invasion though).
Yes, this is the third year in a row the winner has neen decided by jury. I mean back then when there were juries in semifinal the winner was sometimes jury, sometimes voters, sometimes neither. We need to have more jury friendly songs in final, not less. That way their votes will be spread and preventing a runaway winner
I miss 2021 and the years before, when votes depended on the song, the singer, the staging and… THAT WAS IT.
We got a glimpse of that in 2023 even if Kaarija didn’t win unfortunately as I miss this year dearly because I understand why Ukraine get support and you can see it diminish between 2022 and this year so it’s not fully certain they could do well meanwhile that other country will certainly now keep spending money to get those votes…
interesting How Australia finished in 11th place with the same amount of points both in 2024 and 2025–41! Considering the mistakes made, I’m very surprised to Czechia didn’t finish lower than 12th. Serbia and Montenegro truly flopped on Thursday— with Serbia getting its worst result ever at 14th when they previously finished 11th and you bet your bottom dollar that Serbia gave all those 12 points to Montenegro to keep it from finishing with zero points. It’s not a big surprise that Georgia didn’t qualify and finished very low, but I am surprised that it didn’t finish that last, instead… Read more »
Bring back the juries too the semi finals as its all too political starting to turn a lot of people off, I’d Eurovision dying a slow death because of isreal and ukraine
So basically Zjerm won Semi 1. Beating heavy favourites KAJ and Tommy. Who would have thought.
Albanians are everywhere. While Swedes and Estonians aren’t. Easy peasy if you think one second about it.
The results this year stress more than ever why we need a jury because the common public no nothing and just vote for themselves… diaspora self votes need to stop.
I like both Ukraine’s and Israel’s songs, but neither of them were good enough to win the semi. So yes, I call diaspora voting, especially from Ukraine. I think many people voted for Israel without even watching the contest. The song was worthy of going to the final, but as a ballad not that much better than Greece or France.
Also when I was watching a youtube video yesterday, It showed me the vote for Israel ad about seven or eight times. I think buying youtube ads to win Eurovision is a bit unfair.
People not watching the ESC may affect ROTW vote which has a long voting window, but that’s just 12 points. The rest can only vote during the show, so some ads shown previously will have no impact unless someone makes a note that they need to vote at a certain time, which most people not watching ESC wouldn’t bother to do.
Israel’s result is simply based on sympathy vote, the simplest explanation is the most probable one. After all we saw the same effect with Stefania.
With Stefania, there was actually massive support for Ukraine from all of Europe. If you read any comments, Europe clearly doesn’t like Israel so it can’t be sympathy votes from anyone but their own group. There are also many people in Europe that normally don’t watch or vote, so it’s not just Rest Of The World voting..
Lol, comments on the internet are not representative of the general public opinion. If you look at the actual opinion polls, Europe is much more divided. And remember, you can’t vote against a song so it doesn’t matter how many people hate you as long as enough people support you.
I would argue that the majority of support for Israel is actually a direct result of that “hate” which mobilised the other side.
Needs to be banned
First item on the post-Eurovision agenda is to bring Juries back to the semi finals. Ukraine and Israel can’t just keep winning the televote every year.
How would that change this situation? If Israel can pull top 2 in final, they could pull top 10 in semifinal. And the final would then have the same results as it had yesterday.
Bit they would not win the semifinal
So, Latvia won SF2. I was absolutely sure from day 1 that Tautumeitas would enchant Europe with their beautiful harmonies, mesmerising coordination & movements and mystical chants for happiness. <3
Now that I think about it, Mans would have won this easily. That is the performance juries give 300+ in eurovision
Lol he is cancelled in Sweden now due to his ex-wife suing him for endangerment of their kids and drug use
Can someone do the math how the results would look if Israel wouldn’t be participating? I want to see how the real table would gave looked like without the political voting
Eliminate Ukraine too because that first place in sf1 was down to diaspora self votes
Not possible to know that.
Maybe people who liked Israel and melodious songs with a lovely feeling, would have voted for Italy, or maybe Portugal.
Or people who loved the emotions, would have voted for Greece instead.
But there were also ESC youtubers who had both Israel and Malta in their top, or Netherlands.
You can’t know what all those different people would have voted instead.
Take aways for this
Montenegro may withdraw again after this result
Who saw Georgia getting that many?
The points reflect how wide open the contest was
Juries are needed to balance diaspora. If Ukraine can win the semi with such a weak song and THEY can sweep the board with their burner phones, AI adverts and bots again then the EBU have to admit there’s an issue.
Who saw Latvia beating Finland and Estonia beating Sweden???
Poor Malta and Belgium
Georgia was musical wise one of the best, so it’s no surprise to me. I get why people don’t like it
Azerbaijan last?
That was and is a really catchy song!
In ‘audio-only’-modus and as a whole!
It really bombed live, unfortunately, the vocals were the weakest of the contest if we have to consider each entry’s vocal requirements.
Yeah, I had a feeling it was the last place finisher, either Azerbaijan or Slovenia, but it turned out the land of fire got drenched.
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I posted a laughing smiley (system turned it into an question mark). iow like your funny comment!
WIWI, can you at last update your CMS to one that supports UTF and emojis?
I really likes their video and the song itself, but the live performance wasn’t good.
I call Rigga Morris!
Can anyone believe that Europe would vote en masse for a genocidal country? Is it possible that a country like Spain, and we all know their opinion on this, would give 12 points to the public?
Yes I can believe it because remember: you can’t vote against a country, only for it. So all you need is a small fanatic voting bloc in each country in order to win the televote. The same way Poland wins the televote in Ireland, for instance. I doubt the Irish love that song, but the Polish diaspora does.
Maybe they should add an veto option : D
Please think through the big word you use. It is painfully misplaced.
And let’s respect each other’s choices and preferences in voting, whether they are pro or con to your opinion.
Thank you.
Which word is painfully out of place in your opinion? I hope it’s not genocidal, because you’d have to come from hell not to recognize reality.
It is diaspora though it’s what’s ruining the contest. It’s all the Eastern Europeans they are prolific cheats.
Well yes, I can believe that Europe would vote for a beautiful song, an amazing singer, for a survivor of the most awful terror attack on a music festival, that made it to the biggest stage in Europe. She is an INSPIRATION!!!!
I voted for her. Wonderful song and performance.
So impressed by LATVIA’s result in the semi final, coming 2nd! Such a great outcome!
I say Latvia came 1st, Israel doesn’t really count, so Latvia won the semi, congrats, they did put a spell on Europe, amazing performance.
This show needs a revamp BIG TIME.
It’s a shame that a contest that was originally about getting Western Europeans to interact with each other has become an exercise, first, in diaspora voting and, now, in wartime propaganda. I’d bet that more than half the people voting for Israhell don’t even watch ESC. They just want to infect what used to be a fun, positive competition with their evil agenda.
Amusing watching haters trying to figure out why the world doesn’t agree with them.
This is why juries is needed back in semifinal. To balance. But also so that in final we have more jury songs that can share the love instead of just one song getting all the love
Are you really telling me that Belgium placed 14th, receiving over half of the points from San Marino?? What is going on here. It doesn’t make sense at the slightest
It makes totally sense, Belgia song was VERY strange.. even the song was called strobe lights… It’s worse than Fridge lights or USB-cable…
If you unmuted the song, then it may help clarifying it. You can’t quietly sing with one or two places slightly emphasises and expect more. Sorry – they other artists could be at least audible.
I’m genuinely shocked. I thought it would have finished 11th. But at least it didn’t get zero points, right?
Some of these results are truly absurd… Sweden and Estonia came 4th and 5th in their semi, below the Netherlands. Yet in the final they were 3d and 2nd in the televote, whereas the Netherlands got 42 points. Make it make sense.
This is entirely possible. In the grand final, voters have more options. They might have voted for the Netherlands in the SF, but had an additional 22 to choose from. Voters that are not eligible to vote in SF1 (I.e. voters from 19 countries) might vote for Sweden and Estonia en masse.
Of course it’s possible, but this is quite an extreme turnaround. The same happened to Latvia from semi 2 to the final, btw.
This is crazy! I mean Ukraine winning the Semi, Austria and Estonia being 5th even though they’re quite popular, Belgium being 2nd to last, all crazy. Super happy for Albania and Latvia though!
Ukraine winning the semi is wild, their song was one of the weakest in the semi!
Let’s be real, if people don’t get biased by politics, we can say that Albania and Latvia won their semi and it makes me so happy for those countries and the songs!! Unexpected
Diaspora voting… EBU need to put a stop to it once and for all make voting all app based where you have to submit a passport or driving licence to state your nationality if your voting for your said nationality your vote should be void. Also replicate the same voting principles that are in place for junior Eurovision, so people are limited to voting for only 6 countries at a time at a maximum of only twice.
Honestly, that’s ridiculous. Submitting a driving license for telephone voting in a TV show (!). That’s barely feasible and what if you actually like the song regardless of your nationality?
Well they need to do something to squash eastern European diaspora self votes… they are prolific cheats.
Well would be problematic in Scandinavia many of us don’t have a driving license we have a bicycle lol
Ok, we’re willing to make an exception for Scandinavia, you can submit your bicycle licence ?
I’m glad I’ll be able to vote, but who the hell have a driving licence, I tell you, I’m a bad driver ?
SF2 detailed voting results are delayed because EBU loaded almost all countries giving 12 points to Czechia for some reason. Despite that, most of the information is available.
Thanks
The betting odds vs reality…. Sweden the winner??
Can someone please explain what’s going on with these results? I swear some of it is shady.
Do we need to reintroduce the juries again?
i don’t think it would’ve made much difference. both israel and ukraine would’ve probably qualified even if the juries ranked them out of the top 10.
But it might have balanced the results a bit. I swear this feels like the strategic voting Azerbaijan was accused of in 2011 (at least according to rumours).
but does it really matter? the only important thing in the semis is to qualify. austria was far from winning sf2, and then won the whole thing. still, i’d keep 60×40 public-jury in the semis, cuz there’s always cases like latvia 2023 that shouldn’t happen
Croatia is the only country whose audience gave Is*** zero points. I’ve never felt more proud to be Croatian
Correction – I think Armenia and Poland also gave them 0.
And the pity votes win again…what a surprise!
Latvia and Zjerm coming 2nd in their respective semis has made me so happy
Only because of diaspora self votes votes such as that should be voiding. Eastern Europe are cheats.
Latvia and Albania coming 2nd in their respective semis has made me so happy