Estonia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "", written by Tomas Tammemets and Johannes Naukkarinen, and performed by Tammemets himself under his stage name Tommy Cash. The Estonian participating broadcaster, (ERR), organised the national final 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Background
Prior to the 2025 contest, (ETV) until 2007, and (ERR) since 2008, had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Estonia twenty-nine times since ETV's first entry in , winning the contest with the song "Everybody" performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL. Following the introduction of semi-finals in , Estonia has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final on ten occasions, including , when "(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi" performed by 5miinust and Puuluup ultimately placed 20th in the final.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, ERR organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Since its debut, the Estonian broadcaster had organised national finals that featured a competition among multiple artists and songs in order to select its entry for the contest. The competition has been organised since 2009, and on 16 September 2024, ERR revealed the rules and regulations of the 2025 edition.
Before Eurovision Eesti Laul 2025 2025 was the 17th edition of the national selection , organised by ERR to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition consisted of a 16-song final on 15 February 2025 at the Unibet Arena in Tallinn, and was hosted by Eda-Ines Etti and Karl "Korea" Kivastik. The show was broadcast on (ETV), on ETV2 with Estonian sign language translation and on ETV+ with Russian commentary by Aleksandr Hobotov and Julia Kalenda, via radio on Raadio 2, as well as online at the broadcaster's streaming platform Jupiter and official website err.ee.
Competing entries On 16 September 2024, ERR opened the submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries up until 21 October 2024 through an online upload platform. Each artist and songwriter was only able to submit a maximum of five entries. Foreign collaborations were allowed as long as one of the songwriters was Estonian. A fee was also imposed on songs being submitted to the competition, with €50 for songs in the Estonian language and €100 for songs in other languages; both of the fees were doubled for entries submitted from 19 October 2024. 175 submissions were received by the deadline, of which 65 were in Estonian and the remaining 110 were in English, Italian, German and French. A 34-member jury panel selected 15 finalists and an additional 20 songs for an online wildcard selection from the submissions. Prior to selecting the 20 wildcard entries, ERR requested permission from artists who had submitted songs to participate in the wildcard round, of which 137 (out of 160) submissions agreed to. The rejected 117 submissions were uploaded to the website on 15 December 2024.
One of the finalists, featuring , was announced during the ETV entertainment program on 1 November 2024, while an additional finalist, Tuuli Rand, was announced on 4 November 2024 during the program . The remaining selected finalists were subsequently announced on 4 and 5 November 2024 during . For the online wildcard, the public was able to vote for their favourite entry on the Raadio 2 website between 28 December 2024 and 5 January 2024. The winner, "" performed by , was announced on 6 January 2025 during .
Among the competing artists were previous Eurovision Song Contest entrants Anna Sahlene, who represented , as a finalist as well as Gerli Padar, who represented , and Laura Põldvere, who represented and , as online wildcard entrants. An-Marlen, , , Frants Tikerpuu, Hain Hoppe (member of Räpina Jack), , Joelle, and Tuuli Rand have all competed in previous editions of . Janek's entry was written by Kjetil Mørland, who represented with Debrah Scarlett.
+ Selection jury members Alice Aleksandridi Alika
Andi Aus Andry Padar Anneli Pilpak Gita Siimpoeg Heini Vaikmaa Henri Laumets
Johanna Mängel Jürgen Pärnsalu Jüri Pootsmann
Kohver Kristo Veinberg Maian Kärmas Magnus Müürsepp
Maris Kõrvits Mihkel Mattisen
Pille-Riin Karro Piret Krumm
Saara Pius
Sven Lõhmus Tanja Mihhailova-Saar
Ülar-Johannes Palm +Online wildcard6 January 2025ArtistSongSongwriter(s)Place and Laura Põldvere""2Antsud Metal Project""10""Mart Sander—Carol Suurevälja"Purpose"9Cecilia"Rollercoaster"4Ela""Triin Kadaja—Elina Martinson""Tuuli Pruul—Everfall"Stories We Hold"5Felix Enghult"More than Innocent"—Gerli Padar""—"The Rebel Reborn"3Kozy""—Marianne Leibur"Pluto and Mars"— ""1Merwis""Peter Põder7"Sound of Pines"8Sarah Murray"High on Myself"—Silver Jusilo"Turn Back Time"—Sten-Olle"Noorex"Sten-Olle Moldau—"Butterflies & Bees"6 + 2025 participating entriesArtistSongSongwriter(s)An-Marlen"" Karita""Anna Sahlene"Love Me Low"Ant"Tomorrow Never Comes""The Last to Know""Solo Anthem"Frants Tikerpuu"Trouble"Gem98"Psycho""Frozen"Johanna Elise"Eyes Don't Lie""""Armageddon" ""Stereo Terror"Prty Till the End of the World"Tommy Cash""Tuuli Rand"REM"
Final The final took place on 15 February 2025. Sixteen songs competed during the show and the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a jury (50%) and public televote (50%) determined the top three entries to proceed to the superfinal. In the superfinal, "" performed by Tommy Cash was selected as the winner entirely by a public televote. The jury panel that voted in the first round of the final consisted of Regína Ósk (Icelandic singer), William Lee Adams (American journalist, founder of Wiwibloggs), Juris Matuzelis (Latvian television and entertainment director), (pop music director and journalist at the Lithuanian National Broadcasting), Marvin Dietmann (Austrian television and entertainment director), Ene Rämmeld (Estonian actress), Alexandra Rotan (Norwegian singer) and Victor Crone (Swedish musician). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, host Eda-Ines Etti (who represented ), 5miinust and Puuluup (both of which represented ) with , singer Kitty Florentine, and the bands Cartoon, Dagö and Nordic Pulse performed as interval acts. +Final15 February 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points Votes Points 1 Ant "Tomorrow Never Comes" 32 11 2,887 14 25 5 2 Stereo Terror "Prty Till the End of the World" 17 6 257 2 8 15 3 Janek "Frozen" 58 14 1,393 12 26 4 4 Räpina Jack Kaisa Ling "" 6 2 576 7 9 13 5 Johanna Elise "Eyes Don't Lie" 16 5 455 5 10 12 6 Felin "Solo Anthem" 34 12 626 9 21 6 7 Elysa "The Last to Know" 25 9 600 8 17 8 8 Gem98 "Psycho" 28 10 356 3 13 11 9 An-Marlen "" 68 15 1,811 13 28 3 10 Frants Tikerpuu "Trouble" 20 7 1,389 11 18 7 11 Anna Sahlene "Love Me Low" 15 4 365 4 8 14 12 Tuuli Rand "REM" 3 1 223 1 2 16 13 Minimal Wind "Armageddon" 23 8 462 6 14 9 14 Andrei Zevakin Karita "" 35 13 5,233 15 28 2 15 Tommy Cash "" 75 16 23,625 16 32 1 16 Marta Lotta "" 9 3 1,132 10 13 10 +Superfinal15 February 2025 Artist Song Televote Place An-Marlen "" 3,634 3 Andrei Zevakin Karita "" 4,334 2 Tommy Cash "" 41,414 1 + Song scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" Total 1 "Tomorrow Never Comes" 2 3 6 7 7 7 32 2 "Prty Till the End of the World" 6 6 5 17 3 "Frozen" 10 8 10 10 4 78 1 58 4 "" 1 2 3 6 5 "Eyes Don't Lie" 5 4 7 16 6 "Solo Anthem" 12 4 5 6 2 5 34 7 "The Last to Know" 2 2 1 3 56 6 25 8 "Psycho" 12 6 10 28 9 "" 4 7 7 8 12 1210 8 68 10 "Trouble" 1 1 4 1 103 20 11 "Love Me Low"5 5 3 215 12 "REM" 3 3 13 "Armageddon" 4 3 2 8 1 1 423 14 "" 8 5 8 6 8 35 15 "" 7 10 12 12 10 12 1275 16 ""3 2 4 9
At Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May, and the final on 17 May 2025. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Estonia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.
Estonia qualified for the final, finishing in 5th place with 113 points. During the final, Estonia performed in the 3rd position, following Luxembourg and preceding Israel. In the end Estonia finished in 3rd place with 356 points, finishing in 9th place in the jury voting with 98 points and in 2nd place in the televote with 258 points, their best result since 2002.
Voting
Points awarded to Estonia
+ Points awarded to Estonia (Semi-final 1) Score Televote 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded to Estonia (Final) Score Televote Jury 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points awarded by Estonia
+ Points awarded by Estonia (Semi-final 1) Score Televote 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded by Estonia (Final) Score Televote Jury 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Detailed voting results Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
The following members comprised the Estonian jury:
Ott Lepland (represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012)
Elina Nechayeva (represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018)
Alika was initially supposed to be a juror but her ranking was reportedly removed due to her sharing opinions on several songs online, contravening the rules.
+ Country Televote Rank Points 01 4 7 02 13 03 8 3 04 05 3 8 06 1 12 07 5 6 08 6 5 09 10 1 10 11 11 7 4 12 9 2 13 2 10 14 12 15 14 + Country Jury Televote Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Rank Points Rank Points 01 10 16 23 22 22 12 02 3 17 25 23 13 18 03 04 5 18 7 11 11 9 2 05 24 21 8 10 16 10 1 06 23 10 22 19 23 21 07 12 20 4 20 14 5 6 08 8 7 20 3 6 5 19 09 7 2 5 14 4 7 11 10 17 15 24 21 24 6 5 11 18 9 15 2 8 3 3 8 12 6 11 6 15 10 1 7 4 13 4 1 13 4 2 10 2 10 14 11 22 3 7 7 4 4 7 15 16 3 11 12 9 2 23 16 9 13 16 24 17 8 3 17 22 19 19 8 18 25 18 13 4 17 17 12 17 19 2 5 1 5 1 12 14 20 20 14 12 16 21 24 21 15 24 9 6 15 15 22 19 8 18 25 19 22 23 1 12 14 1 3 8 1 12 24 14 6 2 9 5 6 13 25 21 23 10 13 20 16 26 25 25 21 18 25 20
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