ERR the national broadcaster of Estonia has confirmed that a total of 175 songs have been submitted for Eesti Laul 2025, taking place on February 15
Submission window for Eesti Laul 2025 closes
Following the closure of the submission window, ERR has teased what we can expect from next years’ edition of Eesti Laul 2025. Among the 175 submissions competing to represent Estonia in Basel, Switzerland next May are; 65 entries in Estonian and 110 entries in foreign languages. These languages include English, Italian, French and German. Many famous names have applied, as well as some newcomers to the Estonian music scene.
Meanwhile, Riin Vann the producer of Eesti Laul has teased there are submissions from Norway, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Malta, Spain, Turkey, the US, Britain, Latvia, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Croatia and Lithuania. So far, Tommy Cash and Ant Nurhan have confirmed they submitted entries for Eesti Laul 2025.
“We welcome all the artists in the competition, this year’s Eesti Laul is more international than ever. Especially I’m excited to have talented young newcomers, as well as famous artists. After all, we still hope this competition will set the stage for a career at home or flying to the top of the world. What’s certain is that the music scene is 175 songs richer, and that’s what we’re doing in this competition!”
Karmel Killandi, (Head of Entertainment Programming, ERR)
Artists, composers and song titles will be released by ERR in November. The chosen songs will be officially released on December 6. Artists are forbidden from revealing their entries before this date. Fifteen entries will be selected by a pre-jury who will remain anonymous until after selection and will listen to the songs blind, with no knowledge of names involved or song titles. In the event that a competing entry does not comply with the regulations, two back-up songs will be selected in reserve. In a twist, one ‘popular vote’ wildcard will be added to the selection. This will be chosen no later than January 6 2025 to round off a sixteen song Grand Final taking place February 15 2025.
Eesti Laul 2025 format
Since 2009 Estonia has used the Eesti Laul national final to select its representatives. Following a series of changes in recent years, including the introduction of quarter-finals and last years’ Automatic Qualifiers. This year, the competition takes a back-to-basics approach. It is out with the Semi-Finals and instead ERR are keeping it simple with a traditional one-show, winner takes all, Grand Final that will feature 15 pre-selected entries and 1 ‘popular vote’ wildcard for a total of 16 songs.
The Grand Final will take place on February 15 2025 and will retain the usual structure. During the live Final there will be two rounds of voting. The first round will determine the acts in the ‘Super Final’ and is decided by the combination of 50% jury voting and 50% public voting. During the Super Final, the winner of Eesti Laul 2025 and Estonian representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is chosen by 100% televoting.
Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Back in 1994 Estonia made their Eurovision debut in Dublin with Silvi Vrait and the entry, ‘Nagu merelaine‘. During the contest the Baltic nation placed 24th with just 2 points. Despite the early setback, Estonia have achieved ten top ten results in total. Their best result came with Estonia’s only win in 2001. In Copenhagen the collective of Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL scored victory with 198 points for ‘Everybody‘.
Last year the Estonian public chose 5Miinust and Puuluup through Eesti Laul 2024. During the Malmö contest, they scored a total of 37 points, resulting in 20th place. Thus, extending Estonia to their joint record three qualifications in a row in the Semi-Final era of the contest.
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