Recently, Slovenia’s national broadcaster RTVSLO confirmed the return of its national selection. Now the broadcaster has revealed that 114 submissions have been received for EMA 2025.
EMA 2025 set for February 1
From the 114 songs submitted, RTVSLO’s selection committee of at least three members will choose 12 entries to advance to the live final. The acts and their songs for EMA 2025 will be officially announced no later than December 20. During the live Grand Final on February 1 two rounds of voting will take place. In the first round there will be five juries. Each jury will comprise five people. The categories of the jury panel are:
- Music jury
- Television jury
- Radio jury
- OGAE Slovenia
- International Eurovision influencer jury
The top two from the jury scores will advance to the super-final. In the second phase of voting, only 100% public televoting will decide the winner of EMA 2025 who will represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 to be held in Basel, Switzerland next May.
Coming back after two years of absence
EMA (short for Evrovizijska Melodija, “Eurovision Song”) has been the national selection for most of Slovenia’s participations in the contest, selecting the country’s entry almost every year since 1996. The only exceptions have been the 2012 Misija Evrovizija selection, an internal selection in 2013 (due to financial and time issues, the country being close to withdrawing), and the re-selection of Ana Soklič in 2021 after the cancellation of the main contest in 2020.
For 2023, however, RTVSLO internally selected the band Joker Out after early discussions with artists, despite plans to go through the national selection process again. Last year, Raiven was selected in a similar manner to go to Malmö. Misija Evrovizija came back each year as a “showcase” show to present the song to viewers on TV.
This makes “Disko” by LPS, the 2022 entry, the last song to be sent through EMA.
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