RTVSLO, the Slovenian broadcaster, has released today the songs for their national final EMA 2025. 12 songs will compete for the right to represent Slovenia at Eurovision, with the final a week from today, on Saturday 1st February.
Listen to the 12 songs in EMA
- Anna – “Čau“
- Zven – “Divja“
- PolarAce – “Kind“
- Astrid and the Scandals – “Touché“
- Jon Vitezič – “Vse ti dam“
- Kiki – “O-ou!“
- Eva Pavli – “Niti“
- Klemen – “How Much Time Do We Have Left“
- July Jones – “New Religion“
- Žan Videc – “Pusti da gori“
- Trine – “Grace“
- Rai – “Frederick’s Dead“
All songs can be found at the following link: https://365.rtvslo.si/oddaja/ema/484
The above is listed in running order.
Known artists include Jon Vitezič and July Jones, who both attempted to represent Slovenia in 2022. Another artist, Klemen, is a well known within Slovenia as an actor, impersonator, singer and TV host, hosting several editions of EMA in the past.
The songs were revealed over the course of this evening on a show hosted by RTVSLO, they played clips and interviewed the artists.
A single show; the details of the selection next Saturday
RTV SLO has internally selected Slovenia’s entry for the last two years (Joker Out in 2023, and Raiven in 2024). Earlier this season, they announced the return of EMA for Basel 2025, although in a lighter format than the previous editions, which followed a pre-selection show in several rounds, EMA Freš.
This time, the selection will consist of a single show, a final, in which all twelve artists will compete, over two rounds.
- In the first round, five juries of five members each will award points to their top 10 songs, in the Eurovision style (1-to-8-10-12), each jury representing a certain category of individuals interested in the selection process:
- A music professionals jury
- A television jury (TV hosts, editors, directors, etc.)
- A radio jury (radio hosts, journalists, etc.)
- An OGAE Slovenia jury (the “official” Eurovision fanclub in Slovenia)
- An international “Eurovision influencer” jury (online journalists, fan media, bloggers/vloggers, etc.)
- The top 2 songs of the jury vote will head to the second round, a superfinal held on the same show, where the televote alone will decide on the winner
The show will take place on February 1st, the first “Super Saturday” of the 2025 season. On the same evening will also be broadcast the finals of Eurosong (Belgium) and Benidorm Festival (Spain), as well as the semi-final of Supernova (Latvia), the 4th heat of Eurovizija.LT (Lithuania) and the first show of Melodifestivalen (Sweden).
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