For the second to last weekend of national selections of the 2025 season, we are once again facing a lighter “Super” Saturday, with two finals and two qualifying rounds.
🇩🇰 Denmark – Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025 – Final
When?
20:00 CET, until 22:00 CET
Where?
- Online, on DR1
- Physically, at the Boxen, Herning
Who?
Eight songs will compete to represent Denmark at Eurovision in Basel. This is the only show of the selection, with no previous semifinals.
They will perform in the following running order:
- Mariya – “I Belong To Me“
- Tim Schou – “Proud“
- Max Ulver – “Supernova“
- Hervé Toure – “Allez allez“
- Maria Mathea – “Air“
- Adel the Second – “The Unluckiest Boy Alive“
- Sissal – “Hallucination“
- Andreas Kruse – “Hear My Prayer“
The evening will be hosted by Sara Bro and Stéphanie Surrugue.
Format
The selection will use a system similar to the one used in previous years in Denmark.
A first round will see three songs qualify to the super-final. Scores will then be reset and start again for the super-final. Both rounds will use a 50/50 split between jury and televote (app and texts), with the first round televote being open since February 24th.
🇩🇪 Germany – Chefsache ESC 2025 – Final
When?
20:15, until 23:20
Where?
As planned in the new collaboration between the private and public broadcasters, private network RTL hosted the heats and qualifications of ESC Chefsache 2025, while the final is broadcast by the public broadcaster ARD.
Who?
Nine acts have qualified from last week’s semi-final, and will perform their Eurovision song again, as well as a cover song, in tonight’s final. They will likely perform in the following running order* (with their Eurovision song listed):
- The Great Leslie – “These days“
- Benjamin Braatz – “Like You Love Me“
- Leonora – “This Bliss“
- Feuerschwanz – “Knightclub“
- Moss Kena – “Nothing can stop love“
- Abor & Tynna – “Baller“
- Cosby – “I’m Still Here“
- Lyza – “Lovers on Mars“
- Julika – “Empress“
The show will be hosted by Barbara Schöneberger.
*the running order has not yet been confirmed by Germany’s broadcaster, but the esc.vote interface puts the acts in this order and describe it as the “order of appearances”.
Format
The winner will be selected in two round.
First round – Jury qualifiers
In the first round, after having watched the nine artists perform their Eurovision act and their cover, the jury alone will select five qualifiers for the next round.
The jury of this round will consist of :
- Stefan Raab (Germany 2000, TV host and producer, in charge of the selection)
- Yvonne Catterfeld (singer-songwriter)
- Nico Santos (singer-songwriter)
- Conchita Wurst (winner of Eurovision 2014 for Austria)
Second vote – Televote winner
After the reveal of the five qualifiers, voting lines will open for approximately 25 minutes, and will include calls, SMS, as well as online voting through the Eurovision plateform esc.vote ; this will mark the second selection of the year using Eurovisions’s platform, after the Luxembourg Song Contest. Online voting will be open to international voters.
In this round, the jury will have no say, and the televote alone will determine the winner.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Melodifestivalen – Heat 5
When?
20:00 CET, until 21:30 CET for the Heat
Where?
- Online, on SVT Play
- Physically, at the Husqvarna Garden, in Jönköping
Who?
Six songs will compete in the fifth heat of Melodifestivalen, competing for two direct spots to the final (“direkt till finalen”). The show will see the return, for a seventh participation, of 1993 Melodifestivalen winner and Eurovision Swedish entrant Arvingarna ; as well as the second participation in a row of Scarlet, who reached the Final Qualifiers’ stage last year.
The acts will compete in the following running order:
- Arvingarna – “Ring baby ring“
- Arwin – “This Dream of Mine“
- Saga Ludvigsson – “Hate You So Much“
- Victoria Silvstedt – “Love It!“
- Vilhelm Buchaus – “I’m Yours“
- Scarlet – “Sweet N’ Psycho“
The evening will be hosted by Keyyo and Edvin Törnblom.
Format
Melodifestivalen only uses the televote in its heats. The top two entries will qualify directly to the final (in five weeks), and the song coming in third position will go to the “Final Qual” wildcard round (the most recent version of the “Andra chansen”/second chance round), which will take part directly after the heat.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Melodifestivalen – Final Qual
When?
21:30 CET, until 22:00 CET for the Heat
Where?
- Online, on SVT Play
- Physically, at the Husqvarna Garden, in Jönköping
Who?
Five songs will be part of the Final Qual round, but only four will compete in a voting round. These are the five songs that came third in each previous heat. These are:
- Meira Omar – “Hush Hush“
- Kaliffa – “Salute“
- Dolly Style – “Yihaa“
- Ella Tiritiello – “Bara du är där“
- Third-ranked song of Heat 5, held right before
This section will also be hosted by Keyyo and Edvin Törnblom.
Format
In this special section, there will be an automatic qualifier, then a round of voting to determine a second one.
- Before any vote takes place, SVT will reveal which “third” act got the most votes in its heat, and this “best third place” will qualify for the final
- To compare entries that performed on different nights, the votes will be converted into a score relative to the number of voters: for example, a song that earned 1,000,000 votes in a heat with 500,000 voters will receive a score of 2 (1,000,000/500,000) while a song that earned the same number of votes, with only 400,000 voters, would receive a higher score of 2.5 (1,000,000/400,000).
- These scores will then be used to give points to each entry, by using a scale of 1,000 points (for example, if a song’s score represents 30% of the sum of all five scores, it will get 30% of 1,000 meaning 300p)
- The last four acts will have a quick replay, and the televote will be opened to select one last qualifier
- The televote will be transformed into points, on a scale of 800 (ie. 25% of the votes = 200p), and added to points calculated from the first round score
- Originally, both rounds were to be calculated on a scale of 1,000 but some criticised the system as unfair. Indeed, that system would give more weight to the second round. Indeed, with the best song of Round 1 not going to round 2, the points carried from the first round would not add up to 1,000. For example, assuming the top song in round 1 had scored 220p, then the four remaining songs would share 780p from the first round, and 1,000p from the second, giving it more weight.
🇵🇹 Portugal – Festival da Canção 2025 – Semi-final 2
When?
22:00, until 01:00
Where?
- Online on RTP1
- Physically, at the RTP studios, Lisbon
Who?
Ten acts will perform in this second semi-final, in the following running order.
- A Cantadeira – “Responso à Mulher“
- Tota – “á-tê-xis“
- Bombazine – “Apago tudo“
- Emmy Curl – “Rapsódia da Paz“
- Inês Marques Lucas – “Quantos Queres“
- Fernando Daniel – “Medo“
- Luca Argel ft. Pri Azevedo – “Quem foi“
- Napa – “Deslocado“
- Diana Vilarinho – “Cotovia“
- Henka – “I Wanna Destroy U“
After an all-male hosting last week, Portugal will switch to a female duo, with Tânia Ribas de Oliveira and Sónia Araújo hosting the evening.
Format
Six acts will qualify, through a two-round system:
- In the first round, a 50/50 mix of televote and jury will select five first qualifiers
- In the second round, a single, sixth finalist will be selected by a single new round of televote
The jury will be composed of seven members, with a few familiar faces for Eurovision fans:
- Iolanda (who won the Festival last year, representing Portugal in Malmö 2024)
- Miguel Ribeiro (lead and guitarist of The Happy Mess, competed at the 2023 Festival)
- Kady (singer-songwriter from Cape Verde, competed at 2020 Festival)
- Tiago Nacarato (singer-songwriter, co-writer of Passe-Partout for the 2020 Festival)
- Fábia Rebordão (singer-songwriter, writer of Pontas soltas for Jonas at the 2022 festival)
- Margarida Pinto Correira (actor, journalist and podcaster)
- Martim Sousa Tavares (orchestra director and music composer)
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