The selection season is almost over, and will end with three finals tonight, spread across Europe, in Sweden, San Marino and Portugal.
🇸🇪 Sweden – Melodifestivalen – Final
When?
20:00 CET, until 22:00 CET
Where?
- Online, on SVT Play
- Physically, at the Strawberry Arena, Stockholm
Who?
Twelve songs will compete in the final of Melodifestivalen, with the top two qualifiers of each previous heat, as well as the two qualifiers from the Final Qual round of last week. According to odds and community discourse, this is shaping up to be a battle between Måns Zelmerlöw’s “Revolution” and KAJ’s “Bara bada bastu” for the win.
The acts will compete in the following running order:
- John Lundvik – “Voice of the Silent“
- Dolly Style – “Yihaa“
- Greczula – “Believe Me“
- Klara Hammarström – “On and On and On“
- Scarlet – “Sweet N’ Psycho“
- Erik Segerstedt – “Show Me What Love Is“
- Maja Ivarsson – “Kamikaze Life“
- Meira Omar – “Hush Hush“
- Måns Zelmerlöw – “Revolution“
- Saga Ludvigsson – “Hate You So Much“
- Annika Wickihalder – “Life Again“
- Kaj – “Bara bada bastu“
The evening will be hosted, once again, by Keyyo and Edvin Törnblom.
In terms of interval acts, 2024 runner-up Medina will perform a special version of “Genom Eld Och Vatten”, a Melodifestivalen 2003 hit by Sarek, which will be inducted into the Melodifestivalen Hall of Fame on the same evening.
Format
After using televote only in its heats, Melodifestivalen will add international juries to the final, for a classic 50/50 split.
Eight international juries will give points in the Eurovision scale, 1-to-8-10-12. For the public, app votes will be divided into seven age groups, which will give points in the same way. An eighth group of public votes will come from those who vote using phone calls instead of the app.
🇸🇲 San Marino – San Marino Song Contest 2025 – Final
When?
20:30 CET, until 00:30 CET approximately
Where?
- Online on SM RTV
- Physically, at the Teatro Nuovo, San Marino
Who?
Twenty acts will perform in this final show, coming from seven different countries. They are, in the order in which they were revealed during last week’s press conference:
- 🇮🇹 Bianca Atzei – “Testacoda“
- 🇦🇱 Besa – “Tiki Tiki“
- 🇮🇹 Boosta – “BTW“
- 🇮🇹 Vincenzo Capua – “Sei sempre tu“
- 🇮🇹 Pierdavide Carone – “Ma vuoi sposare?“
- 🇮🇹 Marco Carta – “Solo fantasia“
- 🇮🇹 Luisa Corna – “Il giorno giusto“
- 🇸🇪 Curli – “Juliet“
- 🇮🇹 Elasi – “Lorella“
- 🇮🇹 Haymara – “Tómame las manos“
- 🇸🇮 King Foo – “The edge of the world“
- 🇸🇲 Paco – “Until the end“
- 🇮🇹 Gabry Ponte – “Tutta l’Italia“
- 🇮🇹 Questo e quello – “Bella Balla“
- 🇮🇹 Silvia Salemi – “Coralli“
- 🇧🇪 Angy Sciacqua – “I“
- 🇮🇹 Taoma – “NPC“
- 🇺🇦 Teslenko – “Storm“
- 🇮🇹 The Rumpled – “You get me so high“
- 🇮🇹 Giacomo Voli – “Ave Maria“
Flora Canto and Francesco Facchinetti will host the evening.
La Rappresentante di Lista (Sanremo 2021 and 2022), and Senhit (San Marino 2020 and 2021) will be special guests, with Senhit set to perform her 2021 entry “Adrenalina” and her latest single “Dangerous”.
Format
The winner will be determined by a jury vote only, SM RTV having been unable to set up a televote for this edition.
The jurors will be:
- Luca De Gennaro (DJ)
- Roberto Sergio (Director of SMRTV)
- Federica Gentile (TV and radio hosts)
- Ema Stockholma (singer-songwriter)
- Mario Andrea Ettore (Marketing manager at SIAE, the Italien Society of Authors and Editors)
Along with the winner, the jury will also award special prizes to different entries, similar to the Sanremo Festival special prizes/awards like the Mia Martini Award of Critics.
🇵🇹 Portugal – Festival da Canção 2025 – Final
When?
22:05 CET, until 01:45 CET approximately
Where?
- Online on RTP1
- Physically, at the RTP studios, Lisbon
Who?
Twelve acts will perform in this grand final, in the following running order.
- Bombazine – “Apago tudo“
- Margarida Campelo – “Eu sei que o amor“
- Henka – “I Wanna Destroy U“
- Bluay – “Ninguém“
- Jéssica Pina – “Calafrio“
- Marco Rodrigues – “A Minha Casa“
- Napa – “Deslocado“
- Peculiar – “Adamastor“
- Fernando Daniel – “Medo“
- Emmy Curl – “Rapsódia da Paz“
- Josh – “Tristeza“
- Diana Vilarinho – “Cotovia“
Filomena Cautela will host the Final, along with Vasco Palmeirim. Filomena was also one of the host of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon.
Format
As in previous years, RTP will use a 50/50 split of televoting and regional juries (from Portugal’s seven regions) to determine the final rankings of the Festival.
The song with the most jury points will earn 12 points, the runner-up 10 points, then 8, 7, 6…etc. on the Eurovision scale. The same will apply to the televote. With a system that scales down the final points to two ESC style scores, the potential for a tie for first place is strong. In this case, the song with the most televote points would win.
What will you be watching tonight? Who do you think will win in each selection? And how do you feel about the season, as the last Super Saturday comes to an end? Tell us more in the comments below or on social media at @escxtra!
