Austria wins the 2025 Eurovision song competition with the wasted love of singer JJ
Austria won the 69th edition of the Eurovision Song competition.
The country’s 24 -year -old participant – Johannes Pietsch, known as JJ -, won the total of the public votes of the public and judges with his emotional song on an unrepected love “Loved Love”, moving away with 436 points.
The winner of last year, the non -binary Swiss singer Nemo, was also 24 years old when they won.
Accepting his trophy after the four -hour show, the singer of against -Tenor Queer thanked Europe several times for having “realized my dreams”. Stilling the glass trophy, JJ shared with the crowd: “Love is the strongest force in the world, let’s spread more love.”
Austria won the competition in 2025 by just based on Israel, which finished secondly with 357 points and was represented by Yuval Raphael and his ballad “New Day Will Rise”. The singer looked like the strongest candidate to win while public votes were announced until the last minute.
Switzerland and the United Kingdom have not obtained any public vote. It was the second consecutive year of the United Kingdom with no public, ending in 19th place with 88 votes from judges – just one below Olly Alexander last year, represented by the female trio Remember Monday with their song “What the Hell Hight Tenets?” This year.
Estonian entrance, Tommy Cash, arrived third with 356 points, followed by Swedish Kaj, he first had the first Finnish act to represent Sweden at Eurovision, with 321, and Lucio Corsi of Italy with 256
This year’s competition brought Eurovision to the country where he started in Switzerland. The event took place in St. Jakobshalle Arena in Basel. The show was organized by the German actor, Hazel Brugger, Swiss presenter and participant in the 1991 Eurovision in Switzerland, Sandra Studer and personality of Swiss-Italian television, Michelle Hunziker.
26 countries occurred during this year’s grand finale, after 11 of the 37 countries of participants were eliminated in the semi-finals.
The competition was organized in Switzerland 36 years after welcoming the program for the last time, when Celine Dion won in 1988 as a Swiss participant.
According to the being in the city by several media, including the BBC, many were confident that Dion would make a surprise appearance of the guests, but no performance of this type took place.
Instead, the co-host of the Sandra Studer event sang an interpretation of her entry song from the 1991 competition, “Canzone Per Te”, and the lit arena in hot pink lights sang in Waterloo d’Abba before the last 4 competitors of the Grand Final occur. The show was opened by an electrical performance of their song “Code” by last year winner, Swiss singer Nemo.
