All you need to know about the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

Get ready for glitter, catchy tunes, and a whole lot of excitement - Eurovision 2025 is almost here.

Whether you're a superfan or just love music, here's everything you need to know about the world's biggest song contest.

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When is the Eurovision Song Contest 2025?

This year's Eurovision Grand Final will take place on Saturday 17 May.

It'll be shown on BBC One and iPlayer from 8pm, with millions of people watching in the UK and all over the world.

Ahead of the Eurovision Grand Final on Saturday 17 May, where 26 countries will perform to be crowned the new Eurovision 2025 champion, there are two live semi-finals (Tuesday 13 May and Thursday 15 May) for Eurovision fans to review all 37 countries competing in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Where is the Eurovision Song Contest in 2025?

Basel is the host city for Eurovision 2025

The 2025 contest will be held in Basel, a city in Switzerland. It's the first time Basel has ever hosted Eurovision.

The show will happen in a huge arena called the Jakobshalle, which can fit more than 12,000 fans inside.

Switzerland is hosting this year because a Swiss singer named Nemo won Eurovision in 2024 with a song called The Code.

It's a Eurovision tradition for the winner's country to host the following year.

A recent exception to that rule was when Liverpool in the UK was the host city in 2023, after Sam Ryder finished second in the 2022 contest.

That was because although Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra won the contest that year, the country was unable to host due to the ongoing war with Russia.

Who is representing the UK at Eurovision 2025?

Say hello to Remember Monday.

They're a country-pop girl band made up of three friends: Lauren Burne, Holly Anne-Hull, and Charlotte Steel.

The trio met when they were in sixth form in Farnborough, Hampshire, and some of you might remember them from the TV show The Voice in 2019.

On the show, they were mentored by American singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.

As one of the Big Five countries (United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Italy), the United Kingdom has a guaranteed place in the Grand Final on 17 May, but Remember Monday will still perform for Europe as part of semi-final 2.

Remember Monday: What's the UK's Eurovision song?

Remember Monday will perform a song called 'What the Hell Just Happened?'.

The song includes their famous vocal harmonies, just like the ones they share in their videos on TikTok, where they've had more than 11.3 million likes.

They told the BBC they're "hungry to get a good result".

Last year, representing the UK in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, Olly Alexander finished in a disappointing 18th place with 46 points.

He received a total of 46 points from the jury for his song "Dizzy", but zero points from the public vote.

Eurovision 2025: The Doctor is in the house

In a Doctor Who/Eurovision mashup, Ncuti Gatwa will be the United Kingdom's Eurovision spokesperson delivering the results of the UK's Jury live during the Grand Final.

His appearance during the Eurovision final will come after his own musical adventure as the Doctor, in an episode titled: 'The Interstellar Song Contest' which airs on BBC One, just before Eurovision on Saturday 17 May.

What makes the Eurovision Song Contest special?

Nemo wins Eurovision 2024 in Malmö, Sweden

Eurovision has been going on for 69 years, and it's a chance for different countries across Europe (and beyond, hello Australia) to come together through music.

It's colourful, exciting, and full of amazing performances - often with elaborate dancers, costumes, and props.

Each country sends a song and artist(s), and fans from all over vote for their favourites.

You can't vote for your own country's entry. People in each country can vote for which song they liked best.

The top 10 songs chosen are then awarded points.

The highest score one country can award another is 12 points.

Scores from all the countries are then combined with points from the judges to decide a winner.

How well has the UK done at Eurovision?

Sam Ryder came second in 2023

The UK hasn't won the contest since 1997 - that's 28 years ago - with the song Love Shine a Light, by Katrina and the Waves.

Here's breakdown at how the UK has fared in the final results in the last decade, out of 26 participating countries:

2024: Olly Alexander, Dizzy - 18th place

2023: Mae Muller, I Wrote A Song - 25th place

2022: Sam Ryder, Space Man - 2nd place

2021: James Newman, Embers - 26th place (last)

*2020: Contest cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak

2019: Michael Rice, Bigger than Us, 26th place (last)

2018: SuRie, Storm - 24th place

2017: Lucie Jones, Never Give Up on You - 15th place

2016: Joe and Jake, You're Not Alone - 24th place

2015: Electro Velvet, Still in Love with You - 24th place