Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
| Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participating broadcaster | Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) | |||
| Country |  Portugal | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Festival da Canção 2025 | |||
| Selection date(s) |
| |||
| Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
| ||||
Portugal will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, which will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The Portuguese participating broadcaster, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), will organise the national final Festival da Canção 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Background
[edit]Prior to the 2025 contest, Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) until 2003, and Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) since 2004, have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Portugal fifty-five times since RTP's first entry in 1964. They had won the contest on one occasion: in 2017 with the song "Amar pelos dois" performed by Salvador Sobral. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the contest in 2004, Portugal has thus far managed to qualify to the final on eight occasions, the latest being in 2024, when "Grito" performed by Iolanda ultimately placed 10th in the final.[1]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTP organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster had traditionally selected its entry for the contest via the music competition Festival da Canção, with exceptions in 1988 and 2005 when the entries were internally selected. RTP confirmed its participation in the 2025 contest on 14 August 2024, announcing the organisation of the 59th Festival da Canção in order to select its 2025 entry.[2][3]
Before Eurovision
[edit]Festival da Canção 2025
[edit]The 2025 edition of Festival da Canção will take place between February and March 2025 at the RTP studios in Lisbon and will feature 20 acts competing over two semi-finals and a final.[4] The shows will be broadcast on RTP1, RTP África and RTP Internacional as well as on radio via Antena 1 and online via RTP Play.
Competing entries
[edit]RTP selected 14 entries by direct invitation of composers, and the remaining six from 633 entries received through an open submission window between 14 August and 15 October 2024; selected composers were then required to send the full versions of their entries by 30 November 2024.[4][5]
On 5 November 2024, RTP announced the list of selected composers as well as six of the selected artists.[5]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Selection |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | A Cantadeira | Invited by RTP | |
| Beato | |||
| Bluay | |||
| Bombazine | |||
| Capital da Bulgária | TBA | Capital da Bulgária | Open call winner |
| Diana Vilarinho | Diana Vilarinho | ||
| TBA | Emmy Curl | Invited by RTP | |
| Eu.Clides | |||
| Fernando Daniel | |||
| Henka | TBA | Henka | Open call winner |
| Inês Marques Lucas | Inês Marques Lucas | ||
| TBA | Jéssica Pina | Invited by RTP | |
| Josh | TBA | Josh | Open call winner |
| TBA | Luca Argel | Invited by RTP | |
| Marco Rodrigues | |||
| Margarida Campelo | |||
| Os Napa | |||
| Peculiar | |||
| Tiago Sampaio | |||
| Xico Gaiato | TBA | Xico Gaiato | Open call winner |
Semi-finals
[edit]The semi-finals will take place on 22 February and 1 March 2025.[5] In each show, ten entries will compete, with six advancing to the final. The voting will occur in two rounds: a 50/50 combination of votes from an expert jury and a public televote will determine the first five qualifiers, and a second round of televoting will determine the sixth and final qualifier.[4]
Final
[edit]The final will take place on 8 March 2025.[5] The winner will be selected based on the 50/50 combination of votes from seven regional juries (one for each of the regions of Portugal) and from a public televote; in the event of a tie, the public voting would take precedence.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Portugal". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "RTP anuncia participação no Eurovision Song Contest 2025" [RTP announces participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025] (in European Portuguese). RTP. 14 August 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ Granger, Anthony (14 August 2024). "🇵🇹 Portugal: Eurovision 2025 Participation Confirmed as Festival da Canção 2025 Launched". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Festival da Canção 2025 – 59º Festival da Canção – Regulamento" [Festival da Canção 2025 – 59th Festival da Canção – Regulations] (PDF) (in European Portuguese). RTP. 14 August 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d "O Festival da Canção está de volta! Datas e Autores confirmados" [Festival da Canção is back! Dates and composers confirmed] (in European Portuguese). RTP. 5 November 2024. Retrieved 2 December 2024.