Another “hot” Saturday night is expected, tonight, with 4 national finals on its schedule. One of them, first in timeline, is Eesti Laul 2025.
This year, Eesti Laul producers decided to take a completely different approach. As you first read on OGAE Greece ,it was decided to abolish the semi-final round and at the same time increase the number of finalists to 16.
Thus, the country’s national broadcaster ERR, presented us the first 15 finalists – last December – and their announcement was made in two separate parts HERE and HERE.
However, the Estonian audience , exclusively, had the opportunity to award the 16th and final “ticket” for the Eesti Laul 2025 final. Thus, through an online vote conducted among 20 other songs, Marta Lotta with “Tantsin veel” won the public’s preference and at the same time the coveted wildcard.
Also, you can read our exclusive interview with Anna Sahlene, who will compete today with the aim of winning Eesti Laul and get to the Eurovision stage for the second time with Estonia.
THE RUNNING ORDER OF EESTI LAUL 2025
Thus, the 16 candidate songs that will compete tonight, based on their official running order ,are as follows:
- Ant – Tomorrow Never Comes
- Stereo Terror – Pretty Till the End of the World
- Janek – Frozen
- Räpina Jack feat. Kaisa Ling – Tule
- Johanna Elise – Eyes Don’t Lie
- Felin – Solo Anthem
- Elysa – The Last to Know
- Gem98 – Psycho
- An-Marlen – Cold
- Frants Tikerpuu – Trouble
- Anna Sahlene – Love Me Low
- Tuuli Rand – Rem
- Minimal Wind – Armageddon
- Andrei Zevakin feat. Karita – Ma ei tea sind
- Tommy Cash – Espresso Macchiato
- Marta Lotta – I’m still dancing
WHAT ELSE CAN WE EXPECR FROM TONIGHT’S SHOW?
The grand final of this year’s Eesti Laul is expected to start at 18:15 CET. Our hosts for tonight, who will welcome us to the Unibet Arena in Tallinn , will be Ines (singer, representative of Estonia in the 2000 contest) and Põhja-Korea (member of 5miinust).
On the stage that we can see above, last year’s Estonian representatives, 5miinust X Puuluup , will make their appearance, as an opening act. Of course, they will perform “(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi” as well as their new hit titled “Pilates Spiritual Clüb” . Florian Wahl will join them in a performance of his song “Šveits”.
Also, the evening will include a beautiful “marriage” of electronic dance music with classical instruments ,as immediately after the competitive part, the EDM duo Cartoon will “join forces” with the performer Kitty Florentine and the musical ensemble Nordic Pulse in a very promising act.
See this post on Instagram.
Finally, Ines will present us live her brand new single “Viimane Piisk“.
HOW WILL THE FINAL RESULT BE DECICED
As has been the case in recent years, the final result of this year’s Eesti Laul will be decided in two voting phases. In the first phase, the 16 candidate songs will be “jugded” by a jury and the Estonian public combined, at a 50 – 50% rate. In the end, the 3 entries with the most points will advance to the Super Final round.
There, voting starts from scratch with the public determining Estonia’s representative at Eurovision 2025 solely through their vote.
THE LATEST ODDS
There is a clear favorite amongst the bookmakers and it’s Tommy Cash , as his victory is offered at… humiliating odds of 1.15 – 1.18! From there on, chaos ensues, as Ant and Minimal Wind seem to be “fighting” for second place with odds ranging from 10 to 13 .
Thus, this is what bookmakers believe a few – only – hours before the Estonian national final is held is as follows:
HOW TO WATCH THE FINAL OF EESTI LAUL 2025
The grand final will be broadcast on ETV , ETV2 (using sign language), ETV+ . There will be radio coverage via Raadio 2, while online coverage is also offered on ERR.ee.
All you have to do is tune in at 18:15 CET HERE to watch tonight’s show, which will last approximately 3:30 hours .
Which song would you like to win this year’s Eesti Laul and therefore represent Estonia in Basel?
Stay tuned, consistently, to OGAE Greece to be the first to learn all the latest news about Eesti Laul 2025 !
Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest…
- Participating broadcaster: ERR
- Participations: 29 (19 finals)
- Debut: 1994
- Highest placement: 1st (2001)
- Lowest placement: 22nd in the Semi Final (2007)
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