The preview parties, interviews and rehearsals are all done. Who is qualifying and who is not? Here we asked the audience what they think about how each song will perform, and present how the results have changed over the last few weeks of performances and canvassing.
Join Dude Points as she chats with some of the artists performing in Semi Final 1; featuring Portugal’s Napa, Norway’s Kyle Alessandro, Croatia’s Marko Bošnjak, and a bonus interview with the United Kingdom’s Remember Monday.
All the songs, all the numbers, the history, and some opinions as well. Download your guide to 2025’s Eurovision Song Contest from ESC Insight.
Basel welcomes Eurovision into the heart of the city, and Dudepoints was by the turquoise carpet with camera in hand!
The Basel Press Centre will host just 1,000 accredited media. That’s fewer than Tallinn in 2002. Even as digital interest soars in the Song Contest, the media footprint has shrunk further. How does this impact on the way the storytelling of the Song Contest is told today?
Fin Ross Russell, Dude Points, Martin Bishop and Anton Rasegård sit down to make some predictions ahead of Basel 2025. Which slow songs will cut through the noise? Whose path to qualifying is linked to being “straight man music”? Who is their surprise unanimous prediction to win the whole thing?
