Let’s find out who are the first ten countries that reach Big Five and Switzerland in the final of Saturday 17 May
From St. Jakobshalle of Basel The first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 was staged tonight, which saw the qualification of First ten countries accessing the final on Saturday 17 May. Even before tonight six countries were qualified, that is i Big Fivethat is to say the nations that founded this event, and the Swiss which is the Host country of this edition. Among the Big Five there is also Italy and in fact our Lucio Corsi is already sure to be in the race on Saturday, but tonight he performed with his I wanted to be a tough together with two other competitors of the Big Five.
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The Big Five of the first evening
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In the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 they performed in everything 18 artists15 in the race and two representatives of as many countries of Big Five plus the representative of the host country. Beyond Lucio Corsi who sang his I wanted to be a toughwe also saw Melody for Spain with ESA Diva And Zoë më with Voyage for the Swiss.
Thursday evening, during the second semifinal, we will see three other representatives of the Big Five, namely Louane with Maman For France, Abor & Tynna with Dancer for Germany and Remember Mondoy with What the hell Just Happened? For the United Kingdom.
Eurovision 2025: semifinal 1, qualified ranking in random order
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At 22:35 the televoting Of the first semifinal, immediately after the last performance that was that of Theo Evan who sang for Cyprus. The vote was closed a few minutes later, at 10:53 pm and decreed what they are The ten countries that qualify for the final. The qualified were communicated in random order, we see who they are discovering the name of the country represented, name of the artist and title of the song:
- NorwayKyle Alessandro with Lighter
- AlbaniaShkodra Elektronike with Zjerm
- SwedenKaj with BADA BADA BASTU
- IcelandVæb with Róa
- NetherlandsClaude with C’est la vie
- PolandJustyna Steczkowska with Gaja
- San MarinoGabry Ponte feat. Andrea Bonomo & Edwyn Roberts with All of Italy
- EstoniaTommy Cash with Stained
- PortugalNapa with Deslocado
- UkraineZiferblat with Bird of pray
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Eurovision 2025: eliminated after the first semifinal
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While St. Marino, Estonia, Norway, Albania, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Ukraine have passed the first semifinal and reach Swiss finals, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain in the final, five countries that performed tonight they have to abandon the Eurovision Song Contest why they did not qualify for the final And therefore we will no longer see them again. These are:
- SloveniaKlemen with How Much Time Do We Have Left
- BelgiumRed Sebastian with Strobe Lights
- AzerbaijanMamagama with Run with u
- CroatiaMarko Bošnjak with Poison Cake
- CyprusTheo Evan with Shh
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