Slovenia will select an artist and a song for Eurovision 2025 via “EMA 2025″.
As it has been revealed by RTV SLO, a total of 114 songs were submitted to the national selection.
“EMA 2025” – Known Details
- The submission window closed on the 25th of November 2024.
- A selection committee will listen to the submitted songs and will shortlist 12 of them.
- The shortlisted artists will be revealed by the 20th of December 2024
- The show will be held on Saturday, the 1st of February 2025, in the format of a TV show.
- The results will be determined by 2 rounds:
- Round 1: 12 artists will compete for 2 spots in the super-final. The results will be based on a 100% jury vote.
- Round 2: The top 2 artists will face a public vote.
- In the final, the 5 jury panels will be involved, each of them consisting of 5 members:
- OGAE Slovenia
- Music Jury
- Television Jury
- Radio Jury
- International Eurovision influencers
- The jury will rank the songs in the range of 1-8, 10, and 12 points.
- The full regulations can be found here
In recent years, Slovenia has used a mixture of internal selection (2021, 2023, 2024) and “EMA” as national selection (2014 – 2020, 2022).
However, earlier in 2024, RTV SLO expressed their willingness to broadcast “EMA 2025”
Raiven represented Slovenia at Eurovision 2024 with the song “Veronika”.
She finished in 23rd place with 27 points
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland on the 13th, 15th and 17th of May 2025
