For the 7th year in a row, Croatia will select its Eurovision entry via the music festival “Dora”.
24 artists will compete in the national selection in the following running order:
Semi-Final 1 (27 February 2025)
- Matt Saft – “Welcome to the Circus”
- Jelena Radan – “SALUT!”
- Nipplepeople – “Znak”
- Swingers –”Ful Kul” (Eng: Fool Cool)“
- Marta May – “Running to the Light”
- LELEK – “The Soul of my Soul”
- TTeenah – “Aurora”
- IVXN – “Monopol”
- Marko Tolja – “Through the Dark”
- Magazin – “AaAaA”
- Natally – “Dom si srcu mom”
- EoT – “Bye, Bye, Bye”
Semi-Final 2 (28 February 2025)
- laurakojapjeva – “NPC”
- Marko Škugor – “Šta da Boga molim ja”
- Fenksta – “Ekstra“
- Marin Jurić Čivro – “Gorjelo je”
- Filomena – “Strong”
- Supersonic Trio – “Animal”
- Irma – “Enigma”
- Luka Nižetić – “Južina”
- Ananda – “Lies Lay Cold”
- Marko Bošnjak – “Poison Cake”
- Petar Brkljačić – “Kraj”
- Ogenj – “Daj, daj”
Playlist:
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AppleMusic
YouTube Playlist
In addition, HRT revealed the full details and format:
“Dora 2025” – Known Details
- Barbara Kolar and Duško Ćurlić will host the shows
- “Dora 2025” will feature 3 shows:
- Semi-Final 1: Thursday, February 27th 2025
- Semi-Final 2: Friday, February 28th 2025
- Grand Final: Sunday, March 2nd 2025
- In addition, 2 special non-competitive shows will be broadcast:
- “The Blue Carpet” – Welcoming all the artists (February 26th)
- “Opatija bajna” – Special tribute to the city of Opatija and traditional music from 1960 (March 1st)
- “Dora 2025” winner will be selected by combining an expert jury and a public vote.
- The voting format for the semi-finals will be based on the following mechanism:
- 12 artists will compete in each semi-final, and 8 of them will make it to the final.
- The semi-final results will be based on a 100% public vote.
- The voting format for the final will be:
- 16 artists will compete in the final. The results will be based on a 50% jury votes and a 50% public vote
- The jury will feature 8 different jury panels, each of them consisting 3 members.
- 4 jury panels will be national jury: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, and Osijek
- An additional 4 jury panels will be international juries from Armenia, Finland, Slovenia, and Spain
- The jury votes and public votes will add up to the same amount of points, so the votes will be based on a proportional system
- Each of the shows will see special guests who will perform their songs:
- Nina Badrić (Croatia, Eurovision 2012) – Semi-Final 1
- Alessandra (Norway, Eurovision 2023) – Semi-Final 2
- Baby Lasagna (Croatia, Eurovision 2024) – Final
Croatia was allocated to perform in the second half of semi-final 1.
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland, on the 13th, 15th, and 17th of May 2025
