It’s that time again…here’s this year’s ‘Eurovision Fortune Feed’ where Austria’s JJ pulled off a stunning win to defeat Israel and Estonia. With plenty of colour, characters, and comedy here’s a quick summary of all the need-to-know action, results and details. All brought to you by your mates at Joe Fortune with our unique Aussie look at what went on…
Eurovision 2025
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest was the 69th version of the comp, and was held in Basel, Switzerland. The event was broadcast by the European Broadcasting Union and shown on SBS. The pre-event favourite was Sweden with its act KAJ singing all about the fun you can have whilst taking a sauna. However, it was the semi-operatic singer JJ who dominated both the judges panel and public vote to win the contest for Austria for the third time.
Yay to JJ
Austria’s victory at Eurovision 2025 came by way of 24-year-old Austrian Filipino act JJ, whose real name is Johannes Pietsch. In scoring 436 points, JJ topped the leaderboard with his emotional breakup ballad Wasted Love. A high-octane pop music-opera tune that launches into an explosive techno finale. Any of you fans of The Voice UK might have recognised JJ who performed in the show in 2020.
Born in Vienna and raised in Dubai, JJ brought impressive vocals and plenty of flair to the stage, securing Austria its latest Eurovision crown in spectacular style. Israel’s New Day Will Rise, performed by Yuval Raphael, which sounded like the theme to a James Bond film came second ahead of Estonia’s very lively Tommy Cash who finished third with Espresso Macchiato.
Eurovision 2025 – Top 13 Results
1st Austria | Wasted Love – JJ | 436 points
2nd Israel | New Day Will Rise – Yuval Raphael | 357 points
3rd Estonia | Espresso Macchiato – Tommy Cash | 356 points
4th Sweden | Bara Bada Bastu – KAJ | 321 points
5th Italy | Volevo Essere un Duro – Lucio Corsi | 256 points
6th Greece | Asteromáta – Klavdia | 231 points
7th France | Maman – Louane | 230 points
8th Albania | Zjerm – Shkodra Elektronike | 218 points
9th Ukraine | Bird of Pray – Ziferblat | 218 points
10th Switzerland | Voyage – Zoë Më | 214 points
11th Finland | Ich Komme – Erika Vikman | 196 points
12th Netherlands | C’est La Vie – Claude | 175 points
13th Latvia | Bur Man Laimi – Tautumeitas | 158 points
Eurovision 2025 – Bottom 13 Results
14th Poland | Gaja – Justyna Steczkowska | 156 points
15th Germany | Baller – Abor & Tynna | 151 points
16th Lithuania | Tavo Akys – Katarsis | 96 points
17th Malta | Serving – Miriana Conte | 91 points
18th Norway | Lighter – Kyle Alessandro | 89 points
19th United Kingdom | What The Hell Just Happened? – Remember Monday | 88 points
20th Armenia | Survivor – Parg | 72 points
21st Portugal | Deslocado – Napa | 50 points
22nd Luxembourg | La Poupée Monte le Son – Laura Thorn | 47 points
23rd Denmark | Hallucination – Sissal | 47 points
24th Spain | Esa Diva – Melody | 37 points
25th Iceland | Róa – Væb | 33 points
26th San Marino | Tutta l’Italia – Gabry Ponte | 27 points
Italy Objects to Espresso
The evening wasn’t without some controversy as the crazy Estonian performance certainly didn’t go down too well with many people in Italy or with some Italians from around the world. Estonia’s Tommy Cash certainly left a mark at Eurovision 2025, whether people loved him or just didn’t know what it was that hit them. The 33-year-old singer and visual artist took to the stage with his eccentric dance-pop track Espresso Macchiato, a mad performance that featured a fake fan invasion, a surprise dance break, and a giant Tommywood sign and dancing plane lighting up the screen behind him.
Tommy Cash-es In
Whilst he finished third, Tommy has dead set got people talking and writing about his Espresso Macchiato performance. His song, packed with over-the-top Italian clichés with spaghetti references and lines about sweating like a mafioso was comical but didn’t go down well with Italians who lodged a complaint.
Tommy shrugged off the controversy by saying “I see only the love“, he said, claiming many Italians he had spoken to had praised the performance and understood it was more a joke about American Italian’s way of life not a dig at Italian culture. Since his breakthrough with Winaloto in 2016, Tommy’s toured the world, modelled at fashion weeks, and exhibited art internationally. You can be sure this won’t be the last time you see or hear about him!
No Go-Jo
Our Aussie entry Go-Jo copped a hard not this year mate from the Eurovision judges, as he crashed out and didn’t make the Grand Final. His cheeky tune Milkshake Man, a racy banger all about love and shaking what your mum gave you didn’t quite stir the international crowd. Whilst Go-Jo brought swagger and energy sadly the Euro voters couldn’t froth at him being part of the 26-country final.
Iceland Frozen Out
In what was something of a surprise, Iceland, which is well-known for being huge fans of the competition, had a bit of a shocker this year. As it failed to get a single point from the judges this year. Væb, the excitable Icelandic electronic music duo performed its song Róa, finished in 25th spot.
Pointless Poms
Whilst the Poms didn’t finish last this time around it was funny to yet again see them struggle as when it came to the public vote, as for the second year in a row it got no points at all. Fortunately for the UK entry, Remember Monday, the female trio still placed 19th with 88 points, this was down to some very generous scoring by judging panels from around Europe!
Eurovision 2026
So, another Eurovision has been and gone, and here in Australia we will need to do better to try and qualify for the finals night next year. As Austria had the winning performance, the 70th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Vienna.
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