Friday, January 10, 2025

Ticket pre-registration closes tonight! 🫢

Today is your last chance to pre-register for tickets to watch the shows in Basel - so sign-up now (and don’t forget to confirm your email address)!

The first wave of ticket sales will go on sale Wednesday 29 January at 10:00 CET but you’ll only be able to access the sale, and importantly any further waves, if you’ve pre-registered with TicketCorner.

Pre-register for the ticket sale now →

Fantastic five already picked for Basel 🇨🇭

🇦🇱 Albania: Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm

You’re not the only one making plans for Basel! Our participating countries have started confirming their artists and songs.

Lithuania, Greece, Luxembourg and Spain have their national finals in January (details here), and five participating countries have already confirmed their artists.

Albania will send Shkodra Elektronike with the song Zjerm; Cyprus picked Theo Evan; Czechia chose ADONXS; Montenegro will present Nina Žižić and her ballad Dobrodošli; and our friends in the Netherlands will champion Claude.

Check out the 2025 calendar →

Would Conchita return to Eurovision? 🇦🇹

"There were protests on Facebook!" - Conchita Wurst on Eurovision 2014

We caught up with Eurovision Legend Conchita Wurst to reminisce about their winning song Rise Like A Phoenix, and to find out if she'd ever consider returning to the competition.

Watch on YouTube now now →

Switzerland in Eurovision 🇨🇭

Switzerland hosted and won the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano, back in 1956. It remains the only Contest where competitors were invited to perform two songs instead of one.

Lys Assia triumphed with the French language song Refrain but it is unknown how her second song, the German language Das alte Karussell, performed with jurors as the points were never revealed.

A second Swiss win happened in Dublin 1988 when a relatively unknown Canadian took the crown in a nail-biting voting sequence; Céline Dion pipped the United Kingdom’s Scott Fitzgerald to victory by a single point with her ballad Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi.

It would take another 36 years for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) to find their third champion; Nemo won Malmö 2024 with their song The Code, which tells the story of coming to terms with their non-binary identity.

Here's everything you need to know about Switzerland →

ESC Retro Merch 🛍

What better way to celebrate Eurovision's return to Switzerland than with a t-shirt showcasing the iconic Lausanne 1989 design! This new addition to the shop is available now!