at Eurovision 2025, who are the last ten qualified after the second semi-final? – release

After A first semi-final rather in the restraintthe second evening of the competition, this Thursday, May 15, stimulated more viewers. With great reinforcement of images of storms of all kinds, multicolored bodysuits or cameo from France Gall, the program has chained the performance of candidates. At the end of this second semi-final, only ten countries qualified in the sixteen in competition: Armenia, Austria with the favorite JJ and its drifting boat, Denmark, Finland and its XXL micro, Greece, Israel with his song New Day Will RiseLatvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta.

Six others have seen their journey stop net at the announcement of the results: Australia and its giant milk-shake, Georgia, Ireland, Montenegro, Serbia and the Czech Republic. For their part, Germany and the United Kingdom, qualified automatically because it is one of the biggest financial contributors, were also able to go on stage. Just like France and the singer Louane. Viewers were able to discover the artist’s performance for the first time. Orchestrated by the choreographer Fredrik Rydman, at the origin of two victorious performances, the staging drops a fine rain of sand around Louane, like a giant hourglass, thus evoking the passing time – tribute to her mother for whom she sings in Mom. His performance was warmly applauded in the Halle Saint-Jacques de Basel. Enough to augur a good result in the final, this Saturday, May 17.

After passing on stage of all candidatesthe animators Hazel Brugger, sent to report in a festival for sixties, and Sandra Studer occupied the viewers – notably vacuuming to collect the sand deposited by Louane and offering a Swiss fondue to the Finnish candidate Erika Vikman. The evening staged a presentation of the Alpine country and its obsession for time, with dancers in tight combis. Several artists, unhappy representatives of the edition canceled by the COVIR, then interpreted their title, who had therefore never walked the Eurovision scene, of which All of My Love Destiny Maltese or Answer me From the Swiss Gjon’s Tears – the singer, in flames on stage, had still participated in the program in 2021 and had ranked third behind Barbara Pravi.

Now qualified, the twenty candidates selected at the end of the two semi-finals are added to the five countries of the Big Five (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) and in Switzerland, host countries. This Saturday, May 17 in Basel, they will follow the performances with the hope of winning the trophy and succeeding the Swiss artist Nemo. For the time being, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands and France are favorites in online betting.