It’s that time of year again: the continent of Europe is about to unite for one week through a shared love of song, dance, and spectacle.
Eurovision 2025 is upon us, and for the fourth year in a row, it’s easier than ever for Americans to tune in from across the pond.
The finals of the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest kicks off soon, so read on for everything you need to know about streaming Eurovision in the United States and all the info on how it works.
The Eurovision 2025 final begins at 3 p.m. ET today, May 17.
Viewers in the United States can stream Eurovision 2025 exclusively on Peacock.
Peacock starts at $7.99/month for ad-supported streaming or $13.99/month for ad-free streaming and local live NBC. You’ll be able to stream Eurovision live with either Peacock plan.
Right now, you can save 68% on a Peacock annual plan, too; down from $79.99/year, you’ll pay just $24.99 for your first year.
These are the 26 countries performing live during the Eurovision final: Norway, Luxembourg, Estonia, Israel, Lithuania, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Austria, Iceland, Latvia, Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Poland, Germany, Greece, Armenia, Switzerland, Malta, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, France, San Marino, and Albania.
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international song competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union.
Each year, the broadcasting union of each participating country chooses a new song (and artist) as their entry for that year’s contest. After two semi-finals, the field is narrowed down to a grand final of 26 countries. Each entry is performed live on stage, and every participating country also gets an opportunity to showcase local culture and landmarks via previously recorded clips that introduce each performance.
Each country’s performance is voted on, and a winner is crowned.
Anything can happen at Eurovision, but we know this: each year, the countries will find a way to one-up themselves with more outrageous performances.
Eurovision always occurs in the country that won the previous year’s contest. Following Nemo’s 2024 victory, Eurovision 2025 will be broadcast live from St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.
It’s Sweden’s third time hosting the song contest. Most recently, the 1989 contest was held in Lausanne, and the very first Eurovision was held in Lugano in 1956.
Eurovision 2025 will be hosted by Swiss television presenters Hazel Brugger, Sandra Studer, and Michelle Hunziker.
The winners of the Eurovision Song Contest are chosen using a positional or ranked, voting system. Each voting body awards 12 points to their favorite act, 10 to their second, and 8-1 to the subsequent vote-getters.
This year, 37 participating countries make up the voting body, and each country awards 12, 10, 8-1 twice; a professional voting jury awards one set, while a country-wide televote awards the second.
Additionally, non-participating countries (aka the rest of the world) can televote — these points are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.
Voting is as dramatic as some of the performances on stage. The jury reveals their votes first, country by country, and then televote totals are revealed in reverse order. This means that a country firmly atop the leaderboard following the jury votes could slip several positions quickly, no leads are safe, and no one has truly won until the last votes are read.
Following these live reveals, the country with the most points is crowned the winner.
Eurovision is not a sport, but it’s treated as such, down to oddsmakers creating betting odds on the winner. The top five odds-on favorites this year, in order, are:
- “Bara Badu Batsu” by KAJ (Sweden)
- “Wasted Love’ by JJ (Austria)
- “Maman” by Louane (France)
- “Ich Komme” by Erika Vikman (Finland)
- “C’Est La Vie” by Claude (Netherlands)
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