Eurovision 2025: The songs by numbers

With all 37 entries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 now confirmed, it's time to delve into the data and explore the trends shaping this year's competition.

We’ve investigated how the Basel acts compare in terms of total entries, type of acts, language and song titles compared to previous years.

Let’s check out the results!

Total Entries

The 2025 contest maintains the same number of participating countries as the previous two years, with 37 nations competing.

This makes the Eurovision 2025 the third consecutive year to feature one of the smallest fields of the modern era.

Montenegro has made a welcome return after a two-year absence, whereas Moldova – despite initially signalling that they would compete – have withdrawn from the 2025 competition citing financial constraints and the low depth of quality acts for their national selection.

Luxembourg will feature again this year for the second time in a row, after a successful return in 2024 following a 31-year absence from the competition.

Artists

This year's lineup showcases a variety of performers:

• Male solo artists: 13

• Female solo artists: 13

• Duos: 3

• Groups: 8

As in most years, there is a good mix of the types of acts with Male and Female solos equally leading the way (13), followed by Groups (8), then Duos (3). This year there are no non-binary acts performing.

We did determine San Marino’s Gabry Ponte to be a group even though his two vocalists are not credited, as the singers have been confirmed to appear on stage with him.

Female solo acts usually dominate in number at Eurovision, having topped the Male solo acts numbers in 9 of the previous 10 editions.

However, this year not only do we see a resurgence in Male act popularity, but we also see a tie in numbers at 13 acts apiece.

After dropping off the cliff in 2024, Groups have made a resurgence to sit at 8 acts this year.

Current favourites Kaj from Sweden lead the Groups pack – could we see a group win Eurovision for the first time since 2021’s Måneskin?

Groups have increased in 2025 but Duos have dropped off in a big way, down to 3 acts this year.

Only Albania, Germany and Iceland are represented by Duos this year.

Languages Other Than English

For the first time since the reintroduction of a free choice of language in 1999, the majority of Eurovision 2025 entries are performed in or feature national languages. English is no longer the dominant language at Eurovision.

Of the 37 songs competing, 22 are sung in at least one of the country's official languages. For our list, we have only included songs with more than 50% of their lyrics not in English.

This means that Australia’s Go-Jo doesn’t feature in the list, as Milkshake Man only includes a tiny snippet of French – not enough to make the languages-other-than-English cut.

For similar reasons, Israel does not feature in the list despite including French and Hebrew lyrics, as the majority of the song is in English.

2025 also marks three interesting native-language milestones: it’s the first time Sweden has been represented by a song in Swedish since 1998, the first time Germany has sent a song entirely in German since 2007, and Latvia is represented by a song entirely in Latvian for only the second time in history.

Have we got ‘love’?

Australia’s Jessica Mauboy famously sung her love-themed entry, titled We Got Love, at Eurovision in 2018.

In this, the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, it’s only fitting to ask: does Eurovision still have ‘love’, or have other amorous endeavours taken priority? (Ich komme, we’re looking at you).

The word ‘love’ makes a return to song titles in 2025, with JJ’s Wasted Love. This brings to an end three straight years with no song with the English word ‘love’ in the title.

But 2025 is certainly no stranger to love-adjacent song titles, with Finland, Australia, Malta and Czechia all serving song titles said to be laden with various degrees of sexual innuendo, from kissing to, ahem, coming.

Final word

As always, Eurovision 2025 will be a colourful showcase of diversity across race, gender, language, and lyrics. The eclectic mix of acts and sounds brings a totally different set of experiences and statistical discussion points to the Contest each year.

Will 2025 celebrate a new nation with its first victory? Could a duo take the crown for the first time since 2011? Perhaps another non-English song will top the scoreboard? We’ll have to wait until May to find out!

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