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SBS Eurovision 2025: Semi-Final 1 replay – Who did the Australian public like?

  • Writer: Emma Garrie
    Emma Garrie
  • 10 hours ago
  • 2 min read


Tonight SBS aired the primetime replay of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2025 in Basel.


Australian viewers could vote for their favourite songs from Semi Final 1, including those that were pre-qualified, via a SBS Eurovision WhatsApp chat.


Viewers could send either #YES or #NO followed by the country name to the dedicated chat, with the SBS Eurovision Rater tallying the results and displaying them at the end of each performance. Viewers were restricted to one vote per country.



Who did Australia love most?


Australia's winner of Semi Final 1 was Sweden with 95% of voters loving KAJ's Bara Bada Bastu!



In fact, Australians loved 14 of the 18 songs performed in this semi-final with only four scoring under 50%.


And it seems there is a reasonably high correlation between tonight's results and the real results announced on Wednesday morning (Australian time) in Basel.


Eight of Australia's Top 10 also made the 2025 Grand Final. Based on the SBS viewer poll, Australia would have put Cyprus and Croatia through to the Grand Final and Ukraine and Portugal would have missed out.





The official semi-final results which will include the placing of each song and votes received from each country will be revealed after the conclusion of the contest on Saturday night (Sunday morning in Australia).



Full Results of tonight's SBS vote

(*pre-qualified songs)


  1. Sweden - 95%

  2. Estonia - 92%

  3. Norway - 86%

  4. Iceland - 85%

  5. Switzerland - 80%*

  6. Netherlands - 78%

  7. Spain - 77%*

  8. Albania - 74%

  9. San Marino - 72%

  10. Cyprus - 69%

  11. Poland - 61%

  12. Croatia - 56%

  13. Italy - 51%*

  14. Ukraine - 50%

  15. Belgium - 49%

  16. Azerbaijan - 43%

  17. Portugal - 39%

  18. Slovenia - 34%


The Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final 2 replay airs on Saturday 17 May, 7.30pm (AEST) on SBS and on SBS On Demand.



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