
In October 2024, SBS revealed that Australia would be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest for 2025.
This year will mark the 10th anniversary since Australia first entered the competition after our first-ever appearance in 2015, when invited to compete as a “one-off event”.
Fans are now (im)patiently wait to see who will represent Australia and when we'll hear our 2025 Eurovision entry.
The rumour mill has been relatively quiet but there has been one name that has been thrown into the ring, and that is Guy Sebastian. Back in October 2024, we looked at why fans thought Guy Sebastian would be the 2025 entry.
In May 2024, we asked fans who they would want to represent Australia in Basel, check out the list here. Or could SBS choose another artist/s from the Australia Decides alumni?
Quite frankly, no one yet knows who will be representing Australia, but we can try to predict when we could expect to get an artist announcement and song reveal.
To do this, we can look back on the last decade of Australia’s Eurovision internal announcements.
Let’s first review when the artist reveal has occurred for Australia.
When artists have been revealed
Previously, when an internal artist has been selected the announcement of who will be Australia's Eurovision artist have taken place on these dates:
5 March 2015: Guy Sebastian announced for Eurovision 2015
3 March 2016: Dami Im announced for Eurovision 2016
7 March 2017: Isaiah announced for Eurovision 2017
11 December 2017: Jessica Mauboy announced for Eurovision 2018
2 April 2020: Montaigne internally selected for Eurovision 2021
21 February 2023: Voyager announced for Eurovision 2023
6 March 2024: Electric Fields announced for Eurovision 2024.
An early March announcement?
When we look at the dates when Australia internally selected an artist, four times out of seven Australia’s Eurovision artists was announced in the first week of March.
So based on past announcements, we could have around six weeks to wait until we hear any news from SBS.
What about the song?
With an artist announcement possibly six weeks away, when can we expect the song to be released?
Previously, the release dates of Australia's Eurovision songs have been:
7 April 2015: Tonight Again released
11 March 2016: Sound of Silence released
7 March 2017: Don’t Come Easy released
8 March 2018: We Got Love released
4 March 2021: Technicolour released
21 February 2023: Promise released
6 March 2024: One Mikali (One Blood) released.
So, looking at just the times when Australia internally selected their artist, five out of seven times Australia’s Eurovision song has been released in March.
The earliest ever being last year when Voyager revealed they will be competing in Liverpool with the song Promise in February.
If we get our artist announcement in six weeks, will we get our song at the same time? On three occasions we have had the artist announcement and song happen on the same day: in 2017, 2023 and 2024.
By looking at these dates, it tells us that Australian Eurovision fans may still have to wait a little longer.
Any sort of news may be at least a month to six weeks away.... or they could change it up and we could get news tomorrow!
Nevertheless, we are excited for that day to arrive!
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