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Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Participating broadcaster	Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT)
Country	Greece
National selection
Selection process	Ethnikós Telikós 2025
Selection date(s)	30 January 2025
Selected artist(s)	Klavdia
Selected song	"Asteromata"
Selected songwriter(s)	Arcade
Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2024 • 2025

Greece will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Asteromata", written by Arcade and performed by Klavdia. The Greek participating broadcaster, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), organised the national final Ethnikós Telikós 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Background

Prior to the 2025 contest, Greece had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 44 times since its debut in 1974. The nation has won the contest once to this point, in 2005 with the song "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, it managed to qualify for the final with each of its entries for several years. Between 2004 and 2013, it achieved nine top ten placements in the final. The first entry to not qualify to the final was "Utopian Land" performed by Argo in 2016. Its 16th-place finish in the semi-final marked its worst placing at the contest and led to its absence from the final for the first time since 2000, when it did not send an entry. In the 2018 contest, it failed to qualify for the second time with "Oniro mou" by Yianna Terzi, finishing 14th in the semi-final. After failing to qualify for final for the third time in 2023 with "What They Say" by Victor Vernicos, it returned to the final in 2024 with "Zari" by Marina Satti, placing 11th with 126 points.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. ERT predecessor, National Radio Television Foundation (EIRT) debuted in the contest in 1974 and then ERT participated from 1975 until 2013, when the broadcaster was shut down by a government directive. It was replaced firstly with the interim Dimosia Tileorasi (DT) and then later by the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) broadcaster, before reverting to the ERT name by the new government in June 2015. The Greek broadcaster had selected its entries in the past both internally and through the national final format Ellinikós Telikós. ERT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 14 September 2024, and announced on 18 September that a national final would be organised for the first time since 2017 to select its representative.

Before Eurovision

Ethnikós Telikós 2025

Ethnikós Telikós 2025 was the national final developed by ERT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition took place on 30 January 2025 at the Christmas Theater in Galatsi. On 14 January 2025, ERT announced that the national final would be hosted by Sakis Rouvas (who represented Greece in 2004 and in 2009 and hosted Eurovision 2006) and Helena Paparizou (who represented Greece in 2001 and won in 2005), with Fokas Evangelinos serving as the artistic director.

Competing entries

On 18 October 2024, ERT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for consideration by the broadcaster by 10 November 2024. Artists were required to be Greek citizens, be permanent residents in Greece or be of Greek descent, while songwriters could be of any nationality and submit up to two songs. 187 songs were received by the submission deadline and a seven-member jury selected twelve entries to participate in the national final alongside three backup entries. The jury consisted of Michalis Hatzigiannis (composer and singer), Yiannis Dimitriadis (journalist and radio producer), Kleopatra Eleftheriadou (soprano and actress), Stefania (singer), Nektarios Tyrakis (lyricist), Maria Hatzigianni [el] (director) and Dimitris Chorianopoulos (music producer). The competing entries were revealed on 10 January 2025 during the ERT1 show Proian se eidon. Among the artists are Constantinos Christoforou who previously represented Cyprus in 1996, 2002, and 2005, and Xannova Xan (Kalli Georgellis) who previously represented Greece at Junior Eurovision in 2005.

The song "Tha matho na agapo", to have been performed by Salina Gavala and Tsiak, was disqualified after the song title was made public by the artist, which went against the rules of the competition. The song was replaced by "Unhurt Me" by Nafsica Gavrilaki, which was the first of three backup entries selected by ERT.

  Entry disqualified   Replacement entry

Final

The final took place on 30 January 2025, with the running order was decided by a draw on 20 January. Twelve songs competed and the winner, "Asteromata" performed by Klavdia, was selected by a combination of public voting conducted through SMS (50%), Greek jury voting (25%) and international jury voting (25%). The Greek jury consisted of Michalis Hatzigiannis (composer and singer), Jenny Melita (journalist and presenter), Fotis Sergoulopoulos [el] (presenter), Margarita Mytilineou [el] (radio director) and Giannis Christodoulopoulos [el] (composer), while the international jury consisted of Martin Holmen (presenter and radio producer at NRK), Olivier Auclair (Head of Entertainment at RTBF), Léa Ivanne (French singer-songwriter and vocal coach), Wilkin William Edmund Roy (director of music programmes at the BBC) and Simona Martorelli (director of international relations and European affairs at RAI).

In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by hosts Sakis Rouvas and Helena Paparizou performing "Waterloo", "Hold Me Now", and "Krassi, thalassa ke t' agori mou", followed by 2024 Greek representative Marina Satti performing "Zari". During the interval, Rouvas performed his 2004 and 2009 entries, "Shake It" and "This Is Our Night", Paparizou performed her 2001 (then as part of Antique) and 2005 entries, "Die for You" and "My Number One", and 2025 Cypriot representative Theo Evan performed "Fuego".

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