Luxembourg will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, which will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The Luxembourgish participating broadcaster, RTL Lëtzebuerg (RTL), will organise the Luxembourg Song Contest 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTL organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster confirmed its intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 1 July 2024.[2] CLT had selected its entries by using both national finals and internal selections in the past, with RTL organising the Luxembourg Song Contest national final to select its 2024 entry. Along with its 2025 participation confirmation, the broadcaster announced that it would again select its entry through the Luxembourg Song Contest.[2]
Before Eurovision
Luxembourg Song Contest 2025
Luxembourg Song Contest 2025 will be the competition organised by RTL to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition will feature seven acts and will take place on 25 January 2025 at the Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette.[3]
Competing entries
On 11 July 2024, RTL opened a submission period for interested artists and songwriters to submit their entries until 6 October 2024. Artists (at least one of the members for bands and groups) were required to have Luxembourg nationality, have lived in Luxembourg for three consecutive years, or have a strong link with the Luxembourg cultural scene, and were able to submit up to five entries each.[4][5] A songwriting camp organised by Rocklab took place at the Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette between 27 and 30 September 2024 where artists were able to collaborate with local and international songwriters and producers to create their songs for the competition.[6] 79 entries were received by the end of the deadline.[5][7]
Auditions were held on 8 and 9 November 2024 at the RTL City in Luxembourg City where an international jury panel evaluated the songs and shortlisted 12 entries for a final audition round on 10 November 2024, where the seven finalists were selected.[8][9] The international jury panel consisted of Diogo Fernandes (Portuguese producer and artist manager), Poli Genova (who represented Bulgaria at Eurovision in 2011 and in 2016), Niamh Kavanagh (who won Eurovision for Ireland in 1993), Marie Myriam (who won Eurovision for France in 1977) and Eldar Gasimov (who won Eurovision for Azerbaijan in 2011).[10] The seven participating acts were announced on 18 November 2024, including One Last Time and Rafa Ela who both competed in the 2024 edition of Luxembourg Song Contest, while their songs were presented on 19 December 2024 on RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg [lb], Today Radio as well as online on RTL Infos and the broadcaster's website rtl.lu.[11][12]
