Armenia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Survivor", written by Alex Wilke, Armen Paul, Benjamin Alasu, Eva Voskanian, Jon Aljidi, Joshua Curran, Martin Mooradian, Pargev Vardanian, Peter Boström, and , and performed by Vardanian himself under his stage name Parg. The Armenian participating broadcaster, Public Television of Armenia (AMPTV), organised the national final 2025 to select its entry for the contest.
Armenia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 5. At the end of the show, "Survivor" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking a fourth consecutive qualification for the country. It was later revealed that Armenia placed tenth out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 51 points. In the final, Armenia performed in position 18 and placed twentieth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 72 points.
Prior to the 2025 contest, Public Television of Armenia (AMPTV) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Armenia sixteen times since its first entry in . Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, had been fourth place, achieved on two occasions: in with the song "" performed by Sirusho and in with the song "Not Alone" performed by Aram Mp3. It had, to this point, failed to qualify to the final on three occasions, namely in , , and . AMPTV briefly withdrew from the contest on two occasions: in due to long-standing tensions with then-host country , and in due to social and political crises in the aftermath of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. In , "" performed by Ladaniva qualified to the final and ultimately placed eighth.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, AMPTV organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. It had used various methods to select its entry in the past, such as internal selections and a live televised national final to choose the performer, song or both to compete at Eurovision. Between 2014 and , and again between and 2024, the broadcaster internally selected both the artist and the song, while the national final was organised in , 2018 and . AMPTV confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest on 30 November 2024, announcing that its entry would again be selected through .
2025 was the fourth edition of , the national final organised by AMPTV in order to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition took place on 16 February 2025 at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan, hosted by Ani Khachikyan and Aram Mp3. The show was broadcast on Armenia 1, as well as online via the broadcaster's website 1tv.am and internationally via the Eurovision Song Contest's official YouTube channel.
On 6 December 2024, AMPTV opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for the competition until 10 January 2025. All entrants were to be citizens or residents of Armenia or of Armenian descent, while songwriters could be of any nationality. At the closing of the window, over 50 entries had been submitted. Twelve finalists were selected by a jury following an audition round and revealed on 6 February 2025, while their songs, originally set to be unveiled on the day of the final, were released on 9 February 2025. Among the selected competing artists was Athena Manoukian, who had been due to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 before its cancellation, as well as Anahit Adamyan, who represented Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 alongside Mary Vardanyan.
The final took place on 16 February 2025. The winner, "Survivor" performed by Parg, was selected based on the combination of votes from an international jury (1/3), a national jury (1/3) and a televote (1/3). Both juries consisted of seven members who distributed their points following the same pattern used in the Eurovision Song Contest, i.e. 12, 10 and 8âÂÂ1 points to their ten favourites; the international jury consisted of Alexandra Redde-Amiel, , Julian Gutierrez, Natia Mshvenieradze, Nicoline Refsing, Sergio Jaén and Stefano Karakocci, while the national jury consisted of Anush Ter-Ghukasyan, , Artur Yezekyan, David Babakhanyan, David Tserunyan, Hovhannes Movsisyan and Tigran Virabyan. In addition to the competing entries, the guest performers included Maléna, who won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 for , with "Flashing Lights", host Aram Mp3 with "Not Alone", and Brunette, who represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, with "Future Lover", "No Energy" and "Superstar Illness".
The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at the in Basel, Switzerland, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 13 and 15 May and the final on 17 May 2025. All nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) were required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progressed to the final. On 28 January 2025, an allocation draw was held to determine which of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show, each country would perform in; the EBU split up the competing countries into different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. Armenia was scheduled for the first half of the second semi-final. The shows' producers then decided the running order for the semi-finals; Armenia was set to perform in position 5.
Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
The following members comprised the Armenian jury: