Estonia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "", written by Tomas Tammemets and Johannes Naukkarinen, and performed by Tammemets himself under his stage name Tommy Cash. The Estonian participating broadcaster, (ERR), organised the national final 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Prior to the 2025 contest, (ETV) until 2007, and (ERR) since 2008, had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Estonia twenty-nine times since ETV's first entry in , winning the contest with the song "Everybody" performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL. Following the introduction of semi-finals in , Estonia has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final on ten occasions, including , when "(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi" performed by 5miinust and Puuluup ultimately placed 20th in the final.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, ERR organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Since its debut, the Estonian broadcaster had organised national finals that featured a competition among multiple artists and songs in order to select its entry for the contest. The competition has been organised since 2009, and on 16 September 2024, ERR revealed the rules and regulations of the 2025 edition.
2025 was the 17th edition of the national selection , organised by ERR to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition consisted of a 16-song final on 15 February 2025 at the Unibet Arena in Tallinn, and was hosted by Eda-Ines Etti and Karl "Korea" Kivastik. The show was broadcast on (ETV), on ETV2 with Estonian sign language translation and on ETV+ with Russian commentary by Aleksandr Hobotov and Julia Kalenda, via radio on Raadio 2, as well as online at the broadcaster's streaming platform Jupiter and official website err.ee.
On 16 September 2024, ERR opened the submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries up until 21 October 2024 through an online upload platform. Each artist and songwriter was only able to submit a maximum of five entries. Foreign collaborations were allowed as long as one of the songwriters was Estonian. A fee was also imposed on songs being submitted to the competition, with â¬50 for songs in the Estonian language and â¬100 for songs in other languages; both of the fees were doubled for entries submitted from 19 October 2024. 175 submissions were received by the deadline, of which 65 were in Estonian and the remaining 110 were in English, Italian, German and French. A 34-member jury panel selected 15 finalists and an additional 20 songs for an online wildcard selection from the submissions. Prior to selecting the 20 wildcard entries, ERR requested permission from artists who had submitted songs to participate in the wildcard round, of which 137 (out of 160) submissions agreed to. The rejected 117 submissions were uploaded to the ' website on 15 December 2024.
One of the finalists, featuring , was announced during the ETV entertainment program on 1 November 2024, while an additional finalist, Tuuli Rand, was announced on 4 November 2024 during the ' program '. The remaining selected finalists were subsequently announced on 4 and 5 November 2024 during . For the online wildcard, the public was able to vote for their favourite entry on the Raadio 2 website between 28 December 2024 and 5 January 2024. The winner, "" performed by , was announced on 6 January 2025 during '.
Among the competing artists were previous Eurovision Song Contest entrants Anna Sahlene, who represented , as a finalist as well as Gerli Padar, who represented , and Laura Põldvere, who represented and , as online wildcard entrants. An-Marlen, , , Frants Tikerpuu, Hain Hoppe (member of Räpina Jack), , Joelle, and Tuuli Rand have all competed in previous editions of . Janek's entry was written by Kjetil Mørland, who represented with Debrah Scarlett.
The final took place on 15 February 2025. Sixteen songs competed during the show and the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a jury (50%) and public televote (50%) determined the top three entries to proceed to the superfinal. In the superfinal, "" performed by Tommy Cash was selected as the winner entirely by a public televote. The jury panel that voted in the first round of the final consisted of RegÃÂna ÃÂsk (Icelandic singer), William Lee Adams (American journalist, founder of Wiwibloggs), Juris Matuzelis (Latvian television and entertainment director), (pop music director and journalist at the Lithuanian National Broadcasting), Marvin Dietmann (Austrian television and entertainment director), Ene Rämmeld (Estonian actress), Alexandra Rotan (Norwegian singer) and Victor Crone (Swedish musician). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, host Eda-Ines Etti (who represented ), 5miinust and Puuluup (both of which represented ) with , singer Kitty Florentine, and the bands Cartoon, Dagö and Nordic Pulse performed as interval acts.
The Eurovision Song Contest took place at St. Jakobshalle 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. During the allocation draw held on 28 January 2025, Estonia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final, performing in the first half of the show.
Estonia qualified for the final, finishing in 5th place with 113 points. During the final, Estonia performed in the 3rd position, following Luxembourg and preceding Israel. In the end Estonia finished in 3rd place with 356 points, finishing in 9th place in the jury voting with 98 points and in 2nd place in the televote with 258 points, their best result since 2002.
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 Estonian jury:
Alika was initially supposed to be a juror but her ranking was reportedly removed due to her sharing opinions on several songs online, contravening the rules.