Eurovision Song Contest 2025: Austria triumphs, Italy fifth with Lucio Corsi. Gabry Ponte's sensational flop, last

With 'Wasted Love' by JJ , Austria has won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The 23-year-old singer of Filipino origin received 258 points from the national juries and 176 from viewers for a total of 436. For Austria in Basel, it was the third triumph in the singing competition, eleven years after the victory of Conchita Wurtz. In second place, in a vote that remained uncertain until the end, was the Israeli Yuval Raphael with 'New day will rise' with 357 points, fifth Italy with Lucio Corsi .

Sweden, the big favorite with "Bara Bada Bastu" by the Kaj trio, finished in fourth place, behind Estonia. JJ, stage name of Johannes Pietsch, an Austrian father and a Filipino mother, is a Viennese countertenor who sang about a love that finds no answer: sailing on a boat in the middle of the waves he introduced the song expressing all his melancholy in an electro-pop ballad. " Thank you Europe for making my dreams come true ," JJ shouted before closing the 69th edition of the singing competition by singing his song again with the crystal microphone in his hand. Corsi, who came in second at Sanremo with his 'Volevo essere un duro', conquered fifth place, obtaining 159 points from the national juries (fourth) and 97 from the televote for a total of 256.

The European juries that awarded 12 points (the maximum) to Italy were Slovenia, San Marino, Portugal, Croatia, Georgia, Switzerland. The Italian jury, however, awarded 12 points to the United Kingdom. (AGI) Last place for the other Italian Gabry Ponte competing for San Marino who made the arena dance but did not warm the hearts of the juries and the public . Significant second place went to the Israeli Yuval Raphael, who survived the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023. During her song that alludes to those massacres, there were two attempts by pro-Palestinian protesters to storm the stage and outside the St. Jakobshalle there were riots that were quelled by the police. The final evening, with Michelle Hunziker among the hosts, is estimated to have been watched by 160 million viewers.