Croatia delivers another shocking news today with the 2nd entry dropping out of the race to Eurovision 2025 in Basel.

Earlier this month Lara ft. LSQ withdrew from the national final in Croatia and today, HRT has officially announced that due to “breach of the rules” with the final version of the song “Život ide dalje” Natalie Balmix submitted to the broadcast, the singer will be disqualified.

Among the 3 reserve entries left it was announced that take Natalie ‘s place will be Fenksta with the song “Extra”

Therefor the complete lineup for the contest will be as follows:

Ananda – Lies Lay Cold

EoT – Bye, Bye, Bye

Filomena – Strong

Fenksta – Ekstra

Irma – Enigma

IVXN – Monopol

Jelena Radan – SALUT!

Swingers Ful Kul – Full Cool

laurakojapjeva – NPC

LELEK – The Soul of my Soul

Luka Nižetić – Južina

Magazin – AaAaA

Marin Jurić Čivro – Gorjelo je

Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake

Marko Škugor – Šta da Boga molim ja

Marko Tolja – Through the Dark

Marta May – Running to the Light

Matt Saft – Welcome to the Circus

Natally – Dom si srcu mom

Nipplepeople – Znak

Ogenj – Daj, daj

Petar Brkljačić – Kraj

Supersonic Trio – Animal

Teenah – Aurora

The songs will be released on Thursday, 9 January 2025

Dora 2025:

“Dora 2025” – Known Details

The selection committee selected 24 songs to participate in the “Dora 2025“, and additional 4 reserve songs.

“Dora 2025” will feature 3 shows:

Semi-Final 1: Thursday, February 27th 2025

Semi-Final 2: Friday, February 28th 2025

Grand Final: Sunday, March 2nd 2025

The winner of “Dora 2025” will be selected by a combination of an expert jury and a public vote.

The shortlisted artists will have to finalize their video clip no later than the 5th of January 2025.

The songs will be released on January 9th

The full format will be revealed no later than the 20th of January 2025.

However, it is likely that the same format wili follow this year:

The results will be based on 50% public votes and 50% jury votes.

12 artists will compete in each semi-final, 8 of them will make it to the final.

16 artists will compete in the final.

Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland on the 13th, 15th, and 17th of May 2025