Already in early November, Portugal’s public broadcaster released the names of the composers taking part in Festival da Canção 2025, the country’s national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025!
With their latest post on their official social media, RTP announced the date on which the Festival’s songs will be released. In detail, next Thursday, on January 23, we will have the chance to listen to Portugal’s candidate songs for Eurovision 2025, for the first time!
Earlier, RTP had announced the names of the composers that will take part in Festival da Canção 2025, as well as their allocation in the semi-finals:
Semi-Final 1 (February 22)
Margarida Campelo
JOSH
Capital da Bulgária
Xico Gaiato
Jéssica Pina
Beato
Bluay
Marco Rodrigues
Tiago Sampaio
Peculiar
Semi-Final 2 (March 1)
A Cantadeira
Luca Argel
HENKA
Diana Vilarinho
Inês Marques Lucas
EU.CLIDES
Bombazine
Napa
Emmy Curl
Fernando Daniel
Festival da Canção 2025
Festival da Canção 2025 will follow its usual format, with two semi-finals and a Grand Final. The dates of the festival are the following:
Semi-Final 1: February 22
Semi-Final 2: March 1
Grand Final: March 8
The voting system is not known yet, but it is expected to follow the process of recent years. In this case, six entries will qualify from each of the two semi-finals, five from the combined public and jury vote, and one more, exclusively from the public vote.
Thus, twelve entries will compete in the Final and the representative of Portugal will be selected by the public vote and the jury, at a rate of 50% each.
The previous winner of Festival da Canção and Portugal’s representative in Eurovision 2024 was iolanda with her song “Grito”, which ended up in the 10th place of the Grand Final:
Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Portuguese participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel!
Source: festivaldacancao.rtp