Eurovision 2025 will take place in May, in Basel, Switzerland. Louane was appointed candidate of France and is regularly cited among the favorites of bookmakers …
Eurovision 2025 arrives with spring, as every year, in May. And the great European song competition has been on track for a few months already. The ticketing for the Grand Show which will take place in Basel, Switzerland, was opened Wednesday, January 29, on the official website, with more than 40,000 tickets sold in 10 minutes. And the calendar is known.
After an endless series of selections in the participating countries from February to April, the 69th edition of the competition was scheduled for May 13 and 15 for the two semi-finals and on May 17, 2025 for the grand final. Eurovision 2025 will take place at the Halle Saint-Jacques de Basel, following the victory of the Swiss Nemo during the 2024 edition with its song “The Code”.
She’s the singer Louane Who was chosen to represent France at Eurovision and, we hope, win first place. “Louane will carry the hopes of an entire country during the grand final of Eurovision 2025,” said the delegation at the end of January. “I am very honored to represent France at Eurovision 2025, for France, for me and for mom. I can’t wait to be there,” abounded the singer in the press release from France TV, broadcast at the same time, with a hidden index on the selected song. On her Instagram account, the interpreter has indeed published a touching video of her and her mother, who died of cancer in 2014. “I will do it for us, I will do it for our dreams,” we could hear in the video.
With its 2 billion streams, its César for “The Aries family” in 2014, its closed counters in the largest rooms in Europe, its prestigious distinctions (NRJ Music Awards, Les Victoires de la Musique) and a fifth solo album released at the end of 2024, France Télévisions is once again, after Slimane, on a confirmed and popular figure for Eurovision. The 28 -year -old singer, now a safe bet of the French music scene, will definitely change her dimension.
Because Louane hides multiple talents which will undoubtedly be the little extra that lacks France at Eurovision. A talented multi-instrumentalist, she recently distinguished herself in a solo show, “the club of feelings”, where she officiated as a singer, DJ, pianist and guitarist. His future song for Eurovision, after a last very inspired electro-pop opus, was particularly expected by fans.
Louane’s song for Eurovision 2025 is called “Maman”. It was unveiled during a big show, in front of 80,000 people and millions of viewers at halftime of the France-Scotland match at the Stade de France, on March 15. The song was not initially written for Eurovision. She was to appear in the singer’s latest album, released in October 2024. But the song had arrived “like a hair on the soup when I had almost finished writing the album,” said Louane at a press conference a few minutes after her performance.
When Louane was contacted by the French Televisions teams to participate in Eurovision, she finally offered them this ballad, with a dark staging before a brilliant final. “I never thought it was a song intended for Eurovision,” said the 28 -year -old artist. “On the other hand, compared to my story, what I lived and my dreams and to those of my mom, I couldn’t see another one.”
“This is the only message I want to leave to my mother”
Louane assumes this very intimate title, evoking her love for her mother. “I know that going to Eurovision with a song like this is a opposite view, because we rather think of the party. […] ‘Maman’ is not a hyperpop tempo up that I could have offered, as I also do on stage. But in the end, if I am 100 %honest, the ballads, that’s what I prefer. […] Is it the right one? Only time will tell us. But for my story, for my mom, it’s obviously good, “she developed.
“Maman” is also connected to a previous piece of Louane, released in 2015 on her first album Chambre 12… and also entitled “Maman”. “These are two completely different songs,” says the candidate. “‘Mom’, which I have just interpreted, is a series of the first but above all, and that is what is most important to me, it represents who I am really today. And it is the only message I want to leave to my mother.”
The strategy of the opposite view, all the more visible after the very colorful and sweet victory of Nemo last year, is risky. “Here” by Barbara Pravi, “Mercy” by Madame Monsieur, but also “my love” of Slimane last year played on the same rope, with some success, but also a form of glass ceiling which seems to have let the victory escape.
Since its creation in 1956, France has won the Eurovision competition five times: in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1969 and 1977. Our country is therefore just behind Ireland, which holds the record with seven victories. In 1958, the singer André Claveau won France’s first victory with the title “Dors, my love”. Two years later, in 1960, artist Jacqueline Boyer was unanimous with the song “Tom Pilibi”.
In 1962, it was Isabelle Aubret who won Eurovision with the song “A first love”. Then, in 1969, Frida Boccara won the Eurovision competition with the title “One day, a child”. Finally, in 1977, the singer Marie Myriam was the latest to be won by interpreting “the bird and the child”, a title that has become cult over time for the public.
With Louane, France again displays its ambitions to win a victory that has escaped it for 47 years and the coronation of Marie Myriam. She hopes to reissue or even exceed the great performances of Barbara Pravi (2nd in 2021) and Slimane (4th in 2024). And the case seems to be a well -gone since Louane is regularly quoted among the favorites of bookmakers in the forecasts of Eurovision. A status that did not really move after the revelation of his song. Discover the ranking compiled by the specialized site Eurovision World and updated in real time.
After the victory of the Swiss Nemo last year, it was in Switzerland, in Basel, that the final phase of Eurovision will take place. The Halle Saint-Jacques (St. Jakobshalle in German) was chosen to welcome the big show. As a reminder, the two semi-finals of this 69th edition of the competition were scheduled on May 13 and 15. The Eurovision final was set on Saturday, May 17, 2025. A bon and time dissemination is scheduled as every year on France 2.