JJ, winner of the 2025 Eurovision Music Contest, holds up the trophy he received for Austria with the tune “Wasted Love” in the course of the Grand Ultimate of the 69th Eurovision Music Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, Saturday, Could 17, 2025.
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Austria has received the 69th Eurovision Music Contest. “Wasted Love,” carried out by the classically skilled JJ, beat out 25 different songs for the highest prize on the finals held in Basel, Switzerland, on Saturday.
“Wasted Love” is in some methods much like final 12 months’s winner — Nemo’s “The Code” — in that it contains hovering, operatic vocals. However whereas the 2024 victor was extra membership anthem than aria, “Wasted Love” is the other. Banging beats solely seem within the closing a part of the tune. Nemo was 24 after they received Eurovision final 12 months. This 12 months’s winner shares the identical age.
JJ co-wrote the successful tune with Teodora Spiric and Thomas Turner.
This the third time Austria has received the worldwide singing competitors. Udo Jürgens claimed the highest prize in 1965 and Conchita Wurst in 2014.
Israel took second place and Estonia got here in third.
JJ known as for “extra love” in his message whereas accepting the trophy.
As is customary, the seventieth Eurovision Music Contest might be held in Austria.
