JJ, winner of the 2025 Eurovision Tune Contest, holds up the trophy he gained for Austria with the music “Wasted Love” through the Grand Closing of the 69th Eurovision Tune Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, Saturday, Could 17, 2025.
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Austria has gained the 69th Eurovision Tune Contest. “Wasted Love,” carried out by the classically educated 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 just like final 12 months’s winner — Nemo’s “The Code” — in that it consists of hovering, operatic vocals. However whereas the 2024 victor was extra membership anthem than aria, “Wasted Love” is the alternative. Banging beats solely seem within the closing a part of the music. Nemo was 24 after they gained Eurovision final 12 months. This 12 months’s winner shares the identical age.
JJ co-wrote the successful music with Teodora Spiric and Thomas Turner.
This the third time Austria has gained 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 Tune Contest will likely be held in Austria.