Portugal 2025: Song submissions open for 'Festival da Canção'

14 August 2024 at 12:00 CEST

iolanda representing Portugal walks the Flag Parade at the Grand Final in Malmö Arena Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU

'Festival da Canção' returns in 2025 and will be giving us Portugal's song for the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland.

Portuguese broadcaster RTP has announced that its annual song competition Festival da Canção will once again be selecting the country's next entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The broadcaster opened song submissions at 16:00 CET on Wednesday 14 August, encouraging composers and artists to apply for consideration until the submission window closes, on Tuesday 15 October.

Festival da Canção 2025 will have 20 songs competing, performed by 20 artists.

14 of these artists will have been invited directly by RTP to participate, while the other 6 slots will be open to artists who have submitted songs via the broadcaster's online portal.

The 20 songs will compete across two semi-finals and one final.

Iolanda wins Festival da Canção in Portugal Pedro Pina / RTP

The winner of Festival da Canção 2024 was the song Grito performed by iolanda. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, iolanda continued Portugal's current streak of qualifying for the Grand Final; for the 4th time in as many years.

Grito gave Portugal a Top 10 finish with 152 points. It is Portugal's 12th Top 10 finish since the country started competing at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1964.

You can listen to all 37 songs of Eurovision 2024 via your favourite streaming service or watch the music videos on our YouTube channel.

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