Eurovision 2025: Top spot at Eurovision remains out of reach for Australia after 10 years of competing

Australia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 10 times since our debut in 2015, with mixed results – and no wins.

Aussies have always loved the event, with hundreds of thousands of fans Down Under tuning into SBS to watch the flamboyant performances each year.

The Eurovision Song Contest began in 1959, with performers selected at a national level to represent their countries from round Europe and reflecting from every genre of popular music.

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Gradually, countries outside of Europe were invited to join.

Israel, Cyprus, and Armenia, in Western Asia, have been part of it since 1973, 1981, and 2006 respectively. Morocco, in North Africa, participated in 1980.

And then, finally, Australia was permitted entry in 2015.

We had only planned to perform at the song contest in 2015 as a one-off, but Australia are yet to win so our Eurovision adventures continue.

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SBS has been broadcasting the Eurovision Song Contest for the past 30 years.

Australia has been in the top 10 of the European Song Contest five times since gaining entry a decade ago.

Our best result came from Dami Im, who performed Sound of Silence in 2016.

Guy Sebastian finished fifth in 2015 with the song Tonight Again.

And we’ve achieved ninth place three times, in 2017 with Isaiah’s Don’t Come Easy, 2019 with Kate Miller-Heidke’s Zero Gravity and 2023 with Voyager’s Promise.

Past Australian performers who have failed to place in the top 10 are Jessica Mauboy in 2014 with Sea of Flags and in 2018 with We Got Love, Montaigne in 2020 with the song Don’t Break Me and in 2021 with Technicolour.

In 2022, Australia was represented by Sheldon Riley who performed Not The Same, and in 2024 it was Electric Fields who performed their song One Milkali.

This year, Go-Jo failed to make it to the top 10 with his song Milkshake Man, eliminated from the competition in the semi-finals.

It’s a tough blow for the Aussie performer, who bade farewell to the Eurovision Song Contest stage along with contestants from Montenegro, Ireland, Georgia, Czechia and Serbia.

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Go-Jo, also known as Marty Zambotto, 29, performed the song MilkShake Man in this year’s competition amid high hopes from his home state of Western Australia and the rest of the country.

“They might not be performing in Saturday’s Grand Final – but they’ve secured their positions in the Eurovision hall of fame,” Eurovision said when it announced the finalists.

“It’s never really goodbye once you’ve been on the Eurovision stage.”

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The countries that made it to the Grand Final are Lithuania, Israel, Armenia, Denmark, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Latvia, Malta and Greece.

The Eurovision Song Contest is being hosted by Switzerland this year and is in it’s 69th year.

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An expected 160 million people are expected to tune in from around the world as the competition’s live shows unfold over the coming days.

The Grand Final will air on SBS and SBS On Demand on May 18 at 5am Australian AEST.

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