Bulgaria’s Dara won the 70th Eurovision Song Contest with 516 points with “Banana Galanga”.
Israel’s Noam Bettan took second place with 343 points for “Michelle,” and Romanian Alexandra Capitanescu took 3rd place with 296 points for “Choke Me.”
At the bottom of the list was the UK, represented by Sam Battle, who performed the song “Eins, Zwei, Drei” under the stage name Look Mom No Computer.
Australia and Italy rounded out the top five, with Delta Goodrem’s song “Eclipse” in fourth place (287 points) and Sal da Vinci with “Per Semper Sì” in fifth place (281 points).
Da Vinci won with the song at the Sanremo Music Festival earlier this year, giving him the right to refuse first choice to represent Italy at Eurovision. Other familiar faces in this year’s competition included Cyprus entry Antigoni (whom British viewers may know from Season 8 of Love Island in 2022), who was performing her song ‘Jalla’, and, of course, Goodrem, who starred in the long-running Australian drama Neighbors before embarking on her singing career.
This year’s competition, held at the Vienna City Hall in Vienna, Austria, was themed “Unite through music” and commemorated the competition’s 70th anniversary. The Austrian hosts were model and singer Victoria Swarovski and actor Michael Ostrovski.
Despite several protests, including a five-nation boycott, this was the second year Israel took second place after Yuval Rafael performed his song “New Day Will Rise.” Bettan received each vote from the jury, placing him in 15th place once the jury votes were tallied, and moved into first place after the audience awarded Israel 220 points. However, in the end, it fell short of Bulgaria’s audience points of 589 points, and Bulgaria won the tournament for the first time.
This year, 35 countries voted for the contest, with votes equally weighted between each country’s judges and spectators.
Last year’s winner, JJ from Switzerland, was at the competition to hand over the glass trophy to Dara. In 2025, JJ won with 436 points with “Wasted Love”.
Eurovision was first launched in 1956 and is the world’s longest-running annual international television music competition.
