Was the 2025 Eurovision semi-final draw good for Australia?

Overnight, the semi-final allocation draw for Eurovision 2025 took place in Basel.

Australia was drawn into the first half of semi-final two and will compete on Thursday 15 May (early Friday 16 May down under).

But who did we draw and was it a good result?

A historically good semi

The first good news is that Australia has a 100% qualifying record from semi 2.

Dami, Jess, Sheldon and Voyager all qualified from the second show.

While our two non-qualifications (Montaigne and Electric Fields) and our less than ideal public vote in 2017 (Isaiah) came from the first semi-final.

What about who we drew?

Through the help of X/Twitter user Dolphin Dane we could determine which nations were more likely to vote for us than the average Eurovision nation.

The nations who have been most generous to us are below. The ones in bold are in our semi-final.

1. Denmark +17.5%

2. Sweden +15.6%

3. Malta +15.3%

4. Iceland +15.1%

5. Finland +14.6%

6. Norway +10.7%

7. Ireland +10.5%

8. Israel +9.2%

9. United Kingdom +8.3%

10. Estonia +8.0%

11. Germany +6.5%

12. Luxembourg +6.3%

13. Netherlands +5.7%

14. Lithuania +5.0%

15. Latvia +4.2%

16. Austria +2.6%

    
    

We drew:

• Six of the Top 10

• Eight of the Top 12

• 11 of the Top 16.

This is an incredible result!

Adding all the positive scores with the minus scores gave Australia a net positive result of +27.4%!

The downside

On the downside we did draw some of the nations who really don't seem to vote for us too much.

1. Georgia -20.9%

2. Italy -16.4%

3. Armenia -12.7%

4. Montenegro -12.3%

5. San Marino -9.6%

6. Spain -9.4%

7. France -8.4%

8. Czechia -8.2%

9. Azerbaijan -6.7%

10. Serbia -6.6%

We drew three of the four worst nations for us, and six of the Top 10.

So, what does this all mean? If it's close having more friends will help us, although generally if you're entry is good enough, you'll get through regardless.

We'll just have to wait until May to find out how it all pans out!

Read next:

• Eurovision 2025 semi-final draw revealed

• A big week ahead for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

• When can we expect news of Australia's Eurovision 2025 entry?

• The former Eurovision nations no longer in the Contest

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