Estonia will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Espresso macchiato", written by Tomas Tammemets and Johannes Naukkarinen, and performed by Tammemets himself under his stage name Tommy Cash. The Estonian participating broadcaster, Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR), organised the national final Eesti Laul 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Prior to the 2025 contest, Eesti Televisioon (ETV) until 2007, and Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) since 2008, had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Estonia twenty-nine times since ETV's first entry in 1994, winning the contest in 2001 with the song "Everybody" performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL. Following the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, Estonia has, to this point, managed to qualify to the final on ten occasions, including in 2024, when "(Nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi" performed by 5miinust and Puuluup ultimately placed 20th in the final.^[1]

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, ERR organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. Since its debut, the Estonian broadcaster had organised national finals that featured a competition among multiple artists and songs in order to select its entry for the contest. The Eesti Laul competition has been organised since 2009, and on 16 September 2024, ERR revealed the rules and regulations of the 2025 edition.^[2]

Eesti Laul 2025 was the 17th edition of the national selection Eesti Laul, organised by ERR to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition consisted of a 16-song final on 15 February 2025 at the Unibet Arena in Tallinn, and was hosted by Eda-Ines Etti and Karl "Korea" Kivastik.^[3][4] The show was broadcast on Eesti Televisioon (ETV), on ETV2 with Estonian sign language translation and on ETV+ with Russian commentary by Aleksandr Hobotov and Julia Kalenda, via radio on Raadio 2, as well as online at the broadcaster's streaming platform Jupiter and official website err.ee.^[5][6]

On 16 September 2024, ERR opened the submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries up until 21 October 2024 through an online upload platform. Each artist and songwriter was only able to submit a maximum of five entries. Foreign collaborations were allowed as long as one of the songwriters was Estonian. A fee was also imposed on songs being submitted to the competition, with €50 for songs in the Estonian language and €100 for songs in other languages; both of the fees were doubled for entries submitted from 19 October 2024.^[7] 175 submissions were received by the deadline, of which 65 were in Estonian and the remaining 110 were in English, Italian, German and French.^[8] A 34-member jury panel selected 15 finalists and an additional 20 songs for an online wildcard selection from the submissions.^[9][10] Prior to selecting the 20 wildcard entries, ERR requested permission from artists who had submitted songs to participate in the wildcard round, of which 137 (out of 160) submissions agreed to.^[11][12] The rejected 117 submissions were uploaded to the Raadio 2 website on 15 December 2024.^[11][12]

One of the finalists, Räpina Jack [et] featuring Kaisa Ling [et], was announced during the ETV entertainment program Ringvaade on 1 November 2024, while an additional finalist, Tuuli Rand, was announced on 4 November 2024 during the Raadio 2 program R2 hommik. The remaining selected finalists were subsequently announced on 4 and 5 November 2024 during Ringvaade.^[13] For the online wildcard, the public was able to vote for their favourite entry on the Raadio 2 website between 28 December 2024 and 5 January 2024. The winner, "Tantsin veel" performed by Marta Lotta [et], was announced on 6 January 2025 during R2 hommik.^[12][14]

Among the competing artists were previous Eurovision Song Contest entrants Anna Sahlene, who represented Estonia in 2002, as a finalist as well as Gerli Padar, who represented Estonia in 2007, and Laura Põldvere, who represented Estonia in 2005 and 2017, as online wildcard entrants. An-Marlen, Andrei Zevakin [et], Elysa [et], Frants Tikerpuu, Hain Hoppe (member of Räpina Jack), Janek [et], Joelle, Minimal Wind [et] and Tuuli Rand have all competed in previous editions of Eesti Laul.^[15] Janek's entry was written by Kjetil Mørland, who represented Norway in 2015 with Debrah Scarlett.

The final took place on 15 February 2025. Sixteen songs competed during the show and the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a jury (50%) and public televote (50%) determined the top three entries to proceed to the superfinal. In the superfinal, "Espresso macchiato" performed by Tommy Cash was selected as the winner entirely by a public televote.^[6] The jury panel that voted in the first round of the final consisted of Regína Ósk (Icelandic singer), William Lee Adams (American journalist, founder of Wiwibloggs), Juris Matuzelis (Latvian television and entertainment director), Ramūnas Zilnys [lt] (pop music director and journalist at the Lithuanian National Broadcasting), Marvin Dietmann (Austrian television and entertainment director), Ene Rämmeld (Estonian actress), Alexandra Rotan (Norwegian singer) and Victor Crone (Swedish musician).^[18] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, host Eda-Ines Etti (who represented Estonia in 2000), 5miinust and Puuluup (both of which represented Estonia in 2024) with Florian Wahl [et], singer Kitty Florentine, and the bands Cartoon, Dagö and Nordic Pulse performed as interval acts.^[19][20][21]

• Official site of Eesti Laul