Estonia: Tommy Cash wins Eesti Laul 2025 – to Eurovision with "Espresso Macchiato"
Estonia's Eurovision representative has been chosen! After all the votes were in, it was decided that Tommy Cash with "Espresso Macchiato" will wave Estonia's flag in Basel this May
Estonia has just wrapped up their national selection contest on this busy Super Saturday with a show that didn't disappoint! After the 16 competitors took the stage tonight, only one would walk out with the win.
Once the votes were counted it was official that Tommy Cash secured the victory with "Espresso Macchiato."
"Espresso Macchiato" was written by Johannes Naukkarinen and Tomas Tammemets.
Eesti Laul 2025
First round
| Voting | 50% jury 50% public voting |
Superfinal
| Voting | 100% public voting |
Estonia is one of four countries selecting their representative via a national selection contest today. Keeping with tradition they held Eesti Laul, the show they've used since 2009 to select their representative. This year's edition saw one show with all 16 acts performing. They went through a first round of voting split 50/50 between a jury and the public to determine the top three to advance to the Superfinal.
Once the top three were announced the public was given 100% of the power to determine the winner. The act with the most votes would go on to win Eesti Laul 2025, and will represent Estonia at Eurovision 2025 this May in Basel.
Tommy Cash will compete in the first half of Semi-final 1 on 13 May 2025 and is looking to continue Estonia's current three-year qualification streak to the Grand Final.
Tommy Cash
Born Tomas Tammemets, Tommy Cash is a 33-year-old Estonian rapper, singer, and visual artist with quite an impressive track record to his name. He's been active in the industry since 2012 when he first started releasing music on SoundCloud.
2017 became a very huge year for Tommy Cash. That January he took part in the annual Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) in Groningen, Netherlands, where he represented Estonia. Cash has also performed at Estonia's biggest festival, Õllesummer. He has collaborated with artists like Charli XCX, Joji, and IC3PEAK, which helped his name spread throughout the industry.
His success continued in 2018 when he won the award for Music Video of the Year for his song "Surf" at the Estonian Music Awards. Later that year he released his second studio album "¥€$," which peaked at number one.
Since then Tommy Cash has gone on to collaborate with many big names in the industry such as Diplo, $uicideboy$, bbno$, Borgoe, Oliver Tree (who he also toured alongside), Kim Petras, Yung Gravy, and Dillon Francis. Tommy has dipped his music into the Eurovision world previously having collaborated with Little Big and Käärijä.
Eesti Laul 2025
Eesti Laul 2025 was Estonia's national selection process to determine who will represent them at Eurovision 2025 in Basel this May.
Eesti Laul consisted of one show which was held on 16 February 2025
at Unibet Arena in Tallinn. All 16 acts performed in the first round
where a 50% jury and 50% public vote determined the three acts that advanced to the
Superfinal. The winner of Eesti Laul is the act that receives the
most votes in the Superfinal, determined by 100% public vote.
Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Estonia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 29 times, first in 1994, competing every year except 1995.
Estonia has managed to qualify for the Grand Final 10 out of 20 times.
Estonia has won just once, in the year 2001, with the song "Everybody," performed by Tanel Padar and Dave Benton and 2XL.
