The Eurovision host city wannabe and UMK 2024 host city Tampere and its Arena are back at it: The UMK 2025 final will be held there again with its pre- and after parties on February 8, 2025 in front of some 20.000 people and yes, the tickets sold out within hours, as did the tickets for the final dress rehearsal earlier on that day. Last year the show was watched on tv by some 1,9 million viewers As before there will be seven entries that will be revealed in January one per day, and the final will have an international jury with 25% sat in the final results the remaining 75% depending on Finnish televoters. A total of 485 songs were sent in and in addition to the usual Yle jury of music professionals also five special juries have participated in selecting the seven finalists. Tapio Hakanen, the chairman of the jury says: "This season at UMK, we will see a fine continuation of the Finnish-language pop tradition and a star of the future, who is waiting to rise to full glory. We ge