section_path: Eurovision Song Contest 2025/Internal selection
section_name: Internal selection
paragraph_text: Internal selection
  
  Austria's broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), officially announced their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 on 7 September 2024, deciding their representative via an internal selection. In October 2024, it was reported by Austrian media that eight entries from seven artists, including Dodo Muhrer who previously represented Austria at Eurovision in 2015 as part of The Makemakes, as well as Johannes Pietsch, Kayla Krystin, Nnoa and Philip Piller, had been shortlisted following a live casting round at the ORF studios. On 30 January 2025, "Wasted Love" performed by Pietsch, under the stage name JJ, was announced by ORF as the Austrian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 during the radio show Ö3-Wecker. "Wasted Love" was selected from the eight shortlisted entries by a panel of 30 local and international music industry and Eurovision experts as well as nearly 30 international OGAE fan club representatives from five countries and the ORF Eurovision Song Contest Team.