Remember Monday finished 19th at Eurovision in 2025 and got zero votes from the European public, a result that landed hard after the had turned to its Introducing network to help choose the UK’s entry. The trio’s song, Eins, Zwei, Drei, was written by Thomas Stengaard and Julie Aagaard, with parts of the track in German.

That pair had already worked with the UK before. Stengaard wrote Denmark’s 2013 winner, Only Teardrops, and he and Aagaard co-wrote last year’s UK entry, What the Hell Just Happened?, for Remember Monday. The announced in October 2024 that Introducing would help find the country’s 2025 Eurovision song, a process meant to pull in fresh talent from the same network that has broken artists including Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, George Ezra, Ellie Goulding, Lewis Capaldi, Glass Animals, Royal Blood, IDLES, Arlo Parks, Little Simz, PinkPantheress, Wet Leg and Lola Young.

The contrast with 2022 remains stark. Sam Ryder finished second with Space Man, scored 466 points — the highest tally any UK Eurovision entry has ever produced — and won the jury vote outright. That was three years ago, after TaP Music was brought in for the UK’s Eurovision effort and Ben Mawson publicly asked, “Why do we do so badly every year?” The answer from 2022 looked, for a while, like the country had finally found one.

It also happened to come after a lot of deliberate work. Liverpool hosted Eurovision in 2023 on Ukraine’s behalf, extending the contest’s spotlight on the UK and keeping the song competition in the public eye. But the 2025 result showed how quickly momentum can disappear when the song does not connect with viewers across Europe. A system built to unearth a breakout act produced a track that still failed to win a single public vote.

That is why the latest result matters now, not as an isolated disappointment but as another data point in a long-running problem. The UK has plenty of talent and a broadcaster with a deep bench of proven discoverers, but uk eurovision winners still remain out of reach because the contest rewards a specific kind of song, performance and timing that the UK has rarely managed to hit twice in a row. Sam Ryder almost did, and in 2025 Remember Monday did not come close.