Europe's Biggest Dance Show 2025

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced on 22 September 2025 that the eighth iteration of Europe's Biggest Dance Show would take place on 26 September with twelve radio stations in eleven countries participating, the largest number of participants in the history of the simulcast.^[1]

The simulcast started at 18:00 BST, with Danny Howard introducing for BBC Radio 1 in London. As has been the case since the 2021 edition, each radio station contributed 30 minutes of dance music from their respective country and sent their feeds to Broadcasting House in London for mixing purposes, before the feeds were sent back to the radio stations for broadcast.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

NPO 3FM from the Netherlands returned after not participating in the 2023 and 2024 editions.^[4] For the first time in its history, the simulcast was preceded by a one-hour pre-show titled The Warm-Up with Danny Howard, which began at 17:00 BST. This part of the event was not broadcast on Radio 1 itself.^[7][1]

During the set of BUNT. provided by Radio Fritz, the broadcast was interrupted by Danny Howard due to explicit lyrics being played uncensored in the song "Best Day of My Life (BUNT. Version)". They left the broadcast of Fritz and proceeded to play other tracks from BUNT. until the original broadcast moved onto the next track of the set.

Tommy Cash, who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, was the DJ for Estonia's Raadio 2. His Eurovision entry "Espresso Macchiato" was played during Estonia's timeslot in the simulcast.^[5]

The simulcast was also aired in Latvia on Latvijas Radio 5 as part of its music show Radio Pieci Ieraksti, where a portion of BBC Radio 1's timeslot was preempted to include a live link-up featuring a mix by Latvian DJ Linda Samsonova in Riga.^[8] The Latvian broadcast was hosted by Toms Putniņš, Kristers Karlsons and Matīss Kaktiņš.^[9]