Ukraine: Submission window for Vidbir 2025 now open!

One week after confirming their participation, the Ukrainian public broadcaster has published further information about the national selection for Eurovision 2025!

The submission window will be open for approximately two months, starting today until October 10. Candidates can submit their proposals on the Suspilne’s official website. Artists must be at least 16 years old, cannot participate in selection processes of other countries, and must submit a song up to three (3) minutes long.

Based on the results of the initial artist selection, a shortlist will be published. These, up to 20 artists, will participate in an audition, which is mandatory. A jury will announce the 9 artists selected for the national final by December 20. Additionally, an online vote will be held to select one more participant from those who were not chosen by the jury for the final. Thus, the final list will be announced by January 17.

The National Final will take place in February. The winner will be selected based on the results of public and jury voting and will have the opportunity to represent Ukraine at Eurovision 2025 in Switzerland.

Singer Tina Karol, the musical producer of Vidbir 2025, emphasizes the key requirements that must be met in the national selection:

“It is important that an artist can submit multiple songs: two, three, or even four. Demos can also be submitted. Experiment! You can also submit a song in different versions. However, there are important selection criteria: the songs must be original. Pieces created based on other compositions are not accepted. Folk songs are not accepted. Songs that have already been published, even if they are only 10 seconds long, are not accepted. And remember, the song’s duration must be three minutes.”

In Eurovision 2025, Ukraine was represented by alyona alyona & Jerry Heil, and their song “Teresa & Maria” that ended up in 3rd place in the Grand Final:

https://youtu.be/d4N82wPpdg8

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Ukrainian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel!