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Azerbaijan: 154 entries submitted to İctimai Television for Eurovision 2025!

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The national broadcaster of Azerbaijan, İctimai Television, announced back in August that it will be participating in Eurovision 2025. Then, for those who wanted to compete in Eurovision 2025, a submission window was opened.

154 entries were submitted to İctimai Television in total, as it was revealed after the submission window closed on September 15.

 

Notably, the broadcaster observed an increase in the number of Azerbaijani composers expressing interest; last year, their participation rate was 43%; this year, it is 49%, accounting for nearly half of the submissions.

What’s next?

Although, there is no further information about the progress of this selection stage, it seems that İTV will first review the entries submitted. Then and if last year’s procedure is followed, we can assume that the broadcaster will test its Eurovision candidates’ vocal and performance skills. The candidate who has the best song and can deliver it vocal and performance wise, will be the one to represent the nation to Basel.

Fahree and Ilkin Dovlatov, were İTV’s picks for Eurovision 2024 with their song “Özünlə apar”. Unfortunately, the duo did not manage to qualify for the Grand Final for the second consecutive year.

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Azerbaijan: These are the six artists claiming the country’s representation in Malmö!

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Azerbaijan will choose its Eurovision 2024 act via an internal selection, as usual. Nonetheless, this year’s Azerbaijani internal selection took the form of an internal competition. A submission window was opened till late September for those interested, a shortlist of 16 artists was made and then a “Live Auditions” round took place, in order to evaluate the peformance and vocal skills of the contenders.

Following the aforementioned procedure, Ictimai Television has announced via its official Eurovision account on Instagram, that out of the 16 artists that competed in the “Live Auditions” stage, 6 of them have been shortlisted.

Who are the six artists shortlisted?

Following the voting of a jury committee, the following six artists have been shortlisted and will hence claim the Azerbaijani representation in Malmö:

  • Emiliya Yaqubova
  • Ilkin Dovlatov, Mila Miles and Etibar Asadli
  • Aisel (Azerbaijan 2018)
  • Fahree I.
  • Qorqud (Elvin Novruzov)
  • Sabina Guluzadeh

Among the jury members of the selection there are Aysel Teymurzadə (Azerbaijan 2009) as well as Eldar Qasımov & Nigar Camal (Azerbaijan 2011-winner).

 

What’s next?

From now on, there is no specific information about the progress of the selection and what else to expect. Ictimai Television has not revealed to the public any details regarding the selection process. For any update, we expect an announcement via its social media accounts.

Azerbaijan wants to overturn the tables after its second non qualification this year, in Liverpool. TuralTuranX with their song “Tell Me More”, managed to finish only second to last in their Semi-Final.

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