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Ukraine: Meet the Nine Finalists of Vidbir 2025!

The Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC has just announced the nine artists and their song titles who will participate in the country’s national final, Vidbir 2025.

The nine artists competing in Vidbir 2025 are:
  1. Future Culture – “Waste My Time”
  2. Khayat – “Honor”
  3. Krylata – “Stay True”
  4. Molodi – “My Sea”
  5. Ziferblat – “Bird of Pray”
  6. Abiye – “Dim”
  7. DK Enerhetyk – “Sil'”
  8. Masha Kondratenko – “No Time To Cry”
  9. Vlad Sheryf – “Wind of Change”

Among the other eleven contestants who didn’t directly qualify for the final, an online vote will be held. This vote will determine one additional participant in the grand final. The full list of the 10 finalists will be announced by January 17.

The eleven artists competing for the last spot in Vidbir 2025 are:
  • BRYKULETS
  • ENLEO
  • FIЇNKA
  • GRISANA
  • MON FIA
  • Ranrawi
  • Starykova Hrystyna
  • TESLENKO
  • YAGODY
  • Muayad
  • Sluchay Sashu

The online voting will take place soon, during which we’ll get to hear the 11 songs that didn’t make it directly to the final. The nine songs already in the final will be revealed in the new year.

The televised final of Vidbir 2025 is scheduled for February 8, 2025. The winner will be decided through a combination of public and jury voting. The composition of the jury will also be determined later through an online vote by the Ukrainian public.

Last year’s Vidbir winners and Ukraine’s representatives at Eurovision 2024, alyona alyona & Jerry Heil, secured third place with their song “Teresa & Maria”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4N82wPpdg8

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Source: Suspilne

Ukraine: These are the 20 artists longlisted for Vidbir 2024!

Vidbir will remain as the country’s national selection format for Eurovision 2024. Having received 389 submissions in total, Suspilne has reviewed the proposals and now revealed the 20 participants who will advance to the next stage of the competition.

The longlisted participants who have advanced to the “Live Auditions” stage are the following:

  • Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil
  • ANKA
  • Carpetman
  • Drevo
  • INGRET
  • Julia Belei
  • KARYOTYPE
  • KRYLATA
  • MÉLOVIN
  • NAHABA
  • NAZVA
  • PARFENIUK
  • SHÉPA
  • SKYLERR
  • STASYA
  • SWOIIA
  • TESLENKO
  • YAGODY
  • YAKTAK
  • Ziferblat

Dmytro Shurov (Pianoboy), the music producer of the National Selection for Eurovision 2024, noted that all the artists who made it to the longlist are different and unique.

“Ukraine, I am very happy to present to you twenty artists who will compete this year for the opportunity to represent you at Eurovision 2024! All of them are different and original, but they are united by a warm heart, talent and a huge thirst for Victory. I am grateful to each of them for the sincere and creative energy they put into their songs. And I am especially grateful to everyone who did not have enough space in the top twenty – you made this selection possible by creating this powerful charge. Next year will be a new story and a new chance. And today it’s us.” 

What’s next for Vidbir 2024?

The aforementioned are just the longlisted competitors for Vidbir 2024. These twenty selected artists will go through a live audition, and based on the result, they will be reduced to ten.

Moreover, among the remaining ten longlisted competitors, an online voting will be held in order to determine one more participant to the televised final of Vidbir 2024.

The ten finalists, decided based on their live audition result, will be announced no later than November 20. Meanwhile, we expect the online public vote for the extra spot, after the announcement of the other ten finalists.

The televised final of Vidbir 2024 will be held in February 2024. The winner will be determined by public and jury voting. Also, the composition of the jury will be decided by the Ukrainian public at a later time through online voting.

The previous winners of Vidbir and Ukraine’s representatives in Eurovision 2023, were Tvorchi with their song “Heart of Steel”, ending up in sixth place of the Grand Final.

https://youtu.be/I2oqDpefJ1s

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