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San Marino: TESLENKO will compete in the San Marino Song Contest 2025

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The San Marino Song Contest is currently in its auditions phase, during which international artists can compete to be selected for the semifinals of the San Marinese national selection for Eurovision.

Ukrainian artist TESLENKO has joined the participants competing to represent San Marino.  A couple of days after announcing his withdrawal from Vidbir 2025, the artist will compete for a place in the San Marino national final.  According to the website of the competition, he will take part in the casting phase on January 11 at 17:10 CET.  TESLENKO will audition on the same day with Besa Kokëdhima who represented Albania in Eurovision 2024.

Following the announcement of his participation, TESLENKO has published a story on his Instagram where he said he is excited about having another opportunity to compete in Eurovision.  In his story, he said that, although he would be representing San Marino, his song proposal would keep Ukrainian patterns as well as the spirit of the country and that his goal is to strengthen the presence of his country at the European contest.

From Vidbir to San Marino

TESLENKO was initially planning to compete in Vidbir 2025.  He had already participated in the Ukrainian national selection in 2024 with the song “Lights Go Up”.  Unfortunately, he finished in 8th place in the online voting of Vidbir and could not reach the final in 2024.  This year he was competing for the last seat for the Final of Vidbir.  He was competing with other 10 artists.

However, on 27 December, TESLENKO withdrew from Vidbir 2025.  The acts that did not advance to the Vidbir 2025 final will have another opportunity to earn the last position through an online vote through the Diya app in January.  TESLENKO was on the Second Chance voting until recently when he asked Suspilne to suspend his participation.

According to TESLENKO’S Instagram, he decided to withdraw from Vidbir to avoid “being accused of exaggerating a sensible topic”

The final of the first San Marino Song Contest will take place on March 08, 2025

Source: SMRTV

 

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

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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.

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