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EUROVISION 2025 UKRAINE: VIDBIR 2025 (Національний відбір) - LISTEN TO THE SONGS


Ukraine is having once again its national final Natsionalnyi Vidbir for Eurovision song contest 2025 in Basel. The final will take place on February 8, 2025. For safety reasons there will be pre-recording on February 7 where the jury will vote - there's 50/50 jury/televote. If it's safe to have a live show on 8th the jury will vote again along with the televoters. If not the recording will be played and the artists will watch it along with the viewers in a safe place. The televoting is via an app. 

On December 11 a list of 20 artists were announced, among them two runner ups from previous editions: Khayat (2020) and Ziferblat (2024). After auditions the ten finalists will be announced by December 20. A total bumber of submitted entries was 374. 

On December 21 the nine finalists were announced (in green). The others will have an online wild card voting for one more spot in the line up. The voting for those was between January 13-17. And yes, Ranrawi challenges the Moldovan auditions in quality. Fiinka won that. 

Truth to be said, the Ukraine has lost it, too. Compared to previous years when I usually would have been very happy with 4-6 songs winning I struggle to find one that I like a lot this year.... Molodi or Abiye for me. Or even Vlad Sherif. Once again it all comes down to staging and live performance. 


Vlad Sherif (Влад Шериф)- Wind of change ***
Abiye (Абіє) - Dim (Дім) ***
Molodi - My sea ***
Future Culture - Waste my time **
Masha Kondratenko - No time to cry ***
Khayat - Honor  **
Fiinka - Kultura **
Krylata - Stay true *
Ziferblat - Bird of pray **
DK Enerhetyk (ДК Енергетик) - Sil' (Cіль) **


Brykulets - Kryshtali (Кришталi) ** (8.)
Enleo - Supernova ** (2.)
Fiinka - Kultura ** (1.)
Grisana - Kohoney ** (7.)
Mon Fia - Dive inside ** (5.)
Ranrawi - Anymore * (10.)
Starykova Hrystyna - Rise ** (9.)
Teslenko withdrawn
Yagody - BramaYa (БрамаЯ)  ** (3.)
Muayad -  Amnesia * (4.)
Slukhay Sashu - Zhyvy (Живи) *** (6.)

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