The search for the last finalist in Ukraine’s Eurovision 2025 is nearly finished, as the voting for the wildcard for Vidbir 2025 commences, with Suspilne releasing the full tracks for the voters to listen to.
Voting is open until January 17th
As we previously reported, voting for this year’s wildcard opens today, January 13th; with the winner announced on the 17th. Voting will happen on the Diia governmental app; being open to Ukrainians inside, and outwith Ukraine. Teslenko had originally been part of this year’s wildcard line-up, but withdrew prior to the release of these snippets. One song will progress to next month’s final.
| Order | Artist | Entry (Translation) |
| 1 | Enleo | “Supernova“ |
| 2 | Muayad | “Amnesia“ |
| 3 | BRYKULETS | “Кришталi“ (Kryshtali) |
| 4 | Ranrawi | “Anymore“ |
| 5 | Grisana | “Kohoney“ |
| 6 | Slukhay Sashu | “Живи“ (Zhyty) |
| 7 | Mon Fia | “Dive Inside“ |
| 8 | Yagody | “БрамаЯ“ (Bramaya) |
| 9 | Starykova Hrystyna | “Rise“ |
| 10 | Fiїnka | “Культура“ (Kultura) |
The wildcard entries are available to listen to on the official Eurovision Ukraine YouTube channel. The winner will join the nine artists, which are already in the final.
Ukraine’s Eurovision 2025 representative will be selected via a three-person jury panel, which will consist of Jamala, GO_A’s Kateryna Pavlenko, and Serhiy Tanchynets, frontman of the band BEZ OBMEZHEN, and televote, and is set to take place in February.
Ukraine’s Eurovision journey
Ukraine is one of the most successful countries to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. The country has scored nine top-five placements, with an extra four top-ten finishes. Ukraine won the Contest three times – in 2004, 2016 and 2022 respectively. Ukraine made history for being the first ex-Soviet country to win the Contest more than once, and is one of only two countries (the other being recently-returned Luxembourg) to maintain a perfect semifinal qualification streak.
In 2024 alyona alyona and Jerry Heil represented Ukraine in Malmö with their song “Teresa and Maria”. The duo finished in 3rd place, scoring 453 points – of which 146 points came from the jury, whilst the remaining 307 points came from the televote.
What do you think of the wildcard entries for Vidbir 2025? Who do you think will take up the last spot in this year’s selection? As always, let us know what you think by commenting below. Also, be sure to follow ‘That Eurovision Site’ on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Threads and Bluesky for all things Ukraine at Eurovision 2025!
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