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Worldvision Q1-2025

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 1 - 2025 was the 10th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Hobart, Australia, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q4-2024 contest with the song "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster SBS. The contest was held TBA arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on TBA Spring 2025, and a final on TBA Spring 2025.

Worldvision Q1-2025
Dates
Semi-final 1TBA Spring 2025
Semi-final 2TBA Spring 2025
FinalTBA Spring 2025
Host
VenueMyState Bank Arena, Hobart, Australia
Executive supervisor Mark Solovyov
Host broadcaster SBS
Participants
Number of entries37
Returning Countries Belgium
China
Ireland
Non-returning Countries Iceland
Poland
Participation map
Vote
Voting systemEach country's Jury awards one set of 12, 10, 8–1 points to ten songs as 50% of the votes, while Televote matches the result with another 50% of the points awarded percentage-wise proportionally.
Q4-24Worldvision Q1-2025Q2-25

Thirty-six countries participated in the contest. It was announced that Belgium, China and Ireland returning after one-episodes absences respectively. While Iceland and Poland announced that they would not be taking part.

Location

The Q1-2025 contest took place in Hobart, Australia, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the second time that Australia hosts the contest (after the Q2-2023 contest). The selected venue is the 5,500-seat MyState Bank Arena.

City bidding process

After the final of the previous season, the organizers began preparing for the competition by searching for a host city. A total of 9 cities submitted their applications for consideration for the host city of the anniversary season of the competition. On March 14, four cities were announced as contenders for victory: Sydney, Adelaide, Cairns, Hobart. On March 15, Hobart was announced as the host city, and the competition itself will take place at MyState Bank Arena.

Format

Two semi-finals has stayed with the same rules in this episode.

Participating Countries

The countries listed below confirmed their participation in the previous season, so for the current season their participation is automatically confirmed, unless the broadcaster itself announces its withdrawal from the competition.

Semi-Finals

Country Artist Song Language(s)
  Albania
  Armenia
  Azerbaijan
  Belgium
  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Brazil
  Canada David Kushner Humankind English
  China Lexie Liu Pop Girl English
  Croatia
  Cuba Camilla Cabello Godspeed English
  Cyprus
  Denmark
  France
  Germany Flore Monster English
  Hungary Selection
  Ireland
  Israel Angelo St-Ange Si j'y arrive pas ( If I can't ) French
  Italy
  Japan Selection
  Kazakhstan
  Lebanon Snow Wife Crazy English
  New Zealand Tam Samo Ne Ovde Serbian
  Netherlands
  North Macedonia Selection
  Norway Selection
  Portugal Tommee Profitt x Sam Tinnesz x Brooke Forbidden Fruit English
  San Marino
  Serbia
  South Korea Annete Pfab Midnight English
  Spain
  Sweden
  Switzerland
  Thailand ALALA Bored Game Thai, English
  United Kingdom Selection
  United States Hanna Ferm, Junie Välkommen Åter Swedish
  Vietnam

Grand Final

Country Artist Song Language(s)
  Australia Selection

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