Worldvision Q1-2025

Worldvision Q1-2025
Dates
Semi-final 1	17 June 2025
Semi-final 2	19 June 2025
Final	28 June 2025
Host
Venue	MyState Bank Arena, Hobart, Australia
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Host broadcaster	SBS
Participants
Number of entries	37
Returning Countries	Belgium China Ireland
Non-returning Countries	Iceland Poland
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each 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.

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 MyState Bank Arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on 17 and 19 June 2025, and a final on 28 June 2025.

Thirty-seven 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.

The following countries improved their results: Cuba. Cuba qualified for the final for the first time. It was the first time that Belgium, San Marino, Serbia and Vietnam failed to make it to the final.

Location

MyState Bank Arena, host venue of the Q1-2025 contest.

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.

Voting changes

After the end of the Q4-2024 contest, many delegations of participating countries expressed their dissatisfaction with the ability of television viewers to vote for their country. In April 2025, the contest supervisor Mark Solovyov announced that each country could now only involve one viewer in the voting and without the right to vote for their country.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

On May 25, the organizers of the contest presented the composition of the baskets for the draw. Thus, 31 countries were distributed into 6 countries in 4 baskets and 7 countries in 1 basket. This was the second time that the allocation of the Autofinalist countries to the semi-finals was determined by a pictogram lottery: each semi-final was assigned three specific emojis (dolphin, starfish, yacht, sunglasses, palm tree and deck chair). The heads of delegation of the Autofinalist countries chose one of the pictograms and received one of the two semi-finals. The draw for the semi-finals was broadcast at 20:30 CET on 1 June. The draw also determined which semi-final each of the six automatic qualifiers – host country Australia and "Top-5" countries from the previous edition (Spain, Italy, Norway, Japan and ranking best Israel) – would vote in and be required to broadcast.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Belgium Brazil Denmark Germany Lebanon Serbia Switzerland	China Cuba Ireland Kazakhstan Netherlands United States	Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia France	Canada Hungary Portugal San Marino Sweden Vietnam	Cyprus New Zealand North Macedonia South Korea Thailand United Kingdom

Participating Countries

On April 26, the organizers of the competition announced thirty-seven participating countries in Hobart. Among the participants in the competition were Belgium, China and Ireland. Iceland and Poland canceled the competition in this season. On April 29, the organizers named the 6 auto-finalists of the season: the top 5 of the previous competition (Australia, Spain, Italy, Norway, Japan) and the country leading in the overall standings over the past three seasons - Israel.

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final took place on 17 June 2025. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries along with Italy, Japan and Norway will vote and perform in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	China	Lexie Liu	Pop Girl	English
02	Hungary	Benjamin x BESS	Paremmin ku kukaan muu	Finish
03	Armenia	Pierre Garnier, M. Pokora	Chaque seconde	French	13	90
04	Thailand	ALALA	Bored Game	Thai, English
05	Lebanon	Snow Wife	Crazy	English
06	North Macedonia	Ava Della Pietra	Marionette	English	11	106
07	France	Jade	FUFN	French
08	Cuba	Camilla Cabello	Godspeed	English
09	Croatia	Tea Tairovic	Kucke i Demoni	Serbian	14	81
10	Portugal	Tommee Profitt x Sam Tinnesz x Brooke	Forbidden Fruit	English
11	South Korea	Annete Pfab	Midnight	English
12	Vietnam	Audioiko, Redemm, Arely Vega	Porque te vas	Spanish	15	63
13	Kazakhstan	Marina	Cuntissimo	English
14	Belgium	Pierre de Maere	Enfant de	French	12	103
15	Brazil	Faouzia	Porcelain	English

Voting in the 1st Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All 15 countries competing in the first semi-final voted, alongside Italy, Japan and Norway. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The 1st Semi-Final voting results Total score Televoting score China Hungary Armenia Thauland Lebanon North Macedonia France Cuba Croatia Portugal South Korea Vietnam Kazakhstan Belgium Brazil Italy Japan Norway Contestants China Hungary Armenia 90 Thailand Lebanon North Macedonia 106 France Cuba Croatia 81 Portugal South Korea Vietnam 63 Kazakhstan Belgium 103 Brazil

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12 points awarded by the jury

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Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on 19 June 2025. Fifteen countries took part in the second semi-final. Those countries along with Australia, Israel and Spain will vote and perform in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Canada	David Kushner	Humankind	English
02	San Marino	Willow	Curious/Furious	English	16	55
03	Ireland	Teddy Swims	Bad Dreams	English
04	Cyprus	Rebecca Black	Trust	English
05	New Zealand	Tam	Samo Ne Ovde	Serbian
06	Azerbaijan	Ed Sheeran	Azizam	English	14	98
07	Serbia	Sophie and the Giants & Purple Disco Machine	Paradise	English	11	130
08	Netherlands	Di-rect	Wastelands	English	15	76
09	United States	Hanna Ferm, Junie	Välkommen Åter	Swedish
10	Denmark	Felicia Lu	Wish You Well	English	12	113
11	Albania	Jemina	Ihmishirviö	Finnish
12	Switzerland	Key	Another Life	English	13	104
13	Sweden	Molly Sandén	Hålla mig	Swedish
14	Germany	Flore	Monster	English
15	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Breskvica	Turbo I Folk	Serbian
16	United Kingdom	Calum Scott	Lighthouse	English

Voting in the 2nd Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All 16 countries competing in the first semi-final voted, alongside Australia, Israel and Spain. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The 1st Semi-Final voting results Total score Televoting score Canada San Marino Ireland Cyprus New Zealand Azerbaijan Serbia Netherlands United States Denmark Albania Switzerland Sweden Germany Bosnia and Herzegovina United Kingdom Australia Israel Spain Contestants Canada San Marino 55 Ireland Cyprus New Zealand Azerbaijan 98 Serbia 130 Netherlands 76 United States Denmark 113 Albania Switzerland 104 Sweden Germany Bosnia and Herzegovina United Kingdom

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Grand Final

Twenty-six countries took part in the final, composed of the host country Australia, another five countries with its best result from the previous edition, and the ten best-ranked entries of each of the two semi-finals. The broadcast of the Grand Final took place on 28 June, 2025, at 21:15 (GMT +3). All thirty-seven participating countries with jury and televote will vote in the final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Breskvica	Turbo I Folk	Serbian
02	Ireland	Teddy Swims	Bad Dreams	English
03	United States	Hanna Ferm, Junie	Välkommen Åter	Swedish
04	Australia	Alesso, Becky Hill	Surrender	English
05	Norway	Alexander Eder	Julia & Romeo	German
06	Cuba	Camilla Cabello	Godspeed	English
07	Albania	Jemina	Ihmishirviö	Finnish
08	United Kingdom	Calum Scott	Lighthouse	English
09	Lebanon	Snow Wife	Crazy	English
10	New Zealand	Tam	Samo Ne Ovde	Serbian
11	Spain	Grant Knoche	Talk	English
12	Portugal	Tommee Profitt x Sam Tinnesz x Brooke	Forbidden Fruit	English
13	Kazakhstan	Marina	Cuntissimo	English
14	South Korea	Annete Pfab	Midnight	English
15	Italy	Alfa	Il filo rosso	Italian
16	China	Lexie Liu	Pop Girl	English
17	Sweden	Molly Sandén	Hålla mig	Swedish
18	Brazil	Faouzia	Porcelain	English
19	Israel	Angelo St-Ange	Si j'y arrive pas ( If I can't )	French
20	Japan	Jeon Somi	Ice Cream	English
21	France	Jade	FUFN	French
22	Hungary	Benjamin x BESS	Paremmin ku kukaan muu	Finish
23	Germany	Flore	Monster	English
24	Canada	David Kushner	Humankind	English
25	Thailand	ALALA	Bored Game	Thai, English
26	Cyprus	Rebecca Black	Trust	English

Public voting representatives of participating countries

The viewers of the participating countries could be other members of the organization or other invited persons. Each competing participating country could invite up to one spectator.

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from Canada, Finland, Honduras and Romania.

Grand Final (TBA: 0)		First Semi-Final (TBA: 14)		Second Semi-Final (TBA: 15)
Country	Name & Origin	Country	Name & Origin	Country	Name & Origin
ROTW	TBA	ROTW	TBA	ROTW	TBA
	Carlos Edwardo Rodriguez Rojas		Carlos Edwardo Rodriguez Rojas		Carlos Edwardo Rodriguez Rojas
	Kiran Sebastian		Kiran Sebastian		Kiran Sebastian
	TBA		TBA		TBA
	TBA		TBA		TBA
	AI (GPT-4o)		AI (GPT-4o)		AI (GPT-4o)
		Japan	Raphie Coni	Australia	TBA
		United Kingdom	Alena Markelova	Japan	Raphie Coni
		Cuba	TBA	United Kingdom	Alena Markelova
		Germany	Polyna Synevich	Cuba	TBA
		Bosnia & Herzegovina	TBA	Germany	Polyna Synevich
		TBA	TBA	Bosnia & Herzegovina	TBA
		TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
		TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
				TBA	TBA