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Worldvision Q2-2025

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 2 - 2025 was the 11th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Paris, France, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q1-2025 contest with the song "FUFN" by Jade. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster France Télévisions (FTV). The contest was held Accor Arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on TBA August 2025, and a final on TBA August 2025.

Worldvision Q2-2025
We Write The Story
Dates
Semi-final 1TBA August 2025
Semi-final 2TBA August 2025
FinalTBA August 2025
Host
VenueAccor Arena, Paris, France
Executive supervisor Mark Solovyov
Executive producer Bahdan Hrymalyuk
Host broadcaster FTV
Participants
Number of entries35
Debuting countries Czechia
Ukraine
Returning Countries Greece
Non-returning Countries Azerbaijan
Belgium
Cyprus
Switzerland
United States
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.
Q1-25Worldvision Q2-2025Q3-25

Thirty-five countries participated in the contest. Czechia and Ukraine participating in the contest first time and Greece returning after three-episodes absences respectively. While Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus Switzerland and the United States withdrew from the competition.

Location

After the victory in the previous edition in Hobart, Australia at the 10th edition, France has received the rights to host the contest.

City bidding process

The following cities and their proposed arenas have expressed interest in hosting the competition: Paris (La Defense Arena, Accor Arena and Adidas Arena) and Marseille. On July 19, it was announced that Paris would host the eleventh season of the competition at the Paris Accor Arena.

Production

 
Spiral geometry featured in flair for Q2-25 edition

Format

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


Semi-Final Allocation Draw

On August 16, the organizers of the contest presented the contents for the pots that will be used in the allocation draw. Thus, 29 countries were distributed into 5 pots, with four pots containing 6 countries, and the last one - five. This was the third time that the allocation of the pre-qualified countries for voting in the semi-finals was determined by a pictogram lottery: each of the semi-final were assigned with three specific emojis (dolphin, starfish, yacht, sunglasses, palm tree and deck chair). The heads of the resepctive delegations of the pre-qualified countries have chosen one of the proposed pictures and have determined their way to vote in one of the semi-finals. The draw for the semi-finals was broadcasted at 20:30 CET on 17 August.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5

Participating Countries

Belgium (second time) and Azerbaijan were removed from the competition of this season due to a low assessment of activity in Iko in the last seasons, but their return is possible for the season Q3-2025. Greece with the new leadership returned to the competition after three seasons of not participation. The final was directly held: France (the host of the country), Sweden, China, Germany and Japan. The sixth autophinal will become known later, who to thin the amount of points scored in the finals of the last three seasons.

On July 28, the organizers of the competition announced that thirty -five countries would take part in the competition in Paris and that Switzerland and the United States would miss the competition.

Semifinal Participants

# Country Artist Song Language(s)
  Albania Holden Solo Stanotte Italian
  Armenia MDMC Kill the Light English
  Bosnia & Herzegovina Teodora & Jala Brat 101 Zmija Serbian
  Brazil Say Now Can't Keep A Beat English
  Canada The Hardkiss Mayak (Маяк) Ukrainian
  Croatia Lexie Liu Dance Dance English
  Cuba Chase Icon Job Application English
  Czechia Nicolina Situations English
  Denmark Elley Duhe Body Talk English
  Greece Zoe Wees Traitor English
  Hungary Adam Woods Okay English
  Ireland Dean Lewis I Hate That It's True English
  Israel Sevdaliza Messiah English
  Italy Fabio Rovazzi, Paola Iezzi & Dani Faiv Red Flag Italian
  Kazakhstan Moya Mishel, Dose Ptashka (Плашка) Russian
  Lebanon Meesha Shafi Rajkumari Punjabi, English
  Netherlands Megan Woods I Believe You English
  New Zealand Alaina Castillo Hookah Envenena Spanish
  North Macedonia Dove Cameron Romeo English
  Norway Linh J'avoue French
  Portugal Neoni Levitate English
  San Marino Alternosfera & Delia Frig De Mor Romanian
  Serbia Roya Dawn/Day English
  South Korea Naomi Larein Stranger English
  Spain Gran Error, Elvana Gjata Besame En Rio English, Spanish
  Thailand Johnny Huynh Red Rose English
  Ukraine Dorofeeva & Positiff Taste-Sadness Ukrainian
  United Kingdom Belen Aguilera Laberinto Spanish
  Vietnam Grossstadtgefluster Ich Kundige German

Semi-Final 1

# Country Artist Song Language(s)
First Half
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Second Half
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Voting in the 1st Semi-Final

Semi-Final 2

# Country Artist Song Language(s)
First Half
  Unknown Country
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Second Half
  Unknown Country
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Voting in the 2nd Semi-Final

Grand Final

# Country Artist Song Language(s)
Second Half
20   France Stromae Mauvaise Journee French
TBD Half
  Australia Confidence Man I Can't Lose You English
  China Wonho Better Than Me English
  Germany Rani Set Me Free English
  Japan Rose Messy English
  Sweden Empara Mi Closer to Heaven 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 two spectators.


Grand Final (TBA) First Semi-Final (TBA) Second Semi-Final (TBA)
Country Name & Origin Country Name & Origin Country Name & Origin
  ROTW   Adrien Alonso-Dussel   ROTW   Adrien Alonso-Dussel   ROTW   Adrien Alonso-Dussel
  TBA   TBA   TBA
  TBA   TBA   TBA
  TBA   TBA   TBA
  TBA   TBA   TBA
  AI (GPT-4o)   AI (GPT-4o)   AI (GPT-4o)

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