Worldvision Q1-2025
| Worldvision Q1-2025 | |
|---|---|
| Dates | |
| Semi-final 1 | TBA Spring 2025 |
| Semi-final 2 | TBA Spring 2025 |
| Final | TBA Spring 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 TBA Spring 2025, and a final on TBA Spring 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 XX Summer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fist half | ||||||
 Armenia
|
Pierre Garnier, M. Pokora | Chaque seconde | French | |||
| China
|
Lexie Liu | Pop Girl | English | |||
 France
|
Jade | FUFN | French | |||
 Hungary
|
Benjamin x BESS | Paremmin ku kukaan muu | Finish | |||
 Lebanon
|
Snow Wife | Crazy | English | |||
 North Macedonia
|
Ava Della Pietra | Marionette | English | |||
 Thailand
|
ALALA | Bored Game | Thai, English | |||
| Second Half | ||||||
| Belgium
|
Pierre de Maere | Enfant de | French | |||
 Brazil
|
Faouzia | Porcelain | English | |||
 Croatia
|
Tea Tairovic | Kucke i Demoni | Serbian | |||
 Cuba
|
Camilla Cabello | Godspeed | English | |||
 Kazakhstan
|
Marina | Cuntissimo | English | |||
 Portugal
|
Tommee Profitt x Sam Tinnesz x Brooke | Forbidden Fruit | English | |||
 South Korea
|
Annete Pfab | Midnight | English | |||
 Vietnam
|
Audioiko, Redemm, Arely Vega | Porque te vas | Spanish | |||
Semi-Final 2
The second semi-final took place on XX Summer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fist half | ||||||
 Azerbaijan
|
Ed Sheeran | Azizam | English | |||
 Canada
|
David Kushner | Humankind | English | |||
 Cyprus
|
Rebecca Black | Trust | English | |||
| Ireland
|
Teddy Swims | Bad Dreams | English | |||
 Netherlands
|
Di-rect | Wastelands | English | |||
 New Zealand
|
Tam | Samo Ne Ovde | Serbian | |||
 San Marino
|
Willow | Curious/Furious | English | |||
 Serbia
|
Sophie and the Giants x Purple Disco Machine | Paradise | English | |||
| Second Half | ||||||
 Albania
|
Jemina | Ihmishirviö | Finish | |||
 Bosnia & Herzegovina
|
Breskvica | Turbo I Folk | Serbian | |||
 Denmark
|
Felicia Lu | Wish You Well | English | |||
 Germany
|
Flore | Monster | English | |||
 Sweden
|
Molly Sandén | Hålla mig | Swedish | |||
 Switzerland
|
Key | Another Life | English | |||
 United Kingdom
|
Calum Scott | Lighthouse | English | |||
 United States
|
Hanna Ferm, Junie | Välkommen Åter | Swedish | |||
Grand Final
| Country | Artist | Song | Language(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia
|
Alesso, Becky Hill | Surrender | English | ||
| Italy
|
Alfa | Il filo rosso | Italian | ||
| Israel
|
Angelo St-Ange | Si j'y arrive pas ( If I can't ) | French | ||
| Japan
|
Jeon Somi | Ice Cream | English | ||
| Norway
|
Alexander Eder | Julia & Romeo | German | ||
| Spain
|
Grant Knoche | Talk | English |