Worldvision Q3-2025
| Worldvision Q3-2025 | |
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| Dates | |
| Semi-final 1 | TBA October 2025 |
| Semi-final 2 | TBA October 2025 |
| Final | TBA October 2025 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Pia Arena MM, Yokohama, Japan |
| Executive supervisor |  Mark Solovyov |
| Executive producer |  Pavel Kulik |
| Host broadcaster | NHK |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 31 |
| Debuting countries |  Malaysia |
| Returning Countries |  Switzerland |
| Non-returning Countries |  Armenia Bosnia & Herzegovina Greece San Marino Sweden Ukraine |
| 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 3 - 2025 was the 12th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Yokohama, Japan, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2025 contest with the song "Messy" by Rose. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). The contest was held Pia Arena MM, and consisted of a semi-finals on TBA October 2025, and a final on TBA October 2025.
Thirty-one countries participated in the competition, the lowest number for the 2024 and 2025 competitions. Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Sweden and Ukraine withdrew from participation in the contest and San Marino has been disqualified for the season. Switzerland returned to participation after a seasonal absence, and Malaysia was also invited to the competition as an IECO associate member at the invitation of the host country.
Location
Japan won the right to host the season after winning the contest in Paris. On September 28, it was announced that Yokohama would host the 12th season of the competition at Pia Arena MM.
City bidding process
On September 14, it was announced that 11 candidate cities had expressed their desire to host the competition. The host broadcaster also announced that the city selection process would be conducted in two stages: in the first stage, all participating broadcasters could rate each city with a "like" or "dislike" sign. Four cities advanced to the second stage: Okinawa, Saitama, Tokyo, and Yokohama. In the second stage, the host city was determined by a reference group, which at the time of selecting the host city of the competition included: Japan (host of the competition), Australia (supervisor of the competition), Denmark, Israel, Lebanon and the United Kingdom.
| City/town | Venue | Capacity | First Stage | Second Stage | ||
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| Okinawa | Okinawa Arena | 10,000 | 5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Saitama | Saitama Super Arena | 36,500 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tokyo | Ariake Arena | 15,000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Yokohama | Pia Arena MM | 12,150 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
| Fukuoka | Marine Messe Fukuoka | 15,000 | 5 | 4 | Eliminated | |
| Funabashi | LaLa Arena Tokyo-Bay | 10,000 | 2 | 5 | ||
| Hiroshima | Hiroshima Green Arena | 10,000 | 5 | 2 | ||
| Kobe | World Memorial Hall | 8,000 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Maebashi | Yamada Green Dome Maebashi | 20,000 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Nagano | Big Hat | 10,100 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Osaka | Osaka-jō Hall | 16,000 | 1 | 2 | ||
Production
Following the rebranding trend around contests, the Q3-25 contest became the first to feature the new rebranded logo of Worldvision. This is the first time since 2016 the logo was changed. The previous logo was created for the predecessor of Worldvision IECO which was organized in 2016-2021 and got inherited for the first edition Q4-22 in Spain.
Format
The Paris Worldvision Song Contest featured 35 countries. It is expected that the final number of participants at the contest in Japan may be smaller than at the contest in France, which may lead to the organization of only one semi-final instead of two. On September 22, it was announced that 30 countries would participate in the contest in Japan, changing the format from two semi-finals to one. Twenty-four countries will also participate in the final, 14 of which qualify automatically: the top 10 from the previous season and four more countries based on their rankings over the past three seasons of the contest. The remaining 16 countries will compete for the remaining 10 spots in the final.
Ban list of popular artists
On September 28, the competition's organizers announced that starting with the 12th season of the Eurovision Song Contest, they would ban the use of highly renowned performers. This would eliminate any obvious differences between the various countries' entries due to the boosts provided by renowned international performers. The initial list included 150 performers and bands and is subject to change.
Participating Countries
On September 22, it was announced that 30 countries would participate in the contest in Japan. Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Sweden and Ukraine withdrew from participation in the contest and San Marino has been disqualified for the season. Switzerland returned to participation after a seasonal absence, and Malaysia was also invited to the competition as an IECO associate member at the invitation of the host country.
On September 24, it became known that Croatia would participate with a penalty.
Semi-Final
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 Albania
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 China
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 Croatia
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 Cuba
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 Czechia
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 Denmark
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 France
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 Germany
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 Hungary
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 Israel
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 Italy
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 Kazakhstan
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Sqwoz Bab | TBA October | ||||
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 Norway
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 Portugal
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 Serbia
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 South Korea
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 Vietnam
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Grand Final
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 Canada
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 Ireland
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| Japan
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 Lebanon
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Cara & Chadia Rodriguez | Preferisco Te | Spanish | |||
 Netherlands
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 North Macedonia
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 Spain
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 Thailand
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 United Kingdom
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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.
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