The date is set: Azerbaijan’s representative for Eurovision 2025 will be unveiled on February 4th! The contest entry will be revealed at a later date.

According to the official Eurovision website’s calendar, Azerbaijan’s representative for Eurovision 2025, to be held in Basel, Switzerland, will be revealed on Tuesday, February 4th. The artist was chosen through an internal selection process that received 154 song submissions, as reported by the Azerbaijani national broadcaster. The Eurovision entry will be released at a later, yet unspecified date. What details do we currently know about the candidates who competed for the coveted Eurovision ticket?

Eight Potential Candidates 

Azerbaijan is typically one of the countries that discloses the least information about its selection process for the Eurovision representative and song, usually opting for an internal selection. However, the Twitter account “Songfestival Azerbaijan” has released initial hints about the identities of the eight candidates from whom the national broadcaster will choose the Eurovision representative.

🇦🇿 Tips about singers participating in internal selections :

1) Turkvision representative
2) Eurovision commentator
3) Azerbaijani version of Linkin Park
4) Doomsday Blue
5) The hit song of the last 2 months
6) I’m going back to diyar
7) Always on my mind
8) Daddy’s Daughter pic.twitter.com/oKGIuLivq7

— Songfestival Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 (@songfestivalaze) October 6, 2024

1) Turkvision representative (a song contest in Eurovision format, mainly involving Turkish-speaking countries and regions)
2) Eurovision commentator
3) Azerbaijani version of Linkin Park
4) Doomsday Blue – likely referring to Ireland’s Eurovision 2024 song by Bambie Thug
5) The hit song of the last 2 months
6) I’m going back to diyar
7) Always on my mind
8) Daddy’s Daughter

Speculations and Theories

Although “Songfestival Azerbaijan” is an independent account and not the official account of the Azerbaijani national broadcaster, it has sparked theories about the identity of the contestants. On Reddit, users have already raised interesting speculations:

1. Kenan Çelik (Azerbaijan’s representative for Turkvision 2020), Isa Melikov (Azerbaijan’s representative for Turkvision 2015), or Farid Hasanov (who won for Azerbaijan in Turkvision 2013).
2. Azer Suleymanli (TV host who commentated Eurovision 2016, 2017, and 2018) or Murad Arif (singer and composer who commentated Eurovision 2022 and expressed interest to represent Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2025).
3. Rock bands Coda or Noir.
4. Eminzada – Azerbaijani singer and songwriter whose new song talks about the aspiration to live authentically and practice witchcraft in a parallel universe.
5. Aygun Kazimova – Azerbaijani singer who is currently leading radio charts in her country.
6. Fahree, Azerbaijan’s representative for Eurovision 2024 with the song “Özünlə apar” (“Take it with you”). “I’m going back to diyar” is a quote from the song in its previous version. The singer has announced that he will once again participate in the selection process for Eurovision 2025, but as a songwriter: “I am not participating myself, but I wrote two songs for very talented performers in the contest”.
7. Aysel, who represented Azerbaijan in Eurovision 2009 with Arash and the song “Always” which reached third place. “Always on my mind” is a quote from their song. In recent days, rumors have spread that the singer will participate in Azerbaijan’s internal selection for Eurovision.
8. Rashida Rashid, opera singer and daughter of Rashid Behbudov, a past Azerbaijani singer dubbed “the golden voice of Azerbaijan”.

Source: eurovision.tv.

Eurovision 2025: This will be Azerbaijan’s 17th participation in Eurovision. Azerbaijan joined the contest in 2008 and achieved its best result in Eurovision 2011 when singers Ell and Nikki, won first place with the song “Running Scared”.