Recently, TRM announced the acts taking part in the auditions for the Moldovan Eurovision 2025 selection, Etapa Națională 2025 to be held on January 18.
29 acts to perform in Etapa Națională 2025 auditions
Over the past week, the Moldovan national broadcaster (TRM) has been evaluating the 51 submissions received for Etapa Națională 2025. In total 29 acts advanced to the live audition round to be held on January 18 at the TRM Studios. For the first time, there are no previous Eurovision representatives among the list. The artists and their songs are below:
- Diana Elmas – ‘Fly away’
- Sasha Khanedanyan – ‘Silent Hills’
- NR.11 – ‘Bye’
- NORDIKA – ‘Ludmila’
- Royals ST – ‘Zboară-n sus’
- TUDOR BUMBAC – ‘Pace noi vrem’
- Sasha Letty – ‘Haute Couture’
- AnnaG – ‘Meet me in the dark’
- Dan Alexandrov – ‘Can’t escape’
- Nadya Crajevschi – ‘Nota shodow’
- Eblansh Band – ‘O, Moldova mea dragă!’
- Sasha Bognibov – ‘All-night party’
- Predein Cristian – ‘Moldovian Dance’
- Chris Cross – ‘Eu vin’
- Vadim Eleni – ‘Mamă, să fii!’
- Rina – ‘Dorințele’
- Macho & CARNIVAL BRAIN – ‘Semafoare’
- Lylu – ‘Pop’
- POOPS ft Zaffi – ‘Destinul’
- PRIZA feat Mc MIKE – ‘Kookoo’
- Lisa Volk – ‘O lacrimă, un dor’
- Y-gaga Band – ‘Alexia’
- LODOS – ‘Sentimental’
- Sasha Bognibov – ‘We changed our gender’
- Katy Rain – ‘Timpul’
- Catalina Solomac – ‘Demons’
- Tanya Tudor – ‘Bring me back’
- Pavel Pașcan – ‘Alăturea de tine’
- Zelorielle – ‘Miracle’
- Valleria – ‘A picture of myself’
Format of Etapa Națională 2025
The live auditions will take place on January 18. From there, ten acts will selected by a jury ranking each artist from 0-12. The ten acts with the highest scores will advance to the live national final on February 22. The overall winner of Etapa Națională 2025 will be selected by the combined scores of 50% jury and 50% public voting.
Although TRM have proposed a national final for February 22, the broadcaster reserves the right to announce the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 representative at any phase in the process.
Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest
Moldova made their Eurovision debut in 2005 with Zdob și Zdub’s ‘Boonika bate doba‘. With a successful sixth place, this was the start of things to come. Overall Moldova has participated in the contest 18 times and have reached the final on 13 occasions. As well as reaching the top 10 five times. Their best ever result came in 2017 with SunStroke Project’s energetic, ‘Hey Mamma‘ achieving third place. They have also finished second in the televote at the 2022 contest in Turin with Zdob și Zdub and Advahov Brothers’ ‘Trenulețul‘.
Last year, former Eurovision 2007 representative, Natalie Barbu took to the Eurovision stage once more. During the first Semi-Final, ‘In The Middle’ placed 13th with 20 points. Thus, becoming Moldova’s first non-qualification since 2019.
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