(, ; meaning "National selection"), informally known as , is a Ukrainian musical competition originally organized by Suspilne and STB, which determines the Ukrainian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. In late August 2021, it was announced that the two broadcasters had terminated their partnership, and that Suspilne was looking for a new selection format for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, thus bringing an end to the original concept for Vidbir. In October 2021, Suspilne announced that the 2022 edition of Vidbir would be organized by it alone under a new format.
In the first year of the show, the local record for SMS voting was set when the show received 344,268 unique votes, 37.77% of which supported Jamala, who eventually became the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
Winners +Table key WinnerSecond place Third place Upcoming
YearArtistSongAt EurovisionFinalPointsSemiPoints 2016 Jamala "1944"15342287 2017O.Torvald"Time"2436colspan="2" data-sort-value="-9999" 2018Mélovin"Under the Ladder"171306179 2019Maruv"Siren Song" colspan="4" 2020Go_A"Solovey" colspan="4" 2022Alina Pash"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" colspan="4" 2023 Tvorchi "Heart of Steel"6243colspan="2" data-sort-value="-9999" 2024 Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil "Teresa & Maria"34532173 2025 Ziferblat "Bird of Pray"92191137 2026 Leléka "Ridnym"92216174
Cast Over the 10 editions of Vidbir, 14 music experts have been on the jury, two of them won Eurovision: Ruslana in 2004 and Jamala in 2016. Jamala is the only member of the Vidbir cast who has participated in every edition, as a contestant in 2016, as a jury member in 2017—2019 and 2022—2025, as an interval act in 2020, and as a music producer in 2026. Several participants have had different roles in different editions of Vidbir. Julia Sanina was a participant in 2016, a jury member in 2023 and a presenter in 2024. Tina Karol was a jury member in 2020 and 2022, as well as a music producer in 2025. Kateryna Pavlenko is the winner of Vidbir 2020, host of the 2023 edition, one of the jurors of 2025 edition, and a participant in the 2026 edition. Starting from 2023, the participants of the expert jury are selected through the Ukrainian e-governance app Diia.
Key: Judge / Host / Music producer / Showrunner Competed as a contestant Judge Vidbir2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Andriy Danylko colspan="5" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="2" Konstantin Meladze colspan="2" colspan="8" Ruslana colspan="1" colspan="8" colspan="1" Jamala colspan="3" colspan="1" colspan="4" colspan="1" Yevhen Filatov colspan="2" colspan="2" colspan="5" colspan="1" Tina Karol colspan="4" colspan="2" colspan="4" Vitaliy Drozdov colspan="4" colspan="1" colspan="4" colspan="1" Yaroslav Lodygin colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="4" Julia Sanina colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="3" Taras Topolia colspan="6" colspan="1" colspan="3" Serhiy Tanchynets colspan="7" colspan="2" colspan="1" Kateryna Pavlenko colspan="4" colspan="3" colspan="1" Zlata Ognevich colspan="9" colspan="1" Kostyantyn Tomilchenko colspan="9" colspan="1"
Host Vidbir2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Oleksandr Pedan colspan="1" colspan="9" Dmytro Tankovych colspan="1" colspan="9" Serhiy Prytula colspan="1" colspan="4" colspan="5" Masha Efrosinina colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="2" colspan="1" colspan="1" Timur Miroshnychenko colspan="5" colspan="5" Zlata Ognevich colspan="6" colspan="1" colspan="3" Kateryna Pavlenko colspan="4" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="2" Julia Sanina colspan="6" colspan="1" colspan="2" Vasyl Baidak colspan="7" colspan="2" colspan="1" Lesia Nikitiuk colspan="9" colspan="1"
Music producer Vidbir2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Konstantin Meladze colspan="2" colspan="8" Ruslan Kvinta colspan="2" colspan="3" colspan="5" Mykhailo Koshovyi colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="4" Dmytro Shurov colspan="6" colspan="2" colspan="2" Tina Karol colspan="8" colspan="1" colspan="1" Jamala colspan="8" colspan="1"
Showrunner Vidbir2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Natalia Franchuk colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="1" colspan="3" Oleksiy Honcharenko colspan="5" colspan="1" colspan="4" Volodymyr Zavadyuk colspan="7" colspan="1" colspan="2" German Nenov colspan="8" colspan="2"
Editions Editions overview Color key
Year Premiere Final Contestants Episodes Winner Runner-up Third place 2016 6 February 2016 21 February 2016 18 3 Jamala"1944" The Hardkiss"Helpless" Sunsay"Love Manifest" 2017 4 February 2017 25 February 2017 24 4 O.Torvald"Time" Tayanna"I Love You" Mélovin"Wonder" 2018 10 February 2018 24 February 2018 18 3 Mélovin"Under the Ladder" Tayanna"Lelya" Kadnay"Beat of the Universe" 2019 9 February 2019 23 February 2019 16 3 Maruv"Siren Song" Freedom Jazz"Cupidon" Kazka"Apart" 2020 8 February 2020 22 February 2020 16 3 Go_A"Solovey" Khayat "Call for Love" Krutь "99" 2022 12 February 2022 8 1 Alina Pash"Tini zabutykh predkiv" Kalush Orchestra"Stefania" Wellboy"Nozzy Bossy" 2023 17 December 2022 10 1 Tvorchi"Heart of Steel" Krutь"Kolyskova" Jerry Heil"When God Shut the Door" 2024 3 February 2024 11 1 Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil"Teresa & Maria" Ziferblat"Place I Call Home" Mélovin"Dreamer" 2025 8 February 2025 10 1 Ziferblat"Bird of Pray" Molodi"My Sea" Masha Kondratenko"No Time to Cry" 2026 7 February 2026 10 1 Leléka"Ridnym" Laud"Lightkeeper" Jerry Heil"Catharticus (Prayer)"
2016
The final took place on 21 February 2016. The six entries that qualified from the semi-finals competed. The winner, "1944" performed by Jamala, was selected through the combination of votes from a public tele-vote and an expert jury. Ties were decided in favour of the entries that received higher scores from the public tele-vote. "1944" is the first Eurovision Song Contest song to feature lyrics in the Crimean Tatar language. 382,602 votes were registered by the tele-vote during the show. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 2016 Irish Eurovision entrant Nicky Byrne performed the 2016 Irish entry "Sunlight" as a guest.
Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place PercentagePoints 1 Brunettes Shoot Blondes "Every Monday" 1 3.40% 1 2 6 2 NuAngels "Higher" 3 5.94% 2 5 5 3 The Hardkiss "Helpless" 6 21.11% 5 11 2 4 Jamala "1944" 5 37.77% 6 11 1 5 Sunsay "Love Manifest" 4 18.20% 4 8 3 6 Pur:Pur "We Do Change" 2 13.58% 3 5 4
2017
Final took place on 25 February 2017. Special guests included Alma, Manel Navarro, Tamara Gachechiladze, Naviband, and Kasia Moś.
Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place PercentagePoints 1 Salto Nazad "O, mamo!" 1 11.35% 3 4 6 2 Mélovin "Wonder" 2 31.22% 6 8 3 3 O.Torvald "Time" 5 25.57% 5 10 1 4 Illaria "Thank You for My Way" 4 7.43% 1 5 5 5 Tayanna "I Love You" 6 16.69% 4 10 2 6 Rozhden "Saturn" 3 7.73% 2 5 4
2018
Final took place on 24 February 2018. Special guests included Mikolas Josef and Madame Monsieur. 179,455 unique votes were received from SMS and App voting. Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place PercentagePoints 1 Kadnay "Beat of the Universe" 3 18.61% 5 8 3 2 Tayanna "Lelya" 6 16.62% 4 10 2 3 The Erised "Heroes" 2 6.48% 1 3 6 4 Laud "Waiting" 4 11.56% 2 6 4 5 Vilna "Forest Song" 1 12.92% 3 4 5 6 Mélovin "Under the Ladder" 5 33.81% 6 11 1
2019
The final took place on 23 February 2019 with special guests Lake Malawi and Bilal Hassani. More than 167,500 unique votes were received from SMS and app voting. Maruv was declared the winner after receiving the most votes among the six finalists. On 26 February 2019, three days after the final was aired, Ukraine withdrew from the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 after Maruv and UA:PBC were unable to reach an agreement on her participation in the contest as a result of controversy. ArtistSongJuriesTelevote TotalPlace 1 Freedom Jazz "Cupidon" 6 4 10 2 2 Yuko "Galyna guliala" 4 1 5 5 3 Maruv "Siren Song" 5 6 11 1 4 Brunettes Shoot Blondes "Houston" 2 3 5 4 5 Kazka "Apart" 3 5 8 3 6 Anna Maria "My Road" 1 2 3 6
2020
ArtistSongJuryTelevote (SMS) / App TotalPlace PercentagePoints 1 Krutь "99" 5 19.90% 4 9 3 2 Jerry Heil "Vegan" 1 7.00% 1 2 6 3 Go_A "Solovey" 6 25.43% 6 12 1 4 David Axelrod "Horizon" 3 11.30% 2 5 5 5 Khayat "Call for Love" 4 20.93% 5 9 2 6 Tvorchi "Bonfire" 2 15.44% 3 5 4
Following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Go_A was internally re-selected to represent Ukraine in the , this time with the song "Shum".
2022
+ArtistSongJuryTelevote (SMS) / App TotalPlace Votes PercentagePoints 1Cloudless"All Be Alright"13,4104.81%457 2Michael Soul"Demons" 21,2391.75%138 3Our Atlantic""51,6052.27%276 4Barleben"Hear My Words"42,7403.87%375 5Kalush Orchestra"Stefania"631,63444.66%8142 6Roxolana"Girlzzzz"35,0347.11%584 7Wellboy"Nozzy Bossy"75,6427.96%6133 8Alina Pash "Tini zabutykh predkiv"819,53527.58%7151 Following controversy regarding her travel history, Alina Pash's status as a legitimate participant, and therefore winner, of was challenged, which resulted in her participation being ceased by Suspilne as well as her withdrawal. The runner-up, Kalush Orchestra, was chosen as the Ukrainian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
2023
ArtistSongJuryPublic vote (via Diia) TotalPlace VotesPoints 1Moisei"I'm Not Alone"15,393677 2OY Sound System"Oy, tuzhu"52,496278 3Demchuk"Alive"73,9364115 4Jerry Heil"When God Shut the Door"845,6579173 5Fiinka"Dovbush"611,1097134 6Krutь"Kolyskova"1033,6148182 7Tember Blanche"Ya vdoma"23,411359 8Angelina"Stronger"32,4241410 92Tone"Kvitka"44,681596 10Tvorchi"Heart of Steel"954,04110191
2024
In this edition, the public determined a wildcard entry through an online vote. During the show, aired on 3 February 2024, the voting app crashed, causing the voting window to be extended to the following day. Artist Song Jury Public vote (via Diia) Total Place Votes Points 1 Yaktak "Lalala" 6 107,227 10 16 4 2 Ingret "Keeper" 8 15,238 2 10 6 3 Nazva "Slavic English" 2 14,852 1 3 11 4 Anka "" 5 19,183 4 9 8 5 Drevo "Endless Chain" 4 16,235 3 7 9 6 Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil "Teresa & Maria" 10 723,297 11 21 1 7 Mélovin "Dreamer" 9 82,838 9 18 3 8 Skylerr "Time Is Running Out" 3 38,177 6 9 7 9 Ziferblat "Place I Call Home" 11 64,276 8 19 2 10 Yagody "Tsunamia" 7 62,269 7 14 5 11 Nahaba "Glasss" 1 23,593 5 6 10
2025
The final was held on 8 February 2025 with many veteran Ukrainian Eurovision performers as guests, including Alyona Alyona, Jamala, Jerry Heil, Kalush, Kateryna Pavlenko, Mélovin, Ruslana, Tina Karol, and Tvorchi. Artem Kotenko and Svitlana Tarabarova also performed "Hear Me Now," which finished in third place at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
Artist Song Jury Public vote Total Place Votes Points 1 Vlad Sheryf "Wind of Change"12,3021210 2 Abiie ""25,595359 3 Molodi "My Sea"770,8859162 4 Future Culture "Waste My Time"52,338278 5 Masha Kondratenko "No Time to Cry"862,4398163 6 Khayat "Honor"1044,2996164 7 Fiїnka ""652,8587135 8 Krylata "Stay True"411,726487 9 Ziferblat "Bird of Pray"990,39010191 10 DK Enerhetyk ""319,556586
2026
Artist Song Jury Public vote Total Place Votes Points 1 Valeriya Force "Open Our Hearts"48,571269 2 Molodi "Legends"213,515468 3 Monokate "" 612,902396 4 The Elliens "Crawling Whispers"116,003567 5 Laud "Lightkeeper"937,8639182 6 Leléka ""1060,05010201 7 Mr. Vel "Do or Done"717,5226134 8 Khayat ""519,0077125 9 Jerry Heil " (Prayer)"835,7218163 10 ShchukaRybа ""36,4461410
Ratings
YearSemi-FinalFinal First Second Third 2016 9.7% 10.3% 13.5% 2017 10.6% 8.8% 8.2% 9.1% 2018 9.0% 11.3% rowspan="3" 13.9% 2019 10.8% 11.1% 13.1% 2020 10.7% 10.4% 13.3% 2022 colspan="3" 3.83%
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