Azerbaijan was represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with "", written by Diana Hajiyeva, Hafiz Bakhish, Mila Miles and Rustam Rzayev, and performed by Yağmur. The Azerbaijani participating broadcaster, (İTV), internally selected its entry for the contest.
Background
Prior to the 2025 contest, Azerbaijan had participated in the contest four times since its first entry in the ; before their first appearance, Azerbaijan was set to take part in , however withdrew before the contest was held as the broadcaster "could not find a suitable act". The country entered the competition twice before , when it opted not to take part in the contest and did not return until a one-off appearance in . In , Sona Azizova competed for Azerbaijan upon its return with the song "One of Those Days", which ended up in 5th place out of 19 entries with 151 points, marking its best result in the contest to date. Despite member of the Azerbaijani delegation Eldar Rasulov stating that the nation must continue to participate "no matter where the contest is held", in reference to its hostile relations with Armenia, the host country of the , the country opted not to take part in the contest between 2022 and (later due to a lack of interest, costs of participation and low viewing figures).
Before Junior Eurovision
Upon confirming their participation in the 2025 contest, İTV opened a submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen on 16 August 2025. All submissions required participants to enter covers of two songs (one in Azerbaijani and one in a foreign language), with applications open through WhatsApp until 31 August 2025. The broadcaster also contacted the Ministry of Culture to submit a list of eligible singers who have participated in international contests and festivals, with those on the list potentially being directly invited to participate.
At the closing of the application window, over 60 applications had been received. Fifteen acts were selected to take part in an audition round in Baku on 12 September 2025, where the Azerbaijani representative was chosen by a panel consisting of and Azerbaijani Eurovision representative Samira Efendi, singers , and , composer and Azerbaijan State Academic Theatre of Musical Comedy chief director . On 23 September 2025, twelve-year-old Yagmur Nasrullayeva (), known mononymously as Yağmur, was announced as the selected entrant during a presentation event held in the presence of Azerbaijani head of delegation Nurlana Jafarova and head of media Turab Teymurov, as well as the Eurovision advisor to the General Director of İTV, Maksim Tsurkov; five of the six members of the panel ranked Nasrullayeva within their top five, with three members ranking her first and one member ranking her second.
Her competing entry, "", had been selected by 10 October and was expected to be released in November; this was ultimately not the case and the reveal was scheduled for 30 October.
At Junior Eurovision The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at the Gymnastic Hall of Olympic City in Tbilisi, Georgia on 13 December 2025. On 4 November 2025, an allocation draw was held to determine the running order of the contest, ahead of which each song was classified into a different category based on its musical style and tempo. Azerbaijan was drawn to perform in position 2, following the entry from the and before the entry from .
Performance Yağmur took part in technical rehearsals in early December, followed by dress rehearsals on 12 December. Her performance of "" at the contest is staged by Mads Enggaard, who has previously worked in analogous positions on various past Eurovision entries for Azerbaijan, Denmark and Greece. She is joined on stage by three dancers from the Nero Dance Center in Baku.
Voting
At the end of the show, Azerbaijan received 12 points from juries and 54 points from online voting, placing 15th.
+ Points awarded to Azerbaijan Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point Azerbaijan received 54 points from the online vote
+ Points awarded by Azerbaijan Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Detailed voting results The following members comprised the Azerbaijani jury:https://junioreurovision.tv/event/tbilisi-2025/final/jury Omar Babir Babirli
Yashar Hafiz Bakhishov Humay Tahir Aslanova Narmin Javad Narimanli
+ Draw Country Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Rank Points 01 10 14 14 6 5 10 1 02 03 13 12 10 8 15 14 04 6 9 7 3 2 4 7 05 14 4 4 17 16 8 3 06 9 13 8 15 9 13 07 16 11 16 14 10 16 08 5 8 17 9 13 12 09 12 3 5 4 4 5 6 10 11 6 11 10 8 11 11 17 16 12 12 12 17 12 1 2 1 7 1 1 12 13 8 15 15 11 17 15 14 2 10 13 13 11 7 4 15 4 1 3 5 7 3 8 16 15 17 9 2 14 9 2 17 7 7 6 16 6 6 5 18 3 5 2 1 3 2 10
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