Vidbir


Yevrobachennia. Natsionalnyi Vidbir or simply Vidbir is a Ukrainian musical competition organized by STB and. The contest defines the representative of Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest.
In the first year of the show, the local record by SMS voting was set by receiving 344,268 unique votes, 37.77% of which supported Jamala.

Winners

Cast

Seasons

Vidbir 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.

Vidbir 2017

Final took place on 25 February 2017. Special guests included Alma, Manel Navarro, Tamara Gachechiladze, Naviband, and Kasia Moś.

Vidbir 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.

Vidbir 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 were unable to reach an agreement on her participation in the contest as a result of controversy.
DrawArtistSongJuriesTelevoteTotalPlace
1Freedom Jazz"Cupidon"64102
2Yuko"Galyna guliala"4155
3Maruv"Siren Song"56111
4Brunettes Shoot Blondes"Houston"2354
5Kazka"Apart"3583
6Anna Maria"My Road"1236

Vidbir 2020

Ratings

Year1 SF2 SF3 SFFinal
20169.7%10.3%13.5%
201710.6%8.8%8.2%9.1%
20189.0%11.3%rowspan="3" 13.9%
201910.8%11.1%13.1%-
202010.7%10.4%13.3%-