Pre-Qualification Round 7

Pre-Qualification Round 7 (abbreviated PQR 7), is a pre-event held for the seventh edition of The Song. Fifteen countries were participating and eight of them qualified to the semi finals of the edition.

Format
The European Broadcaster Union (EBU) announced that the limit of entries for each edition would be 46 participants. As the confirmation of participation from eligible countries exceeded this amount, the EBU created a pre-qualification round that would take place each edition before the actual contest. Eight countries shall qualify into the semi-finals from the pre-qualification round, whilst the remaining are eliminated. This edition the participating countries of the pre-qualification round were Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, North Macedonia, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland and Türkiye.

The voting system for this edition underwent a change, most notably with the removal of the participating countries voting as juries. All eligible voters will cast their vote as the televote, with the Top 8 qualifying for the main contest.