Pre-Qualification Round 5

Pre-Qualification Round 5 (abbreviated PQR 5), is a pre-event held for the fifth edition of The Song. Thirteen 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, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Iceland, Malta, Moldova, San Marino, Slovenia and Spain.