Pre-Qualification Round 4

Pre-Qualification Round 4 (abbreviated PQR 4), is a pre-event held for the fourth edition of The Song, in the United Kingdom. The contest was held at the Balloch Castle Country Park Stage. 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 the 46 participants. Because of the amount of confirmations the EBU created a pre-qualification round that takes place every edition before the actual contest. Eight countries every edition qualify from the pre-qualification round to the semi-finals while the others are eliminated. This edition the participating countries of the pre-qualification round were Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, San Marino, Serbia and Türkiye.