One of the world's largest live contests The final battle to determine the Japanese representative for "Emergenza Japan 2025" will be held on July 12 (Sat) at Shibuya duo MUSIC EXCHANGE!

The Emergenza Japan Office (hosted by EMERGENZA INTERNATIONAL BOARD / operated by Windgate Inc.) will host the "Emergenza Festival," the world's largest live contest for independent artists, held on a global scale, mainly in Europe and Asia. The final of the Japanese competition, "Emergenza Festival," will be held in Japan. The final of the Japan competition, "Emergenza Japan 2025 JAPAN FINAL," will be held at Shibuya duo MUSIC EXCHANGE on Saturday, July 12, 2025.

Scenes from the 2024 Emergenza Final

The winner of this event will represent Japan in the Emergenza 2025 World Final to be held at the open-air festival "Taubertal Festival" https://taubertal-festival.de/ in Germany from August 7 to 10, 2025. All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by Emergenza. In the past, the Japanese representative has won the world's top prize, and the event has attracted attention from the media and music industry as a gateway to success for "from Japan to the world".

【Event Outline】

Event name: Emergenza Japan 2025 JAPAN FINAL

Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025

　　　Doors open 14:00 / Concert begins 14:25

Venue: Shibuya duo MUSIC EXCHANGE (O-EAST Building 1F, 2-14-8 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

Ticket: Advance ticket 3,000 yen / At the door 4,000 yen (+1 drink 600 yen)

Advance tickets can be purchased at https://eplus.jp/sf/detail/4317560001-P0030001P021001?P1=0175

Japan Final Flyer

【Artists】

The order of performances in Tokyo area A-C blocks will be announced on the day of the event.

<Nagoya representatives＞

sirokunote

＜Osaka BAND＞

QynemaLens

＜Osaka Representative SSW＞

Haruse Sakurako

＜Block A＞

DONVOLG

The TENGUZ

Ravitz Matsuo & His Hair with Exte. Horns

Reptile

＜Block B＞

Eighty eight

AREINT

Touda Akari

＜Block C＞

Super Thunder NEO

SITUASION

LiberaMe

MC: YUYA, Hazuki Hayase

【Judging Rule】

1.First round of judging

The top 7 out of 13 artists will be selected based on the total points of on-site votes and online voting (MUDIA) points, whichever is higher, either by a show of hands at the venue or by votes from the 2D code distributed to all participants.

2.Final judging

The winner will be selected from among the 7 groups that have passed the first round of judging, based on the total points obtained from the judging by the 5 special guest judges and the total points obtained from the audience votes. All the performing groups are subject to evaluation by each of the judges.

Special jury members: 5 members (music producers, major-label newcomer discovery division personnel, composers, arrangers, EMERGENCY, and musicians)

【Winner】

Right to participate in the World Finals in Germany. Other extra prizes.

The winner of the World Final will participate in the main stage with tens of thousands of people!

2023 World Finals TRAinnovation

【List of the prizes】

・German Embassy Prize: Live performance rights at the Aoyama Park German Fest

・Ark Visions Prize: Opening theme for a national terrestrial music program

・Magonodaimade Production Prize: Vocal recording rights in a state-of-the-art studio with an engineer

・e-earphone prize: "Hi-Unit001-pnk" supervised by Pierre Nakano

・steinberg Award: Cubase Pro & Backbone (production software)

・EMERGENZA Award: Best Player / Best Singer / Jury's Special Award

・Studio Chapter Haus prize (extra prize for the winner): Recording rights with an engineer for 2 days and 1 night

・SMART USEN Prize (extra prize): Guest appearance on a radio program specializing in music

【What is Emergenza?】

One of the world's largest live contest-type festivals that originated in Europe in 1992. In Japan, it has been held annually since 2008 and is highly regarded as a gateway to success for talented indies and as a stage for career acceleration after major label debut.

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