Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

On 20 November 2018, İTV organised an internal audition round where over 40 artists attended and four potential performers were shortlisted: Chingiz Mustafayev, Leman Dadashova, Samira Efendi and Tofig Hajiyev. On 24 November 2018, the broadcaster called for interested local and international songwriters to submit their songs by 7 February 2019.[2] On 8 March 2019, İTV announced that Chingiz Mustafayev would represent Azerbaijan, performing the song "Truth". The selection of Chingiz as the Azerbaijani Eurovision contestant was based on the decision of İTV and a national jury panel. "Truth" was selected from over 350 submissions from songwriters in a similar broadcaster and jury decision method.[3]

"Truth" was written by Chingiz alongside members of the songwriting team Symphonix International, Borislav Milanov, Trey Campbell, Bo J, Pablo Dinero and Hostess. The song was presented the same day the selected song and artist was announced via the release of the official music video.

Azerbaijan performed last in the second semi-final, following the entry from North Macedonia. At the end of the show, Azerbaijan was announced as having finished in the top 10 and subsequently qualifying for the grand final. It was later revealed that Azerbaijan placed fifth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 224 points: 121 points from the televoting and 103 points from the juries.

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results will be released shortly after the grand final.[6]

The following five members comprised the Azerbaijani jury:[6]

• Rashad Hashimov – Chairperson – composer
• Emir Useynov – choreographer
• Tunzale Agayeva – author, composer, singer
• Ulviyya Karimova – film director
• Yalchin Jabbarov – producer

Split voting results from Azerbaijan (Semi-final 2)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		E. Useynov	T. Agayeva	U. Karimova	Y. Jabbarov	R. Hashimov	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Armenia	17	17	17	17	17	17		17
02	Ireland	15	13	13	10	15	16		14
03	Moldova	3	15	6	15	10	8	3	11
04	Switzerland	9	6	8	8	9	9	2	2	10
05	Latvia	12	11	3	12	3	6	5	15
06	Romania	5	3	15	4	4	3	8	12
07	Denmark	14	12	12	9	14	14		13
08	Sweden	6	9	5	16	16	12		8	3
09	Austria	10	4	9	13	11	11		16
10	Croatia	11	5	11	14	12	13		10	1
11	Malta	7	2	14	6	5	5	6	5	6
12	Lithuania	16	14	16	2	7	10	1	9	2
13	Russia	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	1	12
14	Albania	4	8	4	5	8	4	7	7	4
15	Norway	13	16	10	11	13	15		6	5
16	Netherlands	8	10	7	7	6	7	4	3	8
17	North Macedonia	2	7	2	3	2	2	10	4	7
18	Azerbaijan

Split voting results from Azerbaijan (final)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		E. Useynov	T. Agayeva	U. Karimova	Y. Jabbarov	R. Hashimov	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Malta	6	2	9	4	6	2	10	7	4
02	Albania	4	9	5	6	9	4	7	16
03	Czech Republic	19	21	22	2	17	14		18
04	Germany	25	23	21	18	16	22		23
05	Russia	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	1	12
06	Denmark	14	18	16	17	20	19		19
07	San Marino	7	17	10	13	7	13		2	10
08	North Macedonia	5	11	4	5	5	3	8	8	3
09	Sweden	13	10	6	19	18	15		20
10	Slovenia	2	22	2	25	15	7	4	13
11	Cyprus	10	12	7	10	3	8	3	17
12	Netherlands	11	14	13	11	10	16		4	7
13	Greece	12	3	14	3	8	5	6	25
14	Israel	23	15	25	16	21	21		15
15	Norway	16	16	15	14	19	18		10	1
16	United Kingdom	22	25	20	21	24	25		24
17	Iceland	3	5	24	24	14	11		12
18	Estonia	17	24	18	20	23	23		21
19	Belarus	15	13	8	7	4	10	1	6	5
20	Azerbaijan
21	France	24	19	17	22	25	24		14
22	Italy	8	7	11	9	2	6	5	5	6
23	Serbia	18	20	23	15	13	20		22
24	Switzerland	9	6	12	12	11	12		3	8
25	Australia	20	4	3	23	12	9	2	11
26	Spain	21	8	19	8	22	17		9	2