The Gala dinner "MUZ-TV Awards 2025. LEGEND" was held in Moscow

On April 22, a Gala dinner of the national music Award MUZ-TV 2025 LEGEND was held in Moscow, where shortlists in the nominations and secret leading events were announced, as well as the start of the audience voting.

The presenters will be Yana Churikova, Vladimir Marconi, Lera Kudryavtseva, MIA BOYKA and Nikolai Baskov. Among the guests of the event were both nominees and winners of the MUZ-TV Award from previous years, as well as representatives of the expert jury — representatives of the Russian music industry, masters of domestic show business and producers.

This year, for the first time, the Zhenya Trofimov band and the Culture Room, ZOLOTO, BEARWOLF and other young artists who have only recently started their journey, but have already become one of the main characters of the music charts, were included in the shortlists of the ceremony.

It became known that Sultan Laguchev's cover of Slava's song "Hitchhiker", as well as The Hatters' cover of Agatha Christie's track "Fabulous Taiga" were shortlisted for the "Best Cover Version" nomination. In addition, for the first time in the history of the award, this nomination features a song that became the soundtrack to the film (TV series "Amur") — a cover of the song "Earth" by Masha and the Bears performed by Tosi Chaikina and the rock band Three Days of Rain.

The joint work of Dima Bilan and Marie Crymbreri "It's My Life" is presented in four nominations at once — "Best Song", "Best Dance Video", "Best Collaboration" and "Best Video". Lucy Chebotina also became one of the record holders in the number of nominations — this year she has settled in six nominations and will compete for the title of "Best Performer".

In addition, works with Basta's participation were shortlisted in the nominations "Best Lyrical Video", "Best Collaboration" and twice in the nomination "Best cover version".

At the MUZ-TV Award Gala Dinner, Sergey Lazarev performed the song "Into the very Heart", as well as Vanya Dmitrienko, who presented a novelty track "Real", My Michelle with a fresh track "Clouds", which is also presented in the Best Video nomination, and the cult rock band "Agatha Christie", who performed her main hits.

Immediately after the announcement of the shortlists in each nomination, the second stage of expert voting is launched, and at the same time an open viewer vote starts on the TV channel's website. The combined votes of the expert jury and the audience will be taken into account to determine the winners in each Award nomination.

The MUZ-TV Award ceremony for the winners will take place on June 7 at the state-of-the-art Live Arena. A live broadcast of the large-scale show will be available on the MUZ-TV channel.

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