Worldvision Q4-2023

Worldvision Q4-2023
Dates
Final	TBD December 2023
Host
Venue	Telenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Aleksei Komarov
Host broadcaster	NRK
Participants
Number of entries	30
Debuting countries	Malta Switzerland
Non-returning Countries	San Marino
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs: the first from a professional jury, the second from viewers. As well as votes from international observers in are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.
Winning song	TBD

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 4 - 2023 will be the 5th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Oslo, Norway, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q3-2023 contest with the song "Head Up" by The Score. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster NRK. The contest was held at the Telenor Arena, and consisted of a semi-final on TBD December, and a final on TBD December 2023.

Thirty countries participated in the contest, along with debuting Malta and Switzerland are debut in the competition. Last season's competitor San Marino withdrew from the competition.

Location

Telenor Arena, host venue of the Q4-2023 contest.

The Q4-2023 contest took place in Oslo, Norway, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the first time that Norway hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 25,000-seat Telenor Arena.

City bidding process

On November 22, two candidate cities for the competition were announced, they were: Oslo (Telenor Arena) and Trondheim (Spektrum Arena). In the end, Oslo got the right to host the song contest, and the "arena" was chosen as the venue for the contest.

Format

Entries

For the Q4-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 January 2022 are eligible. Also, a quota was introduced for compositions from the Billboard Hot-100 up to one per season and with the restriction of use for one curator no more than once in 4 seasons of participation.

Semi-finals and auto-finalists

On December 2, 2023, it was announced that thirty countries will take part in the competition. 14 countries automatically qualified for the finals, of which the ten strongest from the previous season: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Norway (host) and Thailand as well as four more countries with the best participation rating over the last 4 seasons: Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The remaining 16 countries were placed in the semi-finals, of which the top ten based on the results of audience voting will advance to the final stage.

Participating Countries

Thirty countries have confirmed participation this season. Malta and Switzerland. San Marino was not allowed to participate due to a seasonal ban.

Semi-Final

Sixteen countries took part in the semi-final, of which 10 will advance to the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals took place on December XX, 2023, at ХХ:ХХ (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
	Albania
	Croatia
	Cyprus
	Denmark
	Hungary
	Japan
	Kazakhstan
	Lebanon
	Malta
	Netherlands
	Poland
	Serbia
	South Korea
	Switzerland
	Uzbekistan
	Vietnam

Final

Twenty-four countries took part in the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals took place on December XX, 2023, at XX:XX (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
	Australia
	Canada
	China
	France
	Germany
	Greece
	Israel
	Italy
	Norway
	Portugal	Tungevaag	In My Zone	English
	Spain
	Sweden
	Thailand
	United Kingdom

Public voting representatives of participating countries

The viewers of the participating countries could be other members of the organization or other invited persons.
Each public voting member was invited by it's country, however when the participant was not able to do so, the public voting was assigned to each country as per the most possible compatability of points with the Jury Member.

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Albania	TBA
Australia	TBA
Canada	TBA
China	TBA
Croatia	TBA
Cyprus	TBA
Denmark	TBA
France	TBA
Germany	TBA
Greece	TBA
Hungary	TBA
Israel	TBA
Italy	TBA
Japan	Mateusz Bluszcz	Observer
Kazakhstan	TBA
Lebanon	TBA
Malta	TBA
Netherlands	TBA
Norway	TBA
Poland	TBA
Portugal	Andrey Gruzdev	Obsrver
Serbia	TBA
South Korea	TBA
Spain	TBA
Sweden	TBA
Switzerland	TBA
Thailand	TBA
United Kingdom	TBA
Uzbekistan	TBA
Vietnam	TBA
The Rest Of The World	TBA
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