Worldvision Q4-2023

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Worldvision Q4-2023
Discover
Dates
Final6 January 2024
Host
VenueTelenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
Executive supervisor Mark Solovyov
Executive producer Aleksei Komarov
Host broadcaster NRK
Participants
Number of entries29
Debuting countries Malta
Switzerland
Returning CountriesNone
Non-returning Countries San Marino
Uzbekistan
Participation map
Vote
Voting systemEach 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 Lebanon
"Butterfly Dance"
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The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 4 - 2023 was the 5th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It took 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 26 December 2023, and a final on 6 January 2024.

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

The winner was Lebanon with the song "Butterfly Dance", performed by Sasha Lopez and AMI. France (best result), the United Kingdom, Australia and Thailand (best result) rounded out the top five. Albania qualified for the final for the first time.

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 "Telenor Arena" was chosen as the venue for the contest.

Production

Visual design

The logo and slogan of the contest were announced on December 4, 2023. The logo is a compas made of geometric lines with different colors and placed on the visual of the northern lights. The slogan of the competition was the phrase "Discover".

An official slogan (motto) for Q4-2023 edition

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. When the final list of countries were reveiled, it was announced that the total amount of countries would be twenty nine, which will make semi-final left with fifteen countries in it

Allocation draw

From 15 to 16 September 2023, the general draw for the semi-finals and finals of the season took place. Envelopes were prepared for both semi-finalists and auto-finalists (15 envelopes for the semi-finals and 24 envelopes for the final), behind which the first or second part of the semi-final/final was encrypted. Also, after all the semi-finalists had chosen their envelopes and half of the performances in the semi-finals became known, on the same day the competition organizers announced the order of performance of the semi-finalists. Norway, as the host country of the season, was offered two random serial numbers to perform in the final - numbers 08 and 22. The Norwegian delegation chose the 22nd serial number.

Participating Countries

Twenty-nine countries have confirmed participation this season. Malta and Switzerland has participated for the very first time. Uzbekistan did confirmed its intentions but didn't appear in the final list. San Marino on the other hand was not allowed to participate due to a seasonal ban. Country has also no intentions as well to participate any further despite a very good results in the past.

Semi-Final

Fifteen countries took part in the semi-final, of which 10 has advanced to the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals took place on December 26, 2023, at 16:00 (GMT +3).

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
01 Kazakhstan Playman x Hadley Luv You English 12 47
02 Cyprus TXT x Anitta Back For More English, Spanish 11 49
03 Vietnam Teya Dora Džanum Serbian 2 89
04 Denmark Amy Guess Comatose English 3 81
05 Malta Aidan Pupa English, Maltese 14 33
06 South Korea DPR IAN Don't Go Insane English 8 62
07 Serbia Twocolors & Asdis Gravity English 6 75
08 Switzerland Nuit Incolore Dépassé French 1 102
09 Lebanon Sasha Lopez x AMI Butterfly Dance English 4 77
10 Poland Mar Malade Jungle English 15 30
11 Netherlands MEAU Altijd Op Je Wacht Dutch 9 54
12 Japan One Ok Rock Make It Out Alive English 7 65
13 Croatia Lydia Kepinski Vaslaw French 13 36
14 Hungary Zóra Back On You English 10 52
15 Albania Kayma Bad Blood English 5 76

Voting in the Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All fifteen countries competing in the semi-final voted, alongside the aggregated Rest of the World vote. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The Semi-Final voting results
Total score
Kazakhstan
Cyprus
Vietnam
Denmark
Malta
South Korea
Serbia
Switzerland
Lebanon
Poland
Netherlands
Japan
Croatia
Hungary
Albania
Rest of the World
Contestants
Kazakhstan 47 1 8 6 1 4 12 6 4 1 3 1
Cyprus 49 5 10 6 12 5 3 3 5
Vietnam 89 12 10 3 6 12 1 7 10 12 6 10
Denmark 81 7 4 10 1 8 7 7 4 1 8 7 3 6 8
Malta 33 2 1 8 10 5 2 1 2 2
South Korea 62 8 3 8 1 5 10 3 3 10 1 7 3
Serbia 75 2 3 10 2 3 12 2 8 2 3 2 10 10 6
Switzerland 102 1 5 1 10 7 5 7 6 6 12 4 6 12 8 12
Lebanon 77 8 4 12 7 6 12 5 7 8 4 4
Poland 30 5 2 3 8 12
Netherlands 54 6 2 7 5 8 4 2 8 4 1 7
Japan 65 3 6 4 12 8 10 5 5 10 2
Croatia 36 4 7 7 3 3 2 1 7 2
Hungary 52 10 12 4 5 4 5 12
Albania 76 6 12 6 5 2 4 1 4 10 6 8 7 5
Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place Country Points
RS

CF

NG

SK

BJ
1 Switzerland 12 41.56 3 4 6 1 2
2 Vietnam 10 41.55 1 2 1 4 15
3 Denmark 8 38.22 10 1 3 7 1
4 Netherlands 7 28.67 4 8 2 8 5
5 Serbia 6 24.63 7 5 9 2 9
6 Albania 5 21.89 8 6 13 3 6
7 Lebanon 4 21.12 2 7 12 6 13
8 South Korea 3 19.44 6 3 11 9 10
9 Japan 2 17.82 5 9 10 5 11
10 Kazakhstan 1 16.53 9 11 7 12 4
11 Hungary 14.16 14 10 4 14 8
12 Poland 13.07 15 15 14 10 3
13 Croatia 10.67 13 14 5 11 14
14 Malta 9.19 11 12 15 13 7
15 Cyprus 8.21 12 13 8 15 12

12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting
# Recipient Countries giving 12 points
3 Switzerland Hungary, Netherlands, The Rest Of The World
Vietnam Japan, Kazakhstan, Serbia
2 Lebanon Denmark, Poland
Hungary Albania, Cyprus
1 Albania Vietnam
Serbia South Korea
Japan Malta
Cyprus Switzerland
Kazakhstan Lebanon
Poland Croatia

Final

Twenty-four countries took part in the final. The broadcast of the Grand Final took place on January 6, 2024, at 22:00 (GMT +3).

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
01 France Shy’m Elle danse encore French 2 221
02 Greece Shinedown A Symptom Of being Human English 24 45
03 Netherlands MEAU Altijd Op Je Wacht Dutch 22 67
04 Thailand Jeff Satur Black Tie English 5 205
05 Spain Emilia, TINI La Original Spanish 14 130
06 Canada Lucky Love Masculinity English 15 114
07 Albania Kayma Bad Blood English 9 178
08 Sweden Nathan James Larsen & Saylor Wilterding Upside Down English 16 111
09 Italy Matteo Bocelli Fasi Italian 23 49
10 Australia Ricki-Lee On My Own English 4 213
11 South Korea DPR IAN Don't Go Insane English 13 130
12 Vietnam Teya Dora Džanum Serbian 6 196
13 Portugal Tungevaag In My Zone English 21 89
14 Lebanon Sasha Lopez x AMI Butterfly Dance English 1 232
15 United Kingdom Blackbriar Cicada English 3 220
16 Hungary Zóra Back On You English 20 98
17 China Collar Off & On English 18 110
18 Switzerland Nuit Incolore Dépassé French 8 181
19 Germany Jade LeMac Meet You in Hell English 19 98
20 Japan One Ok Rock Make It Out Alive English 11 158
21 Serbia Twocolors & Asdis Gravity English 12 131
22 Norway Martin Garrix & JVKE Hero English 17 109
23 Israel Grace Gachot Built To Be Bad English 7 186
24 Denmark Amy Guess Comatose English 10 161

Voting

Grand Final Voting

Grand Final voting results (jury)
Total score
Televoting score
France
Greece
Netherlands
Thailand
Spain
Canada
Albania
Sweden
Italy
Australia
South Korea
Vietnam
Portugal
Lebanon
United Kingdom
Hungary
China
Switzerland
Germany
Japan
Serbia
Norway
Israel
Denmark
Croatia
Cyprus
Kazakhstan
Malta
Poland
Contestants
France 221 105 5 10 10 6 1 12 2 8 2 10 2 6 4 4 8 10 2 12 2
Greece 45 21 7 2 6 1 6 2
Netherlands 67 25 6 4 6 2 1 7 12 3
Tailand 205 114 4 7 2 12 1 4 8 12 10 8 10 3 10
Spain 130 51 8 3 5 7 8 12 12 12 6 5
Canada 114 65 1 3 10 7 3 12 1 12
Albania 178 72 6 7 10 8 12 8 5 1 6 1 3 2 3 4 7 8 7 8
Sweden 111 72 10 10 7 6 6
Italy 49 24 8 2 1 4 1 4 5
Australia 213 98 1 5 1 8 5 8 8 8 12 6 1 12 1 10 8 7 1 10 3
South Korea 130 71 3 6 5 10 3 5 4 6 2 5 4 6
Vietnam 196 115 8 12 12 5 4 6 8 8 7 3 8
Portugal 89 64 3 4 5 2 4 5 1 1
Lebanon 232 118 10 1 2 12 10 12 1 4 10 10 8 6 5 8 5 6 4
United Kingdom 220 151 5 8 5 10 3 3 7 12 12 4
Hungary 98 57 4 1 4 3 3 2 3 8 1 12
China 110 41 7 7 4 7 7 10 8 7 2
Switzerland 181 88 6 10 10 7 3 7 2 3 8 4 6 2 7 8 3 1 6
Germany 98 54 4 6 3 1 12 10 3 2 3
Japan 158 74 12 12 12 7 2 2 4 5 5 4 12 2 4 1
Serbia 131 52 2 6 5 4 3 6 6 12 1 5 1 4 5 8 6 5
Norway 109 61 6 4 2 4 5 3 5 7 5 7
Israel 186 72 2 12 3 3 2 1 8 7 5 12 3 5 2 7 7 10 12 2 10
Denmark 161 71 3 1 2 7 5 10 7 7 10 10 1 6 10 6 4
Grand Final voting results (televote)
Total score
Jury score
France
Greece
Netherlands
Thailand
Spain
Canada
Albania
Sweden
Italy
Australia
South Korea
Vietnam
Portugal
Lebanon
United Kingdom
Hungary
China
Switzerland
Germany
Japan
Serbia
Norway
Israel
Denmark
Croatia
Cyprus
Kazakhstan
Malta
Poland
Rest of the World
Contestants
France 221 116 4 10 8 10 6 12 12 10 6 7 2 3 7 1 5 2
Greece 45 24 3 7 1 3 7
Netherlands 67 41 2 1 4 3 3 2 7 3
Thailand 205 91 2 7 1 8 6 2 7 1 5 8 8 5 12 6 12 3 5 10 5 1
Spain 130 78 3 7 2 8 12 7 1 7 4
Canada 114 49 5 4 6 8 12 6 12 12
Albania 178 106 2 8 7 2 3 6 5 4 2 4 1 2 12 4 10
Sweden 111 39 12 1 3 1 5 6 12 6 6 12 2 6
Italy 49 25 3 3 12 6
Australia 213 115 6 10 4 6 8 2 6 4 8 7 10 5 8 6 2 6
South Korea 130 59 8 2 2 12 8 4 10 12 7 2 4
Vietnam 196 81 5 7 6 4 12 1 12 10 12 10 1 5 10 12 8
Portugal 89 25 6 3 5 4 3 6 12 5 2 3 2 3 5 5
Lebanon 232 114 7 6 5 6 7 8 10 10 6 3 4 4 8 10 1 6 10 7
United Kingdom 220 69 12 3 4 10 7 12 8 10 1 12 7 4 8 10 3 5 3 12 8 12
Hungary 98 41 2 10 10 5 7 3 1 5 7 7
China 110 59 1 12 7 4 3 4 2 8
Switzerland 181 93 4 12 12 1 3 8 4 8 2 5 4 8 8 4 5
Germany 98 44 7 2 1 7 10 8 7 2 6 1 3
Japan 158 84 10 4 10 3 10 4 8 4 1 8 2 10
Serbia 131 79 5 1 5 10 2 6 1 5 3 1 10 3
Norway 109 48 8 5 5 6 6 7 3 6 6 8 1
Israel 186 113 8 5 1 10 1 12 5 2 3 2 10 2 4 3 4
Denmark 161 89 1 12 5 7 1 2 1 7 1 5 7 10 8 4

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
Place Combined Jury Televoting
Country Points Country Points Country Points
1 Lebanon 232 France 116 United Kingdom 151
2 France 221 Australia 115 Lebanon 118
3 United Kingdom 220 Lebanon 114 Vietnam 115
4 Australia 213 Israel 113 Thailand 114
5 Thailand 205 Albania 106 France 105
6 Vietnam 196 Switzerland 93 Australia 98
7 Israel 185 Thailand 91 Switzerland 88
8 Switzerland 181 Denmark 89 Japan 74
9 Albania 178 Japan 84 Israel 72
10 Denmark 160 Vietnam 81 Albania 72
11 Japan 158 Serbia 79 Sweden 72
12 Serbia 131 Spain 78 Denmark 71
13 South Korea 130 United Kingdom 69 South Korea 71
14 Spain 129 South Korea 59 Canada 65
15 Canada 114 China 59 Portugal 64
16 Sweden 111 Canada 49 Norway 61
17 Norway 109 Norway 48 Hungary 57
18 China 100 Germany 44 Germany 54
19 Germany 98 Hungary 41 Serbia 52
20 Hungary 98 Netherlands 41 Spain 51
21 Portugal 89 Sweden 39 China 41
22 Netherlands 66 Portugal 25 Netherlands 25
23 Italy 49 Italy 25 Italy 24
24 Greece 45 Greece 24 Greece 21

International Jury Voting

International viewers were introduced last year, they award an additional one set of points based on the average places of their rating. They are invited by IECO from around the world, whoever is interested to be involved and consist of five members.

Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place Country Points
RS

CF

NG

SK

BJ
1 United Kingdom 12 34.41 10 1 9 5 1
2 Albania 10 28.83 3 10 15 1 5
3 Vietnam 8 28.51 2 6 1 11 24
4 Lebanon 7 25.31 1 5 13 7 9
5 Australia 6 23.19 7 15 11 4 2
6 Switzerland 5 22.36 5 12 16 2 6
7 Israel 4 18.72 8 8 3 20 7
8 Netherlands 3 18.44 6 13 2 18 10
9 France 2 17.81 4 17 14 13 3
10 Norway 1 15.06 9 2 12 15 23
11 Denmark 12.55 22 11 17 8 4
12 South Korea 12.16 13 4 8 19 17
13 Spain 11.29 16 3 20 17 12
14 Canada 10.94 17 22 4 23 8
15 Serbia 10.68 19 14 22 3 15
16 Portugal 9.00 12 7 19 12 11
17 Germany 8.63 11 16 21 6 13
18 China 8.17 18 23 6 10 16
19 Japan 7.13 14 9 18 9 19
20 Hungary 6.64 24 20 5 22 20
21 Greece 4.85 20 24 7 21 21
22 Thailand 4.54 21 19 10 16 14
23 Sweden 2.70 15 18 24 14 22
24 Italy 1.26 23 21 23 24 18

12 points

12 points awarded by the juries
# Recipient Countries giving 12 points
4 Japan France, Greece, Serbia, Thailand
3 Israel Cyprus, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Spain China, Germany, Lebanon
2 Lebanon Spain, Sweden
France Croatia, Italy
United Kingdom Denmark, Japan
Australia Hungary, Vietnam
Thailand Norway, South Korea
Vietnam Albania, Canada
Canada Israel, Poland
1 Albania Australia
Serbia Portugal
Germany Switzerland
Hungary Kazakhstan
Netherlands Malta
12 points awarded by the televoting
# Recipient Countries giving 12 points
5 United Kingdom Albania, France, Hungary, Malta, The Rest Of The World
4 Vietnam China, Poland, Serbia, Sweden
3 Canada Cyprus, Israel, United Kingdom
Sweden Denmark, Germany, Spain
2 France Italy, South Korea
Thailand Japan, Norway
Switzerland Greece, Netherlands
South Korea Portugal, Switzerland
1 Israel Australia
Albania Croatia
Denmark Canada
Spain Lebanon
China Thailand
Portugal Vietnam
Italy Kazakhstan

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 compatibility of points with the Jury Member.

On December 21, a day after the start of voting in the semi-finals, one of the members of the international jury Azam Ali Toor (from Pakistan) refused to vote and resigned his place as a jury member. The reason for this was Israel's participation in the competition. His place was taken by Nathan McGarry (from the United Kingdom). Another issue with Hungarian televoter has risen: due to different causes and internal clashes at the last minute the televoter refused to vote and was replaced.

Later, when the Grand Final has started on December 27, Chinese allocated televoter has requested to swap the country with another one since she is living in Taipei, not China and represent different country that always being mistaken by public she didn't wanted to. Unfortunately this request was not possible to get sorted out and the televoter has been replaced accordingly.

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from Azerbaijan, Brazil, Sudan, Turkey and the United States.

Country Full Name & Origin IECO Membership
Albania Diana Pie Sissy Observer
Australia Jimmy Mardigras Observer
Canada Adrien Alonso-Dussel Observer
China Anastasia Demakina Observer
Croatia Artsiom Chalapa Observer
Cyprus Oleksandr Albertyan Observer
Denmark Elina Alexandrova Observer
France Vadim Babkin Observer
Germany Polyna Synevich Observer
Greece Timothy Algheren Observer
Hungary Artyom Frolov Observer
Israel Evgeniya Talantseva Observer
Italy Sergey Zaitsev Observer
Japan Mateusz Bluszcz Observer
Kazakhstan Margarita Domalevskaya Observer
Lebanon Ilya Mandebura Observer
Malta Omur Hunerli Observer
Netherlands Anna Abramova Observer
Norway Ekateryna Brunt Observer
Poland Sihan Chen Observer
Portugal Andrey Gruzdev Observer
Serbia Kiran Sebastian Observer
South Korea Andrey Nikitin Observer
Spain Diana Nizamova Observer
Sweden Roman Dombaem Observer
Switzerland Jana Skanchina Observer
Thailand Juliya Savelyeva Observer
United Kingdom Robin Bray Observer
Vietnam Alexander Pabon Observer
The Rest Of The World Real Serxanbeyli Observers
Charles Fernando
Nathan McGarry
Sophie Khalil
Brian John

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