Worldvision Q3-2023

Worldvision Q3-2023
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Dates
Final	23 September 2023
Host
Venue	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Egor Tarashkevich
Host broadcaster	NDR
Participants
Number of entries	29
Debuting countries	Albania Cyprus France
Returning Countries	Canada
Non-returning Countries	New Zealand
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	TBA

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 3 - 2023 will be the 4th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Cologne, Germany, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2023 contest with the song "Still Dancing" by Reve. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster NDR.

Albania, Cyprus and France are debut in the competition

New Zealand withdrew from the competition without explanation.

Location

Lanxess Arena, host venue of the Q3-2023 contest.

The Q3-2023 contest will be held in one of the cities of Germany, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It will be the first time that Germany hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 20.000-seat Lanxess Arena.

City bidding process

On July 13, four candidate cities for the competition were announced, they were: Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund and Frankfurt. In the end, Cologne got the right to host the song contest, and the "arena" was chosen as the venue for the contest.

Format

Entries

For the Q3-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 January 2021 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.

Introduction of the semi-final

On August 22, 2023, it was announced that twenty-nine countries will take part in the competition. Due to the fact that the number of participating countries was large for the final and not enough for the semi-final, there were discussions within the reference group. As a result, on August 23, 2023, it was announced that the introduction of the semi-finals would take place. Thus, fourteen countries automatically qualified for the final (the top 10 of last season and an additional four countries according to the overall rating). The remaining fifteen countries were placed in the semi-final, of which only ten will advance to the final.

Allocation draw

On September 9, 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. Long before the day of the draw for Germany, the 20th ordinal number in the final was randomly selected.

Participating Countries

Twenty-nine countries have confirmed participation this season. Albania, Cyprus and France, which made their debut, as well as Canada, which returned after a seasonal break, were added to the main line-up of last season's participants. New Zealand withdrew without explanation.

Semi-Final

Fifteen countries will take part in the semi-final, of which 10 will advance to the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals will take place on September 14, 2023, at 21:40 (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Uzbekistan	DJ Antoine & Chanin	Sunset In Dubai	English
02	China	Lexie Liu	Magician	Chinese, English
03	Canada	Miley Cyrus	Used To Be Young	English
04	Netherlands	Flemming	Verleden Tijd	Dutch
05	Thailand	Shaun & Jeff Satur	Steal The Show	English
06	South Korea	Simona	Liebe	German
07	Greece	Saveus	Dark Vibrations	English
08	Albania	Jax Jones & Mnek	Where Did You Go	English
09	Kazakhstan	Ayau	Sensiz?	Kazakh
10	France	Ali	Paris Me Dit (Yalla)	French
11	Cyprus	Dove Cameron	Breakfast	English
12	Poland	Ralph Kaminski	Bal U Rafala	Polish
13	Lebanon	Aston	Killer Queen	English
14	Italy	Madame	Il Bene Nel Male	Italian
15	Norway	The Score	Head Up	English

Final

Twenty-four countries will take part in the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals will take place on September 23, 2023, at 14:00 (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Serbia	Yonaka	Seize The Power	English
02	Spain	Sandro Cavazza & Georgia Ku	Love To Lose	English
03	Croatia	Bojana Vunturišević	Money	Serbian
04	Australia	Troye Sivan	Rush	English
05	Israel	Sina Moonlake	Cry With The Wolves	English
06	Lebanon	Aston	Killer Queen	English
07	Netherlands	Flemming	Verleden Tijd	Dutch
08	Denmark	Holy Peaks	No Time	English
09	Norway	The Score	Head Up	English
10	San Marino	Cinta Laura Kiehl ft. Tropkillaz	Loco	English, Spanish
11	Sweden	MIN t	Tiger	English
12	Greece	Saveus	Dark Vibrations	English
13	United Kingdom	Dylan	No Romeo	English
14	Italy	Madame	Il Bene Nel Male	Italian
15	Thailand	Shaun & Jeff Satur	Steal The Show	English
16	Vietnam	Robert Cristian & Alis Shuka	The Day Before	English
17	Japan	Beverly	One Vision	English
18	France	Ali	Paris Me Dit (Yalla)	French
19	Canada	Miley Cyrus	Used To Be Young	English
20	Germany	Rina Sawayama	Hold The Girl	English
21	Cyprus	Dove Cameron	Breakfast	English
22	China	Lexie Liu	Magician	Chinese, English
23	Hungary	Munn	Belongs With You	English
24	Portugal	Galantis & Lucas & Steve & Ilira	Alien	English

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	Diana Pie Sissy	Observer
Australia	Alexander Pabon	Observer
Canada	Raman Haurylik	Observer
China	TBA	Observer
Croatia	TBA	Observer
Cyprus	Egor Rybin	Observer
Denmark	Victor Pevchev	Observer
France	TBA	Observer
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Observer
Greece	TBA	Observer
Hungary	Franklyn Baldacchino	Observer
Israel	Evgeniya Talantseva	Observer
Italy	Andrej Zujkou	Observer
Japan	Mateusz Bluszcz	Observer
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Ilya Mandebura	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	Observer
Poland	Sihan Chen	Observer
Portugal	Andrey Gruzdev	Observer
San Marino	Maksim Ozerov	Observer
Serbia	TBA	Observer
South Korea	Andrey Nikitin	Observer
Spain	TBA	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Igor Slon	Observer
Uzbekistan	Roman Pastukhov	Observer
Vietnam	Artsiom Chalapa	Observer
Template:XXW	Timothy Ahlgren	Observers
	Ivan Goryaev	New Zealand
	Joeri Groen	Observers
	TBA
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