Worldvision Q1-2023

Worldvision Q1-2023
Beyond Limits
Dates
Final	25 January 2023
Host
Venue	AO Arena Manchester, United Kingdom
Directed by	Igor Kapsharin
Executive supervisor	Mark Nightingale
Host broadcaster	BBC
Participants
Number of entries	24
Debuting countries	Canada China Croatia Denmark Greece Israel Lebanon Netherlands North Macedonia Serbia United States
Returning Countries	None
Non-returning Countries	None
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	San Marino "Bellissima"

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 1 - 2023 was the 2nd edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It took place in Manchester, United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q4-2022 contest with the song "Rise" by Calum Scott. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). the contest was held at the AO Arena, and was consisted a final on 25 January 2023.

Twenty four countries participated in the contest (fourteen european countries and ten from rest of the world). Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Serbia and the United States participated for the first time.

The winner was San Marino with the song "Bellissima", performed by Annalisa. Australia (best result), Japan (best result), Spain and Israel rounded out the top five. Further down the table, Montenegro achieved its best result, finishing thirteenth. This was the first time that the host country, the United Kingdom, had finished in last place after winning the previous competition.

Location

The Q1-2023 contest will be held in Manchester, the United Kingdom. It will be the first time that the United Kingdom hosts the contest.

Format

Entries

For the Q1-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 October 2021 are eligible. It is planned that starting from this season, the participating countries will be able to request a special permission (quota), which will allow them to submit an entry in another language that is not provided for by the rules of the competition as being allowed to be used. One specific country will be able to use the quota once every five seasons.

Voting changes

The voting in the final consisted of the sum of votes from twenty four participating countries, which in turn gave two sets of points: the first set of points from the curators themselves (the jury), and the second set of points from the IECO observers (TV viewers). Each voter had a set of 10 Eurosystem points: 12, 10, 8, 7-1 points. However, this season, each participating country could itself appoint a voting viewer. An additional slot of points from the rest of the voters was also added.

Allocation draw

The format of the draw for this season has been changed. So along with the random selection of the number of the host country of the season (the United Kingdom, the speakers under #1 and #24 (last number) were determined. The rest of the countries were divided into two parts, after which the order of performance was determined by the organizers of the competition. The results of the draw became known on January 13, 2023.

Participating Countries

On December 14, 2022, it was published that 23 countries will take part in the upcoming competition. However, on December 28, 2022, the contest organizers officially announced that Israel would join the other 23 participating countries.

Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Norway	Muse	Won't Stand Down	English	20	88
02	Sweden	Mimi Webb	Good Without	English	7	143
03	Serbia	Tom Grennan	Don’t Break The Heart	English	11	113
04	San Marino	Annalisa	Bellissima	Italian	1	235
05	Denmark	Vera Blue	Temper	English	19	96
06	China	Sam Smith & Kim Petras	Unholy	English	9	120
07	Hungary	Faouzia	Puppet	English	12	111
08	South Korea	Jung Kook	Dreamers	English, Arabic	16	103
09	Portugal	Joel Corry & Mabel	I Wish	English	17	101
10	North Macedonia	Millie Turner	Eye Of The Storm	English	21	71
11	Greece	Paramore	This Is Why	English	22	59
12	Spain	Tom Gregory	Footprints	English	4	164
13	Israel	Lana Lubany	The Snake	English, Arabic	5	158
14	United Kingdom	The 1975	Oh Caroline	English	24	34
15	Japan	Natumi	Parts	Japanese, English	3	169
16	Canada	Bella Poarch	Living Hell	English	6	156
17	Thailand	Lemony	Aow Yang Ah	Thai	23	37
18	Australia	Cxloe	New Trick	English	2	218
19	Croatia	Doja Cat	Get Into It	English	18	100
20	Kazakhstan	Ayau	Sybyrlaiyn	Kazakh	15	103
21	United States	Magnet Brain	Sunmandana	English	13	106
22	Netherlands	Naaz	Azadî	Kurdish	14	104
23	Montenegro	David Guetta & Bebe Rexha	I'm Good (Blue)	English	8	136
24	Lebanon	Todrick Hall	Pre-Madonna	English	10	117

Voting

Grand Final Voting

Grand Final voting results (jury vote)

		Total score	Televoting score	Norway	Sweden	Serbia	San Marino	Denmark	China	Hungary	South Korea	Portugal	North Macedonia	Greece	Spain	Israel	United Kingdom	Japan	Canada	Thailand	Australia	Croatia	Kazakhstan	United States	Netherlands	Montenegro	Lebanon
Contestants	Norway	88	45
	Sweden	143	89
	Serbia	113	53
	San Marino	235	116
	Denmark	96	59
	China	120	57
	Hungary	111	54
	South Korea	103	57
	Portugal	101	57
	North Macedonia	71	35
	Greece	59	28
	Spain	164	86
	Israel	158	94
	United Kingdom	34	10
	Japan	169	58
	Canada	156	78
	Thailand	37	12
	Australia	218	98
	Croatia	100	54
	Kazakhstan	103	43
	United States	106	49
	Netherlands	104	47
	Montenegro	136	111
	Lebanon	117	60

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Jury score	Norway	Sweden	Serbia	San Marino	Denmark	China	Hungary	South Korea	Portugal	North Macedonia	Greece	Spain	Israel	United Kingdom	Japan	Canada	Thailand	Australia	Croatia	Kazakhstan	United States	Netherlands	Montenegro	Lebanon	Rest of the World
Contestants	Norway	88	43
	Sweden	143	54																									8
	Serbia	113	60
	San Marino	235	119																									12
	Denmark	96	37																									5
	China	120	63
	Hungary	111	57
	South Korea	103	46
	Portugal	101	44
	North Macedonia	71	36																									7
	Greece	59	31																									10
	Spain	164	78																									3
	Israel	158	64																									6
	United Kingdom	34	24
	Japan	169	111																									4
	Canada	156	78																									1
	Thailand	37	25
	Australia	218	120																									2
	Croatia	100	46
	Kazakhstan	103	60
	United States	106	57
	Netherlands	104	57
	Montenegro	136	25
	Lebanon	117	57

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final) Place Combined Jury Televoting Country Points Country Points Country Points 1 San Marino 235 Australia 120 San Marino 116 2 Australia 218 San Marino 119 Montenegro 111 3 Japan 169 Japan 111 Australia 98 4 Spain 164 Spain 78 Israel 94 5 Israel 158 Canada 78 Sweden 89 6 Canada 156 Israel 64 Spain 86 7 Sweden 143 China 63 Canada 78 8 Montenegro 136 Serbia 60 Lebanon 60 9 China 120 Kazakhstan 60 Denmark 59 10 Lebanon 117 Lebanon 57 Japan 58 11 Serbia 113 Hungary 57 China 57 12 Hungary 111 United States 57 South Korea 57 13 United States 106 Netherlands 57 Portugal 57 14 Netherlands 104 Sweden 54 Hungary 54 15 Kazakhstan 103 South Korea 46 Croatia 54 16 South Korea 103 Croatia 46 Serbia 53 17 Portugal 101 Portugal 44 United States 49 18 Croatia 100 Norway 43 Netherlands 47 19 Denmark 96 Denmark 37 Norway 45 20 Norway 88 North Macedonia 36 Kazakhstan 43 21 North Macedonia 71 Greece 31 North Macedonia 35 22 Greece 59 Montenegro 25 Greece 28 23 Thailand 37 Thailand 25 Thailand 12 24 United Kingdom 34 United Kingdom 24 United Kingdom 10

Detailed vote from the rest of the world Place Country Points AP LM JM JG FK 1 San Marino 12 2.8 1 4 4 3 2 2 Greece 10 6.2 2 8 15 2 4 3 Sweden 8 7.0 7 11 10 4 3 4 North Macedonia 7 7.2 4 2 13 6 11 5 Israel 6 8.8 11 14 17 1 1 6 Denmark 5 9.0 10 3 14 11 7 7 Japan 4 10.0 3 23 8 8 8 8 Spain 3 10.2 14 6 1 15 15 9 Australia 2 10.8 6 16 2 10 20 10 Canada 1 11.8 16 18 9 7 9 11 Serbia 12.2 19 1 6 17 18 12 Hungary 12.2 12 12 3 13 21 13 Norway 12.2 8 13 21 9 10 14 Portugal 13.0 17 20 11 12 5 15 United States 13.4 15 15 5 16 16 16 Netherlands 13.8 9 17 19 5 19 17 Montenegro 14.2 23 5 7 14 22 18 Thailand 14.8 5 21 16 18 14 19 South Korea 15.6 18 22 12 20 6 20 Kazakhstan 16.6 22 7 20 21 13 21 United Kingdom 17.0 13 19 22 19 12 22 Croatia 17.2 20 9 18 22 17 23 China 21.0 24 10 24 24 23 24 Lebanon 23.0 21 24 23 23 24

12 points

12 points awarded by the juries # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 4 San Marino Australia, China, Norway, United States 3 Canada Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Montenegro 2 Australia South Korea, Sweden Spain Portugal, Thailand Lebanon North Macedonia, San Marino Netherlands Hungary, Israel 1 Israel United Kingdom Sweden Japan China Serbia Serbia Canada Kazakhstan Netherlands Portugal Spain Norway Greece North Macedonia Denmark Greece Croatia

12 points awarded by the televoting # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 3 San Marino Montenegro, South Korea, the Rest of the World Australia Canada, Israel, Norway Israel Australia, Netherlands, United States South Korea Japan, San Marino, Serbia 2 Montenegro Croatia, Thailand Serbia Hungary, Sweden 1 Spain North Macedonia Sweden Denmark China Spain Lebanon Kazakhstan Hungary China Portugal Lebanon Croatia Portugal Norway Greece 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. International viewers were introduced this year, they award an additional one set of points based on the average places of theit rating. They are invited by IECO from around the world, whoever is interested to be involved and consist of five members.

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Australia	Timothy Ahlgren	Observer
Canada	Bahdan Hrymalyuk	Observer
China	Dmitri Lubyanov	Observer
Croatia	Ilya Pashnin	Observer
Denmark	Viktor Pevchev	Observer
Greece	Artsiom Chalapa	Observer
Hungary	Franklyn Baldacchino	Observer
Israel	Zhenya Talantseva	Observer
Japan	Zied Kurbanov	Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Egor Tarashkevich	Observer
Montenegro	Ivan Balokha	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
North Macedonia	Sasha Rimsky	Observer
Norway	Artyom Frolov	Observer
Portugal	Anastasia Demakina	Observer
San Marino	Denis Nikitin	Observer
Serbia	Kiran Sebastian	Observer
South Korea	Andrey Nikitin	Observer
Spain	Diana Nizamova	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Thailand	Yulia Saveljeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Igor Slon	Observer
United States	Ilya Rezvanov	Observer
Template:XXW	Alexander Pabon Jimmy Mardigras Joeri Groen	Observers
	Lukas Mariehamn	Poland
	Fyodor Kotlyarov	Cyprus