Worldvision Q4-2023

Worldvision Q4-2023
Discover
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	29
Debuting countries	Malta Switzerland
Non-returning Countries	San Marino Uzbekistan
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.

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.

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

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 26, 2023, at 16:00 (GMT +3).

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

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
01	France	Shy’m	Elle danse encore	French
02	Greece	Shinedown	A Symptom Of being Human	English
03	Netherlands	MEAU	Altijd Op Je Wacht	Dutch
04	Thailand	Jeff Satur	Black Tie	English
05	Spain	Emilia, TINI	La Original	Spanish
06	Canada	Lucky Love	Masculinity	English
07	Albania	Kayma	Bad Blood	English
08	Sweden	Nathan James Larsen & Saylor Wilterding	Upside Down	English
09	Italy	Matteo Bocelli	Fasi	Italian
10	Australia	Ricki-Lee	On My Own	English
11	South Korea	DPR IAN	Don't Go Insane	English
12	Vietnam	Teya Dora	Džanum	Serbian
13	Portugal	Tungevaag	In My Zone	English
14	Lebanon	Sasha Lopez x AMI	Butterfly Dance	English
15	United Kingdom	Blackbriar	Cicada	English
16	Hungary	Zóra	Back On You	English
17	China	Collar	Off & On	English
18	Switzerland	Nuit Incolore	Dépassé	French
19	Germany	Jade LeMac	Meet You in Hell	English
20	Japan	One Ok Rock	Make It Out Alive	English
21	Serbia	Twocolors & Asdis	Gravity	English
22	Norway	Martin Garrix & JVKE	Hero	English
23	Israel	Grace Gachot	Built To Be Bad	English
24	Denmark	Amy Guess	Comatose	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.

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	???	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
Template:XXW	Elvin Ahmadzada	Observers
	Charles Fernando
	Nathan McGarry
	Sophie Khalil
	Brian John