Worldvision Q4-2023

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
Worldvision Q4-2023
Discover
Dates
FinalTBD December 2023
Host
VenueTelenor Arena, Oslo, Norway
Executive supervisor Mark Solovyov
Executive producer Aleksei Komarov
Host broadcaster NRK
Participants
Number of entries29
Debuting countries Malta
Switzerland
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 songTBD
Q3-23Worldvision Q4-2023Q1-24

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 "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.

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. San Marino and Uzbekistan 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
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
Australia Ricki-Lee On My Own English
Canada Lucky Love Masculinity English
China Collar Off & On English
France Shy’m Elle danse encore French
Germany Jade LeMac Meet You in Hell English
Greece Shinedown A Symptom Of being Human English
Israel Grace Gachot Built To Be Bad English
Italy Matteo Bocelli Fasi Italian
Norway Martin Garrix & JVKE Hero English
Portugal Tungevaag In My Zone English
Spain Emilia, TINI La Original Spanish
Sweden Nathan James Larsen & Saylor Wilterding Upside Down English
Thailand Jeff Satur Black Tie English
United Kingdom Blackbriar Cicada 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 Joeri Groen (from the Netherlands).

Country Full Name & Origin IECO Membership
Albania Diana Pie Sissy Observer
Australia Jimmy Mardigras Observer
Canada Adrien Alonso-Dussel Observer
China Selena Lee Yin Observer
Croatia Artsiom Chalapa Observer
Cyprus Alexander ??? Observer
Denmark Elina Alexandrova Observer
France Vadim Babkin Observer
Germany Polyna Synevich Observer
Greece Timothy Algheren Observer
Hungary Alexander Rimskij Observer
Israel Evgeniya Talantseva Observer
Italy Sergey Zaitsev Observer
Japan Mateusz Bluszcz Observer
Kazakhstan Margarita Domalevskaya Observer
Lebanon Ilya Mandebura Observer
Malta TBA
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
TBA
Sophie Khalil
Brian John

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