Worldvision Q1-2023

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.

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"

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

AO Arena, host venue of the Q1-2023 contest.

The Q1-2023 contest took place in Manchester, the United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the Q4-2022 edition. It was the first time that the United Kingdom hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 21.000-seat Manchester Arena, currently referred to as the AO Arena for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor arena.

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

The final voting took place on 14-18 January 2023. Twenty-four countries participated in the final, which were announced on 25 January 2023.

#	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					4	1			1		12		3			8		7			4			3
	Sweden	143	89	1					5	6					2			12	7		4	1	8	3	5
	Serbia	113	53					7	2	7		2			3		7	10	12			2			6		2
	San Marino	235	116	12	1	5			12	1	2	4	4	10		10	2	4	2	6	12	8	2	12		5	5
	Denmark	96	59	2					4	3	5		7			6		2						1	7
	China	120	57	4	7	12	2	6							5			8					10		3	6
	Hungary	111	54		10			5				6		1	6		4	5		7		10	3
	South Korea	103	57							5		5	6		10				6	10	3				1
	Portugal	101	57			6		2	6				8		12	1			3	5							1
	North Macedonia	71	35				8	12			8							6							2
	Greece	59	28				6									5					8	12
	Spain	164	86	3	4	8	1	8	3	2		12	1					3	5	12			5			4	7
	Israel	158	94		6		5			10	3		2				12			3	6		1	6	10
	United Kingdom	34	10	5							7							7	4		1
	Japan	169	58	6	3						6	10	10	6	7	7	6		10	8	2	4		8	4	8	6
	Canada	156	78		8	1	7		10					3	8								12	5		12	12
	Thailand	37	12								4			2			8								8	3
	Australia	218	98	7	12	10		10		4	12		5	5		8	10			2		7		10		10	8
	Croatia	100	54	8	5	3		3	7						4								6				10
	Kazakhstan	103	43			4	10				1			7			1				5	6		7	12	7
	United States	106	49				3	1	8	8	10	3	3	8		2			1			5				1	4
	Netherlands	104	47		2		4			12						12	5	1			10		7	2		2
	Montenegro	136	111	10		2						7		4	1					1
	Lebanon	117	60			7	12					8	12			4	3			4		3	4

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

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

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		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.

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

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	Germany
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	Vietnam
Serbia	Kiran Sebastian	Observer
South Korea	Andrey Nikitin	Observer
Spain	Diana Nizamova	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	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

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