Worldvision Q1-2024

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 1 - 2024 was the 6th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Beirut, Lebanon, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q4-2023 contest with the song "Butterfly Dance" by Sasha Lopez & AMI. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster of Lebanon, the contest will be held in Beirut Seaside Arena, and will consist of two semi-finals on XX and XX February, and a final on XX February.

Worldvision Q1-2024
Evolution
Dates
Semi-final 1	28 February 2024
Semi-final 2	29 February 2024
Final	XX March 2024
Host
Venue	Beirut Seaside Arena, Beirut, Lebanon
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Anton Desyatov
Host broadcaster	Tele-Liban
Participants
Number of entries	34
Debuting countries	Armenia Finland Ireland
Returning Countries	San Marino Uzbekistan
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards one set in the semi-finals, and two sets in the final, of 12, 10, 8–1 points to ten songs. Five international observers are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.

Thirty-four countries will participate in the contest, with San Marino returning 1 episode gap after its last participation in Q3-2023, while Armenia, Finland and Ireland are so to debut in this edition. No countries are opted not to participate this time.

Location

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Bidding phase

On The next day after the victory of Lebanon was announced, January 7th, the IECO has confirmed that it will suggest only one city for the hosting of the upcoming competition - Beirut, Lebanon.

Participating Countries

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Other Countries

On February 9^th, It was decided to revoke its membership from the New Zealand broadcaster due to its inactivity and non-participation. The country didn't intend to participate in this edition and withdrew the proposal to participate in the previous edition as well.

Production

Format

Worldvision Q1-2024 became the first edition where two semi-finals were introduced.

Proposed Changes

For the Q1-2024 contest it was questioned by some of the participants with the fairness of the auto-qualification process. The advisory committee of the IECO has started negotiations to implement changes to allocating automatic spots in the Grand Final. As of now, no changes has be announced or brought to the competition

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The thirty semi-finalists were divided over five pots, based on historical voting patterns, with the purpose of reducing the chance of bloc voting and increasing suspense in the semi-finals. The draw also determined which semi-final each of the four automatic qualifiers – host country Lebanon and "Top-4" countries from the previous edition (Australia, France & the United Kingdom) – would vote in and be required to broadcast.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
China Cyprus Denmark Germany Spain Switzerland	Armenia Croatia Greece Hungary Netherlands Norway	Israel Japan Portugal Serbia South Korea Thailand	Albania Finland Ireland Malta Poland Uzbekistan	Canada Italy Kazakhstan San Marino Sweden Vietnam

Entries

Thirty-four countries has confirmed their participation.Armenia, Finland and Ireland debut at the competition. San Marino and Uzbekistan has announced its returning after non-participation in the previous episode.

Contest Overview

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final will take place on 28 February 2024. Fifteen countries will participate in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Australia and France, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Italy	Ghali & Madame	Pare	Italian	1	117
02	Spain	Zara Larsson	Can’t Tame Her	English	2	100
03	San Marino	Charlie Puth	Lipstick	English	7	80
04	Croatia	Tea Tairovic	Boy Boy	Serbian	13	34
05	Portugal	Neoni	Darkside	English	5	90
06	Denmark	Selin	Lovers Hurricane	English	12	54
07	Uzbekistan	Muhammadziyo	Tabibim	Uzbek	15	18
08	Japan	Jeon Somi	Fast Forward	English, Korean	4	95
09	Serbia	Giolì & Assia	Young Forever	English	6	86
10	Malta	Aidan	Strawberry	Maltese	10	58
11	Switzerland	Jealous Friend & Katarina	Natural Disaster	English	9	62
12	Albania	Alketa	Dashni	Albanian	8	63
13	Greece	Wrabel	Turn Up The Love	English	14	31
14	Sweden	Bishop Briggs	Triumph	English	3	99
15	Armenia	Lilit Hovhannisyan	Yeli Yeli	Armenian	11	57

Voting in the 1st Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All fifteen countries competing in the first semi-final voted, alongside Australia, France and the aggregated Rest of the World vote. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

Grand Final voting results

		Total score	Italy	Spain	San Marino	Croatia	Portugal	Denmark	Uzbekistan	Japan	Serbia	Malta	Switzerland	Albania	Greece	Sweden	Armenia	Australia	France	Rest of the World
Contestants	Italy
	Spain
	San Marino
	Croatia
	Portugal
	Denmark
	Uzbekistan
	Japan
	Serbia
	Malta
	Switzerland
	Albania
	Greece
	Sweden
	Armenia

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final will take place on 29 February 2024. Fifteen countries will participate in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Lebanon and United Kingdom, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Thailand	4Eve	Boutchya	English	2	100
02	Norway	Jackson Wang & Ciara	Slow	Englsih	12	56
03	Cyprus	Enhypen	Sweet Venom	English	13	40
04	Netherlands	Metejoor	Eigen Schuld	Dutch	7	68
05	Vietnam	Alok, Alan Walker & Kiddo	Headlights	English	5	91
06	South Korea	Tyler Shaw	Out Of Sight	English	9	61
07	Finland	Mari	So High	English, Azerbaijani	8	62
08	Poland	Bazzi	Heaven	English	14	33
09	China	Amaarae	Wasted Eyes	English	4	93
10	Canada	Grace Carter	Riot	English	6	89
11	Ireland	Johan Papaconstantino	Tata	French	15	22
12	Israel	Alex Sampson	Blind	English	3	99
13	Kazakhstan	Moontalk	Virtual Friends	English	10	59
14	Hungary	Kovacs Harmat	Regi Mesek	Hungarian	11	58
15	Germany	Evangelia & Kelvin Jones	Diving	English	1	113

Voting in the 2nd Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All fifteen countries competing in the second semi-final voted, alongside Lebanon, United Kingdom and the aggregated Rest of the World vote. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

Grand Final voting results

		Total score	Thailand	Norway	Cyprus	Netherlands	Vietnam	South Korea	Finland	Poland	China	Canada	Ireland	Israel	Kazakhstan	Hungary	Germany	Lebanon	United Kingdom	Rest of the World
Contestants	Thailand
	Norway
	Cyprus
	Netherlands
	Vietnam
	South Korea
	Finland
	Poland
	China
	Canada
	Ireland
	Israel
	Kazakhstan
	Ireland
	Germany

Final

The final will take place on 10 March. Twenty-four countries will participate in the final, composed of the host country Lebanon, another three countries with its best result from the previous edition, and the ten best-ranked entries of each of the two semi-finals. All thirty-four participating countries with jury and televote, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in the final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Japan	Jeon Somi	Fast Forward	English, Korean	4	227
02	United Kingdom	Kaaze & Dotter	Disobey	English	7	204
03	Canada	Grace Carter	Riot	English	13	169
04	South Korea	Tyler Shaw	Out Of Sight	English	19	123
05	Sweden	Bishop Briggs	Triumph	English	3	241
06	Germany	Evangelia & Kelvin Jones	Diving	English	8	198
07	Vietnam	Alok, Alan Walker & Kiddo	Headlights	English	18	125
08	Netherlands	Metejoor	Eigen Schuld	Dutch	16	139
09	China	Amaarae	Wasted Eyes	English	20	122
10	Spain	Zara Larsson	Can’t Tame Her	English	5	207
11	Kazakhstan	Moontalk	Virtual Friends	English	24	69
12	Thailand	4Eve	Boutchya	English	15	150
13	Albania	Alketa	Dashni	Albanian	6	207
14	Israel	Alex Sampson	Blind	English	2	242
15	Serbia	Giolì & Assia	Young Forever	English	10	181
16	France	Pierre de Maere	Mercredi	French	11	171
17	Portugal	Neoni	Darkside	English	1	286
18	Italy	Ghali & Madame	Pare	Italian	9	189
19	Lebanon	Eva Timush	Tattoo	English	21	116
20	San Marino	Charlie Puth	Lipstick	English	23	88
21	Finland	Mari	So High	English, Azerbaijani	22	91
22	Switzerland	Jealous Friend & Katarina	Natural Disaster	English	14	153
23	Malta	Aidan	Strawberry	Maltese	17	134
24	Australia	Mette	Mama`s Eyes	English	12	170

Voting

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 compatibility of points with the Jury Member. The Rest Of The World

During the voting, spectators from Poland, South Korea and Switzerland were replaced in both semi-finals.

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from Dominicana.

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Albania	Diana Pie Sissy	Observer
Armenia	Vladislav Efremov	Observer
Australia	Timothy Algheren	Observer
Canada	Ilya Seleznyov	Observer
China	Darya Kudentsova	Observer
Croatia	Stevan Petkovich	Observer
Cyprus	Oleksandr Albertyan	Observer
Denmark	Elizabeth Ivanchenko	Observer
Finland	Vahid Sharifov	Observer
France	Vadim Babkin	Observer
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Observer
Greece	Artsiom Chalapa	Observer
Hungary	Artyom Frolov	Observer
Ireland	Katerina Faroupou	Observer
Israel	Evgeniya Talantseva	Observer
Italy	Sokratis Lakrindis	Observer
Japan	Mateusz Bluszcz	Observer
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Ivan Erofeev	Observer
Malta	Omur Hunerli	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	Observer
Poland	Aleks Pagels	Observer
Portugal	Andrey Gruzdev	Observer
San Marino	Andrey Zhidenko	Observer
Serbia	Kiran Sebastian	Observer
South Korea	Oleg Sharunenko	Observer
Spain	Angelina Koledina	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Switzerland	Javier Gutierrez	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Robin Bray	Observer
Uzbekistan	Roman Pastukhov	Observer
Vietnam	Alexander Pabon	Observer
The Rest Of The World	Jimmy Mardigras	Observers
	Adrien Alonso-Dussel
	Valeria Guzheva
	Alan Assonov
	Israel Kalyango