Worldvision Q4-2023

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 4 - 2023 was 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 26 December 2023, and a final on 6 January 2024.

Worldvision Q4-2023
Discover
Dates
Final	6 January 2024
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	Lebanon "Butterfly Dance"

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.

The winner was Lebanon with the song "Butterfly Dance", performed by Sasha Lopez and AMI. France (best result), the United Kingdom, Australia and Thailand (best result) rounded out the top five. Albania qualified for the final for the first time.

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

Fifteen countries took part in the semi-final, of which 10 has advanced 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	12	47
02	Cyprus	TXT x Anitta	Back For More	English, Spanish	11	49
03	Vietnam	Teya Dora	Džanum	Serbian	2	89
04	Denmark	Amy Guess	Comatose	English	3	81
05	Malta	Aidan	Pupa	English, Maltese	14	33
06	South Korea	DPR IAN	Don't Go Insane	English	8	62
07	Serbia	Twocolors & Asdis	Gravity	English	6	75
08	Switzerland	Nuit Incolore	Dépassé	French	1	102
09	Lebanon	Sasha Lopez x AMI	Butterfly Dance	English	4	77
10	Poland	Mar Malade	Jungle	English	15	30
11	Netherlands	MEAU	Altijd Op Je Wacht	Dutch	9	54
12	Japan	One Ok Rock	Make It Out Alive	English	7	65
13	Croatia	Lydia Kepinski	Vaslaw	French	13	36
14	Hungary	Zóra	Back On You	English	10	52
15	Albania	Kayma	Bad Blood	English	5	76

Voting in the 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 semi-final voted, alongside 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	Kazakhstan	Cyprus	Vietnam	Denmark	Malta	South Korea	Serbia	Switzerland	Lebanon	Poland	Netherlands	Japan	Croatia	Hungary	Albania	Rest of the World
Contestants	Kazakhstan	47		1	8			6	1	4	12			6	4	1	3	1
	Cyprus	49			5			10	6	12	5			3	3		5
	Vietnam	89	12	10		3	6		12		1	7	10	12		6		10
	Denmark	81	7		4		10	1	8	7	7	4	1	8	7	3	6	8
	Malta	33			2	1		8	10			5	2	1	2		2
	South Korea	62		8	3	8	1		5	10	3	3		10	1		7	3
	Serbia	75	2	3	10	2	3	12		2	8	2	3	2	10	10		6
	Switzerland	102	1	5	1	10	7	5	7		6	6	12	4	6	12	8	12
	Lebanon	77	8	4		12		7		6		12	5	7		8	4	4
	Poland	30	5				2		3				8		12
	Netherlands	54	6	2	7	5	8	4	2			8				4	1	7
	Japan	65	3		6	4	12			8	10				5	5	10	2
	Croatia	36	4	7		7		3		3	2	1	7			2
	Hungary	52	10	12			4			5			4	5			12
	Albania	76		6	12	6	5	2	4	1	4	10	6		8	7		5

Final

Twenty-four countries took part in the final. The broadcast of the Grand Final took place on January 6, 2024, at 22:00 (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	France	Shy’m	Elle danse encore	French	2	221
02	Greece	Shinedown	A Symptom Of being Human	English	24	45
03	Netherlands	MEAU	Altijd Op Je Wacht	Dutch	22	67
04	Thailand	Jeff Satur	Black Tie	English	5	205
05	Spain	Emilia, TINI	La Original	Spanish	14	130
06	Canada	Lucky Love	Masculinity	English	15	114
07	Albania	Kayma	Bad Blood	English	9	178
08	Sweden	Nathan James Larsen & Saylor Wilterding	Upside Down	English	16	111
09	Italy	Matteo Bocelli	Fasi	Italian	23	49
10	Australia	Ricki-Lee	On My Own	English	4	213
11	South Korea	DPR IAN	Don't Go Insane	English	13	130
12	Vietnam	Teya Dora	Džanum	Serbian	6	196
13	Portugal	Tungevaag	In My Zone	English	21	89
14	Lebanon	Sasha Lopez x AMI	Butterfly Dance	English	1	232
15	United Kingdom	Blackbriar	Cicada	English	3	220
16	Hungary	Zóra	Back On You	English	20	98
17	China	Collar	Off & On	English	18	110
18	Switzerland	Nuit Incolore	Dépassé	French	8	181
19	Germany	Jade LeMac	Meet You in Hell	English	19	98
20	Japan	One Ok Rock	Make It Out Alive	English	11	158
21	Serbia	Twocolors & Asdis	Gravity	English	12	131
22	Norway	Martin Garrix & JVKE	Hero	English	17	109
23	Israel	Grace Gachot	Built To Be Bad	English	7	186
24	Denmark	Amy Guess	Comatose	English	10	161

Voting

Grand Final Voting

Grand Final voting results (jury)

		Total score	Televoting score
Contestants	France	221	105
	Greece	45	21
	Netherlands	67	25
	Tailand	205	114
	Spain	130	51
	Canada	114	65
	Albania	178	72
	Sweden	111	72
	Italy	49	24
	Australia	213	98
	South Korea	130	71
	Vietnam	196	115
	Portugal	89	64
	Lebanon	232	118
	United Kingdom	220	151
	Hungary	98	57
	China	110	41
	Switzerland	181	88
	Germany	98	54
	Japan	158	74
	Serbia	131	52
	Norway	109	61
	Israel	186	72
	Denmark	161	71

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Jury score	France	Greece	Netherlands	Thailand	Spain	Canada	Albania	Sweden	Italy	Australia	South Korea	Vietnam	Portugal	Lebanon	United Kingdom	Hungary	China	Switzerland	Germany	Japan	Serbia	Norway	Israel	Denmark						Rest of the World
Contestants	France	221	116
	Greece	45	24
	Netherlands	67	41
	Thailand	205	91
	Spain	130	78
	Canada	114	49
	Albania	178	106
	Sweden	111	39
	Italy	49	25
	Australia	213	115
	South Korea	130	59
	Vietnam	196	81
	Portugal	89	25
	Lebanon	232	114
	United Kingdom	220	69
	Hungary	98	41
	China	110	59
	Switzerland	181	93
	Germany	98	44
	Japan	158	84
	Serbia	131	79
	Norway	109	48
	Israel	186	113
	Denmark	161	89

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Lebanon	232	France	116	United Kingdom	151
2	France	221	Australia	115	Lebanon	118
3	United Kingdom	220	Lebanon	114	Vietnam	115
4	Australia	213	Israel	113	Thailand	114
5	Thailand	205	Albania	106	France	105
6	Vietnam	196	Switzerland	93	Australia	98
7	Israel	185	Thailand	91	Switzerland	88
8	Switzerland	181	Denmark	89	Japan	74
9	Albania	178	Japan	84	Israel	72
10	Denmark	160	Vietnam	81	Albania	72
11	Japan	158	Serbia	79	Sweden	72
12	Serbia	131	Spain	78	Denmark	71
13	South Korea	130	United Kingdom	69	South Korea	71
14	Spain	129	South Korea	59	Canada	65
15	Canada	114	China	59	Portugal	64
16	Sweden	111	Canada	49	Norway	61
17	Norway	109	Norway	48	Hungary	57
18	China	100	Germany	44	Germany	54
19	Germany	98	Hungary	41	Serbia	52
20	Hungary	98	Netherlands	41	Spain	51
21	Portugal	89	Sweden	39	China	41
22	Netherlands	66	Portugal	25	Netherlands	25
23	Italy	49	Italy	25	Italy	24
24	Greece	45	Greece	24	Greece	21

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.

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	Anastasia Demakina	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
The Rest Of The World	Real Serxanbeyli	Observers
	Charles Fernando
	Nathan McGarry
	Sophie Khalil
	Brian John