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 TL. The contest was held at the Beirut Seaside Arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on 28 and 29 February, and a final on 10 March.

Worldvision Q1-2024
Evolution
Dates
Semi-final 1	28 February 2024
Semi-final 2	29 February 2024
Final	10 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.
Winning song	Portugal "Darkside"

Thirty-four countries participated 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.

The winner was Portugal with the song "Darkside", performed by Neoni. Israel (best result), Sweden, Japan and Spain rounded out the top five. The following countries improved their results: Albania and Malta. Finland and Malta qualified for the final for the first time.

Location

The Q1-2024 contest took place in Beirut, Lebanon, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the first time that Lebanon hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 5,000-seat Beirut Seaside Arena.

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.

Production

Format

For the Q4-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 January 2022 are eligible. 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

Participating Countries

Thirty-four countries have confirmed participation this season. Armenia, Finland and Ireland has participated for the very first time. San Marino and Uzbekistan has announced its returning after non-participation in the previous episode.

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final took place on 28 February 2024. Fifteen countries took part 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.

The 1st Semi-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 117 3 5 12 1 12 12 1 4 8 1 10 8 12 12 8 8 Spain 100 12 10 10 3 10 3 8 8 12 8 6 10 San Marino 80 8 12 5 10 2 12 10 7 7 7 Croatia 34 2 5 4 7 1 4 2 4 3 2 Portugal 90 6 8 12 2 5 8 12 3 8 4 3 3 4 12 Denmark 54 1 6 3 4 10 12 3 10 3 1 1 Uzbekistan 18 1 6 3 2 3 2 1 Japan 95 2 12 2 7 4 10 8 6 5 10 6 6 10 2 5 Serbia 86 10 10 4 6 7 12 1 6 1 5 5 4 10 5 Malta 58 7 3 2 3 5 5 1 2 6 8 12 4 Switzerland 62 5 7 10 8 2 4 2 7 4 6 7 Albania 63 1 4 5 8 5 2 8 6 12 1 2 4 3 2 Greece 31 5 2 7 1 4 6 5 1 Sweden 99 4 6 8 4 3 6 6 7 10 12 7 5 5 10 6 Armenia 57 3 7 1 8 1 7 7 7 6 7 3

Detailed vote from the rest of the world Place Country Points JM AD VG AA IK 1 {{}} 12 2 {{}} 10 3 {{}} 8 4 {{}} 7 5 {{}} 6 6 {{}} 5 7 {{}} 4 8 {{}} 3 9 {{}} 2 10 {{}} 1 11 {{}} 12 {{}} 13 {{}} 14 {{}} 15 {{}}

12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
5	Italy	Armenia, Australia, Croatia, Japan, Uzbekistan
3	Portugal	San Marino, Serbia, The Rest Of The World
2	Spain	Italy, Sweden
	San Marino	Greece, Portugal
1	Sweden	Albania
	Japan	Spain
	Serbia	Denmark
	Albania	Switzerland
	Malta	France
	Denmark	Malta

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on 29 February 2024. Fifteen countries took part 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.

The 2nd Semi-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 100 6 8 8 2 10 6 8 1 7 7 12 3 7 12 3 Norway 56 3 3 7 4 4 2 1 2 6 6 8 10 Cyprus 40 7 1 1 8 2 6 3 8 1 3 Netherlands 68 2 8 7 4 2 1 12 12 6 3 4 7 Vietnam 91 10 7 12 5 3 12 8 5 4 4 4 2 2 5 8 South Korea 61 1 2 4 12 12 7 6 5 8 3 1 Finland 62 6 4 6 5 6 4 5 1 7 12 6 Poland 33 5 2 3 2 5 3 3 4 1 4 1 China 93 10 6 1 8 3 8 12 10 10 5 10 10 Canada 89 4 5 7 7 8 5 7 10 7 12 10 2 5 Ireland 22 10 3 1 6 2 Israel 99 12 3 4 12 6 1 10 4 10 5 5 12 5 8 2 Kazakhstan 59 8 1 5 1 10 7 7 1 8 7 4 Hungary 58 6 4 1 12 2 5 6 3 8 1 6 3 Germany 113 5 12 10 3 10 12 7 10 2 10 2 8 4 6 12

Detailed vote from the rest of the world Place Country Points JM AD VG AA IK 1 {{}} 12 2 {{}} 10 3 {{}} 8 4 {{}} 7 5 {{}} 6 6 {{}} 5 7 {{}} 4 8 {{}} 3 9 {{}} 2 10 {{}} 1 11 {{}} 12 {{}} 13 {{}} 14 {{}} 15 {{}}

12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
3	Germany	Norway, South Korea, The Rest Of The World
2	Thailand	Hungary, United Kingdom
	Israel	Germany, Vietnam
	Vietnam	Cyprus, Finland
	Netherlands	Canada, Ireland
	South Korea	China, Poland
1	China	Israel
	Canada	Kazakhstan
	Finland	Lebanon
	Hungary	Netherlands

Final

Twenty-four countries took part 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. The broadcast of the Grand Final took place on March 10, 2024, at 15:00 (GMT +3). 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 in the Grand Final

Grand Final voting results (jury)

		Total score	Televoting score	Japan	United Kingdom	Canada	South Korea	Sweden	Germany	Vietnam	Netherlands	China	Spain	Kazakhstan	Thailand	Albania	Israel	Serbia	France	Portugal	Italy	Lebanon	San Marino	Finland	Switzerland	Malta	Australia	Armenia	Croatia	Denmark	Greece	Uzbekistan	Cyprus	Hungary	Ireland	Norway	Poland
Contestants	Japan	227	133		10	7			3	12		8	5		7	5		5		8			3	5		8			1	2			1			4
	United Kingdom	204	115	2				6	4	7					6			10	6	10					6	12	1	7				3	4			1	4
	Canada	169	78	10	7		3	12	1		10	3		2	2		1	1		5		1		2	2	3		2			1	7	12	4
	South Korea	123	62			12					6				1										7	10	2			4	5	2	12
	Sweden	241	150			8			10		8	6		3					12	2			5			4	10				12			2	1	8
	Germany	198	76	7			6	7				2	7	5	5			6				6			12	3		4		12	6	12		10		7	5
	Vietnam	125	73												10	10		4		12				8										1	5	2
	Netherlands	139	49	4	12	10	1			4			10				1				1		6			6				6		7		3	7		12
	China	122	49	8	8			3								8	10						10	4					6					6	10
	Spain	207	132	3			7	8	12			12				2			2		6			1		5		2	4			8	3
	Kazakhstan	69	20		6					10							7						2	10								6	6		2
	Thailand	150	93		4				5			5	1			4	4			5		1							8				10			10
	Albania	207	84	6	3	4			8	5	12	10	12							6	4	8			8		5	12			2				12		6
	Israel	242	130	5		1	4	5		1	5				12				5	7	7	5	7	2	4	7	6	3		5	8				3	3	7
	Serbia	181	91			3	2	2		3		1		8		3	8			3	2	10	8	6			12	5		3	3						8
	France	171	76			6	5				3			10		6	6				10	3	12					10	10						8	6
	Portugal	286	196			2	8		6		7		8	12					10		3	2			5					1	1			7	6	12
	Italy	189	120					1		6		4		1		1	3		7			12		12			4	1	3		7		2			5
	Lebanon	116	42					4				7	2	4	3	12		8	3						3					8		10	5	5
	San Marino	88	47							8														7	10		7						8				1
	Finland	91	45	1	2		12						6					3				4			1			6	7		4
	Switzerland	153	57			5			7		1			7	4	7	12	7		1	12								5	7	10			8			3
	Malta	134	51		1		10				4		4		8		5	2	4	4	8	7					8	8				4		4			2
	Australia	170	61	12	5			10	2	2	2		3	6			2	12	8				4	3		1			12	10		5					10

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Jury score	Japan	United Kingdom	Canada	South Korea	Sweden	Germany	Vietnam	Netherlands	China	Spain	Kazakhstan	Thailand	Albania	Israel	Serbia	France	Portugal	Italy	Lebanon	San Marino	Finland	Switzerland	Malta	Australia	Armenia	Croatia	Denmark	Greece	Uzbekistan	Cyprus	Hungary	Ireland	Norway	Poland	Rest of the World
Contestants	Japan	227	94		8	1	3	2		7		4	10	2	4	1		3		6	6	1		7	10	10	10	8	7	7	3	8		5
	United Kingdom	204	89			2	7	6		10			1		10		1		7		12	8	5	2	4	4		6	1	1	6		5	7		8		2
	Canada	169	91	5					7			3		12		4	2		12	12						7				5					8	1
	South Korea	123	61	12		3		3				12		6	6	5							1			2	1		4								7
	Sweden	241	91	7		4	8					1		10		12	4		8	2	10	7	6			12	3		8		2	7	1	6	12	10		10
	Germany	198	122	6	2	5	10						8	7		6	5	4					2		1					2				3	5	7		3
	Vietnam	125	52		6						4	2			12			7						8	6		4				4		10			6	4
	Netherlands	139	90			8				1			3			7	6				5				3		6						2		7		1
	China	122	73	1		6		7	1								7			5		4		6		3								4	4			1
	Spain	207	75				2	5	10	12	3	7		8	7				1	10	2		7	1		8		10	6			10	4				12	7
	Kazakhstan	69	49					8														2		5										2			3
	Thailand	150	57		12	7				2	5	6	4	3				5				3		10	2		12					1		10	6	5
	Albania	207	123		4				5		12		6					8	2	3					12	6	8			3	1	2			2		10
	Israel	242	112		7	10		10	8	8					8			6	6		7		4		5	5	7			10	12			1	3		5	8
	Serbia	181	90	4	10				12		2			5	5		8										2		2	12	8	3	8	8		2
	France	171	95				1		6	6	10	10			3	3	10						8	4				7								3		5
	Portugal	286	90	8	3	12	12	1			8		12		2	8	12	12	4		4	10	12						3		7	6	6	12	10	12	8	12
	Italy	189	69	10	5		5			4		8				2			3			12	3	12	8		5	5	10			12				4	6	6
	Lebanon	116	74				4		3				2			10				8								3		4			7		1
	San Marino	88	41	3									5					10			1							2	12		10							4
	Finland	91	46						4	5	1									4		6			7	1		1		8	5		3
	Switzerland	153	96					4		3	6				1		3	1		7		5	10	3				4		6		4
	Malta	134	83								7	5		1					10	1	8							12				5					2
	Australia	170	109	2	1		6	12	2				7	4				2	5		3								5				12

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Portugal	286	Albania	123	Portugal	196
2	Israel	242	Germany	122	Sweden	150
3	Sweden	241	Israel	112	Japan	133
4	Japan	227	Australia	109	Spain	132
5	Spain	207	Switzerland	96	Israel	130
6	Albania	207	France	95	Italy	120
7	United Kingdom	204	Japan	94	United Kingdom	115
8	Germany	198	Canada	91	Thailand	93
9	Italy	189	Sweden	91	Serbia	91
10	Serbia	181	Portugal	90	Albania	84
11	France	171	Serbia	90	Canada	78
12	Australia	170	Netherlands	90	Germany	76
13	Canada	169	United Kingdom	89	France	76
14	Switzerland	153	Malta	83	Vietnam	73
15	Thailand	150	Spain	75	South Korea	62
16	Netherlands	139	Lebanon	74	Australia	61
17	Malta	134	China	73	Switzerland	57
18	Vietnam	125	Italy	69	Malta	51
19	South Korea	123	South Korea	61	China	49
20	China	122	Thailand	57	Netherlands	49
21	Lebanon	116	Vietnam	52	San Marino	47
22	Finland	91	Kazakhstan	49	Finland	45
23	San Marino	88	Finland	46	Lebanon	42
24	Kazakhstan	69	San Marino	41	Kazakhstan	20

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		JM	AD	VG	AA	IK
1	Netherlands	12		16	15	9	20	2
2	Australia	10		14	6	7	17	24
3	Serbia	8		11	8	13	10	23
4	Israel	7		13	2	23	2	11
5	Albania	6		23	21	19	12	1
6	Germany	5		5	4	12	8	17
7	United Kingdom	4		2	22	16	13	14
8	Switzerland	3		18	24	11	23	13
9	Malta	2		19	23	21	16	12
10	San Marino	1		1	17	5	14	20
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12 points

12 points awarded by the juries # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 4 3 2 1

12 points awarded by the televoting # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 3 2 1

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 Denmark and 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