Worldvision Q2-2024

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 2 - 2024 was the 7th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It took place in Guimarães, Portugal, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q1-2024 contest with the song "Darkside" by Neoni. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster RTP. The contest was held Multiusos de Guimarães arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on 18 August, and a final on 1 September.

Worldvision Q2-2024
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Dates
Semi-final 1	18 August 2024
Semi-final 2	18 August 2024
Final	1 September 2024
Host
Venue	Multiusos de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Denis Vorobyov
Host broadcaster	RTP
Participants
Number of entries	34
Debuting countries	Iceland
Returning Countries	United States
Non-returning Countries	Poland 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	Vietnam "Wonders"

Thirty-four countries will participate in the contest, with United States returning 4 episodes gap after its last participation in Q1-23, while Iceland are so to debut in this edition. Poland and Uzbekistan announced that they would not be taking part.

The winner was Vietnam with the song "Wonders", performed by Michael Patrick Kelly featuring Rakim. Serbia (best result), South Korea (best result), Thailand (best result) and Ireland (best result) rounded out the top five. Armenia, Ireland and Iceland qualified for the final for the first time.

Location

The Q2-2024 contest took place in Guimarães, Portugal, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the first time that Portugal hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 3,000-seat Multiusos de Guimarães.

City bidding process

Despite the quick and swift decision on the location, behind the doors of IECO negotiations with the broadcaster there were multiple different cities presented into discussion. IECO has advised that the capital city of Lisbon would be most probably the perfect and only way to make the show organized well on a high level. However, the RTP and Portugal has decided to invest more into developing infrastructure outside of the capital in order to boost local economy, hence the city of Lisbon has been eliminated at the very beginning of the bidding phase, even though it was advised as the most suitable selection.

Key:

†	Host city
*	Shortlisted
^	Submitted a bid

City	Venue	Notes
Lisbon*	Any	Proposed by IECO as the most suitable option.
Guimarães†	Multiusos de Guimarães	Chosen by the broadcaster

Production

Format

Two semi-finals has stayed with the same rules in this episode. However, the juries were invited to voted in semi-finals for the first time in order to keep them as a backup of televoting and in order to research differences between the televote and the jury votes.

Changes with Semi-Final Voting

IECO has decided that all the juries are mandatory to vote in the Semi-Finals as part of the reserved voting. This means, that the Juries will vote in the Semi-Final for the first time, however their voting will not determine the finalists. It will be used only for difference comparison and as a back-up if something goes wrong with the televote representative.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The amount of the participants has stayed at the same level comparing to the previous episode, which means that no changes in competition format or allocation draw has been made. 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. As usually, The draw also determined which semi-final each of the four automatic qualifiers – host country Portugal and "Top-4" countries from the previous edition (Israel, Japan & Sweden) – would vote in and be required to broadcast.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
China Denmark Finland Germany Lebanon Switzerland	Australia Croatia Greece Hungary Spain United States	Armenia Canada France Iceland Serbia United Kingdom	Albania Ireland Kazakhstan Malta Netherlands Thailand	Cyprus Italy Norway San Marino South Korea Vietnam

Participating Countries

Thirty-four countries have confirmed participation this season. Iceland was set to participate for the very first time this edition, while United States has announced its returned after a four-year absence with a new broadcaster. In the meanwhile, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has not appear in the final list of the participants. The Uzbekistan broadcaster has decided to leave the IECO due to its shifted views on music and focusing more on sports and will no longer participate with at least with the current broadcaster. It was also brought to attention that Uzbekistan constantly struggle with meeting contests deadlines in the past and lack in activity, as well as showing low results at the competitions. As for the Kazakhstan, it was mentioned that it will only skip this edition due to heavy schedules in broadcasting and has promised to return in the future.

On June 21, it became known that South Korea would not take part in the competition this season, which forced the organizers to re-send an invitation to the Kazakh broadcaster to participate. On the same day it became known that Kazakhstan will replace the place of South Korea, which will miss this season. Later, on June 24 it was announced that Poland won't take place in the participation due to low results and inability to find a promising performance. The next day, the South Korean broadcaster still announced its intention to take part in the season. On July 26, the organizers of the competition finally confirmed that 34 countries would take part in the competition in Portugal.

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final took place on 18 August 2024. Fourteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Israel and Japan, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final. For the first time, the juries will also vote in the contest. Their points will be used as a backup for any force-majors with televotes and to research the differences of the televote and juries votes and how this impacts on the finalist qualification.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Croatia	Clara Luciani	Respire Encore	French	2	106
02	San Marino	Irama	Aura Capitolo XII	Italian	8	65
03	Ireland	Robin Schulz, Topic & Oaks	One By One	English	3	106
04	Lebanon	Bade	Fragile	English, Turkish	11	51
05	Vietnam	Michael Patrick Kelly ft. Rakim	Wonders	English	5	78
06	Albania	Marlena	Red Flags	Spanish	13	45
07	France	Doda	Mama	English	6	78
08	Armenia	Lucky Love	J'veux d'la Tendresse	French	10	62
09	Netherlands	Naaz	Uproot	English	9	62
10	Hungary	ECHOS	Carousel	English	12	49
11	Finland	Jaakko Kulta	Norjalaista Puuta	Finnish	14	38
12	Greece	So Below	Hush	English	1	117
13	Canada	Henry Moodie	You Were There For Me	English	4	98
14	China	Zior Park	Christian	English	15	20
15	South Korea	Griff	Miss Me Too	English	7	67

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 Israel, Japan 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 Croatia San Marino Ireland Lebanon Vietnam Albania France Armenia Netherlands Hungary Finland Greece Canada China South Korea Israel Japan Rest of the World Contestants Croatia 106 8 5 10 8 1 3 2 12 5 8 5 12 12 3 7 5 San Marino 65 1 4 6 4 4 10 2 12 2 12 8 Ireland 106 10 12 8 10 5 5 8 5 1 8 8 6 3 5 12 Lebanon 51 3 3 4 6 12 5 5 10 1 2 Vietnam 78 7 5 7 2 8 8 5 1 2 7 2 8 6 10 Albania 45 4 2 2 2 6 7 10 12 France 78 6 4 3 6 1 10 10 3 1 4 6 6 10 1 7 Armenia 62 7 4 1 7 1 10 8 8 5 8 2 1 Netherlands 62 2 1 6 7 2 6 4 2 12 4 1 4 4 7 Hungary 49 3 5 12 6 7 1 4 3 5 3 Finland 38 1 6 3 10 1 8 6 1 2 Greece 117 12 10 10 12 12 2 7 7 5 7 3 3 7 4 10 6 Canada 98 5 12 4 7 4 12 12 2 12 7 4 5 8 4 China 20 10 10 South Korea 67 8 3 8 5 6 2 3 3 6 3 1 10 6 3

Detailed vote from the rest of the world Place Country Points HA JM JF WB VG 1 Ireland 12 TBD 5 3 1 6 9 2 Vietnam 10 TBD 7 2 2 10 5 3 San Marino 8 TBD 3 15 6 12 1 4 Netherlands 7 TBD 1 13 12 11 2 5 Greece 6 TBD 9 7 4 2 8 6 Croatia 5 TBD 12 9 3 3 6 7 Canada 4 TBD 14 1 8 4 12 8 South Korea 3 TBD 11 6 11 1 7 9 Lebanon 2 TBD 2 8 10 7 13 10 Armenia 1 TBD 4 12 13 14 4 11 {{}} TBD 12 {{}} TBD 13 {{}} TBD 14 {{}} TBD 15 {{}} TBD

12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
4	Canada	Armenia, France, Finland, Ireland
3	Croatia	Canada, China, Netherlands
	Greece	Croatia, Lebanon, Vietnam
2	San Marino	Japan, South Korea
	Ireland	San Marino, The Rest Of The World
1	Lebanon	Hungary
	Albania	Israel
	Netherlands	Greece
	Hungary	Albania

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on 18 August 2024. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Portugal and Sweden, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final. For the first time, the juries will also vote in the contest. Their points will be used as a backup for any force-majors with televotes and to research the differences of the televote and juries votes and how this impacts on the finalist qualification.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	United Kingdom	Emily Mei	Venom	English	9	69
02	Australia	Tones And I	I Get High	English	14	46
03	Switzerland	Conor Maynard	Late Drives	English	7	70
04	Cyprus	Ella Henderson & Rudimental	Alibi	English	11	60
05	United States	Galantis, David Guetta & 5SOS	Lighter	English	1	109
06	Thailand	MATCHA	Complicated	English, Thai	2	97
07	Germany	Alba August	Lights	English	8	70
08	Serbia	NF	Happy	English	4	82
09	Italy	Elodie	Black Nirvana	Italian	12	60
10	Iceland	Bad Omens & Poppy	V.A.N.	English	6	74
11	Denmark	Dara	Thunder	English	5	80
12	Malta	Aidan	Juliette	Maltese	13	55
13	Kazakhstan	IC3PEAK	Kiss of Death	English, Russian	15	13
14	Norway	Night Club	Barbwire Kiss	English	3	90
15	Spain	Michael Buble	Higher	English	10	69

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 Portugal, Sweden 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 United Kingdom Australia Switzerland Cyprus United States Thailand Germany Serbia Italy Iceland Denmark Malta Kazakhstan Norway Spain Portugal Sweden Rest of the World Contestants United Kingdom 69 1 3 8 4 10 4 4 3 6 1 12 6 7 Australia 46 10 1 6 3 1 12 1 1 2 5 4 Switzerland 70 7 5 12 4 5 4 2 8 10 2 2 2 2 5 Cyprus 60 4 2 6 7 3 3 5 6 5 12 3 3 1 United States 109 8 4 6 6 12 10 7 7 4 10 8 8 7 12 Thailand 97 6 2 7 10 12 5 5 4 12 6 8 4 10 1 5 Germany 70 1 5 8 1 3 8 6 7 8 10 10 3 Serbia 82 5 8 4 5 3 10 7 5 12 5 6 6 6 Italy 60 3 4 3 4 3 5 10 12 3 12 1 Iceland 74 10 10 7 12 6 2 3 1 3 4 8 8 Denmark 80 12 8 2 7 1 7 12 2 7 6 7 3 2 4 Malta 55 3 12 2 10 2 7 1 8 10 Kazakhstan 13 1 12 Norway 90 2 7 1 10 8 8 6 6 10 2 4 5 7 4 10 Spain 69 12 6 5 1 2 8 12 8 1 7 5 2

Detailed vote from the rest of the world Place Country Points HA JM JF WB VG 1 United States 12 TBD 6 10 3 1 2 2 Norway 10 TBD 3 5 10 2 8 3 Iceland 8 TBD 15 1 4 3 14 4 United Kingdom 7 TBD 11 3 2 7 9 5 Serbia 6 TBD 7 4 12 13 1 6 Switzerland 5 TBD 1 13 9 10 5 7 Denmark 4 TBD 2 9 7 6 11 8 Germany 3 TBD 8 14 1 11 6 9 Spain 2 TBD 9 15 6 4 4 10 Cyprus 1 TBD 4 7 5 15 7 11 {{}} TBD 12 {{}} TBD 13 {{}} TBD 14 {{}} TBD 15 {{}} TBD

12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
2	United States	Germany, The Rest Of The World
	Thailand	Iceland, United States
	Italy	Kazakhstan, Spain
	Denmark	Australia, Serbia
	Spain	Denmark, United Kingdom
1	United Kingdom	Portugal
	Australia	Italy
	Switzerland	Cyprus
	Cyprus	Norway
	Serbia	Malta
	Iceland	Thailand
	Malta	Switzerland
	Kazakhstan	Sweden

Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	South Korea	Griff	Miss Me Too	English	3	216
02	Iceland	Bad Omens & Poppy	V.A.N.	English	17	153
03	Armenia	Lucky Love	J'veux d'la Tendresse	French	14	160
04	Thailand	MATCHA	Complicated	English, Thai	4	212
05	Switzerland	Conor Maynard	Late Drives	English	23	100
06	Portugal	Jim Yosef, Electro-Light, Anna Yvette, Deaf Kev & Tobu	Destiny	English	24	52
07	Serbia	NF	Happy	English	2	219
08	Norway	Night Club	Barbwire Kiss	English	16	155
09	Japan	Stray Kids & Lisa	Social Path	English, Korean	9	186
10	Greece	So Below	Hush	English	7	205
11	Netherlands	Naaz	Uproot	English	22	108
12	United States	Galantis, David Guetta & 5SOS	Lighter	English	11	177
13	Israel	Odelly	Mon Demon	French	12	168
14	Germany	Alba August	Lights	English	10	180
15	Canada	Henry Moodie	You Were There For Me	English	18	147
16	Denmark	Dara	Thunder	English	15	157
17	Vietnam	Michael Patrick Kelly ft. Rakim	Wonders	English	1	257
18	Sweden	Raye	Genesis	English	21	112
19	Croatia	Clara Luciani	Respire Encore	French	6	208
20	Spain	Michael Buble	Higher	English	19	136
21	United Kingdom	Emily Mei	Venom	English	20	122
22	France	Doda	Mama	English	13	165
23	San Marino	Irama	Aura Capitolo XII	Italian	8	198
24	Ireland	Robin Schulz, Topic & Oaks	One By One	English	5	209

Voting in the Grand Final

Grand Final voting results (jury)

		Total score	Televoting score	South Korea	Iceland	Armenia	Thailand	Switzerland	Portugal	Serbia	Norway	Japan	Greece	Netherlands	United States	Israel	Germany	Canada	Denmark	Vietnam	Sweden	Croatia	Spain	United Kingdom	France	San Marino	Ireland	Lebanon	Hungary	Albania	Finland	China	Cyprus	Italy	Malta	Australia	Kazakhstan
Contestants	South Korea
	Iceland
	Armenia
	Thailand
	Switzerland
	Portugal
	Serbia
	Norway
	Japan
	Greece
	Netherlands
	United States
	Israel
	Germany
	Canada
	Denmark
	Vietnam
	Sweden
	Croatia
	Spain
	United Kingdom
	France
	San Marino
	Ireland

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Jury score	South Korea	Iceland	Armenia	Thailand	Switzerland	Portugal	Serbia	Norway	Japan	Greece	Netherlands	United States	Israel	Germany	Canada	Denmark	Vietnam	Sweden	Croatia	Spain	United Kingdom	France	San Marino	Ireland	Lebanon	Hungary	Albania	Finland	China	Cyprus	Italy	Malta	Australia	Kazakhstan	Rest of the World
Contestants	South Korea
	Iceland
	Armenia
	Thailand
	Switzerland
	Portugal
	Serbia
	Nowray
	Japan
	Greece
	Netherlands
	United States
	Israel
	Germany
	Canada
	Denmark
	Vietnam
	Sweden
	Croatia
	Spain
	United Kingdom
	France
	San Marino
	Ireland

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Vietnam	257	South Korea	131	Vietnam	128
2	Serbia	219	Vietnam	129	Ireland	127
3	South Korea	216	Croatia	122	United States	115
4	Thailand	212	Serbia	121	Thailand	108
5	Ireland	209	Greece	117	Israel	108
6	Croatia	208	San Marino	108	Iceland	106
7	Greece	205	Thailand	104	Serbia	98
8	San Marino	198	France	98	Japan	96
9	Japan	186	Denmark	92	San Marino	90
10	Germany	180	Germany	91	Armenia	90
11	United States	177	Japan	90	Germany	89
12	Israel	168	Ireland	82	Greece	88
13	France	165	Armenia	70	Norway	87
14	Armenia	160	Norway	68	Croatia	86
15	Denmark	157	Canada	68	South Korea	85
16	Norway	155	Spain	66	Canada	79
17	Iceland	153	United States	62	Spain	70
18	Canada	147	Israel	60	France	67
19	Spain	136	United Kingdom	58	Denmark	65
20	United Kingdom	122	Netherlands	57	Switzerland	65
21	Sweden	112	Sweden	49	United Kingdom	64
22	Netherlands	108	Iceland	47	Sweden	63
23	Switzerland	100	Portugal	47	Netherlands	51
24	Portugal	52	Switzerland	35	Portugal	5

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		HA	JM	JF	WB	VG
1	Ireland	12	27.89	5	6	1	11	7
2	Norway	10	26.67	4	5	18	1	11
3	Vietnam	8	23.09	8	4	2	17	9
4	San Marino	7	20.72	2	24	10	21	3
5	United States	6	19.68	10	12	3	8	6
6	Iceland	5	18.80	23	1	9	7	24
7	United Kingdom	4	17.71	14	3	4	13	18
8	Israel	3	17.31	19	10	6	2	23
9	Switzerland	2	16.49	1	21	17	18	8
10	Netherlands	1	15.63	3	23	21	23	4
11	Armenia		15.44	9	18	23	24	1
12	Japan		14.30	20	2	12	10	19
13	Spain		13.23	13	22	15	14	2
14	Serbia		13.17	7	8	20	22	5
15	Croatia		12.90	18	17	7	4	13
16	South Korea		12.89	16	13	19	3	10
17	Greece		11.02	15	16	8	5	16
18	Germany		9.30	12	20	5	19	12
19	Denmark		8.50	6	15	16	12	15
20	Canada		8.49	22	7	13	9	17
21	Sweden		6.54	21	19	14	6	22
22	Thailand		5.59	11	9	24	16	20
23	France		4.07	24	14	11	15	21
24	Portugal		3.93	17	11	22	20	14

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

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

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	Jose Pablo Florez Ramirez	Observer
Finland	Vahid Sharifov	Observer
France	Danylo Baryshnyk	Observer
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Observer
Greece	Artsiom Chalapa	Observer
Hungary	Artyom Frolov	Observer
Iceland	Wladyslaw Sukhyi	Observer
Ireland	Katerina Faroupou	Observer
Israel	Evgeniya Talantseva	Observer
Italy	Vladimir Chebok	Observer
Japan	Misha Charny	Observer (Former North Macedonia)
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Vladislav Ershov	Observer
Malta	Omur Hunerli	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	Observer
Portugal	Mikhail Gorbunov	Observer
San Marino	Andrey Zhidenko	Observer
Serbia	Kiran Sebastian	Observer
South Korea	Oleg Sharunenko	Observer
Spain	Angelina Koledina	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Switzerland	Lukas Mariehamn	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Mateusz Bluszcz	Observer
United States	Lissy Pabon	Observer
Vietnam	Aleks Pagels	Observer
The Rest Of The World	Hussein Al-Araf	Observers
	Jimmy Mardigras
	Valeria Guzheva
	Julius Fountain
	William Butler

Incidents

Reducing politics in competition life

On June 8, 2024, the delegation of the Netherlands presented its representative at the competition. She turned out to be a Dutch performer with Kurdish roots, Naaz. At the end of the announcement, the hashtag “freepalestine” was indicated. The next day, June 9, the Japanese delegation requested that the Reference Group reduce political messages and slogans to a minimum, limiting them to news publications only. The Executive Supervisor, Australia has informed the Reference Group that YouTube as a platform already do censorship and if the clip exists on YouTube platform, then it is good to participate, which means that the IECO will not censor delegation choices, since they do not influence on the real political situation.

South Korea & Poland's Participation

It was confirmed by delegation of South Korea and Poland to have intentions to participate, however, South Korea was not in touch for more than one month and missed all deadlines, while Poland remained uncertain of their participation till the very last day: the county has decided to withdraw mainly because of absence of a "good fit" to represent the country and has no choices. Eventually, both countries didn't appear in the final list.