Worldvision Q3-2023

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 3 - 2023 was the 4th edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Cologne, Germany, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2023 contest with the song "Still Dancing" by Reve. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster NDR. The contest was held at the Lanxess Arena, and consisted of a semi-final on 14 September, and a final on 29 September 2023.

Worldvision Q3-2023
Step Into Future
Dates
Final	29 September 2023
Host
Venue	Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Egor Tarashkevich
Host broadcaster	NDR
Participants
Number of entries	29
Debuting countries	Albania Cyprus France
Returning Countries	Canada
Non-returning Countries	New Zealand
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	Norway "Head Up"

Twenty-nine countries participated in the contest, along with debuting Albania, Cyprus and France are debut in the competition. Canada returning after their absence from the previous edition. Last season's competitor New Zealand withdrew from the competition.

The winner was Norway with the song "Head Up", performed by The Score. Greece (best result), Germany, Israel (best result) and Canada (best result) rounded out the top five. The following countries improved their results: Thailand, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Location

Lanxess Arena, host venue of the Q3-2023 contest.

The Q3-2023 contest took place in Cologne, Germany, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the first time that Germany hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 20.000-seat Lanxess Arena.

City bidding process

On July 13, four candidate cities for the competition were announced, they were: Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund and Frankfurt. In the end, Cologne got the right to host the song contest, and the "arena" was chosen as the venue for the contest.

Format

Entries

For the Q3-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 January 2021 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.

Introduction of the semi-final

On August 22, 2023, it was announced that twenty-nine countries will take part in the competition. Due to the fact that the number of participating countries was large for the final and not enough for the semi-final, there were discussions within the reference group. As a result, on August 23, 2023, it was announced that the introduction of the semi-finals would take place. Thus, fourteen countries automatically qualified for the final (the top 10 of last season and an additional four countries according to the overall rating). The remaining fifteen countries were placed in the semi-final, of which only ten will advance to the final.

Allocation draw

On September 9, 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. Long before the day of the draw for Germany, the 20th ordinal number in the final was randomly selected.

Participating Countries

Twenty-nine countries have confirmed participation this season. Albania, Cyprus and France, which made their debut, as well as Canada, which returned after a seasonal break, were added to the main line-up of last season's participants. New Zealand withdrew without explanation.

Semi-Final

Fifteen countries took part in the semi-final, of which 10 will advance to the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals took place on September 14, 2023, at 21:40 (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Uzbekistan	DJ Antoine & Chanin	Sunset In Dubai	English	12	43
02	China	Lexie Liu	Magician	Chinese, English	9	50
03	Canada	Miley Cyrus	Used To Be Young	English	3	91
04	Netherlands	Flemming	Verleden Tijd	Dutch	10	47
05	Thailand	Shaun & Jeff Satur	Steal The Show	English	8	64
06	South Korea	Simona	Liebe	German	11	44
07	Greece	Saveus	Dark Vibrations	English	6	77
08	Albania	Jax Jones & Mnek	Where Did You Go	English	13	41
09	Kazakhstan	Ayau	Sensiz?	Kazakh	15	20
10	France	Ali	Paris Me Dit (Yalla)	French	7	73
11	Cyprus	Dove Cameron	Breakfast	English	5	79
12	Poland	Ralph Kaminski	Bal U Rafala	Polish	14	30
13	Lebanon	Aston	Killer Queen	English	4	83
14	Italy	Madame	Il Bene Nel Male	Italian	2	91
15	Norway	The Score	Head Up	English	1	95

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	Uzbekistan	China	Canada	Netherlands	Thailand	South Korea	Greece	Albania	Kazakhstan	France	Cyprus	Poland	Lebanon	Italy	Norway	Rest of the World Serbia
Contestants	Uzbekistan	43
	China	50
	Canada	91
	Netherlands	47
	Thailand	64
	South Korea	44
	Greece	77
	Albania	41
	Kazakhstan	20
	France	73
	Cyprus	79
	Poland	30
	Lebanon	83
	Italy	91
	Norway	95

Final

Twenty-four countries took part in the final. The broadcast of the semi-finals took place on September 29, 2023, at 20:00 (GMT +3).

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Serbia	Yonaka	Seize The Power	English	12	126
02	Spain	Sandro Cavazza & Georgia Ku	Love To Lose	English	18	100
03	Croatia	Bojana Vunturišević	Money	Serbian	21	86
04	Australia	Troye Sivan	Rush	English	6	186
05	Israel	Sina Moonlake	Cry With The Wolves	English	4	224
06	Lebanon	Aston	Killer Queen	English	19	100
07	Netherlands	Flemming	Verleden Tijd	Dutch	13	125
08	Denmark	Holy Peaks	No Time	English	16	109
09	Norway	The Score	Head Up	English	1	278
10	San Marino	Cinta Laura Kiehl ft. Tropkillaz	Loco	English, Spanish	20	89
11	Sweden	MIN t	Tiger	English	24	54
12	Greece	Saveus	Dark Vibrations	English	2	254
13	United Kingdom	Dylan	No Romeo	English	11	135
14	Italy	Madame	Il Bene Nel Male	Italian	8	156
15	Thailand	Shaun & Jeff Satur	Steal The Show	English	7	156
16	Vietnam	Robert Cristian & Alis Shuka	The Day Before	English	23	61
17	Japan	Beverly	One Vision	English	22	74
18	France	Ali	Paris Me Dit (Yalla)	French	9	150
19	Canada	Miley Cyrus	Used To Be Young	English	5	219
20	Germany	Rina Sawayama	Hold The Girl	English	3	252
21	Cyprus	Dove Cameron	Breakfast	English	14	124
22	China	Lexie Liu	Magician	Chinese, English	10	139
23	Hungary	Munn	Belongs With You	English	15	119
24	Portugal	Galantis & Lucas & Steve & Ilira	Alien	English	17	106

Voting

Grand Final Voting

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Televoting score	San Marino	Hungary	Netherlands	South Korea	China	United Kingdom	Italy	Poland	Kazakhstan	Norway	Japan	Thailand	Denmark	Uzbekistan	Lebanon	Vietnam	Cyprus	Spain	Sweden	Canada	Israel	Greece	Portugal	Australia	France	Albania	Croatia	Serbia	Germany
Contestants	Serbia	126	48
	Spain	100	47
	Croatia	86	67
	Australia	186	93
	Israel	224	114
	Lebanon	100	39
	Netherlands	125	55
	Denmark	109	38
	Norway	278	169
	San Marino	89	37
	Sweden	54	15
	Greece	254	123
	United Kingdom	135	48
	Italy	156	87
	Thailand	156	73
	Vietnam	61	31
	Japan	74	29
	France	150	91
	Canada	219	136
	Germany	252	120
	Cyprus	124	103
	China	139	67
	Hungary	119	56
	Portugal	106	54

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Jury score	Serbia	Spain	Croatia	Australia	Israel	Lebanon	Netherlands	Denmark	Norway	San Marino	Sweden	Greece	United Kingdom	Italy	Thailand	Vietnam	Japan	France	Canada	Germany	Cyprus	China	Hungary	Portugal	Albania	Kazakhstan	Poland	South Korea	Uzbekistan	Rest of the World
Contestants	Serbia	126	78
	Spain	100	53
	Croatia	86	19
	Australia	186	93
	Israel	224	110
	Lebanon	100	61
	Netherlands	125	70
	Denmark	109	71
	Norway	278	109
	San Marino	89	52
	Sweden	54	39
	Greece	254	131
	United Kingdom	135	87
	Italy	156	69
	Thailand	156	83
	Vietnam	61	30
	Japan	74	45
	France	150	59
	Canada	219	83
	Germany	252	132
	Cyprus	124	21
	China	139	72
	Hungary	119	63
	Portugal	106	52

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Norway	278	Germany	132	Norway	169
2	Greece	254	Greece	131	Canada	136
3	Germany	252	Israel	110	Greece	123
4	Israel	224	Norway	109	Germany	120
5	Canada	219	Australia	93	Israel	114
6	Australia	186	United Kingdom	87	Cyprus	103
7	Thailand	156	Canada	83	Australia	93
8	Italy	156	Thailand	83	France	91
9	France	150	Serbia	78	Italy	87
10	China	139	China	72	Thailand	73
11	United Kingdom	135	Denmark	71	China	67
12	Serbia	126	Netherlands	70	Croatia	67
13	Netherlands	125	Italy	69	Hungary	56
14	Cyprus	124	Hungary	63	Netherlands	55
15	Hungary	119	Lebanon	61	Portugal	54
16	Denmark	109	France	59	Serbia	48
17	Portugal	106	Spain	53	United Kingdom	48
18	Spain	100	Portugal	52	Spain	47
19	Lebanon	100	San Marino	52	Lebanon	39
20	San Marino	89	Japan	45	Denmark	38
21	Croatia	86	Sweden	39	San Marino	37
22	Japan	74	Vietnam	30	Vietnam	31
23	Vietnam	61	Cyprus	21	Japan	29
24	Sweden	54	Croatia	19	Sweden	15

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	JG	TA	KS	AD
1	Netherlands	12	40.13	11	1	2	3	3
2	Norway	10	30.08	2	7	18	7	1
3	United Kingdom	8	29.59	5	4	4	18	2
4	Greece	7	27.20	13	2	12	2	6
5	Israel	6	24.35	21	3	1	18	8
6	Portugal	5	21.85	1	16	17	4	11
7	France	4	20.96	20	5	19	1	9
8	Australia	3	20.82	6	8	3	9	10
9	Italy	2	16.45	8	9	10	6	7
10	Vietnam	1	13.77	3	17	8	20	12
11	Lebanon		12.79	14	11	14	10	4
12	China		11.15	4	20	9	14	19
13	Germany		9.18	7	12	11	12	17
14	Denmark		9.16	17	10	20	5	18
15	Hungary		8.99	12	18	15	17	5
16	Spain		8.66	10	6	22	19	13
17	Serbia		8.08	19	15	5	22	14
18	Japan		6.43	9	14	24	11	15
19	Cyprus		6.12	15	22	6	21	24
20	Croatia		4.63	24	23	7	23	21
21	Canada		4.62	16	24	21	8	20
22	Thailand		3.51	18	21	13	15	16
23	Sweden		2.48	22	13	16	24	23
24	San Marino		2.21	23	19	23	13	22

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.

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

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Albania	Diana Pie Sissy	Observer
Australia	Jimmy Mardigras	Observer
Canada	Raman Haurylik	Observer
China	Maksim Ozerov	Observer
Croatia	Andrey Zhidenko	Observer
Cyprus	Egor Rybin	Observer
Denmark	Victor Pevchev	Switzerland
France	Vadim Babkin	Observer
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Observer
Greece	Franklyn Baldacchino	Observer
Hungary	Robin Bray	Observer
Israel	Evgeniya Talantseva	Observer
Italy	Andrej Zujkou	Observer
Japan	Mateusz Bluszcz	Observer
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Ilya Mandebura	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	Observer
Poland	Sihan Chen	Observer
Portugal	Andrey Gruzdev	Observer
San Marino	Alina Zhukova	Observer
Serbia	Artyom Frolov	Observer
South Korea	Andrey Nikitin	Observer
Spain	Diana Nizamova	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Ellina Aleksandrova	Observer
Uzbekistan	Roman Pastukhov	Observer
Vietnam	Artsiom Chalapa	Observer
Template:XXW	Timothy Ahlgren	Observers
	Adrien Alonso-Dussel
	Joeri Groen
	Alexander Pabon
	Kiran Sebastian