Eurovision Song Contest 2023

The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 was the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition was held in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Thirty-seven countries took part overall. The winner was Loreen, representing Sweden with the song "Tattoo".^[1] This is the second time she has won the contest. She first won in 2012.

Ukraine won the 2022 contest, represented by Kalush Orchestra, but it was unable to host the competition due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[2] For this reason, the UK hosted the contest as they were the runners-up in 2022.

The contest was held at the Liverpool Arena. There were two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May, and the final on 13 May 2023. In total, 37 countries competed.^[3][4] The two semi-finals were hosted by Hannah Waddingham, Julia Sanina and Alesha Dixon, who all returned to host the final alongside Graham Norton.

• In November 2022, it was announced by the European Broadcasting Union that the results of the two semi-finals would be decided by a public vote only.
• The EBU also introduced a "Rest of the World" vote. This allowed viewers from non-competing countries to vote in the contest under one category. This meant that there were now 38 televotes and 37 juries.

As per the rules of Eurovision, the Grand Final will consist of 26 countries. These include the previous winning country (Ukraine), the Big Five countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) and ten countries from each semi-final.

The first semi-final took place on 9 May 2023 at 20:00 BST (21:00 CEST).^[5] Fifteen countries^[6] participated in the first semi-final,^[7] from which ten went to the final.^[4][8] Those countries plus France, Germany and Italy, as well as countries not participating in the contest under a combined "Rest of the World" vote, voted in this semi-final. The ten countries with the most votes went to the final.^[9]

The first semi-final took place on 11 May 2023 at 20:00 BST (21:00 CEST).^[5] Sixteen countries participated in the second semi-final,^[7][6][4] from which ten went to the final.^[10] The semi-final countries plus Spain, Ukraine and United Kingdom, as well as countries not participating in the contest under a combined "Rest of the World" vote, voted in this semi-final. The ten countries with the most votes went to the finall.^[9]

The final took place on 13 May 2023 at 20:00 BST (21:00 CEST).^[11][5] Twenty-six countries participated in the final. These were the twenty countries that passed the semi-finals, and six other countries: the Big Five (France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom) and previous winner Ukraine.^[6][12]

Groups of music professionals from all 37 participating countries ranked the songs and each country's national jury awarded 12 points to their favourite song, 10 to their second favourite and 8 to 1 to their third to tenth favourite songs. After all the songs had performed, a televote was held in each of the 37 countries plus one 'Rest of the World' block. Each of the 38 televotes awarded 12 points to the song that ranked first, 10 to the song that ranked second and 8 to 1 to the songs that ranked third to tenth. The winner was the song with the most points overall.

The winner was Sweden with the song "Tattoo", placing first in the jury vote, second in the televote and first in the combined ranking.^[13][14] It was performed by Loreen, who had already won Eurovision 2012 with the song "Euphoria". Loreen became the second performer to win the contest twice, after Johnny Logan. Sweden won the contest for the seventh time, tying Ireland's record for the most wins in the contest.^[15][16] The other countries in the Top Five were Finland, Israel, Italy and Norway.

During the Final, each national jury awarded their points individually. Once the jury ranking was complete, the televote points were added in ascending order, from the country that received the fewest jury points up to the country that received the most.

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