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Introduction to the 2023 Edition
The United Kingdom hosted the 67th Eurovision Song Contest this year following Ukraine’s win in 2022 with Kalush Orchestra. Ukraine were sadly unable to host the contest themselves due to security concerns caused by Russia’s invasion. This was the UK’s ninth time hosting the event and the fifth time it had hosted the contest on behalf of previous winning countries. The 11,000 capacity Liverpool Arena was selected to stage the event. The production was praised for including Ukrainian themes and culture. British hosts Alesha Dixon, Hannah Waddingham and Graham Norton were joined on stage by Ukrainian Julia Sanina.
Thirty-seven countries participated, three less than in 2022, as Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bulgaria declined to take part for financial reasons. The good news is that Luxembourg will return next year for the first time since 1993.
There were not one but two significant changes to the voting system this year, always a challenge for a book like this! The two semi-finals were decided solely by public voting – a return to the format used between 2004 and 2007, and viewers from non-participating countries were allowed to vote for the first time, points being awarded as a “Rest of the World” total, in both semi-finals and the final.
Congratulations go to winners Sweden and Loreen who became only the second artist to win Eurovision twice, with her song “Tattoo”. Sweden now equal Ireland’s record of seven Eurovision wins and it seems only a matter of time before that record is broken. Interestingly, it was the jury votes which effectively decided the winner as not a single voting country’s public awarded Sweden twelve points compared to fifteen juries awarding her song the maximum. Finland were runners-up with eighteen maximum points from the public.
The “Big 5”’s performance was once more a disappointment, only Italy finishing in the top half. The UK and Germany battled it out to see who could finish last and the UK demonstrated that last year’s runners-up spot was not the apparent start of a new era of success by returning to its recent traditional performance, finishing second to bottom.
This year's Complete & Independent Guide contains over 320 pages of analysis, results and statistics. We hope you enjoy it.
Contents
Eurovision Winners since 1956
Section One: Qualifying for the 2023 Contest
National competitions or internal selection QR links to the official videos for each country
Section Two: Eurovision 2023 Contest Details & Votes
2023 First Semi-Final performers and televoting results
2023 Second Semi-Final performers and televoting results
2023 Final performers, jury voting, televoting and combined results
2023 Final: Voting Order & Spokespersons
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Jury Voting
Round by Round voting & changes to scoreboard: Public Televoting & combined results
Previous voting sytem: First Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Second Semi-Final results
Previous voting sytem: Final results
Country-by-Country History
Section Three: Statistics & Analysis
Predicting the Winners, the history of votes for the best song
Predicting the Winners, who gives the most 12's and who gives nothing
Marcel Bezençon Awards
OGAE poll result
Internal selection or national competition
Winners' Ages & Genders since 1956
2019 Contestants profile - singers & backing performers
Language history by country
Most Successful Countries League Table
Least Successful Countries League Table
Most Finishes in Top 3
Most Finishes in Bottom 3
Best & worst at qualifying from the semi-finals
Best semi-final to compete in
Most consecutive semi-final failures
Unluckiest semi-finals for each country
Performance of the "Big 5"
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? Previous voting system
Running Order analysis, where is best to perform? New voting System
Winners & losers position in the order of performance since 1975
Double Douze!
Are You Sure? When Juries and the Public Disagree
Highest number of 12's received by one country
Lowest number of 12's received by a winning country
12 Points Go To… a 10 year history by country
History of 12 points from juries and public since 2016
Sharing The Love: the concentration of points awarded
The host country's performance since 1975
Nil Points!
Highest scores in finals
Largest and smallest winning margins
Performance of debutant countries since 1956
League Table of Appearances
Closest voting relationships
Each Country's Best Friends & their 10 year voting history
The most one-sided voting - who doesn't reciprocate?
And countries who have never voted for another
The least friendly pairs of countries: all results since 1975
The least friendly pairs of countries: the effect of the public vote from 2016 onwards
Jury/Public split of points in finals since 2016
Most Points Received since 1975
East v West - the impact of geographical voting
Bloc voting by juries and the public in the 2023 Final
Complete country-by-country voting analysis since 1975 - who votes for who?
Appendix: Contest Details and Voting 1956 - 2022
Contest performers and voting tables: 1950's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1960's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1970's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1980's
Contest performers and voting tables: 1990's
Contest performers and voting tables: 2000's
Contest performers and voting tables : 2010's
Contest performers and voting tables : 2020's
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