This Years Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest 2023
About The Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is the upcoming 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Liverpool, United Kingdom, after Ukraine, winner of the 2022 contest with the song “Stefania” by Kalush Orchestra, was unable to meet the demands of hosting the event due to security concerns caused by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on behalf of the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (UA:PBC), the contest will be held at the Liverpool Arena, and will consist of two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May, and a final on 13 May 2023. It will be a record-extending ninth time that the United Kingdom hosts the contest, having last done so in Birmingham in 1998.
The three live shows will be presented by British singer Alesha Dixon, British actress Hannah Waddingham and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina, with Irish television presenter Graham Norton joining for the final.
Thirty-seven countries will participate in the contest, with Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia all deciding against participation, mainly due to the economic impact of the 2021–2022 global energy crisis.
About The Venue
It will be the ninth time that the United Kingdom hosts the contest, having previously done so in 1960, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1977, 1982 and 1998. The selected venue is the 11,000-seat Liverpool Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena located in the ACC Liverpool complex, which serves as a venue for events including concerts and sports. The venue has previously hosted the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2008 and 2017, and the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
In addition to the main venue, the host city will also organise side events in tandem with the contest. The Eurovision Village is the official Eurovision Song Contest fan and sponsors area during the event weeks. At the Village, it will be possible to watch performances by contest participants and local artists, as well as the three live shows broadcast from the main venue. It is set to be located at the Pier Head and open from 5 to 13 May 2023. The EuroClub, which will take place at Camp and Furnace, will host the official after-parties and private performances by contest participants. A two-week cultural festival called EuroFest will take place across Liverpool from 1 to 14 May 2023, and will feature collaborations between British and Ukrainian artists.
The Superfan Panel
This year our Panel of Superfans is even bigger and better!
Our main panel of Euro Gurus will be reviewing all of this years participating songs, and revealing their opinions and scores for each entry as usual.
The panellists have also taken on the responsibility of attempting to predict this years winning entry!
Our experts will be listening to all of this years entries, carefuly scrutinising each one.
Their collective views and points will feature in the show each week, and allow us to build our very own leaderboard on this page, which will be updated as each entry is reviewed on the show.
Once all the entries have been heard and reviewed, more of our superfans will have their say, as our second panel of Eurovision followers get to add their own points to the totals in order to create our final scoreboard – our equivalent of the Public Televote round in the real contest.
We will then showcase the 15 songs that all of our superfans have rated the highest in our special Contender Countdown show, revealed just before the Song Contest in Liverpool!
Reviews Leaderboard
LOREEN
SWEDEN
48
BLANCA PALOMA
SPAIN
38
KÄÄRIJÄ
FINLAND
37
MOLDOVA
36
SLOVENIA
31
AUSTRALIA
31
NORWAY
30
GEORGIA
28
FRANCE
28
GERMANY
27
NETHERLANDS
26
AUSTRIA
26
PORTUGAL
26
UKRAINE
25
MALTA
25
UNITED KINGDOM
24
ESTONIA
23
LATVIA
23
CYPRUS
23
ISRAEL
23
CZECH REPUBLIC
22
ARMENIA
22
BELGIUM
21
ALBANIA
21
LITHUANIA
21
SERBIA
20
SWITZERLAND
19
ITALY
19
ICELAND
17
DENMARK
16
ROMANIA
16
CROATIA
15
SAN MARINO
11
AZERBAIJAN
11
GREECE
10
IRELAND
9
POLAND
2
