Eurovision 2023 – Today, the running order for Eurovision semi-finals was announced. The first semi-final will take place on the 9th of May and the second semi-final on the 11th.
First Semi-Final (9th of May)
- 🇳🇴 Norway – Alessandra Mele – “Queen of Kings”
- 🇲🇹 Malta – The Busker – “Dance (Our Own Party)”
- 🇷🇸 Serbia – Luke Black – “Samo mi se spava”
- 🇱🇻 Latvia – Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
- 🇵🇹 Portugal – Mimicat – “Ai coração”
- 🇮🇪 Ireland – Wild Youth – “We Are One”
- 🇭🇷 Croatia – Let 3 – “Mama ŠČ!”
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remo Forrer – “Watergun”
- 🇮🇱 Israel – Noa Kirel – “Unicorn”
- 🇲🇩 Moldova – Pasha Parfeni – “Soarele și luna”
- 🇸🇪 Sweden – Loreen – “Tattoo”
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – TuralTuranX – “Tell Me More”
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic – Vesna – “My Sister’s Crown”
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper – “Burning Daylight”
- 🇫🇮 Finland – Käärijä – “Cha Cha Cha”
- 🇫🇷 France – La Zarra – “Évidemment”
- 🇩🇪 Germany – Lord of the Lost – “Blood & Glitter”
- 🇮🇹 Italy – Marco Mengoni – “Due vite”
Second Semi-Final (11th of May)
- 🇩🇰 Denmark – Reiley – “Breaking My Heart”
- 🇦🇲 Armenia – Brunette – “Future Lover”
- 🇷🇴 Romania – Theodor Andrei – “D.G.T. (Off and On)”
- 🇪🇪 Estonia – Alika – “Bridges”
- 🇧🇪 Belgium – Gustaph – “Because of You”
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Andrew Lambrou – “Break a Broken Heart”
- 🇮🇸 Iceland – Diljá – “Power”
- 🇬🇷 Greece – Victor Vernicos – “What They Say”
- 🇵🇱 Poland – Blanka – “Solo”
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia – Joker Out – “Carpe Diem”
- 🇬🇪 Georgia – Iru Khechanovi – “Echo”
- 🇸🇲 San Marino – Piqued Jacks – “Like an Animal”
- 🇦🇹 Austria – Teya & Salena – “Who the Hell Is Edgar?”
- 🇦🇱 Albania – Albina & Familja Kelmendi – “Duje”
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Monika Linkytė – “Stay”
- 🇦🇺 Australia – Voyager – “Promise”
- 🇪🇸 Spain – Blanca Paloma – “Eaea”
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Tvorchi – “Heart of Steel”
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Mae Muller – “I Wrote a Song”
What do you think of this draw?
This is how OGAE Portugal voted:
França 12 pontos
Finlândia 10 pontos
Itália 8 pontos
Suécia 7 pontos
Espanha 6 pontos
Noruega 5 pontos
Áustria 4 pontos
Israel 3 pontos
Reino Unido 2 pontos
Arménia 1 ponto
There were 75 voters.
Not Sweden as no. 1, surely they will be kicked out of OGAE. Of course points to the Israeli horror. Slay, queen!
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In this vein, I also find Austria super annoying. I
(cont’d) …don’tdislike it as much as Israel, Spain or Poland but I find it grating.
Israel is ok for what it serves, Poland is awful, Spain is great (I’m surprised you are an Almodovar fan and you don’t enjoy Eaea)
Eaea is physically painful to me, more horror film than Almodovar. It’s like the Portuguese dinoasaur to me though at least the staging is classier and not just a cheap joke.
Marco Mengoni was on German TV last night.
That is how one does conventional stuff with class.
The outfit is a bit odd but Italians never get leather right. When I started dating my Italian ex, he kept telling me that we not “not like the typical Italian”.
I dislike his look intensely. I am not here to vote for costume choices though.
This is really a song that calls for a Prada or Gucci suit.
Something along those lines.
For flash, add a Dolce tie.
Fisrt live rendition of the Eurovision version and it is very effective, minus that horror coat.
Very effective. Talent shines through no matter what. His fashion choices are deplorable though.
If it is between Sweden and Finland, I really have tk stand behind Loreen all the way.. I really do not want Finlamd to be in charge im front of her, with that type of the song and interpretation.. We need more quality, vocals, etc, etc..
Serbia OGAE points will be revealed tomorrow I voted few days ago..
No points to 🇮🇸 and 🇺🇦 yet, make me really sad and angry tbh..
Finland does actually have good lyrics though. He’s singing/rapping that he can only relax when he’s drinking. This is a problem for a lot of people.
Pure class here as well. If it were up to me alone, she would win the whole thing. I think that Blanca will do an Albania 12 and end up 5th.
Same here. I wish she won.
I am not a big fan of the new intro, I prefer the previous one. But her fashion sense remains exquisite.
I prefer the “authentic” one as well. But I think they use a different intro in almost every next live performance by her :)
They do.
She never chooses an ugly look. Mengoni should pay attention.
10 years ago, France legalized gay marriage and adoption! With the time needed to publish the law by president Hollande and then the legal 10 days to wait between a marriage request and thr actual marriage (in order for people to make up their mind and make sure they are going to go through wirh it) the first gay marriage was celebrated exactly on the day of Eurovision 2013 and, to no surprise, France was one of rhe rare countries to actually televote for Finland thar year!
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@ shevek
Do you think 🇬🇪 will qualify?
I think so. There will be many female solo singers with good singing voices singing in English in the final though. Paloma, La Zarra and Mimicat (if she makes it to the final) will stand out. Loreen will have to face fierce competition from all of them. The juries have some difficult decisions to make. Will they rally around Sweden to fend off Finland? Will Finland win the televote by a landslide? It’s a conundrum.
🇺🇦 will stand out… I said what I said… 😌😉
They probably will, but I was alluding to female singers. If Ukraines does very well with the televoters, Finland will get less points. It’s all very hard to predict. What about Italy? If Marco gets huge support from the juries, that may hurt Loreen’s chances. Is there a song that will do very well with both sets of juries? There are so many unanswered questions. :)
*Ukraine
Hej from the city of mermies
I like the last one best :p A cute smile is everything <3
Enjoy!
Obrigado!
Hej Domermaik 😘
Looking good there, Dom – nice scruff!
Schedule of rehearsals is out:

ESC is around the corner.
Let 3’s golden tractor is eco-friendly and uses renewable enery only. I think it will be part of their preformance.I read an interview they gave and i liked it. They describe their music style as Psychedelic trash.
I want Croatia in the Final. They have to Q for once even if that has to be with psychedelic trash.
With all televoting friendly entries in the Final, the one to be getting huge jury support will easily achieve top 6 in Final (praying for Spain or Italy)
I’ll allow them in unless this means Malta is out.😀
The shock NQ could be Czechia (another Horehronie?)
Serbia has to nail its live, otherwise with that draw I would add them to the possible shock NQ list. Especially if Croatia gains momentum the following weeks.
I have also thought about that!
My dad’s favorites from Eurovision 2023:
Azerbaijan
Estonia
Netherlands
Slovenia
Sweden
His overall favorite was Azerbaijan.
It’s funny, every year he goes to particular lengths to express how much he hates the Albanian entry. Besides Albania, his least favorites were Belgium, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.
yes my entire step family liked Azerbaijan too, one of their top 5! maybe it hits the right notes to an older generation and it’ll surprise positively in televotes?
Maybe. I think it does stand out genre wise, and my dad being someone who primarily likes rockish music gravitated to it more than most of the other songs. I never found Azerbaijan bad, just amateur, so maybe that wouldn’t matter to someone who specifically gravitates to this kind of music and wants an entry like this. Just not sure if it’d have enough of that audience to really be a Q.
My dad might have a heart attack hearing himself be called part of an older generation though :P I think he’s younger than a lot of people on ET lol
I think it could possibly do a Poland 2016, that was a similar effect with older voters liking 80s powerballads. I think the Azeri song is a bit too basic, Metro musicians though.
Ukraine OGAE gave us 0 again..
We gave them 8 points, because I voted 8 to 🇺🇦 in OGAE voting… 😌
Finland wins OGAE 2023 vote 3 pts ahead of Sweden:
https://eurovisionfun.com/2023/04/%CE%B7-%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8E%CF%84%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-ogae-poll-2023-%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%AF/
Click here for the full voting sheet:
https://ogaeinternational.org/2023-ogae-poll/
Mimicat got 14pts from the hardcore fans? That is also surprising! Anyway, I think that Sweden will most probably win, because the juries will most likely make sure that Loreen will be out of reach before the televoters have their say. And we also do not know if the televoters are going to vote overwhelmingly for Finland.
I think televoters will vote for both and Finland may be the one in the lead with them and juries won’t kill Finland. Now it all depends on the margins.
13th-14th-15th <3
Checking the official results it says 29/43 clubs voted so it’s not over yet.Damn you Eurovision Fun.😅
Crazy! she was a queen for ten years (all time top 250) and now…
All things come to an end. Now let’s see if Finland can win the whole things.
It has a bit of “Toy”, as soon as it’s revealed, it gained more and more momentum, big appeal at home, fans, both catchy and out of the box, esc friendly and yet not at all, charismatic singer… and the same question, can juries reward it? “Toy” had no competition til rehearsals and it was a big “fan friendly” schlager shaky number, and Loreen has jury victory by 100pts all over it, probably stopping Finland, so that’s where I think the comparison ends
Indeed, much will depend on how many points Loreen will get from the juries. I don’t think she will win the televote.
She won’t, people are not interested in the Swedish plastic. Finland will completely blow up the televote. It’ll do very well in the Nordics, the Baltics, the Balkans, Germany and the west.
I’ve managed to return home despite all the traffic caused by Lula’s official visit. I have to get some rest now. That is a surprising result – not winning OGAE vote?!
*the OGAE…
I’m not surprised because it’s been a week now that the tide turned in favor of Finland. Of course it all comes down to Luxembourg’s 1 pt to Loreen.This is what made the difference and gave the win to Kaarija. Of course it’s not really important.
This how these American fans reacted to Sweden 23:
Is it over? I mean it’s only 29 clubs so far. They used to be 37 if I remember correctly…
I was thinking the same.
What do you make of the Eurovision Fun thread?🤔
EURO jury results are being published. We are currently at country #29

There are so many rankings. LOL I am feeling lost.
Once EURO JURY’s full results are released I will post them here
Seems like this one is the worst of all the rankings :P
That’s one of the reasons it HAD to be shared ! :P
Salena learned to sing “Molitva”! ❤️🤍❤️🇦🇹🇷🇸
Teya is fishing our 12.. 😛
EURO JURY votes so far
VERY interesting!
ERT JURY thought this song didn’t deserve a chance but “Shout Out” did! …
Hint of more success for Finland? The gorgeous Lauri Markkanen just won NBA’s “Most Improved Player”!
Lauri ♥️ He is indeed gorgeous and goofy charming!
Italy enters bettings’ top 10 (to win it) at the expense of Czechia.
#Total_sense
And France has overtaken Spain as well
Also makes sense given the OGAE and eurojury hype
No sense at all given the issues the delegation has (not that different from the Netherlands in how the domestic press sees it after the parties).
Well people bet focusing on polls and not behaviours , I guess
No dancers or guitar for Vernikos on Liverpool’s stage. Just him and “colors of greek summer” according to eurovisionfun.
In the mranwhile Greece is currently #30-34 in betting odds, which marks country’s lowest ever place (worse than 2016 with Argo)
Oh boy…
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65379840
Stupid stupid stupid
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/25/2024-trump-biden-presidential-rematch
I’m afraid it will be a piece of cake for De Santis in 2024 :(
The real election for DeSantis will be if he can beat Trump in the primary. If he does, he is the next president.
Agreed.
ETSC is approaching so in case you wanted to claim Greece, keep in mind that Kontopoulos is about to release his next project, a girl group named 3SUM…😇