Sweden Wins Eurovision 2023!

/ Sekhmet Morgan

Eurovision 2023 – After an exciting voting sequence, the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Juries had their say first, and then televote came in and in the end Loreen won with “Tattoo” for Sweden!

 

The hosts were Alesha Dixon, Hannah Waddingham, Julia Sanina and Graham Norton;  the show took place at the  M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool (United-Kingdom). The voting saw a twist in the final with a new vote made of 100% televote from “the Rest of the World”; the rest was similar to last year’s format: only juries results were announced first, with only the 12pts revealed by the spokeperson. Then they revealed how many each song got in televote, starting at whoever is ranked 26th by juries all the way to the juries’ winner!

This was tonight’s running-order:

  1. 🇦🇹 Austria | Teya & Salena – Who The Hell Is Edgar?
  2. 🇵🇹 Portugal | Mimicat – Ai Coração
  3. 🇨🇭 Switzerland | Remo Forrer – Watergun
  4. 🇵🇱 Poland | Blanka – Solo
  5. 🇷🇸 Serbia | Luke Black – Samo Mi Se Spava
  6. 🇫🇷 France: La Zarra – Évidemment
  7. 🇨🇾 Cyprus | Andrew Lambrou – Break A Broken Heart
  8. 🇪🇸 Spain: Blanca Paloma – Eaea
  9. 🇸🇪 Sweden | Loreen – Tattoo
  10. 🇦🇱 Albania | Albina & Familja Kelmendi – Duje
  11. 🇮🇹 Italy: Marco Mengoni – Due Vite
  12. 🇪🇪 Estonia | Alika – Bridges
  13. 🇫🇮 Finland | Käärijä – Cha Cha Cha
  14. 🇨🇿 Czechia | Vesna – My Sister’s Crown
  15. 🇦🇺 Australia | Voyager – Promise
  16. 🇧🇪 Belgium | Gustaph – Because Of You
  17. 🇦🇲 Armenia | Brunette – Future Lover
  18. 🇲🇩 Moldova | Pasha Parfeni – Soarele şi Luna
  19. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: TVORCHI – Heart of Steel
  20. 🇳🇴 Norway | Alessandra – Queen of Kings
  21. 🇩🇪 Germany: Lord of the Lost – Blood & Glitter
  22. 🇱🇹 Lithuania | Monika Linkytė – Stay
  23. 🇮🇱 Israel | Noa Kirel – Unicorn
  24. 🇸🇮 Slovenia | Joker Out – Carpe Diem
  25. 🇭🇷 Croatia | Let 3 – Mama ŠČ!
  26. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Mae Muller – I Wrote A Song

So after a long sequence of 45mns for the votes, results came in. Juries had Sweden very comforably first, almost double the points above Israel which was second by 1pt only above Italy! Finland and Estonia close their Top 5. Televote came in and disagreed quite a lot: they had Croatia in their Top 10 but it did not help them to reach the Top 10. It did help Ukraine to reach the Top 10 and Norway  to reach the Top 5 after being ignored with the juries. In the end, Finland was revealed as a massive televote winner (376pts, the higher ever for a non-Eurovision winner) but it wasnt enough to beat Sweden, also Top 3 in televote: congratulations Sweden!

But wait, there’s more! Marcel Bezençon Awards were also distributed tonight, which give out three more honorary titles.

  • The Press Award is self explanatory really, and was awarded to: 🇸🇪  Sweden!
  • The Artistic Award is given by former winners to their favorite entry, which was: 🇸🇪 Sweden!
  • The Composer Award is given by all composers of the entries competing that year to their favorite composition and they gave it to: 🇮🇹 Italy!

Congratulations to everyone! Congratulations to all delegations who made Eurovision 2023 possible! Ready for Fridas?

1,199 thoughts on “Sweden Wins Eurovision 2023!”

      • Yes, it seems the spanish public was not as excited about her as the eurofans.

        Last year had the fallout from the Måneskin phenomenon and also turned into a show of support for Ukraine. It also featured a few genuine crowd pleasers (Spain, Serbia, Moldova) while this year only had Finland.

        Sweden brought a big returnee that could only excite the eurofans, not the general public. Italy was its reliable self and nothing more. Ukraine made sure it wouldn’t win again. Israel was just an echo of what Spain did last year. Norway served nordic kitsch that has been done many times before. France and Spain tried to go “back to their roots” without producing sparks. Serbia and Moldova were just a shadow of what they did last year. A rather flat year overall depsite the broadcaster’s undeniable competence.

    • And this is not the end. Congrats on another miliestone <3

      Tattoo is breaking every record related to esc entries. Televoting who ?

  8. Say, when is the ET polling going to take place?

    So I can do the annual ritual of giving my girls a scoreboard helping hand. AKA receiving the only points they are going to receive. Haha

  10. Viral Global atm:
    1-Finland
    2- Sweden
    3-Austria
    5-Slovenia
    9-Belgium
    11-Australia
    13-Croatia
    14-Cyprus
    15-Switzerland
    19-Poland
    20-Moldova
    21-Serbia
    22-Norway
    23-Czechia
    27-Germany
    30-France
    31-Estonia
    32-Armenia
    37-Israel
    39-Portugal
    44-Ukraine
    49-Lithuania

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