Eurovision Times Awards 2023

Eurovision 2023 – Every year, the summer is the calm after the storm so it’s the perfect time to do more games and contests! This year we resume the “Eurovision Times Awards” to give prizes (the Fridas) for the best in every category! And you get to vote!

2023 will be the tenth year for Eurovision Times to organize the Eurovision Times Awards, because the 2020 contest was cancelled, preventing us from hosting this new yearly tradition that year. The principle of the ET Awards is simple, in each categories, the staff of this website will nominate a few entries per categories and open polls for the public to vote in them so we can reveal afterwards all the winners. The winners recieve an imaginary trophee, entitled the Fridas in hommage to Frida Boccara, the French Eurovision winner in 1969 with “Un jour, un enfant“.

You can check past results if you’re curious, even though past winners will be mentioned in the upcoming articles:

• 2013’s results here
• 2014’s results here
• 2015’s results here
• 2016’s results here
• 2017’s results here 
• 2018’s results here
• 2019’s results here
• 2021’s results here
• 2022’s results here

Here are the categories for the 2023 “Eurovision Times Awards”:

• Technical Awards:
  • Best Female Vocals
  • Best Male Vocals
  • Best Lyrics
  • Best Composition
• Artistic Awards:
  • Best Performance
  • Best Props & Gimmicks
  • Best Female Style
  • Best Male Style
  • Best Backings
• Delegation Awards:
  • Best Backdrop
    
  • Best Light Effects
  • Best Promotion Video
  • Best Spokeperson
  • Best National Final
• Results Awards:
  • Most Improved Entry
  • Best Non-Qualified Semi-Finalist
  • Most Underrated Entry In Final
  • Best Entry

But wait, there’s more! Indeed, there will be surprise winners this year! This new feature is introduced to be able to prize anything specific about an edition without having to repeat the award for next year. So anything you think stood out this year and deserves a nod, you can nominate (meme, polemics, online features, a specific person in a delegation, something about Liverpool’s hosting…) In the reveal night, we’ll also reveal which ones we picked for a Frida! There is also a Miss Congeniality winner decided by ET directly! It was won by Miki (2019) and Lauri (2022) in the past, but we’re now making it a tradition to have one!

A specific page for each category will be open with a recap video of all the nominees and the poll for you to vote (everyone gets to vote, not just regular voters)! Each page will specifically remind you what the category is about so that there are no confusion. The page will feature a poll opened for an entire week. Every IP gets only one vote, please do not cheat, do take in consideration to watch them all once again before voting and do not vote necessarily for your favorite song! Of course, it’s pointless to vote only for your own country unless you’re really certain it should win. May the best win!

 

Tell us tonight and through the next few days whom do you want to see nominated in each categories, even though these are only “recommendations” as only the staff of Eurovision Times gets to nominate in the first round (else they wouln’t be able to be called “Eurovision Times Awards”)! However, every year, we’ve nominated at least a couple of whichever was heavily recommended, if not most of them! You can nominate by replying in the comment section of this article!

PS1: there are no “group” vocals category simply because there is often either a male or female singer for the whole group, in case of a duet, because we can’t be sure that there would be enough duets every year to have enough nominees, we decided that either the male, the female or both could be nominated separately if they deserve to be. Same goes for groups with multiple singers, they all get to be nominated individually if needed, so you can nominate all of the group members or single out the best one (for instance for Italy 2015…)

PS2: In 2013, we had “Best Male Looks” and “Best Female Looks” and that got people confused, who often voted for “hottest” person. This felt a tad too shallow for us and we decided to focus mostly on Style (hair, makeup and clothes and how they match with the person’s looks, the overall backdrop and light show and the song itself of course) since 2014. Recommend (and later on vote) accordingly, even though we know how supericial Eurovision can be, and, well, all artists look great!

PS3: There are no “Worst…” categories as these awards are here to salute great efforts that contribute to the contest, its credibility as well as its overall quality. We decided to even drop the “Most Overrated” award. Other categories that got ditched: “Best Top 5 Entry” as this one was always won by whoever won “Best Entry” afterwards (yes, all of our “Best Entry” winners were in the Top 5 in Eurovision!) and “Best Internal Choice” as this one was also redundant as whoever won that one was a popular entry that won many other Fridas. On the other hand, we divided “Most underrated” between Non-Q entries and low finalists and “Best Backdrop & Lights” into two categories: looking at the few entries who went without a backdrop but had a light show, it did not feel like these should compete for the same award as the delegations who create a visually compelling backdrop. And we were proven right in 2022, with the infamous black sun!

PS4: As it’s now tradition since 2018, there wont be an article for each category’s result but at the end of all categories, we’ll do a “Super Reveal Night” for all results one by one. Else it felt like the latest categories, people started voting based on results that were already out ;) Stay tune and start nominating!