Greece: Seven acts in the running for Eurovision 2023; The public jury casts its votes

Greece: Seven acts in the running for Eurovision 2023; The public jury casts its votes
Wednesday, 28 December 2022

  • Seven entries were reviewed today by the public jury within the framework of the Greek selection for Eurovision 2023. 

    The Greek selection for Eurovision 2023 is going in its final phase with the public jury reviewing today the seven candidate entries remaining in the race for Eurovision 2023. 

    ERT revealed also today the names and the song titles still in the running for representing Greece in Livepool. Namely the seven acts still in the race are: 

     

    Konstantina Iosifidou - "We are Young"

    Melissa Mantzouki - "Liar"

    Victor Vernikos  - "What they say"

    Monica - 'I' m proud'

    Leon of Athens - «Somewhere to go»

    Claudia - "Holy water"

    Maria Marangou & Antonia Kaouri - "Shout out"

     

    The voting took place in ERT's Studio E, which was specially designed for today. The 7 songs were rated, just like in Eurovision, while a notary validated the votes of the 70 members before they were placed at the ballot box.

    The audience committee awarded 12 points to their favorite song with 10 points, 8 points, 7 points, 6 points, 5 points and 4 points been awarded accordingly to rest entries. 

     

    The audience committee

    This year ERT has decided to include a public jury to have a say on selecting the country's next Eurovision entry. Out of 2,982 applications that were sent in to ERT, a draw determined 70 people to make up the public jury with a specific number chosen in terms of age. Specifically, the formation of the jury is held according to the following age categories: 

    • 25 members in the 18 – 24 category
    • 20 members in the 25 to 34 category
    • 15 members in the 35 to 44 category
    • 10 members in the 45+ category

    These 70 members that came out of a special draw will gather in December 28 in order to listen to the candidate songs and review the potential Eurovision 2023 entries for Greece. 

    The public committee's verdict will contribute 50.6% to the outcome while the rest 49.4% of the result will be determined by ERT's 7-member committee. 

    The final choice of ERT will be co-shaped by today's vote, which will highlight the winning songs, and by the corresponding one of the 7-member ERT Committee, with a weighting factor of 50.6% in the vote of the Public Committee, compared to 49.4% of the vote of the ERT Committee.

     

    Greece in Eurovision

    Greece made its first participation in the contest  in 1974 with Marinela. Since then the country has won one time the competition, in 2005 with Helena Paparizou and her entry  My number one. Since 2004 and up to 2013 the country was one of the most successful countires in the contest, having achieved 9 times a top ten placing. In 2016 it experienced its first non qualifying results since the semi final were introduced, with Argo in Stockholm.

    In 2020 Stefania was internally selected to represent Greece in Eurovision 2020 with her song 'Supergi!rl'. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic depriving the young talented act from her journey to Rotterdam. Nevertheless, ERT continued with Stefania for the 2021 edition in Rotterdam where the young act competed in the second semi final with her song  'Last Dance' and after qualifying to the final achieved to finish in 10th place bringing Greece back in the top 10 for the first time since 2013.  

    This year Amanda Tenfjord was internally selected to fly the flag in Turin where performing in the first semi final her song 'Die Together' qualified to the Grand final offering another top-10 placing to Greece by finishing 8th on the final overall score with 225 points.

     

    News Source/image: ERT