Ourvision Song Contest 23

Ourvision Song Contest 23
Contest	Ourvision Song Contest
Edition no.	23
Participants	32
Location	Marseille, France
Date	March 14, 2012
Winner	United States - "Fireflies"

Ourvision Song Contest 23, often referred to as OVSC 23, was the 23rd edition of Ourvision Song Contest. The contest was held in Marseille in France after JoJo had won the previous edition with her song "Too Little Too Late". It was the second time France won which meant Paris was never an option since they hosted the 16th edition after Sarah Riani had won the 15th edition with her song "Intouchable". The contest was supposed to have started on March 10 but was delayed until March 11 because the hosts were busy. The contest start was postponed once again when some of the hosts decided to take a break from the contest. The remaining contest managers got the contest started on March 14 instead. It was the first ever edition not to release result videos for the Semi-Finals. Instead the results were only published on the forums. There were also problems with the announcements of national selections during this edition which caused problems for many national selections which were hosted for the 24th edition (the next one).

Awards

Award	Recipient
Jury	TBA
Hit	TBA
Heart	TBA
Voters	TBA
NS	TBA

Participants

Withdrawing countries	Returning countries	Debuting countries
Albania Bahamas Benin China Czechia Faroe Islands Greece Ireland Lebanon Libya Lithuania Puerto Rico Russia Türkiye Ukraine	Azerbaijan Belgium Canada Indonesia Italy Mexico Moldova Morocco Spain	No countries debuting in edition

National selections

9 selections were held for the 23rd edition.

Country	Contest	Song	Final
Canada	Voices of Canada	"Shut Up"	16
Denmark	Danish Music Contest 12	"I Will Love You Monday (365)"	2
Iceland	Tíminn á Íslandi	"Jungle Drum"	5
Norway	The Passion of Norwegian Music	"Hakuna Matata"	12
Romania	RO-Vision Music Contest	"One Million"	9
South Korea	KPop Song Contest 4	"To You"	9
Spain	La Música de España	"Todo Está En Tú Mente"	3
Sweden	Swedish Sounds 3	"I'm In Love "	4
United States	United Songs 2	"Fireflies"	1

Semi-final 1

Num.	Country	Artist	Song
1	South Korea	Kim Greem	"To You"
2	Malaysia	Ning Baizura feat. Nikki & Yanie	"Drama"
3	Azerbaijan	Nigar Jamal	"Crush on You"
4	France	Zaz	"Ni oui ni non"
5	Malta	Annalise Ellul	"Whoop It Up!"
6	Italy	Noemi	"Vuoto a perdere"
7	Portugal	David Carreira	"Esta Noite"
8	Switzerland	Stefanie Heinzmann feat. Gentleman	"Roots to Grow"
9	New Zealand	Kimbra	"Settle Down"
10	Denmark	Aura Dione	"I Will Love You Monday (365)"
11	United Kingdom	Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor	"Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)"
12	Spain	Coral	"Todo está en tu mente"
13	Norway	Stella Mwangi	"Hakuna Matata"
14	Mexico	Paty Cantú	"Afortunadamente No Eres Tú"
15	Moldova	Dan Balan	"Freedom"
16	Germany	Nena & Kim Wilde	"Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime"

Semi-final 2

Num.	Country	Artist	Song
1	Belgium	Kate Ryan	"Voyage Voyage"
2	Morocco	Tahour	"1, 2, 3"
3	Slovenia	Sasa Lendero	"Levinja"
4	United States	Owl City	"Fireflies"
5	Kosovo	Edita Abdieski	"The Key"
6	Canada	Simple Plan	"Shut Up!"
7	Estonia	Getter Jaani	"Suveööde kuumuses"
8	Philippines	Karylle	"OMG"
9	Poland	Kasia Wilk	"Pierwszy raz"
10	Netherlands	Pearl Jozefzoon	"We Can Overcome"
11	Romania	Alexandra Stan feat. Carlprit	"One Million"
12	Sweden	Sanna Nielsen	"I'm n Love"
13	Croatia	Vesna Pisarovic & Giuliano	"Bjezi od mene"
14	Serbia	Ana Perisic	"Ja te ne volim"
15	Iceland	Emilíana Torrini	"Jungle Drum"
16	Indonesia	Michelle Branch	"Loud Music"

Final draw

Qualifiers from the Semi Finals.

Did not qualify

Qualified

OVSC editions
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