Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

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Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Country Cyprus
National selection
Selection processInternal selection
Selection date(s)Artist: 17 October 2022
Song: 2 March 2023
Selected entrantAndrew Lambrou
Selected song"Break a Broken Heart"
Selected songwriter(s)
  • Thomas Stengaard
  • Jimmy "Joker" Thörnfeldt
  • Jimmy Jansson
  • Marcus Winther-John
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (7th, 96 points)
Final result12th, 126 points
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2022 • 2023 • 2024►

Cyprus participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, having internally selected Andrew Lambrou to represent the country with the song "Break a Broken Heart".

In the second semi-final, Cyprus qualified for the final on 13 May.

Background

Main article: Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2023 contest, Cyprus has participated in the

2012–13 Cypriot financial crisis and the broadcaster's budget restrictions,[3] Cyprus has qualified for the final of all the contests until 2022, when "Ela" performed by Andromache
failed to advance from the semi-finals.

The Cypriot national broadcaster,

OGAE Greece that the label Panik Records had signed an agreement with CyBC in order to select the Cypriot artist for 2023 through a Greek-Cypriot talent show based on the British reality television music competition All Together Now.[4] However, such plans were pushed back to 2024, with the broadcaster reverting to an internal selection.[5]

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

CyBC continued to internally select the Cypriot entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in conjunction with Panik Records.[6] On 17 October 2022, CyBC announced that they had selected Australian-Cypriot singer Andrew Lambrou to represent Cyprus in Liverpool. Lambrou had previously attempted to represent Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022, placing seventh in the national final Eurovision – Australia Decides 2022 with the song "Electrify".[7][8] His entry, "Break a Broken Heart", was released on 2 March 2023.[9]

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "

Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 31 January 2023, an allocation draw was held, which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, and determined which half of the show they would perform in. Cyprus has been placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 11 May 2023, and has been scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.[10]

Once all the competing songs for the 2023 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Cyprus was set to perform in position 6, following the entry from Belgium and before the entry from Iceland.[11]

At the end of the show, Cyprus was announced as a qualifier for the final.

All three shows were broadcast live on

RIK Sat with commentary by Melina Karageorgiou and Alexandros Taramountas.[12][13] The grand final broadcast on RIK 1 on 13 May reached over 139,000 viewers, which represents a 61.6% market share.[14][15]

Voting

Points awarded to Cyprus

Points awarded by Cyprus

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Cyprus (Semi-final 2)[16]
Draw Country Televote
Rank Points
01  Denmark 14
02  Armenia 2 10
03  Romania 13
04  Estonia 8 3
05  Belgium 7 4
06  Cyprus
07  Iceland 12
08  Greece 1 12
09  Poland 5 6
10  Slovenia 9 2
11  Georgia 11
12  San Marino 15
13  Austria 6 5
14  Albania 10 1
15  Lithuania 3 8
16  Australia 4 7
Detailed voting results from Cyprus (Final)[17]
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror 1 Juror 2 Juror 3 Juror 4 Juror 5 Rank Points Rank Points
01  Austria 2 3 8 2 4 2 10 19
02  Portugal 16 17 17 15 17 19 24
03   Switzerland 8 5 12 8 8 9 2 12
04  Poland 20 14 20 18 22 21 9 2
05  Serbia 24 24 15 23 25 25 20
06  France 10 19 2 17 14 11 8 3
07  Cyprus
08  Spain 1 4 9 9 13 5 6 23
09  Sweden 5 2 5 3 1 1 12 3 8
10  Albania 23 18 24 11 11 18 25
11  Italy 7 11 1 10 7 6 5 5 6
12  Estonia 13 15 22 4 10 13 17
13  Finland 4 12 4 5 24 8 3 4 7
14  Czech Republic 6 6 7 14 15 10 1 16
15  Australia 3 1 14 7 2 3 8 22
16  Belgium 11 13 19 12 21 16 21
17  Armenia 14 10 11 1 6 7 4 7 4
18  Moldova 12 16 23 19 23 20 10 1
19  Ukraine 19 9 10 22 16 14 2 10
20  Norway 15 21 6 16 5 12 6 5
21  Germany 25 22 18 21 18 24 18
22  Lithuania 17 20 25 13 9 17 11
23  Israel 9 7 3 6 3 4 7 1 12
24  Slovenia 22 23 16 20 20 23 15
25  Croatia 21 25 13 24 19 22 14
26  United Kingdom 18 8 21 25 12 15 13

References

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