European Music Festival 2023

The European Music Festival 2023 is planned to be the 8th edition of the annual European Music Festival, organised by Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest will be held in Finland, following the country’s victory at the 2022 edition in Malmö, Sweden with the song “Ram pam pam”, performed by Bess. This will be the first time the contest is held in Finland.

Bidding phase and host city selection
After Finland’s victory in 2022 contest in Malmö, the Finnish Head of Delegation Anssi Autio stated that Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) is keen to host the 2023 contest. On 18 October 2022, it was confirmed by the EBU that Finland would host the 2023 contest. Between 18 and 23 October 2022, many cities across Finland expressed interest in hosting the contest. Representatives from cities of Espoo, Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere, and Turku voiced their interest.

Host broadcaster Yle launched the bidding process on 30 October 2022. In the first phase of this process, any interested cities were to present their bid through certified email by 12 November 2022, after which Yle and the EBU would proceed to send all of them a bid book with more detailed requirements for the cities to submit their plans for review.

On 21 November 2022, Yle announced that 5 cities had submitted their bid for hosting the contest and would be provided the following day with the bid books. They had until 2 December to draft and submit their detailed plans, which 5 cities did. On 10 December, it was reported that Helsinki and Tampere would be the cities left in the running to host the contest.

On 18 December 2022, the EBU and Yle announced Helsinki as the host city, with the 13,349 capacity Hartwall Arena as the chosen venue for the contest. On the same date, EBU and host broadcaster Yle announced that the contest will be held on 23 September 2022.

Hosts
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Opening and interval acts
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Voting
The results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. The online voting is taking place during the live show and starts after the last performance and is open for 15 minutes. International viewers could vote for one country three Times from one phone number. The other half of the points was determined by a national jury from every participating country. These points are then announced live during the programme by a spokesperson representing the participating country. The spokespersons give out the points from each of the participating country.

Running order
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Participating countries
On 20 January 2023, the EBU released the official list of participants with 23 competing countries.

Returning artists
One previous entrant is set to return in the 2023 contest:

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" !Artist !Country !Previous year
 * Brooke
 * 2016
 * 2016
 * 2016