Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Country Croatia
National selection
Selection processDora 2023
Selection date(s)11 February 2023
Selected entrantLet 3
Selected song"Mama ŠČ!"
Selected songwriter(s)
  • Damir Martinović Mrle
  • Zoran Prodanović
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (8th, 76 points)
Final result13th, 123 points
Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, with "Mama ŠČ!" performed by Let 3. The Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) organised the national final Dora 2023 to select the Croatian entry for the 2023 contest.

In the first semi-final, Croatia qualified for the final on 13 May.

Background

Main article: Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2023 contest, Croatia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty-eight times since its first entry in 1993. The nation's best result in the contest was fourth, which it achieved on two occasions: in 1996 with the song "Sveta ljubav" performed by Maja Blagdan and in 1999 with the song "Marija Magdalena" performed by Doris Dragović. Following the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, Croatia had thus far featured in seven finals. Since 2018, the Croatian entries failed to qualify from the semi-finals; the last time Croatia competed in the final was in 2017 with the song "My Friend" performed by Jacques Houdek. In 2022, Croatia failed to qualify to the final with Mia Dimšić and the song "Guilty Pleasure".

The Croatian national broadcaster, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), broadcasts the event within Croatia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. HRT confirmed Croatia's participation in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on 20 September 2022.[1] Between 1993 and 2011, HRT organised the national final Dora in order to select the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2012 and 2013, the broadcaster opted to internally select the entry. After missing the contest in 2014 and 2015, the Croatian broadcaster continued the internal selection procedure between 2016 and 2018. Since 2019, HRT has used Dora to select Croatia's entry, a method that was continued for their 2023 participation.[1]

Before Eurovision

Let 3, winner of Dora 2023

Dora 2023

Dora 2023 was the twenty-fourth edition of the Croatian national selection Dora which selects Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The competition consisted of eighteen entries competing in one final on 11 February 2023 at the Marino Cvetković Sports Hall in Opatija, hosted by Mirko Fodor, Mario Lipovšek Battifiaca and Marko Tolja.[2][3] The show was broadcast on HRT 1 as well as online via the streaming service HRTi.[4] The national final was watched by over 900,000 viewers in Croatia with a market share of 42%.[5][6]

Competing entries

On 20 September 2022, HRT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster with the deadline on 20 November 2022.[7][8] 196 entries were received by the broadcaster during the submission period.[9] A nine-member expert committee consisting of Željko Mesar (HRT), Zlatko Turkalj (HR), Robert Urlić (HR), Ema Gross (HR), Igor Geržina (HRT), Željen Klašterka (HRT), Ivan Horvat (eurosong.hr), Tomislav Krizmanić (OGAE) and Dražen Miočić (HRT) reviewed the received submissions and selected eighteen artists and songs for the competition.[10] HRT announced the competing entries on 9 December 2022 and among the competing artists was Damir Kedžo, who was set to represent Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 before its cancellation.[11]

Artist Song Songwriter(s)
Barbara Munjas "Putem snova" Barbara Munjas, Alen Bernobić
Boris Štok "Grijeh" Boris Štok, Darko Terlević
Damir Kedžo "Angels and Demons" Jamie Duffin, Stefan Celar, Kyler Niko, Victoria Jane Horn
Đana "Free Fallin'" Đana Smajo
Detour [hr] "Master Blaster" Nenad Borgudan
Eni Jurišić "Kreni dalje" Matija Cvek, Vlaho Arbulić, Eni Jurišić
Hana Mašić "Nesreća" Boris Subotić
Harmonija Disonance "Nevera (Lei, lei)" Bartol Stopić, Sanja Daić, Bojan Petrović
Krešo and Kisele Kiše "Kme kme" Krešimir Burić
Let 3 "Mama ŠČ!" Damir Martinović Mrle [hr], Zoran Prodanović
Maja Grgić "I Still Live" Mateo Martinović Teo, Maja Grgić
Martha May "Distance" Marta Ivić
Meri Andraković "Bye Bye Blonde" Boris Đurđević, Valerija Đurđević
Patricia Gasparini "I Will Wait" Siniša Reljić, Lisa Desmond, Aidan Winkels
Tajana Belina "Dom" Tajana Belina, Marcel Sprunkel
The Splitters "Lost and Found" Neven Kolarić, Branimir Mihaljević [hr]
Top of the Pops ft. Mario 5reković "Putovanje" Bruno Krajcar [hr], Danijel Načinović
Yogi "Love at First Sight" Yugomir Lonich

Final

The final took place on 11 February 2023. The winner, "Mama ŠČ!" performed by Let 3, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from ten regional juries and a public televote.[12] The viewers and the juries each had a total of 580 points to award. Each jury group distributed their points as follows: 1-8, 10 and 12 points. The viewer vote was based on the percentage of votes each song achieved through telephone and SMS voting. For example, if a song gained 10% of the viewer vote, then that entry would be awarded 10% of 580 points rounded to the nearest integer: 58 points. Ties were decided in favour of the entry ranked higher by the public televote.[13] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by 2022 Croatian Eurovision entrant Mia Dimšić, while 1994 Croatian Eurovision entrant Tony Cetinski performed as the interval act.[14]

Final – 11 February 2023
Draw Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place
1 Top of the Pops ft. Mario 5reković "Putovanje" 13 20 33 10
2 Yogi "Love at First Sight" 10 3 13 16
3 Boris Štok "Grijeh" 7 10 17 14
4 Tajana Belina "Dom" 2 8 10 17
5 Krešo and Kisele Kiše "Kme kme" 34 19 53 7
6 Maja Grgić "I Still Live" 8 5 13 15
7 Barbara Munjas "Putem snova" 37 15 52 8
8 Đana "Free Fallin'" 7 14 21 13
9 Patricia Gasparini "I Will Wait" 5 3 8 18
10 The Splitters "Lost and Found" 50 60 110 4
11 Hana Mašić "Nesreća" 21 12 33 11
12 Damir Kedžo "Angels and Demons" 44 59 103 5
13 Martha May "Distance" 23 8 31 12
14 Detour "Master Blaster" 73 41 114 3
15 Meri Andraković "Bye Bye Blonde" 22 22 44 9
16 Let 3 "Mama ŠČ!" 105 174 279 1
17 Eni Jurišić "Kreni dalje" 52 19 71 6
18 Harmonija Disonance "Nevera (Lei, lei)" 67 88 155 2
Detailed Regional Jury Votes
Draw Song Rijeka Čakovec-
Varaždin 		Split Osijek Šibenik-
Knin 		Vukovar Pula Zadar Zagreb Dubrovnik Total
1 "Putovanje" 1 2 10 13
2 "Love at First Sight" 2 3 5 10
3 "Grijeh" 1 3 3 7
4 "Dom" 1 1 2
5 "Kme kme" 1 6 4 4 5 2 5 3 4 34
6 "I Still Live" 8 8
7 "Putem snova" 7 4 1 7 8 8 2 37
8 "Free Fallin'" 7 7
9 "I Will Wait" 3 2 5
10 "Lost and Found" 12 12 1 12 7 6 50
11 "Nesreća" 7 4 6 2 2 21
12 "Angels and Demons" 3 10 6 7 3 4 4 7 44
13 "Distance" 4 3 6 7 3 23
14 "Master Blaster" 6 2 8 8 10 6 5 10 6 12 73
15 "Bye Bye Blonde" 6 2 12 1 1 22
16 "Mama ŠČ!" 10 12 10 12 12 10 10 12 12 5 105
17 "Kreni dalje" 5 5 2 5 5 7 4 6 10 3 52
18 "Nevera (Lei, lei)" 8 8 5 10 8 8 1 8 4 7 67

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. Croatia has been placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 9 May 2023, and has been scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.[15]

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. Croatia was set to perform in position 7, following the entry from Ireland and before the entry from Switzerland.[16]

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

All three shows were broadcast live in Croatia on television and radio, with commentary provided by Duško Ćurlić for the broadcasts on HRT 1 and HR 2.[17][18][19] The first semi-final broadcast on 9 May, which saw the participation of Croatia and the country's first qualification for the final since 2017, received an overnight market share of 38.4% of Croatian television viewers, representing approximately 720,000 households.[20]

Voting

Points awarded to Croatia

Points awarded by Croatia

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Croatia (Semi-final 1)[21]
Draw Country Televote
Rank Points
01  Norway 5 6
02  Malta 11
03  Serbia 2 10
04  Latvia 14
05  Portugal 6 5
06  Ireland 13
07  Croatia
08   Switzerland 9 2
09  Israel 4 7
10  Moldova 8 3
11  Sweden 7 4
12  Azerbaijan 10 1
13  Czech Republic 3 8
14  Netherlands 12
15  Finland 1 12

The following members comprised the Croatian jury:

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

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