Greece: ERT confirms Eurovision 2023 participation and opens submission window

Greece: ERT confirms Eurovision 2023 participation and opens submission window
Friday, 26 August 2022

  • The Greek national broadcaster, ERT, will be taking part in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest in the UK next year. 

    ERT has confirmed that Greece will be participating in Eurovision 2023 marking the nation's 43rd appearance in the contest. The broadcaster has made an open call to interested artists to send in their music proposals by releasing the rules of the selection and  opening the submission window from today until October 9, 2022. 

    ERT will likely follow last year's recipe by choosing internally through the special committee the act and song that will defend the Greek colors in the UK in 2023. 

     

    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: ERT

    Image: EBU/Sarah Louise Bennett

     

     

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  • Angelos D.

    Angelos D.

    Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.