Joy at Loreen
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It’s done: The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is history — and Sweden can go home from Liverpool, UK, as the glorious winner. For Germany, on the other hand, there is little reason to be happy: the German band Lord of the Lost took last place with their contribution “Blood & Glitter”.
After all, while it looked as if Germany would get zero points, in the end there were at least three points in the regular ranking — two of them from Iceland. In the public voting there were 15 more. Unfortunately, it was the last place – like in 2022.
Sweden is happy
For Swedish singer Loreen (who previously won the song contest in 2012), the triumph came as no surprise — her song “Tattoo” was a hot favorite in the Eurovision race. The Spotify figures also confirm this: the song has been streamed there 56 million times so far. While the jury vote left no doubt about the winner, the audience vote made things even more exciting. Second place is taken by Finland, Israel was third. Ukraine came in at number 6 with the song “Heart Of Steel” by the band Tvorchi.
The winners and losers of the ESC 2023 at a glance:
- Sweden (583 points)
- Finland 526 points)
- Israel (362 points)
- Italy (350 points)
- Norway (268 points)
- Ukraine (243 points)
- Belgium (182 points)
- Estonia (168 points)
- Australia (151 points)
- Czech Republic (129 points)
- Lithuania (127 points)
- Cyprus (126 points)
- Croatia (123 points)
- Armenia (122 points)
- Austria (120 points)
- France (104 points)
- Spain (100 points)
- Moldova (96 points)
- Poland (93 points)
- Switzerland (92 points)
- Slovenia (78 points)
- Albania (76 points)
- Portugal (59 points)
- Serbia (30 points)
- Great Britain (24 points)
- Germany (18 points)