Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
The final took place on 11 February 2023, with a combination of jury voting and televoting selecting Let 3 to represent Croatia at the 2023 contest in Liverpool.Croatia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 9 May 2023 and was later selected to perform in position 7.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.[1] Between 1993 and 2011, HRT organised the national final Dora in order to select the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.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.[4] 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.[18][19][20] 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.It was later revealed that Croatia eighth out of the fifteen participating countries in the second semi-final with 76 points, marking the first Croatian qualification to the final since 2017.The Croatian jury consisted of Branimir Mihaljević, Damir Kedžo, Nikša Bratoš, Albina Grčić, who represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, and Jelena Balent.Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency.This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.
Let 3
, winner of Dora 2023
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