Albania will sing the second night of the semi-final of Eurovision 2023 that will take place in Liverpool, while the performance will be the 9th in a row. The European Festival published the lists of the respective countries that will perform in the two semi-final nights, where Albania, according to the draw, will perform on May 11.

The allocation draw took place on January 31, 2023 in St. George’s Hall in Liverpool and was hosted by AJ Odudu and Rylan Clark-Neal. The order of the semi-finals will be decided later by the British producer BBC and approved by the EBU.

On the first night on May 9, the following will perform: Croatia, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Finland, Israel, Moldova, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy.

On the second night on May 11, the following will perform: Armenia, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Romania, Albania, Australia, Austria, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, Ukraine.

Albania will be represented by Albina and the Kelmendi family with the song “Duje”, as the winner of the 61st edition of the Song Festival on Albanian Radio Television.

Only 20 countries will be selected from the two semi-finals to perform in the grand final on May 13, which will be joined by the 5 permanent finalist countries (Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany) as well as last year’s winning country, (Ukraine), who complete the list of 26 finalist countries.

Eurovision 2023 will take place this year on May 9, 11 and 13 at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena, while earlier the logo was also released, which was a combination of the colors of the United Kingdom and Ukraine.

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