Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

The Albanian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 was selected during the 61st edition of Festivali i Këngës, an annual music competition in Albania organised by the national broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH). A jury selected the top three of the festival and award two prizes for young and alternative groups and established artists, while a separate televoting selected Albania's entry for Eurovision.[4][5]

RTSH opened an application period for interested artists and composers to submit their applications from 3 June 2022.[6][7] The provisional list of 26 artists was published on 27 October 2022.[8] On 20 November 2022, host Arbana Osmani confirmed via social media that, unlike in recent years, when RTSH released competing songs ahead of the shows, the songs competing in the festival would not be revealed until the contest.[9] In the first two semi-finals, all 26 artists sang their songs, for the first time. At the end of the second semi-final, five out of ten contestants of the New artists section were selected by a member jury panel, to advance to the fourth and final show of the contest. However, all 16 contestants of the Big artists section advanced to the final with no qualifications taking place beforehand.

The final took place on 22 December 2022. During the show, the Young or Alternative Group Award and the Career Award were handed out. The jury picked their top 3 favourites, with the audience alone voting on who will represent Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. Voting was available from Albania and Kosovo. Elsa Lila with the song "Evita" emerged as the winner, while runner-up Albina & Familja Kelmendi with the song "Duje" was the winner of the separate televote selection and was thus announced as Albania's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.[10][11]

Key:   Winner   Second place   Third place

For semi-finals, each country + rest of the world award from 1-8, 10 and 12 points from televoting. For the final, each country award two sets of points from 1–8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with a diversity in gender and age represented. The judges assess each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which takes place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. Jury members may only take part in panel once every three years, and are obliged to confirm that they are not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members should also vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members. The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member will also be released in an anonymised form.

The tables below visualise a breakdown of points awarded to Albania in the second semi-final and final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, as well as by the nation on both occasions. In the semi-final, Albania finished in 9th place, being awarded a total of 83 points, including 12 by the televoters from Slovenia and Rest of the World. In the final, Albania reached 22nd place with 76 points, including 12 by the televoters from Switzerland.

The nation's televoters awarded its 12 points to Australia in the semi-final and to Italy in the final. Its juries awarded its 12 points to the winner, Sweden in final.

The following members comprised the Albanian jury:

• Haig Zacharian
• Josif Gjipali
• Sokol Marsi
• Eneda Tarifa
• Sonila Djepaxhia

Detailed voting results from Albania (Final)[16]

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