TiBB Music Festival 12

The TiBB Music Festival 12 was the 12th edition of the annual TiBB Music Festival musical event. The contest took place in Johannesburg, South Africa after the country's win in the previous edition. Organised by the TiBB Broadcasting Union (TBU) and host broadcaster SABC, the contest was held at Johannesburg Stadium, and consisted of a final held on 13 January 2024, and a final results show on 20 January 2024.
Sixteen countries participated in the contest, twelve less than the previous edition. Monaco and Montenegro made their contest debuts, with Albania, Czech Republic, the Faroe Islands, Germany, Ghana, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Northern Ireland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and Vatican City withdrawing for reasons unknown.
The winner was Türkiye, who won for the first time with the song "Tanımam", performed by Peter Dinçöz and written by Ümit Yaşar. Morocco, Scotland, Canada, and Armenia rounded out the top five, with Morocco and Scotland receiving their highest placings in the contest. Türkiye won the combined vote and televote, and came tenth in the jury vote, which was won by Canada.
==Location==
The eleventh edition will be taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, following the country's victory at the 11th edition with "Prayer" by Gina Kushka. This was the first time the country had hosted the contest. The selected venue was the 37,500 seat Johannesburg Stadium.
===Bidding Phase===
By default, Johannesburg was the only city to apply to host the contest.
The host city was revealed to be Johannesburg when the results of the previous edition were posted. This decision was made after all bids were both well received. TPB location scouts made their final decision as to which venue should host based on the audience size.
City 	Venue 	Capacity
Johannesburg	Johannesburg Stadium	37,500
==Participating countries==
Participants of the TiBB Music Festival 12
Country	Broadcaster 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	Songwriter(s) 	TiBB member		 	 	 	 	 	
Country	Broadcaster 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	Songwriter(s) 	TiBB member		AMPTV	Athena Manoukian	"Chains on You"	English	Athena Manoukian • DJ Paco	none
 	SBS 	 	"Must Be Love" 	 	Tseba • Larry H. Jordan • Michael Ross • Zaachariaha Fielding 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	CBC 	Shania Twain 	"Giddy Up!" 	English 	David Stewart • Jessica Agombar • Samuel Roman • Shania Twain 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	DR 	Lukas Graham 	"You're Not There" 	English 	Morten “Pilo” Pilegaard • James Ghaleb • Morten “Rissi” Ristorp •Don Stefano • Lukas Forchhammer 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC London 	Rita Ora 	"How We Do" 	English 	Mayne Zane • Dru Brett • Madame Buttons • Andre Davidson •Sean Davidson • Alex Delicata • Bonnie McKee • Berry Gordy •Bob West • Willie Hutch • Hal Davis •The Notorious B.I.G. • Easy Mo Bee	Kate! 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	FranceTélévisions	Inüit 	"We The People" 	English 	Alexis Delong • Coline Rio • Pablo Charbonnier •Pierre Cheguillaume • Rémy Fanchin • Simon Quénéa 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	RTÉ 	Allie Sherlock	"How Love Works" 	English 	Allie Sherlock 	Kate! 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	SABC 	Tyla 	"Water" 	English 	Tyla • Sammy Awuku • Rayan Goufar • Jack Lamastro •Olmo Zucca • Ariowa Irosogie • Believve •Imani Lewis • Christopher "Tricky" Stewart 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	TVMonaco 	Mimaa 	"Belek" 	 	Mimaa • Vincha 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	RTCG 	Dado Polumenta	"Alea" 	Montenegrin 	Alisa Polumenta • Monika Đorđević • Dado Polumenta 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	SNRT 	Faouzia 	"Habibi (My Love)" 	English, Arabic	Faouzia Ouihya • Ryan McMahon • Tia Tia 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	AVROTROS 	AleXingt 	"Treinreis" 	Dutch 	Alex van der Horst 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC Scotland 	Amy MacDonald 	"This Is The Life" 	English 	Amy MacDonald 	Barry. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	TRT 	Petek Dinçöz 	"Tanımam" 	Turkish 	Ümit Yaşar 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	NBC 	Olivia Rodrigo	"Vampire" 	English 	Dan Nigro • Olivia Rodrigo 	Barry. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC CymruWales 	Catatonia 	"Mulder And Scully"	English 	Mark Roberts • Paul Jones • Aled Richards •Owen Powell • Cerys Matthews 	Barry. 		 	 	 	 	 	
==Production==
The TiBB Music Festival 12 was produced by SABC. The core team consisted of Asthena Thanou as executive producer, contest producer, and director, Samuel Renfell as executive in charge of production, and Genevieve Coulson as executive line producer.
==Opening and interval acts==
On 8 December 2023, information about the opening and interval acts for the shows was released by TiBB Networks and SABC. SABC announced that due to the amount of countries competing, there would not be any interval acts. Gina Kushka would open the final with her winning song from the previous edition.
===Running order===
The final running order of the competing performances in all of the shows was decided by production and was revealed on .
===Slogan and visual design===
The graphic design, logo, and slogan were revealed on 8 December 2023. This is also the first edition with the new generic logo of the contest. The slogan & logo is the phrase "Make Your Mark", with the typeface having both a striped and multiple cut variants.
===Presenters===
For the fourth time in the contest's history, following the fourth, seventh, and eleventh editions, there would be no presenter for the contest.
===Format===
The competition consisted of 1 grand final and 1 voting results show, a dramatic change to the format which has been in use since the start of the TiBB Eurovision Song Contest. This edition, because of videos posted via Google Drive as well as a playlist on Spotify, the contest would be extending its reach across platforms and devices.
===Voting system and contest structure===
The voting system from the fourth and fifth edition returns (with a minor change): Every country's jury gives out 12, 10, and 8-1 points, and the televoting is now 1 huge set of points determined by proportional representation. Televoting results will be revealed in order of jury rankings, like the previous edition. In a change to make things fairer, tiebreakers would be done by counting who had the most countries vote for them, rather than via the running order.
==Contest overview==
The final took place on 13 January 2024 at 20:00 BST and featured 16 competing countries. All participating countries with jury, as well as all participating and non-participating countries under an aggregated televote, voted in the final. The final running order of the competing performances was decided by production and was revealed on 21 December 2023.
: Winner
Final of the TiBB Music Festival 12
Draw	Country	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points	 		 	 	 	
Draw	Country	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points	01		Tyla	"Water"	11	113
02 	 	Mimaa 	"Belek" 	9 	118 	 		 	 	 	
03 	 	Shania Twain 	"Giddy Up!" 	4 	140 	 		 	 	 	
04 	 	AleXingt 	"Treinreis" 	15 	83 	 		 	 	 	
05 	 	Athena Manoukian	"Chains on You" 	5 	127 	 		 	 	 	
06 	 	Catatonia 	"Mulder And Scully"	13 	98 	 		 	 	 	
07 	 	Lukas Graham 	"You're Not There" 	8 	120 	 		 	 	 	
08 	 	Inüit 	"We The People" 	6 	127 	 		 	 	 	
09 	 	Amy Macdonald 	"This Is The Life" 	3 	142 	 		 	 	 	
10 	 	Olivia Rodrigo 	"Vampire" 	10 	116 	 		 	 	 	
11 	 	Faouzia 	"Habibi (My Love)" 	2 	147 	 		 	 	 	
12 	 	Rita Ora 	"How We Do" 	14 	96 	 		 	 	 	
13 	 	Petek Dinçöz 	"Tanımam" 	1 	150 	 		 	 	 	
14 	 	 	"Must Be Love" 	7 	125 	 		 	 	 	
15 	 	Allie Sherlock 	"How Love Works" 	16 	53 	 		 	 	 	
16 	 	Dado Polumenta 	"Alea" 	12 	102 	 		 	 	 	
==Voting results==
Place	Combined	Combined	Jury 	Jury 	Televoting	Televoting
Place	Country 	Points 	Country	Points	Country 	Points
1 	 	150 	 	85 	 	99
2 	 	147 	 	77 	 	76
3 	 	142 	 	74 	 	73
4 	 	140 	 	72 	 	71
5 	 	127 	 	71 	 	71
6 	 	127 	 	70 	 	65
7 	 	125 	 	65 	 	63
8 	 	120 	 	64 	 	58
9 	 	118 	 	56 	 	55
10 	 	116 	 	51 	 	55
11 	 	113 	 	49 	 	50
12 	 	102 	 	47 	 	50
13 	 	98 	 	44 	 	44
14 	 	96 	 	43 	 	42
15 	 	83 	 	33 	 	31
16 	 	53 	 	27 	 	26
Detailed jury voting results of the final of the TiBB Music Festival 12
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	Jury	Tele	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote	Jury vote
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	Jury	Tele	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	113 	71 	42 	 	8 	4 	1 	3 	6 	5 	4 	8 	3 	6 	5 	10 	4 	4 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	118 	47 	71 	10 	1 	 	10 	 	2 	 	1 	 	8 	10 	 	 	 	 	5 	 	 	 	
 	 	140 	85 	55 	12 	6 	5 	4 	7 	 	12 	 	 	6 	 	8 	6 	7 	6 	6 	 	 	 	
 	 	83 	33 	50 	8 	 	6 	8 	5 	5 	 	 	 	 	1 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	127 	64 	63 	 	12 	 	5 	12 	 	 	 	4 	 	3 	10 	7 	 	3 	8 	 	 	 	
 	 	98 	43 	55 	3 	4 	12 	 	2 	4 	10 	 	2 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	4 	 	 	 	
 	 	120 	70 	50 	2 	 	8 	7 	8 	10 	2 	3 	1 	4 	8 	7 	1 	2 	 	7 	 	 	 	
 	 	127 	56 	71 	 	10 	3 	6 	 	 	 	5 	6 	7 	2 	12 	 	3 	2 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	142 	77 	65 	7 	 	 	2 	6 	12 	7 	7 	 	1 	 	4 	8 	10 	10 	3 	 	 	 	
 	 	116 	72 	44 	 	7 	10 	3 	10 	3 	 	10 	12 	 	 	1 	2 	6 	7 	1 	 	 	 	
 	 	147 	74 	73 	6 	 	 	12 	 	 	8 	2 	10 	12 	4 	 	3 	 	5 	12 	 	 	 	
 	 	96 	65 	31 	5 	 	7 	 	1 	8 	3 	6 	7 	10 	 	6 	 	12 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	150 	51 	99 	 	3 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	12 	 	4 	8 	12 	10 	 	 	 	
 	 	125 	49 	76 	4 	5 	1 	 	 	 	4 	12 	5 	 	7 	2 	 	1 	8 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	53 	27 	26 	1 	 	 	 	4 	7 	6 	 	 	 	 	3 	5 	 	1 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	102 	44 	58 	 	2 	 	 	 	1 	1 	8 	3 	5 	5 	 	12 	5 	 	2 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Detailed televoting results of the final of the TiBB Music Festival 12
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	Tele	Jury	Televote	Televote 	Televote
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	Tele	Jury	Votes 	% of Vote	Points
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	 	 	 	 	
 	 	113 	42 	71 	16 	4.5% 	42
 	 	118 	71 	47 	27 	7.6% 	71
 	 	140 	55 	85 	21 	5.9% 	55
 	 	83 	50 	33 	19 	5.4% 	50
 	 	127 	63 	64 	24 	6.8% 	63
 	 	98 	55 	43 	21 	5.9% 	55
 	 	120 	50 	70 	19 	5.4% 	50
 	 	127 	71 	56 	27 	7.6% 	71
 	 	142 	65 	77 	25 	7.0% 	65
 	 	116 	44 	72 	17 	4.8% 	44
 	 	147 	73 	74 	28 	7.9% 	73
 	 	96 	31 	65 	12 	3.4% 	31
 	 	150 	99 	51 	38 	10.7% 	99
 	 	125 	76 	49 	29 	8.2% 	76
 	 	53 	26 	27 	10 	2.8% 	26
 	 	102 	58 	44 	22 	6.2% 	58
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
====12 points====
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==Trivia==
*This is the first edition with proportional representation televote with countries that are under 100 points in the final.
*Türkiye is the first country to go from last place to first place in back to back contests.
==External links==
*Official forum thread