TiBB Music Festival 13

The TiBB Music Festival 13 was the 13th edition of the annual TiBB Music Festival musical event. The contest took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as Türkiye declined to host after the country's win in the previous edition. Organised by the TiBB Broadcasting Union (TBU) and host broadcaster CBC, the contest was held at Scotiabank Arena, and consisted of a final held on 1 June 2024, and a final results show on 7 June 2024. The shows were presented by Alexis Enero, having previously taken on the role in the first and second editions.
Twenty countries participated in the contest, four more than the previous edition. Monaco, Montenegro, and South Africa opted not to participate, due in part to no member backing. Italy, Latvia, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Spain, and Sweden competed after being absent for one contest, two contests, seven contests, one contest, two contests, one contest, and one contest respectively. Israel was originally eligible to be chosen in the initial list of countries posted, but due to the Israel–Hamas war and the controversies due to their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, they were banned from participating.
The winner was the United States with the song "Espresso", performed by Sabrina Carpenter and written by her with Amy Allen, Steph Jones, and Julian Bunetta. The United States won both the jury vote and the televote, and Denmark, Australia, France, and Italy rounded out the top five. Sabrina Carpenter became the first performer to win the contest twice, with the United States winning the contest for a second time.
This was the final edition with the Big 6 as well as automatic qualifiers for the next edition being determined by the top placings in the contest, as from the following contest onwards, the automatic qualifiers would be comprised of the host country and the 5 countries with the highest average number of points, who would be referred to as the Big 5.
==Location==
The thirteenth edition will be taking place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Türkiye declined to host the contest following the country's victory at the 12th edition with "Tanımam" by Petek Dinçöz. This was the first time the country had hosted the contest. The selected venue was the 19,800 seat Scotiabank Arena.
===Bidding Phase===
The 12th edition was won by Türkiye, which, according to tradition, made Türkiye the presumptive host for the 13th edition. However, the country declined to host the contest, which led TiBB Networks to discuss with the Reference Group as to who should be the host country. In a unanimous decision, the Reference Group decided that Canada would become the host country for the contest's latest edition. Upon the announcement of the host country, Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver were the only cities to apply to host the contest.
The host city was revealed to be Toronto when the thread for the edition was posted. This decision was made after all bids were both well received. TiBB location scouts made their final decision as to which venue should host based on the audience size.
City 	Venue 	Capacity
Calgary, AB 	Scotiabank Saddledome	19,289
Toronto, ON 	Rogers Centre 	10,000–55,000
Toronto, ON 	Scotiabank Arena 	19,800
Vancouver, BC	BC Place 	54,500
==Participating countries==
Participants of the TiBB Music Festival 13
Country	Broadcaster 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	Songwriter(s) 	TiBB member		 	 	 	 	 	
Country	Broadcaster 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	Songwriter(s) 	TiBB member		AMPTV	Rosa Linn	"Universe"	English	Rosa Linn • Henry Russell Walter • Connor McDonough •Ilsey • Riley McDonough	none
 	SBS 	Kylie Minogue 	"Step Back In Time" 	English 	Mike Stock • Matt Aitken • Pete Waterman 	Kate! 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	CBC 	Fefe Dobson 	"Fckn In Love" 	English 	Fefe Dobson • Thomas Salter 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	DR 	The Pierces 	"Kings" 	English 	Cat Pierce 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC London 	Rick Astley 	"Together Forever" 	English 	Mike Stock • Matt Aitken • Pete Waterman 	Kate! 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	FranceTélévisions 	Barbara Pravi 	"Voilà" 	French 	Antoine "Igit" Barrau • Lili Poe • Barbara Pravi 	none 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	RTÉ 	Boyzone 	"No Matter What" 	English 	Andrew Lloyd Webber • Jim Steinman 	Vanessa 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	RAI 	Måneskin 	"Zitti e buoni" 	Italian 	Victoria De Angelis • Damiano David • Thomas Raggi • Ethan Torchio 	Vanessa 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	LTV 	Alekss Silvers 	"Tu Dejo Viena" 	Latvian 	Atvara 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	SNRT 	Myrath 	"Believer" 	English 	Zaher Zorgati 	none 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	AVROTROS 	Flemming 	"Hoop dat jij me mist"	Dutch 	Flemming Freddie Viguurs • Marcus Adema • Sander de Bie •Sasha Rangas • Stefan van Leijsen 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	NTA 	Ayra Starr 	"Rush" 	English 	Ayra Starr 	Ammi 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC NorthernIreland	Winnie Ama 	"Here I Go" 	English 	Winnie Ama • Tony G Valley 	Ammi 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	NRK 	KEiiNO 	"Spirit in the Sky" 	English,Northern Sámi	Fred Buljo • Tom Hugo • Alexander Olsson • Alexandra Rotan •Rüdiger Schramm • Henrik Tala 	Vanessa 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC Scotland 	CVRCHES 	"He Said She Said" 	English 	Martin Doherty • Lauren Mayberry • Iain Cook 	none 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	RTVE 	Maluma 	"Hawái" 	Spanish 	Stiven Rojas Escobar • Juan Camilo Vargas • Johan Esteban Espinosa Cuervo • Andrés Uribe Marín •Bryan Lezcano Chaverra • Kevin Mauricio Jiménez Londoño • René David Cano Ríos •Kevyn Cruz Moreno • Edgar Barrera • Juan Luis Londoño Arias	Cherie 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	SVT 	Roxette 	"Dangerous" 	English 	Per Gessle 	Kate! 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	TRT 	Murat Tekyıldız 	"Kırıla Kırıla" 	Turkish 	Mine Kılıç 	Nicky91 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	NBC 	Sabrina Carpenter	"Espresso" 	English 	Sabrina Carpenter • Amy Allen • Steph Jones • Julian Bunetta 	Josiah. 		 	 	 	 	 	
 	BBC CymruWales 	Cate Le Bon 	"Home to You" 	English 	Cate Le Bon 	Ammi 		 	 	 	 	 	
===Returning artists===
Country	Artist	Previous edition(s)			
Country	Artist	Previous edition(s)			#11
 	 	#01, #03 			
 	 	#03 			
 	 	#07 			
==Production==
The TiBB Music Festival 13 was produced by CBC-Radio Canada. The core team consisted of Delilah Crawford as executive producer, Asthena Thanou as contest producer and director, Samuel Renfell as executive in charge of production, and Genevieve Coulson as executive line producer.
This was Josiah Stuart's last edition as executive supervisor, as two weeks following the contest's conclusion, he would hand off the role to this edition's executive supervisor, Delilah Crawford.
===Slogan and visual design===
On 12 March 2024, TiBB Studios announced that "We Are One", the slogan of the 9th edition, would be retained for the 13th (as a sub slogan) and for future editions. The slogan and initial theme art were revealed on 13 March 2024, with the word "Sanctuary" in a cursive font coloured red, and "We Are One" in a sans-serif font. The initial graphic design was discarded on 17 May 2024, and replaced with a recreation of the visual design from the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, which is based on simple, linear gradients inspired by vertical lines found on auroras and sound equalisers, and was built with adaptability across different formats taken into account.
===Presenters===
On 17 May 2024, it was announced that Alexis Enero, editor-in-chief for Starweek and former lead anchor for TiBB News 24 was chosen to return as presenter due to her prominent role in presenting the first two editions.
===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 original voting system used throughout the majority of the contest's history returns: Every country will each give out two sets of 12, 10, and 8-1 points; one set for the jury voting, and the other for the televoting. In the final, in the event that a country cannot deliver a result, aggregated results calculated on the basis of neighboring countries would be used. The Rest of the Forum vote returns, but as an extra set of 12, 10, 8–1 points in the televote. 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 8 May 2024 at 20:00 BST and featured 20 competing countries. All participating countries with jury and televote, as well as non-participating countries under an aggregated "Rest of the Forum" online vote, voted in the final. The running order (R/O) of the host nation and previous winner was determined by a random draw on 24 May during the annual meeting of heads of the participating delegations. The final running order of the competing performances was decided by production and was revealed on 28 May 2024.
The final was opened up by Petek Dinçöz performing her winning song "Tanımam", followed by (for the first time in the contest's history) the flag parade, introducing all twenty finalists, set to the instrumental version of Aly & AJ's song "Sanctuary".
The interval acts included Ana Golja performing her song "Glass" and Avril Lavigne singing her hit songs "Girlfriend" and "Bite Me".
: Winner
Final of the TiBB Music Festival 13
Draw	Country	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points	 		 	 	 	
Draw	Country	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points	01		KEiiNO	"Spirit in the Sky"	15	102
02 	 	Rosa Linn 	"Universe" 	14 	104 	 		 	 	 	
03 	 	Rick Astley 	"Together Forever" 	8 	128 	 		 	 	 	
04 	 	Murat Tekyıldız 	"Kırıla Kırıla" 	9 	123 	 		 	 	 	
05 	 	Sabrina Carpenter	"Espresso" 	1 	242 	 		 	 	 	
06 	 	Roxette 	"Dangerous" 	11 	113 	 		 	 	 	
07 	 	Winnie Ama 	"Here I Go" 	20 	22 	 		 	 	 	
08 	 	The Pierces 	"Kings" 	2 	182 	 		 	 	 	
09 	 	Måneskin 	"Zitti e buoni" 	5 	142 	 		 	 	 	
10 	 	Barbara Pravi 	"Voilà" 	4 	153 	 		 	 	 	
11 	 	Ayra Starr 	"Rush" 	16 	91 	 		 	 	 	
12 	 	Boyzone 	"No Matter What" 	12 	112 	 		 	 	 	
13 	 	Kylie Minogue 	"Step Back In Time" 	3 	169 	 		 	 	 	
14 	 	Myrath 	"Believer" 	6 	135 	 		 	 	 	
15 	 	Cate Le Bon 	"Home to You" 	18 	74 	 		 	 	 	
16 	 	Fefe Dobson 	"Fckn In Love" 	7 	133 	 		 	 	 	
17 	 	CVRCHES 	"He Said She Said" 	17 	79 	 		 	 	 	
18 	 	Alekss Silvers 	"Tu Dejo Viena" 	19 	49 	 		 	 	 	
19 	 	Flemming 	"Hoop dat jij me mist"	10 	120 	 		 	 	 	
20 	 	Maluma 	"Hawái" 	13 	105 	 		 	 	 	
===Spokespersons===
The spokespersons announced the 12-point score from their respective country's national jury in the following order:
# – Faouzia
# – Laura Pausini
# – Iveta Mukuchyan
# – Elizabeth Andreassen
# – Athena Purcell
# – Nicky Byrne
# – Aminata
# – Élodie Gossuin
# – Nicola Coughlan
# – Rylan Clark
# – Frans Bauer
# – Gareth David-Lloyd
# – Beverly Osu
# – Gina Dirawi
# – Ruth Lorenzo
# – Delta Goodrem
# – David Tennant
# – Emmelie de Forest
# – Hakan Şükür
# – Arisa Cox
==Voting results==
Place	Combined	Combined	Jury 	Jury 	Televoting	Televoting
Place	Country 	Points 	Country	Points	Country 	Points
1 	 	242 	 	105 	 	137
2 	 	182 	 	100 	 	104
3 	 	169 	 	96 	 	87
4 	 	153 	 	72 	 	83
5 	 	142 	 	71 	 	82
6 	 	135 	 	71 	 	71
7 	 	133 	 	68 	 	71
8 	 	128 	 	65 	 	67
9 	 	123 	 	63 	 	61
10 	 	120 	 	57 	 	57
11 	 	113 	 	52 	 	56
12 	 	112 	 	52 	 	52
13 	 	105 	 	46 	 	52
14 	 	104 	 	43 	 	48
15 	 	102 	 	41 	 	45
16 	 	91 	 	37 	 	43
17 	 	79 	 	36 	 	42
18 	 	74 	 	36 	 	38
19 	 	49 	 	36 	 	13
20 	 	22 	 	13 	 	9
Detailed jury voting results of the final of the TiBB Music Festival 14
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	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	102 	57 	45 	 	 	4 	 	5 	 	 	 	12 	 	 	10 	8 	 	 	 	5 	6 	7 	
 	 	104 	52 	52 	 	6 	 	5 	6 	4 	5 	 	 	 	 	3 	1 	 	2 	 	 	 	8 	12
 	 	128 	72 	56 	3 	10 	 	7 	10 	8 	6 	7 	 	 	 	 	 	 	6 	 	6 	7 	2 	
 	 	123 	71 	52 	12 	7 	 	8 	4 	10 	3 	4 	 	 	10 	 	 	 	10 	 	 	 	 	3
 	 	242 	105 	137 	 	5 	 	6 	 	 	 	10 	10 	12 	12 	 	6 	12 	 	12 	 	 	12 	8
 	 	113 	52 	61 	10 	 	 	 	12 	12 	 	 	2 	 	 	2 	 	 	 	 	8 	5 	 	1
 	 	22 	13 	9 	 	 	3 	 	 	 	1 	8 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1 	 	 	
 	 	182 	100 	82 	4 	4 	6 	1 	 	5 	8 	3 	7 	10 	 	 	 	10 	8 	10 	7 	 	10 	7
 	 	142 	71 	71 	7 	 	 	 	 	 	7 	5 	4 	7 	5 	4 	5 	7 	1 	7 	 	12 	 	
 	 	153 	96 	57 	 	12 	10 	10 	7 	7 	12 	 	 	 	 	 	12 	 	4 	 	12 	 	 	10
 	 	91 	43 	48 	 	3 	 	4 	2 	1 	2 	 	 	5 	3 	 	 	5 	7 	5 	3 	2 	1 	
 	 	112 	41 	71 	1 	 	 	 	 	 	 	2 	3 	8 	2 	 	3 	8 	 	8 	 	 	6 	
 	 	169 	65 	104 	 	8 	7 	12 	 	6 	10 	1 	5 	 	 	8 	 	 	 	 	4 	 	 	4
 	 	135 	68 	67 	 	2 	8 	3 	8 	3 	4 	 	8 	2 	4 	7 	2 	2 	5 	2 	 	3 	 	5
 	 	74 	36 	38 	5 	 	12 	 	 	 	 	 	 	3 	 	 	 	3 	 	3 	 	10 	 	
 	 	133 	46 	87 	6 	 	1 	 	1 	 	 	 	1 	6 	7 	 	 	6 	 	6 	 	8 	4 	
 	 	79 	36 	43 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	12 	 	1 	1 	12 	4 	1 	 	1 	 	1 	3 	
 	 	49 	36 	13 	 	 	2 	 	3 	 	 	6 	 	 	6 	1 	7 	 	3 	 	2 	4 	 	2
 	 	120 	37 	83 	8 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	4 	 	5 	 	4 	12 	4 	 	 	 	
 	 	105 	63 	42 	2 	1 	5 	2 	 	2 	 	 	6 	 	8 	6 	10 	 	 	 	10 	 	5 	6
Detailed televoting results of the final of the TiBB Music Festival 14
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	Tele	Jury	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote	Televote
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	Tele	Jury	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Voting procedure used: 100% Televote 100% Jury vote	Total	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	 	102 	45 	57 	1 	 	10 	 	 	 	 	8 	5 	 	 	7 	 	 	 	 	 	10 	 	 	4
 	 	104 	52 	52 	 	6 	 	5 	1 	4 	3 	 	 	 	8 	5 	 	 	3 	 	 	2 	3 	12 	
 	 	128 	56 	72 	2 	10 	8 	7 	 	8 	 	4 	 	 	 	6 	5 	 	 	 	 	6 	 	 	
 	 	123 	52 	71 	 	7 	3 	8 	 	10 	12 	 	 	 	 	2 	 	 	4 	 	 	 	 	6 	
 	 	242 	137 	105 	5 	5 	 	6 	 	 	6 	12 	12 	12 	7 	8 	1 	12 	7 	12 	6 	8 	12 	 	6
 	 	113 	61 	52 	 	 	12 	 	10 	12 	 	 	4 	 	 	 	 	 	12 	 	 	 	2 	2 	7
 	 	22 	9 	13 	 	 	5 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1 	 	 	3 	
 	 	182 	82 	100 	6 	4 	 	1 	 	5 	 	 	6 	8 	12 	 	6 	8 	8 	8 	9 	 	 	 	5
 	 	142 	71 	71 	3 	 	 	 	6 	 	 	 	 	6 	 	12 	3 	6 	 	6 	10 	7 	 	 	12
 	 	153 	57 	96 	8 	12 	6 	10 	 	7 	 	 	 	 	2 	3 	 	 	 	 	2 	 	 	4 	3
 	 	91 	48 	43 	 	3 	 	4 	 	1 	 	3 	 	5 	10 	 	 	5 	 	5 	8 	 	4 	 	
 	 	112 	71 	41 	4 	 	 	 	5 	 	 	 	3 	10 	6 	 	 	10 	10 	10 	 	3 	10 	 	
 	 	169 	104 	65 	10 	8 	 	12 	12 	6 	8 	1 	8 	 	5 	1 	10 	 	6 	 	12 	 	 	5 	
 	 	135 	67 	68 	 	2 	 	3 	4 	3 	2 	5 	1 	4 	4 	 	 	4 	 	4 	7 	 	8 	8 	8
 	 	74 	38 	36 	 	 	 	 	 	 	7 	10 	 	2 	1 	 	 	2 	2 	2 	4 	 	1 	7 	
 	 	133 	87 	46 	7 	 	7 	 	3 	 	5 	7 	10 	7 	3 	 	12 	7 	1 	7 	 	1 	 	 	10
 	 	79 	43 	36 	 	 	2 	 	7 	 	4 	6 	 	1 	 	 	4 	1 	5 	1 	 	5 	5 	 	2
 	 	49 	13 	36 	 	 	1 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	4 	2 	 	 	 	 	 	6 	 	
 	 	120 	83 	37 	12 	 	 	 	8 	 	10 	 	7 	3 	 	 	7 	3 	 	3 	 	12 	7 	10 	1
 	 	105 	42 	63 	 	1 	4 	2 	2 	2 	1 	2 	2 	 	 	10 	8 	 	 	 	3 	4 	 	1 	
===12 points===
Countries in bold gave the maximum 24 points (12 points apiece from professional jury and televoting) to the specified entrant.
====Jury====
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====Televoting====
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==Controversy==
The 13th contest was deemed by some as a particularly controversial edition in its initial version in March 2024 before the relaunch that May.
===Potential Israeli participation===
:See also: Israel–Hamas war and Political controversies in the Eurovision Song Contest § Israeli participation
The potential inclusion of Israel in the contest became controversial due to the Israel–Hamas war. There were calls for Israel to be excluded and some calls for them to be included, and unlike the events leading up to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, the TBU listened to all sides. To avoid any further controversy, the TBU announced in the relaunch of the forum thread in May that Israel would be banned from participating until further notice. A couple of forum members ridiculed the TBU's statement on the matter.
==Reception==
Following the posting of the results video, the contest was praised by forum members and viewers outside of the forum. Certain members praised the visual design and the flow of the videos due to the design of the on-screen graphics.
==Trivia==
*With this edition, Alexis Enero becomes the first person to present the contest 3 times.
*For the first time since the third edition, Josiah appears on camera, this time in his Executive Supervisor role.
*The United States became the first country to win the contest twice, with Sabrina Carpenter becoming the first performer to win twice.
==External links==
*Official website page
*Official forum thread
*Official recap
*Official results and interval acts
*Official Spotify playlist