Own Eurovision Song Contest Winners Edition 5

Own Eurovision Song Contest Winners Edition 5 is an event edition organized to determine the Own Eurovision Song Contest's best song after ten editions, respectively from Own Eurovision Song Contest 51 to Own Eurovision Song Contest 60. North Macedonia was chosen as the host country and the venue was the Boris Trajkovski Sports Center in Skopje.

The event took place on February 25, 2023. Twenty three countries from all Europe broadcasted the event and participated in the voting. Also for the fifth time in the Own Eurovision Song Contest Winners Edition, the public voting was used.

The event was won by Armenia's artist Nune Yesayan, performing "Es U Du", who manage to receive 161 points, the song had originally won the Contest in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 51. Second place went to Luxembourg's "Rivers Run Red" performed by Ganyos & Bolshiee, in the past they had won the Contest in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 60. Third place got Finland's entry "Mayday" performed by Sini Yasemin who won the competition in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 53.

Location
For more details on the host country, see North Macedonia.

Venue
The Boris Trajkovski Sports Center (Macedonian: Спортски центар Борис Трајковски, romanized: Sportski centar Boris Trajkovski) in Skopje is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in the Karpoš Municipality of Skopje, North Macedonia.

It is named after the former president, Boris Trajkovski, who died in a plane crash in 2004. It has a maximum seating capacity of 7,000 for handball, 7,500 for basketball and 10,000 for concerts. The venue also contains four restaurants and a sports bar. The arena is home to the North Macedonia national basketball team (men and women), North Macedonia men's national handball team (men and women) and North Macedonia national volleyball team (men and women).

Bidding phase
The hosting submissions started on 23 January 2023, and 2 countries applied to host the event. The host was selected through a poll. After some days of voting, North Macedonia was selected as the host of the event with 82.60% of the votes.

Host City
Skopje (Macedonian: Скопје) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic center. It was known in the Roman period under the name Scupi.

The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; remains of Neolithic settlements have been found within the old Kale Fortress that overlooks the modern city centre. On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp. When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in 395 AD, Scupi came under Byzantine rule from Constantinople. During much of the early medieval period, the town was contested between the Byzantines and the Bulgarian Empire, whose capital it was between 972 and 992. From 1282, the town was part of the Serbian Empire and acted as its capital city from 1346. In 1392, the city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks who renamed the town Üsküp. The town stayed under Ottoman control over 500 years, serving as the capital of pashasanjak of Üsküb and later the Vilayet of Kosovo. At that time the city was famous for its oriental architecture. In 1912, it was annexed by the Kingdom of Serbia during the Balkan Wars and after the First World War the city became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia). In the Second World War the city was conquered by the Bulgarian Army, which was part of Axis powers. In 1944, it became the capital city of Democratic Macedonia (later Socialist Republic of Macedonia), which was a federal state, part of Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (later Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). The city developed rapidly after World War II, but this trend was interrupted in 1963 when it was hit by a disastrous earthquake. In 1991, it became the capital city of an independent Macedonia.

Skopje is located on the upper course of the Vardar River, and is located on a major north-south Balkan route between Belgrade and Athens. It is a center for metal-processing, chemical, timber, textile, leather, and printing industries. Industrial development of the city has been accompanied by development of the trade, logistics, and banking sectors, as well as an emphasis on the fields of culture and sport. According to the last official count from 2002, Skopje has a population of 506,926 inhabitants; according to two unofficial estimates for more recent period, the city has a population of 668,518 or 491,000 inhabitants.

Venue
The Boris Trajkovski Sports Center in Skopje is a multi-functional indoor sports arena. It is located in the Karpoš Municipality of Skopje, North Macedonia.

It is named after the former president, Boris Trajkovski, who died in a plane crash in 2004. It has a maximum seating capacity of 7,000 for handball, 7,500 for basketball and 10,000 for concerts. The venue also contains four restaurants and a sports bar. The arena is home to the North Macedonia national basketball team (men and women), North Macedonia men's national handball team (men and women) and North Macedonia national volleyball team (men and women).

Participants
Each country awarded points from one to eight, then ten and finally twelve for their ten most popular songs. Unlike in the contest proper, viewers were allowed to vote for songs which had represented their country.

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country's vote:

International broadcasts and voting
Twenty-two countries from all Europe broadcasted the event and participated in the voting. Also a Rest of the World voting was used.

The following countries participated in the fifth Own Eurovision Song Contest Winners Edition: