[1][2] Télé Monte-Carlo (TMC) was a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), thus eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest.

[5] Monaco won the contest in 1971 with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", performed by Séverine.

Séverine furthermore declared to journalists that she had never set foot in Monaco, forgetting that the song's music video was filmed there.

[10] Monaco is among the eight countries which finished last on their first participation, the others being Austria, Portugal, Malta, Turkey, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and San Marino.

After winning in 1971, TMC planned to organise the 1972 contest as an open-air show, setting the date in June rather than in early spring.

[11] Due to a lack of funding, TMC sought help from the French public broadcaster, the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), which agreed to organise the contest.

[12] The EBU asked Spain's Televisión Española (TVE) and Germany's ARD, which respectively finished second and third at the 1971 contest.

During its three-year return, all the artists representing the country, Maryon (2004), Lise Darly (2005), and Séverine Ferrer (2006), failed to qualify for the final.

[16] The EBU announced they would work harder to bring Monaco back into the contest in 2010 alongside other lapsed participants.

In those years, it was the government and the municipality of Monaco who chose the contestant and funded the delegation, while it is usually the responsibility of a broadcaster or a producer.

[17] On 22 November 2021, L'Observateur de Monaco reported that €100,000 have been allocated towards "initiating the application of the Principality to the Eurovision 2023 competition" in the state budget for 2022.

[25] The broadcaster's editor-in-chief, Frédéric Cauderlier, ascribed the decision to the tight deadline and to being forced to concentrate on other matters in the early stages of the launch.

Several singers selected to represent Monaco are key figures of the French scene, such as Françoise Hardy and Michèle Torr.