Latvia: Listen to the 16 songs competing in Supernova 2022

Latvia proceeds with the selection process to pick its representative for 2022, and presented the songs that are going to compete at Supernova 2022!

As said before, at the 7th of December the deadline for submissions for the Latvian national final TV  “Supernova 2022” expired. Breaking every previous record of participations, this time no less than 130 songs, that are competing to be Latvia’s next representative at the Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in May 2022 in Turin, Italy.

From the 130, 16 songs and 16 artists managed to qualify, among them some very well known names.

Specifically, the 16 songs are as follows:

• Bermudu Divstūris – “Triangle Bad”
• Markus Riva – “If You’re Gonna Love Me”
• Aminata – “I’m Letting You Go”
• BUJĀNS – “He, She, You & Me”
• Citi Zēni – “Eat Your Salad”
• Inspo – “A Happy Place”
• Miks Dukurs – “First Love”
• Beatrise Heislere – “On the way home”
• the COCO’NUTS – “In and out of the dark”
• KATŌ – “Promises”
• Elīna Gluzunova – “Es pabiju tur”
• Mēs Jūs Mīlam – “Rich Itch”
• Linda Rušeniece – “Pay My Own Bills”
• RAUM – “Plans”
• Zelma – “How”
• Patriks Peterson – “Can’t Get You Outta My Head”

You can listen to the songs here!

The process

The decision for the artists that are going to participate at “Supernova 2022” will be taken by juries who are chosen by LTV and the selection process will be finished until the end of 2021.

The juries are going to decide based on the structure of the song based on its originality, adaptation, message, compliance with the recent trends in international music, the vocal ability of the contestants, their personality, their history in the music industry, as well as their ability for new music awards

The songs will be available to the public in January, while the tv shows for the “Supernova” competition are expected from the Latvian TV in February 2022.

LTV has yet to confirm publicly the format of Supernova 2022, having stated that there will be a relevant announcement in January.

The schedule for Supernova 2022 is as follows:

• Semi-Final – 5 February
• Final – 12 February

In 2021 at Rotterdam, Latvia Participated with Samanta Tīna and the song The Moon is Rising, getting 14 points in the second Semi-Final

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btA_Tyiyfhc

Stay tuned in Eurovisionfun for all the latest news and information about the Song Contest.