American Song Contest: Fifth Qualifier Round’s Results!

The final qualifier round of American Song Contest just finished with eleven more songs competing for four spots in the semifinals, with the outcome decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. Jared Lee from Massachusetts, Stela Cole from Georgia and MARi from New Hampshire will join Washington’s Allen Stone from the fourth qualifier round to the semi-finals. Michigan’s Ada LeAnn will follow them as he won the fifth qualifier round’s jury as well as Ryan Charles from Wyoming as he earned one of the two wildcards!

The following artists competed in tonight’s fifth qualifying round:

  1. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom
  3. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine
  4. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop
  5. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things
  6. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle
  7. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle
  8. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster
  9. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight
  10. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie
  11. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up

At the beginning of the night, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced that Jared Lee from Massachusetts, Stela Cole from Georgia and MARi from New Hampshire won the public’s support in the fourth qualifier round. Wyoming’s Ryan Charles was announced later on as one of the two wildcards. Just before the end of the show, the winner of the fifth qualifier round’s jury was announced and therefore Ada LeAnn from Michigan will be in the semi-finals.

The detailed results of the fifth qualifier round’s juries were as follows:

  1. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom
  3. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle
  4. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle
  5. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline
  6. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine
  7. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop
  8. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster
  9. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up
  10. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things
  11. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight

Voting for those not selected by the jury will continue for two days until Wednesday. The public vote will determine the other three artists who will make it to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will be announced during this week.

This was the fifth of a total of five qualifier rounds. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first semifinalist of the 5th qualifying round from Michigan:


Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the latest news regarding the American Song Contest 2022!

Don’t forget to vote in our poll for the Grand-Final here!

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