American Song Contest: First qualifying round’s result!

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The first American Song Contest qualifier round ended a few hours ago, eleven songs competed for four spots in the semifinals, with the outcome decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. Rhode Island’s representative Hueston qualified by the juries, while the remaining three spots will be decided by the audience.

Tonight’s first qualifier round included:

  1. Minnesota: Yam Haus – “Ready To Go”
  2. Oklahoma: AleXa – “Wonderland”
  3. Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb – “Never Like This”
  4. Indiana: UG skywalkin – “Love For My City”
  5. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “LOKO”
  6. Connecticut: Michael Bolton – “Beautiful World”
  7. Iowa: Alisabeth Von Presley – “Wonder”
  8. Wisconsin: Jake’O – “Feel Your Love”
  9. Mississippi: Keyone Starr – “Fire”
  10. Wyoming: Ryan Charles – “New Boot Goofin”
  11. Rhode Island: Hueston – “Held On Too Long”

Just before the end of the very first show, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced the winner of the jury and therefore the first artist to reach the semi-finals, Hueston from Rhode Island. The televoting for those not selected by the jury will continue for two days until Wednesday. The public vote will determine the three other artists who will advance to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will be announced each time at the start of next week’s show.

The first qualifier round of American Song Contest 2022 will be broadcasted in Greece on March 23rd via the ERTFLIX platform!

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, 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 and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first semifinalist from Rhode Island:

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American Song Contest: All the shows on ERTFLIX from Wednesday 23rd of March!!

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As we have informed you in a previous article, ERT, the Greek National Broadcaster, had secured the rights of broadcasting the 2022 American Song Contest which officially kicks off tonight on NBC, with the first qualifier round.

In an official announcement on their official website, ERT, announced that all the shows of the 2022 American Song Contest are going to be available in Greece from March 23rd on ERTFLIX. (here)

At this point we remind you that the American Song Contest consists of five qualifier rounds, two semi-finals and the grand final of 9th on May 2022, one day before the beginning of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.

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American Song Contest 2022: Tonight the first qualifying round!

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A project that until a few years ago seemed utopian, tonight takes on flesh and blood. The American Song Contest, the American version of our favorite Eurovision, starts tonight.

At 1:00 a.m. CET, eleven artists from eleven states will compete in the first qualifying round of the American Song Contest.

The American Song Contest 2022 will start on Monday, March 21 and will last for 8 weeks, until the big winner is announced on May 9. The competition will be attended by 50 US states, five overseas US acquisitions and the capital, Washington DC.

The competition part will consist of the qualifiers, the semifinals and the grand final. In the grand final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” of the USA.

Contestants

In tonight’s first qualifier participate:

  1. Iowa: Alisabeth Von Presley – “Wonder”
  2. Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb – “Never Like This”
  3. Wisconsin: Jake’O – “Feel Your Love”
  4. Wyoming: Ryan Charles – “New Boot Goofin”
  5. Indiana: UG skywalkin – “Love For My City”
  6. Minnesota: Yam Haus – “Ready To Go”
  7. Mississippi: Keyone Starr – “Fire”
  8. Oklahoma: AleXa – “Wonderland”
  9. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “LOKO”
  10. Rhode Island: Hueston – “Held On Too Long”
  11. Connecticut: Michael Bolton – “Beautiful World”

A jury of 56 people, one for each of the states, will vote on the songs. The winner of the jury vote will be the first finalist of the semifinal.

The rest of the songs that were not selected by the jury, will be judged by the public. Voting will last two days until Wednesday. The public vote will select three more semi-finalists. The announcement of the semifinalists will be made each time at the beginning of next week’s show.

A total of twenty artists will compete in the semifinals of the American Song Contest.

Two of the biggest names in the American music industry will present the long-awaited American Song Contest. Snoop Dog and Kelly Clarkson will be the presenters of the American Song Contest.

The first qualifier starts at 01:00 CET and you can watch it live on NBC.

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American Song Contest: Who is the favourite to win according to the betting odds?

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Just one day before the start for the first qualifying round of the American Song Contest 2022  and we already have the first odds for the big winner.

The competition will include the 50 states of America, five regions and Washington. The American Song Contest will start on  Monday, March 21  and will last for  8 weeks , until the big winner is announced on  May 9 .

The contest will consist of three rounds: the first qualifier round, the semi-finals and the grand finale. In the Grand Final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” in the United States.

You can see the odds below:

The entries of the first qualifying round:

  1. Iowa : Alisabeth Von Presley – “ Wonder ”
  2. Arkansas : Kelsey Lamb – “ Never Like This ”
  3. Wisconsin : Jake’O – ” Feel Your Love “
  4. Wyoming : Ryan Charles – New Boot Goofin
  5. Indiana : UG skywalkin – ” Love For My City “
  6. Minnesota : Yam Haus – ” Ready To Go “
  7. Mississippi : Keyone Starr – ” Fire “
  8. Oklahoma : AleXa – “ Wonderland ”
  9. Puerto Rico : Christian Pagán – “ LOKO ”
  10. Rhode Island : Hueston – “ Held On Too Long”
  11. Connecticut : Michael Bolton – “Beautiful World”

We remind you that the competition will be broadcast on Austria’s and Germany’s ServusTV, Canada’s CHCH-DT, Finland’s YLE TV2, Greece’s ERT, Iceland’s RÚV, Norway’s NRK, Portugal’s RTP, Serbia’s RTS, Slovenia’s RTVSLO 2, Spain’s RTVE Play and Sweden’s SVT.

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American Song Contest: Interview with Alexis Cunningham from West Virginia! (video)

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Alexis Cunningham , who will represent West Virginia in the first edition of the American Song Contest , speaks exclusively to EurovisionFun and Apostolis Matamis .

Alexis is excited about her participation in the competition while, as she states, she has been involved in music since she was a child, writing stories, lyrics and poems while combining them with her guitar.

Here in America we know about this beautiful competition that has been happening in Europe for 66 years. When the American version became known, some friends urged me to submit a song. I did not want to miss my deadline and due to my great desire I finally submitted an entire album, from which they have chosen this one song that I will represent West Virginia in the competition. I am very grateful and excited about this!

Regarding the competition process, Alexis states that:

There will be five qualifying rounds from which the semifinalists will emerge and finally the ten finalists so that we have a winner. Some participants already have a large audience but I am already so excited to take part in this competition that I have been selected for and I want to enjoy it.

Alexis is very happy for her participation in the American Song Contest and her entry will be about love.

My song is dance, retro, it reminds me of disco and I do not believe that people will expect something like that, but they will love it and want to dance with it. I can not betray the title yet. It is a song about love, about the first youthful love. But it also speaks of love for ourselves, as we must never give up and we must follow our dreams. It’s quite uptempo. 

A teaser of the participation will be released a few days before her participation in the qualifier round while she is already preparing for her stage appearance.

I can not say much about it. It will have rock and roll vibes. It will be retro and colorful. 

She has been watching Eurovision since 2014 when she was in Scandinavia and she was captivated by the fact that all countries unite in one night thanks to music.

Watch the full exclusive interview of Alexis Cunningham  in the  video below:

 

 

American Song Contest: Watch the rehearsals of the first qualifier round!

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A few minutes ago, short clips from the rehearsals of the representatives of each state and region of the first American Song Contest qualifying round were released on the American Song Contest’s social media accounts!

You can check out the participants’ rehearsals below:

  1. Iowa: Alisabeth Von Presley – “Wonder”
  2. Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb – “Never Like This”
  3. Wisconsin: Jake’O – “Feel Your Love”
  4. Wyoming: Ryan Charles – “New Boot Goofin”
  5. Indiana: UG skywalkin – “Love For My City”
  6. Minnesota: Yam Haus – “Ready To Go”
  7. Mississippi: Keyone Starr – “Fire”
  8. Oklahoma: AleXa – “Wonderland”
  9. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “LOKO”
  10. Rhode Island: Hueston – “Held On Too Long”

Connecticut’s Michael Bolton rehearsal for “Beautiful World” has not been released, as of now.

The American Song Contest 2021 will begin on Monday, March 21 and will run for 8 weeks, until the grand prize winner is crowned on May 9. The contest will consist of three rounds: the first qualifier round, the semi-finals and the grand finale. In the Grand Final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” in the United States.

We remind you that the competition will be broadcast on Austria’s and Germany’s ServusTV, Canada’s CHCH-DT, Finland’s YLE TV2, Greece’s ERT, Iceland’s RÚV, Norway’s NRK, Portugal’s RTP, Serbia’s RTS, Slovenia’s RTVSLO 2, Spain’s RTVE Play and Sweden’s SVT.

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U.S.A.: Listen to the song snippets of the First Qualifier Round of American Song Contest 2022!

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Just a few days before the first ever American Song Contest kicks off,  small snippets from the representatives of each state and region of the First Qualifier Round of the American Song Contest were published on TikTok.

The 11 participants of the First Qualifier Round are as follows:

  1. Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb – “Never Like This”
  2. Connecticut: Michael Bolton – “Beautiful World”
  3. Wyoming: Ryan Charles – “New Boot Goofin”
  4. Indiana : UG skywalkin – “Love For My City”
  5. Iowa : Alisabeth Von Presley – “Wonder”
  6. Minnesota: Yam Haus – “Ready To Go”
  7. Mississippi: Keyone Starr – “Fire”
  8. Oklahoma: AleXa – “Wonderland”
  9. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “LOKO”
  10. Rhode Island: Hueston – “Held On Too Long”
  11. Wisconsin: Jake’O – “Feel Your Love”

The American Song Contest 2022 will start on Monday, March 21 and will last 8 weeks, until the big winner is announced on May 9. The competition will be attended by the 50 US states, the five overseas US possessions and the capital, Washington. Grammy-winning pop superstar Kelly Clarkson and multi-platinum music icon Snoop Dogg will host the show.

The contest will consist of three rounds: the qualifiers, the semifinals and the grand final. In the grand final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” of the USA.

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U.S.A.: The participants of American Song Contest 2022 First Qualifier Round!!

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In a few days and more precisely on Monday 21st of March the first Qualifier Round of the inaugural American Song Contest, the US version of the Eurovision Song Contest, is going to take place. In this contest we are about to see acts from the 50 federal states, the 5 dependent territories ( American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and the capital of the union, Washington D.C.

In the first qualifier round 11 States and Territories are going to compete for the 4 tickets that lead later to the two Semi-Finals.

The artists competing in the very first show of the American Song Contest revealed it on their Instagram accounts.

So the 11 participants of the First Qualifier Round are as follows:

  1. Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb – “Never Like This”
  2. Connecticut: Michael Bolton
  3. Illinois : Justin Jesso
  4. Indiana : UG skywalkin – “Love For My City”
  5. Iowa : Alisabeth Von Presley
  6. Minnesota: Yam Haus
  7. Mississippi: Keyone Starr
  8. Oklahoma: AleXa – “Wonderland”
  9. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “LOKO”
  10. Rhode Island: Hueston – “Held On Too Long”
  11. Wisconsin: Jake’O

Some of the participants have already revealed the titles of their entries, while others are expected to do so in the coming day or on the day of their participation.

The American Song Contest starts on Monday 21st of March and is going to be concluded on 9th of May with the Grand Final, one day before the First Semi-Final of 2o22 Eurovision Song Contest.

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American Song Contest: The voting format of the contest!

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The representatives of Minnesota, Yam Haus hosted a TikTok live where they answered questions about the American Song Contest and gave information about their song and the voting format.

  • There will be 3 ways to vote: NBC website, an unknown app for now, and TikTok.

  • 11 songs will perform on March 21 and 4 will move on to the semi-finals.

  • 5 Quarter-finals with 4 moving on from each semi-final, leading to 2 semis of 10 and the final.

  • The voting will follow the Eurovision format, with each state giving their own ranked votes.

  • Each individual voter will rank all the songs when they vote, so it’ll basically be the Eurovision jury voting format for the televote as well.

  • They said there are some very experienced people working on the staging.

  • Those who make it to round 2 get custom in-ear pieces.

  • Yam Haus will be performing a song called “Ready To Go” that was originally a lo-fi track but is now a rock and roll song.

  • Each representative will be going to Los Angeles a week before the show, so we’ll be able to figure out the contestants of the first week soon.

he American Song Contest 2022 will start on Monday, March 22 and will last 8 weeks, until the big winner is announced on May 9. The competition will be attended by the 50 US states, the five overseas US possessions and the capital, Washington. Grammy-winning pop superstar Kelly Clarkson and multi-platinum music icon Snoop Dogg will host the show.

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American Song Contest: Full lineup announced!

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A few minutes ago, the names of the representatives of each state of the American Song Contest were announced.

The lineup is composed of a wide range of artists, from unexplored talents, emerging young artists and rising stars to established and legendary idols.

An incredible solo artist, duo, group or band will represent each location and perform a new original song, celebrating the depth and variety of different styles and genres across America.

The representatives of each state are the following:

  • Alabama: Ni/Co
  • Alaska: Jewel
  • American Samoa: Tenelle
  • Arizona: Las Marias
  • Arkansas: Kelsey Lamb
  • California: Sweet Taboo
  • Colorado: Riker Lynch
  • Connecticut: Michael Bolton
  • Delaware: Nitro Nitra
  • Florida: Ale Zabala
  • Georgia: Stela Cole
  • Guam: Jason J.
  • Hawaii: Bronson Varde
  • Idaho: Andrew Sheppard
  • Illinois: Justin Jesso
  • Indiana: UG skywalkin
  • Iowa: Alisabeth Von Presley
  • Kansas: Broderick Jones
  • Kentucky: Jordan Smith
  • Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz
  • Maine: King Kyote
  • Maryland: Sisqó
  • Massachusetts: Jared Lee
  • Michigan: Ada LeAnn
  • Minnesota: Yam Haus
  • Mississippi: Keyone Starr
  • Missouri: Brett Seper
  • Montana: Jonah Prill
  • Nebraska: Jocelyn
  • Nevada: The Crystal Method
  • New Hampshire: MARi
  • New Jersey: Brooke Alexx
  • New Mexico: Khalisol
  • New York: ENISA
  • North Carolina: John Morgan
  • North Dakota: Chloe Fredericks
  • Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu
  • Ohio: Macy Gray
  • Oklahoma: AleXa
  • Oregon: courtship.
  • Pennsylvania: Bri Steves
  • Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán
  • Rhode Island: Hueston
  • South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti
  • South Dakota: Judd Hoos
  • Tennessee: Tyler Braden
  • Texas: Grant Knoche
  • S. Virgin Islands: Cruz Rock
  • Utah: Savannah Keyes
  • Vermont: Josh Panda
  • Virginia: Almira Zaky
  • Washington: Allen Stone
  • Washington, D.C.: NËITHER
  • West Virginia: Alexis Cunningham
  • Wisconsin: Jake’O
  • Wyoming: Ryan Charles

Atlantic Records will be the exclusive music partner for American Song Contest and will release the original songs featured on the series beginning Monday March 21, Atlantic will release each week’s new batch of songs at 00:00 ET (06:00 CET)

‘Atlantic Records is thrilled to partner with NBC and all the artists competing on ‘American Song Contest, ’ says Atlantic Records President, West Coast Kevin Weaver. ‘As an innovative music label, we are always looking for new ways to discover and showcase talent, and American Song Contest is the perfect stage for America to see the best of the best from each state and territory. We are honoured to be working with NBC, all of the incredibly talented artists and the entire American Song Contest team.’

The American Song Contest 2022 will start on Monday, March 22 and will last 8 weeks, until the big winner is announced on May 9. The competition will be attended by the 50 US states, the five overseas US possessions and the capital, Washington.

The competition will consist of three rounds: the qualifiers, the semifinals and the grand final. In the grand final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” of the USA.

Grammy-winning pop superstar Kelly Clarkson and multi-platinum music icon Snoop Dogg will host the shows.

 

Source: EBU

 

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