Finland: The Rasmus’ staging in Turin to include flying props!

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The official account of UMK, the finnish national final, controlled by the public broadcaster YLE, has just brought to light information about The Rasmus‘ performance and staging in Turin via a Twitter post.

The post emphasizes that the band’s appearance on the Eurovision stage will be very different from their appearance in the finnish national final, which took place in February. In addition, many props in the air will be used, as they also seem to be referring to balloons.

https://twitter.com/Yle_UMK/status/1510968531688562690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1510968531688562690%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F2022%2F04%2FCF86CEB9CEBDCEBBCEB1CEBDCEB4CEAFCEB1-CEBCCEB5-props-CF83CF84CEBFCEBD-CEB1CEADCF81CEB1-CEB7-CEB5CEBCCF86CEACCEBDCEB9CF83CEB7-CF84CF89CEBD%2F

Below you can watch the band’s performance in the finnish national final UMK:

https://youtu.be/XtMfCf3vFbc

We remind you that Finland will be opening the second semi-final on May 12th.

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Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs performs symphonic version of “Hold Me Closer”!

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Sweden’s representative for Eurovision 2022 Cornelia Jakobs performed a symphonic version of “Hold Me Closer”.

Last night during the  Hela Sverige Skramlar för Ukraina , a Swedish charity event for Ukraine, Cornelia presented a symphonic version of her participation in Eurovision 2022.

Cornelia will also perform “Hold Me Closer” tonight at the London Eurovision Party and next week at the Eurovision In Concert in Amsterdam.

Who is Cornelia Jakobs?

Anna Cornelia Jakobsdotter Samuelsson, also known as Cornelia Jakobs, was born on 9th March 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden. The singer made her music debut in 2008 when she auditioned for Swedish Idol. Her career took off a few years later when she joined Love Generation. The girl group took part in Melodifestivalen 2011 and 2012, with their 2011 entry “Dance Alone” making the Swedish charts. Cornelia has written and composed numerous songs, including Efraim Leo’s Melodifestivalen 2021 song “Best of Me”.

Sweden will compete in 17th place in the second semifinal in May.

Source: eurovoix

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Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra performs “Stefania” Live in Lviv!

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Kalush Orchestra has performed their Eurovision 2022 song live in Lviv, Ukraine.

This year, the representatives of Ukraine decided that the best they can do for their country is to support it through direct communication with the European public. Kalush Orchestra will take part in a number of promotional concerts over the coming weeks and is planning to raise funds to aid the reconstruction of Ukrainian cities affected by the war.

The band met in Lviv together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and are now actively working on their performance. Yesterday it was revealed that Kalush Orchestra will perform live at the Eurovision Song Contest, after fears that they would not be able to attend due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier this week the Deputy Director of Rai 1, the host broadcaster of Eurovision 2022, confirmed that Ukraine had been exempted from the requirement to film a live-on-tape performance for the contest.

Ukraine will perform in the 6th place of the first semi-final in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiEGVYOruLk&t=2s

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INFE POLL 2022: The first results from the Czech Republic!

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For the sixth consecutive year the second Network of Eurovision Song Contest fans ,the INFE Network, in cooperation with ESCToday, carries out the INFE Poll.

The members of the Network in the 22 local fan clubs, have already voted their favorite songs of Eurovision 2022 and with the help of ESCToday, anounce their results.

Today we have the first results from INFE Czech Republic:

  • 1 point goes to France
  • 2 points go to Germany
  • 3 points go to Spain
  • 4 points go to Finland
  • 5 points go to Greece
  • 6 points go to The Netherlands
  • 7 points go to Albania
  • 8 points go to Sweden 
  • 10 points go to Italy and..
  • 12 points go to…Austria

First 12 points go to Austria and LUMIX feat. Pia Maria.

https://youtu.be/tF6LY7lnVFU

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Eurovision 2022: Behind the scenes of Turin stage construction!

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The first images and videos of construction of the Eurovision 2022 stage at the PalaOlimpico in Turin can now be seen on social media.

There are already images from construction inside the arena suggest that the stage may be one of the largest in recent years of the contest:

The concept behind the design is called “The Sun Within” which relies on movements and light of a kinetic sun. The stage is able “to showcase theatrical motion, which is framed by water and will have a lush Italian garden lapping up the rays in front of it”.

There is a video on Twitter that shows the building of the stage:

The creative mind behind the design is Francesca Montinaro, who has also created the stages of Sanremo Music Festival two times (2013 and 2019), explained what inspired the idea for this years stage:

Italy, with its sun its sea, art and nature, but above all to represent Italians with their unique vocation to adapt and welcome.

Another video was posted that shows a large LED wall behind the stage construction:

Also it has been known through Instagram that viewers can also expect an LED floor on the stage:

The design will also incorporate a Green Room at the front of stage which is inspired by the feel of baroque gardens such as those at Villa d’Este, Castel Gandolfo, Villa Lante or other estates across Italy, while the water reminds people of fountains in a park. Francesca Montinaro has explained that she wants to make sure that every artist has a platform to express their identity through the stage.

The Eurovision Song Contest returns to Italy this year following Måneskin’s victory at the 2021 contest with their song “Zitti e Buoni”. The 2022 contest will be hosted on 10th, 12th, and 14th May at the PalaOlimpico in Turin.

Source: eurovoix

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Eurovision 2022: Which song has been used the most on TikTok?

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With less than 50 days before Eurovision 2022 kicks off, it’s time to see which songs have been used in the most videos on the social media app TikTok as of April 3rd.

On TikTok, next to having a library of music you can add on your videos in the app, some people upload videos to the app with the sound already included in the video. However, the clever TikTok algorithm is usually able to detect the song that is being used on the video, allocates it under the right song and then includes it on the number of total amount of videos where that sound has been used on.

The most used songs from Eurovision 2022 on TikTok are:

  1. Italy: Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi – 158.8K videos
  2. Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra – Stefania – 124.6K videos
  3. Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer – 13.9K videos
  4. Serbia: Konstrakta – In corpore sano – 13.3K videos
  5. Spain: Chanel – SloMo – 9876 videos
  6. The Netherlands: S10 – De diepte – 8794 videos
  7. Finland: The Rasmus – Jezebel – 3616 videos
  8. Norway: Subwoolfer – Give That Wolf A Banana – 2630 videos
  9. Romania: WRS – Llámame – 1895 videos
  10. United Kingdom: Sam Ryder – Space Man – 1115 videos
  11. Albania: Ronela Hajati – Sekret – 1079 videos
  12. Lithuania: Monika Liu – Sentimentai – 517 videos
  13. Cyprus: Andromache – Ela – 446 videos
  14. Germany: Malik Harris – Rockstars – 375 videos
  15. Moldova: Zdob și Zdub & Frații Advahov – Trenulețul – 366 videos
  16. Poland: Ochman – River – 323 videos
  17. Austria: LUM!X feat. Pia Maria – Halo – 280 videos
  18. Latvia: Citi Zēni – Eat Your Salad – 249 videos
  19. France: Alvan & Ahez – Fulenn – 189 videos
  20. Estonia: Stefan – Hope – 148 videos

For the entry of Latvia, Eat Your Salad by Citi Zēni, the number under the official audio is 249, while there is unofficial audio that has been used in more than 9000 videos.

In the past years, TikTok has played a big role on making Eurovision songs mainstream hits. For example, Duncan Laurence’s winning entry “Arcade” became a worldwide hit a year after winning the contest when being used in over a million videos on TikTok. One of the earliest TikTok hits from Eurovision was Getter Jaani’s “Rockefeller Street” that went viral on the app in 2018 and has been since used in over two million videos since.

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Cyprus: Andromache to be joined by two female dancers at Eurovision!

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Through her stories on Instagram, the choreographer Nefeli Theodotou , revealed that she will join Andromache on the stage of PalaOlimpico, in May in Turin, with a choreography of her own. Also in the Eurovision stage we will see the dancer Despina Lagoudaki.

As Andromache herself has revealed, her appearance will contain elements from Greece, Cyprus and the Mediterranean, while the air element is expected to dominate the scene.

All the direction has been taken over by Marvin Dietmann , while Andromache will be dressed by the talented Cypriot designer,  Stelios Koudounaris.

Cyprus is competing in 9th place, in the second semi-final, on May 12th.

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United Kingdom: London’s Eurovision Party tonight!

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Tonight the London Eurovision Party returns with a large number of Eurovision 2022 contestants hitting the London stage.

Following the cancellation of the last two events due to COVID-19, the London Eurovision Party will take place tonight at a new venue, the Hard Rock Hotel.

Hosts of the evening will be Paddy O’Connell, former BBC commentator for the Eurovision semi-finals between 2004 and 2010, and SuRie who represented the UK at Eurovision 2018.

The twenty artists who will be competing in Turin this year and will be in London tonight are:

  • Australia – Sheldon Riley
  • Austria – LUM!X feat. Pia Maria
  • Belgium – Jérémie Makiese
  • Bulgaria – Intelligent Music Project
  • Croatia – Mia Dimšić
  • Denmark – Reddi
  • Estonia – Stefan
  • France – Alvan & Ahez
  • Germany – Malik Harris
  • Ireland – Brooke
  • Latvia – Citi Zēni
  • Lithuania – Monika Liu
  • Malta – Emma Muscat
  • North Macedonia – Andrea
  • Norway – Subwoolfer
  • Poland – Ochman
  • Romania – WRS
  • Spain – Chanel
  • Sweden – Cornelia Jakobs
  • United Kingdom – Sam Ryder

Alongside this year’s twenty artists, a number of artists from previous years have also been announced, as follows:

  • Victoria – Representative of Bulgaria at Eurovision 2020 and 2021
  • Eye Cue – Representatives of North Macedonia at Eurovision 2018
  • Aidan – Runner-up in the Maltese national final MESC 2022
  • James Newman – Representative of the United Kingdom at Eurovision 2020 and 2021
  • KEiiNO – Representatives of Norway at Eurovision 2019
  • The Roop – Representatives of Lithuania at Eurovision 2020 and 2021

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Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra will perform live at Eurovision 2022!

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According to the Ukrainian public broadcaster, Suspilne , the Kalush Orchestra will be present in Turin!

This year, the representatives of Ukraine decided that the best they can do for their country is to support it through direct communication with the European public. The band’s frontman Oleg Psyuk stated in Lviv:

Until recently, Ukraine’s participation in Eurovision was in question, but now we can definitely announce that KALUSH ORCHESTRA is going to Turin and will perform live at Eurovision

So for the first time since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the group gathered in Lviv and began the preparations for Turin. Also, Kalush Orchestra will take part in a number of promotional concerts over the coming weeks and is planning to raise funds to aid the reconstruction of Ukrainian cities affected by the war. Frontman of the group, Oleg Psyuk said:

Through our speeches, we want to raise funds for the reconstruction of Ukrainian cities affected by the war. Many mass events dedicated to Eurovision are taking place now.

Earlier this week the Deputy Director of Rai 1, the host broadcaster of Eurovision 2022, confirmed that Ukraine had been exempted from the requirement to film a live-on-tape performance for the contest.

Ukraine will perform in the 6th place of the first semi-final in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiEGVYOruLk&t=2s

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Winner of American Song Contest won’t perform at Eurovision 2022!

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The winner of the American Song Contest will not appear at Eurovision in Turin , according to the competition’s executive producer Christer Björkman .

Speaking in an exclusive interview a few days after the second show of the American Song Contest, Björkman said that “it would not be possible” for the winner of the contest to appear as a guest at Eurovision next month.

Yeah I would like to see that eventually. This year is gonna be complicated because we moved our show [back] four weeks due to COVID so that complicated it. It’s now in the same week [as Eurovision] so I think that’s not even doable because obviously in Europe we wouldn’t keep a spot open like that. But in the future – if there is a future – yes, that would be great.

The last show of the competition for 2022 will take place on May 9, just one day before the first Semi-final of Eurovision. Because of these events, the appearance of the winner of the American Song Contest is impossible to be a part of Eurovision 2022. 

American Eurovision fans who hope to see the appearance of last year’s winners Måneskin in the American competition this year will also be disappointed.

I would have loved to have Måneskin in our show. But being in the same week that’s also gonna be impossible. They will be totally blocked in Italy obviously. For a future final that would be great both ways I would say.

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