Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli’s entry will be released on March 21!

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Only a few days are left before the official presentation of Azerbaijan’s entry in Eurovision 2022. A few moments ago, Nadir Rustamli released a part of his videoclip as well as a possible title of his entry, “Stay“,  with which he will represent his country in Turin, Italy.

Watch to the teaser below:


Azerbaijan has been drawn to compete in the first half of the second semi-final on May 12.

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Croatia: “Guilty Pleasure” with a new staging at Eurovision 2022!

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Mia Dimšić has revealed that she has prepared a new stage presentation for her appearance at the Eurovision 2022 Song Contest .

While speaking to Croatian media, Mia Dimšić revealed that her direction for “Guilty Pleasure” will change completely for Turin. Speaking to IN Magazin she confirmed:

We’re doing everything from scratch!

She also stated that she will no longer wear black for her appearance in May.

Traditionally Croatia has opted to keep their performances for Eurovision close to that seen at Dora, only opting to make minor changes.

Mia Dimšić was born on 7th November 1992. She began her singing career in 2014, when she embarked on a tour across the US and Canada with tamburitza band Džentlmeni. She released her first single a year later, and went on to release her debut album “Život nije siv” in 2016, which peaked at number one on the Croatian Albums Chart.

Mia will perform “Guilty Pleasure” in the 2nd half of the first semi-final on May 10th.

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Sweden: Detailed results of Melodifestivalen 2022 released!

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The SVT (Swedish public television) released the detailed results of Melodifestivalen 2022. As you will see below, the age categories did not affect the results, which were in line with the absolute number of votes except for the semi-final of the second chance, where two songs would not have qualified for the final if this system was not implemented.

There are two things worth mentioning. The first one is that Anders Bagge had about half a million more votes than the winner Cornelia Jakobs. The second is that Anna Bergendahl and Cazzi Opeia, despite collecting fewer votes in the semifinal of the second chance than Alvaro Estrella and Lisa Miskovsky respectively, got the ticket for the final as based on the age categories they got higher amount of points. Anna Bergendahl even had almost 200,000 votes less than Alvaro Estrella and despite of that was the one who had more points in the age categories.

Despite her second place in the public voting, Cornelia Jakobs will represent Sweden at Eurovision 2022, with the song Hold Me Closer. Sweden participates in the second semifinal and will appear in the second half.

https://youtu.be/wWDThAfryW4

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Greece: Listen to “Heaven is Sin”, Good Job Nicky’s proposal for Eurovision 2022!

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The song that Good Job Nicky selected to send to ERT for Eurovision 2022 is called “Heaven is Sin” and it has been published by his record label Colbalt Music.

Nikolas Varthakouris- or as known Good Job Nicky– was among the top five contestants in the run to get the ticket to represent Greece in Turin.

Watch the official music video of “Heaven is Sin“:

Through Eurovisionfun you first read, on May 29, just a few days after the final of the previous contest, that Good Job Nicky is interested in raising the Greek colors at Eurovision 2022. During the summer we fully confirmed that the young artist is preparing a song, in order to submit it to ERT. On September 24, you first read here some first information about his song, that it is a mid-tempo, cinematic piece, that fits perfectly in the special voice of Nikolas.

The young artist’s proposal had Fokas Evangelinos as a stage director and Elias Kokotos as project manager- same with Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord, the Greek representer of Eurovision this year.

What do you think of “Heaven is Sin”? Would that song be a good choice for Greece this year?

Malta: The change of song was requested right after MESC 2022!

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A few weeks ago, 22-year-old Emma Muscat and the song “Out of Sight” won MESC 2022, the Maltese competition for the nomination of this year’s representative of the island.

However, although Emma received the highest ratings from both viewers and the jury, Maltese TV chose to change the winning song.

Following the selection, “Out Of Sight” received a somewhat lukewarm response from fans, and as a result Malta looked for a new song for Emma, ​​who is one of Malta’s biggest pop stars.

Maltese television has chosen to seek help from Denmark, according to the Danish site dr.dk.

Anders Fredslund Hansen, who runs the music company “The Arrangement”, said:

The day after MESC, I received a text message from their Eurovision manager asking for my help. They had found a winner, but were looking for a new song that could surpass “Out of Sight”.

Anders also participated in 2013, when Denmark with Emmelie de Forest won the competition. At the request of Maltese television, Anders Fredslund sent to the organizers a few songs.

Anders’s statements even confirm another exclusive Eurovisionfun’ news about the change of the Maltese participation and when it was decided.

Eventually, two were selected and recorded as a demo. The choice was the known “I Am What I Am”, which is written by two Danish musicians Stine Kinck and Julie Aagaard.

Stine Kinck has previously participated in the Danish Grand Prix as a soloist, while Julie Aagaard, who also publishes music under the name Kill J, this year had both songs in the finals of Denmark and Sweden.

For Anders,

The song is incredibly catchy and then it has an uplifting message, something that traditionally goes well at Eurovision.

“I Am What I Am” was even submitted to this year’s Melodifestivalen, but was not selected.

We remind you that Malta will participate in the 2nd Semifinal. Listen to “I Am What I Am”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-fks-Pj-8

What’s your opinion about this year’s participation of Malta? Tell us in the comments!

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Ukraine: The Kalush Orchestra will compete with live on tape video, except the war is over by May!

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We had a significant last minute development recently. According to many websites, Ukraine will compete in Eurovision 2022, with the live on tape video of the Kalush Orchestra, unless the war ends by May, when the band will be able to go to Turin to sing live on stage. Orchestra reported on the issue:

Despite the fighting, the KALUSH Orchestra will record their performance in a safe place, which will be sent to the organizers of the song contest, and in case of our victory over the occupiers by May, our delegation will go to Italy and sing live all over Europe!

Thus, after yesterday’s confirmation by the Italian organizers that Ukraine will take part in the contest, despite the Russian invasion, now the way of participation of the Kalush Orchestra has been clarified. In the next few days, the Ukrainian band will have to videotape the live on tape video of their participation and send it to the EBU.

Simona Martorelli (Rai’s director of international relations) said in a statement on Monday (March 14th) that Ukraine’s public television would normally take part, while she was also impressed by their compliance with all the deadlines.

The Ukrainian delegation has confirmed its presence and so far has met all the deadlines. It is also preparing to make the backup video of the show, which is requested by all delegations in case the delegation or part of it cannot be presented in Turin.

With Stefania constantly dropping their odds on bets and being the first favorite to win, the Ukrainians seem to have thought of every detail to ensure their presence in Turin, despite the Russian invasion of the country, for three weeks.

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

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Iceland: Detailed results of Söngvakeppnin 2022!

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The detailed results of the semi-finals and the grand final of Iceland for Eurovision 2022 were announced this morning.

Sigga, Beta and Elín won the final duel against Reykjavíkurdætar with a difference of 11686 votes with the song “Með hækkandi sól“. Before that, Reykjavíkurdætur had a narrow lead with the song “Turn this around”, both in the televoting and in the jury.

Iceland’s public broadcaster, RUV, has announced the results of the votes of the TV audience in the semi-finals and the jury as well as the public, for the grand final of Söngvakeppnin 2022.

The results are as follows:

First Semi-Final – 26 February
Sigga, Beta & Elín – Með hækkandi sól: 10.788 votes
Stefán Óli – Ljósið: 7.017 votes
Amarosis – Don’t you know (íslenska útgáfan): 7.006 votes
Stefanía Svavarsdóttir – Hjartað mitt: 5613 votes
Haffi Haff – Gía: 4.828 votes

Second semi-final – 5 March
Reykjavíkurdætur – Tökum af stað: 13.137 votes
Katla – Þaðan af: 5251 votes
Suncity & Sanna Martinez – Hækkum í botn: 4.170 votes
Markéta – Mögulegt: 3.251 votes
Hanna Mia and the Astrotourists – Séns með þér: 3.197 votes

Grand Final – 12 March
The results of the TV audience in the first round of voting:
Reykjavíkurdætur – Turn This Around: 26,320 votes
Sigga, Beta & Elín – Með hækkandi sól: 24,083 votes
Amarosis – Don’t you know: 12.506 votes
Stefán Óli – Ljósið: 9.126 votes
Þaðan af – Katla: 5.972 votes

The results of the jury in the first round of voting:
Reykjavíkurdætur – Turn This Around: 19.437 votes
Sigga, Beta & Elín – Með hækkandi sól: 18.141 votes
Þaðan af – Katla: 15.031 votes
Stefán Óli – Ljósið: 13.476 votes
Amarosis – Don’t you know: 11.921 votes

Total results of the TV audience and jury in the first round of voting:
Reykjavíkurdætur – Turn This Around: 45.757 votes
Sigga, Beta & Elín – Með hækkandi sól: 42.224 votes
Amarosis – Don’t you know: 24.427 votes
Stefán Óli – Ljósið: 22.602 votes
Þaðan af – Katla: 21.003 votes

Judges’ results:
Judge 1:
1. Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi sól
2. Katla -Þaðan af
3. Stefán Óli -Ljósið
4. Reykjavíkurdætur -Tökum af stað
5. Amarosis -Don’t You Know

Judge 2:
1. Reykjavíkurdætur -Turn this around
2.Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi sól
3.Amarosis -Don’t you know
4.Katla -Þaðan af
5.Stefán Óli -Ljósið

Judge 3:
1. Reykjavíkurdætur -Turn this around
2. Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi sól
3. Stefán Óli -Ljósið
4. Katla -Þaðan af
5. Amarosis -Don’t you know

Judge 4:
1. Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi sól
2.Katla -Þaðan af
3.Reykjavíkurdætur -Turn this around
4.Stefán Óli -Ljósið
5.Amarosis -Don’t you know

Judge 5:
1. Reykjavíkurdætur -Turn this around
2. Stefán Óli -Ljósið
3. Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi sól
4. Amarosis -Don’t you know
5. Katla -Þaðan af

Judge 6:
1. Reykjavíkurdætur -Turn this around
2. Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi Sól
3. Katla -Þaðan af
4. Amarosis -Don’t you know
5. Stefán Óli -Ljósið

Judge 7:
1. Reykjavíkurdætur -Turn this around
2. Katla -Þaðan af
3. Sigga, Beta & Elín -Með hækkandi sól
4. Stefán Óli -Ljósið
5. Amarosis -Don’t you know

Then the two songs with the highest scores entered the final duel and the second televoting round of the evening started between them.

Results of the second round of voting:
Sigga, Beta & Elín – Með hækkandi sól: 35.156 votes
Reykjavíkurdætur – Turn This Around: 23.470 votes

“Með hækkandi sól” won the final duel with a 11,686 votes lead when the audience voted between the two songs.

Final overall grand final results:
Sigga, Beta & Elín – Með hækkandi sól: 77.380 votes
Reykjavíkurdætur – Turn This Around: 69.227 votes

The song “Með hækkandi sól” by Sigga, Beta & Elín won the grand final of Söngvakeppnin 2022 and will represent Iceland in Turin!

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the latest news about Iceland’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

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Portugal: Detailed results of the semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2022!

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The detailed results of Portugal’s national final for Eurovision 2022 were announced!

Portugal’s public broadcaster, RTP, announced the result of the jury and the public vote for the two semi-finals of Festival da Canção 2022.

The results of the semi-finals:

Semi-Final 1 (March 5)
  1. Maro – “saudade, saudade”  – 22 points (12 Jury+ 10 televote)
  2. Os Quatro e Meia – “Amanhã”  – 18 points (6 Jury+ 12 televote)
  3. FF – “Como É Bom Esperar Alguém”  – 16 points (8 Jury+ 8 televote)
  4. Diana Castro – “Ginger Ale” – 14 points (10 Jury+ 4 televote)
  5. Aurea – “Why?” – 14 points (7 Jury+ 7 televote)
  6. Fado Bicha – “Povo pequenino”  – 11 points (5 Jury+ 6 televote)
  7. Norton – “Hope” – 7 points (2 Jury+ 5 televote)
  8. Valas & Os Astronautas – “Odisseia”  – 7 points (4 Jury+ 3 televote)
  9. Kumpania Algazarra – “A Minha Praia”  – 5 points (3 Jury+ 2 televote)
  10. TheMisterDriver – “Calisun” – 2 points (1 Jury+ 1 televote)
Δεύτερος Ημιτελικός (7 Μαρτίου)
  1. Milhanas – “Corpo de Mulher” – 20 points (12 Jury+ 8 televote)
  2. Inês Homem de Melo – “Fome de Viagem” – 19 points (7 Jury+ 12 televote)
  3. Pongo & Tristany – “DÉGRÁ.DÊ” – 16 points (10 Jury+ 6 televote)
  4. Syro – “Ainda nos Temos” – 14 points (4 Jury+ 10 televote)
  5. Pepperoni Passion – “Códgio 30” – 13 points (8 Jury+ 5 televote)
  6. Jonas – “Ponas Soltas”  – 13 points (6 Jury+ 7 televote)
  7. Os Azeitonas – “Solta a Voz e Canta”  – 9 points (5 Jury+ 4 televote)
  8. Blacci – “Mar No Fim” –  6 points (3 Jury+ 3 televote)
  9. O Vampiro Submarino – “Ao Lado de Mim” – 4 points (2 Jury+ 2 televote)
  10. Cubita – “Uma Mensagem Tua” – 2 points (1 Jury+ 1 televote)

Winner of Festival da Canção 2022 was MARO with the song “saudade, saudade“.

We remind you that Portugal will compete in the second half of the second semi-final in May 12!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the participation of Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy!

Italy: Mahmood & Blanco will perform 9th in the Grand Final!

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As it has been announced via the social media of Eurovision Song Contest, Italy has been drawn to perform 9th in the Grand Final of Eurovision 2022.

The running order of both final and semifinals is decided by the host country and EBU with a draw to take part only to see in which half the coutnries will perform at.

The only country that is excluded is the host country, in this year Italy, that can be drawn to perform at any spot, from 1 to 26.

This year, “Brividi“, song of Mahmood and Blanco, will be performed 9th in the Grand Final in the 14th of May.

You can listen to “Brividi” below:

Do you thing this is a good spot for Italy? Can “Brividi” bring another victory for the country for the second year in a row? Write in the comments below!

Ukraine: It is official! Despite the invasion, the country will be present in Turin!

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The Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Turin from 10 to 14 May could not be unaffected by the war. Russia has already been excluded, and despite the rumors and the difficulties, the Ukrainian delegation will be there, as the Italian organizers confirmed earlier. Read more