Slovenia: Detailed results of EMA Freš and EMA 2022!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

For another year Slovenia picked their representative for Eurovision through their national final, EMA. For the second time, the selection process started a few weeks before, as EMA Freš, a contest for young and upcoming Slovenian artists, took place this year as well.

A few hours ago, through the official Facebook page of EMA, the complete results of EMA Freš as well as EMA 2022 that took place last night.

EMA Freš 2022

In the first phase of EMA Freš, young artists competed in duels and a weekly final. The results were decided from the public.

  • First Week

 

  • Second Week

  • Third Week

  • Second Chance Round

  • EMA Freš 2022 Final

In the final of EMA Freš 2022 there were juries that decided two of the four finalists of EMA. They were no others than LUMA and LPS. The other two, Stela Sofia and Leya Leanne, were decided by the public.

 

EMA 2022

In the semi-finals, six of the ten artists in total qualify for the Grand Final. Jury and public picked three artists each.

  • First Semi-Final

  • Second Semi-Final

  • Final

LPS won the public vote with a difference of 700 votes from the second place, BQL.

 

Winners of EMA 2022 were LPS with the song “Disko”. Slovenia will compete in the first half of the second semi-final on May 10.

Israel: Withdrawal of Michael Ben David from this year’s contest?

/0 Comments/in , /by

Ynet, one of Israel’s leading news and general content sites, reports that Michael Ben David, Israel’s representative at Eurovision 2022, is considering withdrawing from the competition. According to Ynet, the Israeli representative is dissatisfied with the behavior and internal policy of the team, with which he is working in view of participating in the contest:

Michael comes wholeheartedly to the competition, but if he understands that there are decisions that deprive him of the right to represent Israel with dignity, he will not go.

KAN, the Israeli Broadcasting Company, has stated that the singer continues to work on his song and the official video clip.

We remind you that Michael Ben David won the final of the Israeli version of X Factor with the song I.M. In case he decides not to withdraw from the competition, the song will be revamped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqu3-CHeOWM

Michael Ben David will appear in the first half of the second semifinal, which will take place on May 12.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Israel’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Montenegro: Vladana’s song “Breathe” will be release on March 4th!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

A little while ago, through her personal Instagram account, Montenegro’s representative, Vladana Vučinić, announced that her song “Breathe” will be released on March 4th.

Vladana song

The song will be a dynamic ballad with a clear message, dedicated to Vladana’s mother. As Vladana said, the song is emotional, dynamic and melancholic. The composer of the song is Darko Dimitrov. We remind you that Montenegro will compete in the second half of the second semi-final, after an absence from the contest since 2019.

What do you think of Vladana’s upcoming song?

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the news regarding the Montenegrin participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.

Sweden: Wrong results in the third semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2022?

/0 Comments/in , /by

Following the problems in the voting application in the first semifinal of the Melodifestivalen, where only the votes via phone and sms were finally taken into account, a new scandal hit the Swedish national final. After the end of the third semifinal, social media was filled with reports of unexplained results, with most arguing that the results in the 16-29 age group was wrong.

Sweden: Anders Bagge and Faith Kakembo are the two direct finalists of the Third Semi-Final of Melodifestivalen 2022!

But let’s start from the beginning. According to the regulations in force at Melodifestivalen 2022, voting has two parts. In the first part, the song that receives the most votes advances directly to the final, while in the second part, based on the age categories, a new ranking is created for the remaining six songs of the semifinal, with the first going to the final and the second and third respectively in the semifinal of the second chance.

The winner of the first round in the third semifinal was Anders Bagge. Then the other six candidates gave a new battle for the second ticket that leads directly to the final. As it was said above in the second part, the voting is done based on the age categories, in fact this year the viewers have the opportunity to watch the results live by age category.

So what impressed everyone was that while Lisa Miskovsky was by far ahead of Faith Kakembo, having only the results of the category 16-29 left to be announced, finally with 79 against 75 votes the song of Faith Kakembo got the ticket for the final.

But the strangest thing about the whole case was that Lisa Miskovsky was last in this category and Tribe Friday, who were last in all categories (except for phone calls), at 16-29 were magically were second!

Aftonbladet questioned Swedish public television about the validity of the results. SVT replied that there was no irregularity and the results are correct and are what were announced, on the night of Saturday 19/2.

Melodifestivalen continues next Saturday, February 26, with the last seven songs of this year’s competition.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments related to Melodifestivalen 2022!

Malta: Emma Muscat is the winner of MESC 2022!

/0 Comments/in , /by

The MESC 2022 just took place with Emma Muscat and “Out of Sight” to be the next representative of Malta who will join Eurovision 2022!

After three very important days, the 17 finalists competed in the Final with Emma to be the winner of the night!

The Finalists were:

The twenty two years old songwriter and model Emma Muscat left a strong impression and won with 92 points. Her song, with pop instrumental and an emotional performance was written by Antonio Caputo, Emma Muscat, Gabriel Rossi, Lorenzo Santarelli and Marco Salvaderi.

Presenters of MESC 2022 were Stephanie Spiteri and Quiton Scerri.

Just a quick reminder that Malta will compete in the Second Semifinal, on May 12.

Of course, we cannot forget Malta’s participation in Eurovision 2021 with Destiny’s “Je me casse” that collected 255 points and came 7th in the competition.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Malta’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

San Marino: Achille Lauro will represent the country in Turin!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

It’s no secret San Marino decided to host a NF this year in order to determine the representative with the song. ‘Una Voce per San Marino’ is the country’s second national selection ever hosted. The Grand Final took place today at 21:00 CET.

The show consisted of eighteen artists, nine of them were established performers, also known as ‘Big Artists’ and the other nine were ‘Emerging Artists’. They had been competing in a week of semi-finals and finals to secure a place in the show.

The show was hosted by 2011/2020/2021 Sammarinese representative Senhit and Jonathan Kashanian.

The participants were:

  • Aaron Sibley – “Pressure”
  • Achille Lauro – “Stripper”
  • Alessia Labate – “World Falls Down”
  • Burak Yeter ft. Alessandro Coli – “More Than You”
  • Camille Cabaltera – “Move ‘Em Like You Never Did”
  • Cristina Ramos – “Heartless Game”
  • Elena & Francesco Faggi – “Nothing Can Blow Me Out”
  • Fabry & Labiuse feat. Miodio – “Blu”
  • Francesco Monte – “Mi ricordo di te (Adrenalina)”
  • Ivana Spagna – “Seriously in Love”
  • Kurt Cassar – “Tears of Gold”
  • Maria Chiara Leoni – “Tiramisù”
  • Mate – “DNA”
  • Matteo Faustini – “L’ultima parola”
  • Sebastian Schmidt – “Running”
  • Tony Cicco, Deshedus & Alberto Fortis – “Sono un uomo”
  • Valerio Scanu – “Io credo”
  • Vina Rose – “Sweet Denial”

The Italian singer-songwriter Al Bano performed tonight in Una voce per San Marino. He represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 and 1985.

The winner was determined by jury voting, the jury panel consisted of:

  • Mogol – President of the Jury
  • Simon Lee – conductor, composer, arranger
  • Clarissa Martinelli – Presenter at Radio Bruno
  • Susanne Georgi – Singer at Eurovision 2009 for Andorra
  • Dino Stewart – Managing Director at BMG Italy

Achille Lauro will represent San Marino at ESC 2022 with his song ‘Stripper’.

Who is Achille?

Lauro De Marinis (born 11 July 1990), known professionally as Achille Lauro, is an Italian rapper and singer. He gained popularity in the Italian hip hop scene and he competed in at the San Remo with the song “Rolls Royce”, at the 2020 edition with the song “Me ne frego”, and at the 2022 edition with the song “Domenica”.

Follow us in order not to miss exclusive information about your country!

Poland: Krystian Ochman is representing the country in Eurovision 2022!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

The grand final of Tu bije serce Europy (“The heart of Europe beats here”), the national final of Poland, has just been completed, with the country choosing Krystian Ochman and River as the winner and therefore their representative at Eurovision 2022 in Turin.

The show took place in TVP Studio 5 in the city of Warsaw. The Presenters of Tu bije serce Europy were  Rafał Brzozowski, Ida Nowakowska, Małgorzata Tomaszewska and in the green room were Aleksander Sikora and Marek Sierocki.

The finalists

The ten candidates of the night were:

  1. Kuba Szmajkowski – “Lovesick“
  2. Ania Byrcyn – “Dokąd“
  3. Siostry Szlachta – “Drogowskazy”
  4. Lidia Kopania – “Why Does It Hurt?”
  5. Karolina Stanisławczyk & Toro Chica – “Move”
  6. Karolina Lizer – “Czysta Woda”
  7. Unmute – “Głośniej Niż Decybele“
  8. Emilia Dębska (Mila) – “All I Need”
  9. Krystian Ochman – “River”
  10. Daria – “Paranoia”

The voting

A total of ten finalists competed in the grand final, claiming the ticket to Turin. After the first round, only three of them got the chance to compete for the Superfinal.

A combination of the votes of the jury (50%) and the audience (50%) gave the artists the chance to go to the next part of the final. The first three that won the public and jury voting, claimed the victory for the second round. The result of the second round were based solely on public vote.

Results

In the first round, the three acts that managed to get to ticket to the secong round are Ochman, Daria and Unmute. The other songs ranked as below:

10. Lidia Kopania

9.Emilia Dębska (Mila)

8.Karolina Stanisławczyk & Toro Chica

7.Siostry Szlachta

6.Ania Byrcyn

5.Karolina Lizer

4.Kuba Szmajkowski

In the second round it all depends on the televoting and the winner was Krystian Ochman with the song River with 51% of the votes, Daria was second with 39% and Unmute were third with 10%.

Poland will be competing in the second semi-final and the second half of the show.

You can watch Ochman’s performance below:

Do you agree with Poland’s choice of representative for Turin? Tell us in the comments!

Croatia: Mia Dimšić wins Dora 2022 and will represent Croatia at Eurovision 2022!

/0 Comments/in , /by

Tonight saw the final of Dora 2022, the Croatian selection for Eurovision 2022. The winner of Dora 2022 will earn the right to represent the Balkan nation at Eurovision 2022, in Turin.

Fourteen songs competed tonight at the Marino Cvetković Sports Hall in Opatija and tonight’s presenters of were Duško Ćurlić, Franka Batelić (Croatian representative in Eurovision 2018) and Elizabeta Brodić.

The running order of tonight’s show was:

  1. Mila Elegovic  – ” Ljubav “
  2. Mia Negovetić  – ” Forgive Me (Oprosti) “
  3. Marko Bojnjak  – ” Moli Za Nas “
  4. Jessa  – ” My Next Mistake “
  5. Zdenka Kovacic  – ” Stay on the Bright Side “
  6. Tina Vukov  – ” Hideout “
  7. Roko Vuckovic  – ” Malo Kasnije “
  8. Bernarda  – ” Here for Love “
  9. Eric Vidović  – ” I Found You “
  10. ToMa  – ” In The Darkness “
  11. Elis Lovric  – ” No War “
  12. Ella Orešković  – ” If You Go Away “
  13. Tia  – ” Voli Me Do Neba “
  14. Mia Dimšić  – ” Guilty Pleasure “

Results were determined by 50% regional juries across Croatia and the remaining 50% of the vote was determined by the public vote.

The regional juries results determined that Mia Dimšić the winner with 91 points, the full result was:

The televote determined that Mia Dimšić was the winner with 166 points, the full result was:

 

This means that the winner of Dora 2022 with 257 points is Mia Dimšić and she will represent Croatia in Eurovision 2022 with her song “Guilty Pleasure”.

 

Do you agree with Croatia’s choice? Let us know in the comments. Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all updates regarding Croatia.

Norway: Subwoolfer will offer to Europe their bananas!!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

The Grand Final of Melodi Grand Prix 2022 took place tonight at 19:55 CET. After six shows, 10 artists competed for the ticket to the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy.

The hosts of the show were Kåre Magnus Bergh, Annika Momrak, Mikkel Niva.

The participants

The 10 finalists of the show were as follows:

  1. Oda Gondrosen – Hammer of Thor
  2. NorthKid – Someone
  3. Anna-Lisa Kumoji – Queen Bees
  4. Farida – Dangerous
  5. Sofie Fjellvang – Made Of Glass
  6. Frode – Black Flowers
  7. Christian Ingebrigtsen – Wonder of the world
  8. Maria Mohn – Fly
  9. Subwoolfer – Give that wolf a banana
  10. Elsie Bay – Death of us

After the performance of the ten songs, the four acts that proceeded to the Gold Final phase were:

  1. Sofie Fjellvang – Made Of Glass
  2. Elsie Bay – Death of us
  3. Subwoolfer – Give that wolf a banana
  4. NorthKid – Someone

From there the two acts that advanced to the Gold Duel were:

  1. NorthKid – Someone
  2. Subwoolfer – Give that wolf a banana

Later on the show the representative of Greece Amanda Tenfjord gave a small interview to one of the hosts of the show.

Afterwards we had the chance to enjoy TIX and his entry in 2021 Eurovision in Rotterdam, Fallen Angel, in English and Norwegian.

After the announcement of the votes from each region of Norway the representatives of Norway in Eurovision Song Contest 2022 are Subwoolfer with the song Give that Woolf a Banana !!

 

Subwoolfer and Norway are going to participate at the second half of the First Semi-Final on 10th of May. Do you think that they can achieve a better result this year? Let us know in the comments below.

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the developments regarding the Norwegian entry at the upcoming 2022 Eurovision Song Contest. 

Slovenia: LPS and “Disko” at Eurovision 2022!

/1 Comment/in , , /by

The final of EMA 2022, Slovenia’s national final, has just been completed, and LPS with the song “Disko” has emerged as the winner and therefore Slovenia’s representative in Eurovision 2022!

A total of twelve finalists, who emerged through two semi-finals, competed in the grand final, vying for a ticket to Turin.

The finalists:

  1. Anabel – “Tendency“
  2. Stela Sofia – “Tu in zdaj“
  3. Manouche – “Si sama?“
  4. Leya Leanne – “Naked“
  5. BQL – “Maj“
  6. Gušti feat. Leyre – “Nova romantika“
  7. July Jones – “Girls Can Do Anything“
  8. David Amaro – “Še vedno si lepa“
  9. LPS – “Disko“
  10. Hauptman – “Sledim“
  11. Luma – “All In“
  12. Batista Cadillac – “Mim pravil“

Results:

A five-member jury (50%) and the public (50%) decided which of the 12 artists would represent Slovenia in Turin.

The jurors votes:

The full results:

You can watch LPS’s winning performance below:

 

Do you agree with Slovenia’s choice to represent the country in Turin in May?

Tell us in the comments!