Italy: The songs the artists of Sanremo 2022 have chosen to perform for covers night!

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Less than two weeks remain until this year’s Festival di Sanremo 2022, which will also determine Italy’s representative at Eurovision 2022, and artistic director Amadeus continues to reveal information about what we are about to see during the five nights.

Today, he published the songs that the artists will perform during the night of the covers (the fourth night of the festival). We remind you that one night every year is dedicated to covers, with the artists having the choice to perform the song of their choice on stage either solo or with a non-participating artist, Italian or international. The song they will perform, according to this year’s rules, must be an Italian or even international hit from the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s. They also have the option to perform a medley of various songs.

These are the songs that this year’s participants have chosen to perform, as well as the non-competing artists who will accompany those who chose to be accompanied on stage:

  • Vibrazioni: Live and let die (Paul McCartney) with Sophie and the Giants and Peppe Vessicchio
  • Ditonellapiaga & Rettore: Nessuno mi può giudicare (Caterina Caselli)
  • Michele Bravi: Io vorrei… non vorrei… ma se vuoi (Lucio Battisti)
  • Massimo Ranieri: Anna verrà (Pino Daniele) with Nek
  • Fabrizio Moro: Uomini soli (Pooh)
  • Rkomi: medley of Vasco Rossi’s songs with Calibro 35
  • Giovanni Truppi: Nella mia ora di libertà (Fabrizio De Andrè) with Vinicio Capossela
  • Elisa: What a feeling (Irene Cara, from the film “Flashdance”)
  • Tananai: A far l’amore comincia tu (Raffaella Carrà) with Rosa Chemical
  • Noemi: (You make me feel like) a natural woman (Aretha Franklin)
  • Ana Mena: medley with Rocco Hunt
  • Iva Zanicchi: Canzone (Don Backy and Detto Mariano, in the version of Milva)
  • Gianni Morandi: medley with Mousse T
  • Achille Lauro: Sei bellissima (Loredana Bertè) with Loredana Bertè
  • Dargen D’Amico: La bambola (Patty Pravo)
  • Emma: Baby one more time (Britney Spears) with Francesca Michielin
  • Mahmood & Blanco: Il cielo in una stanza (Gino Paolli)
  • Matteo Romano: Your song (Elton John) with Malika Ayane
  • Yuman: My Way (Frank Sinatra) with Rita Marcotulli
  • Aka7even: Cambiare (Alex Baroni) with Arisa
  • Sangiovanni: A muso duro (Pierangelo Bertoli) with Fiorella Mannoia
  • La rappresentante di lista: Be my baby (The Ronettes) with Cosmo, Margherita Vicario and Ginevra
  • Highsnob & Hu: Mi sono innamorato di te (Luigi Tenco) with MrRain
  • Giusi Ferreri: Io vivrò senza te (Lucio Battisti) with Andy of Bluevertigo
  • Irama: La mia storia tra le dita (Gianluca Grignani) with Gianluca Grignani

For now, let’s remember the cover of last year’s Sanremo winners Måneskin, “Amandoti” (Gianna Nannini) with Manuel Agnelli:

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Slovenia: EMA 2022 Semi-Final One Snippets Released!

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RTVSLO, the Slovenian national broadcaster, has released snippets of the competing entries in Semi-Final 1 of EMA 2022.

The competing entries are:

  1. July Jones – “Girls Can Do Anything”
  2. David Amaro – “Še vedno si lepa” (You are still beautiful)
  3. Le Serpentine – “Tud teb se lahk zgodi” (It can happen to you too)
  4. Bowrain & Brina – “Čas je” (It’s time)
  5. Jonatan Haller – “Obzorje” (Horizon)
  6. Batista Cadillac – “Mim pravil” (My rules)
  7. Zala Smolnikar – “V ogledalu” (In the mirror)
  8. Manouche – “Si sama?” (Are you alone?)

You can listen to the snippets here. These entries will be joined by two winners from EMA FREŠ.

We remind you that in each semifinal, eight established artists and two artists from EMA FREŠ will compete to advance to the Final. The public vote will select the three finalists and a jury will select three others. In the Final, a five-member committee (50%) and a public vote (50%) will decide which of the 12 finalists will represent Slovenia in Turin.

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source: RTVSLO

Norway: Subwoolfer is the new favorite to win MGP 2022!

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Subwoolfer have become the new favorite to win the Norwegian national selection for Eurovision.  Previously Elsie was on top of the betting odds.  However, after performing her song last Saturday, she started losing ground.

The Odds

Subwoolfer are now the bettors favorite to win Melodi Grand Prix 2022.  They are competing with their song Give That Wolf A Banana.  Elsie Bay has fallen to second place in the odds with her song Death Of Us. Northkid is currently in third place.  However the remaining acts lag behind the first two spots with similar chances of winning Melodi Grand Prix 2022.

 

Serbia: Stefan Zdravković withdraws from the national final!

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A week ago, the Serbian broadcaster, RTS, announced the participants’ list and song titles for the new Serbian national final “Pesma Za Evroviziju 2022“. However one of the participants, Stefan Zdravković, will not finally participate in the show!

Through his personal Instagram account Stefan confirmed that we will not be seeing him in the Serbian final this year.

The question was “How is your song for Beovizija?” and he answered saying

“About Beovizija, we will see each other either in the next or some other year”

The singer did not give any further explanation about his withdrawal, although when asked why giving up on such an opportunity for his career he answered

“Yes, Beovizija (and Eurovision) is of course a great opportunity but it’s not the only one. The Eurovision Song Contest will also be there next year, I’m not giving up on it. Everything comes in its time”

He also revealed that his song “Ljubi Svog Čoveka”, written by Valentina Vukomanović, was pop and it might end up being sung by some other singer, as she holds all the copyrights. Stefan mentioned that’s what he thinks should happen but he can not guarantee anything. RTS still has not confirmed anything about the song being sung by some other artist or mentioned another solution.

Last year Stefan Zdravković competed in The Voice of Bulgaria where he reached the Semi-finals.

The list of this year’s entries for Pesma Za Evroviziju 2022 currently looks as following:

1. Naiva – “Skidam”
2. Biber – “Dve godine i šes’ dana”
3. Marija Mirković – “Požuri, požuri”
4. Gift – “Haos”
5. Boris Subotić – “Vrati mi”
6. Marko Nikolić – “Dođi da te volim”
7. Vasco – “Znaš li”
8. Bane Lalić i MVP – “Tu gde je ljubav tu ne postoji mrak”
9. Ivana Vladović i Jovana Stanimirović – “Prijaće ti”
10. Marija Mikić – “Ljubav me inspiriše”
11. Julija – “Brižna”
12. Angellina – “Origami”
13. VIS Limunada – “Pesma ljubavi”
14. Aleksandar Vuksanović Aca Lukas – “Oskar”
15. Igor Simić – “Nisam ja”
16. Goca Tržan – “Fitilj”
17. Sanja Bogosavljević – “Priđi mi”
18. Dušan Svilar – “Samo ne reci da voliš”
19. Srđan Lazić – “Tražim te”
20. Julijana Vincan – “Istina i laži”
21. Jelena Pajić – “Pogledi”
22. Bojana Mašković – “Dama”
23. Zoe kida (Ana Radonjić) – “Bejbi”
24. Orkestar Aleksandra Sofronijevića – “Anđele moj”
25. Sara Jo – “Muškarčina” (Zabranjeno voće)
26. Mia – “Blanko”
27. Zejna Murkić – “Nema te”
28. Gramophonedzie – “Počinjem da ludim”
29. Zorja Pajić – “Zorja”
30. Lift – “Drama”
31. Konstrakta – “Corpore sano”
32. Ivona Pantelić – “Znam”
33. Rocher Etno Band – “Hajde sad nek’ svak peva”
34. Ana Stanić – “Put bez povratka”
35. Euterpa – “Nedostaješ”

Source: escbubble

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Australia: Listen to the second song bidding to represent Australia, on 2022!

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The second song of Australia Decides 2022, the Australian national final for Eurovision 2022, has been released.

Its song title was already known,  and is “I Won’t Need to Dream” by the 22 year old singer-songwriter called Jude York.

His song is already out in Spotify Australia and you can listen to it below:

Who is Jude York

Jude York is a 22-year-old singer-songwriter who began sharing his song-writing skills and vocals only this year on his socials.

From Toowoomba in regional Queensland (around an hour-and-a-half’s drive west of Brisbane), Jude describes himself as an explosion of life, in which he combines sadness and happiness to create music which you can dance to but which also prompts an “emotional, crying, deep reflective experience”.

Jude is an artist who is not afraid to explore many music genres. His artistry has versatility and, coupled with his clever lyrics that flow like poetry, his music is slick, mesmerising and catchy.

Already known song titles

Mid of January, in a previous article we had reported that the first song titles for Australia Decides 2022 had been revealed, as some candidates had announced the title of their songs that will compete to represent Australia in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

The song titles already revealed are:

  • Seann Miley Moore – “My Body”
  • Charley – “I Suck At Being Lonely”
  • Sheldon Riley – “Not the Same”

Known acts competing at Australia Decides 2022

Eleven acts will compete to be the next Australian Eurovision representative.  The participants for the next Australia Decides are:

  1. Isaiah Firebrace
  2. Jaguar Jonze
  3. Paulini
  4. Andrew Lamrpou
  5. Sheldon Riley
  6. G-Nat! Ion.
  7. Sean Miley Moore
  8. Voyager Australia – “Dreamer“
  9. Charley
  10. Jude York – “I Won’t Need to Dream“
  11. Leea Nanos

The eleven acts will compete at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Center on February 26 to represent Australia at Eurovision 2022. Australian broadcaster SBS decided to use Australia Decides as their national final after the success of  their national final.

Radio producer and presenter Myf Warhurst and comedian Joel Creasey will present the Australian national final.  Moreover, Creasey will be the SBS Eurovision commentator in May 2022.

Montaigne won the most recent edition of Australia Decides with the song “Don’t break me”.  Unfortunately her entry could not participate in Eurovision due to the cancellation of the competition in 2020.  She represented Australia in 2021 with “Technicolour”. You can watch her 2020 performance in the video embedded below:

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding the Australia Decides and the Australian entry for Eurovision 2022!

France: Announcements for “Eurovision France, c’est vous qui décidez!” coming soon!

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France is one of the countries that has so far been quiet about its plans for Eurovision 2022.

We may know that the French representative will be selected again this year through the show, “Eurovision France, c’est vous qui décidez!”, but neither the artists nor the songs that will compete to represent the country have been announced so far, nor the date of the national final.

The final auditions and the shooting of the final candidates for the French national final, took place on January 4 at the Apollo Théâtre, where the 2021 national final was held, as well as the video clip of Tom Leeb for his participation in Eurovision 2020 with Mon alliée (The Best in Me) was filmed.

And the paraphilology for the possible candidates for the national final may be intense, but nothing seems to correspond to reality.

The anxiety of the fans wanted to alleviate the French Head of Delegation, Alexandra Redde-Amiel. Posting on her personal Twitter account, she announced that “Eurovision France, c’est vous qui décidez!” will be back soon with many surprises. As she mentioned, a little bit patience is necessary before the new details for the French national team are announced.

https://twitter.com/AlexRedde/status/1483827208254857218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

France was represented by Barbara Pravi in Eurovision 2021 with the song “Voilà”, finishing 2nd in the Grand Final on May 22nd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unj9WbeLzRU

 

Israel: The announcement of the songs for the national final on January 30!

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This year, Israel will choose both its representative and the song that will represent it at Eurovision 2022, through the TV Show “The X Factor Israel”.

The final of the competition will take place on February 5 with four finalists. Each of the four will perform two new songs that will be released on January 30 in a special broadcast. There will also be a semi-final round, to select one of the two songs for each artist on February 3rd.

The song that will be selected will be the one with which each participant will claim the representation of Israel for Eurovision 2022. Four songs and four artists will compete in the X Factor Grand Final. Then, the audience and the jury will jointly choose the artist and the song who will represent the country in Turin.

We remind you that the popular talent show will be presented by Liron Weizman. According to domestic media, X Factor Israel judges will include Netta Barzilai, Aviv Geffen, Margalit Tzan’ani, Ran Danker and Miri Mesika.

Israel was represented by Eden Alene in Eurovision 2021 with the song Set Me Free, finishing 17th in the grand final on May 22nd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-blG5ptwo

Source: 13tv Israel

 

Ukraine: Vidbir 2022 will be held with live audience!

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Great news for the big power of Eurovision Ukraine, since their national final will be held with live audience.

As it has been announced by OGAE Ukraine, Vidbir 2022 will take place in a studio with an amount of 500-600 people in the audience. The cost of the tickets for the national final hasn’t been published yet and they will be available soon.

Vidbir 2022 will be held on February 12th and the list of the 27 artists is available to be read here. From this list, eight artists only will have the chance to compete in this year’s national final.

Last year, Ukraine managed to get a top five result with Go-A and “Shum”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvzDkgok_g&feature=emb_title

Are you feeling more positive that Eurovision 2022 will be held with live audience again since 2019? Write your thought on the comment section!

Source: Eurovoix

Cyprus: Michalis Hatzigiannis and Alex P join forces for Eurovision 2022?

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You have read very well, our dear readers, according to information we have at our disposal, the song with which Cyprus will participate in Eurovision 2022 will be a composition by Michalis Hatzigiannis and Alex P and his team.

Through the show Me Agapi Christiana, Konstantinos Hampalis, editor-in-chief of Tv Mania magazine, stated that RIK is still in the search phase of the song, although there is a song that has caught the eyes of those in charge. So this song is a composition of the well-known Greek Cypriot singer Michalis Hatzigiannis and Alex P and his team, a Greek-born creator and producer based in Sweden.

RIK after the unsuccessful attempt to secure the anecdotal song of George Michael, but also the reluctance with which he faced this possibility, the well-known Greek artist who was offered to perform the song on the stage of Eurovision, turned to the choice of Michalis Hatzigiannis a scenario after all, it has been there since the summer.

The song according to our information is mid tempo and has ethnic vibes. As we had written, the singer for another year will belong to the staff of PANIK Records, since RIK’s collaboration with the record company continues in the coming years. We remind you of what the CEO of the company, G. Arsenakos, had revealed months ago, the talent show that will take place next year, with the prize of representing Cyprus in Eurovision 2023.

Michalis Hatzigiannis represented Cyprus at Eurovision 1998 with the song Genesis, occupying the eleventh place, while Alex P has participated as a composer in the contest with Cyprus (2012, 2018, 2019), Greece (2007), and Azerbaijan (2009).

For another year, RIK focuses first on finding a song and then on the search for the artist, who will lift the weight of the representation of Cyprus in the competition, hoping this time for a better result than last year. The selection of Michalis Hatzigiannis as co-composer of the song, comes to confirm the statements of members of the Cypriot delegation, that this year there will be Cypriot actors in the participation. The song is expected to be released in March, while any official announcements will probably be made next month.

Update:

In a communication that a member of the Cypriot delegation had with us, we were told that although discussions were held about the above mentioned scenario and cooperation, it seems is not something that went ahead. We are waiting now for the official announcements …

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Spain: Rehearsals or Video Clips to be Used if Artists Test Positive for COVID-19!

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Three different scenarios have been announced in case an artist tests positive for COVID-19 at Benidorm Fest.

In a recent article, RTVE unveiled the contingency plan in case a competing artist turns out positive before appearing in the upcoming Spanish selection process Benidorm Fest.

The producers, Boomerang TV and the broadcaster, RTVE, have come up with three different scenarios to ensure that every song and artist will be able to compete in this year’s Benidorm Fest.

  • The first scenario is that if the artist has already completed his first rehearsal, it will be broadcast during the live show instead of a live performance.
  • Second, if the artist comes out positive before his first rehearsal, then the official music video for the song will be played.
  • The final scenario is that, if there is no music video, the song will be played with montage of images and photos of the artist.

It was announced by Eva Mora, head of the Spanish delegation, that it was not possible to produce live performances, such as those created for this year’s ESCZ selection process and the expected process of Northern Macedonia, due to lack of time.

The Benidorm Fest will be held with two semifinals on January 26 and 27, leading to the Grand Final on January 29. The songs and the artists have been revealed and the order of the two semifinals has also been decided and announced.

The voting:

Only eight artists will make it to the grand final of the Benidorm Fest. The result will be done through a mixed voting system between a professional jury (national and international), televoting and a poll jury:

  • 50% of the grade will correspond to the professional jury consisting of five experts (three of Spanish nationality and two, international).
  • The remaining 50% will be in the hands of the public (where 25% will be by phone and SMS and the remaining 25% will be selected by a poll jury).
  • The artists will be given a phone number and as soon as everyone completes the show, the hotlines will be open for voting. The voting period will be approximately 15 or 20 minutes and the presenters, Alaska, Inés Hernand and Máximo Huerta, will be responsible for the announcement.

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Source: RTVE