North Macedonia: Watch a part of Andrea’s Live-on-Tape performance!

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As we previously informed you, Serbia, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia have recorded their backup appearances for the Eurovision 2022 Song Contest in Belgrade after the end of the national final of Serbia.

An excerpt from the recording of the live-on-tape of Northern Macedonia for Eurovision 2022 was released yesterday afternoon. The country’s delegation released the video from behind the scenes of the recording that took place in Belgrade on Sunday.

What is a live-on-tape performance?

In 2021 all of the 39 acts had to film a backup performance as part of the many contingency measures the EBU has put in place to ensure the song contest can happen in May no matter what.

Each act was able to rehearse for as long as they wish for their live-on-tape performance. However, only three attempts over the course of one hour are given for the filming of the performance which is monitored by the EBU. The participating country can choose which of the three performances is to be used. Live-on-tape recordings were not required to be the same as their planned Eurovision performances.

The live-on-tape performances were later shown a week after Eurovision 2021 during the Eurovision Song Celebration, as a way to showcase all of the hard work put into creating the extra performances.

Here’s the entry of North Macedonia in Eurovision 2022 Song Contest:

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Eurovision 2022: Three countries are recording their live-on-tape performance in Belgrade!

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Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro are recording their backup performances for Eurovision Song Contest 2022, today in Belgrade.

After Pesma Za Evroviziju ’22, hosted last night by RTS, the contest’s stage was used for recording the live-on-tape videos for Serbia, North Macedonia and Montenegro.

The artists that record their backup performances there, are:

  • Vladana – “Breathe”
  • Andrea – “Circles”
  • Konstrakta – “In Corpore Sano”

What is a live-on-tape video?

In 2021 the 39 participants had to record a backup performance as one of the many safety measures that EBU set in order to ensure that the contest could take place in May, no matter the course of the pandemic.

Each country could rehearse for as long as they wished for the performance of the live-on-tape. However, three performances in the time of an hour were eligible to be part of the tape that EBU would see. The competing countries could choose whichever of the three performances they wanted to use. Live-on-tape performances did not have to be the same as the scheduled performances for Eurovision.

Live-on-tape performances were shown a week after Eurovision 2021, as a way to show all the hard work of the contestants who had to create an extra performance.

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North Macedonia: With a new version of “Circles” to Eurovision 2022!

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“Circles” the North Macedonian entry for Eurovision 2022 will undergo a production revamp ahead of the contest in Turin, Italy.

MRT the public broadcaster of North Macedonia has allocated a budget of 2,000 Euro to improve the production of the nation’s entry for Eurovision. The budget is part of a package of support that Andrea will be offered following her victory in Za Evrosong on Friday night.

Andrea won Za Evrosong after tieing with Viktor Apostolovski with a total of 20 points each. Andrea was selected as the winner in the tie-break having received more points from the jury,

Andrea will compete in the second half in the second semi-final on May 12.

Here you can listen to the studio version of “Circles” :

Source: MRT

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North Macedonia: Andrea is representing the country in Eurovision 2022!

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The grand final of Za Evrosong, the national final of North Macedonia, has just been completed, with the country choosing Andrea as the festival’s winner and therefore their representative for Eurovision 2022 in Turin. This is the first time the country organized a national final since 2015.

A total of six finalists, that were picked among 47 submitted songs, competed in the national final, claiming the ticket to Turin.

The six artists

The six candidates of the night were:

  1. Andrea – “Circles“
  2. Kaly – “Love and Light“
  3. Lara – “Flower of Sorrow“
  4. Ris Flower – “Flying to Berlin“
  5. Viktor Apostolovski – “Superman“
  6. Yon Idy – “Dreams“

The voting

The results will be decided by 50% international jury vote and 50% online vote. The online voting opened on January 28 and closed today, exclusively for citizens of North Macedonia.

The juries of Za Evrosong, that decide  50% of the voting , are :

  • Gordon Bonello (head of Maltese delegation)
  • Tali Eshkoli (head of Israeli delegation)
  • Natia Mshvenieradze (head of Georgian delegation)
  • Robin Bergsson (head of Icelandic delegation)
  • David Tserunyan (head of Armenian delegation)

The Results

The results of the vote of Za Evrosong 2022 were as follows:

Juries (50%)

Each jury voted from 1 to 6 giving 1 to his/her favourite song and 6 to the least favourite song.

  • Andrea – 10 (converts to  12 points)
  • Lara – 12 (converts to  10 points)
  • Viktor – 16 (converts to 8 points)
  • Yon Idy – 21 (converts to 7 points)
  • Kaly – 22 (converts to 6 points)
  • Ris Flower – 24 (converts to 5 points)

Public vote (50%)

  • Andrea – 4300 (converts to 8 points
  • Lara – 1186 (converts to 5 points)
  • Viktor – 12621 (cpnverts to 12 points)
  • Yon Idy – 3743 (converts to 7 points)
  • Kaly – 7539 (converts to 10 points)
  • Ris Flower – 1367 (converts to 6 points)

 

After the public and the international juries voted, the results of the national final are:

  • Andrea – 20
  • Viktor – 20
  • Kaly – 16
  • Lara – 15
  • Yon Idy – 14
  • Ris Flower – 11

The competition’s tie-breaker rule says that the vote of the jury is the one that counts and thus, the big winner of Za Evrosong 2022 was Andrea with the song “Circles”

You can listen to Andrea’s song here:

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North Macedonia: Za Evrosong final tonight!

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It’s time for North Macedonia to choose their representantive tonight, through the national final Za Evrosong.

Six artists will be claiming the victory, which will give them a ticket to Turin.

The songs

The six artists who will participate in the national final are the following (click on the title of the song to listen to it):

Format

The representative of North Macedonia in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest will be determined 50% by the online voting, which has already been going on for seven days, since last Friday, and 50% by the voting of an international jury.

Both the TV audience and the international jury will base their vote on the participants’ video clips. This is a process very similar to that of the national final of Czech Republic in December.

Za Evrosong will start at 20:15 CET and will last 55 minutes. You can watch it through the MRT frequency by clicking HERE.

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North Macedonia: Listen to the participating songs of Za Evrosong!

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As it was already known through the broadcaster’s Facebook account, the public television of North Macedonia, MRT, revealed earlier tonight the songs for Za Evrosong, the national final of North Macedonia for Eurovision 2022.

The six artists who will participate in the national final are (click on the song title to listen to the songs):

As a reminder, online voting is now open and will run for 7 days, until 4 February. The national final will take place on February 4 and the winner will be determined by the results of the online voting, as well as by the vote of the international jury of experts in a 50%-50% ratio.

Source: MRT

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Eurovision 2022: Here are the results of the allocation draw!

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The Semi-Final Allocation Draw for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 took place in Palazzo Madama in Turin. Find out below in which of the 2 Semi-Finals your country will perform and vote in. The annual event was hosted by Carolina di Domenico and Mario Acampa.

The Semi-Final Allocation Draw and Host City Insignia Exchange are key milestones on the path to the Eurovision Song Contest each year.

During the ceremony, Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, passed on the Host City Insignia to Stefano Lo Russo, Mayor of Turin. The insignia key chain, weighing over 30 kilograms with the new addition of Rotterdam’s insignia, was handed over to Turin. The Italian city is now officially the Host City of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

Draw Procedure

The 36 countries competing in the semifinals were divided into six pots, based on the points they have exchanged in recent years. This is done in order to avoid, as much as possible, the alliances and bloc voting that appear every year in the voting.

Allocation Pots

Big 5

With the host Italy, directly in the final, along with the rest of the Big 5 (UK, France, Germany, Spain), the first part of the draw determined the semifinal that the direct finalists will vote.

Will vote in the 1st Semi-Final:

  • France
  • Italy

Will vote in the 2nd Semi-Final:

  • Spain
  • Germany
  • United Kingdom

Their performance in the dress rehearsal will be shown in the semifinals where the six aforementioned countries were drawn to broadcast and vote. This was done at Eurovision 2016 for the first time, for reasons of equal visibility of the countries that are directly in the final and the countries that compete in the semifinals. Essentially, viewers watch each entry twice during the shows.

Allocation Draw

The draw of the countries for the two semifinals had two parts. In the first part, the 36 countries that participate in the semifinals, were drawn in which of the two will compete. 18 countries will compete in both the first and the second semifinal.

In the second part each country found out if it will appear in the first or in the second half of the semifinal that will compete. The exact order of appearance will be determined by the EBU and the producers of the show at a later time.

First Semi-Final (10 May):

1st Half

  • Albania
  • Switzerland
  • Latvia
  • Slovenia
  • Moldova
  • Bulgaria
  • Ukraine
  • Lithuania
  • Netherlands

2nd Half

  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • Armenia
  • Austria
  • Croatia
  • Iceland
  • Greece

Second Semi-Final (12 May):

1st Half

  • Australia
  • Georgia
  • Cyprus
  • Serbia
  • Finland
  • Azerbaijan
  • San Marino
  • Israel
  • Malta

2nd Half

  • Montenegro
  • Romania
  • Czech Republic
  • Poland
  • Belgium
  • North Macedonia
  • Sweden
  • Estonia
  • Ireland

Turin will host the 66th Eurovision Song Contest from May 10th to 14th at the Pala Alpitour. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organizers, is “The Sound of Beauty”.

You can see the draw again through the following link:

 

 

 

North Macedonia: The artists that will compete on the national final!

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The public broadcaster, MRT, received proposals for the contest from December 10, 2021 until January 16, 2022. That means after years of absence North Macedonia returns with a national final to pick its representative for Turin instead of an internal selection. The channel received a total of 47 submissions for the contest, from which an expert commission chose the best six to take part in the National Final, this year named Za Evrosong 2022.

Of course here in Eurovisionfun, we had revealed all these information in our previous exclusive article!

The selected 6 original songs, which the commission considers meets the expected criteria for participating and presenting MRT and the country to the European public in the most spectacular contest are as follows:

 

1. Performer:  Kalina Velkovska  –  Kaly

Composition title:  “LOVE AND LIGHT”

Author of music: Davor Jordanovski

Author of the text: Vesna Malinova

Arrangement: Nikola Vaskov – Nino, Davor Jordanovski, Petar Luzic

 

2. Performer:  Yon Idy

Composition title:   ” DREAMS”

Music and lyrics: Yon Idy

Arrangement: Angel Ḱosev, Yon Idy

 

3. Contractor:  Lara Ivanova

Composition title:   “ FLOWER OF SORROW”

Music author: Robert Bilbilov

Author of the text: Robin Zimbakov

Arrangement: Robert Bilbilov and Darko Dimitrov

 

4. Contractor:  Viktor Apostolovski

Composition title:   “SUPERMAN”

Author of music: Vladimir Dojcinovski

Author of the text: Vladimir Dojcinovski and Viktor Apostolovski

Arrangement: Vladimir Dojcinovski

5. Contractor:  Andrea Koevska – Andrea

Composition title:   ” CIRCLES”

Author of music: Aleksandar Masevski

Author of the text: Aleksandar Masevski and Andrea Koevska

Arrangement: Aleksandar Masevski

6. Performer:  Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Composition title:   ” FLYING TO BERLIN”

Author of music: Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Author of the text: Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Arrangement: Mustafa Janbazlar

 

All songs will be released on January 28 during the TV show Стисни Плеј on 22:00, CET. There will be an online voting that will last for 7 days.

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Eurovision 2022: Pots and Participants of Semifinals Allocation Draw revealed!

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The semi-finals draw will take place on Tuesday 25 January at 12:00 CET, from the Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja in Turin. At the same time there will be a ceremony of handing over the keys of the contest or as it is widely known, the Host City Insignia from the previous hosts Rotterdam to the Italian organizers.

The allocation draw will determine whether the countries will participate in the First Semifinal (Tuesday, May 10) or the Second Semifinal (Thursday, May 12). Also, again based on the draw it will be determined if they appear in the first or second half of the semifinal. We remind you that the exact order of appearance is announced later by the organizers and after it has first been approved by the EBU.

The draw will be presented by TV presenters Carolina di Domenico and Gabriele Corsi. Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turin Mayor Stefano Lo Russo will be present.

Friends of the contest will be able to watch the draw on Eurovision’s YouTube channel or on Rai’s streaming service.

Semi-final draw: How does it work?

Italy, as the host country, together with the other 4 members of the so-called “Big 5” (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) do not compete in the Semifinals, but vote in one of them… so before the competing countries in Semifinals, it will be determined at random which of the Semifinals the Big 5 will be allowed to vote for.

The next part of the draw will determine in which Semifinal and in which half of the respective Semifinal the remaining 36 participating countries will appear.

The 36 countries of the semifinals are selected from 6 different pots:

Pot 1

  • Albania
  • Croatia
  • Montenegro
  • North Macedonia
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia

Pot 2

  • Denmark
  • Australia
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Norway
  • Sweden

Pot 3

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Israel
  • Russia
  • Ukraine

Pot 4

  • Cyprus
  • Greece
  • Malta
  • Bulgaria
  • Portugal
  • San Marino

Pot 5

  • Estonia
  • Lithuania
  • Latvia
  • Moldova
  • Poland
  • Romania

Pot 6

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Switzerland
  • Czech Republic
  • Ireland
  • Netherlands

Drawing countries from different pots helps to reduce the chance of so-called neighbourly voting and increases suspense in the Semi-Finals.

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Eurovision 2022: Semi Final Allocation Draw to take place on January 25!

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One of the most important dates of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest was revealed a few hours ago, as the draw for the Eurovision 2022 semi-finals will take place on January 25th.

As revealed by the Montenegrin state radio, RTCG, in the context of the announcement of Vladana Vučinić as the representative of the Balkan country in Turin, the draw of the semi-finals will take place in exactly three weeks from today.

During the ceremony, the emblem of the event will be handed over from the city of Rotterdam to the Mayor of Turin. The draw will take place either at the Mole Antonelliana, the tallest building in Turin, or at the Palazzo Madama, which housed the first Senate of the Italian Kingdom.

The draw

The first part of the draw will determine the semi-final that will be broadcasted and voted by each of the five countries that are directly in the final (Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom).

The second part of the draw will determine in which semi-final and in which half the other 36 participating countries will compete. As in recent years, the exact order of appearance will be determined by the producers of the event at a later time.

The 36 countries will be distributed in five or six pots, based on historical voting patterns as calculated by the official television partner Digame. This separation is done in order to avoid the gathering of many neighboring countries in a semifinal that would significantly affect the final result.

We remind you that Eurovision 2022 will be held on May 10, 12 and 14 at the PalaOlimpico in the capital of Piedmont. Thus, Turin will become the third city in Italy where the Eurovision Song Contest will be held. The previous two were Naples in 1965 and Rome in 1991.

We remind you that the 66th Eurovision Song Contest will take place at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, on 10, 12 and 14 May 2022, with 41 participating countries.Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news related to the 66th Eurovision Song Contest!