Serbia: Tijana Dapčević to compete in Pesma za Evroviziju 22 in the place of Stefan Zdravković!

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One week ago, the Serbian broadcaster RTS announced the artists who will participate in the country’s national final for Eurovision 2022, Pesma za Evroviziju 22, while two days ago one of the participants, Stefan Zdravković, withdrew his participation.

RTS has just announced that Tijana Dapčević will fill Zdravković’s place with the song “Ljubi, ljubi doveka”.

Tijana is no stranger to the Eurovision Song Contest, as in 2014 she represented North Macedonia, then FYROM, in the contest with the song “To the Sky“, with which she ended up in the 13th place in the second semi-final.

The list of the Pesma za Evroviziju 22 artists is now as follows:

  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 & MVP – Tu gde je ljubav tu ne postoji mrak
  9. Ivana Vladović & Jovana Stanimirović – Prijaće ti
  10. Marija Mikić – Ljubav me inspiriše
  11. Julija – Brižna
  12. Angellina – Origami
  13. VIS Limunada – Pesma ljubavi
  14. 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 – 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. Tijana Dapčević – Ljubi ljubi doveka
  30. Zorja Pajić – Zorja
  31. Lift – Drama
  32. Konstrakta – Corpore sano
  33. Ivona Pantelić – Znam
  34. Rocher Etno Band – Hajde sad nek’ svak peva
  35. Ana Stanić – Put bez povratka
  36. Euterpa – Nedostaješ

The serbian national final will take place on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of March.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding the serbian representative for Eurovision 2022!

Source: escbubble

Spain: The members of the Benidorm Fest jury unveiled!

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The Spanish broadcasting union, RTVE, announced a few moments ago, the members of the jury for Benidorm Fest, the National Final for the selection of the Spanish representative for Eurovision 2022.

The members of the jury of Benidorm Fest, that will determine the 50% of the voting, are the following:

National Jury Group:

  • Natalia Calderón – Vocal Coach
  • Miryam Benedited – Director and Choreographer
  • Estefanía García – Singer, mezzo soprano at RTVE choir

International Jury Group:

  • Marvin Dietmann – Director of many Eurovision entries
  • Felix Bergsson – Icelandic Head of Delegation

Benidorm Fest: How will it work?

14 artists will be split in two finals, of 7 contestants, that will be held on the 26th and 27th of January respectively and will last 70 minutes each.

The Grand Final that will last 90 minutes, will be shown on the 29th of January, when the 8 finalists will get the chance to perform, bidding to represent Spain at this year’s 66th Eurovision Song Contest, that will be held in Turin the forthcoming May.

All the shows will be broadcast on La 1 de Televisión Española, at 22:40 CET. Benidorm Fest will take place at Palacio de Deportes L’Illa, at the Spanish city of Alicante.

The artists

The 14 artists that will compete int he hopes of becoming this year’s Spanish representative at the Eurovision Song Contest are:

First Semi Final

  1. Luna Ki – “Voy a Morir“
  2. Varry Brava – “Raffaella“
  3. Azúcar Moreno – “Postureo“
  4. Blanca Paloma – “Secreto del agua”
  5. Unique – “Mejores“
  6. Tanxugueiras – “Terra”
  7. Chanel – “SloMo“

Second Semi Final

  1. Xeinn – “Eco“
  2. Marta Sango – “Sigues en mi mente“
  3. Javiera Mena – “Culpa”
  4. Gonzalo Hermida – “Quién lo diría“
  5. Rigoberta Bandini – “Ay Mama“
  6. Rayden – “Calle de la llorería”
  7. Sara Deop – “Make you say“

The voting system

Only 8 artists will be going through to the grand final. The result will be determined by a mixed system made up of the jury (national and international), televoting and demoscopic jury:

  • 50% of the voting will correspond to the votes of the jury consisting of five experts, three of Spanish citizenship and two internationals.
  • the rest 50% will be determined by televoting (25% through the phone calls and SMS of the audience, 25% by choice of the demoscopic jury)
  • The artists will get assigned with a phone number and when all of their performances are complete, the lines will be open and the voting will start. The voting window will last approximately 15 to 20 seconds and the presenters, Alaska, Inés Hernand and Máximo Huerta, will then announce the winner that will represent Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the latest developments regarding Benidorm Fest and the Spanish entry at Eurovision 2022!

Source : RTVE

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.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding North Macedonia’s entry for Eurovision 2022!

Portugal: Listen to the songs of the Festival da Canção 2022!

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As it had already become known through the festival’s Instagram account, the Portuguese public television, RTP, proceeded to reveal the nominees and the songs for the Festival da Canção 2022, the Portuguese national final for Eurovision.

Following the unveiling of the twenty composers of FdC 2022, RTP today announced the 20 nominees to compete in this year’s festival.

The participants

The 20 participants of Festival da Canção are as follows (click on the title of the song to listen to it):

1st Semifinal (March 5, 2022)

  1. Aurea – “Why?”
  2. Fado Bicha – “Povo Pequenino”
  3. FF – “Bom Esperar Alguém”
  4. Joana– “Ginger Ale”
  5. Kumpania Algazarra – “A Minha Praia”
  6. Maró – “saudade, saudade”
  7. Norton – “Hope”
  8. TheMisterDriver – “Cali Sun”
  9. Valas & Os Astronautas – “Odisseia”
  10. Os Quatro E Meia – “Amanhã”

2nd Semifinal (March 7, 2022)

  1. Milhanas – “Corpo de Mulher”
  2. Blacci – “Mar No Fim”
  3. Cubita – “Uma Mensagem Tua”
  4. pongo & Tristany – “Dégrá.dê”
  5. Jonas – “Pontas Soltas”
  6. Os Azeitonas – “Solta A Voz E Canta”
  7. Inês Homem de Melo – “Fome De Viagem”
  8. Pepperoni Passion – “Código”
  9. Vampiro Submarino – “Ao Lado de Mim”
  10. SYRO –  “Ainda Nos Temos”

Information about the Festival da Canção 2022

Out of the 20 songs, ten will compete in each semifinal, while in the Final we will have 10 songs, 5 from each semifinal. The result will consist of an equal percentage (50%) of the jury and television audience, with the committee having the first say in case of a tie in qualifying for the fifth participation of each semifinal.

Just like the last two editions, all the NF‘s show will be held on the RTP Studios in Lisbon. The presenter in the green room will be Inês Lopes Gonçalves while the main presenters of FdC 2022 will be the following:

SEMI 1: Jorge Gabriel & Sónia Araújo
SEMI 2: José Carlos Malato & Tânia Ribas de Oliveira
FINAL: Filomena Cautela & Vasco Palmeirim

The FdC semifinals will take place on March 5 and 7, while the grand Final, where we will meet the representative of Portugal in Eurovision 2022, on March 12.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding Portugal’s participation in Eurovision 2022.

Source: RTP

 

Ireland: Listen to the sixth and final song, bidding to represent the country at Eurovision 2022!

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As you’ve already read in our past articles, a while ago, the sixth and final song bidding to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, premiered on RTÉ Radio 1, during the “Ryan Tubridy Show“, at 10:00 CET.

 

The next song hoping to represent Ireland this year is “Yeah, we’re gonna get out of it” by Miles Graham and you can listen to its extended version below:

Who is Miles Graham

Miles was first play-listed on BBC Radio 2 in 2015 with his track “I Can’t Love You Again” from his debut EP “Air in my lungs”.

The Dublin-born singer-songwriter was one of the final Irish acts to perform in session on the late great Sir Terry Wogan’s Radio 2 show. His soulful toned voice won him a lot of support elsewhere on the station like Cerys Matthews at 6 Music and Laura Whitmore BBC Radio 5 show.

He’s also carved out a sideline niche as a featured artist and co-writer on several dance records. His collaboration on DJ outfit L’Tric’s “1994″ on their Ibiza anthem in 2016, which has clocked over 10 million Spotify plays. Don Diablo’s “Bright Skies (The bit you know)” 2018 and DJ Tom Budin’s “Reckless”.

His latest 4 track EP “All the right things” was produced when he signed to Pressure Records/Peer Music UK in 2020.

The rest of the songs

Now we know the entire lineup of contestants, that will compete in the hopes of representing Ireland, at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin.

The selection process

All the above-mentioned songs will compete with each other in the Late Late Eurovision Special, on the 4th of February, which will act as this year’s national final for Ireland. Ryan Tubridy will be the presenter of the show, where the Irish entry of this year will be selected.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding the Irish entry for Eurovision 2022!

Finland: Listen to the seventh and last song of UMK 2022!

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The finnish broadcaster has released the sixth song competing in UMK 2022, the finnish national final for Eurovision 2022.

The song is “Kuuma jäba” by Isaac Sene and you can listen to it here:

We remind you the rest of the artists/songs competing for the finnish representation:

The UMK grand final will take place on Saturday, 26 February, 20:00 CET and will be broadcast on Yle TV1, Yle Areena and Yle radio channels.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding UMK and the finnish representative for Eurovision 2022!

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:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Sanremo 2022 and the italian representative in Eurovision 2022!

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.

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

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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