American Song Contest: The premiere of the competition has been postponed to March 21!

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The American television network NBC changed its program in the middle of the season, pushing back the premiere of the American Eurovision song contest in a month, from the previously announced Monday, February 21 (8-10 pm) on March 21. The show America’s Got Talent: Extreme, which made headlines last fall when a contestant was badly hurt in an on-set accident.

According to sources, the decision to delay the American Song Contest is made due to concerns about Covid-19 concerns amid the current Omicron surge as the series consists of live shows whose logistics could be difficult in the current wave of rampant infections nationwide.

The new date for the final of the first American Song Contest  seems to be on Monday May 9th, after the semifinals that will last eight weeks.

Behind the American Song Contest are American and Swedish producers – including, as we know, Christer Björkman, who successfully produced Melodifestivalen in Sweden for a long time until 2021. Entries from all the 50 States, Washington D.C., and the 5 Territories will be allocated into three qualifying rounds. The qualifiers will then proceed into the semi-finals and lastly those who will manage to get into the Grand Final will have to compete for the people’s vote to be crowned as the “Best Original Song” of America.

‘American Song Contest’ is executive produced by Audrey Morrissey, Anders Lenhoff, Christer Björkman, Peter Settman, Ola Melzig, and Gregory Lipstone alongside Propagate’s Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens.

The series is produced by Propagate in association with Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio Group.

So the American Song Contest is officially here! What do you think? Will it has the success of Eurovision? Tell us in the comments.

Source: deadline.com

Norway: Interview with Lily Löwe from Melodi Grand Prix 2022! (Video)

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After the announcement of her participation in this year’s national final of Norway, Melodi Grand Prix 2022, Lily Löwe talks exclusively to EurovisionFun and Stella Gialetzi.

Lily Löwe is very happy with with the reception her song receives from the public, as this song is her debut in the Norway’s national final, MGP 2022!

“Bad Baby” is about the awareness, regarding who someone is in real life, in contrast to how good of a person we thought he is. When we wrote the song, we realized that it can be an “earworm” to whoever listens to it. 

Talking about her stage appearance in the semifinal, she said that there will be a prime presence of fire, however something will happen that she foresees the public will like, and she is really excited about it.

I will have my band with me on stage. All three of them are really good and we’ll have the time of our lives. I feel really lucky and blessed that they will be with me.

From the other competing songs, the one she stands out, is that of Steffen Jakobsen, a country song that happens to be with her on yhe same semi-final. Her favorite Norwegian participation in the contest is Alexander Rybak (2009) while from the contest in general she likes Måneskin  (Italy 2021), Conchita Wurst (Austria 2014) and Lordi (Finland 2006)

I wish that in future contests, there will be more rock songs by womem.

Just before the end of the interview, Lily Löwe offered a part of her song, acapella.

Watch the whole interview Lily Löwe, in the following video:

Listen to “Bad Baby”, Lily Löwe’s song for MGP 2022!

Stay tuned in Eurovisionfun for everything new regarding Norway’s participations in Eurovision 2022!

Slovenia: EMA’s 2022 Dates and Running Order announced!

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Great updates are coming from Slovenia! Dates of EMA 2022, presenters and the running order of the Semi-finals announced on Wednesday. The hosts for EMA 2022 will be Melani Mekicar and Bojan Cvjetićanin.

The Semi-finals of EMA 2022 will take place on February 5th & 12th while the Grand Final is set to begin a week later, on February 19th, 20:00 local time (CET) on TV SLO 1.

The Running Order of the 1st Semi-final:

  • July Jones – Girls Can Do Anything
  • David Amaro – vede vedno si lepa
  • Le Serpentine – Tud teb se lahk zgodi
  • Bowrain & Brina – jeas je
  • EMA freš artist
  • EMA freš artist
  • Jonathan Haller – Obzorje
  • Batista Cadillac – Mim pravil
  • Zala Smolnikar – V ogledalu
  • Manouche – Are you?

The Running Order of the 2nd Semi-final:

  • Mia Guček – Independent
  • Gušti feat. Leyre – Nova romantika
  • Klara Jazbec – Chasing Dreams
  • Vedran Ljubenko – H2O diet
  • EMA freš artist
  • EMA freš artist
  • Anabel – Tendency
  • BQL – Maj
  • Hauptman – Sledim
  • Eva Moškon – Click

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

Estonia: The running order of Eesti Laul 2022 Semi-Finals!!

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A few minutes ago, the Estonian public broadcaster, ETV, revealed the running order of Eesti Laul 2022 Semi-Finals.

Elysa opens the show of the 1st Semi-Final, while the 2012 Eesti Laul winner Ott Lepland closes the show. In the 2nd Semi-Final the rock band JYRISE and Anna Sahlene open and close the show respectively.

The Semi-Finals running order is as follows:

1st Semi-Final

1. Elysa – “Fire”
2. Helen – “Vaata minu poole”
3. Andrei Zevakin feat. Grete Paia – “Mis nüüd saab”
4. Alabama Watchdog – “Move On”
5. Merilin Mälk – “Little Girl”
6. Stig Rästa – “Interstellar”
7. Triin Niitoja ja Frants Tikerpuu – “Laululind”
8. Kaia-Liisa Kesler – “Vaikus”
9. Elina Nechayeva – “Remedy”
10. Ott Lepland – “Aovalguses”

2nd Semi-Final

1. Jyrise – “Plaksuta”
2. Maian – “Meeletu”
3. Boamadu – “Mitte kauaks”
4. Evelin Samuel – “Waterfall”
5. Black Velvet – “Sandra”
6. Pur Mudd, Shira – “Golden Shores”
7. Jaagup Tuisk – “Kui vaid”
8. Minimal Wind ft. Elisabeth Tiffany – “What To Make Of This”
9. Stefan – “Hope”
10. Anna Sahlene – “Champion”

The Semi-Finals of Eesti Laul are going to take place on 3rd and 5th of February 2022, while the Grand Final on 12th of February. Five acts from each Semi-Final advance to the Final where they are about to claim the representation of the baltic nation in Eurovision 2022.

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

Source: ETV

 

Latvia: Supernova 2022 presenters revealed!!

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A few hours ago, the Latvian public broadcaster LTV revealed the presenters of Supernova 2022.

The presenters of Supernova 2022 are Katie Schönberg and Lauris Reiniks.

We remind you that 17 acts are going to compete in the semi-final of Supernova. The semi-final is scheduled to take place on 5th of February 2022 at 21:05 EET on LTV1 and on REplay.lv, while the final on 12th of February.

The 17 acts of the semi-final are as follow:

  1. Bermudu Divstūris – “Bad”
  2. Markus Riva – “If You’re Gonna Love Me”
  3. Aminata – “I’m Letting You Go”
  4. BUJĀNS – “He, She, You & Me”
  5. Citi Zēni – “Eat Your Salad”
  6. Inspo – “A Happy Place”
  7. Miks Dukurs – “First Love”
  8. Beatrise Heislere – “On the way home”
  9. the COCO’NUTS – “In and out of the dark”
  10. KATŌ – “Promises”
  11. Elīna Gluzunova – “Es pabiju tur”
  12. Mēs Jūs Mīlam – “Rich Itch”
  13. Linda Rušeniece – “Pay My Own Bills”
  14. RAUM – “Plans”
  15. Zelma – “How”
  16. Patriks Peterson – “Can’t Get You Outta My Head”
  17. Miks Galvanovskis – “I’m Just A Sinner”

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the latest news regarding the Latvian participation at the upcoming 2022 Eurovision in Turin, Italy.

 

Finland: Listen to the fifth song of UMK 2022!

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

The song is Thank God I’m An Atheist by Olivera and you can listen to it here:

We remind you that the artists competing for the finnish representation are the following seven. In parentheses are the dates on which their songs will be/have been released:

  • Cyan Kicks (13 January)
  • BESS (14 January)
  • The Rasmus (17 January)
  • Younghearted (18 January)
  • Olivera (19 January)
  • Tommi Läntinen (20 January)
  • Isaac Sene (21 January)

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!

Lithuania: The running order of Pabandom iš naujo’s 3rd Heat!

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The running order for the third heat of Pabandom iš naujo! (Let’s Try Again!) was announced today by Lithuania’s public broadcaster (LRT)!

A total of twelve acts will be competing in the show, with the public and a jury selecting the acts progressing to the semi-finals.

The running order for Heat Three of Pabandom iš naujo! 2022 is as follows:

  1. Gebrasy – Into Your Arms
  2. Mėnulio fazė – Give Me a Sign
  3. Lolita Zero – Not Your Mother
  4. Monika Liu – Sentimental
  5. Rūta Loop – Call Me From the Cold
  6. Basas Pegasas – Ponai
  7. Vilija – Šimtas ir vienas
  8. Vasha – Nepaleidi
  9. Emilija Valiukevičiūtė – Overload
  10. Geleibra – Aš jaučiu tave
  11. Gintarė Korsakaitė – Fantasy Eyes
  12. Živilė Gedvilaitė – Lioness

Pabandom iš naujo 2022 will consist of six shows. Three quarter finals, two semi finals and eventually the big final! The winner will be decided by a 50% jury vote and a 50% public vote. For the first time the jury members will not be revealed and their results will be shown at the end of the show, so that the audience won’t be influenced in any way!

Last year Lithuania chose for the second consecutive time the pop-rock group, The Roop as their representative in the 2021 contest, which got them the 8th place in the Grand Final!

Stay tuned in Eurovision Fun for all the latest news and information about Lithuania in Eurovision 2022!

Source: Eurovoix

Slovenia: Listen to the snippets of the EMA FRES songs!

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The Slovenian national broadcaster, RTVSLO, has published snippets of the 14 competing songs on EMA FRES 2022, four of which will be completing the last four places of EMA 2022, the country’s National Final.

Click on the song’s title below to listen to it.

The 14 compositions are:

  1. Mia Vučković – “Telenovela“
  2. De Liri – ”Obstajam“
  3. Jon Vitezič – “Jesus Style“
  4. INA – “Moj dopamin“
  5. Marijan & Špela – “I am so in Love“
  6. Stela Sofia – “Tu in zdaj“
  7. Leya Leanne – “Naked“
  8. Nika S. – “Počakaj me“
  9. Katja Kos – “Deadly Flower“
  10. Jaka Hliš – “Svoje sreče krojač“
  11. Anja Vodošek – “Maniac“
  12. EMMA – “Moja sreča“
  13. LPS – “Disko“
  14. LUMA – “All in“

Keep in mind that the EMA FRES Final will take place on Friday 28 January and will be hosted by Eva Boto (Slovenia 2012), Melani Mekicar and Arne Međedović.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun for all the latest news regarding Slovenia’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Source: EMA – Eurovision Slovenia

Cyprus: RIK is still looking for a song and a singer for Turin!

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Konstantinos Hampalis, editor-in-chief of Tv Mania magazine, was invited to Alpha Cyprus’s noon show, “With love Christiana” and made revelations about the participation of the island of Aphrodite in Eurovision 2022.

It was revealed that RIK, unlike other years, has been late in announcing the artist who will represent Cyprus at the upcoming Eurovision, cause first the appropriate song should be found and then the singer.

So far, the Cyprus Radio Foundation has not come up with either the song or the artist who will represent the Island in Turin, however there is a song that has a pontetial, but the search continues.

In addition, the journalist revealed that the singer will come again from the record company Panik Records, while he hinted that the candidate may be a new talent, with a dance song.

Concluding, he confirmed that from 2023 RIK will organize a talent show where anyone can participate and the winner will be the one who will represent Cyprus in Eurovision.

See all his statements in the video below:

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Cyprus’s participation in Eurovision.

Germany: The national final will be broadcasted on March 4!

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After ending up five times on 25th place or lower in the last six Eurovision editions, the German national broadcaster decided on organizing a national final to decide Germany’s representative for the 66th Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Turin, Italy.

The national final’s name won’t be “Unser lied für Turin“, as expected, but “Germany 12 Points” and will take place on March 4th, while the competitors will be revealed, starting February 10.

An expert jury will pick the best proposals from the 944 songs that were submitted in total, so that they can compete in the final. The jury consists of members of Bayern3, Antenne Brandenburg, Bremen 4, HR 3, MDR Jump, NDR 2, SR 1, SWR 3 and WDR 2. All of them belong to the regional broadcasting network of the German broadcasters. One of the jury members is also Alexandra Wolfslast the Head of the German Delegation in the contest.

After the announcement of the competitors from the jury, the public will have to decide who will end up being the representative of Germany, through an online voting, which will start on February 28, until the day of the final (Friday March 4th), with SMS or calling-in.

The night of the final, where the competitors will sing their songs live, will be hosted by Barbara Schöneberger

Last year, Germany was represented by Jendrik and the song “I Don’t Feel Hate” and ended up in 25th place with 3 points from the juries and none from the public.

Stay tuned in Eurovisionfun for everything new regarding Germany’s participations in Eurovision 2022!