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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Ireland: Listen to the fourth song, bidding to represent the country at Eurovision 2022!

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As you’ve already read in our past articles, the fourth song bidding to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, was expected to be premiered on RTÉ Radio 1, during the “Ryan Tubridy Show”, tomorrow at 10:00 CET.

However, it dropped earlier than expected! The next song hoping to represent Ireland this year is “That’s Rich” by Brooke and you can listen to it below:

Who is Brooke Scullion

Brooke Scullion is a 23 years old singer, from the County Londonderry in Northern Ireland, who is widely known by competing at The Voice UK 2020, where she placed third on the finals. She is a student at Ulster University Magee. Brooke has collaborated with Nathan Carter, by doing backing vocals. She also starred at the musical School of Rock, at Burnavon Theatre in Cookstown.

The rest of the songs

The selection process

The above 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, along the rest of the songs to be released.

Don’t miss out our next article for the fifth competing song, that we will get the chance to listen for the first time, same show, same time on Thursday.

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

Ireland: Listen to the third 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 third 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 “Ashes of Yesterday” by Janet Grogan and you can listen to it below:

Who is Janet Grogan

Janet Grogan became known as the vocalist of Alles kann besser werden by Xavier Naidoo, which charted in Germany(No. 6, 33 weeks), Austria (No. 16, 26 weeks) and Switzerland (No. 28, 26 weeks). She composed the track with Milan Martelli, Matthew Tasa and Xavier Naidoo.

Grogan was a contestant in the 13th series of The X-Factor UK at the end of 2016, getting to Judges’ houses as part of Sharon Osbourne’s Team.

Grogan also did backing vocals for Nicky Byrne at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. Janet returned to the Eurovision stage to represent Ireland in 2018 as part of Ryan O’Shaughnessy’s performance of “Together”. So clearly, she has prior experience of the contest.

In 2021, Grogan took part as a contestant on the RTÉ One singing gameshow, Last Singer Standing. She was the last player to qualify for the grand finale. In the final, she performed Whitney Houston’s ‘I Want to Dance with Somebody’. She finished in sixth place.

The rest of the songs

The selection process

The above 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, along the rest of the songs to be released.

Don’t miss out our next article for the fourth competing song, that we will get the chance to listen for the first time, same show, same time tomorrow.

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

Finland: Listen to the fourth song of UMK 2022!

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

The song is Sun numero by Younghearted 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!

Estonia: The semi-finals of Eesti Laul will not have live audience!

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Estonian viewers will attend the semi-finals of Eesti Laul through their TVs and the public broadcaster’s channels, ERR, this year, since the Estonian song team and the producers of the show decided that there will be no live audience. However, viewers cam still come to the Saku Great Hall on the day of the final.

The semi-finals will be broadcasted on February 3 and 5 from Estonia’s channels ETV, ETV+, Raadio 2, while those who do not live in Estonia can watch Eesti Laul 2022 from the public broadcaster’s website eer.ee.

The Grand Final of the Estonian national selection, will take place on Saturday, February 12, when the public can attend the morning rehearsal and the evening final.

The division of the participants between the two semi-finals is:

First Semi- Final – February 3 (in alphabetical order):

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

Second Semi-Final – February 5  (in alphabetical order) :

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

Eesti Laul, as a method of selecting the Estonian song, is applied since 2009. The winners of the competition have given Estonia some of its best songs – among them: Urban Symphony (2009), Kuula (2012), La Forza (2018).

The winner of last year’s Eesti Laul was Uku Suviste with the song “The Lucky One” and came 13th in the second semi-final with 58 points.

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Malta: Listen to the songs of MESC 2022!

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With the slogan, What a feeling, the Maltese public television, TVM, decided to hold a national final for the selection of its participation in Eurovision 2022. Thus, MESC returns for the first time after 2018.

We already know the 22 artists and songwriters who will compete in the MESC 2022 Semifinal, but we also had the opportunity to listen to excerpts from the candidate songs.

The Lyric Videos of the 22 songs, which will compete in MESC 2022, were recently revealed through the social media of Malta for Eurovision.

You can listen to the candidate songs in the list below by clicking on the song titles:

Among the artists is Jessica Muscat who represented San Marino at Eurovision 2018. Also, the representative of the country in 2014, Richard Micallef, but also the representative of Malta at Junior Eurovision 2010, Nicole Azzopardi. Of course, many candidates have a lot of experience in MESC, as they have tried several times in the past to represent the island of the Knights in the competition.

Out of the 22 participants, only 16 will advance to the Final. The Semifinal will take place on February 17, while the Final on Saturday, February 19.

Malta was represented last year by Destiny, with Je Me Casse, finishing seventh in the final:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbbc2yKnv0M

Did you single out any of the MESC 2022 songs? Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Malta’s participation in Eurovision.

Source / Photo: Eurovision Malta / TVM

San Marino: The 60 emerging artists who make it to the semifinals of Una voce per San Marino!

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A while ago, the radio and television station of San Marino, RTV, announced the 60 emerging artists that will advance to the semifinals of Una voce per San Marino!

The 60 emerging artists making it to the Una voce per San Marino semifinals are:

  1. Aaron Sibley
  2. Alessandra Simone
  3. Alessia Labate
  4. Alice Burani
  5. Allerija
  6. Anna Faragò
  7. ASHLEY
  8. Brenda
  9. Camille Cabaltera
  10. Corinna Parodi
  11. Daniel Mincone
  12. Daniela Pisciotta
  13. Davide Rossi
  14. Diego Federico
  15. Elena & Francesco Faggi
  16. Elisa Del Prete
  17. Eliska Mrázová
  18. Ellynora
  19. Florent Amare
  20. Frio
  21. Giada Varaschin
  22. Giorgio Borghes Aka Claudia F
  23. Gisele Abramoff
  24. I Koko
  25. Jessica Anne Condon
  26. João Paulo & Miguel
  27. Joe Romano & TheStolenClipper
  28. Katrin Roselli
  29. Kimberly Genil
  30. Kumi Watanabe
  31. Kurt Cassar
  32. Le Bebae
  33. Leonardo Frezzotti
  34. Lorenza Rocchiccioli
  35. Luca Cima
  36. Luca Veneri
  37. Luci Blu
  38. Mad
  39. Marco Saltari
  40. Maria Chiara Leoni
  41. Martina Gaetano
  42. Mate
  43. Matilde Montanari
  44. Matteo Giannaccini Gravante
  45. Muriel
  46. Nada e Sissi
  47. OnlySara
  48. Operapop
  49. OXA (Clayton) Sia
  50. Raimondo Cataldo
  51. Riccardo Foresi
  52. Riccardo Guglielmi
  53. Sebastian Schimdt
  54. Snei Ap
  55. Thomas Grazioso
  56. Tothem
  57. Valentina Tioli
  58. Vanja Vatle
  59. Veronica Liberati
  60. Vina Rose

299 singers in the casting round of the competition have been judged by a jury of music experts and have determined the 60 finalists in the emerging artists. The full jury list is here.

In February 2022, through a series of semifinals and a final, the 9 entries that will go to the Grand Final will be decided. The emerging artists who will be ranked in the top 3 will receive cash prizes of € 1000, € 2000 and € 7000 respectively.

We remind you that the Grand Final will take place on February 19, 2022 at the Teatro Nuovo in Dogana. A total of 18 artists will participate in the final, nine emerging and nine established, who will be invited directly by Media Evolution Srl.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all San Marino news at Eurovision 2022!

Source: San Marino RTV

Ukraine: The 27 artists who entered the longlist of the National Selection announced!

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A few minutes ago, the Ukrainian television channel announced the 27 artists who will compete to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, in Turin.

The 27 artists are:

  1. Alina Pash
  2. AMARIIA
  3. Barleben
  4. DOdoBro
  5. Cloudless
  6. FIZRUK
  7. Gorim!
  8. IDXO
  9. Kalush Orchestra
  10. LAUD
  11. Laura Marti
  12. Michael Soul
  13. Our Atlantic
  14. Oyedamola
  15. ROXOLANA
  16. Schor
  17. SHY
  18. Sofia Shanti
  19. SOWA
  20. The blue artic
  21. The Tape Machine
  22. Victoria NIRO
  23. WELLBOY
  24. АНЦЯ
  25. Віка Ягич
  26. Східзахід
  27. Юлія Тімочко

The list of the 8 finalists will be announced next week and there will be a draw for their turn in the final. The National Final of Ukraine for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 will be held on February 12, 19:00 EET, live on the channel UA public TV (UA: First).

 

Last year Ukraine was represented by  the G0_A  and the song Shum!

Stay tuned in Eurovisionfun for all the updates regarding Ukraine’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

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Albania: Ronela in London for the revamp and the Video Clip of “Secret”!

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As you have already been informed, the Albanian participation for Eurovision 2022 was to be renewed with the title of the song being changed from “Sekret” to “Secret“.

Moreover, the revamp of the song is scheduled to take place in London in cooperation with Diztortion, who has collaborated with Shakira, David Guetta and Rita Ora in the past. This planning was confirmed today through a post made by the representative of Albania, Ronela Hajati, on Twitter, informing the fans that she is going to shoot a new video clip tomorrow while the revamp will take place in London.

A month ago Ronela won the 60th Edition of Festivali i Këngës and is going to represent Albania in Turin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuLIDqZ3waQ

 

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Ireland: Listen to the first two songs, bidding to represent the country at Eurovision 2022!

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As you read yesterday in our article, a while ago, the first two songs bidding to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, were first played on RTÉ Radio 1, during the “Ryan Tubridy Show”, at 10:00 CET.

The songs

  • First song hoping to represent Ireland this year is “I’m Loving me” by Rachel Goode and you can listen to it below:
  • The second song competing for the Irish representation is Real Love by Βrendan Μurray and you can listen to it below::

The above 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, along with four more songs, that will also be broadcast at the same show, one per day, until the end of this week.

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