Lithuania: Ieva returns to “Pabandom iš Naujo!” with many hopes!

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Ieva Zasimauskaite hopes to return to the Eurovision stage after four years. She participates again in the Lithuanian national final for the contest.

As we revealed through our social media, we are one of the lucky ones to hear I’ll Be There in advance. Of course the song is in Ieva’s familiar style. It is a ballad, with not as slow tempo as her entry in 2018. The song is built throughout its duration. It starts with a simpler orchestration while in the second part it fills up and we hear some percussion. Its melody is easy to remember, while Ieva’s interpretation fills the listener with emotions and images. On the bridge the song becomes audible, to be completed with a quiet melodic erasure.

Ieva’s appearance in the second qualifying round of Pabandom iš Naujo! expected simple but impressive. The rehearsals started today and what we can reveal to you is that we will see a quite different Ieva compared to her previous participation. We will see more of her feminine side, without of course always losing her elegance.

The video clip of I’ll Be There will be released on Saturday 15/1, the same day that Ieva will present it live for the first time, during the second qualifying round of Pabandom iš Naujo !.

Until then, let ‘s remember once again When We’re Old, with which Ieva won the twelfth place at Eurovision 2018.

Norway: Listen to the 21 songs competing in Melodi Grand Prix 2022!

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NRK channel has announced today the 21 songs of MGP 2022 competing to represent Norway in Eurovision Song Contest 2022!

After all the rumours of the high level of songs that are competing this year in Melodi Grand Prix and the rumours of a Eurostar among the participants , it’s the day we are finally ready to hear all the songs competing.

The 21 participants of Melodi Grand Prix 2022:

The participants that will perform directly in the Final are:

The participants that are going to compete in the first semifinal are:

In the second semifinal the acts that are competing are:

In the third semifinal the participants are:

Last but not least, the last’s semifinal acts are:

We remind you that only one act of each semifinal will go directly to the final and one will have a chance on the second chance round.

The schedule for the Melodi Grand Prix shows is as follows:

  • January 15 – Semi-Final One
  • January 22 – Semi-Final Two
  • January 29 – Semi-Final Three
  • February 5 – Semi-Final Four
  • February 12 – Second Chance Round
  • February 19 – Grand Final

Who is your favourite among the MGP participants this year? Should we book a flight for Oslo 2023? Share your opinion in the comments below.

Ukraine: Vidbr 2022 on February 12?

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Vidbr 2022 is going to be held on February 12, as Ukrainian media are reporting today.

According to information from OGAE Ukraine, the leaders of UA:PBC are intending to hold the Grand Final of Vidbr 2022 on Saturday, February 12.

Also, this report states that the production of the show will be undertaken by the company Friends Production. This company is one of the largest of its kind in Ukraine, with a number of television hits standing out in its record.

Among other things, Friends Production had fully undertaken the preparation of the participations of Ukraine and Moldova in Eurovision 2012. In Baku, Ukraine had taken the 15th place with Gaitana and “Be My Guest“, while Moldova came 10th with Pasha Parfeny and “Lăutar“.

8 to 10 artists are expected to take part in Vidbr 2022, The winner of Vidbr 2022 will represent Ukraine in the 66th Eurovision Song Contest. A few days ago, 16 names came to light about their possible participation in the Ukrainian national final. Those were:

  • Alina Pash
  • ROXOLANA – Girlzzzz
  • Cloudless
  • Michael Soul
  • IDXO – CBY 
  • Sophy Ivy – Casino
  • Sofia Shanti
  • Nazar Ya
  • Uliana Royce
  • Wellboy
  • Laura Marti
  • Eria – 
  • Tonka
  • Sowa
  • hurtom
  • GORIM!

Until now, none of these names has been confirmed. It remains to be seen whether the names that were released on January 6 are correct and how many of them will take part in Vidbr 2022.

Source: OGAE Ukraine

Stay tuned to Eurovision Fun for all the news regarding Ukraine’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

 

Latvia: Voting begins for the 17th candidate of Supernova 2022!

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As we informed you previously, the online voting started to select the 17th candidate of “Supernova 2022”. The jury of LTV has already selected the 16 participants to participate in the semifinals of Supernova 2022.

Another ten songs selected by the jury for the 17th ticket have been put to the public vote. Only the one who will receive the most public support will join the other semifinals and will appear live in the competition on February 5.

You can vote and listen to the songs until January 14 at 23:59.

The ten candidates for the 17th ticket to the semifinals are:

Antra Stafecka and Atis Ievins – “Call the Lights”
Darta Stepanova – “Brunumzeme”
Edvards Strazdins – “Open Road”
Katrina Dimanta – “My Voice”
Marta Ritova – “Let Me Go”
Martins Strods – “One More Time”
Miks Galvanovskis – “I’m Just A Sinner”
Rihards Berzins – “1 + 1 ″
Tetis – “Labākie vārdi”
Toms Kalderauskis – “Naked smile”

You can vote for your favorites every 24 hours by logging in to your social media profile. LTV will announce the winner of the vote on January 15.

Stay tuned to Eurovision Fun for all the news regarding Latvia’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Source: Supernova

Finland: Here are the clues for the sixth artist!

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The Finnish national broadcaster has published more clues about the contestants for the national final UMK.  Now it is time to start guessing who will be the sixth contestant in the Finnish national final for Eurovision. Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’s official Instagram gave us the following clues:

  • You know him!
  • Known from reality-show
  • He has published his biography

 

Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.

 

Η δημοσίευση κοινοποιήθηκε από το χρήστη UMK22 (@uudenmusiikinkilpailu)

The first estimates speak of the Finnish pop singer Kaija Koo. We will mention for the second time the singer of Sunrise Avenue, Samu Haber since they both seem to meet the conditions!

Yle will announce all the contestants for UMK 2022 on January 12.  After that we will get to know each competing song every day starting from January 13.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more updates regarding Finland’s participation in Eurovision.

Malta: Listen to a few seconds of the 22 songs of MESC 2022!

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Malta’s public television, TVM, decided to broadcast a national final in order to pick the country’s representative for Eurovision 2022. That means, MESC returns for the first time since 2018.

We already know the 22 artists, as well as the songwriters of the songs competing in the semifinal of MESC 2022.

A few minutes ago, the official Instagram profile of the Maltese national final, revealed the first 20 seconds of the 22 songs that are going to compete on MESC 2022. From these 22 songs, 16 will qualify for the Final and of course the winning song will get the ticket for Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin. The show will run for three nights, starting in February 17 and ending in February 19, when we will learn the country’s representative.

Listen to the 22 songs of the Maltese national final below by clicking on the songs name:

A pleasant surprise for us, is the presence Dimitris Stassos among the composers competing for the Maltese representation  at Eurovision 2022. The Greek composer, who lives and works in Sweden, was the composer of Aphrodisiac by Eleftheria Eleftheriou in Eurovision 2012 and  La Noche Es Para Mi by Soraya in Eurovision 2009, and he has also compete in national finals of various countries. Along with Dimitris Stassos we see Nektarios Tyrakis, known in the contest for being the lyricist of Shake It by Sakis Rouvas in Eurovision 2004, but also in entries of other countries.

Along the competing is Jessica Muscat who represented San Marino in Eurovision 2018. Furthermore the county’s representative for 2014, but also Malta’s representative for Junior Eurovision 2010, Nicole Azzopardi. Of course a lot of artists have a great experience in MESC, having tried a lot of times to represent the Malta in the past.

Lastly, the slogan of MESC 2022 got announced, that is “What a Feeling“.

 

This year’s representative for Malta was Destiny with the song Je me casse, finishing in seventh place with 255 points:

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

Stay tuned in Eurovision Fun for everything new regarding Maltas’s representation in Eurovision 2022!

Source/Photo: Eurovision Malta/TVM

Will international viewers be able to watch the American Song Contest live?

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There are only a few weeks left until the first ever American Song Contest  takes place and more and more fans around the globe are wondering whether they will be able to watch the show live in their countries.

The Finnish public television Yle currently hosts a subsection dedicated to the American Song Contest but no further official information, such as the dates of the broadcast or whether it is being commented in Finnish or not, has been given.

Rumors have it that as a consequence of EBU being strongly connected to the American Song Contest, the copyrights of broadcasting the Contest will be shared through its members, yet nothing has been stated officially as for now.

The show will kickoff on Saturday, 21 February 2022 on NBC.

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.

Source: Eurovoix

Norway: The first information about the songs of MGP 2022!

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Anders Tangen, a member of the Norwegian Eurovision news site escNorge, has also listened to excerpts from the songs and in a recent podcast gave him the following information!

  • The competition is more open than against TIX vs. Keiino of 2021
  • One of the direct finalists has a disappointing song (it could be NorthKid)
  • There are two heavy-metal / rock songs, one from an internationally known band (it could be Gaahls Wyrd), while the other was created specifically for the national final
  • A famous personality takes part and seems to be returning to the competition, although the artist does not have a good song
  • There is a dynamic ballad by a singer that was part of a successful duet (it seems to be Elsie Bay from Elsa & Emilie, who wrote last year’s “Witch Woods”)
  • This year has strong ballads, which could contribute to great success at Eurovision
  • There will be no genres like “rølp” or “russemusikk”
  • There is a country song by an artist who has participated in a music show (it could be one of Steffen Jakobsen, Ingvar Olsen or Kristian Raanes. If it is Ingvar, the song may have been written by Mørland (Norway 2015) after they have worked together in the past)
  • There are several up and coming artists from music shows like The Voice or Idol
  • One of the artists has been used on vocals for Norway (it could be Bjørnar Reime found on vocals in 2015 or Øyvind Boye Løvold who supported with his voice in 2010 and 2011)

We remind you that tomorrow, January 10, at 13:30 cet, the 21 artists will be announced as well as their songs, something that has to be done from 2019, in order to claim the coveted ticket to Turin!

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding the Norwegian participation in Eurovision 2022!

Source: escforum.net

Italy: The Mayor of Turin reviews the preparations of the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow

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Tomorrow, January 10, 2022, Stefano Lo Russo, Mayor of Turin, will meet with Culture Advisor Rosanna Purchia and Tourism and Event Advisor Mimmo Carretta to review the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

According to the newspaper “La Stampa“, the summit will also discuss adjustments to the preparation of the event due to Covid-19. As long as the competition is going to take place, the organization of all side events must necessarily adjust according to the state of the pandemic.

According to the Turin newspaper, the event is going on and sponsorship problems would be resolved in order to meet in the best possible way the expectations of the financial categories of Turin. There should also be no problems in the production of the event, which will be attended by local companies and professionals. All those working on the Eurovision Song Contest hope that the infections will reach a peak in the coming weeks and that the increase in vaccination coverage will allow for a reduction of the measures.

The semifinal allocation draw is going to take place on January 25. The handover ceremony between Rotterdam and Turin will also take place during this ceremony. The event, to be held at the Palazzo Madama, is expected to be attended by about 100 people, including a delegation from the Netherlands, led by Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, RAI and EBU leaders. A revision of the framework program is likely in the light of the evolution of infections in Italy and the rest of Europe.

We remind you that the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 is going to take place on May 10, 12 and 14 at the PalaOlimpico in Turin.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more updates regarding the 66th Eurovision Song Contest.

source: La Stampa

Finland 2022: Here are the clues for UMK 2022 fifth artist

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The Finnish national broadcaster has published more clues about the contestants for the national final UMK.  Now it is time to start guessing who will be the fifth contestant in the Finnish national final for Eurovision. Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu’s official Instagram gave us the following clues:

  • Over 10 million streams
  • Featured a song with a big international artist
  • Shivers

 

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The first speculations are pointing out to pop singer Alma.  Alma has done the backing vocals for Miley Cyrus’ songs “Mother’s Daughter” and “Cattitude”.  She co-wrote Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana del Rey song “Don’t Call Me Angel”.  Another possibility is indie pop singer Olivera.  Olivera has worked as a songwriter and a featuring artist for names like Tiësto, Zaxx, 3LAU, Sonny Alven, Lucian and John Dahlbäck.

Yle will announce all the contestants for UMK 2022 on January 12.  After that we will get to know each competing song every day starting from January 13.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for more updates regarding Finland’s participation in Eurovision.