Spain: Watch all the live performances of the artists at the Barcelona Eurovision Party 2022!

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Last night the first Eurovision Party took place successfully at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona. More than 18 eurostars attended the Barcelona Eurovision Party 2022. It was the first Eurovision event on Spanish soil, not forgetting that in a few days the PrePartyES will also take place in Madrid.

The hosts of the event were Sharone and Giuseppe di Bella!

Below you can watch their performances:

What do you think of the Eurovision Party in Barcelona?
Which performance is your favourite? Feel free to tell us in the comments below!
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Eurovision 2022: Seven songs that won the televoting but not the national final!

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The national finals of the Eurovision 2022 have been completed! We now know all the artists and songs that will compete in Turin in May and fight for the win.

Out of the 40 participating countries, 28 selected their representative through  a national final, while only 12 by an internal selection.

In this tribute we will have a look at seven entries that won the televoting in their country’s national final, but the judges had a different opinion, which resulted in them being deprived of the victory.

Australia

The rock band Voyager, with the song Dreamer, was the winner of the Australian televoting. However, the third place awarded to them by the judges was enough to cost them the win.

https://youtu.be/DmoDPxFRyBg

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic has continued its selection through an online national final this year. The Czech public chose as the winners Jordan Haj and Emma Smetana, who are very well known in the country, with the song By Now. However, the last place given to them by the international jury deprived them of the victory.

North Macedonia

After many years, North Macedonia has returned with a national final for its participation. The winner of the TV audience was Viktor Apostolovski with Superman. Although he tied with Andrea on the first place, after the votes were tallied the country’s public television decided to override the jury’s score, in which he was in the third place.

Romania

Romania, who recorded three eliminations in recent years, came back with a national final. A choice that, however, disappointed the fanbase of the country, as the percentage of preference of the TV audience was only 10%, with the remaining 90% belonging to the jury, which, as expected, determined the final result.

The winner of the televoting with a small difference and yet a small percentage was Dora Gaitanovici with the song Ana, who came sixth in the jury.

Spain

The fan favorite Tanxugueiras, with the song Terra, achieved an unbelievable 70.75% in the Spanish public vote. However, the panel of experts ranked them fifth, which resulted in them not only failing to achieve the victory but also creating a lot of drama.

Sweden

Anders Bagge with the song Bigger than the Universe, won the vote of the Swedish TV audience by a large margin. However, the international judges ranked it eighth, and as a result, it ended up losing the win.

Ukraine

Alina Pash with Tini Zabutykh Predkiv was the winner of Vidbir 2022. Although she withdrew from Eurovision due to her way of entering Crimea, she was the runner-up in the TV audience vote.

Winners of the televoting and subsequent representatives of Ukraine in Eurovision 2022, by a wide margin, were the Kalush Orchestra with their song Stefania. In the jury votes they were the runner-up.

These were the seven countries whose result was overturned by the jury, without letting the televoters’ choice be heard and calling into question the objectivity and existence of the juries once again.

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Spain: Barcelona’s Eurovision Party starts tonight!

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Barcelona will host their first Eurovision Preview Party at Sala Apolo with artists from this year’s contest and guest stars from previous years expected to perform during the event. The event will be hosted by Sharone and Giuseppe di Bella!

The eleven artists who are to compete in Turin and will be present in Barcelona are:

  • Albania – Ronela Hajati
  • Czech Republic – We Are Domi
  • Ireland – Brooke
  • Latvia – Citi Zēni
  • Lithuania – Monika Liu
  • Malta – Emma Muscat
  • Montenegro – Vladana
  • Norway – Subwoolfer
  • Romania – WRS
  • San Marino – Achille Lauro
  • Spain – Chanel

Alongside the eleven artists who will compete in Turin, a number of guest stars from previous years have been announced:

  • Conchita Wurst (Winner of Eurovision 2014 for Austria)
  • Jamala – (Winner of Eurovision 2016 for Ukraine)
  • Marta Roure – (Represented Andorra at Eurovision 2004)
  • Rosa Lopez – (Represented Spain at Eurovision 2002)
  • Senhit – (Represented San Marino at Eurovision 2011, 2020 and 2021)
  • Sunstroke Project – (Represented Moldova at Eurovision 2010 and 2017)
  • The Roop – (Represented Lithuania at Eurovision 2020 and 2021)

 

The livestream of the Barcelona Eurovision Party 2022 will begin tonight at 20:15 CET on betevé. You can find the link to the livestream here.

 

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Spain: “SloMo was actually meant for Jennifer Lopez”!

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It may sound like it was written in Seville, Madrid or Barcelona, but in fact this year’s Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest was created in Velsen-Noord, a small town in the north of the Netherlands. Dutch producer Arjen Thonen reveals that he actually composed Chanel’s SloMo for Jennifer Lopez, but when the Latin star didn’t respond, the song found its way to Turin.

Even those who don’t know the story behind SloMo are likely to think of Jennifer Lopez when watching the video clip. Chanel Terrero‘s dance moves, energy and upbeat vibe seem to be quite similar to various songs that JLo has released from time to time.

Beeld uit de videoclip van SloMo, de Spaanse inzending voor het Eurovisie Songfestival. Zangeres Chanel zingt het lied dat is gemaakt door de Nederlandse producer Arjen Thonen.

Thonen, with more than ten years of experience in the music industry, composed a remix for the Black Eyed Peas‘ Pump It, which led to the development of a friendly relationship between himself and the band’s drummer Keith Harris, who is also a producer.

Harris knew that Jennifer Lopez was looking for some new material and asked Thonen to submit a proposal.

“I was in the studio in the middle of the summer and by the end of the day I was kind of having a song that wasn’t exactly in Jennifer Lopez’s style. Then, I spontaneously kept going all night and that’s how SloMo came out.”

The song, in lyrics by Canadian singer Maggie Szabo, was sent via Keith Harris to the US, but there was no reaction from JLo’s team. The song was “left on the shelf”, while Thonen focused on other productions.

“Keith suddenly sent me an email saying that they were looking for a Jennifer-Lopez-like song in Spain to compete at Benidorm Fest. Of course he’s American, so he added: “In case you don’t know about the competition, it’s the biggest music event in Europe. I would do it.””

Producer Arjen Thonen, die het nummer SloMo van zangeres Chanel maakte.

The song was accepted, with new Spanish lyrics, and so Thonen watched the Benidorm Fest final on 29 January, where of course he was thrilled to see Chanel with SloMo officially becoming Spain’s representative for Turin.

SloMo has already surpassed 6 million streams on Spotify and is doing quite well with the bookmakers respectively as it is currently standing in eighth place.

“I am very happy that this song ended up being part of such a beautiful event”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3eiW6E0ldc&feature=emb_imp_woyt

Will the JLo team regret seeing Chanel in Turin? Will JLo herself ever learn the story behind this song?

Source: AD

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Spain: The detailed results of Benidorm Fest 2022 have been published!

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The detailed results of Benidorm Fest 2022, the national final of Spain, were announced by RTVE a while ago. As you will see below, the winner, Chanel, gathered less than 4% of the public vote.

On the other hand, the entry that ended up in second place overall won the televoting, gathering 70.75% of the votes among 8 participants.

Widespread reactions have erupted in Spain, as Galician political parties have already stated that they will raise the issue in the House of Representatives. Tanxugueiras who won the public vote are from Galicia and sung a song in Galician.

Complaints about possible conflict of interest of the judges are also serious, as members of the jury seem to have worked in the past with Chanel, the winner of the jury and Benidorm Fest overall.

On the other hand, the Galician telecommunications provider Toxo Telecom seems to have contributed to the Tanxugueiras’ huge lead in the public vote, allowing its customers to vote for the Tanxugueiras once for free.

The detailed results of Benidorm Fest 2022 are as follows:

TV audience (192,000 votes in total):

  1. Tanxugueiras: 70.75% – 30 points
  2. Rigoberta Bandini: 18.08% – 25 points
  3. Chanel: 3.97% – 20 points
  4. Varry Brava: 2.26% – 18 points
  5. Rayden: 2.12% – 15 points
  6. Blanca Paloma: 1.04% – 12 points
  7. Xeinn: 1.01% – 10 points
  8. Gonzalo Hermida: 0.66% – 5 points

Demoscopic Jury (350 people representative of the Spanish population):

  1. Tanxugueiras: 2,658 (14.59%) – 30 points
  2. Chanel: 2,624 (13.88%) – 25 points
  3. Rigoberta Bandini: 2,555 (13.52%) – 20 points
  4. Gonzalo Hermida: 2,385 (12.62%) – 18 points
  5. Rayden: 2,300 (12.17%) – 15 points
  6. Varry Brava: 2,152 (11.39%) – 12 points
  7. Blanca Paloma: 2063 (10.92%) – 10 points
  8. Xeinn: 2063 (10.92%) – 5 points

Expert Jury (Natalia Calderón, Miryam Benidited, Estefanía García, Felix Bergsson, Marvin Dietmann) :

Jury 1

  • Rayden: 8
  • Tanxugueiras: 10
  • Varry Brava: 6
  • Channel: 7
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 12
  • Xenn: 4
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma:5

Jury 2

  • Rayden: 10
  • Tanxugueiras: 7
  • Varry Brava: 5
  • Channel: 12
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 8
  • Xenn: 4
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma: 6

Jury 3

  • Rayden: 7
  • Tanxugueiras: 4
  • Varry Brava: 5
  • Channel: 12
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 6
  • Xenn: 10
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma: 8

Jury 4

  • Rayden: 6
  • Tanxugueiras: 7
  • Varry Brava: 4
  • Channel: 8
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 10
  • Xenn: 5
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma: 12

Jury 5

  • Rayden: 6
  • Tanxugueiras: 2
  • Varry Brava: 5
  • Channel: 12
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 10
  • Xenn: 7
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 4
  • Blanca Paloma: 8

Final Expert Jury Result :

  1. Channel: 51
  2. Rigoberta Bandini: 46
  3. Blanca Paloma: 39
  4. Rayden:37
  5. Tanxugueiras: 30
  6. Xinn:30
  7. Varry Brava: 25
  8. Gonzalo Hermida: 12

Final Benidorm Fest 2022 Results :

  1. Chanel – 96
  2. Rigoberta Bandini – 91
  3. Tanxugueiras – 90
  4. Rayden – 67
  5. Blanca Paloma – 61
  6. Varry Brava – 60
  7. Xeinn – 45
  8. Gonzalo Hermida – 40

The communications director of RTVE, shortly before announcing the detailed results, said that Spain had triumphed and the Benidorm Fest was a success for music, while asking for respect for the members of the expert jury, who were selected for their knowledge. and who were asked to vote with absolute freedom.

She clarified that RTVE will continue to work to resolve any errors that may have occurred or even to review or update the voting system for the next Benidorm Fest.

She concluded by thanking the artists who participated in Benidorm Fest and encouraging all singers and composers to participate next year, “because Benidorm Fest brings only good things”, as the high ratings were to the benefit of all participants.

You can watch the performance of the winner of Benidorm Fest and representative of Spain at Eurovision 2022, Chanel below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mYBiIO0pfY

Source: RTVE

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Spain: Chanel is representing the country in Eurovision 2022!

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The grand final of Benidorm Fest, the national final of Spain, has just been completed, with the country choosing Chanel as the festival’s winner and therefore their representative at Eurovision 2022 in Turin.

A total of eight finalists, who qualified from two semifinals, competed in the grand final, claiming the ticket to Turin.

The finalists

The eight candidates of the night were:

  1. Rayden – Calle de la llorería
  2. Tanxugueiras – Terra
  3. Varry Brava – Raffaella
  4. Chanel – SloMo
  5. Rigoberta Bandini – Ay mamá
  6. Xeinn – Eco
  7. Gonzalo Hermida – Quién lo diría
  8. Blanca Paloma – Secreto de agua

The voting

50% of the result in all three shows (two semifinals and a final) was determined by the jury, while the other 50% by the audience. The jury was divided into Spanish and international, while the 50% of the audience was divided into the televoting and a sample of the Spanish population selected on the basis of statistics and demographics (demoscopic jury). This is used in both the Sanremo Festival (Italy) and Melodifestivalen (Sweden).

The Benidorm Fest jury, which determined 50% of the vote, consisted of the following:

National jury:

  • Natalia Calderón – Vocal coach
  • Miryam Benedited – Director and Choreographer
  • Estefanía García – Singer, mezzo-soprano of the RTVE choir

International jury:

  • Marvin Dietmann – Director of several Eurovision entries
  • Felix Bergsson – Head of the Icelandic Eurovision delegation

Results

The detailed results of the grand final of Benidorm 2022 were as follows:

JURY (50%)

  1. Chanel – 51 points
  2. Rigoberta Bandini – 46 points
  3. Blanca Paloma – 39
  4. Rayden – 37 points
  5. Tanxuqeiras – 30 points
  6. Xeinn – 30 points
  7. Varry Brava – 25 points
  8. Gonzalo Hermida – 12 points

DEMOSCOPIC JURY (25%)

  1. Tanxugueiras – 30 points
  2. Chanel – 25 points
  3. Rigoberta Bandini – 20 points
  4. Gonzalo Hermida – 18 points
  5. Rayden – 15 points
  6. Varry Brava – 12 points
  7. Blanca Paloma – 10 points
  8. Xeinn – 5 points

TELEVOTE (25%)

  1. Tanxugueiras – 30 points
  2. Rigoberta Bendini – 25 points
  3. Chanel – 20 points
  4. Varry Brava – 18 points
  5. Rayden – 15 points
  6. Blanca Paloma – 12 points
  7. Xeinn – 10 points
  8. Gonzalo Hermida – 5 points

— OVERALL

  1. Chanel – 96 points
  2. Rigoberta Bandini – 91 points
  3. Tanxugueiras – 90 points
  4. Rayden – 67 points
  5. Blanca Paloma – 61 points
  6. Varry Brava – 60 points
  7. Xeinn – 45 points
  8. Gonzalo Hermida – 40 points

You can watch Chanel’s performance below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn8qwSn78D0

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Spain: The Spotify streams for the Benidorm Fest final

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The day of the grand final of Benidorm Fest has finally arrived! After Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Albania (and possibly Moldova), Spain will give us the fourth song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

Eight songs are going to compete tonight, most of which seem to have a lead.

According to the Spotify, five of the eight songs are in the top 200 of the daily chart. These are:

The televoting may have a 25% effect on the spanish song festival, but it could still affect the final result. Ay mamá has a very big lead both in the streams but also in youtube views and will probably be first in the televoting tonight. But Terra could overturn this, if it manages to move the Galicians to massively vote for it. Also, SloMo, the song that was the surprise of the first semifinal, is constantly gaining ground. Nothing has been clarified yet!

Benidorm Fest 2022 is held at the Palacio de Deportes L’Illa in Alicante and is presented by Alaska, Inés Hernand and Máximo Huerta.

You can watch the grand final of the Spanish music festival at 22:15 CET by clicking HERE.

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Spain: Grand final of Benidorm Fest 2022 tonight!

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Third and final night of Benidorm Fest tonight, as the Grand Final that will determine Spain’s representative in Eurovision 2022 has finally arrived.

Format

The system of Benidorm Fest 2022 consists of two semifinals, in which 7 songs take part respectively. Four artists from each semifinal advance to the Benidorm Grand Final.

The big winner and representative of Spain in Eurovision 2022 will be selected 50% by two juries and 50% by the Spanish viewers. Both juries are composed of professionals in the field, with one consisting only of natives and the other being an international one.

The Benidorm Fest jury members are the following:

National jury:

Natalia Calderón – Vocal coach
Miryam Benedited – Director and Choreographer
Estefanía García – Singer, mezzo-soprano of the RTVE choir

International jury:

Marvin Dietmann – Director of serveral entries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Felix Bergsson – Head of the Icelandic Eurovision delegation

The other 50% of the voting will come 25% from the televote and from 25% from a sample of the Spanish population selected on the basis of statistics and demographics (demoscopic jury). This is used in both the Sanremo Festival (Italy) and Melodifestivalen (Sweden).

Grand Final

Eight artists qualified to the Grand Final from the two semi-finals of January 26th and 27th.

One of them will have the honour of representing Spain in Turin this May.

The artists competing tonight are the following, in order of appearance:

  1. Rayden – Calle de la llorería
  2. Tanxugueiras – Terra
  3. Varry Brava – Raffaella
  4. Chanel – SloMo
  5. Rigoberta Bandini – Ay mamá
  6. Xeinn – Eco
  7. Gonzalo Hermida – Quién lo diría
  8. Blanca Paloma – Secreto de agua

We remind you that the winner of the first semi-final was Chanel, who is performing 4th tonight, while the winner of the second semi-final was Rigoberta Bandini, who is performing 5th.

Benidorm Fest 2022 is held at Palacio de Deportes L’Illa in Alicante and is presented by Alaska, Inés Hernand and Máximo Huerta.

You can watch the Grand Final of the Spanish music festival at 22:05 CET by clicking HERE.

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Spain: The running order of the Final of Benidorm Fest 2022!

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Through Spain’s official Twitter profile for Eurovision, the running order of the eight finalists of the national final, Benidorm Fest revealed.

The running order and the eight songs are:

  1.  Rayden – Calle de la llorería
  2.  Tanxugueiras – Terra
  3. Varry Brava – Raffaella
  4. Chanel – SloMo
  5. Rigoberta Bandini – Ay mamá
  6. Xeinn – Eco
  7. Gonzalo Hermida – Quién lo diría
  8. Blanca Paloma – Secreto de agua

We remind you that the winner of the first semi-final was Chanel, singing fourth in the final, and the winner of the second semi-final was Rigoberta Bandini, singing fifth. The final of Benidorm Fest 2022 will be broadcasted on Saturday February 29, by La 1, on 22:05 CET.

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Spain: The results of the second semi-final of Benidorm Fest 2022!

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Benidorm Fest, the festival which will determine the representative of Spain in Eurovision 2022, continues tonight with the second semifinal, live from the spanish state channel RTVE.

A total of seven candidates competed in the second semifinal, claiming four places for Saturday’s grand final.

Presenters of the evening were Alaska, Inés Hernard and Máxim Huerta.

The candidates

The seven candidates of the night were the following:

  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

50% of the results in all three shows (two semifinals and a final) comes from the jury, while the other 50% from the audience. The jury is divided into spanish and international, while 50% of the audience is divided into televoting and a sample of the spanish population selected on the basis of statistics and demographics (demoscopic jury). This is used in both the Sanremo Festival (Italy) and the Melodifestivalen (Sweden).

The Benidorm Fest jury, which determines 50% of the vote, consists of the following:

National jury:

Natalia Calderón – Professor of Vocals
Miryam Benedited – Director and Choreographer
Estefanía García – Singer, mezzo-soprano of the RTVE choir

International jury:

Marvin Dietmann – Director of many entries in the Eurovision Song Contest
Felix Bergsson – Head of the Icelandic delegation to Eurovision

Results

JURY

  1. Rigoberta Bandini 56 points
  2. Xeinn 46 points
  3. Rayden 45 points
  4. Marta Sango 36 points
  5. Javiera Mena 28 points
  6. Gonzalo Hermida 28 points
  7. Sara Deop 21 points

DEMOSCOPIC JURY

  1. Gonzalo Hermida 30 points
  2. Rigoberta Bandini 25 points
  3. Rayden 20 points
  4. Sara Deop 18 points
  5. Xeinn 15 points
  6. Marta Sango 12 points
  7. Javiera Mena 10 points

TELEVOTE

  1. Rigoberta Bandini 30 points
  2. Rayden 25 points
  3. Xeinn 20 points
  4. Gonzalo Hermida 18 points
  5. Marta Sango 15 points
  6. Javiera Mena 12 points
  7. Sara Deop 10 points

OVERALL

  1. Rigoberta Bandini 111 points
  2. Rayden 90 points
  3. Xeinn 81 points
  4. Gonzalo Hermida 71 points
  5. Marta Sango 63 points
  6. Javiera Mena 50 points
  7. Sara Deop 49 points

As a result, the four artists that qualify to the final of Benidorm Fest this Saturday are:

  1. Rigoberta Bandini – “Ay Mama“
  2. Rayden – “Calle de la llorería”
  3. Xeinn – “Eco“
  4. Gonzalo Hermida – “Quién lo diría“

You can watch the performance of this semi-final’s winner, Rigoberta Bandini, here:

What are your thoughts on today’s results? Tell us in the comments!