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American Song Contest: Second Semi-Final’s Results!

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A few minutes ago, the second semi-final of the American Song Contest ended, eleven states competed for the last five spots in the final. The outcome is decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. AleXa (Oklahoma), Riker Lynch (Colorado), Jordan Smith (Kentucky), Ni/Co (Alabama) and Allen Stone (Washington) were named as the first finalists with Τyler Braden from Tennessee following them after winning the support of the judges in the second semifinal!

The following artists participated in tonight’s semi-final:

  1. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “Loko“
  2. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  3. Kansas: Broderick Jones – “Tell Me“
  4. New York: Enisa – “Green Light“
  5. North Dakota: Chloe Fredericks – “Can’t Make You Love Me“
  6. Connecticut: Michael Bolton – “Beautiful World“
  7. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent“
  8. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  9. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen“
  10. Georgia: Stela Cole – “DIY“
  11. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“

At the beginning of the night, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced that AleXa (Oklahoma), Riker Lynch (Colorado), Jordan Smith (Kentucky) and Ni/Co (Alabama) won the public’s support in the first semi-final and would be in the final. At the end of the night, the jury winner of the second semi-final was announced and therefore Tyler Braden of Tennesse managed to beat Kansas’ Broderick Jones and will qualify as the sixth finalist.

The detailed results of the judges of the second semi-final were as follows:

  1. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen“
  2. Kansas: Broderick Jones – “Tell Me“
  3. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  4. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  5. Connecticut: Michael Bolton – “Beautiful World“
  6. North Dakota: Chloe Fredericks – “Can’t Make You Love Me“
  7. Puerto Rico: Christian Pagán – “Loko“
  8. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent“
  9. Georgia: Stela Cole – “DIY“
  10. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“
  11. New York: Enisa – “Green Light“

Voting for those not selected by the jury will continue until Tuesday. The public vote will determine the four artists who will make it to the finals. The finalists will be announced during the week.

This was the seventh of a total of eight shows. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first finalist of the second semi-final from Tennessee:

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American Song Contest 2022: Tonight the fifth qualifying round!

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The American Song Contest, the American version of our favorite Eurovision, continues tonight. At 1:00 a.m. CET, eleven artists from eleven states will compete in the fifth qualifying round of the American Song Contest.

The American Song Contest 2022 started on Monday, March 21 and will last for 8 weeks, until the big winner is announced on May 9. The competition will be attended by 50 US states, five overseas US acquisitions and the capital, Washington DC.

The competition part will consist of the qualifiers, the semifinals and the grand final. In the grand final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” of the USA.

Contestants

In tonight’s fifth qualifier participate:

  1. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  3. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight“
  4. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine“
  5. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline“
  6. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up“
  7. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie“
  8. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things“
  9. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop“
  10. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  11. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster“

A jury of 56 people, one for each of the states, will vote on the songs. The winner of the jury vote will be the first finalist of the semifinal.

The rest of the songs that were not selected by the jury, will be judged by the public. Voting will last two days until Wednesday. The public vote will select three more semi-finalists.

Semifinalists

Thirteen artists have so far secured their presence in the semifinals of the American Song Contest 2022. These artists are:

  • Rhode Island –  Hueston
  • Oklahoma – Alexa
  • Connecticut – Michael Bolton
  • Puerto Rico – Christian Pagán
  • Kentucky – Jordan Smith
  • North Dakota – Chloe Fredericks
  • Montana – Jonah Prill
  • Kansas – Broderick Jones
  • Tennessee – Tyler Braden
  • Colorado – Riker Lynch
  • Alabama – Ni/Co
  • Texas – Grant Knoche
  • Washington – Allen Stone

Two of the biggest names in the American music industry will present the long-awaited American Song Contest. Snoop Dog and Kelly Clarkson will be the presenters of the American Song Contest.

The first qualifier starts at 01:00 CET and you can watch it live on NBC.

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American Song Contest: Watch the rehearsals of the fifth qualifier round!

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Short clips from the rehearsals of the representatives of each state and region of the fifth American Song Contest qualifying round were released on the American Song Contest’s social media accounts!

You can check out the participants’ rehearsals below:

  1. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  3. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight“
  4. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine“
  5. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline“
  6. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up“
  7. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie“
  8. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things“
  9. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop“
  10. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  11. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster“

As always, the songs will be released in their entirety only 24 hours before the show. This will be the fifth out of the five heats and will be broadcast live on Tuesday, April 19, at 2AM CET on NBC.

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American Song Contest 2022: Tonight the fourth qualifying round!

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The American Song Contest, the American version of our favorite Eurovision, continues tonight. At 1:00 a.m. CET, eleven artists from eleven states will compete in the fourth qualifying round of the American Song Contest.

The American Song Contest 2022 started on Monday, March 21 and will last for 8 weeks, until the big winner is announced on May 9. The competition will be attended by 50 US states, five overseas US acquisitions and the capital, Washington DC.

The competition part will consist of the qualifiers, the semifinals and the grand final. In the grand final, the finalist states will compete for the title of “Best Original Song” of the USA.

Contestants

In tonight’s fourth qualifier participate:

  1. Arizona: Las Marías – “De La Finikera“
  2. Georgia: Stela Cole – “DIY“
  3. Hawaii: Bronson Varde – “4 You“
  4. Massachusetts: Jared Lee – “Shameless“
  5. Nevada: The Crystal Method – “Watch Me Now“
  6. New Hampshire: MARi – “Fly“
  7. Pennsylvania: Bri Steves – “Plenty Love“
  8. Utah: Savannah Keyes – “Sad Girl“
  9. Washington: Allen Stone – “A Bit of Both“
  10. Washington, D.C.: NËITHER – “I Like It“
  11. West Virginia: Alexis Cunningham – “Working on a Miracle“

A jury of 56 people, one for each of the states, will vote on the songs. The winner of the jury vote will be the first finalist of the semifinal.

The rest of the songs that were not selected by the jury, will be judged by the public. Voting will last two days until Wednesday. The public vote will select three more semi-finalists.

Semifinalists

Nine artists have so far secured their presence in the semifinals of the American Song Contest 2022. These artists are:

  • Rhode Island –  Hueston
  • Oklahoma – Alexa
  • Connecticut – Michael Bolton
  • Puerto Rico – Christian Pagán
  • Kentucky – Jordan Smith
  • North Dakota – Chloe Fredericks
  • Montana – Jonah Prill
  • Kansas – Broderick Jones
  • Tennessee – Tyler Braden

Two of the biggest names in the American music industry will present the long-awaited American Song Contest. Snoop Dog and Kelly Clarkson will be the presenters of the American Song Contest.

The first qualifier starts at 01:00 CET and you can watch it live on NBC.

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American Song Contest: Listen to snippets of the songs from the 4th qualifier round!

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A few days before the 4th qualifier round and most of the participating artists have already released snippets of their songs on TikTok and you can hear them by clicking on the title of each song!

You can listen to the snippets below:

  1. Arizona: Las Marías – “De La Finikera“
  2. Georgia: Stela Cole – “DIY“
  3. Hawaii: Bronson Varde – “4 You“
  4. Massachusetts: Jared Lee – “Shameless“
  5. Nevada: The Crystal Method – “Watch Me Now“
  6. New Hampshire: MARi – “Fly“
  7. Pennsylvania: Bri Steves – “Plenty Love“
  8. Utah: Savannah Keyes – “Sad Girl“
  9. Washington: Allen Stone – “A Bit of Both“
  10. Washington, D.C.: NËITHER – “I Like It“
  11. West Virginia: Alexis Cunningham – “Working on a Miracle“

As always, the songs will be released in their entirety only 24 hours before the show. Remember that this will be the third out of the five heats and will be broadcast live on Tuesday, April 12, at 2AM CET on NBC.

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Christer Björkman: “Sweden’s victory would make me come back on producing Eurovision”!

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Former Eurovision producer Christer Björkman has admitted that a Swedish victory in next month’s competition will tempt him to return to Europe.

Björkman is currently in the US producing the American Song Contest.

Speaking in an exclusive interview a few days after the second qualifying round of the American Song Contest, Björkman said that if Cornelia Jakobs  succeeds and wins this year’s Eurovision, he will be tempted to return as a producer.

You know what?  This shit is a poison. You can never get rid of it. Once you have it in your body it’s there to stay and you always have to fight it. It’s like an addiction. So would I be tempted? Yes, of course I would be tempted. I love to produce Eurovision. I’ve produced the contest five times and the full show twice so bring it on.

Björkman was a producer for the first time at Eurovision in 2013 , when the competition was hosted in Malmö after Loreen’s victory. He returned in 2016 when the competition was hosted in  Stockholm , Sweden.

Thoughts on Melfest without Christer Björkman

In addition to his Eurovision production experience, Björkman was also in charge of Sweden’s Melodifestivalen for two decades , one of the biggest national finals for the Eurovision Song Contest.

He left from his role as a producer in 2021 , where the competition was held without an audience due to the pandemic.

When he was asked about this year’s Melfest , he said:

I liked the mix of songs. I think it was a brilliant selection when we got to the final. It had a great variety. It had three songs in Swedish which was really good. It was not that they felt that they were there only because they were Swedish. They were actually very, very good. I think they did a really good job. They had some troubles along the way, especially with the voting but that’s technical. Shit happens. That would’ve happened even if I was there so there’s no judgement in that. I think it was good. I love the winner. I really do. I think she’s so good.

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USA.: Listen to the songs of the third qualifier round of the American Song Contest 2022!

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After the release of the short clips of the rehearsals from the third American Song Contest qualifying round earlier this week, the full songs of the 12 participants have been released.

You can listen to the songs of the 3rd round below:

  1. Alabama: Ni/Co – “The Difference”
  2. Alaska: Jewel – “The Story”
  3. Colorado: Riker Lynch – “Feel the Love”
  4. Delaware: Nitro Nitra – “Train”
  5. Florida: Ale Zabala – “Flirt”
  6. Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz – “Now You Do”
  7. New Jersey: Brooke Alexx – “I Don’t Take Pictures Anymore”
  8. Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu – “Sunsets and Seaturtles”
  9. South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti – “Not Alone”
  10. South Dakota: Judd Hoos – “Bad Girl”
  11. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen”
  12. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent”

Remember that this will be the third out of the five heats and will be broadcast live on Tuesday, April 5, at 2am CET on NBC.

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Winner of American Song Contest won’t perform at Eurovision 2022!

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The winner of the American Song Contest will not appear at Eurovision in Turin , according to the competition’s executive producer Christer Björkman .

Speaking in an exclusive interview a few days after the second show of the American Song Contest, Björkman said that “it would not be possible” for the winner of the contest to appear as a guest at Eurovision next month.

Yeah I would like to see that eventually. This year is gonna be complicated because we moved our show [back] four weeks due to COVID so that complicated it. It’s now in the same week [as Eurovision] so I think that’s not even doable because obviously in Europe we wouldn’t keep a spot open like that. But in the future – if there is a future – yes, that would be great.

The last show of the competition for 2022 will take place on May 9, just one day before the first Semi-final of Eurovision. Because of these events, the appearance of the winner of the American Song Contest is impossible to be a part of Eurovision 2022. 

American Eurovision fans who hope to see the appearance of last year’s winners Måneskin in the American competition this year will also be disappointed.

I would have loved to have Måneskin in our show. But being in the same week that’s also gonna be impossible. They will be totally blocked in Italy obviously. For a future final that would be great both ways I would say.

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USA: More than 7.000 songs were submitted for American Song Contest!

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The executive supervisor of the American Song Contest, Christer Björkman, talked in the last episode of The Euro Trip, for the new contest that just started in the U.S.A.

A few hours after the second heat of the American Song Contest, Christer Björkman revealed that more than 7.000 songs were submitted for the first American contest.

He spoke with great satisfaction, saying:

“We had over 7000 submissions. You have to know the difference between Sweden. In Sweden it’s songs only. Some of them are connected to an artist but most of them are not. That’s a job that we do after we choose the song. Here it was a package. An artist had to submit an original song so that’s a totally different story. We had 7000 packages, that’s a lot.” 

In contrast with Sweden and Melodifestivalen, where the composers can submit a demo of a song without the artist and later, the producers of the show will get in touch with an artist they believe will suit the song, in the U.S.A. and ASC, a submitted song, in order to compete, it must for sure have an artist connected with it.

“So the interest was instant I would say. But the NBC also had a very good starting point because the team that reached out was the same team that The Voice had used for the last 20 seasons so they had a roster of 10000 names to reach out to so they were very successful and it is amazing considering that nobody knew what this is. I think it was a fantastic result.”

A while later, the titles of the competing songs in Heat 3 of the American Song Contest were revealed.

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U.S.A. : Listen to snippets of the songs from the third heat of the American Song Contest!

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A little bit earlier the titles of all the entries of the third qualifying round of the American Song Contest were released.

Most of the participating artists have already released snippets of their songs on TikTok and you can hear them by clicking on the title of each song!

The entries for the third heat are as following:

  1. Alabama: Ni/Co – “The Difference”
  2. Alaska: Jewel – “The Story”
  3. Colorado: Riker Lynch – “Feel the Love”
  4. Delaware: Nitro Nitra – “Train”
  5. Florida: Ale Zabala – “Flirt”
  6. Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz – “Now You Do”
  7. New Jersey: Brooke Alexx – “I Don’t Take Pictures Anymore”
  8. Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu – “Sunsets & Seaturtles”
  9. South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti – “Not Alone”
  10. South Dakota: Judd Hoos – “Bad Girl”
  11. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen”
  12. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent”

As always, the songs will be released in their entirety only 24 hours before the show.

Remember that this will be the third out of the five heats and will be broadcast live on Tuesday, April 5, at 2am CET on NBC.

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