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Australia: The first country to use Online Voting for Eurovision!

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Australia will become the first country in the Eurovision Song Contest to use online voting to determine the outcome of the televoting! This automatically means that Australian fans will not vote for their favorite entry in the traditional way of using phone or SMS.

The country’s broadcaster, SBS, reports:

Digame, the official voting partner of Eurovision in Germany, has created a new online platform exclusively for the Australian public to vote. This means that there will be no phone calls and SMS during live shows. All votes will be taken by the new online system.

Australians will be able to vote through the www.esc.vote page created by Digame. Votes will be limited to 20 per person and will cost 0.55 cents per vote.

You will be able to choose which countries you want to vote for and how many votes per country (up to 20 votes in total). The way you distribute these votes will be up to you: you could give 20 votes to one country, divide your votes among many countries or just give one vote to your favorite.

Payment options are Google Pay, Apple Pay and credit card. Once the payment is received, no more votes can be received from this user. Full voting terms and conditions will be available on the voting platform.

This year Australia will be represented by Sheldon Riley. The country competes tonight in the Second Semifinal with the song “Not the Same”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okX1e90GE_I

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Australia: Emily Griggs New Head of Delegation For Eurovision

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The Australian broadcaster revealed their new Head of Delegation for Eurovision Song Contest, and that is Emily Griggs.

Emily Griggs has been named as the new Head of Delegation for Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest and is the Head of Entertainment and Food at SBS. Emily became part of SBS in August of 2021 from BBC Studios where she was Head of Development and Content, overseeing such shows as Mastermind.

Emily takes that leading role of Head of Delegation from Josh Martin. Josh previously commissioned the launch of a televised selection for Australia; Eurovision – Australia Decides. Also, Paul Clarke keeps his role as the overall Creative Director for the Australian Participation in the contest.

Australia will be represented by Sheldon Riley and the song “Not the Same“:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByUD4d89_is

Australia will perform in number 8 of the running order in the second semi-final on May 12, for a ticket for the Grand Final on Saturday.

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Australia: Sheldon Riley wins Australia Decides and will represent Australia in Eurovision 2022!

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This morning saw the final of Australia’s national selection for Eurovision, “Eurovision – Australia Decides“. Where the winner will earn the right to represent their country at Eurovision 2022, in Turin.

Eleven songs competed in the selection to win the ticket to Turin. The show was presented by Joel Creasy and Myf Warhurst and Dylan Lewis, who is the Green Room host.

The running order for the show was:

• G-Nat!on – “Bite Me“

• Erica Padilla – “To the Bottom“

• Seann Miley Moore – “My Body“

• Charley – “I Suck At Being Lonely“

• Andrew Lambrou – “Electrify”

• Sheldon Riley – “Not the Same“

• Paulini – “We Are One“

• Jaguar Jonze – “Little Fires“

• Isaiah Firebrace and Evie Irie – “When I’m With You“

• Voyager – “Dreamer”

• Jude York – “I Won’t Need to Dream“

The final result of Australia Decides was determined by 50% jury vote and 50% public voting. The jury of Australia Decides was:

• Darren Hayes

• Alexandra Rotan  (Norwegian representative in Eurovision 2019 as part of KEiiNO)

• Millie Petriella

• Emily Griggs

• Paul Clarke

The jury result determined that Jaguar Jonze was their favourite with 51 points, the full result was:

The public voting determined that Voyager was their favourite with 60 points, the full result was:

Overall, this means that the winner of Eurovision – Australia Decides with 100 points is Sheldon Riley and he will represent Australia in Eurovision 2022 with the song “Not The Same”.

Do you agree with Australia’s choice? Let us know in the comments. Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all updates regarding Australia.

Australia: Tomorrow morning the final of Australia Decides 2022!

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Australia will select its representative at Eurovision 2022 tomorrow morning, with the grand final of Australia Decides taking place on Saturday morning.

Eleven artists will compete, with the sole aim of winning a ticket to Turin and the 66th Eurovision Song Contest.

Artists

The artists who will take part in the Australian National Final are:

  1. G-Nat!on – “Bite Me“
  2. Erica Padilla – “To the Bottom“
  3. Seann Miley Moore – “My Body“
  4. Charley – “I Suck At Being Lonely“
  5. Andrew Lambrou – “Electrify”
  6. Sheldon Riley – “Not the Same“
  7. Paulini – “We Are One”
  8. Jaguar Jonze – “Little Fires“
  9. Isaiah Firebrace and Evie Irie – “When I’m With You“
  10. Voyager – “Dreamer”
  11. Jude York – “I Won’t Need to Dream“

The big winner of Australia Decides and the Australian representative in Eurovision 2022 will be chosen by 50% of the public vote and by 50% of the jury vote.

The jury of the Australian national final consists of:

  • Darren Hayes
  • Alexandra Rotan
  • Millie Petriella
  • Emily Griggs
  • Paul Clarke

Presenters of tomorrow’s show will be Joel Creasey and Myf Warhurst.

The grand final of Australia Decides 2022 starts at 10:30 CET and will last three hours. You can watch it through the SBS website by clicking HERE.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding Australia’s participation in Eurovision 2022!

Australia: Interview with Andrew Lambrou | From Music School, to X-Factor and then Australia Decides 2022!

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Andrew Lambrou is among the contestants who are trying to represent Australia in Eurovision Song Contest 2022! The singer talked exclusively with EurovisionFun and Andreas Papayiannakis abot this journey.

Andrew is among the contestants of Australia Decides for Eurovision 2022 and he will do his best to represent Australia in Eurovision 2022 with the song “Electrify“.

“I wrote this song together with three of my friends a long time ago. I love Greek and general European music and I will love to combine it with my personal sound. I have been watching Eurovision my whole life and the song wasn’t meant to be for the contest at first but I had a vision that it could do for Eurovison and I always had that in the back of my head. First of all, I talked with my label and my family. My father adviced me to do it. So I decided to send it SBS and everything happened very quickly. It’s amazing that I’m in this position right now. I’m very happy with peoples’ reaction from the snippet I released and I really wish that they will love it, I want to put on a smile on their faces!”

When he first started his career, he took part in the Australian edition of X-Factor and now he’s part of Australia Decides:

“Music is in my blood. I’m very happy because I knew what I wanted since I was five years old. Music is part of my life since forever. It’s a way of me being creative. All the experiences I had with music, starting from Music School and then Australia Decides and possibly in Eurovision,they were all amazing.All of them have been stages of my life to make me come here and I’m very gratefull for all those experiences”

Andrew said that it’s an awesome feeling imagining himself in the Eurovision stage because the contest is a great way to communicate many different type of music styles from many countries, many languages to be heard all over the world and he would feel really grateful if we would manage to win Australia Decides.

He also talked about his stage perfomance on the national final:

“We are preparing everything that we will be doing with the staging. I’m very into visual effects and I’m trying to visualize everything I have in my mind. I can’t say much but it will be something original and amusing for the viewers. Of course there will be a choreography“

His favorite Australian entry is Guy Sebastian(2015).From Eurovision, his favorite entries are Marija Šerifović (Serbia 2007), Helena Paparizou (Greece 2005), Loreen (Sweden 2012), Conchita Wurst (Austria 2014), SunStroke Project & Olia Tira (Moldova 2010), Lordi (Finland 2006) και Eleni Foureira (Cyprus2018).

Andrew also sang a part of his song “Electrify“ for us and you can hear it at the end of the video.

EurovisionFun wishes all the best of luck to Andrew Lambrou!