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Israel: These are the eight songs of the national selection process, for Eurovision 2022!

The X Factor Israel started on October 30, where the artist and the song that will represent Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, will be selected.

A while ago, the eight songs that the four finalists of The XFactor Israel will have to perform, were played for the first time on Kan Gimmel. One of these eight songs will be the song that finally Israel will compete with, at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

You can listen to all the eight songs below:
  • Inbal Bibi – ZAZA
  • Inbal Bibi – Marionette
  • Michael Ben David – Don’t
  • Michael Ben David –I.M 
  • Eli Huli – Blinded Dreamers
  • Eli Huli – Nostalgia
  • Sapir Saban – Breaking My Own Walls
  • Sapir Saban – Head Up

The finalists

On January 27, four finalists were selected, on the second semi final of XFactor Israel, the selection process of Israel for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest!

The four finalists of  The XFactor Israel are:

  1. Inbal Bibi
  2. Eli Huli
  3. Michael Ben David
  4. Sapir Saban

The selection Process

Out of the 130 songs that were submitted, the above eight songs were selected and will be assigned to the four finalists in the hopes of becoming the Israeli representative of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

The final of the competition will take place on the 5th of February with the above four finalists. Each of the four will be assigned with two of the above new songs, which they will have to perform. There will also be a semi-final round, to select one of the two songs for each artist on February 3rd.

The song that will be selected will be the one with which each participant will claim the representation of Israel for Eurovision 2022. Four songs and four artists will compete in the X Factor Grand Final. Then, the audience and the jury will jointly choose the artist and the song who will represent the country in Turin.

We remind you that the popular talent show will be presented by Liron Weizman. According to domestic media, X Factor Israel judges will include Netta Barzilai, Aviv Geffen, Margalit Tzan’ani, Ran Danker and Miri Mesika.

Israel was represented by Eden Alene in Eurovision 2021 with the song Set Me Free, finishing 17th in the grand final on May 22nd.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding Israel’s entry for Eurovision 2022!

Spain: The Spotify streams for the Benidorm Fest final

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.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding the Spanish participation in Eurovision 2022!

Eurovision: RAI announces the replacement for Gabriele Corsi!

Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI, announced Mario Acampa as the new co-host for the semi-final Allocation Draw for Eurovision Song Contest 2022!

Mario Acampa will replace Gabriele Corsi on today’s draw taking place in Turin. Mario Acampa is known in Italy as the commentator of Junior Eurovision Song Contest. He is also an actor and performer and he has presented various shows on RAI Gulp.

The confirmation of the new co-host comes after the announcement that Gabriel Corsi tested positive for COVID-19 the past weekend. Mario Acampa will co-host tomorrow’s draw alongside Carolina Di Domenico.

The allocation draw for Eurovision 2022 will take place on January 25, at 12:00 CET, at Palazzo Madama. Palazzo Madama was the first Senate of the Kingdom of Italy until 1864. From 1997 it was declared an UNESCO World Heritage Site and currently houses the museum of ancient art of Turin. The allocation draw will be streamed live on Eurovision’s official YouTube channel and Rai Play.

The countries have been divided in six pots for the allocation draw:

Allocation Pots

 

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun for all the latest news regarding our favorite contest! 

Source/Photo: RAI andEurovoix

Eurovision 2022: Announcement about the contest’s presenters will be made during Sanremo!

Italy’s biggest radio station, RTL 102.5, informs us that the announcement of the presenters of Eurovision 2022 will be made during the upcoming Sanremo 2022 festival, from which, of course, the representative of Italy in the competition will also be chosen.

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According to RTL, the “Adnkronos” agency was informed that the most likely names for presenters of the competition are now singer Laura Pausini, presenter Alessandro Cattelan and possibly singer Mika.

The announcement will be made, specifically, on the second night of Sanremo (February 2) by Amadeus.

We remind you that Sanremo 2022 will be held on February 1-5.

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all news regarding our favorite contest!

Germany: Further insight regarding “Germany 12 points”

After two consecutive last placing and three placings in the 25th position in the last six contests, the German national broadcaster decided to host a national final for the selection of the German representative at the upcoming 66th Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy.

The national final is not going to be Unser Lied für Turin”, as expected, but a new show under the name “Germany 12 points” which is scheduled to take place on the 4th of  March. Additionally, on 10th of February the six artists who are going to compete at the show in Berlin as well as the members of the jury are going to be revealed.

The jury panel consists of members from Bayern3, Antenne Brandenburg, Bremen 4, HR 3, MDR Jump, NDR 2, SR 1, SWR 3 and WDR 2. The only already known name of this jury is Alexandra Wolfslast, the head of delegation of Germany at the contest. The task of this jury was to select the artists of the German national final among almost 1000 candidates. The final six artists emerged among 25 shortlisted candidates, who performed live before the jury on 14th and 15th of January.

After the artists and the jury members revelation the public is going to choose who will fly the German flag in Turin through an online voting which starts on 28th of February and is going to continue on the day of the final too, through SMS and telephone calls.

The hostess of Germany 12 points is going to be Barbara Schöneberger.

Last year Germany was represented by Jendrik and his song “I Don’t Feel Hate” which finished on 25th place receiving three points from the jury and zero from the televoting.

Sources: Eurovision.de / esc-kompakt.de

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the latest updatets regarding the German participation at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest

Norway: Results of MGP 2022 Second Semi-Final!!

Tonight we watched the second semi-final of Melodi Grand Prix 2022, which took place at 19:50 CET. Four artists competed for the one ticket that leads directly to the Grand Final of 19th of February 2022. We also had the chance to enjoy the performance of the pre-qualified entry “Wonder of the World” by Christian Ingebrigtsen.

The hosts of the show were Kåre Magnus BerghAnnika MomrakMikkel Niva.

The four contestants of the second live show were:

Those aforementioned candidates have been divided into two duels, the winners of these will compete for the ticket to the final. The duels are:

  1. Lily Lowe – Bad Baby VS  Stefen Jakobsen – With me Tonight
  2. Farida – Dangerous  VS  Daniel Lucas – Kvelertak

The betting odds before the show looked as follows:

The winner of the first duel (Lily Lowe – Bad Baby VS  Stefen Jakobsen – With me Tonight) was

Stefen Jakobsen – With me Tonight

The winner of the second duel (Farida – Dangerous  VS  Daniel Lucas – Kvelertak) was

Farida – Dangerous 

Afterwards we had the chance to listen live to the automatic finalist Christian Ingebrigtsen and his entry “Wonder of the World”

Stefen and Farida once again performed their entries in this final duel.

 Stefen Jakobsen – With me Tonight VS Farida – Dangerous 

After this battle the second qualifier of MGP 2022 was Farida with the song “Dangerous”

The next semi-final is going to take place on 22nd of January at 19:50 CET! You can watch MGP 2022 by clicking here.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun, for all the news regarding the Norway’s participation at Eurovision Song Contest 2022!

 

Norway: Spotify streams of the second semi-final of MGP 2022

Tonight is the second semifinal of MGP 2022, Norway’s national final for the selection of the song that will represent the nordic country in Eurovision 2022.

There are four songs that competing tonight. The competition is going to be in the form of duels, and the winners of each duel will compete against each other for a ticket to the grand final. The duels are:

  1. Lily Löwe – Bad Baby VS  Steffen Jakobsen – With me Tonight
  2. Farida – Dangerous  VS  Daniel Lukas – Kvelertak

All four songs are available on Spotify and here is the rank by number of streams:

  1. Steffen Jakobsen – With me Tonight 67866
  2. Daniel Lukas – Kvelertak  56364
  3. Lily Löwe – Bad Baby  46223
  4. Farida – Dangerous 41896

Regarding all the songs of MGP 2022, Death Of Us by Elsie Bay and Give That Wolf A Banana by Subwoolfer are far ahead of the others.

Will we will see Steffen Jakobsen in the grand final of MGP? In just a few hours we will know the answer!

You can watch the second semi-final of MGP 2022 at 19:55 CET through the official website of NRK by clicking here

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun.com for all the developments regarding Norway and their participation at the upcoming contest in Turin.

photo: JULIA MARIE NAGLESTAD / NRK

San Marino: Watch the second episode of Una voce per San Marino!

A few minutes ago, the second episode of Una voce per San Marino ended, the program that gathers the voices and interpretations of the artists at the Titan Theater for the participation of San Marino in the Eurovision song contest 2022.

The episode aired on Digital Terrestre on channel 831, on the Sky platform on channel 520 and on Sat TV on channel 93. The episode of “Una voce per San Marino” is also available online at www.sanmarinortv.sm.

In today’s episode we had the pleasure to see Elis Mraz whο participated in the national final of the Czech Republic and ended up in second place with the song “Imma Be”. You can see the appearance of Elis Mraz in the video below.

Watch the second episode of Una voce per San Marino HERE.

The third episode is scheduled at the same time and we will see it on January 28.

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 debutants and nine acclaimed, who will be invited directly by Media Evolution Srl. A jury will decide the winner, as well as second and third place.

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

Source: San Marino RTV

North Macedonia: The artists that will compete on the national final!

The public broadcaster, MRT, received proposals for the contest from December 10, 2021 until January 16, 2022. That means after years of absence North Macedonia returns with a national final to pick its representative for Turin instead of an internal selection. The channel received a total of 47 submissions for the contest, from which an expert commission chose the best six to take part in the National Final, this year named Za Evrosong 2022.

Of course here in Eurovisionfun, we had revealed all these information in our previous exclusive article!

The selected 6 original songs, which the commission considers meets the expected criteria for participating and presenting MRT and the country to the European public in the most spectacular contest are as follows:

 

1. Performer:  Kalina Velkovska  –  Kaly

Composition title:  “LOVE AND LIGHT”

Author of music: Davor Jordanovski

Author of the text: Vesna Malinova

Arrangement: Nikola Vaskov – Nino, Davor Jordanovski, Petar Luzic

 

2. Performer:  Yon Idy

Composition title:   ” DREAMS”

Music and lyrics: Yon Idy

Arrangement: Angel Ḱosev, Yon Idy

 

3. Contractor:  Lara Ivanova

Composition title:   “ FLOWER OF SORROW”

Music author: Robert Bilbilov

Author of the text: Robin Zimbakov

Arrangement: Robert Bilbilov and Darko Dimitrov

 

4. Contractor:  Viktor Apostolovski

Composition title:   “SUPERMAN”

Author of music: Vladimir Dojcinovski

Author of the text: Vladimir Dojcinovski and Viktor Apostolovski

Arrangement: Vladimir Dojcinovski

5. Contractor:  Andrea Koevska – Andrea

Composition title:   ” CIRCLES”

Author of music: Aleksandar Masevski

Author of the text: Aleksandar Masevski and Andrea Koevska

Arrangement: Aleksandar Masevski

6. Performer:  Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Composition title:   ” FLYING TO BERLIN”

Author of music: Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Author of the text: Boris Cvetanovski – Ris Flower

Arrangement: Mustafa Janbazlar

 

All songs will be released on January 28 during the TV show Стисни Плеј on 22:00, CET. There will be an online voting that will last for 7 days.

Stay tuned at Eurovisionfun, for all the latest developments regarding North Macedonia’s entry for Eurovision 2022!