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Norway: Alvan & Ahez Win Adresse Torino Show One!

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France was the winner of the first show of the Norwegian show about Eurovision Adress Torino.

The points this evening were determined by a celebrity jury and a public jury. On the celebrity jury consisted of Margret Berger who represented Norway at Eurovision 2013, Ingeborg Heldal, Staysman and Kevin Vågenes. The public jury consisted of Jim Ødegård Pedersen, Vegard Solberg, Trine Paulsen and Tuva Halse.

https://youtu.be/CO07xLUlK2g

The results were as follows:

  1. France – 86 points
  2. Australia – 75 points
  3. Moldova – 61 points
  4. Latvia – 55 points
  5. Estonia – 52 points
  6. Armenia – 47 points
  7. Germany – 34 points
  8. Denmark – 28 points
  9. Croatia – 15 points

Adresse Torino continues tomorrow evening at 20:55 CET with the panel assessing the songs from Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Georgia, North Macedonia, Sweden and Spain.

You can watch the show on the NRK Player here.

Source: eurovoix.com

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the ΧΧ participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy!

OGAE Poll 2022: Results from France!

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The announcements of the OGAE Clubs started today, with OGAE France being the first club revealing their results.

The votes of OGAE France members are as follows:

  • 12 points: Italy
  • 10 points: Sweden
  • 08 points: The Netherlands
  • 07 points: United Kingdom
  • 06 points: Poland
  • 05 points: Spain
  • 04 points: Finland
  • 03 points: Norway
  • 02 points: Austria
  • 01 point: Ukraine

As we can see high results got 3 out of 5 bookmakers’ favourites, while the top favourite, Ukraine, got only one point.

Stay tuned on EurovisionFun for all the votes from the OGAE Clubs for the OGAE Poll 2022! 

France: The candidates of C’est Vous Qui Decidez 2022!

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After a period of mystery and speculations, the national public broadcaster of France finally released the final list of the candidate participants and their songs for Eurovision France: C’est Vous Qui Décidez 2022!

France 2 received more than 1500 songs out of which 12 were selected to take part at the national final.

The candidates who are about to claim the representation of France in Turin, Italy are as follows:

The French national final Eurovision France: C’est Vous Qui Décidez is going to take place on 5th of March at 21:10 CET.

The show consists of 3 stages: The top 5 songs of the public of the first stage will advance to the second stage of the selection, where a 6th entry will join them decided by the jury. On the final stage, there is going to be a 50/50 voting process (jury voting and televoting) which will determine the next representative of France in Eurovision 2022.

The jury panel consist of 10 members:

  • Jenifer (head)
  • Gjon’s Tears
  • Yseult
  • Andre Manoukian
  • Nicoletta
  • Agustin Galiana
  • Joyce Jonathan
  • Cyril Feraud
  • Elodie Gossuin
  • Sundy Jules

In 2021 France was closer than ever to the victory at the contest with Barbara Pravi and Voilà! She finished second with 499 points.

https://youtu.be/Unj9WbeLzRU

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France: Submissions are open for National Final 2022!

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France has raised the bar after achieving their first top 5 result since 2002 with the amazing Barbara Pravi and her song “Voila”. Therefore, the French national TV has announced that they will keep the same concept hoping for a win this time in 2022.

Consequently, from today until the 24th of October, all French citizens are alloud to send their own proposal to a submission window that has been made. There is a set rule though: Every song needs to be in French language or other dialects that has been recognized in the country.

The participant of Eurovision 2022 is going to be selected via a TV show, just like in 2021, with both public and jury voting. You can see more details about the rules, here.

Watch the stand in rehearsal of Voila:

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CASANOVA: I want people to dance and sing together ! Let them forget their problems for a few minutes!

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Eurovision Fun had the honor to host an other exclusive interview with one more candidate of the French national Final Eurovision France, c’est vous qui décidez!. His stage name is Casanova (real name Yoann Casanova), his entry is called Tutti  and he is going to perform it in French and Corsican. He is 27 years old and before he enters the music industry he used to work as a fireman. The French national final is expected to take place in January 2021.

 

Interview with Casanova

 

What’s your favorite French entry in the history of Eurovision ?

For the song and for the artist he is, I choose Patrick Fiori with “Mama Corsica” in 1993!
He represented France as I would like to represent it! He is very authentic, and a true French with all his cultural values !

Why did you wanna compete at the Eurovision concept ?

I have loved Eurovision since I was little! This big and spectacular show has always attracted me and intrigued me! I like to see how each country feels music. And discover different styles, and sounds of the world.

What is the message of your song ?

I want people to dance and sing together ! Let them forget their problems for a few minutes! Especially during this time of global pandemic…
In today’s society I find that we have become increasingly individualistic, social networks make us believe that we are connected but really, we are far away from each other…
In my song, I want to tell that whatever happens , together we are stronger and we can overcome everything !
Through it, I would like to be the face of culture and values of each French region

What can we expect from your stage presence ?

My team and I will give everything to prepare you the best possible performance on stage ! I really want you to come and party with me ! I’m so excited !

Can you tell us more about yourself so we and your fans can know you better ?

My real name is Yoann CASANOVA, I live in Bastia, Corsica and I’m 27 years old ! I was Fireman before. I left everything for music !
I was lucky to be able to participate in The Voice France and reach to the Final !
I love SPORT !!! Running in the mountains and Football !

I wanna ask you if there was someone from the music industry that was your idol or role model ?

I don’t really have an idol but a lot artists inspire me! In France I admire for Jacques Brel forhis texts and his interpretation… Johnny Hallyday remains the way to be on stage, a real showman! More recently I’m listening to Stromae, Ed Sheeran and John Mayer !

How was your experience in The Voice ?

It was a great adventure about people, friendships and art… I learned a lot about myself and my emotions during this period when we were performing ! I have incredible memories of it !

Have you ever visited Greece ?

I have never been to Greece… I’ve seen so many wonderful pictures, I have friends who told me so beautiful things about it! I hope to get there as soon as I can !

*At the end of the interview Casanova thanked us for the support*

In closing, we would like to thank Casanova for his time and we would like to wish him the best of luck to his attempt to raise the Tricolour in Rotterdam 2021.

France: Listen to “Mon Alliée”, the country’s final version for Rotterdam

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Tom Leeb’s Eurovision 2020 entry, “The Best In Me”, was announced in mid-February and shortly after French Culture Minister Franck Riester described the song’s English chorus as disturbing in response to a question from a center party LREM’s MP.

The issue went on to add that the French representative at Eurovision, which is a national contest, should proudly use the French language, stressing that it prefers the country’s representatives to sing in French and not win, rather than  with an English song.

When the tracks were due to expire, it became known that the title of the French entry had changed with the song now being titled “Mon Alliée”. Apart from the use of a French title, the track has undergone changes as the French have become more used to it, giving it what it had been stressed to lack.

Listen to the final version of France’s entry, “Mon Alliée”, below:

France: Head of Delegation resigned

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Eurovision 2020 will find many countries with new delegation chiefs, after Steven Clerima, head of the French delegation in the contest, announced his resignation.

https://twitter.com/stevenclerima/status/1202892316178046976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202892316178046976&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feurovisionfun.com%2F2019%2F12%2F%25ce%25b3%25ce%25b1%25ce%25bb%25ce%25bb%25ce%25af%25ce%25b1-%25cf%2580%25ce%25b1%25cf%2581%25ce%25b1%25ce%25b9%25cf%2584%25ce%25ae%25ce%25b8%25ce%25b7%25ce%25ba%25ce%25b5-%25ce%25bf-%25ce%25b1%25cf%2581%25cf%2587%25ce%25b7%25ce%25b3%25cf%258c%25cf%2582-%25ce%25b1%25cf%2580%25ce%25bf%25cf%2583%25cf%2584%25ce%25bf%25ce%25bb%2F

Steven Clerima has been a member of France’s Eurovision delegations for the past four years. Ever since then, Amir with “J’ai cherché” has rekindled French interest in the competition. He took over as head of delegation last year after succeeding Edoardo Grassi. He was in fact the Head of Delegation of France to Eurovision 2019 and Junior Eurovision 2018 and 2019.

This change comes at a time when there are reports in the French press about changing the country’s approach to public television in how to opt in, with the most likely scenarios being direct assignment or a small national final with 3 or 4 songs.

France: Direct assignment should not be considered as given

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Last week, French media reported that the country would choose its next representative in the Eurovision song contest. This meant that Destination Eurovision was not going to take place a third time. Ultimately, this seems to be a misunderstanding of the term “direct assignment”, since France 2 has not yet decided on Bilal’s successor, not even ruling out a national final with 3 or 4 candidates.

French television already receives songs for Eurovision 2020 but with the significant difference that for the first time since 2004 it has received entries from foreign composers as well. What is expected is that they will either become a national final with 3 or 4 candidates or will be selected by direct assignment, as was the case in 2016 and 2017 with positive results.

Bilal Hassani was the winner of the last Destination Eurovision and France’s representative at Eurovision 2019. He performed “Roi” on the stage of Tel Aviv and took 16th place with 105 points.

 

France: Good bye “Eurovision destination”

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The French public broadcaster, France Televisions, confirmed recently before its intention not to host the “Destination Eurovision” show in 2020, which has been used for the last two years to mark the French representative at Eurovision. Instead, France’s choice of Rotterdam will be directly assigned this year.

According to information and sources from Le Parisien, including Alexandra Redde-Amiel, head of entertainment at France Télévisions, France 2 will not renew the Eurovision Destination format. At least two reasons seem to have led to this choice.

The reasons

First, Destination Eurovision had very low viewing rates compared to contest. Both in the process of appointing the French representative and especially in comparison to Eurovision itself, the TV shares were in the dark. In particular, the televised final of its national selection was three times smaller than the May 18 final in Tel Aviv.

The second reason is, according to Alexandra Redde-Amiel, the desire of French television to have complete control over the choice of artist to compete in Rotterdam in May.

“We want to control the process more, through direct outsourcing. That is what Spain and England will do this year. We will develop our strengths differently. We are thinking about several options. By changing our process, we hope to reach the Top 5 in 2020”

The process

The French public broadcaster has asked several French composers, as well as foreign producers for the first time, to submit their proposals on the song and artist that may represent France in the 65th edition of Eurovision.

Finally, according to the article, the representative of France and the song contesting will be formally presented in a special TV show broadcast in France 2. Although no details have been provided, it is very likely that such a presentation will held before the meeting of the Heads of Missions in mid-March 2020.

Bilal Hassani was the winner of the last Destination Eurovision and France’s representative at Eurovision 2019. He performed “Roi” on the stage of Tel Aviv and took 16th place with 105 points.

Junior Eurovision 2019: What are the favorites to win?

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Only some hours  left for the Junior Eurovision 2019 final. Tomorrow, November 24 in Glivice, Poland, 19 songs will compete for the victory. After defining the order of appearance of the songs, it’s time to take a look at the big favorites.

The final result of Junior Eurovision will also be determined this year by a 50% vote of the jury and 50% of the public vote. The public can continuing voting online till tomorrow at 15:59 CET time. Of the 19 songs the following 4 seem to have stood out:

  • Poland

Last year’s winner and host of this year’s Junior Eurovision has already garnered many views. The official video has 3.8 million views, and the first rehearsal video is already close to 200,000. The singer’s official channel reaches 1.3 million and TVP’s channel reaches 1.4 million! It is expected that there will be great interest in Poland for the contest, but it is a strong song anyway. If that is supported by the jury, it is possible to see a second victory in a row for Poland. In audience voting, it will probably be in the top three if not first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okG6yNKaS1g

 

  • France

The country that returned dynamically last year after winning the runner-up looks determined to continue the good run. The video on the singer’s official channel reached 1.3 million views, while JESC’s official channel is approaching 1 million. The first rehearsal also became quite popular with 120,000 views. France has not won the competition so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWT_U6mEadQ

  • Spain

Spain have been abstaining from the competition for many years, but it seems that it wants to return dynamically this year. The video on the singer’s channel has 700,000 views, while the official JESC channel also reaches close to 700,000. The first rehearsal seems to stand out with nearly 120,000 views already. After Spain’s 2004 win, could we see its second win this year?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRj0dVWvHBg

  • Armenia

With an uptempo song, Armenia reached 900,000 views on the official JESC channel, while its first rehearsal also went well with 80,000 views. After winning 2010, the country has been close to winning several times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfUKHyFIX0s

Who will the winner be?

The above countries are almost certain to be in the top ten (possibly in the top five) of the public vote. The unexpected factor is the vote of the jury. Bearing in mind the results of the last two years that the system has been the same this year, it seems that the committees pay great attention to the vocal abilities of the singers as well as to the final visual spectacle.

You can enjoy the Junior Eurovision 2019 contest through the official channel on Sunday, November 24 at 16:00CET time.