EUROVISION 2022. For the next edition of the European singing competition, Italy, the last winner, will organize Eurovision, in Turin on May 14, 2022.
[Mis à jour le 11 janvier 2022 à 10h33] The 66th edition of Eurovision will take place in 2022. After the last victory of the rock group Maneskin, crowned with their song “Zitti e buoni”, the event will be organized by Italy. Indeed, the winner of the previous edition receives the honor of organizing the following competition. Previously, Italy has already organized Eurovision twice: in 1965 in Naples, and in 1991 in Rome. Several Italian cities had expressed interest in the idea of organizing the competition in 2022, but it was ultimately Turin that was chosen to host the event. The Eurovision 2022 final is scheduled for May 14, 2022.
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The date of Eurovision 2022 is known: the final is scheduled for May 14, 2022 in Turin (Italy). Previously, the competing countries will compete for their place in the competition in two semi-finals: the first will take place on May 10, the second on May 12, 2022.
During Eurovision 2021, broadcast live on May 22, 2021, Maneskin, who represented Italy, was crowned the winner. He won the international singing competition with his title, “Zitti e buoni”. He finished ahead of France and Switzerland, in second and third place respectively. Before the big night, the rock group was already the favorite of bookmakers, who imagined them winning the competition. This Italian quartet is originally from Rome. They began by performing in the streets of the Italian capital, before appearing at X Factor in Italy, in 2017. It was by winning the San Remo festival that they qualified for Eurovision 2021.
Unfortunately, a controversy marred their victory at Eurovision 2021: a filmed extract of the evening led several Internet users to think that the singer of the Italian rock group would have taken drugs during the ceremony, in front of the cameras. In the end, this is not the case since on May 24, 2021, two days later, the screening test proved that Damiano had not taken drugs. “We consider the incident closed,” said the organizers of Eurovision, the European Broadcasting Union.
- Italy (524 points)
- France (499 points)
- Switzerland (432 points)
- Iceland (378 points)
- Ukraine (364 points)
- Finland (301 points)
- Malta (255 points)
- Lithuania (220 points)
- Russia (204 points)
- Greece (170 points)
- Bulgaria (170 points)
- Portugal (153 points)
- Moldova (115 points)
- Sweden (109 points)
- Serbia (102 points)
- Cyprus (94 points)
- Israel (93 points)
- Norway (75 points)
- Belgium (74 points)
- Azerbaijan (65 points)
- Albania (57 points)
- San Marino (50 points)
- The Netherlands (11 points)
- Spain (6 points)
- Germany (3 points)
- the United Kingdom (0 points)
We do not yet know the representative of France for Eurovision 2022. Last year, a jury of stars and the French public chose Barbara Pravi to represent France at Eurovision 2021. This 28-year-old singer made his debut her musical career in 2015. The musical “Un été 44” allowed her to make her known at first, before releasing her eponymous first album in 2017. But it is especially for other artists that she worked , writing songs for Chimène Badi or Julie Zenatti. Before representing France in the international singing competition, she already had a link with Eurovision: it was indeed Barbara Pravi who co-wrote two French titles for Eurovision Junior: “Bim bam toi” in 2019 and “I imagine” in 2020, which won the competition in November 2020.
Since its creation in 1956, France has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times: in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1969 and 1977. Our country is therefore just behind Ireland, which holds the record with seven victories. In 1958, singer André Claveau won France’s first victory with the title Dors, mon amour. Two years later, in 1960, the artist Jacqueline Boyer won unanimous support with the song Tom Pillibi. In 1962, Isabelle Aubret won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Un premier amour. Then in 1969, it was Frida Boccara who won the Eurovision Song Contest with the title Un jour, un enfant. Finally, in 1977, the singer Marie Myriam was the last to win by performing The Bird and the Child, a title that has become cult over time for the public.