France: Eurovision France: ‘C’est Vous Qui Décidez’ 2022 acts and entries released

France: Eurovision France: ‘C’est Vous Qui Décidez’ 2022 acts and entries released
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

  • The French national broadcaster, France 2, has released the competing acts and entries of the upcoming national final  'Eurovision France: ‘C’est Vous Qui Décidez’ 2022.

    Following the confirmation of the national final dates, France 2, went on today revealing the competing acts and songs of the show that is set to take place on March 5. Alike the past national finals of  Destination Eurovisionwhich unfolded in several shows in 2018 and 2019, 'Eurovision France, it's you who decide' takes place in only one evening

    ‘Eurovision France: c’est vous qui décidez’ was held for the first time last year with a total of 12 acts competing in the national final. It met satisfying viewing figures with an average of 2.37 million spectators tuning on the national selection show. The national selection show came as answer to previous year internal selection which saw wide critism against it. 

    The show will be hosted by  Laurence Boccolini and Stéphane Bern will be returning to present us the 2022 French national final. In addition, the tv duo will serve as commentators for the French broadcaster in next year's Eurovision Grand final show, while Laurence Boccolini will comment solo on the two semi final shows ahead fo the final show. 

    A total of 12 acts will compete in the national final and battle for the right to represent France at Eurovision 2022. The 12 acts have been selected via auditions that were held at the Apollo Théâtre in Paris. 

    Namely the 12 acts and songs running for Eurovision 2022 are: 

    The national selection show is produced and directed by Julian Gutierrez and Stéphane Bohée, iwhile Florian Guiot is the Project Manager. Alexandra Redde-Amiel remains in her position as the the Head of the French Delegation.

    The final outcome of the national final will be determined by a combination of public (50%) and jury voting (50%).

     

    France in Eurovision 

    France is  one of the seven countries that had its first participation back in 1956. Since then the country has won the contest 5 times. Last time was in 1977, with Marie Myriam and her song L’oiseau et l’enfant. The last two years, however,  seems to be an increasing interest for the contest .

    Destination Eurovision  was used for the first time as the country’s national selection format in 2018, including two recorded semi final shows and a live grand final. 2018 was the first time France held a nationa final since 2014. National final 2018 winners were the duo Madame Monsieur who represented France in Lisbon with their entry “Mercy” which finished 13th.

    In 2019 Bilal Hassani won the second edition of Destination Eurovision 2019 and defended the French colours in Tel Aviv with his entry Roi which came 16th in the Grand final.After that France Televisions went internal selecting Tom Leeb to represent the country in Rotterdam last May. Unfortunately his ESC 2020 journey never took place as the covid-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of this year's edition. 

    Last year Barbara Pravi won the national final with her song 'Voila' and  defended the French colors in Rotterdam performing in the Grand final on May 22, 2021. The French hopeful almost won the competition finishing 2nd behind Italy's Maneskin with 499 points i the overall score

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    News Source/Cover photo: France 2