Iceland: RÚV releases the Söngvakeppnin 2022 competing entries

Iceland: RÚV releases the Söngvakeppnin 2022 competing entries
Sunday, 06 February 2022

  • The Icelandic national broadcaster, RUV, has released the songs competing in the upcoming Söngvakeppnin 2022, the show that will determine the country's Eurovision 2022 hopeful. 

    Iceland will be selecting their Eurovision 2022 through the show of Söngvakeppnin 2022 after a year's break with the internall selection of Dadi Freyr. A total of 160 songs were submitted  during the submssion period,  which marks a new record number for the national selection and could easily be justified by last year's successful participation in Rotterdam. 

    A special committee shorlisted 10 entries that will be competing in the national selection, which will consist of two semifinals and one grand final show. Five acts will compete in each semi final heat with the public voting to determine two qualifiers from each semi final. In addition the jury will choose one more entry to advance to the final show. During the final 50% of public voting and 50% of jury votes will determine which two will qualify to a Superfinal round, in which televoting will decide the final winner and the next Icelandic Eurovision hopeful. 

    The acts that will compete in the semifinals are: 

     

    1st Semi-final

    1. Amarosis – “Don’t you know”
    2. Stefán Óli – “Ljósið” (The light)/ “All I know”
    3. Haffi Haff – “Gía” / “Volcano”
    4. Stefanía Svavarsdóttir – “Hjartað mitt” (My heart) / “Heart of mine”
    5. Sigga, Beta & Elín – “Með hækkandi sól” (With the rising sun)

     

    2nd Semi-final

    1. Hanna Mia and the Astrotourists – “Séns með þér” (See you soon) / “Gemini”
    2. Katla – “Þaðan af” (From there) / “Then again”
    3. Markéta Irglová – “Mögulegt” (Possible) / “Possible”
    4. Reykjavikurdaetur – “Tökum af stað” (Let’s get started) / “Turn this around”
    5. Suncity and Sanna – “Hækkum í botn” (Let’s go to the bottom) 

    You can listen to all the entries of the Icelandic national selection for Eurovision 2022 RUV's website.

     

    According to the new timeline the Söngvakeppnin 2022 shows will unfold according to the following schedule: 

    • February 26: First semi-final
    • March 5: Second semi-final
    • March 11: Family show (judge flow)
    • March 12: Final night

     

     

    Iceland in Eurovision 

    The Nordic country, which debuted in Eurovision in 1986, was only absent at two editions of the contest, in 1998 and 2002, and that was due to low rankings that its entries received. It is the only country from the Scandinavic ones not to have won the contest, despite its best results  in 1999 with Selma and in 2009 with Yohana, when the country finished in the 2nd place

    In 2018 Iceland last year was represented by Ari Ólafsson and his entry Our Choice. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it to the grand final which was the consecutive  fourth time the country failed to qualify.In 2019 Söngvakeppnin 2019 winner, the group Hatari flew the flag in Tel Aviv and performed on stage Hatrið mun sigra, which qualified to the final where it came 10th with 232 points.

    This year Daði & Gagnamagnið won the Icelandic national final, Söngvakeppnin 2020, and were set to represent the nation with their entry “Think About Things” . Although the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 outbreak the Icelandic acts will had the chance to complete their Eurovision journey in 2021 with a new song. 

    In 2021 Daði & Gagnamagnið defended the Icelandic colors in Rotterdam performing '10 Years' which finished in the honorable 4th place of the Grand final.  

     

    News Source: RUV

    Image: RUV