Latvia: Record number of applications for Supernova 2022, with 130 songs submitted

Latvia: Record number of applications for Supernova 2022, with 130 songs submitted
Wednesday, 08 December 2021

  • The Latvian national broadcaster, LTV, has announced that it has received a record breaking number of submissions for Supernova 2022, the show that determines the country's Eurovision representative. 

    LRT revealed today that they have received a total of 130 songs for the ESC 2022 national selection of Supernova, which marks a record number of submissions for the competition. 

    Agnese Strause-Kubliņa, the head of LTV's Children's, Youth and Entertainment Program stated on the submissions: 

    "In terms of genre, this is definitely the richest year of" Supernova "! Songs in the style of pop, folk music, electronic music and even heavy rock have been submitted to the competition. "Among the applicants are also artists who have already represented Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest."

    Until the end of this year, the entry of songs and performers in "Supernova 2022"  will be determined by the jury selected by LTV, assessing the song's structure - originality, arrangement, message, compliance with modern market trends, as well as abilities, personalities and past achievements in the industry, as well as the potential for future achievements.  

    The songs will be available for public review in January while the live shows are expected to kick off in February 2022.

     

    Latvia in Eurovision 

    Latvia participated in Eurovision first time back in 2000. The country on its debut participation, with Brainstorm finished in 3rd place with the song My Star. It didn’t take long for Latvia to win the contest, since in  2002, with Marie N’s I Wanna the Baltic country was crowned winner.

    Latvia only participated in 2002 thanks to the withdrawal of Portugal from the contest, as Latvia’s poor result in 2001 had relegated them from the 2002 contest. From 2009 to 2014 Latvia met disappointing results as it failed to qualify to the Grand final. In 2015 achieved its best results the latest year with Animata and her Love Injected which ended in 6th place.  In 2018  the country was represented by Laura Rizzotto with her song Funny girl which finished 12th in the semi final failing to qualify to the final .

    In 2019 Supernova winner Carousel represented the countey in Tel Aviv with their entry That night. The song didn’t make it to the final marking Latvia’s third successive failure to qualify to the final.

    Samanta Tīna won the Latvian Eurovision national selection, Supernova 2020,  with her song “Still Breathing” last . However her Eurovision journey never reached its destination in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless the Latvian act was selected internally to compete in Rotterdam in 2021 with her entry 'The Moon is Rising' which competed in the second semi final show but unfortunately didn't qualify to the final. 

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