Malta: PBS confirms Eurovision 2022 participation and opens the submission window

Malta: PBS confirms Eurovision 2022 participation and opens the submission window
Friday, 15 October 2021

  • The Maltese broadcaster, PBS, has confirmed their participation at Eurovision 2022 in Turin next May and has already opened the national selection submission window. 

    Malta becomes the 32nd country to confirmed to ESCToday its presence in Turin, Italy at the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. PBS has confirmed to ESCToday that they will be taking part in the next Eurovision Song Contest marking their 34th participation in the competition. 

    PBS will be selecting their Eurovision 2022 hopeful via the national final 'Malta Eurovision Song Contest', which successes the X-factor show which was used to select the country's representative since 2019. The broadcaster has published the rules and terms of the national selection and has already opened the submission window for  acts or composers that ambition to represent the Mediterranenan state island in Turin. All interested applicants  should send in their application until December 15, 2021. 

    The national selection will include one semi final round and a Grand final show. A total of 22 acts will compete in the semifinals while 16 contestants will give the final battle for the ticket to Turin in the Grand final show. The outcome of the final will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting (50% each). 

    The names of the 22 national selection candidates will be released later in January 2022. 

     

    Malta in Eurovision 

    Malta participated in Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1971 and has participated 33 times until now. Since 1991 it hasn't missed out any edtion of the competition. The mediterranean country has not been victorious until now but holds two second places in its record (2002 Ira Losco, Seventh Wonder) and (2005 Chiara Angel). Since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, it has failed to qualify six times.

    In 2019 the X-factor winner Michela Pace won the right to represent the country in Tel Aviv with her entry “Chameleon” which eventually came 14th in the grand final. In 2020 Destiny Chunkunyere won the second season of X-factor and was set to fly the flag in Rotterdam with her song 'All My Love' but unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the cornavirus pandemic and she never performed in The Netherlands.

    However, this year Destiny was invited back for Eurovision 2021 in Rotterdam where she delivered on Rotterdam Ahoy's stage her entry "Je me casse"  which finished 7th in the Grand final with a total of 255 points, which is Malta's best results since 2005 when Chiara finished 2nd. 

     

    News Source: ESCToday

    Image: EBU / THOMAS HANSES