Ukraine: UA:PBC reveals the Vidbir 2022 national finalists

Ukraine: UA:PBC reveals the Vidbir 2022 national finalists
Monday, 24 January 2022

  • The Ukrainian national broadcaster, UA:PBC, has revealed the participants of the upcoming national final for Eurovision 2022, Vidbir, 2022.

    Followiing Go_A's massive acceptance and the good result in Rotterdam the national broadcaster is sticking to the national selection format used the previous years, Vidbir 2022. 

    With the submissions complete on January 10, 2022  27 acts were shorlisted for the national selection. From these 27 acts, a total of eight acts will reach to the national final set to take place on February 12, 2022. 

     

    Here are the eight acts that selected to compete in the national final and in which half they will appear: 

     

    First Half

    • Cloudless – “All be alright”
    • Laud – “Head Under Water”
    • Michael Soul – “Demons”
    • Our Atlantic – “Moya lyubov” (My love)

     

    Second Half

    • Alina Pash – “Tini zabutykh predkiv” (Shadows of forgotten ancestors)
    • Kalush Orchestra – “Stefania”
    • Roxolana – “GIRLZZZZ”
    • Wellboy – “Nozzy Bossy”

    Responsible for the production of the show will be this year, Friends Pro TV, which are taking over from STB who were in charge since the first edition of the selection in 2016. Friends Pro TV will be taking care of the on-tape live performance and the staging in Turin. 

    The show will be hosted by Maria Efrosinina, who was one of the Eurovision 2005 hosts, while Timur Miroshnychenko, who was co-hosted Junior Eurovision 2009, Junior Eurovision 2013 and Eurovision 2017 and has been thw Ukrainian Eurovision commentator for several years, will be the Green Room host. 

    The outcome of the national final set for February 12 at 18:00 CET will be determined by a combination of jury and public voting. 

     

    Ukraine in Eurovision

    Ukraine participated for the first time at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 when Oleksandr Ponormayov represented the country Hasta la vista. Ukraine has won the Eurovision trophy two times, in 2004 with Ruslana and in 2016 (Jamala). Following both victories the country hosted the contest in 2005 and 2017. The country has achieved remarkable results as it has reached 10 times the top 10 places in its 15 year ESC history.

    Namely, Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Ukraine is the only country outside the Big 5 to have qualified for the final of every Eurovision they have competed in. Ukraine has a total of seven top five placements, with Verka Serduchka (2007) and Ani Lorak (2008) both finishing second, Zlata Ognevich third (2013), Mika Newton fourth (2011) and Go_A fifth (2021). The only countries with more top five results in the 21st century are Sweden (11) and Russia (10).

    In 2018 Ukraine was represented by Vidbir 2018 winner, Melovin with his entry Under the ladder, achieving a 17th place in the Grand Final.In 2019 Ukraine saw a dramatic national selection Vidbir, which saw Maruv winning with her entry Siren Song. After a serial of dramatic developments between the broadcaster and the winner eventually Ukraine withdrew from the Eurovision 2019.

    In 2020 after two semi final rounds and a total of 16 candidates, the Ukrainian national final for Eurovision 2020, Vidbir 2020, crowned winner the group  Gо_A  and the entry  “Solovey” . Unfortunately their Eurovision journey stayed incomplete as the contest was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. 

    The band was invited back for Eurovision 2021 in which they competed with the song 'Shum' which brought one more top 10 result for the nation finishing in 5th place in the Grand final with a total of 364 points in the overall score.

     

     

     

    News Source/Image: UA:PBC