Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 explained

Year:2022
Country:Romania
Preselection:Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Selecția Națională 2022
Preselection Date:Semi-final:
9–12 February 2022
Final:
5 March 2022
Entrant:Wrs
Song:Spanish; Castilian: [[Llámame (WRS song)|Llámame]]|i=no
Sf Result:Qualified (9th, 118 points)
Final Result:18th, 65 points

Romania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy, with "Spanish; Castilian: [[Llámame (WRS song)|Llámame]]|i=no" performed by Wrs. The Romanian broadcaster, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: [[TVR (TV network)|Televiziunea Română]]|i=no (TVR), organised the national final Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Selecția Națională 2022 in order to select the Romanian entry for the 2022 contest. The national final consisted of three shows, including two semi-finals and a final. A total of 46 entries were selected and 10 qualifiers ultimately competed in the final on 5 March 2022, where the winner scoring top marks from both a jury panel and a public televote was selected.

Romania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2022. Performing during the show in position 13, "Spanish; Castilian: Llámame|i=no" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final. In the final, Romania placed 18th with 65 points. It was later revealed that the country placed 9th in the semi-final with 118 points.

Background

See main article: Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Prior to the 2022 contest, Romania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since its first entry in . Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been third place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in with the song "Let Me Try" performed by Luminița Anghel and Sistem, and in with "Playing with Fire" by Paula Seling and Ovi.[1] In, Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: [[TVR (TV network)|Televiziunea Română]]|i=no (TVR) did not fully select its representative by means of the national final format Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: [[Selecția Națională]] for the first time ever. They collaborated instead with Global Records to internally select the entrant, Roxen, with the entry "Alcohol You" being selected through a national final.[2] [3] [4] However, the contest was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Roxen was internally re-selected to take part in the contest with the song "Amnesia", which failed to qualify to the final, placing 12th in the first semi-final. This marked the third consecutive time that the nation failed to qualify to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004. Following the televised debate Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Eurovision... pe șleau! ("Eurovision... frankly!") on 5 July 2021 which featured personalities of the national music industry, the broadcaster confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest on 20 October 2021 and would opt for a national final with several artists to select their 2022 entry.[5] [6] [7] [8]

Before Eurovision

Selecția Națională 2022

Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Selecția Națională 2022 was the national final organised by TVR in order to select Romania's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. The competition consisted of two shows: a semi-final featuring forty-five songs and a final featuring ten songs to be held between 9 February and 5 March 2022.[9] Both shows took place at the TVR studios in Bucharest and were televised on TVR1, TVR HD, TVRi as well as online via the broadcaster's streaming service TVR+ and YouTube. The two shows were also Moldova via the channel TVR Moldova.[10] An additional three shows, titled Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Drumul spre Torino (Road to Turin) and hosted by Ilinca who represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, were aired on TVR1 between 5 and 7 February 2022 in order to give insight on the competing acts.[11]

Competing entries

TVR opened a submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries between 26 November 2021 and 19 December 2021. The broadcaster received 94 submissions within the submission deadline.[12] A jury panel consisting of (singer), (opera singer, actress), (singer, producer), Cristian Faur (composer, producer) and (composer, conductor) reviewed the received submissions on 21 and 22 December 2021, with each juror on the committee rating each song between 1 (lowest) and 10 (highest) based on criteria such as the melodic harmony and structure of the song, the orchestral arrangement, originality and stylistic diversity of the composition and sound and voice quality.[13] After the combination of the jury votes, the top 45 entries that scored the highest, one per artist that entered with more than one song, were selected for the national final. The competing entries were announced on 23 December 2021. Among the selected competing artists are Ciro de Luca, who represented Romania in 2007 as part of Todomondo, and Cezar Ouatu, who previously represented Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013.[14] [15] Live performances of the competing entries were filmed at the TVR Studio 3 in Bucharest between 19 and 21 January 2022 and released online via YouTube on 5 February 2022.[16]

On 28 December 2021, TVR announced that "Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Malere|i=no" performed by E-an-na would also participate in the competition following a successful appeal made by the performers. "Best of Me" performed by Alex Parker, Erik Frank and Bastien was withdrawn from the competition on the same day and replaced with Parker and Bastien's second song "All This Love".[17] "Hypnotized" performed by Barbara Tešija, was withdrawn from the competition on 5 February 2022.[18] On 9 February, "That Way" performed by Fabi was withdrawn from the semi-final due to Fabi testing positive for COVID-19.[19] [20]

Shows

Semi-final

The semi-final took place over two rounds between 9 and 12 February 2022. In the first round, forty-five songs competed and twenty qualified to the second round.[21] A jury panel first selected fifteen songs to advance. The remaining thirty entries then faced a public online vote which took place on the Eurovision Romania Facebook page on 9 and 10 February 2022 which determined an additional five qualifiers.[22] The twenty qualifying entries were announced on 10 February 2022 during the TVR evening news broadcast.[23] In the second round which took place on 12 February 2022 and hosted by Anca Mazilu and Bogdan Stănescu with Ilinca hosting segments from the green room, a jury panel selected ten songs to qualify to the final.[24] [25] The members of the jury panel that voted during the semi-final were: (singer), (opera singer, actress), (singer, producer), Cristian Faur (composer, producer) and (composer, conductor).

First round9–10 February 2022
ArtistSongSongwriter(s)VotesPlaceResult
Aldo Blaga"Embers"Ylva Persson, Linda Persson, Rickard Bonde Truumeel, Charlie Mason, John Matthews1,42311Advanced
Alex Parker and Bastien"All This Love"Alexandru Ciacoi, Vlad Cireşan, Sebastian Tudor45331Advanced
Alexa"Hoodies and Cold Nights"Radu Bolfea, Inaki Calvo Medel, Omar Secada Dihigo, Alexa Niculae86320Eliminated
Alina Amon"Without You"Alina Amon98516Eliminated
Ana"Youngster"Ana Maria Lazăr38035Eliminated
Andra Oproiu"Younique"Ylva Persson, Linda Persson, Paul Dubrovsky, Lee Music1,8607Advanced
Andrea Stocchino"Italian: Avere paura|i=no"Andrea Stocchino, Nicolo Baldini, Emedio Mazzilli50228Eliminated
Andrei Petruș"Take Me"Călin Ionce, Silvia Ștefănescu1,6508Advanced
Aris"Russian: Do svidaniya|i=no" Michael James Down, Will Taylor, Primož Poglajen, Natalie Palmer1,11013Advanced
Ayona"Let Me Come to You"Marius Cobianu25438Eliminated
Bogdan Dumitraș"Sign"Alex Luft44432Eliminated
Carmen Trandafir"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Măști|i=no"Carmen Trandafir, Riona Sakurada58824Eliminated
Cezar Ouatu"For Everyone"Mihai Alexandru, Christian Alexandru59823Advanced
Ciro de Luca"Italian: Imperdonabile|i=no"Ciro de Luca, Rareș Varniote14742Eliminated
Cream, Minodora and Diana Bucșa"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: România mea|i=no"Alina Manolache, Costi Ioniță1,4979Advanced
Dan Helciug"241"Dan Helciug1,27112Eliminated
Dora Gaitanovici"Ana"Dora Gaitanovici3,2182Advanced
E-an-na"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Malere|i=no"Andrei Oltean, Ovidiu Ban10,1241Advanced
Eliza G"The Other Half of Me"Valerio Carboni, Giuseppe Anastasi, Mike Connaris, Elisa Gaiotto56625Advanced
Eugenia Nicolae feat. Cazanoi Brothers"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Doina|i=no"Eugenia Niţu, Cezar Cazanoi, Anatolie Cazanoi, Liviu Tănăsoiu1,04215Advanced
Fabi"That Way"Fabian Ferrara445Withdrew
Forțele de muncă"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Hai afară, frate!|i=no"Florin Dumitrescu42033Eliminated
Gabriel Basco"One Night"Gabriel Bîscoveanu, Roland Kiss, Dominic Dehen Perfetti2,1406Advanced
Giulia-Georgia"Find Your Way"Giulia-Georgia Beiliciu45730Eliminated
Ivel"Neverending"Ivelin Trakiyski2544Eliminated
Jessie"Regret"Jessie Baneş, Bogdan Samoilenco, Loredana Cavasdan, Bianca Dragomir-Fotache, David Popa, Călin Luca, Tomer Weissbuch, Olga Verbitchi25139Eliminated
Kyrie Mendél"Hurricane"Kyrie Mendél14841Advanced
Letiția Moisescu"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Mirunica|i=no"Ovidiu Junghiatu, Niculae Robert Andrei50029Eliminated
Leyah"I'll Be Fine"Magdalena Marica53427Eliminated
Mălina"Prisoner"Cornel-Valentin Oprea, Malina-Elena Paraschiv2,3365Advanced
Miryam"Top of the Rainbow"Ovidiu Anton90218Eliminated
Møise"Guilty"Shawn Myers, Jonas Gladnikoff53726Advanced
Oana Tăbultoc"Utopia"Ylva Persson, Linda Persson, Rickard Bonde Truumeel, Roeland Ruijsch2,6294Advanced
Olivia Miheț"Fragile"Olivia Miheț, Mihai Costăchescu27437Eliminated
Othello"You're Worthy"Liviu Elekes, Roxana Elekes32936Eliminated
Outflow"Running in Circles"Florin Ciotlăuș, Lucian Călin Blaga, George Popa, Mircea Georoceanu1,43010Eliminated
Petra"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Ireligios|i=no"Petronela Donciu25139Advanced
Roberta-Maria Popa"Indigo"Ylva Persson, Linda Persson, Peter Frodin, Lee Music89619Eliminated
Romeo Zaharia"Until the Fight Is Over"Arnar Ástráðsson, Aidan O'Connor91517Eliminated
Seeya"Save Me"Idris Jafarov, Bogdan Ioan Tomosoiu7143Eliminated
Sophia"Beautiful Lies"Alexandru Bugan, Eduard Cârcotă, Sophia Ulianov41034Eliminated
Stelian"Remember"Călin Giurgiu, Stelian Ciuciuc, Niklas Bergqvist, Stefan Knutsson83922Eliminated
Vanu"Never Give Up"Cristian Prăjescu, Ioana Hrisca, Teodora Constantin, Răzvan Alexa1,08414Advanced
Vizi"Sparrow"Vizi Imre2,7533Advanced
Wrs"Spanish; Castilian: [[Llámame (WRS song)|Llámame]]|i=no"Andrei Ursu, Cezar Gună, Alexandru Turcu84221Advanced
Second round – 12 February 2022[26]
DrawArtistSongResult
1Alex Parker and Bastien"All This Love"Advanced
2Aldo Blaga"Embers"Eliminated
3Petra"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Ireligios|i=no"Advanced
4Vizi"Sparrow"Eliminated
5Vanu"Never Give Up"Advanced
6Mălina"Prisoner"Eliminated
7Wrs"Spanish; Castilian: [[Llámame (WRS song)|Llámame]]|i=no"Advanced
8Andrei Petruș"Take Me"Advanced
9Møise"Guilty"Advanced
10Gabriel Basco"One Night"Advanced
11Cream, Minodora and Diana Bucșa"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: România mea|i=no"Advanced
12Oana Tăbultoc"Utopia"Eliminated
13Kyrie Mendél"Hurricane"Advanced
14Dora Gaitanovici"Ana"Advanced
15Cezar Ouatu"For Everyone"Eliminated
16Andra Oproiu"Younique"Eliminated
17E-an-na"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Malere|i=no"Eliminated
18Eugenia Nicolae feat. Cazanoi Brothers"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Doina|i=no"Eliminated
19Eliza G"The Other Half of Me"Eliminated
20Aris"Russian: Do svidaniya|i=no"Eliminated
Final

The final took place on 5 March 2022, hosted by Eda Marcus and with Ilinca hosting segments from the green room.[27] Ten songs competed and the winner, "Spanish; Castilian: Llámame|i=no" performed by Wrs, was determined by the combination of the votes from a five-member jury panel (5/6) and public televoting (1/6). Each juror voted by assigning scores from 1–8, 10 and 12 points to their preferred songs, with the juries awarding 290 points in total. The viewer vote was assigned by dividing the votes received by each song by the number of votes of the song that gained the most viewer votes. This number was then multiplied by 12 and rounded to two decimal places. For example, if song A received the most viewer votes and song B received 10% of song A's votes, then song A would be awarded 12 televoting points and song B would be awarded 1.2 televoting points. The members of the jury panel that voted during the final were: (singer), (opera singer, actress), (singer, producer), Cristian Faur (composer, producer) and (composer, conductor).

In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the interval acts featured performances by Eurovision winner Jamala, who performed her winning song "1944", as well as seven Eurovision entrants: Intelligent Music Project, Zdob și Zdub and Frații Advahov, Vladana, Andrea, Ronela Hajati, We Are Domi and Stefan .[28] [29]

Final – 5 March 2022[30]
DrawArtistSongJuryTelevoteTotalPlace
VotesPoints
1Andrei Petruș"Take Me"118072.5913.599
2Alex Parker and Bastien"All This Love"274291.3828.387
3Gabriel Basco"One Night"351,0483.3738.374
4Vanu"Never Give Up"346762.1736.175
5Petra"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Ireligios|i=no"344121.3235.326
6Møise"Guilty"105851.8811.8810
7Cream, Minodora and Diana Bucșa"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: România mea|i=no"137642.4515.458
8Kyrie Mendél"Hurricane"466412.0648.062
9Dora Gaitanovici"Ana"323,73712443
10Wrs"Spanish; Castilian: [[Llámame (WRS song)|Llámame]]|i=no"483,49711.2359.231
Detailed jury votes
DrawSongRandiTotal
1"Take Me"1113511
2"All This Love"5456727
3"One Night"73671235
4"Never Give Up"464101034
5"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Ireligios|i=no"61285334
6"Guilty"3231110
7"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: România mea|i=no"2522213
8"Hurricane"1010108846
9"Ana"8774632
10"Spanish; Castilian: Llámame|i=no"1281212448

Ratings

Viewing figures by show
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scope=col Nominalscope=col Share
Final197,0002.6%[31]

Promotion

Wrs made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "Spanish; Castilian: Llámame|i=no" as the Romanian Eurovision entry. On 26 March, Wrs performed during the Barcelona Eurovision Party, which was held at the Sala Apolo venue in Barcelona, Spain and hosted by Sharonne and Giuseppe Di Bella.[32] On 3 April, Wrs performed during the London Eurovision Party, which was held at the Hard Rock Hotel in London, United Kingdom and hosted by Paddy O'Connell and SuRie.[33] [34] On 7 April, Wrs performed during the Israel Calling event held at the Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv, Israel.[35] On 9 April, Wrs performed during the Eurovision in Concert event which was held at the AFAS Live venue in Amsterdam, Netherlands and hosted by Cornald Maas and Edsilia Rombley.[36] On 16 April, Wrs performed during the PrePartyES 2022 event which was held at the Sala La Riviera venue in Madrid, Spain and hosted by Ruth Lorenzo.[37]

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 25 January 2022, an allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Romania has been placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 12 May 2022, and has been scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.[38]

Once all the competing songs for the 2022 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Romania was set to perform in position 13, following the entry from and before the entry from .[39]

All three shows were broadcast in Romania on TVR1 and TVRi with commentary by Bogdan Stănescu, who was joined by Kyrie Mendél for the final.[40] [41] The Romanian spokesperson, who announced the top 12-point score awarded by the Romanian jury during the final, was supposed to be Eda Marcus, however during the broadcast of the final, Romania's jury votes were read by the EBU's Executive Supervisor Martin Österdahl. This was attributed to connection difficulties during the voting.[42]

Semi-final

Wrs took part in technical rehearsals on 3 and 6 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 11 and 12 May. This included the jury show on 11 May where the professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries.[43]

The Romanian performance featured Wrs dressed in a long-sleeved red ruffled shirt and black leather trousers and performing together with four dancers. The performance began with focus on two of the dancers who are lit with a low level light to give a silhouette effect before the camera panned out to reveal Wrs who then performed a choreographed routine with the dancers throughout the song, which included Wrs' shirt being pulled off to reveal a silver bejewelled black vest top. The stage displayed red and yellow colours with the LED screens displaying the song lyrics and a golden pyrotechnic effect in the final chorus.[44] [45] The four dancers that joined Wrs on stage were Andrei Iulian Angelescu, Emanuel Neagu, Ruxandra Anamaria and Vivienne Meda, while an off-stage backing vocalist, Laurian Manta, was also featured for the performance.[46] The stage director for the Romanian performance was Aurel Badea.[47]

At the end of the show, Romania was announced as having finished in the top 10 and subsequently qualifying for the grand final. It was later revealed that Romania placed ninth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 118 points: 100 points from the televoting and 18 points from the juries.[48]

Final

Shortly after the second semi-final, a winners' press conference was held for the ten qualifying countries. As part of this press conference, the qualifying artists took part in a draw to determine which half of the grand final they would subsequently participate in. This draw was done in the order the countries appeared in the semi-final running order. Romania was drawn to compete in the first half.[49] Following this draw, the shows' producers decided upon the running order of the final, as they had done for the semi-finals. Romania was subsequently placed to perform in position 2, following the entry from the Czech Republic and before the entry from Portugal.[50]

Wrs once again took part in dress rehearsals on 13 and 14 May before the final, including the jury final where the professional juries cast their final votes before the live show. Wrs performed a repeat of his semi-final performance during the final on 14 May. Romania placed eighteenth in the final, scoring 65 points: 53 points from the televoting and 12 points from the juries.[51]

Voting

See also: Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest.

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.[52] In addition, each member of a national jury may only take part in the panel once every three years, and no jury was permitted to discuss of their vote with other members or be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.[53] The individual rankings of each jury member in an anonymised form as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.[54] [55]

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Romania and awarded by Romania in the second semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:

Points awarded to Romania

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