United Kingdom in the Worldvision Q4-2022
| Worldvision Summer 2022 | ||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Worldvision You Decide | |||
| Selection date(s) | Final: 12 June 2022 | |||
| Selected entrant | Florence + The Machine | |||
| Selected song | "My Love" | |||
| United Kingdom in the Worldvision Song Contest | ||||
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United Kingdom participated in the Worldvision Song Contest 2022 in Barcelona, Spain with the song "My Love" performed by British group Florence + The Machine. The British broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation organised the national final Worldvision You Decide summer 2022 in order to select the British entry for the 2022 contest. Nine entries competed in the national final, and the winner was announced on 12 June 2022 following the combination of votes from a nine-member international jury panel vote.
Worldvision You Decide: Summer 2022 was the 1st edition of the British music competition and took place on 12 June 2022 in London (Piccadilly Theatre). The winner of the contest will be eligible to represent the United Kingdom at Worldvision Song Contest Summer 2022.
Format
Worldvision You Decide Summer 2022, organised by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), was held in the format of one final with the participation of nine invited compositions released no earlier than 1 January 2021. Initially, it was announced that the selection would take place in one format with the participation of sixteen songs, however, on 6 June 2022, it was announced that only nine songs from the announced list would continue to participate.
Voting
Each of the five members of the jury had a set of points according to the system: 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1 points. This year curators from Australia, Canada, Hungary, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom were invited to take the place of the jury. The winner was determined by the composition that scored the most points.
Artists
The participating performers of the selection were announced on 1 June 2022, but on 6 June it was reported that the list of participants was reduced from sixteen to nine compositions.
Final
Voting took place from 8 to 11 June 2022. Florence + The Machine with song "My Love" won the selection.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Language(s) | Jury | Total | Place | |||||||||
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 MKD |
 JPN |
 PRT |
 AUS |
 NLD |
 CAN |
 HUN |
 ESP |
 GBR | |||||||
| 01 | Alex Clare | Why Don’t Ya | English | 7 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 74 | 2 | ||
| 02 | Marina & The Diamonds | Ancient Dreams In a Modern Land | English | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 9 | |||||
| 03 | Bishop Briggs & Jacob Banks | Someone Else | English | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 40 | 7 | ||||
| 04 | Florence + The Machine | My Love | English | 11 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 81 | 1 | |
| 05 | Lola Young | Ruin My Make Up | English | 9 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 73 | 3 | |
| 06 | Florrie | Communicate | English | 3 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 41 | 6 | |||
| 07 | Ibeyi & Pa Salieu | Made Of Gold | English | 5 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 50 | 4 | ||
| 08 | Em Beihold | Numb Little Bug | English | 13 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 49 | 5 | |||||
| 09 | PinkPantheress | Just For Me | English | 1 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 8 | |||||
| N/A | Dove Cameron | Boyfriend | English | Eliminated | |||||||||||
| Little Mix | No | English | |||||||||||||
| Michael Patrick Kelly | Throwback | English | |||||||||||||
| Mimi Webb | House On Fire | English | |||||||||||||
| Tom Gregory | River | English | |||||||||||||
| JC Stewart | Don’t Say You Love Me | English | |||||||||||||
| Holly Humberstone | London Is Lonely | English | |||||||||||||
After selection
At Worldvision
On 20 June 2022, it will become known whether the representative of the country qualifies for the final of the competition.