Worldvision Q4-2022
The Worldvision Song Contest Summer 2022 - is set to be the 1st edition of the Worldvision Song Contest that has been ever made. It is set to take place in Barcelona, Spain. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE), the contest will be held at the Palau Sant Jordi Arena, and will consist of a final on 23 July 2022.
| Worldvision Summer 2022 | |
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| To Be Announced | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 23 July 2022 |
| Host | |
| Venue | Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, Spain |
| Presenter(s) | T.B.A |
| Directed by |  Sergey Ladysev |
| Executive supervisor |  Mark Nightingale |
| Executive producer |  Pasha Kulik |
| Host broadcaster | TVE |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 29 |
| Debuting countries | Australia Belarus Canada China Denmark Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kenya North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Russia San Marino Serbia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Netherlands Ukraine United Kingdom United States |
| Returning Countries | None |
| Non-returning Countries | None |
| Participation map | |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs: the first from a professional jury, the second from viewers. |
| Nul points in final | N/A |
| Winning song | T.B.A. |
This will be the first time that Spain hosts the contest. Twenty nine countries will take part in the contest (twenty one european countries and eight from rest of the world), but only eighteen of them will pass through the screening stage by rating-odds.
Location
The summer'22 contest will take place in Barcelona, Spain. It will be the first time that Spain hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 18.000-seat Palau Sant Jordi Arena, is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose indoor arena.
Bidding phase
Main article: Bids for the Worldvision Summer 2022
IECO has announced the call for applications for the competition, which will be accepted from 2 to 3 May 2022. On the evening of May 3, after considering the applications, the referent group published four official candidates for the right to accept the competition:
| Bid | Capacity | Round 1 | Round 2 | |
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| Spain, Barcelona; Palau Sant Jordi Arena
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18.000 | 5 | 9 | |
| South Korea, Gangneung; Gangneung Ice Arena
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12.000 | 3 | 5 | |
| United Kingdom, London; O2 Arena
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20.000 | 3 | 3 | |
| United States, Tulsa; BOK Center
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19.200 | 1 | — | |
| Total ballots | 12 | 17 | ||
Bidding took place using two rounds of voting. After the first round, the bid from the United States left the bidding race. In the second round of voting, Spain's bid won the majority of the votes, which eliminated the need for a third round of voting.
Production
Visual design
Presenters
Opening and interval acts
Format
Entries
For the Summer 2022 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 July 2021 are eligible. Quotas, which could be requested by the participating countries in order to be able to exhibit a composition in a language other than the main language of the country, will not be distributed in the debut season.
Allocation draw
The draw to determine the participating countries' final will place on 26 Juny 2022. 16 countries will be divided into two parts of 8 countries by random selection.
The order of performance of the finalists will be known on 1 July 2022. The order will be determined by the organizers of the competition.
Participating Countries
As of 1 May 2022, twenty nine countries have confirmed their intention to participate in the Summer 2022 edition, but only sixteen will promotion to the grand final. On 18 May 2022, the organizers of the competition decided to automatically admit Australia and Japan to the final. These countries were recognized as the founding countries of the competition. It was also announced that the final will be increased from 16 to 18 participating countries.
The Odds stage
Winning Odds will be annonce on 20 June 2022.
| Rank | Country | Artist | Song | Language(s) | Winning Odds |
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| TBD 20 June 2022 | Belarus
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| Canada
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| China
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Layla May | Sea In Your Eyes | English | ||
| Denmark
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| Germany
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| Greece
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| Hungary
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Adele | Oh My God | English | ||
| Ireland
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| Italy
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| Kazakhstan
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Polnalyubvi | Your Eyes | Russian | ||
| Kenya
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Sabrina Carpenter | Fast Times | English | ||
| North Macedonia
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TBD 27 May 2022 | ||||
| Norway
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OneRepublic | Someday | English | ||
| Poland
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| Portugal
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| Russia
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| San Marino
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Siames | No Lullaby | English | ||
| Serbia
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| South Korea
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TBD 10 June 2022 | ||||
| Sweden
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| Switzerland
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| Thailand
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Slot Machine | PhiangWaichai | Thai | ||
| Netherlands
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TBD 7 June 2022 | ||||
| Ukraine
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| United Kingdom
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TBD 10 June 2022 | ||||
| United States
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Final
The final will take place on 23 July 2022. Eighteen countries will participate in the final, which will be announced on 20 June 2022.
| Draw | Country | Artist | Song | Language(s) |
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| TBD 1 July 2022 | Australia
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Meg Mac | Is It Worth Being Sad | English |
| Japan
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| Spain
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Incidents
French artist
On 17 May 2022, the organizers of the competition announced the possible withdrawal of France from the competition. As is well known later that day, the French delegation was greatly offended by the ridicule of a possible representative of the country. The clip of a possible representative, in the opinion of the contest supervisor, did not have a full competitive look. In response to the non-admission of the entry, the head of the French delegation said that he wanted to switch to the curation of Argentina, as he expressed a desire to submit Latin-American compositions to the competition, which would not be allowed to be curated by France due to the presence of quotas for languages in the competition. On May 18, at an extraordinary meeting of the members of the organizational group of the competition, they decided to satisfy the initial request of Nikita Likhanov to curate Monaco, which was not initially included in the lists for participation.
Withdrawal of Kenya
On 18 May 2022, Alexander Kustov, curator of Kenya, announced his refusal to participate in the competition in the future. The reason for this, as it turned out later, was the political views on the military events in Ukraine in 2022, which were fundamentally opposite to the main number of curators of the competition. On May 19, competition supervisor Mark Nightingale announced that Kenya was not officially removed from the competition and that she could continue her participation and submit her application until June 10 inclusive.