EuroMusic Song Contest 22

The EuroMusic Song Contest 22 was the twenty-second edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was the United Kingdom, that won the previous edition, with the song New rules. This was the second time that the UK hosted this contest. The previous time was in the fourth edition. Glasgow was choosen as host city.

Romania won this edition with the song Playing with fire. It was their second victory in this contest. Israel finished at the second place while Sweden completed the top three. Germany finished last with zerro points, the first entry ever who received zerro points in the grand final.

Location
Straight after the British victory in the previous edition, BBC announced that they would host this edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. Every city was able to select one venue.

Here you can see the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

Host venue Shortlisted

When all the venues were announced, the EBU and the BBC shortlisted two possible cities: Glasgow and London. During the anniversary edition: EuroMusic Song Contest 11-20: The best of, the presenters announced that Glasgow was choosen as host city.

Number of participants
Since the seventh edition the EBU announced to put a maximum at the number of participants. In the seventh and eighth edition, eighteen countries were able to participate.

Because the introduction of the semi finals, there is no maximum of participating countries. However, since the seventeenth edition the EBU announced that they would put a new maximum of countries. This meant that 41 countries were able to sign for a participation. This means that each semi final would have 20 countries, plus the host nation (who qualify automatically). Until now, they never reached this limit.

Running order
There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The host country will have a random number. The rest of the countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. Later on, a team will create a running order to make the show as interesting as possible.

Song
Each country sends one song to the contest. There are no rules about the language of the song, but the song can't be longer than five minutes.

Voting rules
After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the most countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

Returning artists
The contest featured eight representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same countries.

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Grand Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/345064/euromusic-song-contest-22--grand-final

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Returning countries

 * Monaco.jpg Monaco - After a lot of rumors, it was clear that Monaco would return to the contest.
 * Netherlands.jpg Netherlands - The AVROTROS announced that they would withdraw from the contest for one edition, the 21st.
 * Norway.jpg Norway - After a lot of rumors, the Norwegian broadcaster announced that Norway would return this edition.
 * Turkey.jpg Turkey - Turkey was announced as participating country when the EBU published the official list of participants.

Withdrawing countries

 * Bosnia and Herzegovina.jpg Bosnia and Herzegovina - This country wasn't on the official list of participating countries.
 * San Marino.jpg San Marino - Because of the disappointing results, they decided to withdraw.