Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Portugal is scheduled to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy. The national broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) will select the Portuguese entry to the contest through the national selection Festival da Canção, which will consist of two semi-finals and a final to be held between February and March 2022.

Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Country Portugal
National selection
Selection processFestival da Canção 2022
Selection date(s)Semi-finals:
February/March 2022
Final:
March 2022
Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Background
Main article: Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2022 contest, Portugal has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty-two times since its first entry in 1964.[1] Since semi-finals were introduced into the contest in 2004, Portugal has failed to reach the final eight times. Portugal held the record for the most appearances in the contest without a win until 2017 when they won in Kyiv, Ukraine with Salvador Sobral's entry "Amar pelos dois". In 2021, Portugal was represented by The Black Mamba with the song "Love Is on My Side". The country managed to qualify to the final, ultimately ending in twelfth place with 153 points.

Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) broadcasts the contest in Portugal and organises the selection process for its entry. Portugal has most commonly selected their entry through the national final Festival da Canção except between 2003 and 2005 when the broadcaster used internal selections and the talent competition Operação triunfo to select their entry. In September 2021, RTP confirmed its participation in the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest and confirmed its usual selection method for the event.[2]

Before Eurovision

Festival da Canção 2022

Festival da Canção 2022 will be the 56th edition of Festival da Canção, the music competition that traditionally selects Portugal's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Format

The competition will consist of two semi-finals and a final, to take place at an as yet undetermined location in Portugal. On 8 September 2021, upon confirming its participation at Eurovision, RTP opened its selection process for the twenty competing entries in Festival da Canção, articulated as follows:

  • sixteen musical authors were invited to each compose a song, indicating a performer for it, and to send a provisional version thereof by 31 October 2021;
  • free submissions were opened to Portuguese citizens or residents of Portugal to submit their songs by 21 October 2021; four of these would be selected by a professional jury within 10 days after the deadline;
  • all selected entrants are required to present RTP with a final version of their entry by 30 November 2021.[2]

For the sixth consecutive year, the broadcaster abolished the language restrictions, so that artists may submit songs in any language(s), even without Portuguese.[2] On 25 October 2021, RTP declared to have received more than 600 applications[3] and on 4 November 2021, the broadcaster made public the authors of the chosen entries.[4]

Artist Song Author(s) Selection
TBA Agir Invited by RTP
Aurea
Blacci
Cubita
DJ Marfox
Fábia Rebordão
Fado Bicha
FF
Joana Espadinha
Kumpania Algazarra
MARO
Norton
Os Azeitonas
Pedro Marques Open call winner
Pepperoni Passion
PZ Invited by RTP
Syro
The Mister Driver Open call winner
Tiago Nogueira
Valas Invited by RTP

Semi-finals

Each semi-final will have ten entries compete, of which five will advance to the final from each show. The results will be determined by a 50/50 combination of two votes: one from a jury made up of music professionals and one from a public televoting; each of these will assign 12 points to the highest placed contestant, 10 to the second, 8 to the third, and then 7 to 1 to the remaining (a system also in place at the Eurovision Song Contest itself). The sum of the two rankings will determine the qualifying acts, with the jury score taking precedence in the event of a tie in the fifth place.[2]

Final

The ten finalists will be judged by means of a televoting and a jury composed of representatives from the seven statistical regions of Portugal (Lisbon, North, Central, Alentejo, Algarve, Madeira and the Azores). Their rankings, drafted and combined using the same system adopted for the semi-finals, will determine the Portuguese representative for Eurovision, with the televoting score taking precedence in the event of a tie in the first place.[2]

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 in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) splits 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.

References
  1. "Portugal Country Profile". European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. "Regulamento da 56ª edição do Festival da Canção" (Press release) (in Portuguese). RTP. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  3. Jiandani, Sanjay (25 October 2021). "Portugal: RTP receives more than 600 entries for Festival da Cançao 2022". ESCToday. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. "São estes os 20 autores do Festival da Canção 2022". rtp.pt (in Portuguese). RTP. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
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