Olympiad Song Contest 62

Final dates
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Executive supervisor
 Host
 Number of entries
 Voting system
 Winning song

**The Olympiad Song Contest** welcomes the world to the  United Kingdom for the **62nd** Edition.

The **Olympiad Song Contest #62** will be the **62nd** edition of the annual Olympiad Song Contest. It will take place in the **SSE Arena Belfast**, located in **Belfast**,  United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the **61st** edition with Sigala performing **Melody**. This will be the **6th** time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of a grand final, with official date being the **19th June 2022.**

As of **26th June 2022**, **24** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **0** countries has made their debut. **7** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **12** countries withdrew.

## Location

It will take place in the **SSE Arena Belfast**, located in **Belfast**,  United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the **61st** edition with Sigala performing **Melody**.

### **Venue**

The **SSE Arena Belfast** in **Belfast**, which has a capacity of approximately **11,000** attendees, was announced as the host venue on **12th June 2022**. This will be the Arena's 1st time hosting the adult contest. The arena previously hosted the 24th edition of the junior contest after Jess Folley won with her song **Chasing Shadows** back in Tel Aviv,  Israel.

### **Bidding phase and host city selection**

Following **UK** triumph, the Olympiad Broadcasting Union (OBU)'s Executive Supervisor for the Olympiad Song Contest, issued the hosting invitation to **BBC** during the winner's press conference.

**BBC**, announced on **01st June 2022** that with the contest being held in  **United Kingdom** that any city, town or arena that would like to host the contest would had four days to apply to the broadcaster with their interest.

The following selection criteria were outlined for the selection of the host city:-

* The venue must be covered with a capacity of at least 1,000 but ideally up to 10,000 attendees.
* An international press centre must be able to accommodate no less than 1,550 journalists.
* Venues must also be provided for the opening and closing ceremonies of at least 3,000 attendees.
* The host city must be able to guarantee the safety and security of participants, members of delegations and guests.
* The host city must provide a social program alongside their bid, showcasing the hospitality, originality, cultural values and identity of both the city and country.

## Format

### **Visual Design**

The theme for the contest, **Rule Your World**, was unveiled on **12th June 2022** in a press conference. Its visual design features a **XX** logo that alludes to the ideas to XX. The contest's Executive Supervisor remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with OSC's core values, including diversity, very well.

### **Presenters**

On **12th June 2022**, **BBC** announced that the contest would be hosted by **David Tennant**, **Iwan Rheon**, **Colin Morgan** and **Harry Styles**.

**Spokesperson 1**:- **David Tennant**
David John Tennant (born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005–2010). His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (2013–2017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones (2015–2019), and Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens (2019-present).

**Spokesperson 2**:- **Iwan Rheon**
Iwan Rheon (born 13 May 1985) is a Welsh actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits, Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars in the film The Dirt. He has also appeared in the series Vicious, Riviera, and Inhumans.

**Spokesperson 3**:- **Colin Morgan**
Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is a Northern Irish actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series Merlin (2008-2012) and as Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast (2021).

Morgan made his London theatre debut in 2007 as the title character in DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little. He went on to appear in the theatre productions Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre ("All About My Mother") in 2007, Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter in 2008, Pedro Miguel Rozo's Our Private Life in 2011, Step in Time at The Old Vic 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala in 2012, Shakespeare's The Tempest in 2013, and Jez Butterworth's Mojo during 2013 and 2014.

**Spokesperson 4**:- **Harry Styles**
Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter and actor. His musical career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition series The X Factor. Following his elimination, he was brought back to join the boy band One Direction, who went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
Styles released his self-titled debut solo album through Columbia Records in 2017. It debuted at number one in the UK and the US and was one of the world's top-ten best-selling albums of the year, while its lead single, "Sign of the Times", topped the UK Singles Chart. Styles' second album, Fine Line (2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with the biggest ever first-week sales by an English male artist, and was the most recent album to be included in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020. Its fourth single, "Watermelon Sugar", topped the US Billboard Hot 100. Featuring the chart-topping single "As It Was", Styles' third album, Harry's House (2022), was widely acclaimed and broke several records.

### **Voting**

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

## Participating Countries

As of **26th June 2022**, **24** confirmed countries participated in the contest. **0** countries has made their debut. **7** countries returned to the contest after absences, while **12** countries withdrew.

### **Returning Artists**

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in OSC.

* Brazil Anitta [Prev. #33]
* France Kendji Girac [Prev. #37, #43]
* The Netherlands Yellow Claw [Prev. #34, #45]
* Norway Sigrid [Prev. #38, #47]

## Scoring

### **12points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the Grand final:

## National Selections

Here is a list of all the national selections held this edition.