French Song Contest 44

Previous edition: French Song Contest #43
Following edition: Asia/Oceania edition

The forty-four edition held in  Bruxelles, follow the **Jade'**s victory in the second Junior French Song Contest with the song *"Straw House"*.

With 2 automatic finalists, the season see 31 cities
in the Forest National stage, for the trophy.
Any new cities make his debut, but few make the choice
to not continue the adventure for the 44th edition,
like  Saint-Malo &  Lille per example, who composed the top 3 previously.

Beside, 17 cities choose to make the travel to Belgium
for their comeback.

Two semi-finals of 14 & 15 cities & a second chance round will determinate the 17 delegations who join the host,  Bruxelles, and the last winner,  Rennes in the Grand Final.

The 1st of February 2022, the french/spanish duet MIMAA/El Speaker & the song *"Baillarina"* won the contest for  Marseille. The city took his second trophy with 193 points.

 T. de Belfort took the silver medal with song *"Silouhette"* by the Swiss entry of the Eurovision Sonc Contest 2021 **Gjon's Tears**. The swiss/albanian singer eanred a total of 189 points.

On his birth country, the female singer **Mentissa** close the Top 3 with the song *"Et bam" for*  Cholet with 160 points

## Hosts

To host this edition held in Belgium for the first time, the supervisor choose a new partner to **Laurence Boccolini**, host of the previous editions. French ESC wishes was to see the connection between France & Belgium and to realise this, the choice of the co-host was pretty obvious to choose.
The 7th of January, FSC Group announce the name of **Olivier Minne** as co-host of the edition.

**Olivier Minne** is one of the famous face of France Televisions. He commented the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, and host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2021. Besides of his charm, he got a perfect english. So he will be the english voice of the edition.

## Slogan & logo

To be the host of the 44th edition, supervisor had to 2 choices :  Bruxelles *(winner of the JESC 02)*&
 Rennes *(winner of the 43th edition)*. But the final choice was easy to take. French ESC chose the Belgium's capital 'cause the opportunity to organise an edition of the French Song Contest outside of France is very rare.

About the theme, the supervisor choose the *belgian humor* to start the new year with smile and laugh, so what's more hilarious than **belgian fries** as logo of an editon of the French Song Contest.
The slogan *"Make it spicy"* is a way to connetc the fries & his multpile sauces, but also, a way to said to the contestants of the edition to make the show.

## Semi-Final

Color key
     **Qualified for the Grand Final**

     Qualified for The Last Chair

     Dead last

### First Semi-Final

Out of the 15 participating cities in this semi-final, 8 cities will qualify for the Grand Final
& 1 will be in the Second Chance round.

 Rennes vote in this semi-final.

### Second Semi-Final

Out of the 14 participating cities in this semi-final, 8 cities will qualify for the Grand Final
& 1 will be in the Second Chance round.

 Bruxelles vote in this semi-final.

## The Last Chair

The 2 cities who came at the 8th place during the semi-finals eanred a second and last chance to win the 15th ticket to the Grand Final.
All the juries give their 12 points to the song they prefer.

Color key
     **Qualify in Grand Final**

## Grand Final

#### Predictions for the trophy

  Cholet | Mentissa
 Avignon | HEZEN
  Bruxelles | Charlotte

### Results

Color key
     **Winning city**

     Runner-up

     3rd place

     Dead last

19 cities fought to win the 44th edition, the 16 qualified cities from the semis-finals,
the Last Chair  Monaco, the last winner  Rennes & the host  Bruxelles.