Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Finland will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy. The Finnish broadcaster YLE Is organising the national final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu *2022* in order to select the Finnish entry for the 2022 contest. Seven entries were selected to compete in the national final on 26 February 2022, where the combination of votes from seven international jury groups and votes from the public will select the winner.

## Before Eurovision

### Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu *2022*

Template:Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu *2022* is the eleventh edition of Template:Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), the music competition that selects Finland's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition consists of a final on 26 February 2022, held at the Logomo in Turku and hosted by Paula Vesala and Miisa Rotola-Pukkila. The show will be broadcast on Yle TV1 with a second audio program providing commentary in Finnish by Mikko Silvennoinen, in Swedish by Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos, in Simple Finnish by Margit Alasalmi and Pertti Seppä, in Northern Sami by Linda Tammela, in Inari Sami by Heli Huovinen, and in English by Katri Norrlin and Jani Kareinen, as well as online at Yle Areena. The competition will also be broadcast via radio on Yle Radio Suomi and with commentary in Swedish by Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos on Yle X3M.

#### Competing entries

A submission period was opened by Yle which lasted between 1 September 2021 and 6 September 2021. At least one of the writers and the lead singer(s) had to hold Finnish citizenship or live in Finland permanently in order for the entry to qualify to compete. A panel of eight experts appointed by Yle selected seven entries for the competition from the 312 received submissions. The experts were Tapio Hakanen (Head of Music at YleX), Anssi Autio (UMK producer), Juha-Matti Valtonen (television director), Samuli Väänänen (Senior Editor at Spotify Finland), Joanna Tzortzis (music editor), Katri Norrlin (music journalist at YleX), Jani Kareinen (music journalist at YleX) and Amie Borgar (Head of Music at Yle X3M}}). The competing entries were presented on 13 January 2022, while their lyric videos were released between 13 and 21 January 2022.

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#### Final

The final is taking place on 26 February 2022. It will be opened with a performance by Blind Channel, while rap duo JVG will perform as the interval act. The results will be determined by combining televote (accounting for 75%) and international juries (25%).

## 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 for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split 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. On 25 January 2022, an allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Finland has been placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 12 May 2022, and has been scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.

## External links

* Official Yle Eurovision site
* Official *Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu* site

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1. ↑ Eurovision 2022: Which Semi-Final is your country performing in? 🇮🇹. *Eurovision.tv*. EBU (2022-01-25).