Season 22

The **Regions Song Contest 22** was the **22nd** edition of the discord contest Regions Song Contest. The contest took place in the city of **Uppsala**  Uppland, Sweden  after  **Uppland**'s win in **Season 22** with the song “Weight Of The World”.

It was the **second** time Sweden , had hosted any versions of the contest. This season consisted of two semi-finals held on September 13th & 14th and the grand final on November 29, 2021.

All the live shows were hosted on YouTube as well as presented on the Discord server. Fifty-One entries took part in the **twenty-second** season of the contest. Each region had to compete with one song.

The Top 05 juries of the twenty-first edition was part of the **Big 05** and so on, was automatically qualified for the Grand Final.

The Big 05 regions were :

* **Uppland - Host Region**
* Lagos (replacing  Dubrovnik-Neretva)
* California (replacing  South Yorkshire)
* Rogaland (replacing  Tasmania)
* Northamptonshire (replacing  Western Cape)

The winner was   **Zakarpattia** in   **Ukraine** with the song **"Witch"** performed by **Apashe** & **Alina Pash**, with **222** points.

### Participating Regions

 Amman,  Balıkesir,  Bangui,  Bijelo Polje,  Bohuslän,  Brunei-Muara,  Centre,  Down,  Guangdong,  Gwynedd,  Hong Kong,  Kassala,  Nelson,  Northamptonshire,  Sichuan,  São Paulo,  Somerset,  South Carolina,

### Host City

Following  Uppland's win in Dubrovnik, the hosting of  Uppland was debated to happen either in **Stockholm** or **Uppsala**. Therefore, the delegation announced that the **22nd** season would be hosted in **Uppsala**, being the largest city completely in the region of  Uppland. **Uppsala**, archaically spelled *Upsala* is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in  Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located 71 km (44 mi) north of the capital Stockholm it is also the seat of Uppsala Municipality. Since 1164, Uppsala has been the ecclesiastical centre of Sweden, being the seat of the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. Uppsala is home to Scandinavia's largest cathedral – Uppsala Cathedral, which was the frequent site of the coronation of the Swedish monarch until the late 19th century.

Uppsala Castle, built on the site of the former residence of the Archbishop by King Gustav Vasa, served as one of the royal residences of the Swedish monarchs, and was expanded several times over its history, making Uppsala the secondary capital of Sweden during its greatest extent. Today it serves as the residence of the Governor of Uppsala County. Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest centre of higher education in Scandinavia. Among the many scholars associated with the city include Anders Celsius, inventor of the centigrade temperature scale that now bears his name, and Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy.

Other well-known Uppsala residents include filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, chemists Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Svante Arrhenius, actress Viveca Lindfors, and singer Malena Ernman.

### Arena

No arena were chosen to host this 22nd edition.

### Hosts

The hosts of the **22nd** edition were :

* **Benjamin Ingrosso**,  Swedish pop singer songwriter and record producer with  Italian heritage. He won the celebrity dancing TV show *Let's Dance 2014*, and has competed twice in Melodifestivalen in 2017 and 2018 respectively. He won in 2018 and **represented**  Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, with the song "Dance You Off".
* **Zara Larsson** is a  Swedish singer. In 2008, at the age of 10, she won the second season of the talent show *Talang*, the Swedish version of the *Got Talent* format. Since then she has received recognition with singles including "Lush Life" (2015), "Never Forget You" (2015), "Girls Like" (2016) featuring Tinie Tempah and "Ain't My Fault" (2016). She later featured on Clean Bandit's single, "Symphony" (2017), topping the charts in the UK and Sweden. Her third studio album in 2021, was preceded by the international hit "Ruin My Life" (2018). She represented  **Uppland** in seasons 2, 10, 13 and 20, as well as in the third spin off, finishing respectively **21st, 12th, 16th, 21st and 2nd** in final with "Don't Worry About Me", "Love Me Land", "Wow", "Lush Life" and "Love Me Land" again for the All Stars special.
* **Winona Oak** is a  Swedish singer-songwriter. She is best known for her collaborations with What So Not and The Chainsmokers for the songs "Beautiful" and "Hope". Winona previously **won** the 14th Regions Song Contest with "Let Me Know" for her native  **Dalarna**
* **Isak Danielson,**  Swedish singer and songwriter. He is best known for his song "Always" and his albums *Yours* (2018) and *Remember to Remember Me* (2020). He represented  **Västergötland** in Season 08, finishing **9th** in the Grand Final.