Songs and favourites... What you need to know about Eurovision 2022

• Eurovision 2022 will take place in Turin (Italy).

  The semi-finals will take place on May 10 and 12, and the final on May 14.

• Forty countries and as many songs take part in the competition.

• For the first time in the history of the contest, there will be no song with French lyrics.

  And for the first time there will be a song with part of the text in Latin.

• Among the favourites: Ukraine, Sweden and Italy.

Forty songs will be in contention in Turin (Italy), in May, to try to succeed the Eurovision winners to

of the group Måneskin who won last year ahead of Barbara Pravi's Voilà.

More than a month away from the competition – the first final will take place on May 10,

takes stock of the titles that stand out and the trends for this 2022 edition.

A year of ballads

If the 2021 edition was marked by a legion of female artists performing dance / up tempo songs, Eurovision 2022 will be that of ballads.

A large quarter of the songs in the running oscillate between the melancholy refrain and the

.

Among the most striking are

by the Italians Mahmood and Blanco singing impossible loves, the (formidable)

with whom S10 will represent the Netherlands (there had been no song in Dutch in the competition since 2010), the unstoppable

by the Swedish Cornelia Jakobs, or the very “James bondienne” Belgian proposal,

by Jérémie Makiese, which could create a surprise in Turin.

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To wiggle your hips, you will mainly have to rely on Spain and Chanel's

, on the unusual song from Norway,

by Subwoofer (where it is a question of feeding a wolf a banana so that it saves Grandmother…) or on

, Austria's bulldozer driven by Lum!

x and Pia Maria – a piece which, it is rare enough to be reported, is already broadcast in France on NRJ.

Måneskin's triumph last year made some countries want to try their luck with rock songs.

Namely, Bulgaria (

of Intelligent Music Project), Georgia (with the very "Brit Pop"

) or even Finland, with

of the group The Rasmus that we know in France for the hit

.

No songs in French and Latin for the first time

The English language is losing ground at Eurovision.

Long considered essential to hope for a good result, it took for its rank last year: in the final ranking, the Top 3 was composed of a song in Italian and two others in French.

If Iceland finished fourth with an English-speaking song, Ukraine completed the Top 5 with a title in Ukrainian… In 2021, among the thirty-nine songs in the running, 10 were entirely or partly interpreted in a language other than the 'English.

The trend is accentuated this year with fifteen titles suggesting other languages.

Namely, Albanian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Dutch, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Icelandic, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Breton, but also

of Serbian band Kontrasta).

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There will be, and this too is a first in the history of Eurovision, no song interpreted entirely or partly in French.

When Amaury Vassili had represented France in 2011 with lyrics in Corsican, the language of Molière had been able to count on the Lithuanian Evelina Sasenko with

.

As a reminder, Alvan and Ahez will defend the tricolor chances with

, in Breton.

This is the second time, after Dan Ar Braz and L'Héritage des Celtes in 1996, that France has sent a song in this language to the competition.

Who are the favorites and favourites?

With more than a month to go, the bookmakers' predictions should be considered with caution.

Generally, they gain relevance during the week of the contest, once the artists have rehearsed their performances on stage.

However, we can understand them as a kind of barometer of the songs that attract their attention.

To date, Ukraine is considered the favorite, with a 35% chance of winning.

A craze that probably has less to do with the intrinsic qualities of the song

by the group Kalash Orchestra, mixing folk sounds and rap, than with the tragedy that is hitting the country at the moment.

Those betting on Ukraine are no doubt counting on the fact that the public and the juries could vote for this song as a sign of symbolic support...

Italy is the second favorite, with a 15% chance of winning.

The host country, represented by a duo composed of Mahmood (who in solo had finished second in Eurovision 2019) and Blanco and his ballad

, would thus achieve a double if he won.

Third favorite, Sweden with Cornelia Jakobs who, according to the bookmakers, has an 11% chance of winning with

, a very effective ballad that could win the consensus of both the public and the juries.

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And France?

Alvan and Ahez emerge this Tuesday in 12th position, more or less the place occupied by Madame Monsieur and Bilal Hassani, among the bookmakers, respectively in 2018 and 2019.

On the fan side, this Wednesday morning, France is in 8th position in the ranking of the

application , with some 48,000 points.

Sweden leads with 94.4000 points, ahead of Spain (93.500) and Italy (84.000).

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