What to remember from the Eurovision 2022 final

• The Eurovision final took place on Saturday in Turin (Italy) and was won by the Ukrainian group Kalush Orchester, which broke a televote record.

• Moldova, sacked by the jury, finished second in the public votes.

• Like last year, non-English songs are on the rise.

The Eurovision 2022 final started on Saturday on the stage of the Pala Alpitour in Turin (Italy) and ended around 1 a.m. on Sunday morning.

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• The Ukrainian triumph

The group Kalush Orchestra, winner of this edition, with the song

, was not praised by the professional juries who ranked it fourth with 192 points, when the Briton Sam Ryder, in the lead, had 283. It was the votes of the European public that completely reshuffled the cards by awarding 439 additional points to the Ukrainians.

Never seen.

The televoting record was previously held by the Portuguese Salvador Sobral in 2017 with 382 points.

The support from the viewers was frank and massive: Ukraine received 28 twelve points out of a possible 39 and 8 times 10 points.

This Saturday, it was time for compassion for the country at war.

• Bad fate for France

Some will say that it was not France that lost but Brittany that did not win (or vice versa).

Alvan and Ahez only received 17 points.

We expected the good notes from the Celtic lands, imagining that Irish or Spaniards would be sensitive to a song in Breton, but it was from the East that those who unlocked the meter came from.

7 points from the Armenian jury, one from the Georgian jury and another from the Azerbaijani jury.

Then, on the public vote side, one from Finland, one from Greece, one from Croatia, one from Romania, two from Moldova and two from Serbia.

Reason for consolation, France is not penultimate in televoting but 19th.

Germany (6 points), Belgium (5), Czech Republic (5), Azerbaijan (3), Australia (2) and Switzerland (0) do less than her in this respect.

The return to grace of the United Kingdom and Spain

Celine Dion's prophecy has come true: the last will be first, in the other reality.

Well, this Eurovision metaverse is not very happy for France, which went from second place for Barbara Pravi last year to second to last place for Alvan and Ahez this year.

Conversely, the United Kingdom and Spain, which had finished in the last three places with Germany - which does not change and just puts other people's clothes on it while still ranking last - regained the drunkenness of the summits.

The United Kingdom even improves its Poulidor record by adding a sixteenth second place.

Spain, on the other hand, finished on a podium that it had not known since its second place in 1995. This proves that, firstly, nothing is impossible and that secondly,

The Moldavian comeback

The Moldavians of Zdob și Zdub had finished second in Eurovision 2005, then twelfth in 2011, this year, they cut the pear by taking seventh place in the general classification while the professional juries had classified them 20th with 14 points.

The group finished 2nd in televoting with 239 points, which enabled it to make a spectacular comeback when the results were announced.

Conversely, the Australian Sheldon Riley, 9th of the juries with 123 points is penultimate of the votes of the public with 2 points.

That's a fifteenth place overall.

A beautiful tumble that confirms the psychological blocking of Europeans to vote for Australia.

A lucky person in Azerbaijan

A little curiosity about this competition: Nadir Rustamli took part in the final on Saturday while the public did not give him any points in the semi-final on Thursday.

The 96 points awarded to him by the juries were enough to qualify him.

The same trend was repeated in the final: 103 points on the jury side (i.e. 10th place in their ranking) but only 3 on the public side.

In the final ranking, it's a sixteenth place...

English no longer has the monopoly of the choir

For the second year in a row, a song in a language other than English wins Eurovision.

was in Italian,

is in Ukrainian.

In 2021, there were also two songs in French and one in Ukrainian in the Top 5. In 2022, there is also a song in Spanish and another in Serbian.

A song in Italian, one in Romanian and one in Portuguese also made their way into the Top 10. The French language did not have the opportunity to shine: for the first time since the creation of the competition in 1956, no song had lyrics in the language of Molière.

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