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Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Participating broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE)
Country Spain
National selection
Selection process Benidorm Fest 2022
Selection date(s) Semi-finals:26 January 202227 January 2022Final: 29 January 2022
Selected artist(s) Chanel
Selected song "SloMo"
Selected songwriter(s) Leroy SanchezKeith HarrisIbere FortesMaggie SzaboArjen Thonen
Finals performance
Final result 3rd, 459 points
Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Spain was represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "SloMo", written by Leroy Sanchez, Keith Harris, Ibere Fortes, Maggie Szabo, and Arjen Thonen, and performed by Chanel. The Spanish participating broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), together with the Generalitat Valenciana, organised Benidorm Fest 2022 in order to select its entry for the 2022 contest. Benidorm Fest consisted of two semi-finals on 26 and 27 January and the final on 29 January 2022. A total of thirteen artists and songs competed, and the winner was determined by a combination of votes from an expert jury, a demoscopic panel and a televote.

As part of the "Big Five", Spain directly qualified to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Performing during the show in position 10,[1] "SloMo" eventually finished in third place with 459 points. Chanel became the highest scoring Spanish Eurovision entrant and scored Spain its best result since 1995.

Prior to the 2022 contest, Televisión Española (TVE) until 2006, and Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) since 2007, had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Spain sixty times since TVE's first entry in 1961.[2] They have won the contest on two occasions: in 1968 with the song "La, la, la" performed by Massiel and in 1969 with the song "Vivo cantando" performed by Salomé, the latter having won in a four-way tie with France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. They have also finished second four times, with "En un mundo nuevo" by Karina in 1971, "Eres tú" by Mocedades in 1973, "Su canción" by Betty Missiego in 1979, and "Vuelve conmigo" by Anabel Conde in 1995. In 2021, RTVE placed twenty-fourth with the song "Voy a quedarme" performed by Blas Cantó.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTVE organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. RTVE confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2022 contest on 3 June 2021.[3] In 2021, RTVE selected the artist that would compete at the Eurovision Song Contest via an internal selection, while the song was selected via a national final. For their 2022 entry, the broadcaster announced on 22 July 2021 that it would organise a national final based on the former Benidorm International Song Festival in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana, which would feature a competition among several artists and songs.[4]

Benidorm Fest 2022 was the song festival organised by RTVE and Generalitat Valenciana that took place at the Palau Municipal d'Esports l'Illa de Benidorm in Benidorm, Valencian Community, hosted by Alaska, Inés Hernand, and Máximo Huerta.[5] Thirteen (originally fourteen) artists and songs competed over three shows: two semi-finals on 26 and 27 January 2022 and the final on 29 January 2022.[6]

The semi-finals were broadcast on two consecutive nights of the same week, and the voting consisted of voting system consisted the televote (50%), a demoscopic panel of judges made up of a sample of the Spanish population selected by statistical and demoscopic criteria (25%), and a national and international jury vote (50%).[7]

The final took place on 29 January 2022 and consisted of the eight entries that qualified from the two preceding semi-finals.

Final – 29 January 2022

Draw Artist Song Expertjury Demoscopicjury Televote Total Place
1 Rayden "Calle de la llorería" 37 15 15 67 4
2 Tanxugueiras "Terra" 30 30 30 90 3
3 Varry Brava "Raffaella" 25 12 18 55 6
4 Chanel "SloMo" 51 25 20 96 1
5 Rigoberta Bandini "Ay mamá" 46 20 25 91 2
6 Xeinn "Eco" 30 5 10 45 7
7 Gonzalo Hermida[a] "Quién lo diría" 12 18 5 35 8
8 Blanca Paloma "Secreto de agua" 39 10 12 61 5

Preparations and promotion

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Chanel, Eva Mora,[b] María Eizaguirre,[c] and dancers: Exon Arcos, Josh Huerta, Pol Soto, Raquel Caurín, and Ría Pérez.

The stage director for the Spanish performance was Kyle Hanagami. Chanel was accompanied on stage by five dancers: Exon Arcos, Josh Huerta, Pol Soto, Raquel Caurín and María Pérez.[13]

A music video for "SloMo" premiered on the official YouTube channel of the Eurovision Song Contest on 15 March 2022.[14] Prior to the contest, Chanel made appearances across Europe to specifically promote "SloMo" as the Spanish Eurovision entry. She first performed at the Barcelona Eurovision Party, which was held on 26 March 2022 at Barcelona's Sala Apolo,[15] and later performed at the London Eurovision Party, which was held on 3 April 2022 at London's Hard Rock Hotel venue.[16] She also performed in the Eurovision in Concert at Amsterdam's AFAS Live on 9 April,[17] and the PrePartyES which took place in Madrid's Sala La Riviera on 16 April.[18]

On 27 April, RTVE prepared a farewell ceremony for the Spanish representative to the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.[19] The ceremony was organized in the Cines Callao in Madrid.[19] Prior to the event, a live stream on RTVE Play followed a press conference hosted by the Director of Communication and Participation of RTVE, María Eizaguirre, in which Chanel shared her final thoughts before making the trip to Turin with fans and journalists.[19] She was joined by the Spanish Head of Delegation, Eva Mora; the spokesperson of the Spanish jury for Eurovision 2022, Nieves Álvarez; and the Spanish Eurovision commentators, Julia Varela and Tony Aguilar.[19] Tickets for the event were sold the day before at the RTVE facilities in Torrespaña: two individual tickets were given to each person who attended.[19]

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. As a member of the "Big Five", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the final on 14 May 2022. Spain was set to perform in the first half of the final.[20] In addition to its participation in the final, Spain was also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. This was decided via a draw held during the semi-final allocation draw on 25 January 2022, when it was announced that Spain would be voting in the second semi-final.[21]

In Spain, TVE broadcast all three shows on La 1 with commentary by Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela;[22] in addition, Radio Nacional de España (RNE) aired the final on Radio Nacional, with commentary by Imanol Durán, Sara Calvo, and David Asensio;[23] with all the shows also broadcast internationally on TVE Internacional, and both television and radio broadcasts available online via RTVE Play. The final was screened live in cinemas across the country due to an agreement with cinema chain Cinesa.[24] RTVE appointed Nieves Álvarez as its spokesperson to announce during the final the top 12-point score awarded by the Spanish jury.[25][26]

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with a diversity in gender and age represented. The judges assess each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which takes place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.[27] Jury members may only take part in panel once every three years, and are obliged to confirm that they are not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members should also vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members. The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form.[28]

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Spain and awarded by Spain in the second semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:

Points awarded to Spain

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Points awarded to Spain (Final)[29]

Score Televote Jury
12 points Greece Armenia Australia Ireland Malta North Macedonia Portugal San Marino Sweden
10 points Azerbaijan North Macedonia Portugal San Marino Serbia Belgium United Kingdom
8 points Armenia Bulgaria Cyprus Israel Moldova Montenegro Romania Bulgaria Germany Montenegro Switzerland
7 points Albania Croatia France Malta Netherlands Czech Republic Norway
6 points Australia Belgium Czech Republic Georgia Lithuania Poland Switzerland Croatia Cyprus
5 points Ireland United Kingdom Albania Azerbaijan France Georgia Greece Lithuania Netherlands
4 points Latvia Slovenia Denmark Serbia
3 points Finland Iceland Iceland Israel Moldova
2 points Germany Sweden Austria
1 point Austria Denmark Estonia Norway Ukraine Poland Romania Slovenia

Points awarded by Spain

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Detailed voting results

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The following members comprised the Spanish jury:[28][30]

Spain received at least one point from every country in the Eurovision Song Contest except for Italy. For the first time in its participation history, Spain received the most sets of twelve points from the national juries, tied with the United Kingdom with eight sets of maximum points. The long-awaited success of Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was greeted with enthusiasm across Spain, with deputy prime ministers Nadia Calviño and Yolanda Díaz and opposition leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo among others congratulating Chanel for her performance and result.[32] An average of 6.8 million viewers watched the final, with a peak of 8.853 million during the voting sequence. This equaled a 50.8% share of the market over the four hours of the final, an increase of 21.4 points from the previous edition.[33] On 15 May, the day after the final, a reception event was organized at the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, where Chanel was greeted by a full crowd.[34][35] On 17 May, Chanel received a congratulation letter from King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain.[36]

  1. ^ Following a positive COVID-19 test result, in accordance with the event's protocols, Hermida competed using the music video of the song.[12]

  2. ^ Head of Delegation

  3. ^ Director of Communication and Participation of RTVE

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  26. ^ "ESPECIAL RNE en directo, en RTVE Play". www.rtve.es. Retrieved 13 May 2022.

  27. ^ Cabanillas Tapia, Andrea (22 April 2022). "La Gran Final de Eurovisión 2022 podrá verse en 35 cines de toda España". FormulaTV.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 28 April 2022.

  28. ^ Escot, Daniel Borrego (30 March 2022). "Nieves Álvarez repite como portavoz de los votos de España en Eurovisión 2022". RTVE.es (in European Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

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  33. ^ Redacción verTele (15 May 2022). "RTVE desvela quiénes formaban su jurado profesional, y se desglosa el televoto de España". eldiario.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 19 May 2022.

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  37. ^ SMM (15 May 2022). "Actuación de Chanel esta noche en la Plaza Mayor de Madrid: hora y artistas invitados". Marca (in European Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2022.

  38. ^ Roces, Pablo M. (15 May 2022). "Furor por Chanel en San Isidro: "Esto me recuerda a lo de Salomé"". El Mundo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 16 May 2022.

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