AUSTRALIA – Eurovision – Australia Decides will be the national final in order to select the Australian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

The competition will take place at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Gold Coast on 26 February 2022, hosted by Myf Warhurst and Joel Creasey.

Eleven artists and songs will compete with the winner being determined by a combination of public and jury voting. The show will be broadcast on SBS as well as streamed online at SBS On Demand.

On 26 August 2021, SBS announced an open submission for interested songwriters to submit their songs online until 26 September 2021.

LISTEN TO THE SONGS

• Voyager – “Dreamer”
• Jude York – “I won’t need to dream” 
• Jaguar Jonze – “Little fires”
• Isaiah Firebrace & Evie Irie – “When I’m with you”
• Paulini – “We are one”
• Charley – “I suck at being lonely”
• Andrew Lambrou – “Electrify”
• Sheldon Riley – “Not the same”
• G-Nat!on – “Bite me”
• Seann Miley Moore – “My body”
• Erica Padilla – “Τo the bottom”

Over half of the composers or songwriters of a song were required to be citizens or permanent residents of Australia and songs were required to be in English or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language.

Ten songs were selected for the competition from the received submissions and performers of the selected songs were determined by SBS in consultation with the songwriters.

The chosen competing acts were announced in three sets: the first on 28 October 2021, the second on 26 November 2021, and the third on 14 December 2021.

Simultaneous to the final artist reveal, it was announced that an eleventh ‘wildcard artist’ would be selected through a TikTok contest.

Candidates were required to send a live vocal performance clip of any particular song, up to one minute long, with submissions open until 16 January 2022.

Erica Padilla was the selected candidate. (source: wikipedia)

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