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MALTA – Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2022 will be the national final format developed by PBS to select the Maltese entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

The competition will take place at the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre in Ta’ Qali, and will consist of a semi-final, special evening and final to be held on 17, 18 and 19 February 2022, respectively.

All shows will be broadcast on Television Malta (TVM) as well on the broadcaster’s website tvm.com.mt.

The competition will consist of twenty-two songs competing in the semi-final on 17 February 2022 where the top sixteen entries will qualify to compete in the final on 19 February 2022.

Artists and composers were able to submit their entries between 15 October 2021 and 15 December 2021. Songwriters from any nationality were able to submit songs as long as the artist were Maltese or possessed Maltese citizenship.

Artists were able to submit as many songs as they wished, however, they could only compete with a maximum of one in the semi-final.

2021 Maltese Eurovision entrant Destiny was unable to compete due to a rule that prevented the previous entrant from competing in the following contest.

The twenty-two songs selected to compete in the semi-final were announced on 29 December 2021.

Among the selected competing artists were former Eurovision entrants Richard Edwards who represented Malta in the 2014 contest as part of the group Firelight and Jessica Muscat who represented San Marino in the 2018 contest.

Francesca Sciberras represented Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 and Nicole Azzopardi represented Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

Among the songwriters, Matthew Mercieca, Gerard James Borg and Philip Vella were all past writers of Maltese Eurovision entries.

Dimitri Stassos co-wrote the Spanish entry in 2009 and the Greek entry in 2012; Nektarios Tyrakis co-wrote the Greek entry in 2004, the Belarusian entry in 2005 and the Sammarinese entry in 2016; Peter Boström co-wrote the Swedish and Norwegian entries in 2012 as well as the Spanish entry in 2015.

The semi-final will take place on 17 February 2022. Twenty-two songs will compete for sixteen qualifying spots in the final.

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