Benidorm Fest is the Musical Festival organized by RTVE to choose the artist and the song that will represent our country in Eurovision 2022.
The event is celebrated on Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 and Saturday, January 29, 2022 at the Sports Palace of Benidorm, where the artist and the song that will compete with the rest of European proposals is selected.
The format is divided into two semifinals and a final.
The presenters of the three galas are Alaska, Máximo Huerta and Inés Hernand.
14 artists were originally participating (Luna Ki has come out) in groups of seven at the two semifinals, which will take place on January 26 and 27.
Each semifinal lasts 70 minutes and can be seen live by the 1 of TVE in Prime Time at 10:40 p.m.
We will also tell you live on the website of the world.
This will also be with the final, which will take place on January 29 with a duration of 90 minutes.
In it, eight finalists will compete for winning and being the representative in Eurovision 2022.
In the first semifinal, they ended up classifying for the last chanel assault, with 110 points, tanxugueiras, with 93, white pigeon with 79 and Varry Brava with 74.
The night was not exempt from controversy.
And is that if the professional jury had depended, Tanxugueiras, one of the great priori favorites, would not have accessed the final round.
They were the votes from the public that raised them up to the second place.
They stayed out of sugar Moreno and Unique.
Xeinn will perform the first one in the second semifinal, with echo, while Sara Deop and his Make You Say will put the final brooch to the performances of the second semifinal.
The full order of performances is:
Only eight artists will go to the great end of the Benidorm Fest.
It will be the four that obtain better score in each of the qualifying flags.
The result will be done through a mixed voting system between professional jury, televoto and demonstration jury:
Artists will be assigned a telephone number and, once everyone has acted, telephone lines will open to vote.
The voting period will be about 15 or 20 minutes approximately and will be the presenters, Alaska, Inés Hernand and Máximo Huerta, those responsible for announcing the beginning and the end.
The 66th edition of Eurovision will be in Turin next May and the Sports Palace of the Alicante city of Benidorm, an enclosure of more than 3,000 m2, will welcome both the semifinals and the great ending.
