Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Country	Italy
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	3 November 2022
Selected artist(s)	Chanel Dilecta
Selected song	"Bla Bla Bla"
Selected songwriter(s)	Carmine Spera Fabrizio Palaferri Angela Senatore Marco Iardella
Placement
Final result	11th, 95 points
Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Italy participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. Italian broadcaster RAI is responsible for the country's participation in the contest. Chanel Dilecta represented Italy with the song "Bla Bla Bla".[1]

Background

Main article: Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2022 contest, Italy had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest seven times since its debut in 2014, having won the contest on their first appearance with the song "Tu primo grande amore", performed by Vincenzo Cantiello. On the country's most recent appearance, in 2021, the Italian broadcaster internally selected Elisabetta Lizza to represent Italy at the contest with the song "Specchio (Mirror on the Wall)". She achieved tenth place with 107 points.

Italy withdrew from the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite initially announcing that they would not return in 2021,[2] they ultimately announced their participation in the 2021 contest in France.[3]

Before Junior Eurovision

On 3 November 2022, RAI announced that 13-year-old Chanel Dilecta will represent Italy with the song "Bla Bla Bla". The song and music video were released a week later.[4]

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 5 December 2022, it was announced that Italy would perform fifth on 11 December 2022, following Malta and preceding France.[5]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.[6]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 9 December 2022 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on 11 December at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for three songs.[7] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Points awarded to Italy Score Country 12 points  Albania  Georgia 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points  Portugal 5 points 4 points  Kazakhstan 3 points  Serbia 2 points  France  Malta 1 point  Armenia Italy received 53 points from the online vote.

Points awarded by Italy Score Country 12 points  France 10 points  Georgia 8 points  United Kingdom 7 points  Portugal 6 points  Ireland 5 points  Poland 4 points  Kazakhstan 3 points  Albania 2 points  Serbia 1 point  Spain

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Italy[8]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Netherlands	6	12	9	11	9	11
02	Poland	4	3	3	12	11	6	5
03	Kazakhstan	13	10	10	2	3	7	4
04	Malta	12	14	12	13	13	15
05	Italy
06	France	2	1	1	8	2	1	12
07	Albania	8	5	8	4	10	8	3
08	Georgia	1	2	2	6	8	2	10
09	Ireland	7	6	7	3	4	5	6
10	North Macedonia	15	15	6	9	7	12
11	Spain	9	13	14	5	6	10	1
12	United Kingdom	3	4	4	7	5	3	8
13	Portugal	14	8	11	1	1	4	7
14	Serbia	5	7	5	15	12	9	2
15	Armenia	10	11	13	10	15	13
16	Ukraine	11	9	15	14	14	14

References

1. Grace, Emily (3 November 2022). "Italy: Chanel Dilecta To Junior Eurovision 2022". Eurovoix.
2. "🇮🇹 Italy will not participate in Junior Eurovision 2021". ESCXTRA.com. 4 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
3. Farren, Neil (30 August 2021). "🇮🇹 Italy: Junior Eurovision 2021 Participation Confirmed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
4. Farren, Neil (10 November 2022). "Italy: Chanel Dilecta Releases "Bla Bla Bla"". Eurovoix.
5. "Junior Eurovision 2022: Running Order". Junioreurovision.tv. 5 December 2022.
6. Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
7. "Section 8 – Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 – Online Voting Terms and Conditions" (PDF). European Broadcasting Union. November 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2022.
8. "Results of the Grand Final of Yerevan 2022". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 11 December 2022.