After a heart-stopping final with 25 contestants and a very tense vote, Ukraine with Kalush Orchestra won Eurovision 2022 with the song Stefanía and won the crystal microphone at the Eurovision Grand Final. Chanel, on the other hand, representing Spain, did not stop breaking records in Saturday's final, getting the highest score ever for Spain, the highest number of 12 received by Spain in history. And why not say it, also, the best choreography in the history of Eurovision.
The final started with the now famous Flag Parade, with all the artists being introduced and a show of Laura Pausini's best songs.
After this, the performances began. The first performances were from Czech Republic, Romania, Portugal, Finland, Switzerland and France. All 6 songs performed perfectly. While Czech Republic got the whole audience on their feet as soon as they started, Romania followed with their song. Hola mi bebebé, llámame llámame, Portugal, came to lighten the mood and showed something more intimate. Finland brought the show back up with rock. Switzerland sang a beautiful ballad, and France brought us something traditional, sung in Breton, making it the first time in history that there was no French in any of the Eurovision songs.
Then it was the turn of Norway, Armenia and Italy. While Norway brought a show with 2 wolves who wanted to eat bananas. Armenia brought a very different staging from the rest, with a bed and lots of post-its. Italy brought the ballad of the year. They were performing at home, and Mahmud repeated representing Italian Eurovision after doing so in 2019.
After that, it was Spain's turn. Chanel lifted the whole of Europe with her dancing and her SloMo, and achieved Spain's best position in 27 years. It is also called recognizing the person in Spain with more doces received in history and getting the best score in the history of Spain. Previously held by Mocedades with 125 points.
Chanel was followed by the Netherlands, Ukraine, Germany and Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Belgium.
The Netherlands, which took a very emotional bullet, but the stage did not go with it. Ukraine went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest. Germany came last in the final. Lithuania was one of the worst affected by the lack of movement of the arches, but gave a solid performance. Azerbaijan used a giant staircase and didn't do too badly. And Belgium, to be honest, quite good, no more.
After them it was the turn of Greece, Iceland, Moldova, Sweden and Australia.
Greece brought a stage show with melting chairs, very funny. Iceland brought 3 sisters who gave a good performance. Moldova was the big surprise of the night, coming second in the televote. Then came one of the favourites, Cornelia Jakobs, representing Sweden with her Hold Me Closer, followed by Sheldon Riley representing Australia with a staircase that left no one indifferent.
Finally, the UK, Poland, Serbia and Estonia performed, bringing the Eurovision grand final to a close before the voting.
The UK was one of the favourites, coming second in the grand final, with Sam Ryder and a spectacular performance. After that came Poland with a storm of staging. Then, another of the surprises. With Konstrakta and their In Corpore Sano, the first song in Eurovision history to include Latin. And the Estonian grand final closed with Estonia, the song that got everyone up and dancing and was a great finale.
After that, lines were opened and a reminder of all the songs was put up for voting. And after that the first ever Italian Eurovision winner from Italy performed. The previous winners, Måneskin and presenter Mika.
After that, the voting started with a few technical problems in several countries, and Spain received 8 votes. In addition Ukraine got the highest score ever in the televote, thus winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
Here you can watch Ukraine's winner performance:
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