Austria’s top rock act Bilderbuch may have passed on Eurovision 2022. But the country’s Eurovision scout is still feeling better than ever about his country’s chances at ESC in Torino.
Speaking about this year’s selection process in our to-be-published interview, Eberhard Forcher struck an upbeat tone, saying that he felt “anything was possible” for Austria.
He’ll present the final demos to management next week and anticipates an artist announcement in December.
From an internal selection of around 20 acts, just four remain — and he says each of them brings passion and enthusiasm for ESC.
“They really want to go there. I have not experienced this before — even with Cesar [in 2018], and even with Nathan [in 2017]. They opened their heart, but this time I have four acts that are really, really into it.”
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Austria: The four possible acts for Eurovision 2022
We’ll publish our full interview with the delightful Eberhard in the coming days. But for now you can swipe through our gallery above to hear some snippets of Eberhard teasing the four acts still in the race.
Act #1: “An electronic duo with origins in southern Tyrol” that lives in Vienna. They have a “very distinctive sound.”
Act #2: An act that plays “a combination between electro-swing and EDM” with a “charismatic female singer”.
Act #3: An act from Styria who are a “very cool pop act, but not in the usual average radio-pop idiom.” They’re “very funky, but not too aggressive.”
Act #4: A young, male DJ-producer with a young female singer. “This guy is the most successful Austrian DJ act ever” with like 80 million Spotify followers and videos with 180 million YouTube clicks.
Are you excited by everything Eberhard has to say? Do you think Austria can secure its first win since Conchita? Let us know in the comments box down below.
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I’m tired of the Electro swing slander Electro velvet gave it a bad name
All genres have good and bad entries.
Austria will not send electro swing. dont worry.
I would love an act like Parov Stelar and Deladap although we all know Stelar has rejected Eurovision and he will never do it. electroswing is cool!
Whatever Austria chooses in the end, I appreciate that they’re not immediately thinking of doing rock just because of rock song won last year. They could stand out And getting to the final for the first time since 2018, but it all depends on the song. I look forward to see who they choose in the end.
It’s great to see so many countries putting so much effort into it this year. The Turin contest looks set to become one to remember for decades.
The 2021 contest may have set the bar, but 2022 might have the potential to surpass it.
Yes, exactly! 🙂
#4 is kinda weird because for example Parov Stelar is almost at 1 million followers on Spotify. Who could be more successful in Austria and beyond ?
maybe its LUM!X he is probably the biggest Austrian act internationally
If the mentioned DJ is actually the most successful Austrian DJ ever, then it might be DJ Ötzi (I just googled “Most successful Austrian DJ” and he popped up. I am not Austrian). I am not Austrian so don’t take my words for granted.
It is LUM!X, he is not that well known even in Austria, because he is quite new. But when you hear his songs you will at least think you have heard them somewhere.
Act, so 4 groups or what? No so singers???
No solo singers?
I wish some DJs joins ESC in the future. Rock has rightfully won and it’s time for EDM to shine!
There’s nothing for them to actually do, though.
#1 is ANGER
#2 is DELADAP (i guess)
#3 not sure, maybe GRAND NIGHTS
#4 is LUM!X i guess, which would be great!
Lum!x is italian
Lumix is Austrian, Anger is Italian 😉
Nvm, wikipedia is lying to me
He worked with Gabry Ponte
Yeah when you type in lum!x wikipedia automatically links you through to the page about gabry ponte which makes you think they are one and the same person. Not smart on them
Act 4 sounds like DJ Ötzi – although I would not exactly describe him as young…
Yeah i’m searching and there isn’t a single succesful young austrian dj with a lot of spotify streams. I guess ‘young’ was meant with a flair of sarcasm.
Parov Stelar has q huge amount of apotify streams. Maybe him?
Parov Stelar does not have the number of streams/followers they mentioned in the article, plus he has rejected Eurovision.
Lumix is 19 years old
number one is clearly „Anger“
The description is quite clear and there are not that many southtyrolian musical duos living in Vienna.
This is act one (not the song though):
https://youtu.be/O3U-cKrCQ3M
There are not that many southtyrolian duos living in Vienna and making music.
Could #2 not be Parov Stelar??? He’s Austrian, and tours with a female singer (who’s Moldovan by the way)
Out of these four, #2 is the one that catch my curiosity the most, hopefully it’s a good one that will bring more diversity in 2022’s genre.
“Electro-swing” isn’t always mean Electro Velvet. There’s many good electro swing musicians like Caravan Palace or Caro Emerald.
Caro Emerald would be amazing. The essence of Hooverphonic but electro swing
Caro is Dutch…
It is Deladap and they are not that much into electro swing anymore
just listening to Deladap and Parov Stelar, both sound good despite not being like 100% pure electro swing, so it’s pretty safe to assume #2 will be excellent if its either one of them.
The recent songs of both of them are not electro swing.
So none of these sound like Mathea sadly
Whenever I hear electro swing I either think of Caravan Palace, which would be fierce to see them at Eurovision (except most likely for France), or Electro Velvet which…was not a success. I mean Malta’s song last year was in-between the good and the bad, but hopefully this one will be better
I was thinking Caravan Palace too. Watch a performance of Lone Digger on YT – I saw them perform it on Jools Holland and they are FANTASTIC live. France could do great with them.
Act 2 mentioning electro swing immediately reminds me of Electro Velvet from 2015, which is obviously not good news.
Also I don’t know much about Austrian DJs but Act 4 should be relatively easy to figure out given the large number of Spotify followers and YouTube views.
The best part of the article is that it looks like all four acts will have upbeat pop songs, which is nice! (Not that there is anything wrong with ballads or anything that isn’t upbeat pop)