Three years after Duncan Laurence lifted the Eurovision trophy, 11 male solo artists are aiming to follow in his footsteps and emerge victorious at the 2022 contest.
But, the question is: which of these songs from male solo acts do you prefer?
Below, you can review all 11 songs that these men are bringing Eurovision 2022. After you’ve had a refresher, be sure to head down and vote in our poll for your favourites.
Scroll down to vote in our poll
A number of the Eurovision 2022 male solo acts are balladeers, such as Australia’s Sheldon Riley, Poland’s Ochman, Azerbaijan’s Nadir Rustamli and Switzerland’s Marius Bear.
But others bring a different flavour to the table. Estonia’s Stefan takes us to the Wild West with a western-inspired track. Belgium’s Jérémie Makiese serves us some R&B, while San Marino’s Achille Lauro goes punk rock.
Israel’s Michael Ben David gives us a self-confidence boost and the United Kingdom’s Sam Ryder takes us up to space.
wrs represents Romania with a little Spanish flair. And Germany’s Malik Harris incorporates a rap verse.
Plenty to choose from indeed.
Eurovision 2022 male solo artists
Click on the song titles to listen to the songs
- Australia: Sheldon Riley – “Not The Same”
- Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli – “Fade to Black”
- Belgium: Jérémie Makiese – “Miss You”
- Estonia: Stefan – “Hope”
- Germany: Malik Harris – “Rockstars”
- Israel: Michael Ben David – “I.M”
- Poland: Ochman – “River”
- Romania: wrs – “Llámame”
- San Marino: Achille Lauro – “Stripper”
- Switzerland: Marius Bear – “Boys Do Cry”
- United Kingdom: Sam Ryder – “SPACE MAN”
Poll: Who is your favourite male solo artist at Eurovision 2022?
You can vote for as many of the acts listed below as you want. However, you can only vote once – so choose wisely!
Who did you vote for? Do you think one of these male solo acts will walk away as the Eurovision 2022 winner? Let us know in the comments below!
Estonia! Good song, hot guy!
Ochman King
Poland
Poland & Australia for me. I also like Belgium.
Ochman pure clean clear high emotional
Ochman is the best artist this year
Ochman is the best?
A vote each for Sam and Ochman from me. Helped by the fact that their respected songs speak to me.
Come on someone rigging this poll. Sam is nice but better than Ochman? Nah
I love how wound up Poland fans are getting over UK having a better entry LOL
Stefan for sure, best song and a nice guy 🙂
Stefan is my favorite. Though it’s impressive, I’m personally not a huge fan of big theatrical aaaahs an oooohs. So Stefan’s song and voice are like smooth butter for my ears.
Also Wrs is kind of underrated. He’s a very charismatic performer and the song is really catchy.
Michael ben david is the best performer by far, no doubt about it, regarding the song we can argue…
I’m definitely not the most subjective, because I’m Estonian myself, but Stefan is really genuine and sweet. And he can sing. His emotion after the victory was just so sincere and for a very very long time I am really happy about who will represent Estonia at Eurovision. In previous years I was just meh..good choice or pff..no 😀 I hope he will do well.
I’m from The Netherlands and l love this singer and song. Go Stefan!!
Vocally, for me it’s between Jeremie Makiese and Marius Bear. Love both their voices!
I considered more the artists than the songs and voted for Achille, Jérémie, Ochman, Sam and Stefan.
I’d like to see the votes per country. If all votes for Germany came from Germany. All U.K. votes were from U.K. etc. so we can get a more accurate image of the results
Shut up
In what world would germans vote for themselves?
(Voted for Ochman btw.)
I believe that was just an example of a big country and not specifically about this year. Big country = many votes = muddies the picture, since those votes aren’t going to count come “election day”. We all know certain countries do it blindly every year (if you think I mean yours, I probably do). Not that Germany is usually one of them. But it’s overall a valid point. It’s the same when an artist asks their followers to vote in such polls (presumably to create hype). It makes the polls a lot less accurate which seems to defy the… Read more »
Sam and Ochman for their songs. But overall i’d say Achille because he’s the only one whose other songs I’ve listened to besides his ESC entry.
None of the solo male singers are in my top 5. But if I had to choose from the list, it would be Sam Ryder. Overall Mahmood is the strongest, but he is in a duo.
Ochman. His voice is a diamond.
Ochman should show his hairy chest, that would elevate him to the very top
o_o
Stefan
Och Ochman…..??????
WRS from Romania absolutely amazing artist with charisma, style and the voice of course
Sam Ryder currently winning is Amazing news
As he should.
Achille is my favourite. He has a very strong style and personality.
There are many great male voices this year. But I have noticed that some of them, despite having flawless voices, lack ability to transmit emotions. I think one of the best performer is Sam Ryder.
Absolutely. Leaving aside ESC song, his Tiny Riot live version is grounbraking vocally.
It ain’t Marius Bear anymore, that’s for sure.
why?
I guess they’re talking about Marius selling NFT’s…..
Sheldon and Ochman are my favourites <3
only Ochman
Sam Ryder. He is best male vocalist this year.
For me he sings to high. When he sings lower he sounds better.
It’s called VOCAL RANGE. If you have one precious minute in your busy live, go and watch Tiny Riot live version. That might enlighten you.
There are some fantastically beautiful voices among thé men this year…So this girl is not complaining. There is Jérémie, Ochman, Nadir, Sheldon, Sam, Stefan…And i’m sure I forgot a few. If I had to choose, I would choose Stefan….God that voice…
That’s so mean… Yet so true…
Oh, I didn’t know. I was talking about that song xd
I have the softest spot for WRS :’)
Estonia and Azerbaijan for me when it comes to both vocalist and songs.
Would also add Poland and Australia for their vocalists even if I don’t care for their songs as much.
You actually like Azeri song? O:
Estonia, UK
Stefan, Sheldon, Krystian and Sam are the obvious choices for me.
Australia – OTT emotion
Azerbaijan – average song
Belgium – silly dancing
Estonia – ditch the waistcoat
Germany – annoying voice
Israel – LOL
Poland – nice song, dull guy
Romania – 90s hair
San Marino – drugs
Switzerland – John Lewis advert
United Kingdom – facial expressions
I’m aiming for -100 here 😉
Wow aren’t you a ray of positive sunshine?
Marius Bear selling NFTs really did cause his song to fall back, didn’t it?!
So boring, it has managed the impossible, more boring than Bulgaria last year.
NFT/crypto bros underestimate not just the amount of negativity but the outright hostility towards their “hobby” among the public. It’s hard to believe he thought Eurofans would be the ideal audience for such a thing.
That said, again, he’s not the only act this year with NFTs. Mahmood and Achille Lauro also have them, though at least they didn’t use Eurovision to promote them.
I voted for Sam Ryder. If it wasn’t limited to *solo* male artists, Mahmood and Blanco win hands down.
Off Topic but Circus Mircus released Lock Me In’s music video on April Fools. EPIC. LOL.
Love Lock Me In, I will vote for it even though I know it won’t pass the death semi.
There’s no way Georgia is NOT qualifying.
I hope you’re right, Amanda. I love the song.
When does the wiwi jury typically start, I always find them interesting to read
Usually between 5th and 10th of April.
Thank you
My faves are:
Sheldon – fabulous voice, amazing vocals, great performer, just EXCELLENT!
Nadir – OMG love him, that high note in the song, OMG YES!!!
Stefan – Love the singer, message and song!
Michael – He is a KING!!! He can PERFORM, he is amazing!
WRS – YES! He is so good at captivating the audience!
Sam – Great video and great song!
lol just realized no soloist male is in my top 10. the highest i have is michael ben david somewhere around 15
While I don’t share your assessment, I have no idea why people are downvoting an opinion which didn’t offend anyone.
it’s the michael ben david part meponders. he gets a lot of hate for no reason
Agreed. General online ettiquette would be that downvoting is used for comments that don’t contribute or are inappropriate rather than to be used to show disagreement. Wiwibloggs doesn’t have any guidelines on etiquette, but it wouldn’t hurt to add a page to the About section, especially since the site has grown in popularity and can play such a central role in Eurovision culture.
Definitely Stefan here. Most of the other acts don’t do much for me, although I can reckon that there’s a lot of excellent ones this year. Ochman would be my second pick and Jeremie Makiese my third.
Wow i didn’t expect that my favourite one is also the leader here in the wiwibloggs poll.
I voted for Sam Ryder because he is the male singer whose song i ranked the highest
I’d say Ochman and Sam Ryder. Both stellar vocalists who are both high in my ranking
achille is my favorite <3 everyone make sure NOT to vote for marius bear since he is releasing NFTs to market his song
What is that, and why is that bad?
A cash grab bs. NFTs go hand in hand with shady crypto currencies.
I just Googled it. It’s more complicated than that. Some form of online art collecting via crypto currencies. Feels too complicated. Still, even after reading what it is, I have no idea who is wronged by it. If there’s no victim, there’s no crime, right?
I hate it, but try not to judge too hard. Streaming is to blame. If people in music were allowed to actually make some money, this probably would not be happening. Instead, they are forced to give away all of their work for free.
With all the disappointment over artists supporting war or committing assaults, I have no desire to judge anyone over cryptocurrencies. Especially considering this is now apparently ”a thing” (and I have no idea for how long it will last). Feels a bit off at first, but I also feel like I’m underinformed (and I feel like most of the people here probably are) to judge anyone over it. I mean, each to their own, but I have enough trouble cancelling those openly supporting war. It still hurts.
We can purchase their music now if we wanted. We can purchase physicals, collectibles, concert tickets, merch. Something tangible. Something where the buyer is actually benefiting from the exchange, not only the seller. That’s how these things are supposed to work.
We can those things, yes – but most don’t.
You’re right, though, maybe I should judge harder. It’s not necessarily out of greed is all I really meant.
Well I still think that those people spending millions on ape avatars they don’t actually own are victims of their own stupidity. lol
also, these cryptocurrencies cause a lot of environmental pollution due to mining
I know. I was just too tired to get into all that mess…
Not all crypto currencies are bad but pretty much all NFTs are at this point. At least what they did to my man Stan Lee was bad.
That’s why I said shady ones, not all
All are bad. All.
You know Achille has released NFTs, right? As has Mahmood. I also oppose them, but let’s be consistent.
i mean even if he didn’t release nfts it’s not like there would be a reason to vote for him
Voted for Sheldon and Ochman, I forgot Sam!
Australia and Estonia for me
Sheldon is such a powerhouse, i predict no matter what he’ll have a very fabulous career after this contest, a composers dream to work with such a strong vocalist
I voted for Sam Ryder.