A spectacle filled with space men, bolero jackets and bucket hats, the 66th Eurovision Song Contest in Turin delivered a visual and aural feast.
And while the competition may be over, there’s still time to celebrate this year’s shows, the artists and their songs. The team at wiwibloggs is proud to present the ninth edition of our Vision Music Awards (VMAs). As Eurovision season wraps up, it’s one more opportunity to give the class of 2022 their final hurrah before we welcome 2023’s hopefuls north to the United Kingdom on behalf of Ukraine.
In the aftermath of the contest, the Wiwi Jury have shortlisted candidates across 14 categories, ranging from the classic Best Dressed and Best Live Vocals, to the almost comedic Best Staging — a tricky award to manage given the “sun-of-death” that took over the Turin stage.
But who deserves the gold? That’s up to you.
You can vote for your favourites to win the Vision Music Awards in 11 of our 14 categories. The remaining three awards — the Congeniality Award, the Dana International Award for LGBTQ+ Equality and Least Bothered by Results — will be decided by the Wiwi Jury, who interacted with the artists on the ground in Turin and before.
Read on to see the finalists and to vote for your favourites now…
Scroll down to vote in the Vision Music Award polls.
VMAs 2022: The Nominees
You can vote for as many contestants in each poll as you like, but you can only submit your votes one time. So choose wisely and make it count! We’ll also be hiding the results until it is time to announce the winners to keep the drama high and the spoilers low. Without further ado… wiwibloggs readers, start voting now!
Most Likely to Succeed Commercially
ABBA. Céline Dion. Gina G. Many acts have used the Eurovision Song Contest as a launch pad for their chart-topping careers. Italy’s Måneskin soared to stratospheric levels of success after their win in this category in 2021, and continue to top the charts and tour the world. This award honours the contestant who is most likely to make it big — or at least cash some checks — once the hype for Eurovision 2022 fades.
Previous winners:
2013: Norway’s Margaret Berger
2014: The Netherlands’ Common Linnets
2015: Belgium’s Loïc Nottet
2016: Australia’s Dami Im
2017: Belgium’s Blanche
2019: Italy’s Mahmood
2020: Iceland’s Daði Freyr
2021: Italy’s Måneskin
Best Dressed
Classic, couture, campy, kitsch… the Eurovision wardrobe department has it all. This award celebrates the contestant who brought it to the runway and turned out the fiercest looks. Whether it’s on-stage or off-stage at the Moroccanoil Turquoise Carpet, every Eurovision star knows there’s always time for fashion.
Previous winners:
2013: Romania’s Cezar Ouatu
2014: Ukraine’s Mariya Yaremchuk
2015: Russia’s Polina Gagarina
2016: Poland’s Michal Szpak
2017: Poland’s Kasia Mos
2019: Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke
2021: Italy’s Måneskin
Best Live Vocals
Eurovision may be a battle of songs, but equally important is the voice. In 2012, Rona Nishliu’s epic high notes almost shattered the glass of the Crystal Hall Arena. In the years that have followed, other vocalists have given her a run for her money. This year featured a number of talented singers, but only one can win the title.
Previous winners:
2013: Ukraine’s Zlata Ognevich
2014: Spain’s Ruth Lorenzo
2015: Latvia’s Aminata Savadogo
2016: Poland’s Michal Szpak
2017: The Netherlands’ O’G3NE
2019: The Netherlands’ Duncan Laurence
2021: Switzerland’s Gjon’s Tears
Most Memorable Staging
This award honours the contestants who took the biggest risks on stage, creating memorable — if sometimes divisive— performances. Before casting your vote, consider the creativity and originality of each performance. It’s also important of all years to have sympathy to this year’s contestants, many of whom had their plans altered due to a quite-not-so-kinetic prop on stage that derailed plans.
Previous winners:
2013: Romania’s Cezar Ouatu
2014: Poland’s Donatan & Cleo
2015: Belgium’s Loïc Nottet
2016: Russia’s Sergey Lazarev
2017: Azerbaijan’s Dihaj
2019: Australia’s Kate Miller-Heidke
2021: Ukraine’s Go_A
Best Choreography
Some acts keep it simple while others go all out with their choreography. At Eurovision 2018, Cyprus’ Eleni Foureira set the city of Lisbon en fuego and redefined hairography as we know it. We’ve since seen some epic dance numbers take the song contest stage, and this year is no exception. But who threw the best shapes in Turin?
Previous winner:
2021: Lithuania’s The Roop
Most Improved
The road to Eurovision can be long and bumpy. But for a lot of acts, even the most difficult journeys arrive at beautiful destinations — even if a revamp is required along the way. This award highlights the artist who surprised us the most by demonstrating major improvements from their pre-Eurovision reveal to the contest itself. When casting your vote, consider how far they’ve come — and where they finished on the scoreboard in Turin.
Previous winners:
2013: San Marino’s Valentina Monetta
2014: Ukraine’s Mariya Yaremchuk
2015: Georgia’s Nina Sublatti
2016: Belgium’s Laura Tesoro
2017: The UK’s Lucie Jones
2019: Czech Republic’s Lake Malawi
2021: Russia’s Manizha
Best Song with a Message
All music is art. And often that art comes with a story. Whether it’s the tale of a personal struggle or a message for society at large, songwriting enables an artist to channel their sentiment through art — and Eurovision helps them relay it to a global audience. Jamala’s “1944” demonstrated the plight of her ancestors, Boggie’s “Wars For Nothing” was a call for world peace and Bilal Hassani’s “Roi” taught us all to shine bright. But which song from this year preached its gospel the best?
Previous winner:
2021: Russia’s Manizha
Best Use of Social Media
As we delve deeper and deeper into the digital age, social media is now an integral part of the Eurovision experience. Many contestants post updates and engage with their fans via Twitter, Instagram and TikTok — and we continue to see some incredibly creative uses of these apps. Challenges, storytime videos and dance tutorials… the class of 2022 have done it all. Whose social game was the strongest?
Previous winner:
2021: Iceland’s Daði Freyr
Best Use of Props
It’s not uncommon for Eurovision contestants to share the stage with elaborate props. Whether whimsical or avant-garde, these props can become iconic in their own right for helping the artist create a memorable moment on stage. In recent years, we’ve seen a giant hamster wheel from Ukraine, a butter churner from Poland, and rows upon rows of maneki-neko lucky cats from Israel. Who has earned a spot in this pantheon of fab? And no, the use of the kinetic sun doesn’t count!
Previous winner:
2021: Ukraine’s Go_A
Best Eurovision Campaign Trail
Some acts go all out with promo before Eurovision kicks off. In a normal year, that might include attending Eurovision pre-parties across the continent. Pre-parties themselves were back in strong force across so many cities this year, while other artists joined the campaign trail virtually through their Youtube channel. When casting your vote for this award, consider whose pre-Eurovision campaign developed the most momentum leading up to the contest.
Previous winner:
2021: San Marino’s Senhit
Best Music Video
Before we see the acts belt their Eurovision songs live on-stage in their full glory, we get additional visual delights in the form of music videos. This award honours the act whose music video wowed us the most. Our nominee list includes all the 2022 acts who released a full music video alongside their Eurovision song.
Previous winner:
2021: Switzerland’s Gjon’s Tears
Congeniality Award (Wiwi Jury to decide)
Since 2013, Team Wiwi has awarded Miss/Mr Congeniality to the contestant whose press conferences and off-stage appearances did the most to honour the Eurovision tradition of peace and camaraderie. Daria Kinzer missed out on a grand final spot at Eurovision 2011, but she stayed throughout the week and partied with her fans until the wee hours of the morning. All smiles, all the time. This award honours the artist who did their upmost to keep the Eurovision community smiling.
Previous winners:
2013: Israel’s Moran Mazor
2014: Portugal’s Suzy Guerra
2015: Armenia’s Tamar Kaprelian
2016: Russia’s Sergey Lazarev
2017: Austria’s Nathan Trent
2019: Cyprus’ Tamta
2021: Croatia’s Albina
The Dana International Award for LGBTQ+ Equality (Wiwi Jury to decide)
This award honours Dana International, who became the first transgender woman to win Eurovision in 1998. Conservatives at home asked Israel to withdraw from the contest, but she stood her ground and sang for all oppressed people en route to victory. The Wiwi Jury awards this prize to the contestant who did the most for the many LGBTQ+ fans who follow Eurovision. Activism is risky business, but the winner knows that doing what’s right is more important than bowing to the haters.
Previous winners:
2013: Finland’s Krista Siegfrids
2014: Austria’s Conchita Wurst
2015: Serbia’s Bojana Stamenov
2016: Israel’s Hovi Star
2017: Montenegro’s Slavko Kalezic
2019: France’s Bilal Hassani
2021: Russia’s Manizha
Least Bothered by the Results (Wiwi Jury to decide)
Eurovision is serious business, with over 161 million people tuning in to watch Europe’s largest televised entertainment event. And yet every year some contestants tune out all the pressure and just show up and do their thing. We salute those acts who don’t let the drama get them down and know they have worth regardless of the outcome.
Previous winners:
2013: The Netherlands’ Anouk
2014: France’s Twin Twin
2015: Austria’s The Makemakes
2016: Georgia’s Nika Kocharov and the Young Georgian Lolitaz
2017: Portugal’s Salvador Sobral
2021: United Kingdom’s James Newman
Who do you think will win each Vision Music Award? Who did you vote for? Let us know in the comments below.
In my opinion… Best Choreography, best message and most recognised…definitely Serbia. I mean Konstraktas performance on stage and the whole song…No one has ever seen anything like this before at ESC. She has so much potential. The Lyrics of her song, you should translate it. This is real Art, this is what ESC is all about, this is something that should make us think. All of her songs, and Zemlja Gruva’s too. If you ask me, had Ukraine not been there, she should have won. And btw Konstrakta & Zemlja Gruva made real career since then and they’re ruling one… Read more »
Best Dressed and Best choreography are for Chanel by far!
Spain not being in the best choreography and best staging category :’) okay…
Seriously! She literally had the best choreography we’ve seen in the history of ESC!
It is there for choreography
My bad, perhaps I was drunk when I first read.
Commercial success: Rosa Linn is already going super viral across the continent and beyond Best dressed: Australia IMHO Best vocals: Tough choice but giving it to Australia again, Poland and UK making a very close top 3 Best staging: Lithuania, one of few entries in which the black sun didn’t seem to hinder, all the while they had to restart their plans from scratch due to RAI’s incompetence Best choreo: Spain, that one’s a no-brainer Most improved: Montenegro or Czechia for me, both struggled with their vocals during the pre-parties but both did very well in their semis for what… Read more »
Commercial – Sam Ryder. He literally has a single out next week and a collab with David Guetta and Sigala on the way. Best dressed – surprised there was no Ronela, but this has to be Vladana for her dress sense at the pre-shows and Turquoise Carpet. Vocals – Ochman. I’d go Sam again but I want to spread the love. Ochman had great vocals, shame the song was zzzzz. Staging – surprised there’s no Serbia! Ukraine should win this one, the staging was done really well. Choreo – Spain, duh. Most improved – Czech Republic, Domi had loads of… Read more »
very surprised at some of the nominations though. Chanel for most likely to succeed commercially when she’s done literally nothing since the contest? Ronela for best campaign trail after one of the worst campaign trails ever? Malta for best message?!
Serbia should be there for staging!!!
The Netherlands have been omitted quite a bit here – best video and best dressed most notably.
Ok, but why wasn’t Monika Liu included among best dressed ?
Listen wiwibloggs it’ll be daylight robbery if Sam Ryder doesn’t win Mr Congeniality. The man is 100% genuine, is friends with everyone and the only reason Marius Bear was applauded after his result was because Sam went to see him. His press conferences where he said he didn’t believe in the UK stigma made the news.
The rest of the poll is a little pointless as some of the options are silly.
This will end up wt
Looking at the nominees AND the previous winners for each category, I won’t take this seriously at all.
Very interested in the social media one. U.K. and Ireland provided some funny and well delivered videos (like the lost passport), Norway’s parodies of other entry music videos were hilarious, Georgia had great press releases, and Slovenia were particularly receptive to fanart like that I did (which also got endorsements from the acts of Armenia, Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Latvia, Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal and Switzerland with many more noticing). On the Sunday before heat 1, LPS, whose comic book based music video was done from fanart, did a video posting all the fanart fans did for them.
I’m completely shocked over how Wiwibloggs and eurofans STILL underrate Armenia and Rosa Linn massively! Snap was hands down the most successful song of this years bunch by far, let’s face that. Sad to see that she only is nominated in ONE single category! The person that has decided on the nominations must immediately be replaced, since he/she clearly doesn’t have a clue about how to define success. I mean, if the number 1 most streamed song of this year by far internationally only is nominated in one category, you know you have something fishy about the whole situation…
The song has done well…but that doesn’t change the fact the stage show was messy and she didn’t actually do so well in the final. Most of these polls are about the actual ESC performance, so it makes sense to me.
You can’t be serious. If Snap was sent by Sweden, it would finish top 5.
The stage show was one of the coolest I’ve seen in a long time. The reason why she didn’t do well in ESC was probably because all ordinary wievers who normally would vote for that kind of songs, now voted for Ukraine because of the war. Left were the hardcore Eurofans with their very different and unique taste, who voted for more hyped-up countries like Spain, Italy and Sweden. So Rosa Linn was very much robbed, and that’s why she got such a bad result in the competition. In another year she would come top 5 easily!
Her success has nothing to do with Eurovision and eurofans were NOT interested in her song until it became “cool”.
Exactly. The problem is that Eurofans have a very different taste from the ordinary person that listens to music on the top charts. That’s probably why Eurovision is mocked so much in countries like UK and Ireland. If Eurofans had music taste closer to the ordinary music listener, Eurovision would be a even bigger event globally. From the first time I heard Snap, I knew instantly that this is a type of song that ordinary music listeners would love. I knew also it would be underrated A LOT by Eurofans. And I got both thinks right. We all need to… Read more »
Eurovision is mocked by people in the UK who haven’t watched it in 30 years. SNAP is good and I get why it’s popular but I don’t see it at the top of the UK charts unlike in other countries. The “High and Fast” version is about 20 times more popular on TikTok than the normal version. I’m sure next year you’ll get people speeding up songs to see what one’s sound best.
It was the second highest charting song in UK after Sam Ryder’s song. Actually, it’s doing better in the charts in UK now than Sam’s song. Sooo
I mean? Sam charted back in May with 4 weeks in the top 10 , Space Man was #1 on Apple Music, #1 on iTunes for a good while and his Extended Play was #1 after the contest. Space Man is certified BPI Silver in the UK with over 200,000 units sold. This was a long time before Rosa Linn appeared. Sam is a national treasure here nobody knows Rosa Linn lmao. The UK charts move quickly it’s hardly a fair comparison.
Space Man peaked at #2 and in a normal week would’ve been #1 (without Harry Styles). SNAP peaked at #26. Last week it dropped slightly to #28. It’s not as popular in the UK compared to other countries and I’m not really surprised. It doesn’t sound our like chart music.
Rosa Linn has fared better in our charts than Dadi Freyr did – remarkable considering SNAP was only 20th in our tele vote, and the only times U.K. has voted for Armenia when their entry has taken to the stage has been in semi finals. I can see why SNAP would fare better in the charts and Spotify than in the ESC, as a lovely but low-impact song bunched between several impactful ones.
It doing well in TikTok and in music charts is separate from its performance in Eurovision. I mean, Georgia got a nomination here…
Most Likely to Succeed Commercially: Italy and the UK
Best Dressed: Sweden
Best Live Vocals: Lithuania, Portugal and the UK
Most Memorable Staging: France, Greece and the UK
Best Choreography: Serbia
Most Improved: Iceland
Best Song with a Message: Serbia
Best Use of Social Media: Georgia and the UK
Best Use of Props: Serbia
Best Eurovision Campaign Trail: Spain and Ukraine
Best Music Video: Greece
Some of the available options were really poorly chosen tho, how can you nominate an irrelevant gimmick like Norway or a generic Melfest reject like Malta instead of Portugal for best message?
Good catch with Portugal being snubbed for Best Message. That’s a real shocker, especially with Malta getting nominated – almost every other song this year had a better message than Malta.
wiwibloggs just select their personal favourites it’s hardly objective
Best music video should be Norway in the short listings. Apart from that, I voted UK on every one they were in. I still think Sam Ryder deserves more recognition for what he did as still people in the UK don’t know what he achieved.
How much recognition do you want? Sam’s record label love him and they are working hard to establish his career and they’ve done a fantastic job. It’s crazy how much he’s done since Eurovision. He doesn’t need to please the local trolls who think he only has Space Man.
The reporter at Boardmasters was so impressed on Saturday he wrote a whole article about Sam within an hour.
Let’s not forget him performing at the queens jubilee and singing the National anthem at the British Grand Prix
In the last 3 months he’s performed at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and British F1. He’s also performed at shows and festivals in: Malta (own show), Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Czech Repubic (and Sweden later this week). He’s supported Texas, Rag’N’Bone Man, Paloma Faith and Lewis Capaldi. I’ve probably forgotten some as he’s hard to follow. He’s performed at multiple UK festivals of which Truck and Tramlines had to be closed off for capacity safety reasons. Currently he’s in Ibiza filming the “top secret” video for his collab with David Guetta and Sigala. Then on Friday he’s back… Read more »
Albania in the best choreography -category seems a bit ironic..
Funniest thing is that they thought the ‘punani touching’ fiasco with the EBU made Wiwi feel like ‘you can’t show off your sexy self’ when Chanel literally dances around showing her naked butt xD
I’m seeing them live in a couple months. I live in the US and honestly never imagined ever seeing a Eurovision act get well known enough in the states to tour the country, much less someone close enough to my part that I live in for me to actually see them.
Same! I’m seeing them in November here in the U.S.! So excited!
Chanel could’ve been the most likely to succeed commercially, but her management failed her.
She should’ve released a follow-up single as soon as Eurovision ended as she was in the spotlight all over Europe at the start of the Summer. She probably still has time to succeed commercially, but it isn’t looking well at all, which I’m really upset about!
Rosa Linn’s management on the other hand… AMAZING!
Releasing all those versions of SNAP on Spotify as soon as they started to go viral on TikTok was genius. They really impressed me, especially since they’re just a small record label from Armenia. Well done to them, I wish Chanel’s management was as good as Rosa Linn’s.
Rosa Linn should be thanking the Spaniard who created the High and Fast version of SNAP and made it popular to begin with as it wasn’t her.
It’s bizarre how they’ve managed Chanel. They’ve done everything they shouldn’t do after Eurovision. She’ll be performing at CCME in September so if she’s going to rebound from a wasted summer, that’s her best shot.
m\ny options were fails like best dressed Norway? or props Azerbaijan? Where is the UK? They had the biggest props.
In general this year was lukewarm. I;d say Sam Ryder has the best chances to pursue a career compared to other acts. Chanel’s management has disappointed me as she went missing after ESC. Rosa Lynn’s success will be shortlived in terms of career. The song is the biggest ESC2022 hit without a doubt but i don’t see her becoming big.
Armenia had by far the most unique staging, but for some reason it wasnt one of the options
Anyone with a brain knows commercial success depends on who has the most proactive record label.
Btw Sam Ryder is doing a mainstream collaboration with David Guetta.
My opinions on each category (I am only choosing among the ones shortlisted) : Most Likely to Succeed Commercially: ARMENIA: Snap is currently doing really good internationally. It is one of my favourite songs from the 2022 contest and I am really glad to see that it received a certain post-contest popularity. There’s no doubt that it’s a radio-friendly, pleasant but at the same time heartfelt song that can impact the listener. Wishing Rosa the best in her career! Best Dressed: SWEDEN: Cornelia had the best outfit this year for me. She was elegant and classy while at the same… Read more »
I think Switzerland deserves to be included in the best live vocal. His voice is fantastic even if the song itself sounds like it belongs in a Toy Story film.
Armenia for most commercial success (her song is now charting in Asia, Latin America and Africa) and Spain for everything else. Spanish act was everything this year.
That’s a VERY good point!
Whilst Rosa Linn’s song is recognisable to most people, her image/brand isn’t. Chanel on the other hand, she’s memorable. She’s got the marketing and branding down, we all know her for her dancing, costumes… etc. That’s what makes an artist successful. So in the long run, Chanel might be more successful.
I’m very disappointed with Chanel. No music at all after ESC…that’s why many Spanish fans didn’t want her to win: it looked as a marketing product created for ESC…. as it has actually turned out to be.
She will be taking part of a music festival at the beginning of September… if she just sings Slomo, it will be very disappointing
Described “many”, as far as I know 99% of spanish fans wanted her to win, the other 1% were the soar loosers from Benidorm fest that didn´t wished her well and treated her with hateful, racist and even with threats, you mean that 1% ?… Let her sing whatever she wants if it´s just wants to do slomo let it be.,, however I think she´s way smarter than that. BTW the world is not just Europe., she´s in the radio charts in some South American countries, indeed she´s a big star in Spain but regardless of the hate that she´s… Read more »
I interpreted the most commercial success award as honoring longevity. Obviously Rosa Linn has the hit of the year, but Mahmood and Blanco will be mainstays of the Italian music scene for years to come. Sam has all the ingredients to succeed if his next couple singles can establish him in the UK. Chanel’s window might be closing, but her next single could save her.
Although not options, Lum!x could easily release another hit and Maro has collaborated with an impressive list of artists that could keep her booked and busy.
Is that why her song is sitting at #22 on Billboard and has made the top 10 in Sweden, Norway, Ireland and other major markets? Stop hating.