EMA Freš: Slovenia's pre-selection for Eurovision 2022

The Slovenian public broadcaster RTVSLO has announced the comeback of its pre-selection for Eurovision, called "EMA Freš".

After having its first ever edition taking place in 2020, the producers of EMA (Slovenia's main national selection) want to still give a chance to breaking through artists. With that being said, those under 30 years old and with fewer than three commercial singles were invited to submit their hopeful entries.

Out of 127, a professional jury selected 24 and it's now up to the fans to decide which final four should move forward and have a place amongst next year's EMA line up. The pre-selection will be held online through RTVSLO's website.

EMA Freš 2022 – Schedule

• Duels: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Winners proceed to the weekly final (selected by online voting)
• Weekly final: Saturday to Sunday 20:00 CET Three proceeds to the EMA Freš Finals (two selected by online voting, one selected by a jury)

EMA Freš 2022

• EMA Freš 2022: Slovenia's Pre-selection for EMA 2022 (4 best proceed to EMA 2022) – online
• EMA 2022: Slovenia's National Selection for Eurovision 2022 – live shows

The winner of EMA 2022 will represent Slovenia at Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin.

Starting on 29 November, and for the next three weeks on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, two performers will be put against each other to remain in the competition. One from each day will qualify for the weekly finals. At the weekly finals, online voting selects two winners and a jury selects one.

All three weekly winners will advance to the January finals of the EMA Freš selection

Slovenia in Eurovision Song Contest

Slovenia had its debut in Eurovision Song Contest 1993, and since then participated 26 times in Eurovision. They have never won the contest, and the best result for Slovenia is two 7th places in 1995 and 2001.

Since the introduction of Semi-finals in 2004, Slovenia only managed to qualify for the Grand Final 6 times out of 17.