Home Composed Song Contest 2022

Contest overview

Continuing on from his successful hosting of the competition the previous year, Andy Brook from the United Kingdom organised the 2022 edition in cooperation with the reigning champion, CornEL from Romania.

As in 2021, a total of 24 entries were submitted to the competition, although one was subsequently withdrawn. This left a field of 23 songs from 13 countries - including the return of France for the first time in over a decade, and Norway for the first time since 2004! Once again, the competition had its own dedicated website, this time at home-22.com.

The 23 competitor juries were supplemented by an internet-based public vote (shown as in the scoresheet below) and a total of four guest juries: Vladyslav Semenchenko, the President of OGAE Ukraine (); Liam Jarnecki from the United Kingdom, who co-hosted the result presentation shows in 2011 and 2021 (); a jury representing Radio International, who provided their usual kind support for the competition (); and the Greek Brothers, aka Eduard and Alex Alexogiannopoulos, whose Home Composed history includes winning the contest in 2013 and 2017 in addition to the special anniversary event, 30 Years Of HCSC: Greatest Hits ().

The return of Norway also marked the comeback of 1997 champion Roy Vorland as the featured vocalist on Gunnar B. Ingebrigtsen's composition "Hold Me, Lord". The collaboration was a successful one: In an incredibly exciting voting sequence that came down to the very last moment, Gunnar and Roy took the crown ahead of one of the British representatives, contest debutant Constantinos Karaiskos aka ConstantX, with his song "Love Grow Stronger". Floriana from Romania upheld that country's recent strong record in the competition, rounding out the podium positions with "Light Of Day".

If you want to relive the voting in full, you can still do so here!

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Portugal	Save The Love	Sean Berger	Sean Berger	Sean Berger	9	84
02	Sweden I	Modern Day Stress	Ben Robertson	Ben Robertson	Ben Robertson	17	43
03	Sweden II	Disco Music On The Floor	Majo	Majo	Majo	19	32
04	Finland	Burning Out	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	4	112
05	Lithuania	Netobulas angelas	Ignas Valiulis	Ignas Valiulis	Ignas Valiulis	17	43
06	Romania I	Salvame	CornEL	Zeik	CornEL	6	96
07	Cyprus	Atithaso pouli	Avraam Konstandinou	Savvas Degirmentzoglou	Avraam Konstandinou	6	96
08	Norway	Hold Me, Lord	Gunnar B. Ingebrigtsen feat. Roy Vorland	Gunnar B. Ingebrigtsen	Gunnar B. Ingebrigtsen	1	139
09	Australia I	To Love Somebody	Rainbow Orbit	Phil McNulty	Phil McNulty	21	22
10	Sweden III	Kärleken till dig	Eva-Karin Håkansson & Martin Kahnberg	Eva-Karin Håkansson, Martin Kahnberg	Eva-Karin Håkansson	20	29
11	United Kingdom I	Love Grow Stronger	ConstantX	Constantinos Karaiskos, Chris Hall	Constantinos Karaiskos	2	138
12	Greece I	Embrace Of Peace	Konstantinos & Ennea Odoi	Konstantinos Papoutsis	n/a	5	101
13	Germany I	True Lovers	Austeja	Marcus Seiler	Stefan Engel	11	80
14	United Kingdom II	Once The Roof Goes	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	10	82
15	France	Latine cantandum	Synthetic Singers	Serge Fourcade	Serge Fourcade	23	9
16	Australia II	Piggy In The Middle	Scott Sanders with Rex Watts	Scott Sanders	Scott Sanders	13	63
17	Greece II	Thes na se miso	Demy feat. Thanos X	Thanos Chasiotis	Thanos Chasiotis	15	52
18	Germany II	Crash Your Life	Janneck Schmacke	Janneck Schmacke	Janneck Schmacke	12	73
19	Germany III	I Always Wonder Why	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	22	14
20	United Kingdom III	(We Were) The Spiders From Mars	Cellphone	Jim Brook	Jim Brook	14	53
22	Ireland	The Best Of Life	Lamph	Eoin Jackson, Clodagh Jackson	Eoin Jackson, Clodagh Jackson	8	95
23	Romania II	Light Of Day	Floriana	Floriana	Floriana	3	122
24	United Kingdom IV	The Dance	The Quirks	Andrew Mendelson	Andrew Mendelson	16	46

Song withdrawn before the voting was complete:

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist
21	Denmark	Hit Me	Group Covid-19 feat. Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen

Scoreboard

	Juries
																													Total
Save The Love	2	6		5			2				10				10	2	3			10	3	4	10	10	7				84
Modern Day Stress												1				3	2			3	4				10	8	12		43
Disco Music On The Floor	1					6														7	1	2		3	2		10		32
Burning Out		10	1	6	8	4	10	5	1	4		6	7		6	1	5		7			6	5	4	1	7		8	112
Netobulas angelas										10	8		1							6				12				6	43
Salvame	8	12	3			2	8	4	4		12	2						1	6	8	7	10	7					2	96
Atithaso pouli	10	3	10	7	5	1	3	7				3		3	3		12				12	5			3	2		7	96
Hold Me, Lord	12	8		12	10	10	12	10			7	5		4	12		4					7	4			12	5	5	139
To Love Somebody		1				7												10	2				2						22
Kärleken till dig				4						1	3		6					7						5			3		29
Love Grow Stronger	7		8	2		8	4	6	8	12	4	7	5	12	5	4	1				5	12	12	6		4	6		138
Embrace Of Peace	5	5	12					12			6			8	1		6	5	8		10		3	7		3		10	101
True Lovers			7	3	4		7	8	3		1		10		7		7	3	10				6	2		1		1	80
Once The Roof Goes				1						7		12	12	10		10		12							8	10			82
Latine cantandum													3					6											9
Piggy In The Middle			2		1		1	3	7	5		8		7		7		4	1	2		1					2	12	63
Thes na se miso	3			10	2	5				6	2		2	6				2		4	2			8					52
Crash Your Life	6		5			3			5	3	5			1		6	8		4	1					12	6	8		73
I Always Wonder Why																					6				4		4		14
The Spiders From Mars					7			1	2	2		10		2	8			8	3						5	5			53
The Best Of Life	4	4	4		6		6		10			4		5	2	12			5	12	8	3	1		6			3	95
Light Of Day		7	6	8	12	12	5	2	6				8		4	5	10		12	5		8		1			7	4	122
The Dance		2			3				12	8			4			8							8				1		46

Media

HCSC 2022 winner: Gunnar B. Ingebrigtsen feat. Roy Vorland - Hold Me, Lord

Recap of all HCSC 2022 songs in draw order
The hosts

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