Finland: Younghearted release their UMK 2022 entry "Sun Numero"

Finland: Younghearted release their UMK 2022 entry
Tuesday, 18 January 2022

  • Younghearted have released their entry for the Finnish national final, UMK 2022, titled “Sun Numero” (Your number). 

    Following the release of the seven UMK 2022 contestants, the candidates are progressively releasing throughout the week their entries.

    After the first three out of seven competing entries been released, Cyan Kicks with "Hurricane" , BESS with "Ram Pam Pam"   and The Rasmus with "Jezebel", the fourth entry for UMK 2022 has been released. It was time for the group Younghearted to release their song for the national final titled "Sun Numero" (Your number). 

    In addition to Younghearted itself, singer-songwriter Vilma Alina and composer-producers Joonas Keronen and Ilkka Wirtanen also contributed to creation of the song.

     

    Pop group Younghearted is made up of a group of high school friends, vocalist Reeta Huotarinen and guitarists Atte Ranta and Emil Korkiakoski. Founded in 2015, Younghearted has released two albums. The first album, Nuorisydän, which was released in 2016, reached platinum, and the second album, Vapaa, received an Emma Gala Music Awards nomination in the Band of the Year category. The band’s best known songs are Hetkeksi and Vaikeeta. 

     

    Song Releases

    The UMK entries will be released on the official UMK Youtube channel every weekday at midnight Finnish time from January 13 onwards. The songs will be released in the following order: 

    • January 13 – Cyan Kicks
    • January 14 –  BESS
    • January 17 – The Rasmus
    • January 18 – Younghearted
    • January 19 – Olivera
    • Jaunary 20 – Tommi Läntinen
    • January 21 – Isaac Sene

    UMK returns to Logomo arena in Turku after a two year break, as the show was hosted in the Mediapolis Studios in Tampere the last two editions. The national final is set to take place on February 26, 2022. The outcome of the national final will be determined by a combination of public (75%) and jury voting (25%).

     

    Finland in Eurovision

    Finland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 53 times since its debut in 1961. Finland won the contest for the first time in 2006 with Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The country's best result before then was achieved by Marion Rung with the song "Tom Tom Tom" in 1973, which placed sixth.

    Finland has finished last in the contest eleven times, receiving "nul points" in 1963, 1965 and 1982. Since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004, Finland has failed to reach the final eight times. In 2014, the country had its best result in eight years when Softengine finished 11th. In 2015, Finland finished last in the first semi-final with the shortest-ever Eurovision entry, "Aina mun pitää" performed by Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät.

    In 2020 Aksel won the national final with the song “Looking Back”.  As the competition was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic he never reached the Eurovision stage in Rotterdam. 

    This year the rock band Blind Channel triumphed in UMK 2021 with their song 'Dark Side' and went off defending the Finnish colors in Rotterdam, where they achieved the country's second best result finishing 6th with 301 points in the overall score.

    News source/Image: YLE