Austria AUSTRIA 2022 - LUM!X & Pia Maria - Halo

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Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night
Let me be your halo
'Cause heaven can't wait for us to finish the fight

We don't need a Hercules to bring a man down to his knees
No more apologies
Philosophers like Socrates define yourself, think on your feet
Go sharpen your teeth

We can be CEO
Yeah, you already know
Yeah, we can be the boss
Fly higher than the Gods
We're not under control
And no, no, not anymore
If you feel me, then put your hands up

Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night
Let me be your halo
'Cause heaven can't wait for us to finish the fight

And I'm stronger than angels
I'm fearless in danger
And I will bring dark to the light
Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night

I think I had the right idea
Beautiful, something to feel
For a hundred years
We're gonna be written among the stars
Posing so we're hustling young queens

We can be CEO
Yeah, you already know
Yeah, we can be the boss
Fly higher than the Gods
We're not under control
And no, no, not anymore
If you feel me, then put your hands up

Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night
Let me be your halo
'Cause heaven can't wait for us to finish the fight

And I'm stronger than angels
I'm fearless in danger
And I will bring dark to the light
Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night

La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
Don't need no
La-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la

Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night
Let me be your halo
'Cause heaven can't wait for us to finish the fight

And I'm stronger than angels
I'm fearless in danger
And I will bring dark to the light
Let me be your halo
'Cause we've been through hell and back in only one night​

 

[Lindon]

Most-streamed Eurovision 2022 songs on Spotify yesterday (Mar 28):
1. Brividi (405,641 streams)
2. Hold Me Closer (244,463)
3. De diepte (208,531)
4. Halo (88,129) (+14% from Mar 27)
5. Give That Wolf a Banana (77,145)
6. SloMo (74,408)
7. Stefania (73,436)

Since March 11th Halo has achieved 1,876,795 streams on Spotify, if I haven't miscalculated.
This is place 4 in this time slot.
In comparison Norway Mar 11-28: 1,754,963

Btw. Running order first semi 2018 Cesár Sampson: 13.

 

[Lindon]

In the Austrian charts Halo is dropping from 20 to 28. The streams are dropping as well. Whereas on youtube the video needed 16 days to reach 1 mio. and just three days for another 300.000 views. The number of views per day is rising every day.

And another 100,000 in 14 hours.

 

[hzalfa]

Eurovision 2022: Halo di LUM!X e Pia Maria dal 15 aprile nelle radio italiane

Halo, il brano con cui LUM!X e Pia Maria rappresenteranno l'Austria all'Eurovision 2022, debutta nelle radio italiane il prossimo 15 aprile.

www.eurofestivalnews.com

Eurofestivalnews reports that LUM!X will participate in the Italian tv music show Battiti Live on the 14th April and Halo is one of the songs he will bring. Starting from the 15th April the track will also be played on Italian radios.

 

[Zerocalcare]

Eurovision 2022: Halo di LUM!X e Pia Maria dal 15 aprile nelle radio italiane

Halo, il brano con cui LUM!X e Pia Maria rappresenteranno l'Austria all'Eurovision 2022, debutta nelle radio italiane il prossimo 15 aprile.

www.eurofestivalnews.com

Eurofestivalnews reports that LUM!X will participate in the Italian tv music show Battiti Live on the 14th April and Halo is one of the songs he will bring. Starting from the 15th April the track will also be played on Italian radios.

Probably here is the hand of Gabry Ponte. They have collaborated together in the past.

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It's a very smart move because the Italian public has always loved Eurodance.

 

[hzalfa]

Probably here is the hand of Gabry Ponte. They have collaborated together in the past.

Gabry Ponte cowrote the song so of course this makes it easier to sell to both the Italian public and radios/tv broadcasters, whether or not he is involved directly in promoting it. Also, I think Mediaset expects RAI to promote LUM!X as "the one Italian Eurovision contestant that you can support during the semifinals", and they want to anticipate them by being the ones to introduce him to the general audience.

 

[Lindon]

1.8 million views of the official music video and more than 2 million streams on Spotify alone. However, there is also opposition from the Swedish content producer of the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel. In the March News video, Austria is coolly ignored and Nordic entries are pushed through the thumbnail.

 

[Ezio]

The Swedish mafia is pulling out all the stops because they are mad they didn't win since 7 years.

 

[marty]

The number of daily views on youtube is still rising, for the first time with more than 200.000 views in 24 hours. on saturday it will reach 2 mio views.

 

[Ezio]

I think it's because they are played at more radio stations since 2 days or so.

But we really can't ever have decent odds. Even with a song like this, bookmakers think we are as competitive as Germany and less competitive than Armenia, Azerbaijan, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland. Gimme a break, this is ridiculous.

Semi 1 at 9th, only very slightly better than Amen.

They give us the Katya Zamolochikova Krisis Kontrol-treatment every year. Even after Cesar won the jury vote, who ranked 20th at the odds, everyone was like, "This shouldnt have happened".

 

[Lindon]

Time stamp 1,9 million views 5 minutes ago.

 

[Lindon]

Of course the odds are ridiculous. They rank countries before artist and/or songs are known. Wo ist der Emoji der Fassungslosigkeit repräsentiert?

Halo Spotify
März 11-17... 876908
Mär.18..... 108596
Mär.19..... 92476
Mär.20..... 76381
Mär.21..... 87864
Mär.22..... 90882
Mär.23..... 90670
Mär.24..... 90845
Mär.25..... 103087
Mär.26..... 93566
Mär.27..... 77391
Mär.28..... 88129
Mär.29..... 90340
Mär.30..... 91108
Mär.31..... 91553
Summe...... 2149796

 

[Lindon]

Sorry I have to post something off topic. ORF seems to unearth someone with an incredible voice every year. Last evening:

 

[Lindon]

By tomorrow at the latest we will have overtaken the Ukrainian and the Dutch video.

 

[Ezio]

Tomorrow is an important date for Halo, because we will get to hear the first live performance.

 

[Ezio]

I just tried to listen to Hold me closer since some weeks, and I am truly mad how much praise and riggory in its favour this generic ballad of a song is receiving, while we had a truly delicate and magical ballad with Limits by Paenda, that earned nothing but scorn. Or Amen, which was the wrong song at the wrong time, but it delivered goosebumps the first time I listened to it.

Since 2019 my interest in Eurovision is being tackled because it feels overproduced with a lack of interesting content and the results don't have many surprises anymore. They are according to plan or how the bookmakers predicted them.

I was hoping for Italy to take a fresh approach at production, but they still rely on EBU officials and not on themselves when it comes to running order.

And now with a fansite such as wiwibloggs getting exclusive access to Eurovision, while others don't, and their opinions being the most important out there, I feel like Austria can't compete with the riggory and corruption at Eurovision, no matter the song.

This is the day and age of censorship and message control. You can choose to comply and suck it up, or get cancelled.

I hope we will get a great televote result this year, but I feel like we are in for an underwhelming result in a sea of beige and grey songs this year.

 

[marty]

I just tried to listen to Hold me closer since some weeks, and I am truly mad how much praise and riggory in its favour this generic ballad of a song is receiving, while we had a truly delicate and magical ballad with Limits by Paenda, that earned nothing but scorn. Or Amen, which was the wrong song at the wrong time, but it delivered goosebumps the first time I listened to it.

Since 2019 my interest in Eurovision is being tackled because it feels overproduced with a lack of interesting content and the results don't have many surprises anymore. They are according to plan or how the bookmakers predicted them.

I was hoping for Italy to take a fresh approach at production, but they still rely on EBU officials and not on themselves when it comes to running order.

And now with a fansite such as wiwibloggs getting exclusive access to Eurovision, while others don't, and their opinions being the most important out there, I feel like Austria can't compete with the riggory and corruption at Eurovision, no matter the song.

This is the day and age of censorship and message control. You can choose to comply and suck it up, or get cancelled.

I hope we will get a great televote result this year, but I feel like we are in for an underwhelming result in a sea of beige and grey songs this year.

Hold me closer has FFF potential for me. Even Sweden did not vote for that song, why should Europe vote for it. It probably will get a good result, but not top 5.
I think the years with the overproduced songs were the years 2016-2020. Last year was a highlight in my eyes with a lot of songs not in English. This year actually the Austrian entry is one of the overproduced songs with a lot of promotion behind.

 

[Lindon]

Tomorrow is an important date for Halo, because we will get to hear the first live performance.

WWB will provide recorded TV quality footage with professional sound of the acts in London throughout the week. So this will be crucial for Halo.

 

[Ezio]

WWB will provide recorded TV quality footage with professional sound of the acts in London throughout the week. So this will be crucial for Halo.

And they will also provide their expert opinion, I suppose

 

[Realest]

Today is the Day where Austria will fall or rise 10+ Places in the Odds.

 

[Lindon]

If the running order of the sound check is also the running order of the show tonight, Halo will be 7 to last of 27 acts.

During the show WWB will provide the usual low quality snippets on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.