After a pandemic curtailed 2020’s ESC for the first time in history and threatened to topple a significantly smaller, in-person outing in 2021, Eurovision Song Contest 2022 seems to be coming in to land smoothy in Turin. A collective sigh of relief that the ESC we know and love returns to some form of normality, but something potentially abnormal – at least in the last decade – is hovering this year. In an unprecedented turn, could 2022 be “The Year of ‘The Big Five’”, as they are known, in which the five ascend arm-in-arm to the top of the leaderboard?
