Georgia competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Armenia, which was held on 11 December 2022 in Yerevan.
[1] The children's talent show Ranina was used for the fifth year in a row to select Georgia's representative, Mariam Bigvava.
[4] In the 2021 contest, Niko Kajaia represented Georgia with the song "Lets Count The Smiles" following his victory in the fourth season of Ranina, achieving 4th place out of 19 with 163 points.
For the fifth year in a row, Georgia used an original children's talent show format, Ranina (Georgian: რანინა), as the selection method for their artist.
All contestants except Kato Chkareuli, Oto Bazerashvili and Nini Gazdeliani performed with former Ranina participants, such as: Anastasia Garsevanishvili (2019); Nia Khinchikashvili, Sandra Gadelia, Lela Kveniashvili, Marita Khvedelidze and Rati Gelovani (2020); Barbare Makhatadze and Niko Kajaia (2021).
They are Alisa Parulava, Nikoloz Kharati, Mariam Bigvava, Sandro Kvachadze, Vache Ghviniashvili and Oto Bazerashvili.
On 29 October 2022, GPB reported from the filming of the music video for Mariam's song, featuring four dancers.
The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes.