Albania at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

2012

Number of participations

6 (as of 2019)

Highest ranking

5 ( 2015 )

Highest Score

93 ( 2015 )

Lowest Score

35 ( 2012 )

Points average (since first post)

64.00 (as of 2015)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

3.34 (as of 2015)

This article deals with the history of Albania as a participant in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest .

Preliminary decisions

The 2012 contribution was chosen through a preliminary decision called Junior Fest Albania 2012 . In 2015 and 2016, the participant was chosen by the preliminary decision Festivali Mbarëkombëtar i Këngës për Fëmijë . The Junior Fest preliminary round has been taking place since 2017 .

Participation in the competition

Because of the last place in the debut in 2012, Albania, like Israel, suspended immediately after the first participation. In 2015 they returned to the competition. Mishela Rapo's song Dambaje was the first entry in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest to contain lines in Turkish and Serbo-Croatian , as neither Turkey nor Bosnia and Herzegovina have yet participated in the competition. With fifth place, she achieved the best result in the country to date at the JESC in 2015. In all other participations, Albania was among the last five.

List of posts

year	Interpreter	Title (music / text)	language	translation	Place participants (total)	Points
2012	Igzidora Gjeta	Kam një këngë vetëm për ju (Xhavit Ujkani / Jorgo Papingji, Igzidora Gjeta)	Albanian	I have a song just for you	12/12	35
2013 - 2014	No participation
2015	Mishela Rapo	Dambaje (Adrian Hila / Pandi Laço)	Albanian 1	-	5/17	93
2016	Klesta Qehaja	Besoj (Adrian Hila / Pandi Laço)	Albanian, English	I think	13/17	38
2017	Ana Kodra	Mos ma prekni pemën (Kristi Popa / Jorgo Papingji)	Albanian, English	Don't touch the tree	13/16	67
2018	Efi Gjika	Barby (Efthimia Gjika / Hristina Gjika)	Albanian, English	Barbie	17/20	44
2019	Isea Çili	Mikja ime fëmijëria (Saimir Çili / Jorgo Papingji)	Albanian	My childhood friend	17/19	36

¹ Although the title was mostly sung in Albanian, it also contained a few lines in English , German , Italian , Turkish , Serbo-Croatian , Spanish and French .

Scoring

The following countries received the most points from or awarded the most points to Albania:

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Armenia 13 2  Sweden 12  Malta 12 3  Azerbaijan 10 4th  Netherlands 08th  Georgia 08th  Ukraine 08th  Belarus 08th 5  Belgium 07th  North Macedonia 07th

Most received points space country Points 1  Azerbaijan 12  Italy 12 2  Montenegro 08th  Slovenia 08th  Australia 08th 3  Armenia 07th  North Macedonia 07th 4th  Bulgaria 06th 5  Georgia 05  Ireland 05

Status: 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://esckaz.com/jesc/2012/alb.htm
2. ↑ http://eurovoix.com/2015/03/13/albania-return-to-junior-eurovision/
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )