Junior Eurovision Song Contest

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) is a variant of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) for young singers below the ESC age limit of 16 years. So far there has been no German-speaking participation at the event, and no German-speaking broadcaster has broadcast the events. Up to and including 2006, JESC participants had to be at least eight years old; in 2007 the limit was increased to ten years, and in 2016 it was reduced to 9-14 years. The songs must be held in the national language of the artist. Up to and including 2007, the contributions in text and music had to be written by them themselves without professional support;

The model for the competition was the Scandinavian Melodi Grand Prix Nordic , which took place in 2006 in a Danish-Norwegian-Swedish co-production. In the Danish Radio in 2001 took place (only national) a similarly designed competition. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) accepted the idea and commissioned Denmark to organize the first Junior Eurovision Song Contest .

The public broadcasters in Denmark and Norway withdrew from the competition in 2006. The reason for this, the children were exposed to too much pressure, was discussed controversially. Together with Swedish television, they returned to the old MGP Nordic . In Sweden, the private broadcaster TV4 took over the broadcast of the JESC, but in the other two countries no independent broadcaster was interested in participating. The British broadcaster ITV has not achieved a satisfactory audience rating with the JESC in recent years and was therefore no longer interested in broadcasting it - also from 2005 onwards. A year later, Spain also withdrew, but in 2014 Italy took part in the JESC for the first time, making it the first Big5 country in the competition since 2007. In 2015, Australia, a country outside of the greater European area, took part in the JESC for the first time.

history

Events of the Eurovision Song Contest

year	place	winner
		country	Interpreter	title	language	Translation (unofficial)
2003	Copenhagen	Croatia	Dino Jelusić	Ti si moja prva ljubav	Croatian	You are my first love
2004	Lillehammer	Spain	Maria Isabel	Antes muerta que sencilla	Spanish	Better dead than usual
2005	Hasselt	Belarus	Ksenija Sitnik	My vmeste	Russian	We are together
2006	Bucharest	Russia	Tolmacheva sisters	Vessenni dschas	Russian	Spring jazz
2007	Rotterdam	Belarus	Alexey Zhigalkovich	S druz'yami	Russian	With friends
2008	Limassol	Georgia	Bzikebi	Bzzz	Imaginary language	-
2009	Kiev	Netherlands	Ralf	Click clack	Dutch	Click-clack
2010	Minsk	Armenia	Vladimir Arsumanjan	mummy	Armenian	mummy
2011	Yerevan	Georgia	Candy	Candy Music	Georgian	Candy music
2012	Amsterdam	Ukraine	Anastassija Petryk	Nebo	Ukrainian , English	sky
2013	Kiev	Malta	Gaia Cauchi	The start	English	The beginning
2014	Marsa	Italy	Vincenzo Cantiello	Do primo grande amore	Italian , English	You, first great love
2015	Sofia	Malta	Destiny Chukunyere	Not my soul	English	Not my soul
2016	Valletta	Georgia	Mariam Mamadashvili	Mzeo	Georgian	Sun
2017	Tbilisi	Russia	Polina Bogusevich	Wings	Russian, English	wing
2018	Minsk	Poland	Roksana Węgiel	Anyone I Want To Be	Polish , English	Anyone I want to be
2019	Gliwice	Poland	Viki Gabor	Superhero	Polish, English	superhero
2020	Warsaw

Leaderboards

JESC winners card

space	number the victories	country
1	3	Georgia
2	2	Poland
		Russia
		Malta
		Belarus
3	1	Italy
		Ukraine
		Armenia
		Netherlands
		Spain
		Croatia

Attendees

at least one participation

EBU members without participation

planned participation canceled before the final

not yet started as a separate country

So far, 35 member countries of the EBU (as well as Australia and Kazakhstan as associated members and Wales as part of a member) have participated in the JESC at least once:

country	debut	cancellation	return	Participation	Victories	broadcast	Points
Albania	2012	2013	2015	6th	0	RTSH	0246
Armenia	2007			13	1	ARMTV	1394
Azerbaijan	2012	2014 , 2019	2018	3	0	İctimai	0162
Australia	2015			5	0	SBS	0588
Belgium	2003	2013		10	0	VRT	0628
Bulgaria	2007	2009 , 2012 , 2017	2011 , 2014	6th	0	BNT	0531
Denmark	2003	2006		3	0	DR	0330
Germany	2020					KiKA
France	2004	2005	2018	3	0	France 3	0450
Georgia	2007			13	3	GPB	1306
Greece	2003	2009		7th	0	ERT	0257
Ireland	2015			5	0	TG4	0279
Israel	2012	2013 , 2017 , 2019	2016 , 2018	3	0	IBA	0176
Italy	2014			6th	1	RAI Gulp	0682
Kazakhstan	2018			2	0	Khabar	0398
Croatia	2003	2007 , 2015	2014	5	1	HRT	0359
Latvia	2003	2006 , 2012	2010	5	0	LTV	0172
Lithuania	2007	2009 , 2012	2010	4th	0	LRT	0256
Malta	2003	2011	2013	15th	2	PBS	1195
Moldova	2010	2014		4th	0	TRM	0225
Montenegro	2014	2016		2	0	RTCG	0060
Netherlands	2003			17th	1	AVRO	1202
North Macedonia	2003	2012 , 2014	2013 , 2015	15th	0	MRI	0804
Norway	2003	2006		3	0	NRK	0153
Poland	2003	2005	2016	6th	2	TVP	0559
Portugal	2006	2008	2017	5	0	RTP	0122
Romania	2003	2010		7th	0	TVR	0347
Russia	2005			15th	2	Carousel	1498
San Marino	2013	2016		3	0	SMRTV	0099
Sweden	2003	2008 , 2015	2009	11	0	SVT , TV4	0558
Switzerland	2004	2005		1	0	SF DRS	0004th
Serbia	2006	2011	2014	11	0	RTS	0678
Serbia and Montenegro	2005	2006		1	0	UJRT	0029
Slovenia	2014	2016		2	0	RTVSLO	0141
Spain	2003	2007	2019	5	1	TVE	0744
Ukraine	2006			14th	1	UA: PBC	1050
United Kingdom	2003	2006		3	0	ITV	0286
Belarus	2003			17th	2	BTRC	1568
Wales	2018			2	0	S4C	0064
Cyprus	2003	2005 , 2010 , 2015 , 2018	2006 , 2014 , 2016	9	0	CyBC	0338

Color legend:

former participants

The following countries would be eligible but have not yet entered the competition:

Egypt  Algeria  Andorra  Bosnia and Herzegovina

Estonia  Finland  Iceland  Jordan

Lebanon  Luxembourg  Monaco  Morocco

Austria  Slovakia  Czech Republic  Tunisia

Turkey  Hungary

Special occurrences

• Shortly before the 2005 event, Cyprus decided not to take part because the selected song was suspected of plagiarism. Cyprus nevertheless took part in the vote.
• Spain unexpectedly resigned on August 8, 2007 despite great success. TVE stated that they are looking for a different format that takes a different point of view.

future

After the number of participants reached a preliminary high in 2004 (18 countries), it steadily decreased until 2006 (15 countries). It was therefore not certain for a long time whether the Junior Eurovision Song Contest would continue after 2007. In 2007 the number of participants rose to 17, while in 2008 it fell from 18 to 15. For 2009 there were only 13 participants, which was a new negative record. In 2010, after lengthy discussions, 14 participating countries were found, including one newcomer. The hosting of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 seemed uncertain for a long time and depended above all on the success of the 2010 music competition . In mid-January, the EBU announced the award of the event to Armenia. After only nine previously participating countries had registered in 2012, the EBU had to persuade three more countries to make a debut in order to reach the minimum number of 12 countries. In 2013 it was only possible to get 12 countries to participate, but in 2014 again 16 countries took part in the JESC, and in 2015 and 2016 even 17, which, as in 2007, represents the second highest number of participants. In the 2017 competition, only 16 countries took part. In the year the highest number of participants so far was counted (20 countries), but the following year this number fell to 19 countries.

The EBU is also trying to find a regulation with which non-EBU members, especially private broadcasters, can participate in the JESC. This rule would be particularly helpful in Spain.

Possible debutants

•  Iceland : In December 2019, Felix Bergsson of RÚV confirmed that the country is in negotiations to take part in future editions of other EBU events in addition to the regular Eurovision Song Contest . This makes a debut in the 2020 junior competition possible.
•  Scotland : The Scottish broadcaster BBC Alba shows its interest in participating in the 2020 competition in 2019. However, he then decided against participating in 2020.

Web links

Commons : Junior Eurovision Song Contest  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steering Group selected Armenia as Host Broadcaster. Esckaz.com
2. ↑ Eurofestivales: Islandia podría participar en otro concurso de la familia Eurovisión. In: Eurofestivales. December 25, 2019, accessed June 25, 2020 . 
3. ^ Emily Herbert: Scotland: No Debut At Junior Eurovision in 2020. In: Eurovoix. April 21, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 (UK English).