List of Junior Eurovision Song Contest winners
Left: Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian winner at Junior Eurovision 2005.
Center: Bzikebi, the winning artists from Georgia at Junior Eurovision 2008.
Right: Gaia Cauchi from Malta, winner of Junior Eurovision 2013, in
Kiev,
Ukraine The Junior Eurovision Song Contest is an annual contest organized between member countries of the European Broadcasting Union for children aged between 10 and 15 (8 and 15 between 2003 and 2006). This junior contest has been broadcast every year since its debut in 2003, and is based on the senior version entitled Eurovision Song Contest, one of the longest-running television programmes in the world since the debut in 1956. The contest's winner has been determined using numerous voting techniques throughout its history; centre to these have been the awarding of points to countries by juries or televoters. The country awarded the most points is declared the winner.
There have been 11 contests, with one winner each year. Nine different countries have won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. A song from Croatia won the first contest in 2003.[1] The country with the highest number of wins is Georgia, with three wins.[2][3] Sweden and Macedonia are the countries with the longest history in the contest without a win; all having made eleven appearances since their debuts in 2003.[4][5][6]
Winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest provides an opportunity for the winning artist(s) to capitalise on their success and surrounding publicity by launching or furthering their international career. Some artists from Junior Eurovision have progressed later in their careers to participate in national selection finals for the senior Eurovision Song Contest, including Molly Sandén who represented Sweden in 2006 and later took part in the 2009 and 2012 Melodifestivalen.[7] Nevena Božović represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as part of Moje 3 and became the first contestant to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest after competing in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, where she came third in 2007.[8] The Tolmachevy Sisters are the second contestants to do so, participating (and placing 7th) in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 after winning the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with their entry, "Vesenniy Jazz" (English: Spring Jazz, Cyrillic: Весенний Джаз).[9]
List of winners
By contest
- Notes
- 1.^ Although the venue itself is located in Marsa, Malta, the Junior Eurovision Executive Supervisor, Vladislav Yakovlev stated on 18 December 2013 that there would be "no host city - but a host island".[10]
By language
Map showing each country's number of Junior Eurovision Song Contest wins
Since the contest began in 2003, all nations competing must sing in the national language (or national languages) of the country being represented. However, they can have a few lines in a different language.
By country
The table below shows the top-three placings from each contest, along with the years that a country won the contest.
See also
Notes and references
References
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Georgia
Belarus
Malta
Armenia
Spain
Russia
Ukraine
Netherlands
Croatia
Italy
United Kingdom
Bulgaria
Serbia
Norway
Sweden
Lithuania
Slovenia
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