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Junior Eurovision: Viewing figures for the 2021 contest revealed!

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The 19th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) broadcast on Sunday 19 December from Paris, reached a total of 33 million viewers, with the show recording its highest average viewing since 2011.

The contest was broadcast on YouTube as well, with many viewers watching it there:

The EBU published through the official Junior Eurovision website these statistics:

  • 4.5 million unique viewers also watched content around the event, including the Live Show, in Junior Eurovision’s official YouTube Channel.
  • An average TV audience of 7.5 million saw the 2021 competition which showed 19 countries singing live on the stage of La Seine Musicale in Paris in a spectacular Christmas-themed show hosted by France Télévisions.
  • The hosts delivered the second largest audience with 1.6 million tuning in to France 2. A year-on-year increase of 400,000 viewers.
  • Poland saw the biggest average TV audience for a third year in a row as 2.8 million watched their act Sara James finish 2nd in the competition. JESC 2021 attracted 4 times as many viewers than usual in the same slot to the 3 TVP channels it aired on.
  • Overall, 11 out 14 markets recorded saw larger audiences than are normally received by their broadcaster in that slot.
  • In the winning country, Armenia, on average 43% of all TV viewers watched JESC 2021 on AMPTV who will host the 20th Junior Eurovision Song Contest later this year.
  • Iceland, who didn’t take part but aired the competition for the first time, recorded a share of 96%!

You can read the whole breakdown of the statistics published by EBU here!

Young Audiences

Junior Eurovision’s appeal to young audiences was clear this year.

The Contest delivered a 12.6% viewing share among children aged 4 to 14, up 59% on the average normally achieved by this specific group of broadcast channels of 7.9%; and the 2.5-hour event also delivered an 11.2% viewing share among 15 – 24-year-olds, more than twice than the average number normally achieved by the same group of 5%.

Those numbers were also confirmed by online viewers. On social media the contest saw its best year ever. There were 8.3 million video views on TikTok and 5.7 million videos viewed, as well as 23 million impressions on Instagram, the Contest’s most popular digital platforms.

The 20th anniversary edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held by 2021’s winning broadcaster AMPTV in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan later this year.

Watch Armenia’s winning song “Qami Qami” performed by Malena:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqRlYCxPHw

Source: junioreurovision.tv

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Junior Eurovision 2021: Dream Team in Paris with the Russian delegation!

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The Dream Team (Dimitris Kontopoulos, Elias Kokotos and Philipp Kirkorov) is in Paris with the Russian delegation, in order to support Tanya and help her bring the third victory for her country, in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Junior Eurovision 2021 takes place on Sunday and today the rehearsals of the 19 participants begin. Russia participates with the song Mon Ami and appears in seventh place. The song has won the impressions and is considered one of the favorites to win the competition. According to our information, the Dream Team has edited Tanya’s entire appearance and that was one of the reasons for the recent trips of Dimitris Kontopoulos and Elias Kokotos to Moscow.

This is the first time that the Dream Team is so actively (obviously at least) involved with Junior Eurovision and it comes at a time when everything shows that it will take over the participation of Russia in the senior Eurovision.

According to our information, we will see a very impressive act on stage by Tanya, transferring the colorful video clip of Mon Ami to the stage of La Seine Musicale in Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHlgT3gRCPo

Junior Eurovision 2021 will be held on Sunday, December 19, 2021, at 16.00 cet and you can watch it through the official YouTube channel of the contest!

Armenia: “Great news soon”, said the head of the delegation!

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Armenian head of delegation, David Tserunyan, noted a possible return of the country to the next Eurovision Song Contest and most probably Junior Eurovision too, in 2022, after their withdrawal this year.

David Tserunyan, who is also an elected member of the Reference Group, took part in the group’s first meeting with RAI lately. The Italian broadcaster, has already started setting up the forecoming contest of 2022.

Publishing the photo from the conference of the Reference Group, Tserunyan expressed his gratitude for his reelection and concluded that soon we will have some wonderful news, sparking hopes for the return of Armenia to the contest.

Armenian prime minister got a vote of confidence, not more than two days ago, which is a first step towards the recovery of the country, after their conflicts with Azerbaijan with regards to Artsakh.

We really hope that Armenia makes a return in 2022, along with other numerous withdrawn countries!

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