Posts

Junior Eurovision: Norway considers a comeback!

There has been some truly fascinating news from northern Europe. Having last competed in Junior Eurovision in 2005, Norway -one of the initial participants- seems to be considering a comeback to the competition.

Not only was Norway one of the sixteen nations that supported the children’s competition in its inaugural edition, but it was also one of the inspirations behind the contest’s creation. Junior Eurovision was born out of the MGP Nordic, a children’s competition hosted in the Nordic region, where Norway was taking place. But three years into the competition, Norway and Denmark made the decision to pull out in protest of the excessive pressure being placed on the singers.

The demand for a pressure-free song contest for children remains strong in Norway and in all Nordic countries that remain absent from the competition. While Junior Eurovision is now more competitive than ever, NRK intends to return to the contest in the best-case scenario in 2025.

A potential return in 2025 with a new national final

During the country’s brief Junior Eurovision run, Melodi Grand Prix Junior (MGPjr) served as the national selection format. Regardless of non participating at Junior Eurovision since 2005, MGPjr was held until 2022, when it was last broadcasted.

NRK intends on redesigning the children’s contest and producing a new national final is a strong condition for the country’s return. According to NRK Super, NRK’s children’s and youth channel, “a new national final is the first step toward possibly participating again in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2025.”

Norway hosted the show in 2004 and its best placement came in 2005, when Malin with “Sommer Og Skolefri” placed third.

Source: eurofestivales

Junior Eurovision 2024: Italy’s representative has been announced!

Last night the second edition of The Voice Kids Italy ended with the big winner Simone Grande.

Presenter Antonella Clerici has announced that The Voice Kids winner Simone Grande will represent Italy in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

11-year-old Simone Grande from Rozzano, Milan, dreams of either becoming a singer or a footballer, made it to the blind auditions with Marco Mengoni’s L’essenziale. Clementino and Arisa had turned showing interest in Simone, however, Clementino blocked Arisa and brought him to his team.

In the semi-final, if there’s one contestant who left everyone speechless it was little Simone Grande, who wowed the jury with her rendition of Lara Fabian’sAdagio”.

In the final he performed All By Myself and showed not only with his voice, which is characterized by a large and impressive vocal range, but also with his interpretation, which makes him ready for the music world despite his young age.

Italy this year was represented by Melissa & Ranya with the song “Un Mondo Giusto”, finishing in 11th place with 81 points.

Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all the developments regarding our favorite contest!

Source : ilsussidiario & newsbook

Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to Ireland’s song!

With lees than a month to go until the 21st Junior Eurovision contest, the song that will represent Ireland in the contest has just been released.

In early October, the young Jessica McKean won the Irish National Selection for Junior Eurovision, Junior Eurovision Éire 2023. To indicate that the winner was selected by the public audience.

You can listen the “Aisling” by Jessica McKean for Junior Eurovision 2023 in the video below:

Who is Jessica McKean?

Jessica McKean is ten years old and she was born in a small town named Lifford which is located in North Ireland. Jessica started her journey in music at the age of three when she won the Gaelic Fèis Festival (about art and culture).

The young singer also participated in the Donncha’s Two Talented of RTÉ singing I Love You Honey by Patsy Cline and since then has won many competitions and awards.

Beyond singing, Jessica also engaged in art, crafting, piano lessons, football and gymnastics.

The 21st Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Nice, France, on the 26th of November, following Lissandro’s win last year in Yerevan.

What do you think of the Irish entry for Junior Eurovision 2023? Write us in the comments below!

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023, in France!


Follow us on all social media, so you do not miss any news about the biggest music festival in Europe:

 

Junior Eurovision 2023: Watch the video clip of the Maltese entry!

Back in July, Yulan Law won MJESC, Malta’s selection process for Junior Eurovision, after the decision of a professional jury and the public vote.

Following the leak of Yulan’s song yesterday, the official video-clip of the Maltese entry for Junior Eurovision 2023 was released today via the official Youtube channel of Junior Eurovision.

You can watch the official video of “Stronger”, below:

Who is Yulan Law?

Yulan Law is now 14 years old and she was born in Malta. She started her musical journey at the age of 5 and she also plays musical instruments, such as violin and piano.

To date, she has been a participant in The Voice Kids MaltaMalta’s Got Talent and New Wave Junior in Russia. The young performer took part in the Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest three times before securing her first win in the competition.

The 21st Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Nice, France, on the 26th of November, following Lissandro’s win last year in Yerevan.

What do you think of the Maltese entry for Junior Eurovision 2023? Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all news!

Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to Malta’s entry!

Back in July, Yulan Law won MJESC, Malta’s selection process for Junior Eurovision, after the decision of a professional jury and the public vote. The search for the song that Yulan would sing in Nice started at a later stage, in September.

Although, the official premiere of “Stronger“, Malta’s entry for Junior Eurovision 2023, is scheduled for tomorrow evening, the song was leaked today.

You can listen to “Stronger”, below:

The 21st Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Nice, France, on the 26th of November, following Lissandro’s win last year in Yerevan.

What do you think about “Stronger” ?Stay tuned to EurovisionFun for all news!

Spain: Watch the video clip of “Loviu” for Junior Eurovision 2023!

This year, Spain used the internal selection method to choose its participation. As a result, it was announced in July that 11-year-old Sandra Valero would fly the Spanish flag in Nice.

Last night, the country’s broadcaster, RTVE, released the official video clip of the participation.

Watch the video clip of “Loviu“, Sandra Valero’s entry for Junior Eurovision 2023:

What do you think about Spain’s participation in this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest?

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the latest news about Junior Eurovision 2023, in Nice!

Junior Eurovision 2023: Listen to Ukraine’s song!

A few months ago the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster UA:PBC had confirmed that Ukraine would take part in the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Nice, France.

The national final for the selection of the Ukrainian entry for the upcoming contest took place today in which the below 5 acts took part:

  1. Polina Babiy – “Universe”
  2. Anastasia Dymyd – “Kvitka” (Квітка)
  3. Anastasia Bielibova – “Syl’na” (Сильна)
  4. Denis Hryshchuk – “Dance”
  5. 3’beauties – “Power of Love”

With the combination of the public and the jury votes the next representative of Ukraine is Anastasia Dymyd with Kvitka” (Квітка). 

Stay tuned on EurovisionFun for all the updates around the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest!

Kazakhstan: Withdraws from Junior Eurovision 2023!

The first country that announces their withdrawal from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is Kazakhstan!

After a satisfactory debut in 2018 (6th place) and two consecutive second places in 2019 and 2020 the national broadcaster of Kazakhstan announced according to EUROVISION NEWS post on Instagram, that they won’t take part in the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023  in Nice, France!

 

Δείτε αυτή τη δημοσίευση στο Instagram.

 

Η δημοσίευση κοινοποιήθηκε από το χρήστη EUROVISION NEWS (@esc_news_)

Last year Kazakhstan was represented by David Charlin and the song “Jer-Ana (Mother Earth)” (Жер-Ана)”. The country ended up in the 15th place with 47 points.

https://youtu.be/sgx61ms2jP4

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Junior Eurovision Song Contest!

Germany: Returns to Junior Eurovision 2023!

Germany returns to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest by confirming its entry for this year’s Junior Eurovision 2023 contest.

Germany returns to Junior Eurovision after a year’s absence. Until now, its return was simply expected as KiKa, the broadcaster responsible for the Junior Eurovision project, had stated that they planned to participate in Junior Eurovision 2023. With today’s announcement, the country’s presence was officially confirmed.

Last year the country had decided not to participate in the competition held in Yerevan, Armenia, stating that they would take a creative break. One of the reasons for the absence were the travel warnings of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Armenia due to the war tension with neighbouring Azerbaijan, regarding the status of the breakaway region of the Republic of Artsakh.

Germany has participated twice so far, in 2020 with Susan and “Stronger With You” finishing in last place with 66 points, and in 2021 with Pauline and “Imagine Us” where they placed 17th with 61 points .

As announced today, the upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is going to take place on November 26th in Nice, France.

Stay tuned in Eurovision Fun for all the updates around Junior Eurovision 2023!

Source: Eurovoix

Junior Eurovision 2022: Watched by 33 million viewers!

EBU has revealed that the Junior Eurovision 2022 broadcast received 33 million views in 13 measured markets. The average TV audience reached 7.9 million viewers, the third largest number for the competition since 2011.

Some interesting facts:

  • 4 in 10 Armenians tuned in to watch the competition sometime in the afternoon.
  • 10 of the 13 markets received a larger-than-usual number of viewers in that time slot.
  • Poland, Italy, France and Spain exceeded their average number of views by 1 million.
  • An audience share of 18.5% was recorded among children aged 4 to 14 years.

Online, the show received over 500,000 views on the official livestream on YouTube.

Junior Eurovision 2022

The 20th Edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest took place on December 11th at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex in Yerevan, Armenia. The winner of Junior Eurovision 2022 was France with Lissandro and the song “Oh Maman!”.

Here are the results:

  1. France: Lissandro – “Oh Maman!” – 203 points
  2. Armenia (host country): Nare – “Dance!” – 180 points
  3. Georgia: Mariam Bigvava – “I Believe” – 161 points
  4. Ireland: Sophie Lennon – “Solas” – 150 points
  5. United Kingdom: Freya Skye – “Lose My Head” – 146 points
  6. Spain: Carlos Higes – “Señorita” – 137 points
  7. Netherlands: Luna – “La festa” – 128 points
  8. Portugal: Nicolas Alves – “Anos 70” – 121 points
  9. Ukraine: Zlata Dziunka – “Nezlamna” – 111 points
  10. Poland: Laura Bączkiewicz – “To the Moon” – 95 points
  11. Italy: Chanel Dilecta – “Bla Bla Bla Bla” – 95 points
  12. Albania: Kejtlin Gjata – “Pakëz diell” – 94 points
  13. Serbia: Katarina Savić – “Svet bez granica” – 92 points
  14. North Macedonia: Lara feat. Jovan & Irina – “Životot e pred mene” – 54 points
  15. Kazakhstan: David Charlin – “Jer-Ana” – 47 points
  16. Malta: Gaia Gambuzza – “Diamonds in the Skies” – 43 points

Source: EBU