JESC MADRID 2024

2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest ← Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 → Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025

17 public service broadcasters will compete in the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Highest number of participants since 2021 with Cyprus and San Marino returning to the competition
“Let’s Bloom” revealed as the creative concept for the show
Tickets go on sale on Tuesday 15 October

The EBU and Host Broadcaster RTVE are excited to confirm the 17 countries participating in the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) in Madrid on Saturday 16 November.

Albania (RTSH), Armenia (AMPTV), Cyprus (CyBC), Estonia (ERR), France (France Televisions), Georgia (GPB), Germany (KiKA/NDR), Ireland (TG4), Italy (RAI), Malta (PBS), Netherlands (AVROTROS), North Macedonia (MKRTV), Poland (TVP), Portugal (RTP), San Marino (SMRTV), Ukraine (Suspilne) will compete alongside hosts Spain (RTVE) at the Caja Mágica venue in the Spanish capital.

Cyprus return to the competition for the first time since 2017, having previously taken part in 9 editions and hosted the Contest in 2008.

San Marino make their return to Junior Eurovision after 9 years away and have participated in three Contests to date.

With 17 participating countries the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will have the highest number of competing broadcasters since 2021.

“Let’s Bloom” has also been revealed as the slogan and artistic theme for the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which references the blossoming of young artists at the event.

The same concept will be carried over to the ‘postcards’; the short videos that precede the performances of every country. Each artist will be able to combine the motto, Let’s Bloom with a concept related to JESC values: Bloom in harmony, Bloom in joy, Bloom in diversity, etc.

The concept of “blooming” will be transferred to the Caja Mágica stage through organic elements.

RTVE has designed a simple and at the same time modern set, with a central element that is groundbreaking and reminiscent of the verticality of the digital world with which young people live together: a large vertical LED screen that will dominate the stage as a core element.

Spain is staging the 22nd edition of the competition, which is open to young artists aged between 9 and 14-years-old performing new songs, 55 years after the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Madrid in 1969.

It also coincides with the 20th anniversary of María Isabel winning the 2nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest for Spain in 2004.

Last year’s winner was France’s Zoé Clauzure with “Coeur” (Heart), giving France their second consecutive win and its third overall – equaling the Contest record set by Georgia in 2016.

RTVE accepted the invitation to host after Sandra Valero’s second-place finish in Nice.

JESC 2024 will take place at Caja Mágica, one of the architectural landmarks of Madrid, which has the capacity to accommodate between 5,000 and 7,000 spectators.

Ticket sales for the live show on 16 November and dress rehearsal on 15 November will go on sale on Tuesday 15 October.

CALENDAR – Junior Eurovision Song Contest MADRID 2024:

December:

22 – 🇮🇹 Italy – “The Voice Kids” 2023 – Final (Artist): Simone Grande ⭐️

March:

23 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 1: Show 1 (Part I)
30 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 1: Show 2 (Part II)

April:

06 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 2: Show 3 (Part I)
13 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 2: Show 4 (Part II)
20 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 3: Show 5 (Part I)
27 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 3: Show 6 (Part II)

May:

04 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 4: Show 7 (Part I)
05 – 🇪🇪 Estonia – Tähtede Lava 2024 (“11 to 13” category) – Final (Artist): Annabelle Ats ⭐️
18 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 4: Show 8 (Part II)
25 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 5: Show 9 – Semi-Final (Part I)
26 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – რანინა ● Ranina 2024 – Round 5: Show 10 – Final (Part II) (Artist): Andria Putkaradze (ანდრია ფუტკარაძე) ⭐️

June:

26 – 🇲🇰 North Macedonia – Internal Selection 2024 (Artist): Ana Vančevska & Aleksej Ivanovski (Ана Ванчевска и Алексеј Ивановски) ⭐️

July:

01 – Germany – Junior ESC – Wer fährt nach Madrid? (Song & Artist): Bjarne – “Save the best for us”⭐️
07 – 🇵🇹 Portugal – The Voice Portugal Kids 5 (Artist): Victória Nicole ⭐️
18 – 🇪🇸 Spain – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Artist): Chloe DelaRosa ⭐️

August:

18 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι Shchodennyky Dytyachoho Yevrobachennya (Diaries of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Щоденників Дитячого Євробачення) Show One
21 – 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Artist): Maria Pissarides (Μαρία Πισσαρίδη) ⭐️
25 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι Shchodennyky Dytyachoho Yevrobachennya (Diaries of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Щоденників Дитячого Євробачення) Show Two

September:

01 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι Shchodennyky Dytyachoho Yevrobachennya (Diaries of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Щоденників Дитячого Євробачення) Show Three
08 – 🇵🇱 Poland – Szansa na sukces. Eurowizja Junior 2024 – Semi-Final One
08 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι Shchodennyky Dytyachoho Yevrobachennya (Diaries of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Щоденників Дитячого Євробачення) Show Four
11 – 🇸🇲 San Marino – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Artist & Song): Idols SM – “Come noi” ⭐️
15 – 🇮🇪 Ireland – Junior Eurovision Éire 2024 – Show One
15 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι Shchodennyky Dytyachoho Yevrobachennya (Diaries of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Щоденників Дитячого Євробачення) Show Five
15 – 🇵🇱 Poland – Szansa na sukces. Eurowizja Junior 2024 – Semi-Final Two
18 – 🇫🇷 France – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Artist & Song): Tiouan – “Comme ci, comme ça” ⭐️
19 – 🇮🇹 Italy – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Artist & Song): Simone Grande – “Pigiama Party” ⭐️
21 – 🇲🇹 Malta – MJESC 2024 – Final (Artist & Song): Ramires Sciberras – “Stilla ċkejkna”⭐️
21 – 🇳🇱 The Netherlands – Junior Songfestival 2024 – Final: Stay Tuned – “Music”⭐️
22 – 🇵🇱 Poland – Szansa na sukces. Eurowizja Junior 2024 – Semi-Final Three
22 – 🇮🇪 Ireland – Junior Eurovision Éire 2024 – Show Two
22 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι Shchodennyky Dytyachoho Yevrobachennya (Diaries of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Щоденників Дитячого Євробачення) Show Six
22 – 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Національному відборі на Дитяче Євробачення-2023 Ι – Final (Artist & Song): Artem Kotenko (Артем Котенко) – “HEAR ME NOW” / ~~“Dim” (ДІМ)~~⭐️
27 – 🇦🇱 Albania – Junior Fest Albania 2024 – Final: Nikol Çabeli – “Vallëzoj” (Dance) ⭐️
28 – 🇦🇲 Armenia – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Artist): LEO (Leo Mkrtchyan)⭐️
29 – 🇵🇱 Poland – Szansa na sukces – Eurowizja Junior 2024 – Final: Dominik Arim – “All Togheter”⭐️
29 – 🇮🇪 Ireland – Junior Eurovision Éire 2024 – Heat Three
30 – 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Song): “Crystal Waters”⭐️

October:

04 – 🇪🇪 Estonia – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Song): “Tänavad” (The Streets)⭐️
04 – 🇲🇰 North Macedonia – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Song): “Marathon” (Маратон)⭐️
06 – 🇮🇪 Ireland – Junior Eurovision Éire 2024 – Show Four
07 – 🇪🇸 Spain – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Song): “Como la Lola” ⭐️
08 – 🇵🇹 Portugal – Internal Selection 2024 (Song): “Esperança” (Hope)⭐️
13 – 🇮🇪 Ireland – Junior Eurovision Éire 2024 – Final (Artist): ⭐️
13 – 🇬🇪 Georgia – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Song): “To My Mom”⭐️
22 – 🇦🇲 Armenia – Internal Selection 2024 – Final (Song): “Cosmic Friend”⭐️

November:

16 – Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

Participation map: Blue: Competing countries. Grey: Countries that participated in the past but not in 2024

Dates – Final: Saturday, 16 November, 2024 – 18:00 CEST
Host – Venue & Location: Caja Mágica, Madrid, 🇪🇸 Spain
Presenter(s): Ruth Lorenzo | Marc Clotet | Melani García
Musical Director: —
Artistic Director: Marvin Dietmann
Director: —
Executive supervisor: Martin Österdahl
Executive producer: Ana María Bordas
Multicamera Director: Mercè Llorens
Host broadcaster: Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE)
Website: junioreurovision.tv
Opening Act: —
Interval Act: —
Motto: “Let’s Boom”
Participants – Number of entries: 17 [🇦🇱 Albania (11ª), 🇦🇲 Armenia (17ª), 🇫🇷 France (8ª), 🇬🇪 Georgia (18ª), 🇮🇪 Ireland (9ª), 🇮🇹 Italy (10ª), 🇲🇹 Malta (20ª), 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (22ª), 🇲🇰 North Macedonia (19ª), 🇵🇱 Poland (11ª), 🇵🇹 Portugal (9ª), 🇪🇸 Spain (10ª), 🇺🇦 Ukraine (19ª), 🇩🇪 Germania (4ª), 🇪🇪 Estonia (2ª), 🇨🇾 Cyprus (11ª), 🇸🇲 San Marino (4ª)]
Debuting countries: None
Returning countries: 🇨🇾 Cyprus (11ª), 🇸🇲 San Marino (4ª)
Non-returning countries: 🇬🇧 United Kindom (6ª)
Voting system: The professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes.
Winning song: “To My Mom” – Andria Putkaradze, 🇬🇪 Georgia (4ª)

Spanish broadcaster RTVE has announced that the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held on Saturday 16 November at the Caja Mágica in Madrid.

RTVE has taken over the organisation of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest after winners of the 2023 Contest, France, handed the opportunity to another country. France had hosted Junior Eurovision twice in the past three years.

Spain accepted the invitation following Sandra Valero’s second-place finish at Nice 2023 with “Loviu”.

‘Let’s Bloom’ has been chosen as the slogan and theme for this year, which references the blossoming of young artists as they take the stage and perform at the event.

The presenter lineup features a performer who has hosted Benidorm Fest, a superstar of Spanish film and television, and a young singer who gave Spain a bronze-medal finish at Junior Eurovision.

Martin Österdahl, Executive Supervisor for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest said: “It’s our pleasure to be welcoming young and talented artists from 17 countries to Madrid in November for the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest. We’re also thrilled to be welcoming back two countries, Cyprus and San Marino, to the competition. It has been a long time since Spain has hosted a Eurovision event and RTVE’s excitement to be staging this year’s Contest has been infectious! We are looking forward to a wonderful week ahead of us in November.”

Ana María Bordas, Original Content Director at RTVE and Executive Producer of JESC 2024 explains the idea behind the theme: “We have thought of a concept that, taking nature as an example, influences the idea of young artists flourishing towards a future where they can be themselves and express freely in a healthy, safe and diverse way. The aim is to walk with them in their growth and development. In short, to help them flourish and progress, by being themselves. The concept of flowers and blooming comes from nature itself, where there is so much diversity and in which everything is important, harmonious and beautiful.”

Marvin Dietmann, the artistic director for JESC 2024 explains more: “Our vision is rooted in the belief that diversity is the essence of beauty, much like a flourishing garden. In this creative journey, we embrace the idea that each artist, like a unique plant, contributes to the vibrant tapestry of our ‘garden of life’. Here, everyone has their place and together we grow into diverse shapes, colours and forms. We invite our audience to trust in our vision and the future of our artists, as we embark on this transformative experience together.”

17 countries will compete in Madrid at Junior Eurovision 2024. With 17 countries taking part, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will have the highest number of competing broadcasters since 2021.

Cyprus will return to the competition for the first time since 2017, having previously taken part in 9 editions and hosted the Contest in 2008.

San Marino make their return to Junior Eurovision after 9 years away and having participated in three Contests to date.

The Participating Broadcasters of Junior Eurovision 2024: 🇦🇱 Albania (RTSH), 🇦🇲 Armenia (AMPTV), 🇨🇾 Cyprus (CyBC), 🇪🇪 Estonia (ERR), 🇫🇷 France (France Télévisions), 🇬🇪 Georgia (GPB), 🇩🇪 Germany (KiKA/NDR), 🇮🇪 Ireland (TG4), 🇮🇹 Italy (Rai), 🇲🇹 Malta (PBS), 🇳🇱 Netherlands (AVROTROS), 🇲🇰 North Macedonia (MKRTV), 🇵🇱 Poland (TVP), 🇵🇹 Portugal (RTP), 🇸🇲 San Marino (SMRTV), 🇪🇸 Spain (RTVE – Host Broadcaster), 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Suspilne)

The Running Order. On 10 October, the Running Order for Madrid 2024 was confirmed, with Italy opening the show and Malta closing.

1. 🇮🇹 Italy: Simone Grande – Pigiama Party
2. 🇪🇪 Estonia: ANNABELLE – Tänavad
3. 🇦🇱 Albania: Nikol Çabeli – Vallëzoj
4. 🇦🇲 Armenia: Leo – Cosmic Friend
5. 🇨🇾 Cyprus: Maria Pissarides – Crystal Waters
6. 🇫🇷 France: Titouan – Comme ci comme ça
7. 🇲🇰 North Macedonia: Ana & Aleksej – Marathon
8. 🇵🇱 Poland: Dominik Arim – All Together
9. 🇬🇪 Georgia: Andria Putkaradze – To My Mom
10. 🇪🇸 Spain: Chloe DelaRosa – Como La Lola
11. 🇩🇪 Germany: Bjarne – Save The Best For Us
12. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Stay Tuned – Music
13. 🇸🇲 San Marino: Idols SM – Come Noi
14. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Artem Kotenko – HEAR ME NOW
15. 🇵🇹 Portugal: Victoria Nicole – Esperança
16. 🇮🇪 Ireland: Enya Cox Dempsey – Le Chéile
17. 🇲🇹 Malta: Ramires Sciberras – Stilla Ċkejkna

All 17 entries can be found on the official Junior Eurovision YouTube channel.

Ruth Lorenzo

Marc Clotet

Melani García

Hosts for Junior Eurovision 2024: Ruth, Marc & Melani. Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet and Melani García will be presenting the 22nd Junior Eurovision Song Contest in November.

On Thursday 12 September, Spanish broadcaster RTVE announced the names of the three hosts that will be guiding us through Junior Eurovision 2024, when it comes to us from the Caja Mágica in Madrid on Saturday 16 November.

The presenter lineup features a performer who has hosted Benidorm Fest, a superstar of Spanish film and television, and a young singer who gave Spain a bronze-medal finish at Junior Eurovision.

• Ruth Lorenzo. Ruth Lorenzo will be a familiar face to Eurovision fans, with the Murcia-born artist having represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014. 10 years ago in Copenhagen, Ruth gave Spain a Top 10 finish at the Contest with her song Dancing In The Rain. Since then, her career in music has continued, with the singer also branching out into television hosting.

Amongst other shows, Ruth has hosted Spain’s Eurovision pre-selection Benidorm Fest. Ruth looks upon her next hosting role as a tremendous honour: “This is a responsibility like few others I have ever had as a presenter. I live it with the same enthusiasm, responsibility and fantasy as the young artists that will come to Madrid to share their music”.

• Marc Clotet. An award-winning actor, Marc Clotet has starred in a wide range of roles across film (La Voz Dormida, El Jugador De Ajedrez), television (Física o Química, Amar Es Para Siempre) and theatre (Amantes, Tengo Tantas Personalidades). Marc has also founded his own production company, in 2021. His very first series was co-produced with RTVE, titled Esto No Es Suecia. It was awarded honours at both the Cannes Series Festival and the Prix Europa Awards.

The actor is already looking forward to his new challenge at Madrid 2024: “Being able to host a show like this, in front of 30 million people, in English, and to follow and support the dream of so many girls and boys from all over Europe, makes me very happy”.

• Mélani García. Already a shining star in the Junior Eurovision world, Melani García represented Spain at the 2019 Contest, which was held in Gliwice, Poland. With her song Marte, Melani gave Spain a third-place finish with 212 points, and the young singer has since gone on to release more music, as well as work in theatre and television. In 2022, she was nominated as Best Spanish Artist at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards. And one year before she gave Spain that medal finish at Junior Eurovision, Melani won the 2018 series of La Voz Kids.

Melani says of her upcoming hosting duties: “Being there and living the experience from another point of view is one of my dreams. I will take the stage as an artist but also as a Eurofan, and I will try to make sure that you enjoy the festival as much as I will”.

Stage render for JESC 2024

Stage render for JESC 2024

A flourishing garden on stage. The concept of blooming will be transferred to the Caja Mágica stage through organic elements.

How to watch. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will broadcast live from Madrid, Spain, at 16:00 CET on Saturday 16 November.

You can watch via your local broadcaster if they’re showing it OR on the official Junior Eurovision YouTube channel if available in your country.

📺 Watch: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 – Live Show | Madrid 🇪🇸

17 broadcasters will participate in Madrid at Junior Eurovision 2024: 🇦🇱 Albania (RTSH), 🇦🇲 Armenia (AMPTV), 🇨🇾 Cyprus (CyBC), 🇪🇪 Estonia (ERR), 🇫🇷 France (France Télévisions), 🇬🇪 Georgia (GPB), 🇩🇪 Germany (KiKA/NDR), 🇮🇪 Ireland (TG4), 🇮🇹 Italy (Rai), 🇲🇹 Malta (PBS), 🇳🇱 Netherlands (AVROTROS), 🇲🇰 North Macedonia (MKRTV), 🇵🇱 Poland (TVP), 🇵🇹 Portugal (RTP), 🇸🇲 San Marino (SMRTV), 🇪🇸 Spain (RTVE – Host Broadcaster), 🇺🇦 Ukraine (Suspilne)

Music Videos & Opening Ceremony. You can watch all 17 music videos over on the official Junior Eurovision YouTube channel.

How to vote. Details on how to vote in Junior Eurovision 2024 will be announced later in the year.

Vote for your favourite song! Junior Eurovision returns on Saturday 16 November. You can help decide the winner when voting opens on Friday 15 November at 21:00 CET. In the meantime check out all songs of this years JESC in the official Apple Music Playlist.

Vota la tua canzone preferita! Junior Eurovision torna sabato 16 novembre. Potete contribuire a decidere il vincitore quando le votazioni si apriranno venerdì 15 novembre alle 21:00 CET. Nel frattempo, potete ascoltare tutte le canzoni di quest’anno del JESC nella playlist ufficiale di Apple Music.

🗳 VOTE AT JESC.TV

https://vote.junioreurovision.tv/

Voting Window 1: Opens on Friday 15 November at 21:00 CET and closes on Saturday 16 November at 17:59 CET (just before the live show starts).

Voting Window 2: Will open after the last song has been performed during the Live Show. You then have approximately 15 minutes to cast your vote before the window closes.

The votes will be converted into points and revealed during the show.

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Junior Eurovision 2024 ticket information. Tickets for Junior Eurovision 2024 go on sale Tuesday 15 October from 15:00 CEST at https://rtve.janto.es/

Tickets will be available for both the Dress Rehearsal (Friday 15 November) and the Live Show (Saturday 16 November) at the Caja Mágica at 18:00 CET.

Jury Show on Friday 15 November: Prices range from €38 to €50 (+ fees) in the stands and from €27 to €35 (+ fees) on the floor.
Live Show on Saturday 16 November: Prices range from €46 to €65 (+ fees) in the stands and from €35 to €50 (+ fees) on the floor.

Note: There will be different prices for adults and children under 12 years old. Ticket holders under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE). The contest took place on 16 November 2024 at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain, marking the first time that the contest was held in the country. The contest was also the first since 2015 to be held on a Saturday.

Seventeen countries participated in the contest, with Cyprus and San Marino returning after six- and eight-year absences respectively, while the United Kingdom opted not to participate after doing so the previous year.

Georgia’s Andria Putkaradze was the winner of the contest with the song “To My Mom”. Portugal won the public vote and finished in second place, its best placing to date. Ukraine, France and Malta completed the top five.

Caja Mágica, host venue of the 2024 contest

1.Location. Unlike the Eurovision Song Contest, the winning broadcaster of the previous year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest does not automatically receive the right to host the next edition. However, since 2011 (with the exceptions of 2012, 2015, and 2018) it has become customary for winners to take on hosting duties, and since 2019, the winning broadcaster has had the right of first refusal on hosting the following competition. In 2015, 2014 winner, Italian broadcaster RAI, was given this right but ultimately opted out of it.

On 27 November 2023, upon its victory in the 2023 contest on home soil, French broadcaster France Télévisions announced that talks would be conducted with the EBU regarding the hosting of the 2024 contest, as multiple countries had expressed interest in doing so and it did not want a “French monopoly on Junior Eurovision”, having already hosted the event twice in a three-year span; It ultimately opted not to host in 2024. Spanish broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), which had finished in second place in the 2023 contest, was announced as the host for 2024 on 14 February 2024, with the Caja Mágica in Madrid announced as the venue on 10 May 2024. This marked the first time that the contest has been held in the country.

Location of host city (in blue), bidding cities (in green), and cities that submitted a bid but later withdrew (in red): Valencia Barcelona Málaga Madrid Granada Zaragoza

1.1.Bidding phase and host city selection. Upon the confirmation of Spain as the host country for 2024, the Generalitat Valenciana announced that it would bid to host the contest in a city in the Valencian Community; since 2022, the autonomous community has hosted Benidorm Fest, the Spanish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, expressed interest in hosting the event in the city, followed by the mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre. Madrid, Granada and Zaragoza also announced their readiness to host the competition. Ana María Bordas, head of the Spanish delegation for the contest, had said that the broadcaster had received several bids upon the host country announcement and that a decision would be taken within the following weeks. Valencia, Barcelona, Málaga, Granada and Zaragoza were reported to have submitted an official bid by mid-March 2024. Shortly after, however, Zaragoza announced its withdrawal due to the unavailability of the intended venue for an assessment visit.In mid-April, Barcelona was unofficially reported to be in the forefront of the selection process, with Palau Sant Jordi considered as the potential venue, but by the end of the month the city dropped out of the running due to the lack of an adequate venue available for late 2024.

RTVE and the EBU scheduled a press conference at Malmömässan in Malmö on 10 May 2024, during the adult contest, where the selected host city was revealed to be Madrid, with Caja Mágica as the selected venue.

Nikol Çabeli

Leo

Maria Pissarides

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ANNABELLE

Titouan

Andria Putkaradze

Bjarne

Enya Cox Dempsey

Simone Grande

Ramires Sciberras

Stay Tuned

Ana & Aleksej

Dominik Arim

Victoria Nicole

Idols SM

Chloe DelaRosa

Artem Kotenko

2.Participating countries. On 3 September 2024, the EBU announced that 17 countries would participate in the 2024 contest. Cyprus returned to the contest after a six-year absence, while San Marino did so after an eight-year absence, despite originally confirming non-participation. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom opted not to participate after doing so the previous two years.

Prior to the contest, a digital compilation album featuring all the songs from the 2024 contest was put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by Universal Music on 1 November 2024.

**Participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024**
Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)
Albania	RTSH	Nikol Çabeli	“Vallëzoj” (Dance)	Albanian	Endri Muçaj, Eriona Rushiti
Armenia	AMPTV	Leo (Լեո; Լեո Մկրտչյանը, Leo Mkrtchyan)	“Cosmic Friend”	Armenian, English	Maléna / Vahram Petrosyan, tokionine
Cyprus	CyBC	Maria Pissarides (Μαρία Πισσαρίδη)	“Crystal Waters” (Κρύσταλλο το νερό)	Greek, English	Armin “Highmøre” Gilani, Maria Pissarides, Sophia Patsalides
Estonia	ERR	ANNABELLE (Annabelle Ats) with Lisbet e Isandra	“Tänavad” (Streets)	Estonian	Sven Lõhmus
France	France Télévisions	Titouan (Titouan Hervo)	“Comme ci, comme ça” (Like this, like that)	French	Malo, Marie Bastide
Georgia	GPB	Andria Putkaradze (ანდრია ფუტკარაძე) With Gabriel Machabeli (გაბრიელ მაჩაბელიც)	“To My Mom” (დედას)	Georgian	Giga Kukhianidze, Maka Davtaia
Germany	Kika/NDR	Bjarne	“Save the Best for Us” (Rettet das Beste für uns)	German, English	Ignacio Uriarte, Kai Oliver Krug, Thomas Meilstrup
Ireland	TG4	Enya Cox Dempsey	“Le chéile” (Together)	Irish	Laoise Ní Nualláin, Ian James White, Nicky Brennan
Italy	RAI	Simone Grande	“Pigiama party” (Pijiama Party)	Italian, English	Alex Uhlmann, Luca Mattioni, Paolo Meneguzzi
Malta	PBS	Ramires Sciberras	“Stilla Ċkejkna“(Little star)	Maltese	Aleandro Spiteri Monseigneur, Lon Kirkop, Peter Borg
Netherlands	AVROTROS	Stay Tuned (Miucha Buursen, Chiara Deelen, Niek Mensing en Inkar)	“Music”	Dutch, English	Jermain van der Bogt, Willem Laseroms
North Macedonia	MRT	Ana and Aleksej (Ana Vanchevska and Aleksej Ivanovski, Ана Ванчевска и Алексеј Ивановски)	“Marathon” (Маратон)	Macedonian, English	Lazar Cvetkovski, Magdalena Cvetkovska
Poland	TVP	Dominik Arim	“All Together” (Wszyscy razem)	Polish, English	Aldona Dąbrowska, Sławomir Sokołowski
Portugal	RTP	Victoria Nicole	“Esperança” (Hope)	Portuguese, Spanish	Victoria Nicole
San Marino	SMRTV	Idols SM (Asia Ceccoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Giorgia De Scisciolo and Vera Stefania Olkhovskaya)	“Come noi” (Like us)	Italian	Francesco Sancisi, Nicola Della Valle, Paolo Macina
Spain	RTVE	Chloe DelaRosa	“Como la Lola” (Like Lola)	Spanish	Alejandro Martínez Valderrama, Chloe DelaRosa, David Parejo Martin, Luis Vicente Ramiro
Ukraine	Suspilne	Artem Kotenko (Артем Котенко)	“Hear Me Now” (Почуй Мене Зараз) / “Dim” (Дім)	Ukrainian, English	Svitlana Tarabarova

Production. On 3 September 2024, along with the list of participating countries, RTVE and the EBU revealed the theme art and slogan of the 2024 contest, “Let’s Bloom”, as well as the stage design. The theme art features the image of a blooming flower, which “references the blossoming of young artists”.

Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet and Melani García were revealed on 12 September 2024 as the presenters of the show. Lorenzo had represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and hosted Benidorm Fest 2024, while García had represented Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

Contestants were featured in “postcard” video introductions, in which they perform activities interspersed with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated footage of themselves in various imaginary scenarios. The implementation of AI elements was met with criticism from fans and media outlets.

The presentation of the jury votes was additionally changed for 2024. As opposed to previous years in which the scoreboard was laid out vertically in descending order, the scoreboard this year was laid out horizontally, with each country having its position fixed according to the running order and a score bar to fill out points with. The presenters announced the number of points each country received according to the 1–10 scale; for example, each country is shown the amount of countries that have given it 1 point, 2 points, and so forth. The 12 points were still announced by a spokesperson appointed by each country, however, their segments were pre-recorded instead of being a live link. Executive producer Ana María Bordas [es] stated that this was due to the Saturday timeslot forcing the producers to cap the show at two hours, and also in order to avoid causing stress for the participants.

Participating countries.

Country	Artist	Song (M – L)	Language(s)	Selection Process
Albania	Nikol Çabeli	“Vallëzoj” (Dance) (M: Endri Muçaj; L: Eriona Rushiti)	Albanian	Junior Fest Albania 2024, 27-09-2024
Armenia	LEO (Լեո; Լեո Մկրտչյանը, Leo Mkrtchyan)	“Cosmic Friend” () (M: tokionine; L: Maléna / Vahram Petrosyan)	Armenian, English	Internal Selection, Artist: 8-09-2024; Song: ??-10-2024
Cipro	Maria Pissarides (Μαρία Πισσαρίδη)	“Crystal Waters” () (M: Armin HIGHMØRE Gilani / Sophia Patsalides; L: Armin HIGHMØRE Gilani / Maria Pissarides / Sophia Patsalides)	Greek, English	Internal Selection, Artist: 21-08-2024; Song: 30-09-2024
Estonia	Annabelle Ats	“Tänavad” (The streets) (M: Sven Lõhmus; L: Sven Lõhmus)	Estonian	Tähtede Lava 2024, Artist: 05-05-2024; Song: 04-10-2024
Francia	Titouan (Titouan Hervo)	“Comme ci, comme ça” () (M: Malo’; L: Malo’ / Marie Bastide)	French	Internal Selection, 18-09-2024
Georgia	Andria Putkaradze (ანდრია ფუტკარაძე)	“To my Mom” () (M: Giorgi Kukhianidze; L: Giorgi Kukhianidze / Maka Davitaia)	Georgian	Ranina 2024, Artist: 26-05-2024; Internal Selection, Song: ??-10-2024
Germania	Bjarne	“Save the Best For Us” (Rettet das Beste für uns) (M: Ignacio Uriarte / Kai Oliver Krug / Thomas Meilstrup; L: Ignacio Uriarte / Kai Oliver Krug / Thomas Meilstrup)	German, English	Junior ESC – Wer soll für Deutschland singen? (Final Online), Artist: 01-07-2024; Song: 27-09-2024
Irlanda	Enya Cox Dempsey	“Le Chéile” () (M: Ian James White / Nicky Brennan; L: Laoise Ní Nualláin)	Irish	Junior Eurovision Éire 2024, Artist: ??-10-2024; Internal Selection, Song: ??-10-2024
Italia	Simone Grande	“Pigiama party” () (M: Alex Uhlmann / Luca Mattioni / Pablo Meneguzzo; L: Luca Mattioni / Pablo Meneguzzo)	Italian, English	Internal Selection, Artist: 19-09-2024; Song: 27-09-2024
Macedonia del Nord	Ana and Aleksej (Ana Vanchevska and Aleksej Ivanovski, Ана Ванчевска и Алексеј Ивановски)	“Marathon” (Маратон) (M: Lazar Cvetkovski; L: Magdalena Cvetkovska)	Macedonian, English	Internal Selection, Artist: 26-06-2024; Song: ??-10-2024
Malta	Ramires Sciberras	“Stilla ċkejkna” () (M: Aleandro Spiteri Monsigneur / Peter Borg; L: Lon Kirkop)	Maltese	Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024, Artist: 21-09-2024; Song: ??-10-2024
Paesi Bassi	Stay Tuned (Miucha Buursen, Chiara Deelen, Niek Mensing en Inkar)	“Music” () (M: Jermain van der Bogt / Willem Laseroms; L: Jermain van der Bogt / Willem Laseroms)	Dutch, English	Junior Songfestival 2024, 21-09-2024
Polonia	Dominik Arim “All Together” () (M: Sławomir Sokolowski; L: Aldona Dąbrowska)		Polish, English	Szansa na sukces – Eurowizja Junior 2024, 29-09-2024
Portogallo	Victoria Nicole	“Esperança” (Hope) (M: Victoria Nicole; L: Victoria Nicole)	Portuguese, Spanish	The Voice Kids Portugal, Artist: 08-07-2024; Internal Selection, Song: ??-10-2024
San Marino	Idols SM (Asia Ceccoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Giorgia De Scisciolo and Vera Stefania Olkhovskaya)	“Come noi” () (M: Francesco Sancisi / Nicola Della Valle / Paolo Macina; L: Francesco Sancisi / Nicola Della Valle / Paolo Macina)	Italian	Internal Selection, Artist: 11-09-2024; Song: ??-10-2024
Spagna (organizzatore)	Chloe DelaRosa	“Como La Lola” () (M: Alejandro Martínez / Chloe DelaRosa / David Parejo / Luis Ramiro; L: Alejandro Martínez / Chloe DelaRosa / David Parejo / Luis Ramiro)	Spanish	Internal Selection, Artist: 18-07-2024; Song: ??-10-2024
Ucraina	Artem Kotenko (Артем Котенко)	“HEAR ME NOW” / “Dim” (Дім) (M: Svitlana Tarabarova; L: Svitlana Tarabarova)	Ukrainian, English	Nacvidbir 2024, 22-09-2024

Returning artists.

2.1.Other countries. Active EBU member broadcasters in Andorra,Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium (both RTBF and VRT),Croatia,Denmark,Finland,Greece, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland (SRF), the United Kingdom, and Wales, as well as associate members for Australia (SBS and ABC) and Kazakhstan, confirmed non-participation prior to the announcement of the participants list by the EBU.

3.Production / Format.

3.1.Visual design. On 3 September 2024, along with the list of participating countries, RTVE and the EBU revealed the theme art and slogan of the 2024 contest, “Let’s Bloom”, as well as the stage design. The theme art features the image of a blooming flower, which “references the blossoming of young artists”.

3.2.Presenters. On 12 September 2024, RTVE revealed Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet and Melani García as the presenters of the show. Lorenzo had represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and hosted Benidorm Fest 2024, while García had represented Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

3.3. Interval acts. In April 2024, it was reported that RTVE had started negotiations with María Isabel to be a guest or host the contest on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of her victory in 2004.

Postcards.

Broadcasts. All participating broadcasters may choose to have on-site or remote commentators providing insight and voting information to their local audience. The European Broadcasting Union will also provide international live streams of the contest through their official YouTube channel with no commentary.

**Confirmed broadcasters and commentators**
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)
Germany	ARD/ZDF	Kika
Italy	RAI	Rai 2	Mario Acampa
Spain	RTVE	La 1

**Confirmed broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries**
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)
Lithuania	LRT	LRT televizija
Montenegro	RTCG

How do I vote? You’ll be able to cast votes at JESC.TV from Friday 24 November at 20:00 CET. The voting window then closes just before the live show starts on Sunday 26 November, reopening for approximately 15 minutes after all the artists have performed.

No matter where in the world you are, from Friday the 24th of November you can vote for your favourites via JESC.TV where you will find a preview of all the performances.

After watching the previews, you can vote for three of your favourites. You can even vote for your own country if it’s participating in the Contest.

The are two voting windows in which you can cast your votes.

Voting Window 1: Friday 24 November, 20:00 CET – Sunday 26 November, 15:59 CET. The first voting window opens on Friday 24 December at 20:00 CET and closes on Sunday 26 November at 15:59 CET just before Junior Eurovision goes live from Nice.

Voting Window 2: Sunday 11 November, after song 16 has performed. The second voting window will open after the last song (number 16 in the running order) has performed during the broadcast of Junior Eurovision 2023. You then have approximately 15 minutes to cast your vote before the window closes.

The votes will be converted into points and revealed during the show.

Terms and Conditions can be found here.

Contest overview. The event took place on 16 November 2024 at 18:00 CET. Seventeen countries participated, with the running order published on 10 October. All the countries competing were eligible to vote with the jury vote, as well as participating and non-participating countries under an aggregated international online vote.

The opening of the show featured the traditional flag parade, accompanied by all participants performing the common song “Let’s Bloom” with 2004 winner María Isabel, 2023 winner Zoé Clauzure and runner-up Sandra Valero. The interval acts included a dance number titled “Time to Bloom” performed by actress Anastasia Russo and choreographed by Borja Rueda, and Abraham Mateo performing a version of “Maniac” titled “Maníaca“.

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Italy	Simone Grande	“Pigiama party“	98	9
2	Estonia	Annabelle	“Tänavad“	55	14
3	Albania	Nikol Çabeli	“Vallëzoj“	126	7
4	Armenia	Leo	“Cosmic Friend”	125	8
5	Cyprus	Maria Pissarides	“Crystal Waters”	60	13
6	France	Titouan	“Comme ci comme ça“	177	4
7	North Macedonia	Ana and Aleksej	“Marathon”	54	16
8	Poland	Dominik Arim	“All Together”	61	12
9	Georgia	Andria Putkaradze	“To My Mom”	239	1
10	Spain	Chloe DelaRosa	“Como la Lola“	144	6
11	Germany	Bjarne	“Save the Best for Us”	71	11
12	Netherlands	Stay Tuned	“Music”	91	10
13	San Marino	Idols SM	“Come noi“	47	17
14	Ukraine	Artem Kotenko	“Hear Me Now”	203	3
15	Portugal	Victoria Nicole	“Esperança“	213	2
16	Ireland	Enya Cox Dempsey	“Le chéile“	55	15
17	Malta	Ramires Sciberras	“Stilla ċkejkna“	153	5

Detailed voting results:

**Split results**
Place	Combined		Jury		Online vote
Place	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Georgia	239	Georgia	180	Portugal	117
2	Portugal	213	Ukraine	122	Ukraine	81
3	Ukraine	203	France	103	Malta	79
4	France	177	Portugal	96	France	74
5	Malta	153	Albania	82	Spain	64
6	Spain	144	Spain	80	Georgia	59
7	Albania	126	Armenia	76	Germany Netherlands	57
8	Armenia	125	Malta	74	Germany Netherlands	57
9	Italy	98	Italy	52	Cyprus	50
10	Netherlands	91	Netherlands	34	Armenia	49
11	Germany	71	North Macedonia	20	Poland	48
12	Poland	61	Ireland	15	Italy San Marino	46
13	Cyprus	60	Germany	14^[a]	Italy San Marino	46
14	Estonia	55^[b]	Estonia	14^[a]	Albania	44
15	Ireland	55^[b]	Poland	13	Estonia	41
16	North Macedonia	54	Cyprus	10	Ireland	40
17	San Marino	47	San Marino	1	North Macedonia	34

**Detailed voting results of the final**
			Online vote score	Jury vote score	Italy	Estonia	Albania	Armenia	Cyprus	France	North Macedonia	Poland	Georgia	Spain	Germany	Netherlands	San Marino	Ukraine	Portugal	Ireland	Malta
Voting procedure used: 100% Online vote 100% Jury vote		Total score	Online vote score	Jury vote score	Jury vote

C o m p e t i n g c o u n t r i e s	Italy	98	46	52		3	6	8	4	1		6		2		4	6	3	2		7
	Estonia	55	41	14	2					6			1	1	4
	Albania	126	44	82	6	8		5	7		1	5		6	7	2	3	8	10	8	6
	Armenia	125	49	76		10	2		1	12	5	2	12	4		7	2	5	6		8
	Cyprus	60	50	10				4			2				1			1		2
	France	177	74	103	7	4	5	10	2		3	7	10	5	8	10	7	6	4	10	5
	North Macedonia	54	34	20	5		3	3				4				1	1				3
	Poland	61	48	13														2	8	3
	Georgia	239	59	180	12	12	12	12	12	8	10	8		12	10	12	12	12	12	12	12
	Spain	144	64	80	4	5	7	1	10	3	6		8		3	5	8	10	3	5	2
	Germany	71	57	14		1		2		7		1	2							1
	Netherlands	91	57	34	3		1	7	3		4	3	3				5			4	1
	San Marino	47	46	1	1
	Ukraine	203	81	122	10	7	10		8	10	12	12	5	10	2	8	4		7	7	10
	Portugal	213	117	96	8	6	8		5	5	7	10	7	8	12	6		4		6	4
	Ireland	55	40	15						2			4	3	5				1
	Malta	153	79	74		2	4	6	6	4	8		6	7	6	3	10	7	5

12 Points: Below is a summary of all 12 points received from each country’s professional juries.

**12 points awarded by juries**
#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
12	Georgia	Albania, Armenia, Cyprus, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Ukraine
2	Armenia	France, Georgia
2	Ukraine	North Macedonia, Poland
1	Portugal	Germany

Spokespersons. The following people were confirmed to have announced the jury 12 points for their respective country.

Cyprus – Patroklos Patroklou
Georgia – Anastasia Vasadze

4.Broadcasts. All participating broadcasters may choose to have on-site or remote commentators providing insight and voting information to their local audience. The European Broadcasting Union also provided international live streams of the contest through their official YouTube channel with no commentary.

**Confirmed broadcasters and commentators**
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)
Albania	RTSH	RTSH 1, RTSH Muzikë	Andri Xhahu^{[citation needed]}
Armenia	AMPTV	1TV	Hrachuhi Utmazyan [hy] and Sevak Hakobyan
Cyprus	CyBC	RIK 2, RIK Sat	Kyriakos Pastides
Estonia	ERR	ETV2	Estonian: Marko Reikop
Estonia	ERR	ETV+	Russian: Aleksandr Hobotov and Julia Kalenda
France	France Télévisions	France 2	Stéphane Bern and Valentina
	ARD/ZDF	Kika	Consi [de]
	WDR	MausLive [de] via WDR 5	Annika Witzel and Max Plate
Georgia	GPB	First Channel Sport	Nika Lobiladze^{[citation needed]}
Ireland	TG4		Louise Cantillon
Italy	RAI	Rai 2	Mario Acampa [it], Simone Barlaam and Kaze
Malta	PBS	TVM	No commentator
Netherlands	NPO/AVROTROS	NPO Zapp via NPO 3^[c]	Bart Arens and Matheu Hinzen [nl]
Netherlands	NPO/AVROTROS	NPO 2 Extra	Bart Arens and Matheu Hinzen [nl]
North Macedonia	MRT	MRT 1	Eli Tanaskovska^{[citation needed]}
Poland	TVP	TVP2, TVP Polonia	Artur Orzech
Portugal	RTP	RTP1, RTP África, RTP Internacional	Carina Jorge and Nuno Galopim
San Marino	SMRTV	San Marino RTV	Mirco Zani and Roberto Bagazzoli
Spain	RTVE	La 1, TVE Internacional	Spanish: Julia Varela and Tony Aguilar
		Radio Nacional	Spanish: David Asensio and Sara Calvo
		La 1, Ràdio 4	Catalan: Sònia Urbano and Xavi Martínez [es]
Ukraine	Suspilne	Suspilne Kultura	Timur Miroshnychenko

**Confirmed broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries**
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)
Croatia	HRT	HRT 2	Duško Ćurlić and Nika Turković
Lithuania	LRT	LRT Plius	Ramūnas Zilnys [lt]
Luxembourg	RTL	RTL Zwee	Eric Lehmann and Raoul Roos

Notes.

[a] ^ ^a ^b Despite receiving the same number of jury points, Germany was determined to finish ahead of Estonia because it received points from more countries.
[b] ^ ^a ^b Despite receiving the same number of overall points, Estonia was determined to finish ahead of Ireland because it received more points from the online vote.
[c] ^ Incomplete broadcast of the contest, starting at 18:30 CET during France’s performance and pausing at 19:00 (skipping San Marino) before resuming during Ukraine’s performance. The Netherlands rebroadcast the full event on NPO Zapp via NPO 3 a day later due to the live broadcast being delayed and interrupted on said channel the night before. The contest was however broadcast live and in full on NPO 2 Extra.

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Countries (in order of appearance)
Final	Ireland ⦁ Italy • Estonia ⦁ Albania ⦁ Armenia ⦁ Cyprus ⦁ France ⦁ North Macedonia • Poland ⦁ Georgia ⦁ Spain ⦁ Germany ⦁ Netherlands ⦁ San Marino • Ukraine ⦁ Portugal ⦁ Malta
Artists (in order of appearance)
Final	Simone Grande • ANNABELLE (Annabelle Ats) ⦁ Nikol Çabeli ⦁ LEO (Leo Mkrtchyan, Լեո Մկրտչյանը) ⦁ Maria Pissarides (Μαρία Πισσαρίδη) ⦁ Titouan (Titouan Hervo) ⦁ Ama & Aleksej (Ana Vanchevska and Aleksej Ivanovski, Ана Ванчевска и Алексеј Ивановски) • Dominik Arim ⦁ Andria (Andria Putkaradze, ანდრია ფუტკარაძე) ⦁ Chloe DelaRosa ⦁ Bjarne ⦁ Stay Tuned ⦁ Idols SM • Artem Kotenko (Артем Котенко) ⦁ Victoria Nicole ⦁ Enya Cox Dempsey ⦁ Ramires Sciberras
Songs (in order of appearance)
Final	“Pigiama party” ⦁ “Tänavad” • “Vallëzoj” • “Cosmic Friend” ⦁ “Crystal Waters” • “Comme ci, comme ça” • “Marathon” (Маратон) ⦁ “All Together” • “To my Mom” (დედას) • “Come la Lola” ⦁ “Save the Best for Us” ⦁ “Music” ⦁ “Come noi” • “HEAR ME NOW” / ~~“Dim”(Дім)~~ • “Esperança” • “Le chéile” • “Stilla ċkejkna”

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• #LetsBloom 🌸: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 🇫🇷 – Madrid, Spagna

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• 🇦🇱 Albania: Nikol Çabeli – “Vallëzoj” (Dance) (Eriona Rushiti – Enis Mullaj). Albanian Ι English.

Nikol was born in Ioannina, Greece, and raised in Gjirokastër, southern Albania. Her passions include playing the piano and drums (not at the same time!), volleyball, dancing, and writing her own music. The young singer already has a list of impressive achievements to her name, becoming a finalist in the show Little Genius 8 and winning first prize at the Children’s Festival in Shkodër with her song Coco Im. Last year she was runner-up at the Junior Eurovision selection show Junior Fest, but this year she went one better and won the show and will get the opportunity of representing Albania in Madrid.

• Country: 🇦🇱 Albania

• National selection:

Selection process: Junior Fest Albania 2024
Selection date(s): 27 September 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: RTSH
Participants – Number of entries:
Voting system:
Selection entrant: Nikol Çabeli
Selection song: “Vallëzoj” (Dance)
Selected songwriter(s): Endri Muçaj, Eriona Rushiti
Final performance:
Final result: –

Albania is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Vallëzoj” performed by Nikol Çabeli. The Albanian broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) organised the national final Junior Fest Albania 2024 in order to select the country’s entry for the 2024 contest.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Albania had participated in the contest nine times since its first entry in the 2012 contest. Albania has never won the contest, with their best result being in 2015, when Mishela Rapo represented the country with “Dambaje”, placing 5th. The nation opted not to take part in the contest in 2013 and 2014, and in 2020 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). In 2023, Viola Gjyzeli competed for Albania with the song “Bota ime“, which ended up in 8th place with 115 points; this marked the first top ten entry for Albania since 2015.

Before Junior Eurovision.

Junior Fest Albania 2024. Junior Fest Albania 2024 was the seventh edition of Junior Fest Albania, the national final format developed by RTSH to select Albanian entries for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen and composers to submit their entries for the competition was open between 29 July 2024 and 31 August 2024. Eighteen finalists were selected by a jury panel composed of music industry professionals and announced on 3 September 2024, with one-minute snippets of the songs published on 12 September.

RTSH had announced their intention to apply changes to the format of the competition – which took place on 27 September 2024 at the RTSH Symphony Orchestra Hall in Tirana, hosted by Angelo Shkreli and Julian Hurdha, and broadcast on RTSH1, RTSH Muzikë and Radio Tirana 1 – stating it would take place under a “brand new formula, in the form of a spectacle”. Migena Kraja and Klodian Qafoku were appointed the artistic and musical director of the event, respectively. The slogan for the competition was “Ti lulëzo” (“You bloom”), inspired by the theme art and slogan of the 2024 contest.

The winner of the competition was determined by the combination of the votes by a five-member jury panel, with the final also seeing several acts receive special awards for their participation. These included the prize for best vocals to Eden Dani, the prize for best lyrics to Ami Kokurti and the Robert Radoja encouragement prize to Ema Deda. Nikol Çabeli, born in Ioannina, Greece and residing in Gjirokastër, Albania, was declared the winner with the song “Vallëzoj“. In addition to the competing entries, the guest performers included Mal Retkoceri (winner of Festivali i Këngës 62) with “Çmendur“, Eranda Libohova with “Marinela” and Viola Gjyzeli with “Bota ime“, after which a children’s choir also performed “Footloose” and the finalists performed a rendition of the common song. Retkoceri was also one of the members of the jury panel.

**Final – 27 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
1	Kejt Hitaj	“Ëndërrojnë“	Adrian Hila
2	Elora Tahitri	“Me lajka“	Enis Mullaj
3	Gjon Gjipali	“S’ka problem“	Renis Gjoka
4	Arbëri Dajko	“Ëndrra në detin blu“	Fabian Basha
5	Doris Canaj	“Jemi njësoj“	Melodajn Mancaku
6	Armina Kajnozi	“Mama“	Adrian Hila, Egzona Ademi
7	Boris Metaj	“Se jemi ne“	Edmond Zhulali, Remo Torra
8	Nikol Çabeli	“Vallëzoj“	Endri Muçaj, Eriona Rushiti
9	Hana Lamaj	“Medaljon“	Arbër Koçllari
10	David Kerri	“Thirrja e tokës“	Florian Zyka, Kevin Zotrija
11	Ema Deda	“Hapat“	Mario Deda
12	Eden Dani	“Ti më sjell fat“	Alban Kondi
13	Gedis Germani	“Flutura prej letre“	Artur Dhamo, Florian Zyka
14	Ami Kokurti	“Reale“	Enis Mullaj, Eriona Rushiti
15	Kejsi Xheladini	“Dua të këndoj“	Reinald Foçi
16	Klejda Bashota	“Një këngë për ty“	Florent Boshnjaku
17	Marina Daka	“Nuk do ndalem“	Eriona Rushiti, Irma Libohova
18	Kristel Xhafka	“Party”	Metila Dervishi

Preparation. In early October 2024, the producers behind “Vallëzoj” confirmed that it would undergo a revamp ahead of the contest; among them was Enis Mullaj, who had previously worked an analogous position on various past Eurovision entries for Albania, including 2019 and 2023, as well as the Junior Eurovision entry in 2023. It was released on 8 October, alongside an accompanying music video.

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Albania will perform 3rd, following Estonia and preceding Armenia.

Voting. The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country has a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting will begin on 15 November 2024 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on the contest’s website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant’s rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on 16 November at 17:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able vote for three songs. They will also be able to vote for their own country’s song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 10% of the votes, it will receive 10% of the available points.

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• 🇦🇲 Armenia: LEO – “Cosmic Friend” (Maléna / Vahram Petrosyan – tokionine). Armenian / English Ι English.

Leo was raised in a family of singers, so music became an intrinsic part of his life from a very early age. His tastes are influenced by his family, and he loves all kinds of iconic artists; from Michael Jackson and Frank Sinatra, to modern stars like Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and Teddy Swims. It’s Leo’s dream to follow in the footsteps of 2021 champion Maléna, and win Junior Eurovision. Beyond music, the young star enjoys playing football and reading.

• Country: 🇦🇲 Armenia

• National selection:

Selection process: Internal Selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 28-09-2024 Ι Song: 22-10-2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: AMPTV
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Leo (Լեո; Լեո Մկրտչյանը, Leo Mkrtchyan)
Selection song: “Cosmic Friend”
Selected songwriter(s): Maléna (Arpine Martoyan), tokionine, Vahram Petrosyan
Final performance:
Final result: –

Armenia is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Cosmic Friend” performed by Leo. The Armenian broadcaster Public Television of Armenia (AMPTV) internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Armenia had participated in the contest sixteen times since its first entry in the 2007 contest. Since then, it had placed inside of the top three on ten occasions – more than any other country to have ever competed – and won the contest on two occasions: in 2010 with the song “Mama” performed by Vladimir Arzumanyan and in 2021 with “Qami Qami” performed by Maléna. The nation opted not to take part in the contest in 2020 (due to the martial law imposed on the country as a result of the then-ongoing Second Nagorno-Karabakh War); it was then set to be represented by the eventual 2021 winner, Maléna. In 2023, Yan Girls competed for Armenia with the song “Do It My Way”, which ended up in 3rd place out of 16 entries with 180 points.

Before Junior Eurovision. Upon confirming its participation in the 2024 contest, AMPTV declared it would internally select its entrant and entry, and opened a submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen, lasting until 21 July 2024; the deadline was later extended to 28 July 2024.All submissions required participants to enter covers of two songs, with the Junior Eurovision entry to be written for the selected entrant at a later date. Upon closing the submission period, over 100 applications had been submitted.

Following two rounds of auditions, an expert focus group consisting of both local and international industry professionals and appointed by AMPTV (presented in the table below) determined the eventual representative for the country. On 28 September 2024, AMPTV announced that it had internally selected ten-year-old Leo Mkrtchyan, known mononymously as Leo, as the Armenian entrant for the 2024 contest.

**Members of the expert focus group**
Member	Country	Occupation
Alexandra Redde-Amiel	France	French head of delegation, executive producer of the 2021 and 2023 contests
Aramayis Hayrapetyan	Armenia	Director, founder of Gravity Production
Carla Bugalho	Portugal	Portuguese head of delegation, executive producer of Festival da Canção
Garik Papoyan (Գարիկ Պապոյան)	Armenia	Actor, musician, presenter, writer and comedian, presenter of the 2022 contest
Iveta Mukuchyan (Իվետա Մուկուչյան)	Armenia	Singer, represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, presenter of the 2022 contest
Lee Smithurst	United Kingdom	British head of delegation at the Eurovision Song Contest, head of show for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Marta Piekarska	Poland	Polish head of delegation, executive producer of the 2020 contest

Song selection. Leo’s song, “Cosmic Friend” was written by Maléna, Tokionine, Vahram Petrosyan. The three had already written Armenian entries for 2021 and 2023 contests. The song itself was released on 22 October 2024.

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Armenia will perform 4th, following Albania and preceding Cyprus.

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting will begin on 15 November 2024 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on the contest’s website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant’s rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on 16 November at 17:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able vote for three songs.^[17] They will also be able to vote for their own country’s song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 10% of the votes, it will receive 10% of the available points.

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• 🇨🇾 Cyprus: Maria Pissarides (Μαρία Πισσαρίδη) – “Crystal Waters” (Armin HIGHMØRE Gilani / Maria Pissarides / Sophia Patsalides – Armin HIGHMØRE Gilani / Sophia Patsalides). Greek / English Ι English.

Maria is passionate about performing, delving into the world of dance almost as soon as she could walk. In recent years, the young Cypriot has been treading the boards in musical theatre, landing leading roles in various productions, including an adaptation of Matilda. Her creativity extends to singing and writing songs; along with her team, she achieved recognition in the European Radio 2023 competition. Currently a full-time performing arts student in the United Kingdom, Maria enjoys playing with her dog, eating chocolate and berries, and spending time with her two brothers.

• Country: 🇨🇾 Cyprus

• National selection:

Selection process: Internal Selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 21 August 2024 Ι Song: 30 September 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: CyBC
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Maria Pissarides (Μαρία Πισσαρίδη)
Selection song: “Crystal Waters”
Selected songwriter(s): Armin “Highmøre” Gilani, Maria Pissarides, Sophia Patsalides
Final performance:
Final result: –

Cyprus is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Crystal Waters” performed by Maria Pissarides. The Cypriot broadcaster Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Cyprus had participated in the contest nine times since its first entry in the inaugural 2003 contest. Cyprus has never won the contest, with their best results being in 2004, when Marios Tofi represented the country with “Oneira“, and in 2006, when Luis Panagiotou and Christina Christofi represented it with “Agoria koritsia“, both placing 8th. The nation opted not to take part in the contest in 2005 (due to an “internal issue” with the selected song, presumably stemming from allegations of plagiarism made against it), between 2010 and 2013, in 2015, and then again between 2018 and 2023. In 2017, Nicole Nicolaou competed for Cyprus with the song “I Wanna Be a Star”, which ended up in 16th (last) place with 45 points; this marked the first last place result for Cyprus.

Before Junior Eurovision. On 21 August 2024, CyBC announced it would return to the contest after a six-year absence, having internally selected Maria Pissarides – an eleven-year-old student of a performing arts school in the United Kingdom – to represent the country. Pissarides was selected following an evaluation of a proposal made by the production company Chandal Entertainment Ltd, which also subsequently announced auditions to select dancers who would join the singer on stage, and the spokesperson for the Cypriot jury at the final. The song, titled “Crystal Waters”, written by Armin Gilani, Sophia Patsalides and Pissarides herself, was presented to the public on 30 September during the breakfast television show Omorfi mera (“Beautiful day”) on RIK 1; a special listening session reserved for the press was previously held at the Event Hall of the CyBC Archive in Nicosia on 27 September.

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will take place at the Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Cyprus will perform 5th, following Armenia and preceding France.

Pissarides’ performance at the contest will be staged by Layla Ellison. She will be accompanied on stage by four dancers, namely Adriana Markich, Andriana Polemiti, Ciara Economopoulos and Danae Petrou.

CyBC appointed Patroklos Patroklou as its spokesperson to announce the Cypriot jury’s votes during the show.

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• 🇪🇪 Estonia: ANNABELLE (Annabelle Ats) – “Tänavad” (The Streets) (Sven Lõhmus – Sven Lõhmus). Estonian Ι English.

Born and raised near Tartu, ANNABELLE has been passionate about music since an early age, perfecting her vocals and learning how to play the piano. She captured Estonia’s attention by winning the prestigious national song competition Tähtede Lava in 2024. In addition to her musical talents, the young singer is an accomplished athlete, excelling in the 60 Metre Sprint! Driven by her aspirations to become a strong and talented singer, ANNABELLE works hard on her music while balancing her love for the outdoors and sports.

• Country: 🇪🇪 Estonia

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: Tähtede lava 2024 Ι Song: Internal selection
Selection date(s): Artist: 5 May 2024 Ι Song: 4 October 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: ERR
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: ANNABELLE (Annabelle Ats)
Selection song: “Tänavad” (The streets)
Selected songwriter(s): Sven Lõhmus
Final performance:
Final result: –

Estonia is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Tänavad” performed by Annabelle Ats. The Estonian national broadcaster Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) organised the national final Tähtede lava in order to select the Estonian artist for the 2024 contest.

Background. Estonia debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. ERR had previously broadcast the contest in 2003 and 2004, however cited financial reasons for Estonia’s absence from participation in the junior contest in the years running up to their debut appearance. Broadcasters from the Baltic countries, including Estonia, expressed interest in taking part in the 2016 contest, which never materialised. ERR internally selected Arhanna to represent the country in 2023, with her song “Hoiame kokku” also being internally selected and released at a later date. At the contest Arhanna finished 15th with 49 points.

ERR’s head of entertainment Karmel Killandi, while interviewing Arhanna, said that she “opened the door” for artists to “perform in front of this huge audience” in future years, suggesting that Estonia could take part in 2024. On 24 November 2023, ahead of the country’s debut in the contest, Estonian broadcaster ERR said that it would be looking into the possibilities of making the singing competition Tähtede lava [et] its national final for Junior Eurovision. This was confirmed the following 4 May, ahead of the final of Tähtede lava.

Before Junior Eurovision.

Tähtede lava 2024. ERR selected the Estonian representative with the biennial television program Tähtede lava [et] (transl. Star Stage); the 2022 series of the show was won by Arhanna, who also won in her younger category in 2019, which motivated her selection to represent the country on its debut appearance in 2023. The competition consisted of five shows and concluded with a winning artist on 5 May 2024. All shows were hosted by Jaagup Tuisk and Aaron Thor Härm, and directed by Kristo Veinberg.

Contest overview. The 2024 series of the competition commenced on 7 April, together with the selection show of the youngest age category, which consisted of singers aged between 3 and 7 years old, and continued the following week with the selection show of the middle age category of 8 to 10 year olds, being held on 14 April; the eldest age category for singers aged between 11 and 13 years old had a selection show held on 21 April, where the three artists with the most points from the jury qualified to the final directly and an additional wildcard finalist was chosen according to the public votes. The winners of the two younger age categories were revealed during a live show called the first final, held on 28 April, while the winner of the eldest category, as well as the Estonian representative in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, was selected on 5 May during the so-called second final.

Following a total of eight performances (two per each finalist: one solo performance and one featuring a well-known Estonian performer), the winner of the second final was determined by a combination of votes from the public and a six-member jury panel composed of Sirje Medell (singing and music teacher), Kadri Hunt (conductor, singing teacher), Robert Linna (musician), Ewert Sundja (musician, songwriter), Alice Aleksandridi (choreographer) and Maris Aljaste (organiser of Tallinna laste jazzifestival Kräsh). At the end of the show, 13 year-old Annabelle Ats was announced as the winner of Tähtede lava‘s eldest age category.

**Second final of Tähtede lava – 5 May 2024**
Artist	Draw	Solo song	Draw	Duet artist	Duet song
Tristan Erik Teniste	1	“Imede öö“	5	Maarja-Liis Ilus	“Tulilinnud“
Milana Fayzullova	2	“Sügistuuled“	6	Karmen Rõivassepp	“Moanin’ “
Karl-Markkus Rebane	3	“Vana lokomotiiv“	7	Silver Laas [et]	“Trummitüdruk“
Annabelle Ats	4	“The House of the Rising Sun”	8	Kärt Sepp	“Üle vee“

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Estonia will perform 2nd, following Italy and preceding Albania.

Voting.The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country has a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.

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• 🇫🇷 France: Titouan (Titouan Hervo) – “Comme ci comme ça“ (Like this, like that) (Malo’ / Marie Bastide – Malo’). French Ι English.

Brittany-born Titouan has been obsessed with music since he was a small child. At home or in a car, and always with his two older brothers, he listens to all kinds of styles and genres, whether that’s Jean-Jacques Goldman, Janis Joplin, or Jamiroquai! Titouan is no stranger to performing for audiences; from publishing cover versions of his favourite songs on his YouTube channel, to appearing on The Voice Kids and DreamTeam. In his spare time he’s passionate about cinema, film music, cooking, and manga.

• Country: 🇫🇷 Francia

• National selection:

Selection process: Internal Selection 2024
Selection date(s): 18 settembre 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: France Télévisions
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Titouan (Titouan Hervo)
Selection song: “Comme ci, comme ça” (Like this, like that)
Selected songwriter(s): Malo’, Marie Bastide
Final performance:
Final result: –

France is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Comme ci, comme ça” performed by Titouan. The French national public television broadcaster France Télévisions (france·tv) internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

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• 🇬🇪 Georgia: Andria Putkaradze (ანდრია ფუტკარაძე) – “To My Mom” (Giorgi Kukhianidze / Maka Davitaia – Giorgi Kukhianidze). Georgian Ι English.

Andria was born in the beautiful Black Sea city of Batumi, Georgia. He began singing at the age of two, later becoming a member of the vocal ensemble group ‘Children of the Sea’ before studying piano at the Zakaria Paliashvili Music School. Already an accomplished musician, his greatest achievement so far is winning broadcaster GPB’s much-loved RANINA televised talent contest. When he’s not busy performing, Andria can be found playing PlayStation with his friends.

• Country: 🇬🇪 Georgia

• National selection:

Selection process:Artist: Ranina 2024 (რანინა 2024) Ι Song: Internal Selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 30 luglio 2024 Ι Song: 13 ottobre 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): David Aladashvili, Vache Ghviniashvili
Host broadcaster: GPB
Participants – Number of entries: 10
Voting system: Jury
Selection entrant: Andria (Andria Putkaradze, ანდრია ფუტკარაძე)
Selection song: “To My Mom” (დედას)
Selected songwriter(s): Giga Kukhianidze, Maka Davtaia
Final performance:
Final result: –

Georgia is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “To My Mom” performed by Andria. The children’s talent show Ranina was used to select Georgia’s representative.

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• 🇩🇪 Germany: Bjarne – “Save The Best For Us” (Rettet das Beste für uns) (Ignacio Uriarte / Kai Oliver Krug / Thomas Meilstrup – Ignacio Uriarte / Kai Oliver Krug / Thomas Meilstrup). German / English Ι English.

Bjarne is from a small town in Diepholz, Lower Saxony where he lives with his parents and older brother Jannes in a nice wooden house with a big garden.He loves performing on stage because it’s like being on a rollercoaster – and he says that the butterflies in his stomach are just the best feeling. His first big performance came when he sang Dance Mo ey by Tones and I to a crowd of 300 people at a sports event aged 6; and he hasn’t stopped entertaining since! Bjarne’s biggest moment was taking part in The Voice Kids, where he made it all the way to the semi-finals. Afterwards he had the opportunity to sing with the Spanish-German pop star Álvaro Soler.

• Country: 🇩🇪 Germany

• National selection:

Selection process: National final 2024
Selection date(s): 1 July 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: NDR
Participants – Number of entries: 5
Voting system: Online voting (50%), international expert jury (50%)
Selection entrant: Bjarne
Selection song: “Save the Best for Us” (Rettet das Beste für uns)
Selected songwriter(s): Ignacio Uriarte, Kai Oliver Krug, Thomas Meilstrup
Final performance:
Final result: –

Germany is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Save the Best for Us” performed by Bjarne. ARD consortium member Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and children’s television channel Kika are responsible for the country’s participation in the contest, and selected the German entrant and song through a national final.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Germany had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest three times since its debut in 2020; before their first appearance, Germany was set to take part in 2003 and 2004, however withdrew from both editions before the contest was held. The country entered the competition twice before 2022, when it took a “creative break” due to partial travel warnings for host country Armenia issued by the Federal Foreign Office, however still broadcast the contest on Kika. Germany returned the following year, represented by Fia with the song “Ohne Worte“, and ended up in 9th place out of 16 entries with 107 points, marking its first entrance into the top ten and therefore its best result in the contest to date.

Children’s television channel Kika, a joint venture of the German national broadcasters ARD and ZDF, broadcasts the event within Germany and organises the selection of the nation’s entry in collaboration with the northern German broadcaster NDR, which had also been responsible for organising Germany’s participation at the adult contest since 1996.

Before Junior Eurovision.

National final. NDR and Kika confirmed their intention to participate in the 2024 contest on 15 May 2024, also revealing that that the selection process for the German entry would follow a similar format to 2023 and not feature a submission process for interested artists, as the organisers instead opted to scout for potential participants behind closed doors.

The German entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was selected through a national final, as announced on 19 June 2024. The five participants were chosen in collaboration with the production company Bildergarten Entertainment and unveiled on 21 June, along with one-minute excerpts of the demo versions of their songs and presentation videos recorded in Hamburg; a voting platform was launched immediately afterwards where viewers from Germany, as well as neighbouring Austria and Switzerland, could cast their votes until 30 June. The winner was selected by a 50/50 combination of votes from an international jury and the online vote, with the latter taking precedence in the event of a tie, and announced on 1 July 2024.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Jury	Online vote	Place
Bellamore	“Too Cool”	Debby van Dooren, Simon Tellier	3rd	3rd	3
Bjarne	“Save the Best for Us”	Ignacio Uriarte, Kai Oliver Krug, Thomas Meilstrup	1st	1st	1
Franz	“Komplett“	David Jürgens, Guido von Monrath, Martin Fliegenschmidt, Vincent Matscheko	5th	5th	5
Greta	“All of Me”	Nico Bosslau, Teodora Špirić, Thomas Thurner	4th	4th	4
Julius	“Jupiter“	Debby van Dooren, Simon Tellier	2nd	2nd	2

Preparation. The full version of “Save the Best for Us” was recorded in late July and early August 2024, and was released in September 2024.

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Germany will perform 11th, following Spain and preceding the Netherlands.

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• 🇮🇪 Ireland: Enya Cox Dempsey – “Le Chéile” (Together) (Laoise Ní Nualláin – Ian James White / Nicky Brennan). Irish Ι English.

Enya comes from the town of Castlecomer in County Kilkenny, where she lives with Mum Róisín and the family dog Pip. The young star has performed in lots of shows and pantomimes all her life, and it’s her dream to win Junior Eurovision for Ireland. A girl of many talents, she’s recently taken up playing the drums – much to Róisín’s delight, as the drums are set up in her bedroom. Enya loves rock ‘n’ roll and her favourite artists are Lana Del Rey, the Deftones and Metallica, and she loves singing along to Queen – though she doesn’t think she could pull off Freddie’s moustache!

• Country: 🇮🇪 Ireland

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: Junior Eurovision Éire 2024 Ι Song: Internal selection
Selection date(s): Artist: Heats – Show 1: September 15, Show 2: September 22, Show 3: September 29, Show 4: October 6
Ι Final – 13 October 2024 Ι Song:
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): Louise Cantillon, Darragh Ó Caoimh
Host broadcaster: TG4
Participants – Number of entries: 10
Voting system: Jury
Selection entrant: Enya Cox Dempsey
Selection song: “Le chéile” (Together)
Selected songwriter(s): Laoise Ní Nualláin, Ian James White, Nicky Brennan
Final performance:
Final result: –

Ireland is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Le chéile” performed by Enya Cox Dempsey. Irish broadcaster TG4 again used the televised national final Junior Eurovision Éire to select the artist.

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• 🇮🇹 Italy: Simone Grande – “Pigiama Party“ (Luca Mattioni / Pablo Meneguzzo – Alex Uhlmann / Luca Mattioni / Pablo Meneguzzo). Italian Ι English.

Simone was born and raised in the small town of Rozzano, not too far from the San Siro stadium, home of his favourite football team, Inter Milan! When he’s not cheering on ‘I Nerazzurri’ or scoring goals himself, Simone is a keen cook, dancer and, of course, singer. He first found success on The Voice Kids Italy which he ended up winning, after his parents sent producers a tape of him performing at their wedding. The young singer recently released a cover version of Blanco & Mahmood’s Brividi, their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 held in Turin.

• Country: 🇮🇹 Italy

• National selection:

Selection process: Internal selection
Selection date(s):Artist: 19 September 2024 Ι Song: 27 September 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: RAI
Participants – Number of entries:–
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Simone Grande
Selection song: “Pigiama party”
Selected songwriter(s): Alex Uhlmann, Luca Mattioni, Paolo Meneguzzi
Final performance:
Final result: –

Italy is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Pigiama party” performed by Simone Grande. The Italian broadcaster Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI) internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Italy had participated in the contest nine times since its first entry in the 2014 contest, winning the contest with its debut entry “Tu primo grande amore” performed by Vincenzo Cantiello, marking its only win to this point. The nation opted not to take part in the contest in 2020 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). In 2022, Rai Gulp – which had previously been in charge of Italy’s participation in the contest – was replaced within the structures of RAI by the flagship channel Rai 1, citing a new division of schedules and a desire for such events to reach a wider audience; this led to a huge increase of viewers watching the show in Italy. In 2023, Melissa and Ranya competed for Italy with the song “Un mondo giusto“, which ended up in 11th place out of 16 entries with 81 points.

Before Junior Eurovision. During the final of the second season of The Voice Kids in December 2023, host Antonella Clerici revealed that one of the show’s twelve finalists would go on to represent Italy in the 2024 contest; this was misinterpreted by much of the local media as a confirmation of the show’s winner, Simone Grande from Rozzano near Milan, being selected to represent the nation, which had not been at that point confirmed by RAI. On 10 September 2024, RAI announced that it had internally selected the Italian entrant for the contest and that they would be revealed on 19 September. Grande (who was, at the time of his selection, a twelve-year-old) was eventually announced as the entrant with the song “Pigiama party“, which was written by Alex Uhlmann, Luca Mattioni and Pablo Meneguzzo and released on 27 September, alongside an accompanying music video.

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will take place at the Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. On 1 October 2024, during the heads of delegation meeting, Italy was drawn to open the event in position 1.

In Italy, the event will be aired on Rai 2 and RaiPlay, with commentary provided by Mario Acampa; Rai Kids will be responsible for the television production of the Italian broadcast.

Performance. Grande’s performance will be staged Claudio Santucci and choreographed by Manuela Saccardi, with the supervision of Laccio. RAI described the concept of the performance as “touching on the themes of the right to childhood, to play, to lightheartedness”.

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• 🇲🇹 Malta: Ramires Sciberras – “Stilla Ċkejkna” (Little star) (Lon Kirkop – Aleandro Spiteri Monsigneur / Peter Borg). Maltese Ι English.

Born in Cambodia, Ramires moved to Malta aged just four-months-old to live with his parents on the Mediterranean island. At the age of 8, his passion for music was clear to his family who enrolled him in singing and piano lessons. In 2023, the young musician travelled to Riga, Latvia, to participate in the prestigious Riga Symphony competition, where he won in the ‘World Hit’ category. Ramires enjoys swimming, travelling and reading, plus he loves playing Roblox with his friends.

• Country: 🇲🇹 Malta

• National selection:

Selection process:Artist: Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Ι Song: Internal selection 2024
Selection date(s): 21 September 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s):
Host broadcaster: PBS
Participants – Number of entries: 24
Voting system: Jury panel (80%) and public televoting (20%)
Selection entrant: Ramires Sciberras
Selection song: “Stilla Ċkejkna“ (Little star)
Selected songwriter(s): Aleandro Spiteri Monseigneur, Lon Kirkop, Peter Borg
Final performance:
Final result: –

Malta is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Stilla ċkejkna” performed by Ramires Sciberras. The Maltese broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) organised the national final Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in order to select the Maltese entry for the contest.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Malta had participated in the contest nineteen times since its first entry in the inaugural 2003 contest. Since then, Malta has won the contest on two occasions: in 2013 with “The Start” performed by Gaia Cauchi, and in 2015 with “Not My Soul” performed by Destiny Chukunyere. The nation opted not to take part in the contest in 2011 and 2012. In 2023, Yulan competed for Malta with the song “Stronger”, which ended up in 10th place out of 16 entries with 94 points.

Before Junior Eurovision.

Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was the national final format developed by PBS to select the Maltese entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The competition consisted of a final on 21 September 2024, coinciding with Malta’s Independence Day, held at the TVM Studios in Pietà, and hosted by Melanie Kelly, and broadcast on Television Malta (TVM) as well as on the broadcaster’s streaming platform tvmi.mt.

Competing entries. On 6 May 2024, PBS announced the MESC and MJESC Music Exchange Camp would be held between 17 and 23 June, dedicated to the creation of a total of 60 competing songs for the following two national selections. The camp dedicated to the creation of entries for the Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 featured ten artists aged between nine and fourteen.

On 12 July 2024, PBS published the rules of the competition, opening a window for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen and composers to submit their entries until 19 August 2024. Songwriters from any nationality were able to submit songs as long as the artist was Maltese or possessed Maltese citizenship. Artists were able to submit as many songs as they wish, however, they could only compete with one in the final. Yulan, who represented Malta in the 2023 contest, was ineligible to compete due to a rule that prevents the previous winner from entering the following year. A dedicated panel selected the finalist entries, which were announced on 26 August 2024, with one-minute snippets of the songs published on 5 September.

Final. The final took place on 21 September 2024. The winner was determined by a weighed combination of votes from a jury panel (80%) and a public televote (20%), with the former taking precedence in the event of a tie. In addition to the competing entries, Chanel Monseigneur, who represented Malta in the 2020 contest, Gaia Gambuzza, who represented Malta in the 2022 contest, and Yulan performed as the interval acts. Ramires Sciberras – a twelve-year-old singer of Cambodian descent, adopted by Maltese parents at a young age – was declared the winner with the song “Stilla ċkejkna“, which became the first Maltese entry to be performed entirely in the Maltese language.

**Final – 21 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
1	Shaz	“Above It All”	Alexandra Rotan, Audun Agnar Gulbrandsen, Henrik Tala, Sara Biglert
2	Andrea	“Gold”	Andrea Camilleri, Andreas Lindbergh, Maria Cachia Abdilla, Remy Borsboom
3	Eleny	“Guiding Light”	Joe Julian Farrugia, Philip Vella
4	Emma Farrugia	“Summertime”	Emil Calleja Bayliss, John Emil Johansson, Soren Emil Lunoe Schiodt
5	Grrlz	“Grrlz”	Henrik Tala, Leila Borg, Remy Borsboom, Muxu
6	Ilona	“Zip It Up”	Emil Calleja Bayliss, Philip Vella
7	Anneka Xerri	“Trying to Be Me (Ħeqq le)”	Anneka Xerri, David Meliak, Jean Paul Borg, Michael Joe Cini
8	Kayleen	“Lalala”	Matthew Borg Brincau
9	Ramires Sciberras	“Stilla ċkejkna“	Aleandro Spiteri Monseigneur, Lon Kirkop, Peter Borg
10	Maria Curmi	“Għawdex“	Emil Calleja Bayliss, Philip Vella
11	Keira	“Kif jien“	Aldo Spiteri, Bradley Spiteri, Liam Spiteri, Rita Pace
12	Chanel	“I’ll Be Alright”	Christina Karei Magrin, Sebastian Pritchard-James
13	Thomas Casha	“A Little Bit Longer”	Matt Blxck, Matteo Depares
14	Daylin Cassar Randich	“Bonafide”	Anderz Wrethov, Andreas Stone Johansson, Mohombi

Preparation. In late September 2024, Sciberras revealed that his entry “Stilla ċkejkna” would undergo a revamp ahead of the contest.

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 will take place at the Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. On 1 October 2024, during the Heads of Delegation meeting, Malta was drawn to close the event in position 17.

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• 🇳🇱 The Netherlands: Stay Tuned (Miucha Buursen, Chiara Deelen, Niek Mensing en Inkar) – “Music” (Jermain van der Bogt / Willem Laseroms – Jermain van der Bogt / Willem Laseroms). Dutch / English Ι English.

Stay Tuned’s Chiara has performed in several musicals, even taking on the iconic role of Veruca Salt in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’! Inkar was born in Kazakhstan and was a member of the famous Dutch children’s choir Kinderen voor Kinderen. She enjoys dancing, playing tennis and riding horses. Niek loves to be on stage, entertaining audiences, and in his free time he plays field hockey and practises the piano. Miucha participated in The Voice Kids on her 10th birthday, and as well as singing she enjoys playing on her soccer team.

• Country: 🇳🇱 The Netherlands

• National selection:

Selection process: Junior Songfestival 2024
Selection date(s): 21 September 2024
Host venue: RTM Stage in Rotterdam
Presenter(s): Matheu Hinzen, Stefania
Host broadcaster: AVROTROS
Participants – Number of entries: 5
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Stay Tuned (Miucha Buursen, Chiara Deelen, Niek Mensing en Inkar)
Selection song: “Music”
Selected songwriter(s): Jermain van der Bogt, Willem Laseroms
Final performance:
Final result: –

The Netherlands is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Music” performed by Stay Tuned. The Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS organised the national final Junior Songfestival 2024 in order to select the Dutch entry for the contest.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, the Netherlands had participated in the contest twenty-one times since its first entry in the inaugural 2003 contest. Since then, the country has won the contest on one occasion in 2009 with the song “Click Clack” performed by Ralf Mackenbach. The Netherlands is the only country to have taken part in every edition of the contest. Since 2014, as the result of a merger between the AVRO – which had previously been in charge of the Netherlands’ participation in the contest – and TROS into the current AVROTROS, it is the latter who participates representing the Netherlands. In 2023, Sep & Jasmijn [nl] competed for the Netherlands with the song “Holding On to You”, which ended up in 7th place out of 16 entries with 122 points.

Before Junior Eurovision.

Junior Songfestival 2024. Junior Songfestival 2024 was the twenty-first edition of Junior Songfestival, the national final format developed by AVROTROS to select Dutch entries for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The event was held on 21 September 2024 at the RTM Stage in Rotterdam, and was hosted by Matheu and Stefania. The show was broadcast on NPO Zapp via NPO 3, as well as on the broadcaster’s streaming platform NPO Start.

Format. The selection took place in four stages: the received applications were first assessed by an expert committee; 45 were selected to be performed at an audition round, exerpts of which were published to the competition’s official YouTube channel on 5 and 19 April, and 3 May 2024, where a jury selected twenty artists to advance to the academy; at the academy, the singers had the opportunity to work with vocal coaches and choreographers, after which the nine finalists were determined, who were later grouped into four acts, each of them having an original song written and assigned; at the final, which was held on 21 September 2024, the winner was determined by a combination of votes from an kids jury (traditionally made up of past Junior Songfestival participants), a professional jury (made up of industry professionals) and an online vote – each awarding sets of 8–10 and 12 points – with the latter taking precedence in the event of a tie.

Competing entries. The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 23 September 2023 and 31 January 2024. All submissions required participants to enter one cover song and a separate introduction video. An expert committee reviewed the received submissions and selected 45 of them (including 29 which qualified directly, announced on 12 February 2024, and 16 which advanced from the preselection – a second chance round, where an additional 48 artists who hadn’t advanced were invited to perform, after which some were invited for the audition, announced on 27 February 2024) to proceed to the audition round. Auditionee and eventual finalist Veronika had previously competed in the Ukrainian national final in 2021, placing third. The finalists were revealed on 31 May 2024, while the groupings were unveiled on 14 June. One-minute snippets of the songs published on 29 June 2024, with the songs released daily between 2 and 5 July 2024.

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Hidde, Saïda and Dunyah	“In m’n Prime”	Daniel van der Molen, Elke Tiel, Stas Swaczyna
Ruben	“Colors of My Heart”	Didier de Ruyter, Kirsten Michel
Stay Tuned	“Music”	Jermain van der Bogt, Willem Laseroms
Veronika	“Dreams Are Built to Last”	Nienke van der Velden, Rens Koppe, Tjeerd van Zanen

Final. The final took place on 21 September 2024. The kids jury panel consisted of Junior Songfestival 2023 participants Joy! and Sep & Jasmijn, while the professional jury panel, the members of which provided feedback in regards to the performances during the show, consisted of singers Anne Appelo, Jim Bakkum and Roxeanne Hazes. In addition to the competing entries, the finalists performed a rendition of the common song, “Move On”. Stay Tuned – a group consisting of fourteen-year-old Chiara, twelve-year-olds Inkar and Miucha, and thirteen-year-old Niek – were declared the winners with the song “Music”.

**Final – 21 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Kids jury	Prof. jury	Online vote	Total	Place
1	Hidde, Saïda and Dunyah	“In m’n Prime”	9	8	9	26	3
2	Veronika	“Dreams Are Built to Last”	10	12	10	32	2
3	Stay Tuned	“Music”	12	10	12	34	1
4	Ruben	“Colors of My Heart”	8	9	8	25	4

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. The Netherlands will perform 12th, following Germany and preceding San Marino.

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• 🇲🇰 North Macedonia: Ana and Aleksej (Ana Vanchevska and Aleksej Ivanovski, Ана Ванчевска и Алексеј Ивановски) – “Marathon” (Маратон) (Magdalena Cvetkovska – Lazar Cvetkovski). Macedonian / English Ι English.

Ana & Aleksej come from Bitola in the picturesque Pelagonia valley in North Macedonia. Ana loves performing and has participated in numerous music festivals, while also excelling in her favourite subjects at school; mathematics, physics and French. Aleksej has also made a name for himself in music competitions, and shares Ana’s enthusiasm for maths and French! Where the duo differ is on their most used app! Ana loves Instagram, while Aleksej prefers TikTok.

• Country: 🇲🇰 North Macedonia

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: Internal selection 2024 Ι Song: Internal selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 26 June 2024 Ι Song: 4 October 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: MRT
Participants – Number of entries:–
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Ana and Aleksej (Ana Vanchevska and Aleksej Ivanovski, Ана Ванчевска и Алексеј Ивановски)
Selection song: “Marathon” (Маратон)
Selected songwriter(s): Lazar Cvetkovski, Magdalena Cvetkovska
Final performance:
Final result: –

North Macedonia is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Marathon” performed by Ana and Aleksej. The Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

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• 🇵🇱 Poland: Dominik Arim – “All Together” (Aldona Dąbrowska – Sławomir Sokolowski). Polish / English Ι English.

Dominik lives in the small town of Bobowo in the northern part of Poland, a region known for its beautiful forests and lakes. The young entertainer began performing for his family – his mom, dad, and sister Julia – before moving on to appear in shows and festivals. He first caught the attention of the public with his rendition of Lady Gaga’s Hold My Hand on The Voice Kids Poland, where all 4 judges fought to have him on their team. Outside of singing, Dominik enjoys karate; he’s currently an orange belt.

• Country: 🇵🇱 Poland

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: Szansa na Sukces. Eurowizja Junior 2024 (Chance of Success) Ι Song: Internal selection 2024
Selection date(s): Heats: 8 September 2024, 15 September 2024, 22 September 2024 Ι Final: 29 September 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s):
Host broadcaster: TVP
Participants – Number of entries: 21
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Dominik Arim
Selection song: “All Together”
Selected songwriter(s): Aldona Dąbrowska, Sławomir Sokołowski
Final performance:
Final result: –

Poland is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “All Together” performed by Dominik Arim. The Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) is responsible for the country’s participation in the contest and will choose the Polish entry through the national selection Szansa na sukces.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Poland had participated in the contest ten times. In 2003 and 2004, Poland finished in last place, and they decided not to participate from 2005 to 2015. The country returned in 2016. In both 2018 and 2019, Poland won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Roksana Węgiel and Viki Gabor respectively. In 2021, Sara James competed for Poland with the song “Somebody” which ended up in 2nd place, being 6 points short of winning the competition. In 2023, Maja Krzyżewska competed for Poland with the song “I Just Need a Friend”, which ended up in 6th place out of 16 entries with 124 points.

In light of the 2023 Polish public media crisis, head of the Polish delegation for the contest Marta Piekarska reportedly assured that as long as “TVP trusts her”, Poland would not withdraw from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest; she was later confirmed as a member of the contest’s steering group, therefore confirming her involvement with the delegation for another year. In January 2024, a tender announcement was made by TVP in liquidation for the organisation of two traditional editions of Szansa na sukces that year – a spring edition, serving as the selection method for a newcomer spot at the Opole Festival, as well as an autumn edition held in relation to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – thereby confirming it as the national final for the sixth year running.

Before Junior Eurovision.

Szansa na sukces. TVP selected the Polish representative with the television program Szansa na sukces (Chance of Success); the same show has also been used for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2019 and various times for the Eurovision Song Contest, directly or indirectly.^[a] Artur Orzech accepted a preliminary invitation to host the format following the takeover of Polish public media in late 2023. Casting for the show took place on 26 May 2024 at the TVP Headquarters in Warsaw, from which 21 acts were selected to advance to the competition.

Shows.

Heats. The heats were recorded in early July 2024 and aired on 8, 15 and 22 September 2024. In each heat, seven semi-finalists performed cover versions of randomly drawn songs corresponding to the theme of the episode, and a two-member professional jury consisting of Viki Gabor – who won the 2019 contest for Poland – and Mietek Szcześniak – who represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 – in heat 1; Sara James – who represented Poland in the 2021 contest – and Luna – who represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 – in heat 2; and Cleo – who represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 alongside Donatan – and Maja Krzyżewska – who represented Poland in the 2023 contest – in heat 3 selected one finalist; TVP reserved the option to select wildcards among the non-qualifiers. The themes of the heats are “the latest hits” in heat 1, “Eurovision hits” in heat 2 and “casting songs” in heat 3.

Key: [1] Jury finalist, [2] Wildcard finalist, [3] Honourable mention

**Heat 1 – 8 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Result
1	Łukasz Matyka	“Nie jest za późno“	Eliminated
2	Oliwia Bąk	“Cold Heart (Pnau remix)”	Eliminated
3	Julia Kuś	“We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)”	Eliminated [3]
4	Tatiana Kopala	“Drivers License”	Eliminated [3]
5	Blanka Korniluk	“Beautiful Things”	Advanced [2]
6	Natan Gryga	“Lose Control”	Advanced [1]
7	Igor Pochwała	“Och i ach“	Eliminated

**Heat 2 – 15 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Result
1	Kalina Kalicka	“Satellite”	Eliminated
2	Konrad Adamczyk	“Queen of Kings”	Eliminated
3	Iga Kaczyńska	“Heroes”	Eliminated [3]
4	Sebastian Rąpel	“Arcade”	Eliminated
5	Aleksandra Antoniak	“The Tower”	Advanced [1]
6	Dominik Arim	“Waterloo”	Advanced [2]
7	Amelia Stawiarska	“Love Shine a Light”	Eliminated [3]

**Heat 3 – 22 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Result
1	Nikodem Pajączek	“Jestem twoją bajką“	Eliminated
2	Maja Golańska	“Stone Cold”	Advanced [1]
3	Filip Płażalski	“Tattoo”	Eliminated
4	Eryk Kucharski	“Kolorowy wiatr“	Eliminated
5	Antonina Smerkowska	“Hello”	Eliminated [3]
6	Helena Ciuraba	“Flowers”	Eliminated
7	Helena Zaciewska	“Sztorm“	Eliminated [3] Final

Final. The final took place on 29 September 2024.

**Final – First round – 29 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Natan Gryga	“Fairytale”	1	7	8	3
2	Blanka Korniluk	“Heroes”	2	3	5	4
3	Aleksandra Antoniak	“Euphoria”	5	5	10	1
4	Dominik Arim	“Satellite”	7	2	9	2
5	Maja Golańska	“Snap”	3	1	4	5

**Final – Second round – 29 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song
1	Aleksandra Antoniak	“All Together”
2	Dominik Arim	“All Together”

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Poland will perform 8th, following North Macedonia and preceding Georgia.

Notes.

^[a]^ The format has been involved at least thrice in the selection of the Polish representative in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 1995, the selection of Justyna to represent the country was partially motivated by her win in the first edition of Szansa na sukces; similarly, in 1996, Viola Brzezińska, who won the second edition, was initially selected to represent Poland, however she would be later replaced by Kasia Kowalska, while in 2020, a special edition of the format served as the selection method for the contest later that year.

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• 🇵🇹 Portugal: Victoria Nicole – “Esperança” (Hope) (Victoria Nicole – Victoria Nicole). Portuguese Ι English.

Victoria was born in Venezuela, South America, and has lived in Portugal with her parents and pet dogs since 2018. As a very outgoing and creative young musician, she has been playing the piano for over 5 years, and has also mastered the ukulele – but singing is her big passion. She’s always enjoyed performing, and one of her earliest memories is learning the words to the iconic hits of ABBA, and putting on shows for her cousins. The stages have gotten bigger for Victoria in recent times, as she won the 2024 edition of The Voice Kids Portugal, and with that the chance to represent her new home at Junior Eurovision.

• Country: 🇵🇹 Portugal

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: The Voice Kids Portugal Ι Song: Internal selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 7 July 2024 Ι Song: 8 October 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: RTP
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Victoria Nicole
Selection song: “Esperança” (Hope)
Selected songwriter(s): Victoria Nicole
Final performance:
Final result: –

Portugal is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Esperança” performed by Victoria Nicole. The Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) is responsible for the country’s participation in the contest and internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

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• 🇸🇲 San Marino: Idols SM (A a Ceccoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Giorgia De Scisciolo and Vera Stefania Olkhovskaya)- “Come Noi” (Francesco Sancisi / Nicola Della Valle / Paolo Macina – Francesco Sancisi / Nicola Della Valle / Paolo Macina). Italian Ι English.

Idols SM’s Giulia trained in classical, modern and contemporary dance, and spends her free time swimming; she loves the sea but hates jellyfish. Vera Stefania loves Korean dramas and horror films, and her favourite types of music are hip-hop, pop and K-pop! Giorgia spends her time singing around San Marino, and enjoys astronomy; one day she’d like to study the stars, as well as being one. Asia likes the quiet-life unless she’s on stage, because performing gives her energy! She would love to continue her path to becoming a famous singer.

• Country: 🇸🇲 San Marino

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: Internal selection 2024 Ι Song: Internal selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 11 September 2024 Ι Song: 5 October 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: San Marino RTV
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Idols SM (Asia Ceccoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Giorgia De Scisciolo and Vera Stefania Olkhovskaya)
Selection song: “Come noi”
Selected songwriter(s): Francesco Sancisi, Nicola Della Valle, Paolo Macina
Final performance:
Final result: –

San Marino is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Come noi” performed by Idols SM. The Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV) is responsible for the country’s participation in the contest and internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

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• 🇪🇸 Spain: Chloe DelaRosa – “Como La Lola” () (Alejandro Martínez / Chloe DelaRosa / David Parejo / Luis Ramiro – Alejandro Martínez / Chloe DelaRosa / David Parejo / Luis Ramiro). Spanish / English Ι English.

Chloe DelaRosa regards herself as a ‘Cantista’ – a combination of the Spanish words ‘cantante’ (singer) and ‘artista’ (artist). Born in the town of Guareña in Badajoz, she began showcasing her talent aged just three by dancing at concerts put on by her father who is also a musician. She gained widespread recognition for posting music videos with her siblings, which caught the attention of artists like Camilo and Alejandro Sanz, and helped cultivate a fandom on TikTok. Despite being so young, Chloe is also a regular fixture at music festivals, performing alongside notable artists such as Flamenco-inspired pop duo Andy & Lucas.

• Country: 🇪🇸 Spain

• National selection:

Selection process: Artist: Internal selection 2024 Ι Song: Internal selection 2024
Selection date(s): Artist: 18 July 2024 Ι Song: 7 October 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): –
Host broadcaster: RTVE
Participants – Number of entries: –
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Chloe DelaRosa
Selection song: “Como la Lola”
Selected songwriter(s):Alejandro Martínez Valderrama, Chloe DelaRosa, David Parejo Martin, Luis Vicente Ramiro
Final performance:
Final result: –

Spain is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Como la Lola” performed by Chloe DelaRosa. The Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) is responsible for the country’s participation in the contest and internally selected the country’s entry for the contest.

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• 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Artem Kotenko (Артем Котенко) – “HEAR ME NOW” (Почуй Мене Зараз) / “Dim” (Дім) (Svitlana Tarabarova – Svitlana Tarabarova). Ukrainian / English Ι English.

Okhtyrka-born Artem has been a devoted fan of the Eurovision Song Contest since he saw it for the first time in 2019; watching it together has become an annual tradition for the Kotenko family. He first attempted to represent Ukraine at Junior Eurovision in 2023, making it to the longlist of potential artists, and despite his disappointment on not being chosen, he was determined to come back and win the national selection. The young singer loves theatre, playing piano and dancing. Despite the challenges faced by living in a frontline city, Artem continues to pursue his love for music – sometimes even in a bunker, refusing to let his passion fade.

• Country: 🇺🇦 Ukraine

• National selection:

Selection process: Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024 (Національний відбір 2024)
Selection date(s): 22 September 2024
Host venue: –
Presenter(s): Timur Miroshnychenko and Anna Tulieva (Тімур Мірошниченко та Анна Тульєва)
Host broadcaster: UA:PBC (Suspilne, Суспільне)
Participants – Number of entries: 5
Voting system: –
Selection entrant: Artem Kotenko (Артем Котенко)
Selection song: “HEAR ME NOW” (Почуй Мене Зараз) / “Dim” (Дім)
Selected songwriter(s): Svitlana Tarabarova
Final performance:
Final result: –

Ukraine is set to take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid, Spain, with “Hear Me Now” performed by Artem Kotenko. The Ukrainian broadcaster Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne) selected its entry, originally titled “Dim“, through the national final Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024.

Background. Prior to the 2024 contest, Ukraine had participated in the contest eighteen times, without ever missing an edition since its debut appearance in 2006. The country came second in 2008 with the song “Matrosy” performed by Viktoria Petryk, which remained its best result until 2012, when Anastasiya Petryk – who happens to be Viktoria’s younger sister – represented the country with the song “Nebo” and won the contest. Ukraine has hosted the event twice, both times in its capital city, Kyiv: at the Palace of Sports in 2009 – the same venue that previously hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 – and at the Palace “Ukraine” in 2013. In 2023, Anastasia Dymyd competed for Ukraine with the song “Kvitka“, which ended up in 5th place out of 16 entries with 128 points.

Before Junior Eurovision.

Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024. Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024 is the national final format developed by Suspilne in order to select Ukraine’s entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The competition consists of a final held on 22 September 2024, hosted by Anna Trincher, Anna Tulieva and Timur Miroshnychenko. The show was broadcast on Suspilne Kultura, as well as on Suspilne‘s online platforms. The slogan for the competition was “Mrii smilyvo!” (“Dream boldly!”).

Format. The selection of the competing entries for the national final took place over three stages. In the first stage, artists could apply for the competition through an online submission form. For the second year in a row, Svitlana Tarabarova was the music producer of the event, who was in charge of reviewing the received submissions and selecting a longlist of 15 participants, announced on 24 July 2024. In the second stage, longlisted artists were assessed by a three-member expert council consisting of Michelle Andrade, Tayanna and Yevhen Khmara alongside competition producers Tarabarova, Yevhen Kot and Yevhen Triplov at an event labeled as the “star school”, with ten acts, announced on 2 September 2024, proceeding to the top ten stage of the competition, and eventually six acts, announced on 8 September, directly qualifying for the final. The third stage consisted of Tarabarova and Triplov – the head songwriters of the competition – writing and assigning six original songs for the finalists; no original song submitted by a competing artist made the final. The six selected artists will take part in a final on 22 September 2024, where the winner will be determined by a 50/50 combination of jury and public votes – the latter being cast through the Diia application over two phases of voting.

The preparations for the final were documented via the show Shchodennyky Dytiachoho Yevrobachennia (“Junior Eurovision Diaries”), consisting of six broadcasts hosted by Miroshnychenko and Tulieva and aired weekly on Suspilne Kultura between 16 August and 22 September 2024.

Competing entries. The submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen was open between 5 June and 3 July 2024.^[20] All submissions required participants to enter covers of two songs and a separate introduction video; however, artists were also allowed to submit original songs for consideration. Precedence was not given to complete submissions, with Suspilne also reserving the right to replace a song submitted by an eventual finalist with a new entry of its choice if such a case occurs. At the closing of the submission process, 309 applications had been received, with roughly 19% of them also including an original song. The songs were released on the official Eurovision Ukraine on 16 September.

**Longlisted artists**
Artist	Top 10	Top 6	Result
Anastasiia Bielibova	Yes		Finalist
Anhelina Hlohus	Yes		Finalist
Anna Doina (Anna Doyna)	Yes	No	Eliminated
Artem Kotenko	Yes		Finalist
Bohdan Bilukha	No	—	Eliminated
Daryna Vitsan	No	—	Eliminated
Illia Konovchenko (Ilko)	Yes		Finalist
Mariia Blyzniuk	Yes	No	Eliminated
Sofiia Nersesian	Yes	No	Eliminated
Veronika Kohan	Yes		Finalist
Vladyslav Vasytskyi	No	—	Eliminated
Vladyslava Kitseliuk (Vlada K)	No	—	Eliminated
Vsevolod Skryma	Yes	No	Eliminated
Zlata Ivaniv	Yes		Finalist
Zlata Solonenko (Zlata Solo)	No	—	Eliminated

**Natsvidbir na Dytiache Yevrobachennia – 2024 participating entries**
Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
Anastasiia Bielibova	“Unbelievable”	Yevhen Triplov
Anhelina Hlohus	“Plachut yanholy” (Плачуть янголи)	Yevhen Triplov
Artem Kotenko	“Dim” (Дім)	Svitlana Tarabarova
Illia Konovchenko	“Spaceship”	Svitlana Tarabarova
Veronika Kohan	“Harmony”	Yevhen Triplov
Zlata Ivaniv	“Namysto” (Намисто)	Svitlana Tarabarova

Final. The final took place on 22 September 2024. The members of the jury were Andrii Hutsuliak (Ukrainian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 as part of Tvorchi), Roxolana (singer-songwriter, finalist of Vidbir 2022) and Vitalii Drozdov (radio producer, general producer of TAVR Media Radio Holding). In addition to the competing entries, the guest performers included Roxolana with “Ne stii pid viknom“, Tvorchi with “Dubidu”, Anastasia Dymyd and the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra with “Kvitka“, Anna Trincher with “Ochi“, and Jerry Heil with “#AllEyesOnKids”, after which the finalists performed a rendition of the common song, “Pure and Beautiful“, alongside Tarabarova.

Zlata Ivaniv and Artem Kotenko were tied at 11 points each at the end of the show but, after receiving the highest score from the public, Kotenko was declared the winner.

**Final – 22 September 2024**
Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Public vote	Total	Place
1	Illia Konovchenko	“Spaceship”	2	2	4	5
2	Anastasiia Bielibova	“Unbelievable”	4	4	8	3
3	Veronika Kohan	“Harmony”	3	3	6	4
4	Zlata Ivaniv	“Namysto“	6	5	11	2
5	Artem Kotenko	“Dim“	5	6	11	1
6	Anhelina Hlohus	“Plachut yanholy“	1	1	2	6

At Junior Eurovision. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is set to take place at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on 16 November 2024. Ukraine will perform 14th, following San Marino and preceding Portugal.