Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Explained

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Year:2012
Theme:Break the Ice
Final:1 December 2012
Director:David Grifhorst
Exsupervisor:Sietse Bakker
Exproducer:Ronald Kok
Host:Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep (AVRO)
Venue:Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam
Winner:
"Nebo"
Vote:Each country awards 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Entries:12
Return:None
Map Nosemis:Y

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was the tenth edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 1 December 2012.[1] [2] Dutch broadcaster AVRO was the host broadcaster for the event.[3] For the second time the Netherlands hosted the contest, after hosting the contest in 2007 in Rotterdam. The show was hosted by Kim-Lian van der Meij for a second time, this time joined by Ewout Genemans.[4] The motto for the contest was "Break The Ice".[5]

Twelve countries took part in the contest, making it the smallest number of countries participating in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest history, and equalling the number of countries participated in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest held at RAI Congrescentrum. Albania and Azerbaijan, and Israel made their debuts at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.[6] Whilst nine countries from the previous edition continued their participation in the contest, four countries withdrew: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia and Macedonia. The contest was won by Anastasiya Petryk for Ukraine with the song "Nebo". and finished in second and third place, respectively. This was Ukraine's first Junior Eurovision victory and second Eurovision victory after Ruslana won the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest in Istanbul. Ukraine's winning margin of 35 points was also a record.

Location

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited broadcasters to bid for the rights to host the contest.[7] At the meeting of heads of delegations on 11 October 2011 in Yerevan, the EBU announced that the Dutch broadcaster AVRO had won the right to host next year's event.[8]

On 27 February 2012, it was announced that the tenth edition of the contest would take place on 1 December and be held at the Heineken Music Hall (or commonly abbreviated as HMH) in Amsterdam.[9] The Heineken Music Hall was specially designed for music shows, several artists like Madonna and Kylie Minogue made shows at the venue. Furthermore, it is often used by the Dutch Entertainment Company Q-dance for the Event-Series X-Qlusive taking place several times a year. The big hall (also called Black Box) has been used for concerts and boasts a capacity of 5,500 and is 3000 m2. After parties are given in a smaller hall, with a capacity of 700.

Participating countries

On 1 September 2012, it was confirmed that twelve countries would be taking part in the contest. This was the lowest number of entries since 2009. Débutante countries included, Albania, Azerbaijan, and Israel. Latvia and Lithuania withdrew after competing since 2010,[10] while Bulgaria and Macedonia withdrew after competing in the 2011 edition.[11] With Macedonia withdrawing, this was the first time since the contest inception that no country of the former Yugoslavia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Prior to the event, a digital compilation album featuring all the songs from the 2012 contest, along with karaoke versions, was put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by Universal Music Group in November 2012.[12]

Participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2012[13] !Country!Broadcaster!Artist!Song!Language!Songwriter(s)
RTSHIgzidora Gjeta"Albanian: Kam një këngë vetëm për ju|i=unset"Albanian
AMPTV"Sweetie Baby"Armenian, EnglishDavid Paronikyan
İTV and "Girls and Boys (Azerbaijani: Dünya Sənindir|i=unset)"Azerbaijani, English
BTRCEgor Zheshko"Russian: A more-more|i=unset" (Russian: А море-море)Russian
VRT"Abracadabra"Dutch
GPBFunkids"Funky Lemonade"Georgian, English
IBAKids.il"Let the Music Win"Hebrew
TRMDenis Midone"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Toate vor fi|i=unset"Romanian, English
AVROFemke"Tik Tak Tik"Dutch
VGTRKLerika"Sensation"Russian, English
SVT"Swedish: Mitt mod|i=unset"Swedish
NTUAnastasiya Petryk"Ukrainian: [[Nebo (Anastasiya Petryk song)|Nebo]]|i=unset" (Ukrainian: Небо)Ukrainian, EnglishAnastasiya Petryk

Returning artists

The Russian representative, Lerika, has participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest before; she represented Moldova in 2011, finishing in 6th place with the song "No, No". This is the second case in the competition to feature a returning artist from previous editions after Katya Ryabova (Russia 2009 and 2011).[14] [15]

Format

Presenters

In January 2012, it was announced that Ewout Genemans alongside Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 co-host Kim-Lian van der Meij would present the contest later in the year.[4] Genemans had been involved with the contest for the past two years, having hosted the Dutch national selection for the contest, Junior Songfestival in 2010 and 2011. In December 2011, Genemans signed a 2 year exclusivity deal with the host broadcaster to present shows only on their station.[16] Dutch entertainer and singer Kim Lian reprised her role as host again, after hosting the contest from the Ahoy Arena in 2007 alongside Sipke Jan Bousema.[17]

Logo and graphic design

The architect was Frits van Dongen. The motto for the contest was announced on 6 September 2012 as "Break The Ice".[5] Tickets for the contest went on sale from 10 September 2012.[2]

Contest overview

The event took place on 1 December 2012 at 20:15 CET.[18] Twelve countries participated, with the running order published on 15 October 2012.[19] All the countries competing were eligible to vote with the jury and televote, as well as a Kids Jury, eligible to vote. Ukraine won with 138 points, with Georgia and Armenia completing the top three.[20] Moldova, Azerbaijan and Albania occupied the bottom three positions.[21]

The show was opened with the song "Euphoria" from Loreen performed by 2011 Dutch representative Rachel Traets.[22] The interval included Kim-Lian van der Meij, who specially written "Break the Ice" as the theme song for this contest,[23] performed on stage whilst all the participants sang "We Can Be Heroes" to promote children’s rights worldwide in cooperation with the Dutch charity, KidsRights Foundation and the 2009 winner Ralf Mackenbach performed also with his winning song "Click Clack".[24] [25]

CountryArtistSongPointsPlace
1Egor Zheshko"Russian: A more-more|i=unset"569
2"Swedish: Mitt mod|i=unset"706
3 and "Girls and Boys (Azerbaijani: Dünya Sənindir|i=unset)"4911
4"Abracadabra"725
5Lerika"Sensation"884
6Kids.il"Let the Music Win"688
7Igzidora Gjeta"Albanian: Kam një këngë vetëm për ju|i=unset"3512
8"Sweetie Baby"983
9Anastasiya Petryk"Ukrainian: [[Nebo (Anastasiya Petryk song)|Nebo]]|i=unset"1381
10Funkids"Funky Lemonade"1032
11Denis Midone"Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Toate vor fi|i=unset"5210
12Femke"Tik Tak Tik"697

Spokespersons

The order in which votes were cast during the 2012 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

  1. Ralf Mackenbach
  2. Maria Drozdova
  3. Leya Gullström
  4. Leila Hajili
  5. Femke Verschueren
  6. Valentin Sadiki
  7. Maayan Aloni
  8. Keida Dervishi
  9. Michael Varosyan
  10. Kristall
  11. Felcia Genunchi
  12. Lidewei Loot
  13. Candy

Detailed voting results

Due to technical issues, Georgia was the final country to cast its votes.

+ Detailed voting results[26]
scope="col"
Belarus56 1 1 7 2 4 1 2 7 10 2 7
Sweden70 6 7 1 5 5 7 12 2 2 7 4
Azerbaijan49 2 2 3 1 3 10 5 3 8
Belgium72 3 3 7 3 7 6 7 5 1 6 8 4
Russia88 8 10 8 2 8 4 8 6 10 6 6
Israel68 4 5 4 5 4 8 1 6 8 1 7 3
Albania35 12 3 1 4 2 1
Armenia98 5 8 6 7 10 10 3 12 3 10 12
Ukraine138 10 12 12 4 12 12 12 6 12 12 12 10
Georgia103 12 6 10 8 6 6 8 5 10 7 8 5
Moldova52 4 2 10 3 2 5 4 3 4 1 2
Netherlands69 7 1 5 6 10 1 2 8 4 3 5 5

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received. All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting to ensure that no country finished with nul points.

N.ContestantNation(s) giving 12 points
8 ,,,,,,,
2,
1

Other countries

Broadcasts

Each national broadcaster sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.

Country! scope="col"
Broadcaster(s)Commentator(s)
RTVSHAndri Xhahu
Armenia 1Gohar Gasparyan
Ictimai TVKonul Arifkizi
Belarus 1Pavel Lazorik
EénAstrid Demeure and Tom De Cock
GPBTemo Kvirkvelia
IBANo commentator
TRMRusalina Rusu
Nederland 1Marcel Kuijer
Russia-1Olga Shelest
SVT2Edward af Sillen and Ylva Hällen
NTUTimur Miroshnychenko

See also

Notes and References

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