Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Explained

Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Year:2010
Theme:Feel the Magic
Final:20 November 2010
Presenters:Denis Kourian,
Leila Ismailava
Director:Daniel Jelinek[1]
Exproducer:Alexander Martynenko[2]
Exsupervisor:Svante Stockselius
Host:Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC)
Venue:Minsk Arena, Minsk, Belarus
Winner:
"Mama"
Vote:Each country awards 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Entries:14
Return:
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Map Nosemis:Y

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was the eighth edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Minsk, Belarus. It was held on 20 November 2010.[3] The contest was won by Vladimir Arzumanyan from Armenia with the song "Mama." This gave Armenia its first Junior Eurovision victory and its first victory in any Eurovision contest.

Location

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited broadcasters to bid for the rights to host the contest. In June 2009, Belarussian broadcaster National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus (BRTC) won the rights to organise the contest over bids from Russia and Malta.[4] EBU initially put efforts into distributing the organisation of the contest among different regions of the continent, moving away from Eastern Europe as Kyiv hosted the previous edition, with Malta's bid seemingly taking the lead. However, BRTC's detailed candidacy supported by Eurovision Song Contest 2009 winner Alexander Rybak prevailed in the end.[5]

Under construction through 2009, the 15,000-spectator Minsk-Arena hosted the event. Belarus has twice previously won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which is, according to EBU Executive Supervisor Svante Stockselius, "one of Belarus' most popular television shows."[3]

Participating countries

Despite originally estimating the number of participants to be between 20 and 25, on 28 July 2010 it was announced 14 countries would compete in the contest, with Moldova making its début and Latvia and Lithuania returning. Cyprus and Romania withdrew from the contest.

Sweden returned to the contest through Sveriges Television (SVT) after TV4 withdrew.[6] The EBU's coordinator of the contest, Svante Stockselius, labelled SVT's return to the contest as a big achievement in terms of negotiations with possible participants and expressed hope that other Scandinavian broadcasters may also return to the show.[7] Also, a special documentary "Kids of Eurovision" was filmed by BTRC about them.[8]

Prior to the event, a digital compilation album featuring all the songs from the 2010 contest, along with karaoke versions, was put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by Universal Music Group on 19 November 2010.[9]

Participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010[10] !Country!Broadcaster!Artist!Song!Language!Songwriter(s)
AMPTVVladimir Arzumanyan"Mama" (Armenian: Մամա)ArmenianVladimir Arzumanyan
BTRCDaniil Kozlov"Russian: Muzyki svet|i=unset" (Russian: Музыки свет)RussianDaniil Kozlov
VRTJill and Lauren"Get Up!"Dutch, English
GPBMariam Kakhelishvili"Mari Dari"Imaginary
LTVŠarlote Lēnmane"Viva la Dance (Latvian: Dejo tā|i=unset)"Latvian
LRTBartas"Oki Doki"Lithuanian
MRTAnja Veterova"Еооо, Еооо"MacedonianAnja Veterova
TVMNicole Azzopardi"Knock Knock!....BoomBoom!"English, MalteseNicole Azzopardi
TRMȘtefan Roșcovan"Ali Baba"Romanian, English
AVROAnna and Senna"My Family"Dutch, English
VGTRKSasha Lazin and Liza Drozd"Boy and Girl"Russian
RTSSonja Škorić"Serbian: Čarobna noć|i=unset" (Serbian: Чаробна ноћ)SerbianSonja Škorić
SVTJosefine Ridell"Swedish: Allt jag vill ha|i=unset"Swedish
NTUYulia Gurska"Ukrainian: Miy litak|i=unset" (Ukrainian: Мій літак)Ukrainian

Format

Visual design

The theme art for the contest was revealed on 8 April 2010, consisting of multi-coloured circles, symbolising "different people, cultures and countries," that form the shape of wings, that symbolise "freedom, ease of flying, creative inspiration and rising above."[11] On 8 September, the mascots of the show were presented, being a bear and a wisent.[12]

The stage, designed by Swedish stage designer Ulf Mårtensson, was unveiled on 15 July 2010, featuring five constructions in the shapes of wings. The hosts were also involved with each performance on their own dedicated section of the stage.[13]

Theme art was also incorporated in the promotional billboards and posters featuring 11 "faces of Junior Eurovision" selected through casting procedure. Results of castings were revealed on 20 July 2010 and the 11 chosen ones were Belarus TV personalities Denis Kourian, Olga Barabanschikova, Irina Kazantseva, Andrey Bibikov, former JESC entrants Alexey Zhigalkovich, Ksenia Sitnik, Yuriy Demidovich, Alina Molosh, Daria Nadina as well as non-professionals Yulia Brazhinskaya and Ilya Ilmursky.[14]

Presenters

On 6 September 2010, it was announced that Denis Kourian and Leila Ismailava would host the eighth edition of the contest.[15]

Contest overview

The event took place on 20 November 2010 at 21:15 MSK (20:15 CET).[16] Fourteen countries participated, with the running order published on 14 October 2010.[17] All the countries competing were eligible to vote with the jury and televote. Armenia won with 120 points, with Russia, Serbia, Georgia, and Belarus completing the top five.[18] Latvia, Sweden, Macedonia, Malta, and Ukraine occupied the bottom five positions.[19]

The show was opened with "Hello, Eurovision" performed by former Belarusian winners Ksenia Sitnik and Alexey Zhigalkovich.[20] The interval acts included "Europe's Skies" performed by Alexander Rybak, all participants and Dmitry Koldun performing the specially-commissioned UNICEF song "A Day Without War",[21] and all winners of Junior Eurovision Song Contest at the time: Dino Jelusić, María Isabel, Ksenia Sitnik, The Tolmachevy Twins, Alexey Zhigalkovich, Bzikebi and Ralf Mackenbach, who performed a remixed medley of their winning entries and later presented the trophy to the winner at the end of the show.

CountryArtistSongPointsPlace
1Bartas"Oki Doki"676
2Ștefan Roșcovan"Ali Baba"548
3Anna and Senna"My Family"529
4Sonja Škorić"Serbian: Čarobna noć|i=unset"1133
5Yulia Gurska"Ukrainian: Miy litak|i=unset"2814
6Josefine Ridell"Swedish: Allt jag vill ha|i=unset"4811
7Sasha Lazin and Liza Drozd"Boy and Girl"1192
8"Viva la Dance (Latvian: Dejo tā|i=unset)"5110
9Jill and Lauren"Get Up!"617
10Vladimir Arzumanyan"Mama"1201
11Nicole Azzopardi"Knock Knock!....BoomBoom!"3513
12Daniil Kozlov"Russian: Muzyki svet|i=unset"855
13Mariam Kakhelishvili"Mari Dari"1094
14Anja Veterova"Еооо, Еооо"3812

Detailed voting results

Each country gave their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system, which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

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Lithuania67 2 2 4 4 4 6 6 5 4 6 10 2
Moldova54 1 1 2 5 2 6 7 10 2 6
Netherlands52 2 7 1 3 3 10 5 1 8
Serbia113 6 12 10 7 8 7 10 7 3 8 10 1 12
Ukraine28 4 1 2 4 5
Sweden48 3 4 2 3 2 4 8 2 1 4 3
Russia119 10 7 8 8 8 10 8 4 12 12 12 7 1
Latvia51 8 8 6 5 1 1 5 5
Belgium61 5 3 12 5 6 1 4 3 2 8
Armenia120 7 10 5 6 12 12 12 5 12 6 8 3 10
Malta35 4 1 3 6 5 4
Belarus85 4 6 3 6 10 12 10 3 12 7
Georgia109 12 5 7 10 10 7 8 7 3 8 7 7 6
Macedonia38 1 12 2 5 3 1 2

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
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2,
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Spokespersons

The order in which votes were cast during the 2010 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country.

  1. Bernadras Garbaciauskas
  2. Paula Paraschiv
  3. Bram
    1. Elizabeth Arfush
  4. Robin Ridell
  5. Philip Mazurov
  6. Ralfs Eilands
  7. Laura Omloop
  8. Nadia Sargsyan
  9. Francesca Zarb
  10. Anastasiya Butyugina
  11. Giorgi Toradze
  12. Sara Markoska

Broadcasts

Each national broadcaster also 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)
AMPTVGohar Gasparyan and Artak Vandanyan
BTRCPavel Lozovik[23]
VRTKristien Maes and Tom De Cock
GPBTemo Kvirkvelia
LTVValters Frīdenbergs
LRTDarius Užkuraitis
MTV 1Toni Drenkovski and Monika Todorovska
TVMEileen Montesin
TRMRusalina Rusu
AVROSipke Jan Bousema
Russia-1Olga Shelest
RTS2, RTS SatDuška Vučinić-Lučić[24]
SVT24Edward af Sillén and Malin Olsson
PershiyTimur Miroshnychenko
Country! scope="col"
Broadcaster(s)Commentator(s)
SBS One[25]
İTV
BHRT (delayed)Unknown[26]
UnknownUnknown

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Daniel Elenek, the Swedish multicamera director, visited Minsk for the first time. 2010-08-25. ESCKAZ.com. 2010-08-25.
  2. Web site: Next: 2010 Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Minsk. JuniorEurovision.tv. 31 May 2010. 13 February 2017.
  3. News: Exclusive Belarus to host Junior 2010. 2009-06-08. JuniorEurovision.tv. 2009-06-08.
  4. Web site: Álvarez . Jesús . 2024-03-12 . Eurovisión Junior: Cuando el país ganador no ha sido la sede al año siguiente . 2024-03-13 . ESCplus España . es.
  5. http://data.minsk.by/belarusnews/062009/59.html
  6. Web site: 2010-07-28 . Talents from 14 nations to gather at Junior Eurovision 2011 . 28 July 2010 . JuniorEurovision.tv.
  7. Web site: Mikheev . Andy . 2010-07-29 . Exclusive interview with Svante Stockselius . 4 August 2010 . ESCKAZ.com.
  8. Web site: 2010-10-05 . Past winners become movie stars . 2010-10-05 . JuniorEurovision.tv.
  9. Web site: 23 November 2015 . Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 . 23 November 2015 . iTunes Store.
  10. Web site: Participants of Minsk 2010 - Eurovision Song Contest . 2023-06-05 . junioreurovision.tv.
  11. Web site: Exclusive: Presenting logo of Junior 2010. 2010-04-09. JuniorEurovision.tv. 2010-08-02.
  12. Web site: Mascots introduced in Minsk. 2010-09-21. JuniorEurovision.tv. 2010-09-21.
  13. Web site: Presenting: This is the stage of this year's contest!. 2010-07-26. JuniorEurovision.tv. 2010-08-02.
  14. Web site: Who are the faces of Junior 2010?. 2010-07-21. JuniorEurovision.tv. 2010-08-04.
  15. Web site: Meet them: the hosts of Junior 2010!. Siim. Jarmo. JuniorEurovision.tv. 6 September 2010. 6 September 2010.
  16. Web site: Junior Eurovision Song Contest - Minsk 2010 . 2023-06-07 . junioreurovision.tv . en.
  17. Web site: 2010-10-14 . Complete running order announced! . 2023-06-07 . junioreurovision.tv . en.
  18. Web site: Armenia is the winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 . 2023-06-07 . junioreurovision.tv . en.
  19. Web site: Final of Minsk 2010 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210530090931/https://junioreurovision.tv/event/minsk-2010/final . 30 May 2021 . 30 May 2021 . European Broadcasting Union.
  20. Web site: 2010-11-14 . Three winners on stage in Minsk! . 2010-11-14 . JuniorEurovision.tv.
  21. Web site: 24 October 2010 . Exclusive: Koldun's song for UNICEF . 25 May 2019 . junioreurovision.tv.
  22. Web site: Results of the Final of Minsk 2010 . European Broadcasting Union . 30 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210530090949/https://junioreurovision.tv/event/minsk-2010/final/results . 30 May 2021 . live.
  23. Web site: Комментатором детского "Евровидения-2010" в Беларуси станет диджей Павел Лозовик . BELTA . 21 June 2013 . 10 November 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101213191722/http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/culture/Kommentatorom-detskogo-Evrovidenija-2010-v-Belarusi-stanet-didzhej-Pavel-Lozovik_i_530928.html . 13 December 2010 .
  24. Web site: Subota, 20. novembar 2010. Saturday, 20 November 2010. RTS Sat. 2023-06-20.
  25. Web site: Minsk sings for Junior Eurovision. 20 November 2010. tvtonight.com. 29 July 2018.
  26. Web site: Moldova plans to debut at Junior Eurovision. https://archive.today/20110829023502/http://escdaily.com/articles/2244. dead. 29 August 2011. 29 August 2011. ESCDAILY.com. 29 July 2018.