| Contest: | Junior |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Preselection: | National final |
| Preselection Date: | 8 September 2020 |
| Entrant: | Oleksandr Balabanov |
| Song: | Vidkryvai (Open Up) |
| Final Result: | 7th, 106 points |
Ukraine participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was held in Warsaw, Poland, with the song "Vidkryvai" performed by Oleksandr Balabanov. Their entrant was selected through a national selection, organised by the Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC.[1] [2]
See main article: Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to the 2020 contest, Ukraine had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its debut in .[3] Ukraine have never missed a contest since their debut appearance,[4] having won the contest once in with the song "Nebo", performed by Anastasiya Petryk.[5] The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has hosted the contest twice, at the Palace of Sports in,[6] and the Palace "Ukraine" in .[7] In the contest, Sophia Ivanko represented her country in Gliwice, Poland with the song the "Spirit of Music". She placed 15th out of 19 entries with 59 points.[8]
UA:PBC announced that they would be participating at the 2020 contest in June of that year.[9] The broadcaster launched the Ukrainian selection process on 5 August 2020, accepting submissions until 25 August 2020. All applications that complied with the rules were uploaded on YouTube and the candidate that had received the most likes on the platform advanced automatically to the next stage of the program. The final shortlist was announced on 28 August 2020 with an online vote due to open a week later on 5 September 2020 to decide the winning entry alongside a professional jury.
The submissions accepted by UA:PBC were revealed online and users had until 27 August 2020 to vote for their favourite entries by giving a like. The entry with the most likes directly advanced to the national final. A selection panel then reviewed the remaining submissions and selected ten entries to compete in the national final: eight original songs and two cover songs.[10] On 18 August 2020, Maksym Tkachuk was disqualified from the competition as it was discovered that he had performed in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea after its annexation as part of a competition allegedly organised by the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, breaching the Section 3.4. on the national selection's rules.[11] On 28 August 2020, the eleven selected competing acts were announced on Instagram.[12]
| Artist | Song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angelina McFarlane | "My Spirit" | Advanced | |
| Anhelina Terennikova | "The Vibe" | Advanced | |
| Anastasiya Fuchenko | "Funky Boy" | Eliminated | |
| Anna Motyl | "Zavtra" | Eliminated | |
| Anna Tkach | "Flying So High" | Eliminated | |
| Daniela Dmitrieva | "Polyubila" | Eliminated | |
| Daniela Shapochnikova | "Tvoye maybutnye" | Advanced | |
| Darya Moskalenko | "Ya Viryu" | Eliminated | |
| Darya Rebrova | "My vilni" | Eliminated | |
| Daryna Roman | "Human of the World" | Eliminated | |
| Dmytro Banar | "Zhyttya yak fortepiano" | Eliminated | |
| Fishki | "Strybay" | Eliminated | |
| Katerina Huliy | "Make Up Your Mind" | Eliminated | |
| Iosif Kozlovsky | "Dreaming in the Rain" | Eliminated | |
| Iryna Sheheda | "Syla-lyubov moya!" | Eliminated | |
| Karina Zajec | "Zhyva" | Eliminated | |
| Lidiya Okilko | "Svitanok" | Eliminated | |
| Los Bananas | "Dive in the Water" | Eliminated | |
| Mariya Danilova | "Syayvo" | Eliminated | |
| Mariya Tkachuk | "Vstyhnemo vse!" | Eliminated | |
| Milena Putyato | "Move Your Body" | Eliminated | |
| Nikita Boyarintsev | "Idy vpeder" | Eliminated | |
| Oleksandr Balabanov | "Vidkryvai" | Advanced | |
| Oleksiy Bekreshov | "Hochu ya" | Eliminated | |
| Olena Usenko | "Never Get Free" | Advanced | |
| Polina Babiy | "SuperBit" | Advanced | |
| Sofia Adamiv | "Zatamuju podyx" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Kostyrko | "Muzyka" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Mohilna | "Ty mozhesh zminyti vse" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Salvarydu | "Hora" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Shkidchenko | "OK" | Advanced | |
| Valeriya Kostyuchenko | "Ya taka yak ye" | Eliminated | |
| Veronika Petrus | "Mriya zhyttya" | Eliminated | |
| Viktoriya Borbunevych | "Kozhen den" | Eliminated | |
| Yaroslav Politov | "Ya b tudy" | Advanced | |
| Yelizaveta Bilokon | "Litayu ya" | Eliminated | |
| Yevangelina Zamula | "We're the One" | Eliminated | |
| Yuliya Karimi | "People" | Advanced |
| Artist | Song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alisa Botvintseva | "Ukrayintsi" | Eliminated | |
| Alisa Chydzhan | "Letyt halka cherez balku" | Eliminated | |
| Alina Hyrych | "Ahov" | Eliminated | |
| Anastasiya Bratashchuk | "The Start" | Eliminated | |
| Anastasiya Zhukova | "Better Love" | Eliminated | |
| Arina Hmelyuk | "Golden Slumbers" | Eliminated | |
| Darin Osman | "A Natural Woman" | Advanced | |
| Darina Sidorova | "Sila" | Eliminated | |
| Daryna Kryvenko | "Solovey" | Eliminated | |
| Ivanna Ohyr | "Oh! Darling" | Eliminated | |
| Kateryna Herasymchuk | "Make the World Go Away" | Eliminated | |
| Kristina Dushutina | "Symphony" | Eliminated | |
| Kristina Osychenko | "Teche voda" | Eliminated | |
| Liliya Lavriv | "Mahiya muzyky" | Eliminated | |
| Disqualified | |||
| Mariya Vavrish | "Runnin' (Lose It All)" | Eliminated | |
| Matviy Krupskyy | "Novyi den" | Eliminated | |
| Nika Korniyenko | "Holubka" | Eliminated | |
| Nikita Achkasov | "My Oasis" | Advanced | |
| Oleksandra Mazur | "Yesterday" | Eliminated | |
| Oleksandra Melkonyan | "Dance Monkey" | Eliminated | |
| Polina Zahnoy | "Move" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Bishova | "Giant" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Samolyuk | "Listen" | Eliminated | |
| Sofiya Vinnik | "Cheremshina" | Eliminated | |
| Valeriya Koval | "Strange Birds" | Eliminated | |
| Vera Melnichenko | "Bad Dreams" | Eliminated | |
| Veronika Dubina | "Take Me Home" | Eliminated | |
| Yehor Umanets | "Creep" | Eliminated | |
| Yelizaveta Doroshenko | "Warrior" | Eliminated | |
| Yelizaveta Grihorenko | "Right Now" | Eliminated | |
| Yelizaveta Sokolovskaya | "Can't Pretend" | Eliminated |
The eleven competing entries were published online on 5 September 2020 and the winner was selected through the combination of both public online vote and the votes of jury members made up of music professionals.[13] Eight jury members each awarded one vote to their favourite entry and each member had an equal stake in the final result. The jury panel that was responsible for 8/9 of the final result consisted of: Jamala (winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016), Alina Pash (singer, rapper), Taras Topolya (lead vocalist of Antytila), Ruslana Khazipova (member of Dakh Daughters), Dmytro Shurov (lead vocalist of Pianoboy), Larysa Klyuyevska (music editor at UA:Radio Promin), Timur Miroshnychenko (television presenter, Junior Eurovision commentator for Ukraine), Lyubov Morozova (music critic, host at).[14] For the online vote, users will be able to vote for their favourite entries from 5 September 2020 to 8 September 2020 via UA:PBC's official website junior.eurovision.ua, and the results had a weighting equal to the votes of a single jury member.[15] Originally, the winner was to be revealed on 12 September 2020. However, UA:PBC confirmed through its official Instagram account that Oleksandr Balabanov will represent Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020. He received 5 points in total from the jurors, with Daniela Shapochnikova winning the online voting.[16]
| Artist | Song | Jury | Online voting[17] | Total | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage | Points | ||||||
| Anhelina Terennykova | "The Vibe" | 0 | 3.12% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Daniela Shapochnikova | "Tvoye maybutnye" | 0 | 39.98% | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Darin Osman | "Hello" | 0 | 2.01% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Ellen | "Never Get Free" | 2 | 16.61% | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Nikita Achkasov | "Hello" | 0 | 2.85% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Oleksandr Balabanov | "Vidkryvai" | 5 | 12.60% | 0 | 5 | 1 | |
| Polina Babiy | "SuperBit" | 0 | 1.9% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Rrealina | "My Spirit" | 0 | 3.60% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Sofiya Shkidchenko | "Ok" | 0 | 0.65% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Yar Politov | "Ya b tudy" | 1 | 14.27% | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Yuliya Karimi | "People" | 0 | 2.42% | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Artist | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anhelina Terennykova | 0 | ||||||||
| Daniela Shapochnikova | 0 | ||||||||
| Darin Osman | 0 | ||||||||
| Ellen | X | X | 2 | ||||||
| Nikita Achkasov | 0 | ||||||||
| Oleksandr Balabanov | X | X | X | X | X | 5 | |||
| Polina Babiy | 0 | ||||||||
| Rrealina | 0 | ||||||||
| Sofiya Shkidchenko | 0 | ||||||||
| Yar Politov | X | 1 | |||||||
| Yuliya Karimi | 0 | ||||||||
| Oleksandr Balabanov | |
| Instrument: | Vocals |
| Occupation: | Singer |
| Birth Date: | 2006 7, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Donetsk, Ukraine |
| Junior: | yes |
| Song: | "Vidkryvai (Open Up)" |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Artist: | Oleksandr Balabanov |
| Place: | 7 |
| Points: | 106 |
| Prev: | The Spirit of Music |
| Prev Link: | Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019#The Spirit of Music |
| Next: | Vazhil |
Oleksandr Balabanov (Ukrainian: Олександр Балабанов; born 5 July 2006)[19] is a Ukrainian singer. He represented Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Vidkryvai".[20]
"Vidkryvai (Open Up)" (Ukrainian: Відкривай)[2] is a song by Ukrainian singer Oleksandr Balabanov. It represented Ukraine at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020.
After the opening ceremony, which took place on 23 November 2020, it was announced that Ukraine will perform eleventh on 29 November 2020, following Spain and preceding France.[21]
Ukraine received 106 points; 52 from the juries and 54 from online voting, reaching 7th place.
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| Draw | Country | Juror A | Juror B | Juror C | Juror D | Juror E | Average Rank | Points Awarded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 02 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | ||
| 03 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | ||
| 04 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 1 | ||
| 05 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | ||
| 06 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 11 | |||
| 07 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | ||
| 08 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 09 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 11 | |||||||||
| 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 10 |