Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Image:junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 Logo.jpg
Final 26 November 2005
Presenter(s) Marcel Vanthilt
Maureen Louys
Host broadcaster Flag of Belgium RTBF, VRT
Venue Ethias Arena, Hasselt, Belgium
Winning song Flag of Belarus Belarus
"My Vmeste"
Voting system
Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of entries 16
Debuting countries Flag of Russia Russia
Flag of Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
Returning countries None
Withdrawing countries Flag of Cyprus Cyprus
Flag of France France
Flag of Poland Poland
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
Nul points None
Interval act María Isabel
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was the third Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged 8 to 15. On November 26, 2005, the contest was broadcast live from the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium, in a joint effort by the national broadcasters VRT and RTBF, in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union. Belgium won the right to hold the contest over five other countries including HRT of Croatia and AVRO of the Netherlands.[1] Marcel Vanthilt and Maureen Louys hosted the event.

The show was not only broadcast live in the competing countries, it was also available on satellite worldwide and the Australian television channel SBS who acquired the rights to broadcast the show one month later.

As many as twenty countries could have participated in this contest: Cyprus should have taken part but on October 13, Cypriot broadcaster CyBC announced their withdrawal [2]for internal reasons (complaints were being sent to the broadcaster stating that the song they had chosen appeared to be plagiarism). This did not affect their ability to take part in the voting. In addition, Lithuania and Ukraine had planned on entering [3] but later withdrew. Georgia had also wanted to appear but missed the participation deadline for the contest.[4] Lithuania, Ukraine and Georgia would eventually appear at later contests.

The public broadcasters of Switzerland and Poland didn't send candidates for financial reasons. France didn't join because of restructuring within the channel. Russia and Serbia and Montenegro made their debut in the competition this year.

The theme of the show was 'Let's Get Loud', standing for the new generation on the stage.

The show was watched by 8,500 people in the Arena, including the Belgian Prince Laurent and 20-25 million people around Europe

Belarus was the winner of this edition, with 10-year old Ksenia Sitnik singing her song 'My Vmeste'.

Contents

[edit] Acts

The show opened with fireworks and bungee jumpers.

As surprise act the young Vladik Myagkostupov from the famous Cirque du Soleil showed his juggling abilities in a 4 minute performance while people were voting during the interval. While the votes were being counted, the Spanish María Isabel, performed a medley from the song with which she won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and some of the numbers from the album she had recently released. She also presented the trophy to the winner.

[edit] Participants

Country Language Artist Song Translation Place Points
01 Flag of Greece Greece Greek Alexandros and Kalli Tora Einai I Seira Mas It's Our Turn Now 06 88
02 Flag of Denmark Denmark Danish Nicolai Shake Shake Shake
 - 04 121
03 Flag of Croatia Croatia Croatian Lorena Jelusić Rock Baby - 12 36
04 Flag of Romania Romania Romanian Alina Eremia Ţurai! Hey 05 89
05 Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom English Joni Fuller How Does It Feel? - 14 28
06 Flag of Sweden Sweden Swedish M+ Gränslös Kärlek Borderless Love 15 22
07 Flag of Russia Russia Russian Vladislav Krutskikh Doroga K Solntsu Path To The Sun 09 66
08 Flag of the Republic of Macedonia FYR Macedonia Macedonian Denis Dimoski Rodendenski Baknež Birthday Kiss 08 68
09 Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands Dutch Tess Stupid - 07 82
10 Flag of Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro Serbian Filip Vučić Ljubav Pa Fudbal First Love Then Football 13 29
11 Flag of Latvia Latvia Latvian Kids4Rock Es Esmu Maza Jauka Meitene I'm A Little Lovely Girl 11 50
12 Flag of Belgium Belgium French Lindsay Mes Rêves My Dreams 10 63
13 Flag of Malta Malta English Thea & Friends Make It Right! - 16 18
14 Flag of Norway Norway Norwegian Malin Sommer og Skolefri[5] Summer And School Free 03 123
15 Flag of Spain Spain Spanish Antonio José Te Traigo Flores I Bring You Flowers 02 146
16 Flag of Belarus Belarus Russian Ksenia Sitnik My Vmeste We Are Together 01 149
— Flag of Cyprus Cyprus Greek Rena Kiriakidi Tsirko Circus Withdrew

[edit] Voting structure

Televote 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. The presenters started off by giving all contestants 12 points.

[edit] Score sheet

  Voters
CY GR DK HR RO GB SE RU MK NL CS LV BE MT NO ES BY
Contestants Greece 12 X 7 12 6 6 5 7 3 6 4 - 6 - - 2 -
Denmark 6 7 X 8 3 1 10 6 12 7 5 6 8 7 12 7 4
Croatia - - 2 X - - 3 - 8 2 6 - - - 3 - -
Romania 10 10 - 2 X 3 4 3 4 5 7 3 4 - 7 12 3
United Kingdom - - 3 - - X - 1 - 1 - 2 2 5 - - 2
Sweden - - 8 - - - X - - - - - - - 2 - -
Russia 3 5 1 - 4 2 - X 1 - 1 10 3 1 5 6 12
FYR of Macedonia - - - 4 8 4 1 10 X 3 10 4 1 2 - 1 8
Netherlands 2 4 10 - 2 7 7 4 - X - 1 12 8 4 4 5
Serbia & Montenegro 1 - - 6 - - - - 10 - X - - - - - -
Latvia - 3 - 5 1 5 2 5 2 - 2 X - 3 1 3 6
Belgium 4 2 - 1 7 - - - - 12 - 7 X 4 8 5 1
Malta - 1 5 - - - - - - - - - - X - - -
Norway 5 6 12 3 5 8 12 2 5 10 3 8 7 10 X 8 7
Spain 8 12 4 7 12 12 8 8 6 8 12 5 10 6 6 X 10
Belarus 7 8 6 10 10 10 6 12 7 4 8 12 5 12 10 10 X
All countries began with 12 points.

The table is ordered by appearance. Scores taken from official website.

[edit] Viewers

Belgovision.com could exclusively look at the EBU's official viewing figures. Around 21 million people watched the show live. Data for Serbia and Montenegro, Belarus, Malta, and FYR Macedonia are not available.

Country Broadcaster Viewers
Flag of Belgium Belgium VRT 1,014,079
RTBF 238,900
Flag of Croatia Croatia HRT 642,681
Flag of Cyprus Cyprus CyBC 37,142
Flag of Denmark Denmark DR 865,000
Flag of Greece Greece ERT 865,000
Flag of Latvia Latvia LTV 300,900
Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands AVRO 1,031,000
Flag of Norway Norway NRK 930,000
Flag of Romania Romania TVR 2,458,000
Flag of Russia Russia Channel 1 4,083,400
Flag of Spain Spain TVE 5,744,000
Flag of Sweden Sweden SVT 1,020,000
Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom ITV2 171,000
ITV[6] 700,000

[edit] Facts

  • Lorena Jelusić, the Croatian entrant, is the sister of Dino Jelusić, winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003.
  • Tess lives in Belgium but is able to compete for the Netherlands because she has a Dutch nationality.
  • Greece opened the show, and Sweden came in fifteenth place, both for the third time in a row.
  • Spain maintained their record of never finishing below the top 2, having now finished 2nd in 2003 and 2005 and 1st in 2004.
  • For the third year in a row,Malta received their highest set of points from Denmark.

[edit] Map

     Participating countries     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year
     Participating countries     Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year

[edit] References

  1. ^ 'Belgium organises Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2005!'
  2. ^ Information on Cyprus withdrawal
  3. ^ 'Lithuania and Ukraine join in Hasselt'
  4. ^ 'Georgia won't participate'
  5. ^ The Norwegian song was written in a dialect of Norwegian, and originally had the title stated above (Sommer å Skolefri), however, when the Norwegian broadcaster submitted the song to the European Broadcasting Union, they gave the song title in the standard Norwegian form, Sommer og Skolefri, which is how it was displayed on screen.
  6. ^ ITV broadcast the contest live on ITV2, and then repeated it in a shortened version the following day on ITV. They also broadcast the 2004 contest in this way.

[edit] External links

[edit] Artists' sites

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