Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

The first participation of Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was at the 2006 contest in Romania, having previously participated in 2005 as part of Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia's best result was when they finished third place at both the 2007 and 2010 contests.

History

After Serbia and Montenegro dissolved in 2006, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) decided to continue to take part in the contest. Their first entry as an independent state was in 2006, when Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika represented Serbia with "Učimo strane jezike", a song written in Serbian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese coming fifth and received points from all participating countries.

In 2007 the Serbian representative was Nevena Božović with the ballad "Piši mi". She finished in third place and received points from all participating countries. Božović also represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as a part of the group Moje 3.

Serbia's worst result was in 2008 when they were represented by Maja Mazić with "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam", which only received 12 points from Macedonia and finished in twelfth place. Mazić was spokesperson for Serbia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

Serbia competed at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009, held in Kiev, Ukraine. RTS held a national final to select the fourth Serbian entry for the contest in September 2009. The winner of pre-selection and Serbian representative in Kiev was the group Ništa Lično with pop-rock song "Onaj pravi". The group members were Anica Cvetković, the leading vocal, Aleksandar Graić, composer and pianist, who is a son of composer of "Molitva", winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, Una Krlić and Karolina Lodi, as the guitarists and Petar Cvetković, Anica's brother, with drums.

Sonja Škorić was chosen to represent Serbia in 2010 with Čarobna noć; the second ballad song to have represented Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. On 20 November 2010, Škorić performed fourth in the running order. The stage was dark, and there were blue lights on. Moving stars were on the LED screens. As the song was going on, lights became yellow, and then the whole stage was lighted. Sonja started singing alone on the stage, and she finished like that. Serbia finished this contest third, only 7 points behind the winner, scoring 113 points.

On 5 June 2011, it was announced that Serbia would withdraw from the 2011 contest.^[1] RTS said that it's okay to miss participation from at least one edition, but the nation was absent for two further contests, in 2012 and 2013.

On 25 July 2014, Serbia announced its return to the 2014 contest, after a three-year absence.^[2]

Serbia selected their 2014 entry through an internal selection for the first time in their history. On 1 October 2014 it was revealed that Emilija Đonin would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Svet u mojim očima".^[3] Đonin came tenth with 61 points. Juries from Bulgaria and Italy gave 12 points to Serbia. Đonin was part for International Kid's jury of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 for Serbia.

On 4 May 2015, it was announced on a Eurovision news website that Serbia's national broadcaster, RTS, have not started any planning in regards to participation at the 2015 contest, and that such decision would be taken after the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. On 20 August 2015, Serbia confirmed its participation.^[4] On 21 September it was announced that Lena Stamenkovic will represent Serbia in Bulgaria in Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 performing Lena's Song.

“Lenina pesma”, which simply means “Lena’s Song” was written by Lena alongside Leontina Vukomanović, who co-wrote “Beauty Never Lies” for Serbia’s 2015 Eurovision representative, Bojana Stamenov, as well as “Lane moje” for Željko Joksimović. The arrangement was coordinated by Dušan Alagić who coordinated Serbian entry for Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014.

Lena's song was released on 11 October 2015 in Lena's show, show organised by RTS.

Lena Stamenković at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015

On the 17 November Lena held her first rehearsal, and on 19 November, she had her second rehearsal. In Friday, the day before the show there were two dress rehearsal, and in one of them jury voted for the songs. In Saturday, 21 November 2015 was held 13th annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Lena Stamenković opened the show. She was in red dress, and the performance followed the message of Lena's song. The song begins with Lena staring intensely down the camera as she describes the world we live in, with spotlights on her as the stage lights up in red and blue. A red puff of some from the back wall brings in the chorus, and as the song draws its close the back lights change to warmer red and yellow colours. Lena performed the song with light fog around her on the floor of the stage, and a wind machine adding to the drama as the fog moved around the performance area. Overall, Lena finished seventh, received 79 points. She received 12 points from Macedonia and Montenegro (from jury and televote both). Split jury/televote results were published on 21 December 2015. Lena finished fifth by jury, and eighth by televote.

Contestants

Table key

Year	Venue	Artist	Language	Title	Place	Points
2006	Bucharest	Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika	Serbian1	"Učimo strane jezike" (Учимо стране језике)	5	81
2007	Rotterdam	Nevena Božović	Serbian	"Piši mi" (Пиши ми)	3	120
2008	Limassol	Maja Mazić	Serbian	"Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" (Увек кад у небо погледам)	12	37
2009	Kiev	Ništa lično	Serbian	"Onaj pravi" (Онај прави)	10	34
2010	Minsk	Sonja Škorić	Serbian	"Čarobna noć" (Чаробна ноћ)	3	113
2011	Yerevan	Didn't participate
2012	Amsterdam
2013	Kiev
2014	Marsa	Emilija Đonin	Serbian	"Svet u mojim očima" (Свет у мојим очима)	10	61
2015	Sofia	Lena Stamenković	Serbian	"Lenina pesma" (Ленина песма)	7	79
2016	TBA

Notes

1.^ Contains phrases in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese.

National final

Izbor za dečju pesmu Evrovizije was Serbian way to chose their own representative to Junior Eurovision Song Contest from 2006 to 2010. In 2014 and 2015 Serbia chose their representative internal.

Voting history

As of 2015, Serbia's voting history is as follows; as of 2015, Serbia's gave 12 points to:

Most points given Rank Country Points 1  Russia 59 2  Macedonia 39 3  Armenia 34 4  Malta 30 5  Belarus 29 6  Georgia 25 7  Netherlands 23 8  Belgium 22 9  Bulgaria 19 =  Lithuania 19 10  Sweden 16 11  Ukraine 14 12  Romania 13 13  Montenegro 12 14  Croatia 10 =  Italy 10 15  Slovenia 8 =  Spain 8

Most points received Rank Country Points 1  Macedonia 62 2  Russia 31 3  Sweden 29 4  Ukraine 28 5  Netherlands 27 6  Belarus 26 7  Malta 21 8  Belgium 19 =  Montenegro 19 9  Georgia 16 10  Armenia 15 =  Bulgaria 15 11  Romania 14 12  Croatia 13 =  Cyprus 13 13  Slovenia 12 =  Moldova 12 =  Lithuania 12

12 points given Age Country 2006  Russia 2007  Macedonia 2008  Lithuania 2009  Belgium 2010  Macedonia 2011 Did not participate 2012 2013 2014  Bulgaria 2015  Malta

So far, Serbia received 12 points from Macedonia four times: in 2007, 2008, 2010 and in 2015; from Sweden in 2007; from Moldova in 2010 and from Montenegro in 2015.

In the history of contest, Serbia was competed with 27 different countries. So far, the nation didn't give points to Portugal, Latvia, San Marino, Ireland and Australia and they didn't receive points from Albania.

Commentators

Lena Stamenković, Serbian representative in the JESC 2015 with Dunja Jeličić, spokesperson

Photogallery

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  Lena Stamenković with San Marino's representative Kamilla Ismailova

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  Lena Stamenković with Anna Trincher from Ukraine

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  Jana Mirković from Montenegro (left), Ivana and Magdalena from Macedonia and Lena Stamenković

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  Belarusian Ruslan Aslanov and Serbian Lena Stamenković

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  Bella Paige from Australia and Lena in Armeec Arena

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  The winner of JESC 2015 with Lena Stamenković

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  Lina from Slovenia and Mikhail from Russia with Lena, after the contest

See also

• Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia in the Eurovision Young Musicians
• Serbia and Montenegro in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest

References

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Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest   Participation 20051 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 to 2013 2014 2015   Artists 2000s Filip Vučić Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika Nevena Bozovic Maja Mazić Ništa lično 2010s Sonja Škorić 2011 to 2013 Emilija Đonin Lena Stamenković   Songs 2000s "Ljubav pa fudbal" "Učimo strane jezike" "Piši mi" "Uvek kad u nebo pogledam" "Onaj pravi" 2010s "Čarobna noć" 2011 to 2013 "Svet u mojim očima" "Lenina pesma" 1Competed as Serbia and Montenegro in 2005 (Note: Entries scored out are when Serbia did not compete)