Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 "Make A Big Splash"
Dates
Final date	8 December 2007
Host
Venue	Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Presenter(s)	Sipke Jan Bousema Kim-Lian van der Meij
Host broadcaster	AVRO
Opening act	60 young dancers performing to "One World"
Interval act	Katie Melua, Ch!pz, all JESC 2007 participants singing "One World"
Participants
Number of entries	17
Debuting countries	Armenia Bulgaria Georgia Lithuania
Returning countries	None
Withdrawing countries	Croatia Spain
Participation map      Participating participants     Non-participants that have entered in the past
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points	All countries get 12 points from start
Winning song	Belarus "S druz'yami"
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the fifth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in the Ahoy' indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 8 December. The host country was chosen by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on 13 July 2006. The host city was announced on 11 September 2006. AVRO won the rights to host the show over Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) of Croatia (who didn't actually participate in this contest) and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) of Cyprus. The budget for the contest was stated to be more than €2,000,000.

Belarus won the Contest by a single point over Armenia. The winning performer was Alexey Zhigalkovich, singing "S druzyami" (With friends). This was Belarus' second win; they won for the first time in 2005. This is the only contest to date where the winning song did not receive points from all of the participating countries.

Participants

Patricia Goldsmith, Communications Adviser of the Eurovision TV department, stated that "18 countries will take part" in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 though Spanish broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) later announced its withdraw from the contest.

Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia and Lithuania were the newcomers this year. Bosnia and Herzegovina was going to be one of the four débutants but Georgia took this place when Radiotelevizija Bosne i Hercegovine (BHRT) decided to withdraw from participation.

The minimum age of contestants was raised from 8 to 10 years this year.

Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Spokesperson	Place	Points
01	Georgia	Georgian	Mariam Romelashvili	"Odelia Ranuni" (ოდელია რანუნი)	—	Nino Epremidze	4	116
02	Belgium	Dutch	Trust	"Anders"	Different	Bab Buelens	15	19
03	Armenia	Armenian	Arevik	"Erazanq" (Երազանք)	A dream	Ani Sahakyan	2	136
04	Cyprus	Greek	Yiorgos Ioannides	"I mousiki dinei ftera" (Ι μουσική δίνει φτερά)	Music gives wings	Natalie Michael	14	29
05	Portugal	Portuguese	Jorge Leiria	"Só quero é cantar"	I only want to sing	Clara Pedro	16	15
06	Russia	Russian	Alexandra Golovchenko	"Otlichnitsa" (Отличница)	"A" student	Marina Knyazeva	6	105
07	Romania	Romanian	4Kids	"Sha-la-la"	—	Iulia Ciobanu	10	54
08	Bulgaria	Bulgarian	Bon-Bon	"Bonbolandiya" (Бонболандия)	Land of sweets	Lyubomir Hadzhiiski	7	86
09	Serbia	Serbian	Nevena Božović	"Piši mi" (Пиши ми)	Write to me	Andjelija (Angela) Eric	3	120
10	Netherlands	Dutch	Lisa, Amy & Shelley	"Adem in, adem uit"	Breathe in, breathe out	Kimberly Nieuwenhuizen	11	39
11	Macedonia	Macedonian	Rosica Kulakova & Dimitar Stojmenovski	"Ding Ding Dong" (Динг Динг Донг)	—	Mila Zafirovic	5	111
12	Ukraine	Ukrainian	Ilona Galytska	"Urok hlamuru" (Урок гламуру)	Lesson of glamour	Assol	9	56
13	Sweden	Swedish	Frida Sandén	"Nu eller aldrig"	Now or never	Molly Sandén	8	83
14	Malta	English	Cute	"Music"	—	Sophie Debattista	12	37
15	Greece	Greek	Made in Greece	"Kapou mperdeftika" (Καποu μπερδεύτηκα)	Confused	Chloe Sofia Boleti	17	14
16	Lithuania	Lithuanian	Lina Joy	"Kai miestas snaudžia"	When the town is asleep	Indre Grikstelyte	13	33
17	Belarus	Russian	Alexey Zhigalkovich	"S druz'yami" (С друзьями)	With friends	Alexander Rogachevskiy	1	137

Score sheet

		Results
	Georgia	116		4	12	10	4	8	4	5		6	5	8	5	10	8	10	5
	Belgium	19										7
	Armenia	136	12	12		12		12	12	8	5	12		12	10		10		7
	Cyprus	29			5												12
	Portugal	15			2	1
	Russia	105	1	2	10	5	6		3	6	10	3	10	7	2	8	4	4	12
	Romania	54				8	8	1		7	4		3		1	5	2	1	2
	Bulgaria	86	6	7	6	7	1	3	8		7	5	7	3	3	4	5	2
	Serbia	120	7	6	4	6	7	7	5	4		8	12	6	12	6	6	6	6
	Netherlands	39	3	10	1	4				1					6	2
	Macedonia	111	5	3	7	3	10	5	10	12	12			5	7	7		5	8
	Ukraine	56	10		3		3	6	1		1		1			1	1	7	10
	Sweden	83	2	8			5	4	6	2	6	10	6	4		3	3	8	4
	Malta	37					2		2	3	2	1	4	1	4			3	3
	Greece	14				2
	Lithuania	33	8	1				2			3	2	2	2					1
	Belarus	137	4	5	8		12	10	7	10	8	4	8	10	8	12	7	12
The table is ordered by appearance All countries automatically receive 12 points

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

N.	Recipient nation	Voting nation
7	Armenia	Belgium, Cyprus, Georgia, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Ukraine
3	Belarus	Lithuania, Malta, Portugal
2	Serbia	Macedonia, Sweden
	Macedonia	Bulgaria, Serbia
1	Cyprus	Greece
	Georgia	Armenia
	Russia	Belarus

• All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This is so no country gets nul points.

Broadcasting

Australia

Although Australia is not itself eligible to enter, it broadcast the event on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). As is the case each year, it did not however broadcast it live due to the difference in Australian time zones. It was screened at the later date of 24 December at 4.30pm in the afternoon, and repeated a few weeks after. Since this period is non-rated for television stations, how many people watched the broadcast is unknown.

Azerbaijan

Israel

The contest was broadcast in Israel where it was watched by 400,000 viewers.

Commentators

• Belgium - André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys and Jean-Louis Lahaye (RTBF)
• Ukraine - Pavlo Shylko (DJ Pasha)
• Russia - Olga Shelest

Controversy

Over the past few years, most Eurovision contests have involved some controversy due to allegations of song plagiarism. This year is no exception, the Russian entry received claims from an adult composer that she is the original songwriter of the song. Further claims were made that the song was performed before the national selection as far as a year ago in August 2006 which is allegedly a violation of the rules as defined by the EBU. At the time of writing no resolution to this matter has been made.

Official CD and DVD

An official double CD of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was intended to go on sale on 23 December 2007. The EBU announced that there would be no official DVD of the Contest due to a lack of interest.

The Belgian single was released on 5 October 2007, while the Dutch entry went on sale on 26 October 2007. There are no plans for commercial single releases of JESC entries in other countries, but a few promo copies for Rotterdam might be printed.