Georgia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Georgia

Georgia (country)

Member station GPB
National selection events
Appearances
Appearances 10
First appearance 2007
Best result 1st: 2008, 2011, 2016
Worst result 11th: 2014
External links
Georgia's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see
Georgia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016

Georgia has competed ten times at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, debuting at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Rotterdam. Georgia has never hosted the Contest, although it has won the competition in 2008, 2011, and 2016. Georgia is the only country to have won three times.

History

Location of Georgia.

Georgia's first entry was Mariam Romelashvili with the song Odelia Ranuni, which finished fourth of 17 entries at the contest in Rotterdam in 2007. Georgia was represented in 2008 by Bzikebi with the song Bzz.., performed in an imaginary language. The song went on to win the contest, receiving 154 points and a total of eight 12-point votes out of 14 countries, the second-highest proportion of 12 points received by a winner in either Eurovision Contests, just beaten by Anastasiya Petryk in 2012.

In 2009 Georgia sent the group Princesses with the song Lurji prinveli. It placed 7th being the second worst Georgian result so far. In 2010, the broadcaster selected Mariam Kakhelishvili to represent Georgia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Minsk with the song Mari-Dari. Being one of the favourites she finished at 4th place with 109 points.

In 2011, Georgia won the contest again with the band Candy who performed the song Candy Music. The song won the competition with 108 points making Georgia, along with Belarus and Malta, the only countries to win the contest twice.

In 2012 in Amsterdam, the Funkids took part with their song Funky Lemonade and came second after Ukraine. For the 2013 contest, the Smile Shop carried the Georgian flag in Kiev with Give Me Your Smile, placing 5th with 91 points.

On 24 April 2014, it was announced that Georgia will participate in the 2014 contest.[1][2] Lizi Pop was chosen internally, but gave Georgia their worst results so far: an 11th place.

In 2016, Georgia once again won the contest with the song "Mzeo" performed by Mariam Mamadashvili, making Georgia the first, and so far only country, to win the contest three times.

Participation

Table key

 1st place   2nd place   3rd place   Last place 

Year Artist Song Language Place Points
2007 Mariam Romelashvili "Odelia Ranuni" (ოდელია რანუნი) Georgian 4 116
2008 Bzikebi "Bzz.." Imaginary 1 154
2009 Princesses "Lurji prinveli" (ლურჯი ფრინველი) Georgian 7 68
2010 Mariam Kakhelishvili "Mari-Dari" (მარი-დარი) Imaginary 4 109
2011 Candy "Candy Music" Georgian, English 1 108
2012 Funkids "Funky Lemonade" Georgian, English 2 103
2013 The Smile Shop "Give Me Your Smile" Georgian, English 5 91
2014 Lizi Pop "Happy Day" Georgian, English 11 54
2015 The Virus "Gabede" (გაბედე) Georgian 10 51
2016 Mariam Mamadashvili "Mzeo" (მზეო) Georgian 1 239

Photogallery

Broadcasts and voting

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[3] The Georgian broadcaster, GPB, sent their own commentators to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Georgian language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Georgia. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2007.

Year(s) Commentator Spokesperson
2007 Temo Kvirkvelia Nino Epremidze
2008 Ana Davitaia
2009 Sophia Avtunashvili
2010 Temo Kvirkvelia Giorgi Toradze
2011 Elene Makashvili
2012 Candy
2013 Natia Bunturi and Giorgi Grdzelishvili Elene Megrelishvili
2014 Mero Chikashvili & Temo Kvirkvelia Mariam Khunjgurua
2015 Tuta Chkheidze Lizi Pop
2016 Demetre Ergemlidze Elene Sturua

Voting history

The tables below shows Georgia's top-five voting history rankings up until their most recent participation in 2015:

Most points given
Rank Points Country
1 93  Armenia
2 70  Ukraine
3 58  Belarus
4 40  Lithuania
5 36  Netherlands
Most points received
Rank Points Country
1 87  Armenia
2 68  Ukraine
3 56  Belarus
4 55  Russia
5 51  Netherlands

See also

References

  1. ↑ "#Georgia will participate in #JESC2014!". Official JESC Twitter account retweet(@JuniorESCPress). 2014-04-22.
  2. ↑ Granger, Anthony (5 February 2014). "Georgia: JESC 2014 Participation Confirmed?". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Bulgaria 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.

External links

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