Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022
CountryFlag of Armenia.svg  Armenia
National selection
Selection processInternal selection
Selection date(s)Artist: 28 October 2022
Song: 12 November 2022
Selected artist(s)Nare
Selected song"Dance!"
Selected songwriter(s)Grigor Kyokchyan
Nick Egibyan
Finals performance
Final result2nd, 180 points
Armenia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Armenia participated in and hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Yerevan, having internally selected its representative, Nare with the song "Dance!", written by Grigor Kyokchyan and Nick Egibyan. [1]

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Armenia was selected to perform fifteenth in the running order, following the entry from Serbia and preceding the entry from Ukraine. At the conclusion of voting, Armenia finished in second position with 180 points.

Background

Prior to the 2022 contest, Armenia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its first entry in 2007. Armenia achieved its best result in 2010, winning with the song "Mama", performed by Vladimir Arzumanyan. [2] Armenia then hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Yerevan. [3] In the 2019 contest, Karina Ignatyan represented her country in Gliwice, Poland with the song "Colours of Your Dream". The song ended 9th out of 19 entries with 115 points.

Despite being included on the final list of participating countries, [4] Armenia withdrew from the 2020 contest in November 2020 due to the then-ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh war. [5] It was later revealed that Maléna had been internally selected to represent Armenia with the song "Why". [6] With the Nagorno-Karabakh war ending on 10 November, Armenia's head of delegation David Tserunyan wrote on Instagram that the country would "come back stronger than ever". [7] Armenia again selected Maléna to represent the country with "Qami Qami", and ultimately won the contest with 224 points. [8]

Before Junior Eurovision

An audition round with 30 shortlisted artists out of over 100 applications was held in August 2022. [9] [10] [11] The participants performed in front of a five-member jury consisting of David Tserunyan (Armenian Head of Delegation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest), Anushik Ter-Ghukasyan (head of music department at AMPTV), Dalita (Armenian representative in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011), Rosa Linn (Armenian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022) and Lilith Navasardyan (songwriter for multiple Armenian Eurovision entries). [11] On 28 October 2022, AMPTV revealed that Nare Ghazaryan would represent Armenia in the contest. [12] Her entry, "Dance!", written by Grigor Kyokchyan and Nick Egibyan, was presented to the public on 12 November 2022, accompanied by an official music video which was directed by Aramayis Hayrapetyan and produced by Gravity Production. [13]

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 5 December 2022, it was announced that Armenia would perform fifteenth on 11 December 2022, following Serbia and preceding Ukraine. [14]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten. [15]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 9 December 2022 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 11 December at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for three songs. [16] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Armenian jury: [17]

Detailed voting results from Armenia [18]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror EAverage RankPoints Awarded
01Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 7237756
02Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 4544547
03Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 12911121311
04Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 6101361183
05Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 146101410101
06Flag of France.svg  France 24124210
07Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 151315151515
08Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 13511112
09Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 91189992
10Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 101212101413
11Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 5125238
12Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 3773665
13Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 8868374
14Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 11159111212
15Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia
16Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 13141413814

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