Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Fidan Huseynova
Fidan Huseynova
Background information
Birth name	Fidan Hüseynova
Born	24 November 2005 (age 16); Moscow, Russia
Origin	Azerbaijan
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2014-present

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Country	Azerbaijan
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 18 September 2018; Song: 16 October 2018
Selected entrant	Fidan Huseynova
Selected song	"I Wanna Be Like You"
Selected songwriter(s)	Ayten Ismikhanova; Elvira Michieva; Isa Melikov
Finals performance
Final result	16th, 47 points
Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Last updated July 13, 2022

Azerbaijan participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Minsk, Belarus. The Azerbaijani entry was selected through an internal selection. On 18 September 2018 it was revealed that Fidan Huseynova would represent Azerbaijan in the contest.^[1]^[2]

Background

Azerbaijan debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.^[3] In 2008, İTV announced that Azerbaijan would take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Limassol, but then withdrew before the contest, because there were too few candidates for the national selection and consequently canceled its debut.

After taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Azerbaijan withdrew from the contest because of unspecified reasons and on 25 July 2018, it was announced that Azerbaijan will return to the contest in 2018.

Artist and song information

Fidan Huseynova

Fidan Huseynova (born 24 November 2005 in Moscow) is a Russian-born Azerbaijani child singer. She represented Azerbaijan at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "I Wanna Be Like You". In 2021, she won the "Song of the Year" award at Zahara Kids Music Awards for her song "Bubble gum".^[5]

At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 19 November 2018, Azerbaijan was drawn to perform seventh on 25 November 2018, following Netherlands and preceding Belarus.^[6]

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.^[7]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 23 November 2018 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 25 November 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 a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs.^[8] 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 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.

Points awarded to Azerbaijan^[9]
Score	Country
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points	Albania
5 points
4 points	Italy
3 points	Ireland Wales
2 points
1 point	Malta
Azerbaijan received 30 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Azerbaijan^[9]
Score	Country
12 points	Russia
10 points	Belarus
8 points	Kazakhstan
7 points	France
6 points	Australia
5 points	Malta
4 points	Italy
3 points	Ukraine
2 points	Georgia
1 point	Albania

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Azerbaijan^[9]
Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Ukraine	5	4	2	15	14	8	3
02	Portugal	18	16	13	14	12	16
03	Kazakhstan	1	5	5	3	4	3	8
04	Albania	10	12	9	18	10	10	1
05	Russia	2	2	1	5	5	1	12
06	Netherlands	17	15	14	12	8	13
07	Azerbaijan
08	Belarus	4	1	4	6	1	2	10
09	Ireland	11	17	15	17	15	17
10	Serbia	16	9	16	13	16	15
11	Italy	6	3	7	7	7	7	4
12	Australia	8	10	6	1	3	5	6
13	Georgia	9	7	8	8	6	9	2
14	Israel	12	18	11	11	11	11
15	France	3	6	3	4	9	4	7
16	Macedonia	15	13	12	9	18	14
17	Armenia	19	19	19	19	19	19
18	Wales	14	14	17	16	17	18
19	Malta	7	8	10	2	2	6	5
20	Poland	13	11	18	10	13	12

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References

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[1] García, Belén (18 September 2018). "Fidan Hüseynova is the Azerbaijani choice for Junior Eurovision 2018". ESCplus. Retrieved 18 September 2018.

[2] Granger, Anthony (18 September 2018). "Azerbaijan: Fidan Huseynova To Junior Eurovision 2018". Eurovoix. Retrieved 18 September 2018.

[3] "Junior 2012: 12 countries to take part". European Broadcasting Union. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.

[4] Фидан Гусейнова: «Tell me why»

[5] Azernews.Az (2021-10-19). "Fidan Huseynova wins prize at Zhara Kids Music Awards [PHOTO]". Azernews.Az. Retrieved 2022-07-12.

[6] Zwart, Josianne (19 November 2018). "Running order of Junior Eurovision 2018 revealed". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 19 November 2018. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

[7] Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.

[8] "Junior Eurovision fans: Cast your vote online!". Junioreurovision.tv. 23 November 2018. Archived from the original on 26 November 2018.

[2018detailed-9] 1 2 3 "Results of the Final of Minsk 2018". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

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