Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

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Azerbaijan in the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
CountryFlag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
Selection processInternal selection
Announcement dateArtist: 18 September 2018
Song: 16 October 2018
Competing entry
Song"I Wanna Be Like You"
ArtistFidan Huseynova
SongwritersAyten Ismikhanova
Elvira Michieva
Isa Melikov
Placement
Final result16th, 47 points
Participation chronology
◄201320182021►

Azerbaijan was represented at 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]

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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
Fidan Huseynova at JESC 2018.jpg
Background information
Birth nameFidan Hüseynova
Born (2005-11-24) 24 November 2005 (age 19) [4]
Moscow, Russia
Origin Azerbaijan
Genres Pop
OccupationSinger
InstrumentVocals
Years active2014-present

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 participating broadcaster assembled 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 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 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Azerbaijan [9]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror ERankPoints
01Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 542151483
02Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 181613141216
03Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1553438
04Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 101291810101
05Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22155112
06Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 17151412813
07Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
08Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 41461210
09Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 111715171517
10Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 16916131615
11Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 6377774
12Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 81061356
13Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 9788692
14Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 121811111111
15Flag of France.svg  France 3634947
16Flag of North Macedonia.svg  Macedonia 15131291814
17Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 191919191919
18Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 141417161718
19Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 78102265
20Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 131118101312

References

  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.
  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.