Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

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Kazakhstan in the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Participating broadcaster Khabar Agency (KA)
Participation summary
Appearances5
First appearance 2018
Last appearance 2022
Highest placement2nd: 2019, 2020
Participation history
    • 2023
    • 2024
External links
Khabar Agency page
Kazakhstan's page at JuniorEurovision.tv OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Song contest current event.png For the most recent participation see
Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Kazakhstan has been represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest from 2018 through 2022. The Kazakh participating broadcaster in the contest is Khabar Agency (KA), an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). As an associate member, the broadcaster cannot apply to participate on its own and requires a special invitation from the contest reference group to take part. Its best result to date is second place, achieved in the 2019 and 2020 contests.

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History

On 25 November 2017, Channel 31 of Kazakhstan revealed their intention to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018. [1] Initial claims emerged on 22 December 2017 from both the Kazakh Minister of Culture and Sports, Arystanbek Muhamediuly and the Director General of Channel 31, Bagdat Kodzhahmetov claiming that Kazakhstan had applied to become a member of the EBU, with the hope of participating both in the Eurovision Song Contest and the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. [2] Kodzhahmetov invited Daneliya Tuleshova, winner of the fourth season of Ukraine's version of The Voice Kids , to take part in the casting process to represent Kazakhstan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. [3] The next day, however, the EBU made a statement rejecting the possibility of Kazakhstan becoming an active member of the EBU, as Kazakhstan is neither within the European Broadcasting Area nor the Council of Europe. [4]

Prior to this, Kazakhstan had sent a delegation to the 2013 and 2017 contests and broadcast the latter live. [5] Channel 31 also stated its intention to broadcast the contest in 2018 and 2019. [1] Khabar Agency has been an associate member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since January 2016. [6]

On 25 July 2018, Kazakhstan's national broadcaster, Khabar Agency, announced that they would be making their Junior Eurovision debut at the 2018 contest in Minsk, Belarus. [7] The country was represented by the song "Ózińe sen" performed by Daneliya Tuleshova, placing sixth in a field of 20 songs with 171 points. It was announced on 18 July 2019 that Kazakhstan would participate in the 2019 contest in Gliwice. In late July 2019, Yerzhan Maksim was internally chosen as the second entrant for Kazakhstan. [8] His song, "Armanyńnan qalma", ended up in 2nd place in a field of 19 countries, receiving 227 points. Maksim's success was repeated in the 2020 contest in Warsaw, where Karakat Bashanova, with the song "Forever", placed 2nd with 152 points. Kazakhstan was represented in the 2021 contest in Paris by Alinur Khamzin and Beknur Zhanibekuly with the song "Ertegı älemı (Fairy World)", which managed to achieve another top 10 result for the country: 8th place in a field of 19 countries, receiving 121 points. In 2022, David Charlin represented the country in Yerevan with the song "Jer-Ana (Mother Earth)". He could not repeat the success of his predecessors and went on to place 15th in a field of 16 countries, receiving 47 points. This was the worst result Kazakhstan had achieved since it first entered the contest, and also the first time the country had finished outside the Top 10.

On 6 June 2023, Khabar Agency revealed that Kazakhstan would not participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 held in Nice, however, the broadcaster later expressed hope of returning in 2024. [9] [10] [11] [12] On 22 August 2024, the broadcaster confirmed that it would not return in 2024 because of financial constraints, in addition to the later start time of 18:00 CET, which would have taken place three hours ahead of Central European Time within the country. [13] On 12 June 2025, Khabar Agency confirmed its non-participation for the third consecutive year, prior to the announcement of the participants list by the EBU, to instead focus on membership in the regular Eurovision Song Contest, which will be decided in 2026. [14]

Participation overview

Kazakhstan used the national selection format «Balalar Eurokörınısı» än baiqauyna ūlttyq ırıkteu (Kazakh Cyrillic: «Балалар Еурокөрінісі» ән байқауына ұлттық іріктеу; Russian : Национальный отбор на песенный конкурс «Детское Евровидение»; lit.'National selection for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest') in 2018, 2020 and 2021, [15] [16] while in 2019 and 2022 their songs were internally selected; in the later year, the international children's contest Baqytty-bala (Kazakh Cyrillic: «Бақытты-бала»; lit.'Happy child') selected its representative. [17] [18] [19]

Table key
2Second place
YearArtistSongLanguagePlacePoints
2018 Daneliya Tuleshova "Òzińe sen" (Өзіңе сен)Kazakh, English6171
2019 Yerzhan Maksim "Armanyńnan qalma" (Арманыңнан қалма)Kazakh, English2227
2020 Karakat Bashanova "Forever"Kazakh, English2152
2021 Alinur Khamzin and Beknur Zhanibekuly "Ertegı älemı (Fairy World)" (Ертегі әлемі)Kazakh, French8121
2022 David Charlin"Jer-Ana (Mother Earth)" (Жер-Ана)Kazakh, English1547

Commentators and spokespersons

YearChannelCommentatorSpokespersonRef.
2017 Channel 31 Un­knownDid not participate
2018 Khabar 24
  • Mahabbat Esen (Russian)
  • Kaldybek Zhaisanbai (Kazakh)
Aruzhan Khafiz
2019 Khabar
2020 Saniya Zholzhaksyn
2021 Zere Kabdolla
2022 Yerdana Yerzhuanuly and Dinara SaduHallash
2023 Did not participate
2024 No broadcastN/A

See also

References

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