Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023
CountryFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
National selection
Selection processNational final
Selection date(s)1 October 2023
Selected artist(s)Anastasia Dymyd
Selected song"Kvitka"
Selected songwriter(s) Svitlana Tarabarova
Finals performance
Final result5th, 128 points
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Ukraine competed in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in France, which was held on 26 November 2023 in Nice. National broadcaster Suspilne was responsible for the participation and selected the nation's entrant via national selection, won by Anastasia Dymyd with the song "Kvitka".

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Background

Prior to the 2023 contest, Ukraine had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest fifteen times since its debut in 2006. [1] Ukraine never missed a contest since their debut appearance, [2] and won the contest once in 2012 with the song " Nebo ", performed by Anastasiya Petryk. [3] The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has hosted the contest twice, at the Palace of Sports in 2009, [4] and the Palace "Ukraine" in 2013. [5] In the 2022 contest, Zlata Dziunka represented the country in Yerevan, Armenia with the song the "Nezlamna (Unbreakable)", placing 9th out of 16 entries with 111 points.

Before Junior Eurovision

National final

The Ukrainian broadcaster announced on 17 June 2023 that they would be participating at the 2023 contest. [6]

Format

The final, which took place on 1 October 2023, featured five acts vying to represent Ukraine in Nice. [7] The winner was selected by a 50/50 combination of votes from a public vote and an expert jury, the members of which were chosen by the public. [8] Both the public and the expert jury assigned scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) and the entry with the highest number of points following the combination of these scores was declared the winner. Viewers participating in the public vote had the opportunity to submit a single vote via the Diia e-governance app in two phases. The first phase of the voting based on presentation videos of the songs started on 29 September and ended on 1 October at 10:00 EET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and started after the last performance, and was open for 15 minutes. [9] [10]

The voting for the expert jury was also conducted in the Diia mobile app: ten candidates were presented to the public and a voting was open from 11 to 17 September 2022, with the three candidates topping the online voting will be invited to become jurors of the show. [11] [12] [13] The candidates in the running to become expert jurors were:

The three selected jury members with the most votes were announced to be Ihor Kondratyuk  [ uk ], Jerry Heil and Alyona Alyona on 20 September 2023. [14] [13]

Competing entries

The submissions for the national selection with original songs or covers from Ukrainian citizens or Ukrainians living in other countries were accepted until 9 July 2022, with participants being required to submit a live performance of their entries recorded on a laptop or telephone without any alterations made to the recording. [15]

Singer Svitlana Tarabarova, who had been appointed the music producer of the competition, with the cooperation of expert council consisting of Demchuk  [ uk ], Khayat and Cloud, [16] reviewed the 143 received submissions and longlisted 10 artists, that were announced on 13 July 2023. [17] [18] Five acts were selected to proceed to the final, which were announced on 24 July 2023, [19] [20] while the competing songs, three of which were written by the national selection's music producer Svitlana Tarabarova, [21] and the running order were revealed on 30 August 2023. [7] [8]

Longlisted artists
  • 3'beauties
  • Anastasiia Bielibova
  • Anastasiia Dymyd
  • Anastasiia Piekh
  • Anna Dolna
  • Artem Kotenko
  • Denis Hryshchuk
  • Kateryna Yavorska
  • Nika Yarovenko
  • Polina Babiy

Final

The final took place on 1 October 2023, [7] and was hosted by Timur Miroshnychenko and Anna Tulieva in Kyiv. The show was broadcast on Suspilne Kultura as well as online via Suspilne's Facebook and YouTube channels. [22] [23] The results were determined by a combination of jury and public vote via the Diia e-governance app. [8] [9] [10] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, Demchuk  [ uk ] performed "Vichnist", Alyona Alyona performed "Ne vtratymo zv'yazok", Jerry Heil performed a medley of her songs and Zlata Dziunka performed "Nezlamna (Unbreakable)" as the interval acts.

Final – 1 October 2023
DrawArtistSongJuryPublic
voting		TotalPlace
1Polina Babiy"Universe"5382
2Anastasiia Dymyd"Kvitka" (Квітка)4591
3Anastasiia Bielibova"Syl'na" (Сильна)1453
4Denis Hryshchuk"Dance"2135
53'beauties"Power of Love"3254

At Junior Eurovision

Anastasia Dymyd performing on stage during the jury show Anastasia Dymyd ua jesc2023.jpg
Anastasia Dymyd performing on stage during the jury show

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 took place at Palais Nikaïa in Nice, France on 26 November 2023.

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. [24]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 24 November 2023 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 26 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 three songs. [25] 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.

At the end of the show, Ukraine received 45 points from juries and 83 points from online voting, placing 5th. [26]

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Ukrainian jury: [27]

Detailed voting results from Ukraine [26]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror EAverage RankPoints Awarded
01Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 6377765
02Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 261511683
03Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
04Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 1014915912
05Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 51311112
06Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 381010592
07Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 139894101
08Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 42523210
09Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 74431347
10Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 111014131213
11Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 15151381415
12Flag of France.svg  France 9724856
13Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 151112238
14Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 141112141014
15Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 813151174
16Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1212661511

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