Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Azerbaijan debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2012.[1] In 2008, İctimai Television (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 cancelled its debut.

Azerbaijan
Member stationİctimai Television (İTV)
National selection events
National Final
  • Junior
  • 2012
Internal Selection
  • 2013
  • 2018
  • 2021
Participation summary
Appearances4
First appearance2012
Highest placement5th: 2021
External links
Azerbaijan's page at JuniorEurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see
Azerbaijan in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021

After taking part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013, Azerbaijan withdrew from the contest because of unspecified reasons, however, Azerbaijan returned to the contest in 2018. İTV did not take part in the 2019 contest in Gliwice, Poland,[2] but İTV returned at the 2021 contest in Paris, France.[3] In Paris they were represented by Sona Azizova, who managed to achieve the best result for the country as of 2021, 5th place.

Participation overview
Rustam Karimov in Kiev (2013)
Year Entrant Song Language Place Points
2012
 Omar & Suada "Girls and Boys (Dünya Sənindir)" Azerbaijani, English 11 49
2013
 Rustam Karimov "Me and My Guitar" Azerbaijani, English 7 66
2018
 Fidan Huseynova "I Wanna Be Like You" Azerbaijani, English 16 47
2021
 Sona Azizova "One of Those Days" Azerbaijani, English 5 151

Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and YouTube. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov.[4] The Azerbaijani broadcaster, İTV, send their own commentary team to each contest in order to provide commentary in the Azerbaijani language. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster in order to announce the awarding points from Azerbaijan. The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2012.

Year Commentator Spokesperson Ref.
2007 Un­known Did not participate
2008
2009
2010–2011 No broadcast
2012 Konul Arifkizi Leila Hajili
2013 Lyaman Mirzalieva
2014–2017 No broadcast Did not participate
2018 Shafiga Efendiyeva Valeh Huseynbeyli
[5]
2019–2020 No broadcast Did not participate
2021 Murad Arif and Shafiga Efendiyeva Suleyman

See also

References
  1. "Junior 2012: 12 countries to take part". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 1 September 2012. Archived from the original on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  2. Herbert, Emily (1 July 2019). "Azerbaijan: Withdraws From Junior Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix.
  3. Farren, Neil (16 August 2021). "🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: Sona Azizova to Junior Eurovision 2021". Eurovoix.
  4. Fisher, Luke James (21 November 2015). "Tonight: Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015!". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015.
  5. Granger, Anthony (24 November 2018). "Azerbaijan: Junior Eurovision 2018 Commentator & Spokesperson Revealed". Eurovoix.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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