Junior Eurovision Fun Facts from Jon

It’s been two years since I did my Fun Facts. The past two years have given some time for some more fun facts to happen. Some for this JESC in particular. Some for JESC as a whole:

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• With Spain being the host nation, there have been only three nations that have won Junior Eurovision but never hosted: Croatia, Russia and Italy.

• When Maria Isabel won for Spain in 2004, she received 12 points from eight of the eighteen nations. Her margin of victory of 31 points remained the widest margin of victory until 2012.

• Melani will become the third contestant from JESC 2019 to host a Junior Eurovision. No other JESC Contest has spun off as many hosts.

• No solo female singer representing Spain has finished outside the Top 3.

• Twelve nations have won Junior Eurovision at least once. Nine of them are competing here in Madrid.

• This Contest will achieve a Junior Eurovision milestone. The eight solo boy entries of 2024 are the most solo boy entries of any single Junior Eurovision Contest ever!

• 2024 will only be the fourth Junior Eurovision and the first since 2006 where solo boy entries outnumbered solo girl entries.

• Since we’re on the topic of solo boys, the very first Junior Eurovision back in 2003 remains the only Contest where solo boys completely owned the Top 3!

• Of the twelve nations that have won Junior Eurovision, six of them have also won the main Eurovision at least once. The six are Spain, Russia, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Italy and France.

• Switzerland, which won Eurovision this year, has the unique distinction of being the only nation to compete at Junior Eurovision just once! It was in 2004 and their singer finished third-to-last.

• The most decisive Junior Eurovision win is in 2019 when Poland’s Viki Gabor achieved a margin of victory of 51 points with “Superheroes.”

• Ever since online voting was introduced in 2017, only two songs have topped both the jury and online vote results. Those two are both from France: Valentina’s “J’Imagine” in 2020 and Zoe Clausure’s “Coeur” in 2023.

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Jon Lewak

Jon Lewak is our correspondent from Canada. He likes to create lists of his favorites of the Contests and he also likes listening to interviews of what the stars have to say about their music and about their lives.

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