Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Spain participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which took place on 24 November 2019 in Gliwice, Poland. The Spanish broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE) organised an internal selection to select the Spanish entry.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Country	Spain
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 24 July 2019 Song: 4 October 2019
Selected entrant	Melani García
Selected song	"Marte"
Selected songwriter(s)	Pablo Mora Manu Chalud
Finals performance
Final result	3rd, 212 points
Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
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Background

Main article: Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2019 Contest, Spain had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in four consecutive years since its debut in the inaugural 2003 Contest, having won the contest on their second appearance with the song "Antes muerta que sencilla", performed by María Isabel. Spain came second twice, in both 2003 and 2005, and the remaining Spanish entrant finished in fourth position in 2006. The Spanish broadcaster TVE did not return to the contest in 2007, saying that "the Junior Eurovision promotes stereotypes we do not share".^[1]

On 25 June 2019, TVE announced that they would return to the contest in 2019, after a 13-year absence.^[2]

Before Junior Eurovision

Melani García was announced as the Spanish entrant on 24 July 2019 during the talk show A partir de hoy, hosted by Máximo Huerta and aired on La 1.^[3][4] Her entry's title, "Marte", and a preview of the song were released to the public on 20 September 2019.^[5] The song was written and produced by Pablo Mora alongside Manu Chalud, with the collaboration of Melani García and it was released in full on 4 October 2019.^[6]

At Junior Eurovision

 

Melani García during her performance.

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Spain was drawn to perform fifth on 24 November 2019, following North Macedonia and preceding Georgia.^[7] Melani was accompanied on stage by Edurne Rodriguez, Yara Díez, Violeta Leal and María Mihali.^[8]

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.^[9]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 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 Sunday 24 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.^[10] 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.

Points awarded to Spain^[11] Score Country 12 points   Albania   Italy 10 points   North Macedonia 8 points   France   Ireland   Poland   Portugal 7 points   Belarus   Kazakhstan   Wales 6 points   Ukraine 5 points   Netherlands   Serbia 4 points   Malta 3 points 2 points 1 point   Australia Spain received 104 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Spain^[11] Score Country 12 points   Poland 10 points   Netherlands 8 points   Kazakhstan 7 points   Armenia 6 points   Belarus 5 points   France 4 points   Serbia 3 points   Ireland 2 points   North Macedonia 1 point   Australia

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Spanish jury:^[12][13]

• María Isabel – winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
• Pablo Pinilla (jury chairperson) – composer, songwriter, producer
• Natalia Rodríguez – singer, composer, television host
• Ginebra – Kid from Community of Madrid Orchestra
• Jorge – Kid from Community of Madrid Orchestra

Detailed voting results from Spain^[11]

Draw	Country	Juror A	M. Isabel^[14]^[15]	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Australia	11	13	11	8	10	10	1
02	France	7	8	4	7	5	6	5
03	Russia	10	12	9	14	14	12
04	North Macedonia	8	7	7	10	6	9	2
05	Spain
06	Georgia	13	14	15	15	18	15
07	Belarus	3	4	6	9	8	5	6
08	Malta	12	18	16	18	17	16
09	Wales	14	15	13	11	12	13
10	Kazakhstan	4	3	5	2	2	3	8
11	Poland	2	5	1	1	1	1	12
12	Ireland	15	9	12	4	3	8	3
13	Ukraine	17	17	14	17	15	17
14	Netherlands	1	2	3	3	4	2	10
15	Armenia	6	1	2	6	9	4	7
16	Portugal	18	16	17	16	16	18
17	Italy	9	10	10	13	13	11
18	Albania	16	11	18	12	11	14
19	Serbia	5	6	8	5	7	7	4

References

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13. Eurovisión Junior 2019. RTVE.es a la carta. Event occurs at 00:09:55. Retrieved 15 December 2019. El jurado español, el nuestro, lo integran el artista y productor Pablo Pinilla, las cantantes María Isabel, la ganadora de Eurovisión Junior en 2004, y Natalia Rodríguez, la cantante y compositora. Junto a ellos Ginebra y Jorge, del coro de niños de la Comunidad de Madrid.
14. "María Isabel y Natalia aclaran los votos del jurado español en Eurovisión Junior 2019: "No es nada fácil"". Formulatv.com. Fórmula TV. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019. María Isabel, una de las integrantes del panel de profesionales, decidió salir al paso y aclarar sus votos. "Yo no he dado doce puntos a Polonia, ni siquiera la puse en primera posición, ni segunda, ni tercera, etc.
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