Draft:Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024
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| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
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Spain will participate in and host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid. The Spanish broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) is responsible for the country's participation in the contest, and will select the Spanish entrant and song through internal selection.
Background[edit]
Prior to the 2024 contest, Spain had participated in the contest nine times. Spain won the contest in 2004 with the song "Antes muerta que sencilla", performed by María Isabel.[1] The country decided to take in indefinitive break from the contest after the 2006 contest, with an RTVE representative stating "Junior Eurovision promotes stereotypes [they] do not share".[2] The country returned in 2019.[3] Their return proved to be successful, with Melani García in 2019 and Soleá in 2020 both reaching third place. In 2023, Sandra Valero competed for Spain with the song "Loviu" which ended up in 2nd place out of 16 entries with 201 points.[4]
Following the refusal of French broadcaster France Télévisions to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest for the third time in four years, Spain, which finished in second place in 2023, was offered to host the contest by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which it ultimately accepted and was announced as the host country on 14 February 2024.[5]
Before Junior Eurovision[edit]
Internal selection[edit]
On 10 May 2024, RTVE revealed that the selection method for the Spanish song and artist would follow a similar format to 2022 and 2023 and announced a submission window for interested artists lasting from 14 May until 3 July.[6][7] It was then specified that the representative would be chosen at most one week following a live audition round held in mid-July at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, while the song would be selected afterwards from a pool of entries submitted by "a large group of [both] national and international composers", with one of the main criteria in the song selection process being suitability to the vocal abilities of the selected artist, and recorded in September.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Spain – Junior Eurovision Song Contest". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ Hondal, Victor (8 August 2007). "Spain withdraws from JESC 2007". ESCToday. Retrieved 10 June 2009.
- ^ "Spain: Junior Eurovision 2019 Participation Confirmed". Eurovoix. 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Final of Nice 2023 – Eurovision Song Contest". Junioreurovision.tv. EBU. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Spain will host Junior Eurovision 2024". Junioreurovision.tv. EBU. 14 February 2024. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
- ^ López, José David (10 May 2024). "RTVE abrirá el 14 de mayo la convocatoria para elegir al representante de España en Eurovisión Junior 2024" [RTVE will open the call to select the representative of Spain in Junior Eurovision 2024 on 14 May]. ESCplus España (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ Dijk, Sem Anne Van (11 May 2024). "🇪🇸 Spain: National Selection for Junior Eurovision Opens on May 14". Eurovoix. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ Mancheño, José Miguel (14 May 2024). "RTVE abre la convocatoria del casting para elegir al representante de España en Eurovisión Junior 2024" [RTVE opens the casting call to choose the representative of Spain in Junior Eurovision 2024]. ESCplus España (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 May 2024.