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The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the second edition of the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often known simply as Junior Eurovision, is an international children's Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 2003. Each part ...
for young singers aged eight to fifteen. It was held on 20 November 2004, in
HÃ¥kons Hall HÃ¥kons Hall, sometimes anglicized as HÃ¥kon Hall and Haakons Hall, is an arena located at Stampesletta in Lillehammer, Norway. With a spectator capacity of 11,500 people, it is the largest handball and ice hockey venue in the country. HÃ¥kons ...
,
Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...
, Norway and lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. It was presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and
Nadia Hasnaoui Nadia Hasnaoui (; born 10 June 1963) is a Moroccan-born Norwegian television presenter. Biography Hasnaoui was born in Morocco to a Norwegian mother and Moroccan father. Her maternal grandfather was Nobel Prize–winning economist Ragnar Frisc ...
, broadcast in twenty countries and viewed by 100 million people. Eighteen countries participated, and participated for the first time. The contest was won by 9-year-old
María Isabel María Isabel López Rodríguez (born 4 January 1995), known professionally as María Isabel, is a Spanish singer. She rose to prominence after she won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 for with the song " Antes muerta que sencilla". ...
who represented with her song "
Antes muerta que sencilla "Antes muerta que sencilla" ( English: "I'd rather be dead than plain") is a song composed and written by Spanish singer María Isabel in 2004, when she was nine years old. It in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 held in Lillehammer, winn ...
" (Better Dead Than Plain) from her debut album ''
¡No me toques las palmas que me conozco! ''¡No me toques las palmas que me conozco!'' is María Isabel's first album, released in 2004. Track listing #"Antes muerta que sencilla "Antes muerta que sencilla" ( English: "I'd rather be dead than plain") is a song composed and written ...
'' which was released before the contest. Dino Jelusić, who won the 2003 contest for , presented the award to María. Since then, Isabel has entered the charts in not only Spain but France, Italy,
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, Latin America and has gone on to release further albums in her home country. , who came ninth received more sets of twelve points than the , who came second. , who came sixth, were voted by all the other countries that took part, which is more than the number of countries that voted for , who came fourth and , who came third. Incidentally, the same three countries occupied the top three places as last year, just in a different order. These three countries were Spain, the United Kingdom, and Croatia.


Origins and history

The origins of the contest date back to 2000 when
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held a song contest for Danish children that year and the following year. The idea was extended to a Scandinavian song competition in 2002, known as MGP Nordic, with
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
and
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
as participants. In November 2002, the EBU picked up the idea for a song contest featuring children and opened the competition to all EBU member broadcasters making it a pan-European event. The working title of the programme was "Eurovision Song Contest for Children", branded with the name of the EBU's already long-running and popular song competition, the
Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...
. Denmark was asked to host the first programme that took place the following year after their experience with their own contests and the MGP Nordic.


Location


Host city selection

Norway was the third country of choice for this contest as the
European Broadcasting Union The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; , UER) is an alliance of Public broadcasting, public service media organisations in countries within the European Broadcasting Area (EBA) or who are member states of the Council of Europe, members of the ...
(EBU) had, in May 2003, originally chosen broadcaster ITV of the United Kingdom to host the event. Shortly after the first contest in Copenhagen, it was confirmed that the next edition would be held in
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on 20 November 2004. However, ITV pulled out in May 2004 due to finance and scheduling problems. In August 2004, it was revealed that
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, who would have co-produced the show with
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, had decided to pull out of the deal claiming the allocated budget of €1,500,000 was too small. The EBU offered funding of €900,000 to produce the event, but the ITV company said it would have cost almost €2,500,000 so asked them to find a new host broadcaster. It is also thought that another factor to their decision was the previous years' audience ratings for ITV which were below the expected amount. The venue was therefore moved to Croatia, the winning country of 2003, but the Croatian broadcaster HRT reportedly forgot that the prospective venue for the event was already booked for the period the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was to take place. It was at this point that in June 2004, with five months remaining until the event would be held, that Norwegian broadcaster
NRK The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is a Norwegian state-run, government-influenced radio and television public broadcasting company. The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen nat ...
offered to organise the next contest. Hosting duties were confirmed by the broadcaster itself a few days later, adding that the competition would take place at
HÃ¥kons Hall HÃ¥kons Hall, sometimes anglicized as HÃ¥kon Hall and Haakons Hall, is an arena located at Stampesletta in Lillehammer, Norway. With a spectator capacity of 11,500 people, it is the largest handball and ice hockey venue in the country. HÃ¥kons ...
in
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on the same date as originally planned.


Venue

HÃ¥kons Hall HÃ¥kons Hall, sometimes anglicized as HÃ¥kon Hall and Haakons Hall, is an arena located at Stampesletta in Lillehammer, Norway. With a spectator capacity of 11,500 people, it is the largest handball and ice hockey venue in the country. HÃ¥kons ...
, sometimes
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as HÃ¥kon Hall and Haakons Hall, is an
arena An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for specta ...
located at
Stampesletta Stampesletta is a multi-use stadium complex in Lillehammer, Norway. Owned and operated by Lillehammer Municipality, it consists of a track and field venue, an artificial turf association football pitch, football field, three natural grass footba ...
in
Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...
, Norway, built for the
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. With a spectator capacity of 11,500 people, it is the largest
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and
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venue in the country. HÃ¥kons Hall is regularly used for handball and ice hockey tournaments, concerts, exhibitions, conferences and banquets. The venue is owned by
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via the subsidiary Lillehammer Olympiapark, which owns all the Olympic venues in Lillehammer. The Norwegian Olympic Museum is located in the arena, which is located next to the smaller
Kristins Hall Eidsiva Arena, also known as Kristins Hall, is an arena located at Stampesletta in Lillehammer, Norway. It consists of an ice rink, a combined team handball, handball and floorball court, and a curling rink. The venue, owned and operated by the ...
. The hall was opened on 1 February 1993 having cost 238 million
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(NOK).


Participants

The EBU released the initial list of participants with 20 competing countries.
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and
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made their debut in the contest. Although initially confirmed as a participating countries, both and ended up pulling out before the contest. There were also early reports that had planned to enter in the contest, but did not appear on the final list of participants. Prior to the event, a compilation album featuring all the songs from the 2004 contest, along with karaoke versions, was put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by
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in November 2004.


Format


Visual design

On 2 September 2004, host broadcaster NRK presented the official logo of the contest. The theme of the show was later confirmed as bright Nordic winter nights, sparkling stars and snow crystals, set in a
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atmosphere.


Presenters

On 23 September 2004, it was announced that
Nadia Hasnaoui Nadia Hasnaoui (; born 10 June 1963) is a Moroccan-born Norwegian television presenter. Biography Hasnaoui was born in Morocco to a Norwegian mother and Moroccan father. Her maternal grandfather was Nobel Prize–winning economist Ragnar Frisc ...
and Stian Barsnes Simonsen would host the contest. The hosting couple also led the final of national qualifying rounds to the competition,
Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2004 Melodi Grand Prix Junior 2004 was the third music competition in Norway in the series '' Melodi Grand Prix Junior'' for children aged 9 and 15 years. The winner of 2003 was the group @lek with their song "En stjerne skal jeg bli", which represented ...
on 12 June.


Voting

All countries used
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to decide on their top ten. In normal
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fashion, each country's favourite song was given 12 points, their second favourite 10, and their third to tenth favourites were given 8–1 points.


Contest overview

The event took place on 20 November 2004 at 20:15 CET. Eighteen countries participated, with the running order published on 14 October 2004. All the countries competing were eligible to vote by televote. Spain won with 171 points, with the United Kingdom, Croatia, Romania, Denmark, completing the top five. Belarus, Sweden, Switzerland, Latvia, and Poland, both of whom came last, occupied the bottom five positions. The show was opened by the flag parade showing all participating countries. The interval act included Irish
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performed "
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" live on stage.


Spokespersons

# Kalli Georgelli # Thea Saliba # Danny Hoekstra # Alessia Milani # Ida Ursin-Holm # Gabrielle # Filip # Jadwiga Jaskulski # Stella María Koukkidi # Darya # Buga # Sabīne Berezina # Charlie Allan # Anne Gadegaard # Lucho # Queenie Marksdotter # Alexander Schönfelder # Emy


Detailed voting results


12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another:


Other countries

For a country to be eligible for potential participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, it needs to be an active member of the EBU. It is currently unknown whether the EBU issue invitations of participation to all 56 active members like they do for the Eurovision Song Contest. * After failing to participate in the previous year, German broadcaster
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...
(NDR) was announced as a debutant at the 2004 contest. However, the country later ended up pulling out before the contest. No reason for the withdrawal was given. Germany would only debut sixteen years later at the
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. * Irish television was reported to have received an invitation to participate in the 2004 contest and were among the 20 countries expected to take part in Lillehammer. However, in the end Ireland did not debut and would stay out of the competition until . * The
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(IBA) initially planned to debut at this year's contest but the debut never happened. Israel and the IBA would not debut until .


Broadcasts

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.


Official album

''Junior Eurovision Song Contest Lillehammer '04'', is a compilation album put together by the European Broadcasting Union, and was released by
Universal Music Group Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, ...
in November 2004. The album features all the songs from the 2004 contest.


See also

*
Eurovision Song Contest 2004 The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the 49th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey, following the country's victory at the with the song " Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener. Organised by the European B ...
* Eurovision Young Musicians 2004


Notes


References


External links

* {{Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 2004 in Norwegian music Lillehammer November 2004 in Europe Music events in Norway