Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The **Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009** was the seventh edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. It was scheduled for 21 November.
13 countries were confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to compete in the Contest.
The contest was won by Ralf Mackenbach for the Netherlands with the song "Click Clack". At the age of 14, he is the oldest person to win the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in its 7 year History. Luara Hayrapetyan achieved Armenia another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for Russia.

## Final

Each country decided their votes through a 50% jury and 50% televoting system which decided their top ten songs using the points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.
Sweden have only 100% jury.
|Draw|Country|Language|Artist|Song|English translation|Place|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|01||Swedish|Mimmi Sandén|"Du"|You|6|68|
|02||Russian|Ekaterina Ryabova|"Malenkiy prints" (Маленький принц)|The little prince|2|116|
|03||Armenian|Luara Hayrapetyan|"Barcelona" (Բարսելոնա)|-|2|116|
|04||Romanian|Ioana Anuța|"Ai puterea în mâna ta"|You got the power in hand|13|19|
|05||Serbian|Ništa Lično|"Onaj pravi" (Онаj прави)|The right one|10|34|
|06||Georgian|Group Princesses|"Lurji prinveli" (ლურჯი ფრინველი)|The blue bird|6|68|
|**07**|****|**Dutch, English **|**Ralf Mackenbach**|**"Click Clack"**|-|**1**|**121**|
|08||Greek|Rafaella Kosta|"Thalassa, ilios, aeras, fotia" (Θάλασσα, ήλιος, αέρας, φωτιά)|Sea, sun, air, fire|11|32|
|09||English|Francesca & Mikaela|"Double Trouble"|-|8|55|
|10||Ukrainian|Andranik Alexanyan|"Try topoli, try surmy" (Три тополі, три сурми)|Three poplars, three trumpets|5|89|
|11||Dutch|Laura Omloop|"Zo verliefd (Yodelo)"|So in love|4|113|
|12||Russian|Yuriy Demidovich|"Volshebniy krolik" (Волшебный кролик)|The magic rabbit|9|48|
|13||Macedonian|Sara Markovska|"Za ljubovta" (За љубовта)|For love|12|31|

- The rules says that the participants must sing in one of their national languages, however they are permitted to have a few lines in a different language - as seen in the winning entry.

## Score sheet

|colspan="14"|Results|||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="2" rowspan="2"||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Sweden|68||4|5|2|5|3|6|2|5|4|7|5|8|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Russia|116|6||10|8|10|7|7|10|7|**12**|8|**12**|7|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Armenia|116|10|**12**||6|7|**12**|10|**12**|6|10|10|8|1|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Romania|19|1||||||1||2||||3|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Serbia|34|2|1|3|3||2||3||3||1|4|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Georgia|68|3|5|6|7|1||4|7|10|6|5|2||
|style="text-align:left; background:#FFDEAD;"|**Netherlands**|**121**|**12**|8|8|**12**|8|8||8|8|8|**12**|7|10|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Cyprus|32|7|3|2|1||1|||1||2|3||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Malta|55||2|4|4|4|4|8|4||1|6|4|2|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ukraine|89|4|7|**12**|10|2|10|5|5|4||3|10|5|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belgium|113|8|10|7|5|**12**|6|**12**|6|**12**|5||6|**12**|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belarus|48||6|1||3|5|3|1||7|4||6|
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Macedonia|31|5||||6||2||3|2|1|||
|colspan="18"|All countries automatically receive 12 points|||||||||||||||

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

|N.|Recipient nation|Voting nation||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|4||Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Serbia||
|rowspan="2"|3||Belgium, Romania, Sweden|
||Cyprus, Georgia, Russia|||
|2||Belarus, Ukraine||
|1||Armenia||
- All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This is so no country gets nul points.

## International broadcasts

- ***' : İctimai TV.
- ***' : BHRT.
- ****: SBS1
- **Worldwide** : A live broadcast of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was available worldwide via satellite through European streams such as TVRi, RIK Sat, RTS Sat and MKTV Sat. The official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary via the peer to peer medium Octoshape.

## Commentators

- - Gohar Gasparyan, Tigran Danirlyan
- - Sipke Jan Bousema
- - Pavlo Shylko (DJ Pasha)
- - André Vermeulen (VRT), Maureen Louys and Jean-Louis Lahaye (RTBF)
- - Olga Shelest

## Spokespersons

- - Elise Mattison
- - Philip Masurov
- - Razmik Arghajanyan
- - Iulia Ciobanu
- - Nevena Bozovic
- - Ana Davitaia
- - Marissa
- - Yorgos Ioannides
- - Daniel Testa
- - Marietta
- - Oliver
- - Arina Aleshkevich
- - Jovana Krstevska

## Other websites

- Junior Eurovision Official Website
- ESCKaz Junior Eurovision pages
- TIME Magazine, "Junior Eurovision: Schoolyard Crushes with Glitter," November 23, 2009

## Infobox (eurovision)

- **name**: Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2009
- **theme**: "For The Joy Of People"
- **final**: 21 November 2009
- **presenters**: Ani Lorak
Timur Miroshnichenko
Dmytro Borodin <small>(Green Room)</small>
- **director**: Sven Stojanovic
- **host**: National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)
- **venue**: Palace of Sports (Kyiv), Palace of Sports, Kyiv, Ukraine
- **exsupervisor**: Svante Stockselius
- **winner**:
"Click Clack"
- **vote**: Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS message, which counts for 50%. Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. Results 1-5 are automatically displayed on-screen, then each country announces 6-8, 10 and 12 points. A jury in each country also has a 50% say in the outcome.
- **entries**: 13
- **debut**: None
- **withdraw**:

- **null**: All countries get 12 points from start
- **interval**: Ani Lorak
- **opening**: Dance acts featuring perofmance of Karina Rudnycka & Yuriy Kuzynsky