Today, the 23rd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place live from the Gymnastic Hall of Olympic City in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The 2025 Junior Eurovision Song Contest takes place this evening from 17:00 CET in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. 18 countries will be competing in the 23rd edition of the competition, with three countries returning to the contest.
This year’s contest sees the return of Croatia, who last competed in 2014, Montenegro, which last took to the stage in 2015, and Azerbaijan, who last participated in 2021. While Estonia and Germany have withdrawn from the competition:
The eighteen participating countries and the running order are as follows:
- 🇲🇹 Malta: Eliza Borg – “I Believe”
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: Yağmur – “Miau miau”
- 🇭🇷 Croatia: Marino Vrgoč – “Snovi”
- 🇸🇲 San Marino: Martina CRV – “Beyond the Stars”
- 🇦🇲 Armenia: Albert Armenakyan – “Brave Heart”
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Sofia Nersesian – “Motanka”
- 🇮🇪 Ireland: Lottie O’Driscoll Murray – “Rúin”
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Meadow – “Freeze”
- 🇵🇱 Poland: Marianna Kłos – “Brightest Light”
- 🇲🇰 North Macedonia: Nela Mančeska – “Miracle”
- 🇲🇪 Montenegro: Asja Džogović – “I tužna i srećna priča”
- 🇮🇹 Italy: Leonardo Giovannangeli – “Rockstar”
- 🇵🇹 Portugal: Inês Gonçalves – “Para onde vai o amor?”
- 🇪🇦 Spain: Gonzalo Pinillos – “Érase Una Vez (Once Upon a Time)”
- 🇬🇪 Georgia: Anita Abgariani – “Shine Like a Star”
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus: Rafaella & Christos – “Away”
- 🇫🇷 France: Lou Deleuze – “Ce monde”
- 🇦🇱 Albania: Kroni Pula – “Fruta perime”
Hosts
Image source: GPB
David Aladashvili and Liza Tsiklauri will host Junior Eurovision 2025 in Tbilisi. This will be the first contest since 2017, which was also hosted in Tbilisi, to have just two hosts.
David Aladashvili is a musician and presenter. He began studying piano at the age of 11, and at 15 he was admitted into the Tbilisi Special Music School, where he received Georgia’s Presidential Scholarship for Piano Performance. Since then, he has studied at The Juilliard School in New York City, made his Carnegie Hall debut with a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall and released many acclaimed albums to perform at his concerts across the world. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Tbilisi National Youth Palace. He also hosts various music programmes on GPB, including Ranina, the Georgian national selection for Junior Eurovision, which he has hosted since the first edition in 2018.
Liza Tsiklauri is a journalist and presenter. She began her journalism career in 2008 and has been a news anchor on Moambe, the news broadcast on GPB, since 2014. She has also presented several national and international events, such as the New Year’s Eve gala concerts, the EuroBasket 2022 opening ceremony and the Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi awards ceremony.
Interval Acts
The Opening for the competition will see a performance featuring 110 children. Basa Potskhishvili is the Director of the show, while Tamar Potskhishvili has choreographed the performances. The outfits that the performers will be wearing on stage have been designed by Anuka Keburia.
In an interview with GPB, it is hinted that the opening performance will focus on a symbolic tree that shows the wishes and lives of children. The 18 participants will feature in a flag parade, where they will then attach their wishes to the tree.
Bzikebi, Candy and Andria Putkaradze are all set to feature in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Bzikebi brought Georgia its first victory in the contest in 2008 with “Bzzz..”, three years on Candy won the 2011 contest in Armenia with “Candy Music”, while Andria Putkaradze won in 2024 with “To My Mom”
The trio of winners are all due to perform brand new songs that songwriter Giga Kukhianidze has created for them. Giga Kukhianidze is one of the most prolific songwriters in Junior Eurovision history, having written the Georgian Junior Eurovision entries in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025.
Voting
The winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is determined by 50% jury voting and 50% online voting.
Jury voting took place last night during what is known as the Jury Grand Final. Each country is represented by a jury formed of three adults and two children, they will determine a top ten and then award points in the traditional Eurovision style – 1 to 7, 8, 10 and 12 points.
The online voting window opened yesterday at 21:00 CET and will close today at 16:59 CET. During the live show, voting will then reopen for 15 minutes after the last song has been performed.
Voting takes place at JESC.tv, voters must select three countries in order to vote and are able to vote for their own country.
Viewers around the world are invited to vote regardless of whether the country they’re in is participating or not.
Image source: Corinne Cumming/EBU
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