{"id":24306,"date":"2016-11-21T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=24306"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T11:46:34","slug":"georgias-mariam-mamadashvili-takes-junior-eurovision-crown-in-malta-with-mzeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/11\/georgias-mariam-mamadashvili-takes-junior-eurovision-crown-in-malta-with-mzeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia’s Mariam Mamadashvili Takes Junior Eurovision Crown In Malta With ‘Mzeo’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Junior Eurovision sounds like what it is – the Eurovision Song Contest designed for children.\u00a0There is however more to it than that, as the this year’s contest, held yesterday at\u00a0the Mediterranean Conference Centre, in Valletta, Malta showed.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

With seventeen countries participating from around Europe and including Australia, who made their debut in the competition last year, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was an exciting chance to see what lays ahead in terms of music in Europe, and what styles each country favoured.<\/p>\n

In previous years, the final results\u00a0had come from a combination of\u00a050% televote and 50% national juries, as well as a final set of points from a “Kids Jury”. this year it was decided that points from 1-8, 10 and 12 would be awarded, based on a 50\/50 combination of each country’s adult, and kids, juries, announced by a single spokesperson, seeing the end of televoting. In addition, a further set of votes were cast by an expert panel comprising members of the professional music industry, watching the show from the auditorium. This panel provided feedback on each of the artists’ performances, and each panellist was regarded as having the equivalent votes as if they were a separate country, so allocated their points from 1-8, 10 and 12.<\/p>\n

This inaugural expert panel comprised Christer Bj\u00f6rkman, the man behind Sweden’s Melodifestivalen, and the two most recent Swedish Eurovision Song Contests, held in Malm\u00f6, 2013, and Stockholm this year. Bj\u00f6rkman also represented his country of Sweden at Eurovision in 1992. Mads Grimstad, from Denmark, is the Senior Product Leader and Head of Classical Live with Universal Music Group. The third member of the expert panel, judging as one person, was Jedward, themselves veterans of the Eurovision Song Contest, having performed twice for Ireland, in 2011 and 2012. Their eighth placing in 2011 saw them bring home the best result for their country in eleven years.<\/p>\n

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