Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021
Country	Serbia
National selection
Selection process	Internal selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 5 October 2021 Song: 28 October 2021
Selected artist(s)	Jovana and Dunja
Selected song	"Oči Deteta (Children's Eyes)"
Selected songwriter(s)	Ana Frlin
Placement
Final result	13th, 86 points
Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
◄2020 • 2021 • 2022►

Serbia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in Paris, France.[1]

Background

Main article: Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2021 contest, Serbia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twelve times since its debut in 2006,[2] and once as Serbia and Montenegro in 2005,[3] prior to the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006 which culminated into the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro,[4] As of 2020, Serbia's best results are two third places, achieved in 2007 and 2010. In the 2020 contest, Serbia placed 11th with Petar Aničić and the song "Heartbeat".[5]

Before Junior Eurovision

On 5 October 2021, RTS announced that Jovana Radonjić and Dunja Živković would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Oči deteta (Children's Eyes)".[6][7] The song was presented on 28 October 2021.

At Junior Eurovision

After the opening ceremony, which took place on 13 December 2021, it was announced that Serbia would perform seventeenth on 19 December 2021, following Spain and preceding North Macedonia.[8]

At the end of the contest, Serbia received 86 points, placing 13th out of 19 participating countries.

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.[9]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 17 December 2021 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on 17 December at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for three songs.[10] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Points awarded to Serbia[11] Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points  Georgia  North Macedonia 6 points  Italy 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points  Ireland  Ukraine 1 point Serbia received 62 points from the online vote

Points awarded by Serbia[11] Score Country 12 points  France 10 points  Georgia 8 points  Armenia 7 points  Poland 6 points  Azerbaijan 5 points  Germany 4 points  Russia 3 points  North Macedonia 2 points  Kazakhstan 1 point  Netherlands

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Serbia[11]

Draw	Country	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points Awarded
01	Germany	3	9	7	7	14	6	5
02	Georgia	1	2	6	2	3	2	10
03	Poland	16	4	4	4	4	4	7
04	Malta	15	16	15	16	11	17
05	Italy	7	7	13	13	9	11
06	Bulgaria	10	10	18	6	16	12
07	Russia	9	8	5	8	8	7	4
08	Ireland	13	11	16	14	17	16
09	Armenia	5	3	1	3	2	3	8
10	Kazakhstan	12	5	8	9	7	9	2
11	Albania	8	12	17	15	15	14
12	Ukraine	11	17	11	17	12	15
13	France	6	1	2	1	1	1	12
14	Azerbaijan	2	6	10	5	6	5	6
15	Netherlands	4	13	9	10	13	10	1
16	Spain	14	14	12	12	10	13
17	Serbia
18	North Macedonia	18	15	3	11	5	8	3
19	Portugal	17	18	14	18	18	18

References

1. "Final of Paris 2021 - Junior Eurovision Song Contest — Paris 2021". Junioreurovision.tv. EBU. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
2. "Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Serbia". junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
3. Philips, Roel (2 August 2005). "Serbia & Montenegro, Lithuania and Ukraine join in Hasselt". esctoday.com. ESCToday. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
4. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1372 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
5. "Final of Poland 2020 - Junior Eurovision Song Contest — Poland 2020". Junioreurovision.tv. EBU. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
6. "Jovana and Dunja to duet for Serbia". junioreurovision.tv. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
7. "Jovana i Dunja i pesma „Oči deteta" idu na Dečju pesmu Evrovizije". RTS (in Serbian (Latin script)). 5 October 2021.
8. "Junior Eurovision: Running order revealed… 🇫🇷". Junioreurovision.tv. 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021.
9. Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
10. "You can vote on the winner of Junior Eurovision! 🗳". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021.
11. "Results of the Final of Paris 2021". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 19 December 2021.