Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the seventh edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest and took place in Kiev, Ukraine. It was scheduled for 21 November. 13 countries were confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union 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 seven-year history. He was joined by Italy's Vincenzo Cantiello who won the 2014 contest also at the age of 14. Luara Hayrapetyan achieved Armenia another second place. Ekaterina Ryabova also took second place for Russia.
Both Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko were present during the final; Tymoshenko was also present and speeched during the opening ceremony on 16 November 2009.
Location
Bidding phase and host selection
The European Broadcasting Union invited broadcasters to bid for the rights to host the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009; three bids were received from Belarus, Serbia, and Ukraine. TV4 of Sweden had originally sent in a bid during summer 2007, but soon withdrew its bid after deciding to completely withdraw from the contest.On 6 June 2008, after deliberations by the EBU, the National Television Company of Ukraine was granted the rights to the 2009 contest and confirmed they would host it in Kiev. Ukraine also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 at the same venue.
On 12 November 2009, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk declared that the contest would not be postponed; Party of Regions member of parliament Hanna Herman had called on Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to cancel the song contest because of the 2009 flu pandemic in Ukraine.
Concept and logo
Logo of the contest titled "Tree of life" is based on the artwork "Sunflower of life" by Maria Primachenko, a well known Ukrainian folk art painter. Creative design of the show was based on the logo of the contest, works and ideas of Primachenko as well as on the concept of the show, titled "For the joy of people".Participants
The EBU announced the complete list of participating countries in the 2009 Contest on 8 June 2009. 13 countries competed in the contest. Sweden returned after missing the previous year's contest, while, and withdrew from the contest.| Draw | Country | Artist | Song | Language | Place | Points |
| 01 | Mimmi Sandén | "Du" | Swedish | 6 | 68 | |
| 02 | Ekaterina Ryabova | "Malenkiy prints" | Russian | 2 | 116 | |
| 03 | Luara Hayrapetyan | "Barcelona" | Armenian | 2 | 116 | |
| 04 | Ioana Anuța | "Ai puterea în mâna ta" | Romanian | 13 | 19 | |
| 05 | Ništa Lično | "Onaj pravi" | Serbian | 10 | 34 | |
| 06 | Princesses | "Lurji prinveli" | Georgian, English | 6 | 68 | |
| 07 | Ralf Mackenbach | "Click Clack" | Dutch, English | 1 | 121 | |
| 08 | Rafaella Costa | "Thalassa, helios, aeras, fotia" | Greek | 11 | 32 | |
| 09 | Francesca & Mikaela | "Double Trouble" | English | 8 | 55 | |
| 10 | Andranik Alexanyan | "Try topoli, try surmy" | Ukrainian | 5 | 89 | |
| 11 | Laura Omloop | "Zo verliefd " | Dutch | 4 | 113 | |
| 12 | Yury Demidovich | "Volshebniy krolik" | Russian | 9 | 48 | |
| 13 | Sara Markoska | "Za ljubovta" | Macedonian | 12 | 31 |
- The rules state 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
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:| N. | Contestant | Voting nation |
| 4 | Belgium | Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Serbia |
| 3 | Armenia | Cyprus, Georgia, Russia |
| 3 | Netherlands | Belgium, Romania, Sweden |
| 2 | Russia | Belarus, Ukraine |
| 1 | Ukraine | Armenia |
- All countries were given 12 points at the start of voting. This was so no country got nul points.
International broadcasts and voting
Spokespersons
- – Elise Mattison
- – Philip Masurov
- – Razmik Arghajanyan
- - Iulia Ciobanu
- – Nevena Božović
- – Ana Davitaia
- – Marissa
- – Yorgos Ioannides
- – Daniel Testa
- – Marietta
- – Oliver
- — Arina Aleshkevich
- – Jovana Krstevska
Commentators
Participating countries
- – Gohar Gasparyan
- – Denis Kurian
- – Kristien Maes and Ben Roelants
- – Kyriakos Pastides
- – Sophia Avtunashvili
- – Dime Dimitrovski
- – Valerie Vella
- – Sipke Jan Bousema
- – Ioana Isopescu and Alexandru Nagy
- – Olga Shelest
- – Duška Vučinić-Lučić
- – Johanna Karlsson
- – Mariya Orlova
Non-participating countries
- – Australian broadcaster SBS broadcast the show with no commentary on April 14, 2010 on SBS One.
- – Ictimai TV broadcast the show even though they did not participate. When it was broadcast or who provided commentary is unknown.
- – Bosnia and Herzegovinan broadcaster Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina broadcast the show live on public channel BHT 1 with commentary provided by Dejan Kukrić.
Official album