Armenia: Junior Eurovision 2024 Participation Confirmed
AMPTV, the Armenian national broadcaster, has confirmed that Armenia will participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in Madrid.
Alongside confirming their participation, AMPTV also launched the Armenian selection for Junior Eurovision 2024. A series of auditions will take place to determine the Armenian representative for Madrid. In the first round of auditions, applicants must record two Youtube videos of themselves singing cover songs. Successful applicants will be invited to an in-person audition for the second round. After the second round of auditions, the Armenian representative for Junior Eurovision 2024 will be chosen and their entry will be specially composed for them.
The rules of the selection are as follows:
- Applications will be accepted from July 8 to 21.
- Applicants must be aged between 9 and 14 on November 16, 2024 (the date of Junior Eurovision 2024).
- Applicants must be Armenian citizens or be resident in Armenia for at least the last two years.
- Solo artists, duets and groups of up to six people may apply. Only one applications is needed per act.
- Applications must include photos of the participants and two unlisted Youtube videos of their cover songs. The applicant’s voice must be clearly audible or not edited in any way.
- Applicants who get to the second round must be available to be in Armenia from July 22-31.
Applications can be submitted here.
Yan Girls represented Armenia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Nice with “Do It My Way”. They finished 3rd with 180 points, receiving 12 points from the national juries of Germany, Malta, North Macedonia and the United Kingdom.
Armenia debuted in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, and have had 16 entries to date. The country is one of the most successful in the history of the contest, placing in the top 3 on 10 occasions, and winning twice in 2010 and 2021. Their first victory came from Vladimir Arzumanyan with his song “Mama”, which received 120 points. They won again in 2021 with “Qami Qami” by Maléna. Armenia went on to host the contest on home soil in Yerevan in 2011 and hosted again in 2022. Their debut was almost as successful, as Arevik and their song “Erazanq” was just 1 point off the winning score.