Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 7

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 7 was the seventh edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. This edition took place in The Hague, Netherlands.

The host country, The Netherlands, won this edition. It was the first time that the hosting nation was able to win at home soil. Cyprus finished at the second place followed by North Macedonia who finished at the third place.

Location
Different as in the adult version, the previous winners isn't automatically the next hosting country. All participating countries were able to send a bid for host this edition.

The Netherlands and Russia announced that they would like to organise the contest.

Host city

The EBU announced that The Hague was chosen as host city. It was the third time that this city and venue tried to host the contest. Because the contest will be host by The netherlands, they became the first country who hosted multiple editions. The Netherlands hosted the first edition.

Number of participants
For the first edition, the EBU announced that they invited some countries to participate in the contest. The maximum of countries is 15.

Running order
There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. After, a team will create a running order.

Song
Each country sends one song to the contest. There was a change in the rules for this edition. The song has to be for more than 50% in official languages of the country. The song also can't be longer than five minutes.

Voting rules
After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the mst countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/357008/junior-euromusic-song-contest-07--the-hague

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Debuting countries

 * Armenia.jpg Armenia - When the EBU published the list of participants, it was clear that Armenia would take part in this edition.

Returning countries

 * Israel.jpg Israel - The Israeli broadcaster announced that they were interesting to return to the contest. Later, they officialy announced that they would take part in this edition.

Withdrawing countries

 * France.jpg France - The French broadcaster decided to withdraw because the broadcaster wanted to focus more on national singing competitions.
 * Greece.jpg Greece - This country decided to withdraw because of the lack of interests by the broadcaster.
 * Malta.jpg Malta - The Maltese broadcaster announced that Malta would not take part in this edition. They also said that they were hoping for a return in the near future.