The participation of Georgia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest first began at the

Junior Eurovision Song Contest The Junior Eurovision Song Contest (often shortened to JESC, Junior Eurovision or Junior EuroSong) is an international song competition which has been organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) annually since 2003. It is held in a diff ...

in which took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The

Georgian Public Broadcaster Georgian Public Broadcaster ( ka, საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივი მაუწყებელი, ) is the national public broadcaster of Georgia. History It started broadcasting radio in 1925, and ...

(GPB), a member organisation of the

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(EBU), have been responsible for the selection process of their participants since their debut. The first representative to participate for the nation at the 2007 contest was Mariam Romelashvili with the song "Odelia Ranuni", which finished in fourth place out of seventeen participating entries, achieving a score of one hundred and sixteen points. Since their debut, Georgia has never missed an edition of the contest, with three of these participations resulting in a win. These wins occurred in , and , making Georgia the most successful country in the contest, alongside France. They hosted the contest for the first time in at the

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History

Georgia's first entry was

Mariam Romelashvili Georgia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 which took place on 8 December 2007, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) was responsible for organising their entry for the contest. Mariam Romelashvili was ...

with the song "Odelia Ranuni", which finished fourth of 17 entries at the contest in

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in 2007. Georgia was represented in

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with the song "Bzz..", performed in an

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. The song went on to win the contest, receiving 154 points and a total of eight 12-point votes out of 14 countries, the second-highest proportion of 12 points received by a winner in either Eurovision Contests, just beaten by

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in 2012. In 2011, Georgia won the contest again with the band

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who performed the song "Candy Music". The song won the competition with 108 points. At the

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, Georgia failed to reach the top 10 for the first time:

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finished in 11th place with the song "Happy Day". However, the official video of the song uploaded to the contest's official

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channel is the second most-viewed video, only behind Roksana Węgiel's "

Anyone I Want to Be "Anyone I Want to Be" is a song by Polish singer Roksana Węgiel. It represented Poland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018, where it won the competition. The song was written by Maegan Cottone, Nathan Duvall, Cutfather, Peter Wallevik, ...

", counting more than 29 million views In 2016, Georgia once again won the contest with the song "

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" performed by

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, making Georgia the first country to win the contest three times. Following this victory, Georgia hosted the

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on 26 November at the

in Tbilisi.

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and Lizi Japaridze hosted the contest. In 2019, Georgia achieved its worst result in the history with Giorgi Rostiashvili's "We Need Love" finishing 14th.

Participation overview

Photo gallery

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Commentators and spokespersons

The contests are broadcast online worldwide through the official Junior Eurovision Song Contest website junioreurovision.tv and

. In 2015, the online broadcasts featured commentary in English by junioreurovision.tv editor Luke Fisher and 2011 Bulgarian Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrant Ivan Ivanov. The Georgian broadcaster, GPB, sent their own commentators to each contest in order to provide commentary in the

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. Spokespersons were also chosen by the national broadcaster to announce the awarding points from Georgia. The table below lists the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2007.

Hostings

References

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