Michael James Down is a songwriter from

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, Northern Ireland. He is best known as a composer and lyricist of several pop songs performed by other artists, many of them in national pre-selections of the

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. He has worked with American popstar/rapper

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, the Japanese girlgroup MAX and in 2018 it was revealed that he'd written six of the songs for Russian pop star

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's new album 'The One' which charted at number 1 in

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Discography

Entries in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

* "Señorita" by Carlos Higes, Spain, (

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), 6th place

Entries in national Eurovision pre-selections

2012 * "This Must Be Love" by Ana Mardare ( Romania 2012), 13th place 2013 * "Meðal Andanna" by

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( Iceland 2013), 3rd place * "Hullócsillag" by Mónika Hoffmann ( Hungary 2013), eliminated (semi-final) * "I Need a Hero" by Samanta Tina ( Latvia 2013), 2nd place * "One" by Niko ( Latvia 2013), 6th place * "Paralyzed" by Andrei Leonte ( Romania 2013), 12th place in final * "I Believe in Love" by Diana Hetea ( Romania 2013), 12th place (semi-final) * "Runaways" by Boris Covali ( Moldova 2013), 2nd place * "Freaky Thong" by Nicoleta Gavriliţă ( Moldova 2013), 6th place * "A Brighter Day" by Tatiana Heghea ( Moldova 2013), 8th place * "Celebrate" by Cristina V. & Glam Girls ( Moldova 2013), 12th place * "Coma" by Margarita Ciorici ( Moldova 2013), eliminated (semi-final) * "In My Head" by Alexandru Şendrea ( Moldova 2013), eliminated (semi-final) 2014 * 'It's Not Impossible" by Michael James ( Switzerland SRF internet candidates 2014), did not qualify * "Somebody Like You" by

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( Switzerland SRF internet candidates 2014), did not qualify * "My Little Honey Bee" by Dennis Fagerström ( Finland 2014), eliminated (semi-final) * "Love Will Take Me Home" by Franklin Calleja ( Malta 2014), 7th place * "Waterfall" by Joni ( Hungary 2014), eliminated (semi-final) 2015 * "Boom!" by Michael James ( Switzerland RTS qualifiers 2015), did not qualify 2016 * "Wrong Answers" by Michael James ( Switzerland SRF internet candidates 2016), did not quality * "Alive" by Jasmine Abela ( Malta 2016), 6th place * "All Around the World" by Deborah C ( Malta 2016), 11th place * "United" by Rūta Ščiogolevaitė ( Lithuania 2016), 3rd place * "Good Enough" by Annica Milán &

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( Finland 2016), 5th place * "Don't Wake Me Up" by Tuuli Okkonen ( Finland 2016), 9th place 2017 * "Let's Come Together" by

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( Belarus 2017), Joint 4th place * "Tonight" by Deborah C & Josef Tabone ( Malta 2017), 7th place * "Sacrifice" by

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( Lithuania 2017), 5th place (quarter-final) * "Þú hefur dáleitt mig"/"Hypnotised" by Aron Brink ( Iceland 2017), 4th place * "I Won't Surrender" by

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( Romania 2017), 2nd place 2018 * "Back to Life" by

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( Malta 2018), 5th place * "Devoted" by Johnny Bădulescu ( Romania 2018), 4th place (semi-final) * "Try" by Xandra ( Romania 2018), 9th place * "Heaven" by

( Romania 2018), 7th place * "Somebody to Love" by Manuel Chivari ( Romania 2018), 7th place (semi-final) * "Chasing Rushes" by

( Belarus 2018), Joint 4th place * "Dišem" by

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( Montenegro 2018), 5th place * "Powerful" by Donata Virbilaitė ( Lithuania 2018), 12th place (quarter-final) * "Alien" by Felicia Dunaf ( Moldova 2018), 8th place * "Aldrei gefast upp"/"Battleline" by Fókus ( Iceland 2018), 5th place 2019 * "Ja sam ti san" by

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( Montenegro 2019), 3rd place * "Weight of the World" by Nicola ( Romania 2019), eliminated (semi-final) * "Underground" by Vaida ( Romania 2019), 6th place * "I Will Not Surrender" by Maxim Zavidia ( Moldova 2019), 2nd place 2020 * "Don't Let Me Down" by

( Belarus 2020), 9th place 2022 * "Do svidaniya" by ARIS ( Romania 2022), eliminated (semi-final) * "Washing Machine" by Queens of Roses ( Lithuania 2022), 8th place 2023 * "Love You Like That" by Jake ( Malta 2023), TBA * "Haunted" by Lyndsay ( Malta 2023), TBA

Other notable songs

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Down, Michael James British composers Living people Musicians from Belfast 1988 births