Europe united on Sunday for Junior Eurovision 2023. Young singers from 16 countries took to the stage and wowed the audience, but at the end of the show it was France’s Zoé Clauzure who emerged as the winner with her song “Cœur“.
Zoé Clauzure took the trophy from her predecessor Lissandro, who won the competition in 2022 with “Oh Maman!”. This gives France back-to-back wins in the competition, and their third victory in four years.
With three wins under their belt, France is now the joint most successful country in Junior Eurovision history, alongside Georgia.
The show was hosted by Laury Thilleman and Olivier Minne from Palais Nikaïa in Nice.
Junior Eurovision 2023 results
The final result was determined by a 50:50 split between the votes of the national juries and the public.
Jury vote
France received 12 points from: Spain, Ireland, Poland, Netherlands
Armenia received 12 points from: Malta, United Kingdom, North Macedonia, Germany
Spain received 12 points from: Estonia, France, Italy, Georgia
United Kingdom received 12 points from: Ukraine, Albania
Malta received 12 points from: Armenia
Albania received 12 points from: Portugal
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Public vote
- France – 92 points
- Spain – 86 points
- Ukraine – 83 points
- Germany – 74 points
- Netherlands – 70 points
- Armenia – 64 points
- United Kingdom – 58 points
- Poland – 55 points
- Georgia – 53 points
- Albania – 45 points
- Portugal – 45 points
- Italy – 44 points
- Estonia – 43 points
- Malta – 43 points
- North Macedonia – 39 points
- Ireland – 34 points
Overall result
- France – 228 points
- Spain – 201 points
- Armenia – 180 points
- United Kingdom – 160 points
- Ukraine – 128 points
- Poland – 124 points
- Netherlands – 122 points
- Albania – 115 points
- Germany – 107 points
- Malta – 94 points
- Italy – 81 points
- North Macedonia – 76 points
- Portugal – 75 points
- Georgia – 74 points
- Estonia – 49 points
- Ireland – 42 points
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JESC 2023 running order
Spain: Sandra Valero — “Loviu”
Malta: Yulan — “Stronger”
Ukraine: Anastasia Dymyd — “Kvitka”
Ireland: Jessica McKean — “Aisling”
United Kingdom: STAND UNIQU3 — “Back To Life”
North Macedonia: Tamara Grujeska — “Kaži Mi, Kaži Mi Koj”
Estonia: ARHANNA — “Hoiame Kokku”
Armenia: Yan Girls — “Do It My Way”
Poland: Maja Krzyżewska — “I Just Need A Friend”
Georgia: Anastasia & Ranina — “Over The Sky”
Portugal: Júlia Machado — “Where I Belong”
France: Zoé Clauzure — “Cœur“
Albania: Viola Gjyzeli — “Bota Ime”
Italy: Melissa & Ranya — “Un Mondo Giusto”
Germany: FIA — “Ohne Worte”
Netherlands: Sep & Jasmijn — “Holding On To You”
Did you enjoy Junior Eurovision 2023? Do you agree with the results? Let us know in the comments below.
I think It would be nice that they gave each and every country 20 points just for taking part that way there would not be any country/kid with 0 points after a few countries have voted.
They used to do that by giving each of them 12 points before the competition started.
I almost fell asleep watching that thing called junior festival
Was it nap time?
Wow, France has won the jury vote 4 times in a row now.
Few broadcasters seem to want to host this jesc event – the *results* are quite telling. Does the host broadcaster manage to make any monies out of it? Do they lose monies? How about other outcomes that are not as tangible as haaaaard numbers??
It’s only recently that the winner has had to host. Before then it could be anyone, you just needed to bid. When the bids stopped coming, the EBU put the pressure on whoever won.
The overall event monies situation from before and after the show would make a fascinating read.
Three countries won within the space of a few short years of which two back-to-back victories. And that despite the much more equal field of much less participants as compared to the big event.
Just happy uk back in top 5 again mae flop back may just hope bbc get right eurovision 2024 poor ireland flop at eurovision now Jesc lreland needs to find new Writers And using sophie again from last year was a big mistake Not only now Remember be in a flop Jesc Ireland really needs to rethink Otherwise there’ll be no coming back ever
I don’t know if people are ready for that conversation but: is the voting system really fair? I agree France has had fantastic entries these past years. But 3 wins in four years + Poland’s back-to-back win not so long ago… It’s a lot. We also see that France and Spain are almost every year in the televoting top3. Are the same countries destined to always win at JESC? Or is it just a coincidence?
I think it’s a bit of both..
I am not saying France, Spain and Poland are not sending quality entries every year but it’s obvious voting goes in favour of a few but on the other hand, if they go back to standard voting, I am not sure if they would be able to keep the audience and voting figures…
Clearly not a fair voting system. It isn’t hard to track down IPs and just make the voting Eurovision style: 5 votes to freely give out to anyone you wish except for your own country (very few people will bother with VPNs anyway), 1-12 set of points to give out, and one set of “rest of the world” votes for non-participants. It would be much fairer. Right now the jury has too much power.
Agree with overs below they really over did the French, at the end when France had won they dropped English all together. We didn’t have 55% Armenian last year, main esc won’t be 55% Swedish next year.
France had a good song but Netherlands, UK, Spain, Armenia and Ukraine were all better in my opinion.
finally someone who agrees with me!!! the main language should be english
I think this is the second year in a row that whoever is dressing these Georgian kids for JESC are ruining their chances with fairly good songs…also who made that poor Portuguese girl spend the entire 3 minutes removing parts of her clothing in front of a forest LED…I sometimes really question the choices some of these national broadcasters make in presenting their selections…I think there’s countries that have a vision and others that go at it completely blind without a clue of what they are presenting on stage…shouldnt the adults in the room be like “what does this communicate… Read more »
I disagree – Georgia always have the best, most interesting outfits.
This year Georgian entry just wasn’t as good as previous two years.
Germany absolutely nailed it there.
I told y’all!! France gonna win again!
Honest opinion is that, this year, the talent level of the performers themselves was right up there. Just off the top of my head, Yulan, Viola or even Melissa (from Italy) are ready to compete at an adult Eurovision level right now. However, this was probably one of the weakest years recently in terms of the songwriting in the entries. When taking these two things together, I don’t think there was a huge gap between the best entry and the weakest, so the results could’ve been anything. Really enjoyed the show, I think, song-wise, it’s not a winner that’s going… Read more »
I had a similar impression that not many songs stood out as better or worse than the rest.
nobody here has albania as winner?
i have not seen the show live but meanwhile i have seen it all at YT.
after albania i have the bottom 4 of the tableau next – estonia – georgia – ireland – portugal and then germany.
i am a lonesome cowboy…
probably first time Poland scored more points from jury than from public vote. Well deserved, not a bad song
It would be nice if EBU release the Online voting results by rounds.
With numbers and who won or the full rank in the 1st round before the show and the same with 2nd rotund after live performances.
I don’t get how Spain got so many televoters. It was an okayish entry, nothing catchy or memorable. But I am happy for them because I love Spain and I want to see them win and host JESC soon! I thought the UK would do better in public vote, their staging was clearly the best. Albania was overrated by juries, Ireland and Germany were underrated by juries but thanks to the public, Germany entered the Top 10 (4th in televoting!) that was one of the best things of the show. I also expected more points for the Netherlands, it was… Read more »
Spanish viewers are the most desperate ones. Case closed.
god stop crying
In Spain Jesc had not many viewers this year about 8% share and a bit more than 800.000 viewers.
I voted for it, as a non-Spanish viewer. It was one of the more “Junior” songs (happy vibes and stuff), but I mean this in the best way possible. It got stuck in my head after the first listen and the staging and performance seemed very professional to me.
I liked Ukraine for the very same reasons, but I can get that the melody of the chorus might get a little annoying to some people.
Oh and also bonus points for incorporating multiple languages and references to the host country!
Are you kidding me? Spain had a great package this year. It was a good song with a good performance, very suitable for the show.
Can we take a moment to appreciate daddy Olivier Minne and his fluency in English? There’s your first candidate for hosting Eurovision in France whenever it happens.
Hopefully we will never see Laury Thilleman again. She can only say three words in english lmao
But don´t forget: French is also official language of the EBU.
and that doesn’t change what I’m saying
Honestly I would love the host of Destination Eurovision to do ESC when France wins
Olivier’s English is really good, would indeed be a perfect host for Eurovision. And gosh you’re right about the daddy part…
One of the best French hosts… but he is actually Belgian 🙂
Talking about Daddy, i think he came out in his late 40s, after progressively evolving from Twink => Geek => Gym Queen => and then Daddy.
I hope its a joke. Fluency? He was okay at best. Tbh I had the impression he was better back in 2021. If the adult contest had to be held in France, I don’t know who they would choose to host because I don’t know one French tv presenter that is good enough in english.
Tino when you will stop that condescension? It’s becoming heavy now moreover when it’s not fair.
Even in your comments below…so what? France is your ennemy? It’s again as always your target? You have always something bad to say. Heal your obsession IDK.
If we ever manage to organize the adult edition, I think Stéphane Bern will fall ill if he is not the host. He has been doing commentary for France since 2015 (JESC commentary too), he has eaten all the editions, all the songs, all our defeats, he has hosted twice “C’est vous qui décidez!”, every year he is hoping , the guy if you deprive him of Eurovision in France he is KO.
Even if he is an host in France (and also an excellent actor, whom I saw in the theater in the role of Sherlock Holmes), Olivier is Belgian and lives half the year in the United States. All this means that his English is solid, and with his caring personality, he is perfect for hosting a show with children.
Why cant people in france speak english? they think their language is superior. one of the host literally only said 3 english words which was “start voting now” It was so annoying to watch and hear. Learn english so majority of us understand it!
Olivier spoke plenty of good English today
I was talking about that annoying lady who was talking french constantly!!
Back in the day Eurovision hosts weren’t speaking English at all, they were speaking French, regardless of where the contest was held
I’d say the French language is more important to Eurovision than English, and it’s honestly disrespectful to insult a French presenter for speaking her native language in her own country
I don’t mind a little bit french speaking. they also do that in the adult contest and that is totally fine, but it almost felt like it was 50/50 which was too much. this is not only a contest in france, but in the whole europe/world. french people seriously need to stop thinking everyone understands french and start speaking english. sorry not sorry
also I love all the downvotes, but you can’t change my mind
I don’t speak French so I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure everything Laury said is the exact same thing Olivier said in English
There were a lot of French citizens in the audience (I mean, the contest was in France after all) who needed to know what was happening, it’s really not a big deal
but that is what I mean. Why do they have to translate everything to the french people? Its because many french people refuse to speak english, because french is “a superior language” Should they also have spoke Armenian last year when it was in Armenia?
Not a single country is obliged to learn English just because it’s the most universal language
Armenian language is not as significant to Eurovision as French, but I do think we could’ve used some Armenian at the contest last year, bring more ethnicity in
You’re not the only one who wants to know what’s happening
hopefully the young generation in france will actually learn the language. do they even have english in school? Fr this is serious question, because Why do they refuse to speak other languages than their own?
Don’t ask me, I’m not French
But I’m pretty sure you can live a good life in France or any other country without having to learn English
“Refuse” is a strong term, I believe they really don’t need it
Ofc on a individual plan people dont have to learn english if they dont want to, but to international events I think Its necessary to just speak a little bit english. You dont have to be perfect, but s little bit english should be a requirement
This is why we got Olvier and Ophenya doing the English part this year with Laury doing the French one
When you’re organizing a Eurovision event in France, you know for sure that most of the audience is going to be French people who don’t speak English, so you need someone to take them through the whole show, and this person certainly doesn;t have to speak English if there are two other hosts doing that already
I mean, come on now
yes people in the arena maybe, but what about the rest? okay så lets speak Swedish next year in Malmö, because there will be most Swedish people in the arena. lmao
so*
you are stupid? Just asking.
Do you understand how hard it is to “learn” english? Or you think yourself so superior?
The hosts in Liverpool this year did not even bother delivering the traditional and iconic “douze points”, which I found very sad.
50/50 is indeed too much, it should be 95/05 in French.
The annoying lady… speaking her own language… who is French?
speak your own language at home and not to a contest where the whole world wants to understand what is happening 🙂
They are at home
in your house!! You know what I mean
she was horendous, why to even put her there if she doesn’t bother? even her mimics was wrong not saying about the language. Horrible.
agree
They think their language is superior because it IS superior. France are the hosts, they are paying for much of this, the contest is located in Nice. The hosts themselves are French. Also the EBU has two official languages, English and French, so even by that measure they would have equal status.
and also in generel french people are selfish and refuse to speak english
Just like the English refuse to speak French
Its a fact that most people in europe know more english than french
A legacy of British imperialism. This is a chance to learn more French.
yes also let’s all learn more Swedish because Sweden wins the adult Eurovision so much. no stop being selfish france and learn english
This is a children’s show, most of them only speak their own language anyway, you can’t expect an eight year old from Porto to be fluent in English, so what difference does it make
I totally agree that an eight-year-old doesn’t need to be fluent in English, but I’m pretty sure that most children understand English better than French. speaking French is only to consider the French people which is arrogant and selfish in my eyes. English is the primary language that most people communicate when they talk to people from other countries, and these are facts. Therefore the show should not be spoken in 50/50
It’s not a legacy of British imperialism. It’s a very recent change. The big growth of English language education in primary schools didn’t really start until the late 20th century in response to the globalization of media and business, largely from the U.S. 40 years ago, few people in France spoke English.
Yeah, but how did English come to be the language of America? #Imperialsm
I am learning French. Have been for the past year.
It is a beautiful language, good choice
I can understand french, too.
They should’ve used mainly French (country names, scoreboard, everything on screen as well), since it’s an EBU official language. TV stations can do the corresponding translation.
France was my personal winner this year so I’m happy, Netherlands 7th? i mean really? So happy that Germany got their best result, although they deserved a bit better.
I’m shocked how Netherlands flopped hard…
Congratulations Germany for finally present a decent song. NEVER STOP DREAMING! Ohne bottom
And even in the beautiful german language !
Spain and France were far the best , however they would never of got their positions with the east European and Baltic votes . Very well done
So France, are you going to host it AGAIN ? Are you rich?
Well… the French Riviera is not exactly a ghetto
I’m really depressed. Firstly, Spain was so strangely “choooooosed” first by Lissandro (yes, I was watching the live draw); but… even opening the show it was such a goodwill-perfectness-powerbomb that I was really hoping for her deserved victory. Congrats Sandra, it was all amazing and perfect. You will certainly be remembered as the moral 2023 winner for all the time. Oww, i’m not Spanish… i’m Brazilian and shame on you Portugal – you know what you didn’t.
Does Portugal have a moral obligation to give Spain their points, or what?
Even if Spain would have not gone first, France still would have won.
How do you know that? Another know itall eurofan lol
I feel like The Netherlands deserved a better result. Unfortunately Sep was sick and had a sore throat and those pre-recorded vocals (that wasn’t even Sep?) mixed with Jasmijn’s perfect live vocals sounded weird and didn’t really work well. Sad that this got in the way of them getting a better result, their performance and staging was winner worthy! 7th place felt unfair. Sad that Spain didn’t catch the trophy but Zoë deserved it too! France had the full package.
I never really liked Netherlands’ song, it sounded too early 2010’s with the dance break. 7th place was deserved.
I love the song from Netherlands but I found the performance too messy.
For a first time viewer, it was almost impossible to find out who was/were the singer with all the fast camera movements and effects. Sometimes less is more!
where is the performance? i would have liked to listen to the song at least
I LOVE so mucho the spanish song.Very strange Portugal did not give any point to Spain.
Maybe they didnt like it which is fair
Eu NO amo-te.
Spain was my favourite. I feel gutted for Sandra. Watching the participants’ disappointed reactions when they received their televote points was *unpleasant* to say the least. A word starting with “c” and ending in “y” with an “l” in between describes the situation more accurately.
Same did not apply in the “biggish esc event”. Why do this to under 15 or so?? *Why*??
Huge congratulations to the winner and to Fia who was 4th in the online voting and got Germany the best result ever!!
It wans’t very difficult… ?
With that jury…yes
a well-deserved victory for France, they won the jury and the televoting. it’s something very rare to see a country first in the 2 votes
More than Lissandro, by faaar… That is crear
Clear
Are we talking about Portugal giving zero points to Spain? Am I the only one surprised?
The JESC jury vote is normally much less biased than the ESC one, nothing surprises me anymore
I’m not surprised. Portugal gave 12 points to Albania. That should explain the Portuguese jury’s criteria. Quality over out-of-tune bops.
Quality Albania… ????? Deadly…
Are they supposed to give Spain 12 points? Are they obliged too?
Yeah. That was very strange considering the cronyism that always exists between neighboring countries in these competitions.
3 big 5 countries in the top 5, 4 in the top 10, it doesn’t happen often I think.
Armenia and France topping the jury votes again that’s insane. Spain is def a jesc powerhouse, and The UK is going to join them very quickly I think.
Already excited to see what all these countries will bring on the table next year!
Congratulations to our Zoe who kept the trophy at home!
“Jamais deux sans trois!” ahah
(The real question is how much longer will Thiméo be able to dance on stage with our singers? This is his fourth Eurovision!)
I’m sad for Germany (who was the best for me), and I don’t understand Irland results (it was a wonderful song!)
Well done France, deserved victory, the best performance with Zoé Clauzure
I guessed 14 top jury points out of 16. Jury points shouldn’t be THAT predictable.
Well it’s kind of hard to not have it that way when there’s only 16 countries competing.
Let me guess, the ones you didn’t get were for Malta and Albania
I think almost everybody did once 1-10 votes were on the board. Unless you did it before that. If that’s the case, congratulations, but I don’t think so.
Congratulations la France and Zoé, overall a nice show and a worthy winner. A second back-to-back (from memory) in jesc in 2023, hopefully same will not happen in the “SWEesc” of 2024.
North Macedonia 12th… some things never change. Pretty predictable results, all the ballads ate themselves up, wish Spain won, so it could finally host after so many great results, but France’s song was worth the victory.
Keeping of suspense for final score was brutal really, has it ever lasted that long?
Either they had some technical issues when France’s score was supposed to be announced, or they wanted to stall it long enough so the French fans would be happier when they won
They took WAY too much time there, even ESC doesn’t do that
I think they went way too fast with the previous scores and it turned out they had too much time left to fill.
Thank God this sh!t is over and we can focus on the real Eurovision now. Can’t wait for the EBU to axe this cr4p. What’s even more cringy is full grown adults reveling in this junior sh!t meant for kids.
Who hurt you?
I am somewhat shocked wiwibloggs allows such comments about a children programme. They should be a little more on point when filtering the comments.
wiwibloggs is the X of Eurovision. Even far-right comments are allowed, there are no guidelines and no rules…wiwibloggs should shut down the comments
Search for a psychiatric… hurry
Congratulations to France, a well deserved victory! My favorite French JESC winner by far
I’m very happy Poland did this well, expected Netherlands and Germany to do better, Albania and Malta in top-10 is a nice surprise
Not a single ballad made it to top-5, goes to show how we need to reduce the amount of ballads in JESC, it’s just unacceptable to have this many slow songs in a field of 16 contestants
It’s also about children, I wouldn’t expect them to vote for ballads too much
Yes, tell that to Albania.
So now again y’all will stop with your running order thing in jesc, cause Spain is runner up performing at the first place, so everything is possible, again a proof. Never somebody performing first got a top 3 result, Spain did it, brillantly, they broke this “malediction”. Sandra should be so proud! The UK top 5 again and even 4th this time! Germany, Malta, and Albania top 10 top and Albania even top 5 jury! Best result for Germany ever! Ukraine top 3 public! Germany 4th public! A bit surprised for The Netherlands I really thought it was the one… Read more »
And this “We are the world” sequence got me totally so well done for that too!
Oh and when the crowd sang with Van the pianist and Laura it was so great too!
The disturbation of this event is complete. Congrats NOT!
There were 7 up tempo songs ranging from mid to really fast up tempo, and 9 ballads. Online votes ranked ballads bottom 9 (frome 8th to 16th). Kids Are really not into ballads, and they are the biggest voting group for this contest, so those who want to do well with online votes, don’t send ballads lol
Agree but it depends also.
Germany was a ballad and did much better with Online than juries. A ballad and performer need some personality and convey some feeling tho
Adults being so obsessed with a childrens’ program is so sus… eww
The only sus thing was the winner announcements suspense
Bravo France! Very well deserved and a brilliant singer. I noticed the Malta swap vote – 12 points go to Armenia, and 12 points from Armenia to Malta! I was not expecting Netherlands to fall so far down. All in all happy with the result
True but she deserved. Armenian jury prefers high notes obviously.
Hated what they did to both Zoe and Sandra… keeping them waiting for the results for that long? Awful in my opinion ><‘ Still, so happy because our girl got second place even after opening the show and congratulations France! Nobody does JESC like you do 🙂
Yes, ARMENIA.
It was my opinion, no need to be so aggressive with the capital letters my friend. You liked Armenia? Good for you 🙂
honestly Junior Eurovision has been absolutely amazing since like 2014. Eurovision was always able to keep up, but since 2020 Junior Eurovision has become SO MUCH better than the adult version which is nowadays filled with people who cannot appreciate good music like ballads, but only appreciate weird songs (especially now with this new producer who removed juries from semis). Again, Junior Eurovision was sublime! Such a great spectacle, everything from the intros, performances, interval acts, were fantastic. Glad to see Amir again, and the We Are The World performance was astonishing! As for the performing acts, I really liked… Read more »
Also shout out to Armenia for being in top 3 for the 10th time, out of 16 participations. And top 3 for years in a row.
3 years in a row
France had a brilliant song and a brilliant singer, deserved winners, simple as that.
And well positioned in the running order pre and post by boring ballads!
No boos when the winner was announced or about to perform? No talks about rigging?
Imagine if grown up adults had the same mentality when it came to ESC….
Worthy winner though! Obvius from the start she would win. It had the package
Cope
France winning the jury vote 4 years in a row let’s wait, the talks will happen for sure! Inevitable lol.
Frankly they were that good. I have all those songs in my Top 3 of their respective years.
2018 France was my winner again. They just send good songs
I find it interesting how this year we got joint successful countries in both ESC (Sweden, Ireland 7 wins) and JESC (France, Georgia 3 wins).
“We are the world”
A nice moment, but kinda strange to have a Michael Jackson song. The man who was a shining example of how childhood stardom can mess up a life in very serious ways.
Not to mention a man I wouldn’t want around my kids or any kids.
I do think that something needs to be said about the voting system though. Mostly how countries that score well with the online vote not making much of a difference to their ultimate result, Germany for example coming 4th in the online vote and coming 9th overall because coming 4th in the online vote doesn’t give as much points as if they were to finish 4th in the jury vote. We saw the same thing last year with Freya Skye winning the online vote but not even coming close to winning the whole contest because of a Jury result that… Read more »
The online vote takes place before the contest even starts, and is based on about 30 seconds of rehearsal. Kinda stupid anyway.
I feel like there are similarities to Melodifestivalen in terms of online voting not making the impact versus juries.