Bulgaria | |
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Member station | |
National selection events |
National Final
Internal Selection
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Participation summary | |
Appearances | 6 |
First appearance | 2007 |
Best result | 2nd: 2014 |
Worst result | Last: 2008 |
External links | |
Bulgaria's page at Eurovision.tv | |
For the most recent participation see Bulgaria in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 |
The participation of Bulgaria in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest first began in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Bulgarian National Television (BNT), a member organisation of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), have been responsible for the selection process of their participants, since their debut in 2007. The first representative to participate for the nation at the 2007 contest was Bon-Bon with the song "Bonbolandiya", which finished in seventh place out of seventeen participating entries, achieving a score of eighty-six points. There has been four absences from the competition, those being in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. Bulgaria's most recent return to the contest in 2014 proved to be successful, when Krisia, Hasan & Ibrahim represented them with the song "Planet of the Children", achieving one-hundred and forty-seven points and finishing in second place out of sixteen participating countries, the country's best ever result in a Eurovision competition. They hosted the contest at Arena Armeec in 2015. On 11 June 2016, Lidia Ganeva won the national selection "Decata na Bulgaria sa super", earning the right to represent Bulgaria at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016, in Valletta, Malta. Ganeva performed the internally selected song "Magical Day (Valsheben den)" at the contest. She received one-hundred and sixty-one points and therefore finished ninth out of seventeen participating countries.