North Macedonia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
# North Macedonia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

North Macedonia participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 which took place on 24 November 2019 in Gliwice, Poland. The national broadcaster MRT was responsible for organising North Macedonia's entry for the contest. On 9 July 2019, Mila Moskov was internally selected as the Macedonian representative.

## Background

Prior to the 2018 contest, Macedonia had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest thirteen times, under the provisional reference of "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", since its debut at the inaugural contest in 2003. Macedonia was absent twice from the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2014 and has never won the contest. Its best result is the fifth place at the 2007 and 2008 contests, represented by the duo Rosica Kulakova and Dimitar Stojmenovski, and Bobi Andonov, respectively. In the 2018 contest, Marija Spasovska represented her country in Minsk, Belarus with the song "Doma". The song ended 12th out of 20 entries with 99 points.

## Before Junior Eurovision

On 9 July 2019, the national broadcaster revealed that they had chosen Mila Moskov internally to represent North Macedonia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019. Her song for the contest, "Fire", written by Lazar Cvetkoski and Magdalena Cvetkoska, was revealed on 15 October 2019.

## Artist and song information

### Mila Moskov

Mila Moskov (born 8 March 2005) is a Macedonian singer. She represented North Macedonia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Fire". She started her music career when she was six years old. Her singing career began at her local music school where she learned to sing and play the piano.

### Fire

"Fire" is a song by Macedonian child singer Mila Moskov. It represented North Macedonia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

## At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, North Macedonia was drawn to perform fourth on 24 November 2019, following Russia and preceding Spain.

### Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every country had a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten.

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 24 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs. They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

