Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020

PBS organised the national final Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 to select the Maltese entry. Artists were able to submit their entries between 22 July and 23 August 2020, and the competing entries were announced on 31 August 2020.[1][6] The songs were broadcast on 19 September 2020, and the show was hosted by Amber Bondin and Dorian Casar.[7] After the show, an online vote was open until 26 September 2020. The winner was revealed on 1 October 2020.[8]

The songs were presented on 19 September 2020 at 18:15 CET. The running order was announced on 3 September 2020.[9] The presentation consisted of pre-recorded performances of the twelve competing songs, and the winner was selected by an equal combination of jury votes and online votes from the public.[10]

The jury members in the final were:[11]

• Eliana Gomez Blanco – singer, represented Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
• Michela Pace – singer, represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
• Dominic Cini – singer, composer

Chanel Monseigneur (born 2 January 2011)[14] is a Maltese singer. She will represent Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Chasing Sunsets".

"Chasing Sunsets" is a song by Maltese singer Chanel Monseigneur. It will represent Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

Chanel Monseigneur was accompanied with a cartoon video during her performance.[16]

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.[17] The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 27 November 2020 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. This first round of voting ended on Sunday 29 November at 16:59 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 maximum of three songs.[18] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which was determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 20% of the votes, it received 20% of the available points.

During the live show, Malta received 49 points from online voting, out of 697 total.[19]

Every participating country had national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two kids 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.[20]

12 points	France
10 points	Kazakhstan
8 points	Poland
7 points	Belarus
6 points	Netherlands
5 points	Germany
4 points	Spain
3 points	Russia
2 points	Serbia
1 point	Georgia