Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Dates
Final	20 November 2004
Host
Venue	Håkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway
Presenter(s)	Stian Barsnes Simonsen Nadia Hasnaoui
Directed by	Gitte Calmeyer
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Ivar Ragne Jensen
Host broadcaster	Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)
Website	junioreurovision.tv/event/lillehammer-2004
Participants
Number of entries	18
Debuting countries	France   Switzerland
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Participating countries
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Winning song	Spain "Antes muerta que sencilla"
2003 ← Junior Eurovision Song Contest → 2005

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the second edition of the annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest for young singers aged eight to fifteen. It was held on 20 November 2004, in Håkons Hall, Lillehammer, Norway and lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. It was presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui, broadcast in twenty countries and viewed by 100 million people. Eighteen countries participated, France and Switzerland participated for the first time.

The contest was won by 9-year-old María Isabel who represented Spain with her song "Antes muerta que sencilla" (Better Dead Than Plain) from her debut album ¡No me toques las palmas que me conozco! which was released before the contest. Dino Jelusić, who won the 2003 contest for Croatia, presented the award to María. Since then, Isabel has entered the charts in not only Spain but France, Italy, Scandinavia, Latin America and has gone on to release further albums in her home country.

Greece, who came ninth received more sets of twelve points than the United Kingdom, who came second. France, who came sixth, were voted by all the other countries that took part, which is more than the number of countries that voted for Romania, who came fourth and Croatia, who came third.

Incidentally, the same three countries occupied the top three places as last year, just in a different order. These three countries were Spain, the United Kingdom, and Croatia.