Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025

Spain in the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Participating broadcasterRadiotelevisión Española (RTVE)
Country Spain
Selection processInternal selection
Announcement date
  • Artist: 23 July 2025
  • Song: 6 October 2025
Competing entry
Song"Érase una vez (Once Upon a Time)"
ArtistGonzalo Pinillos
Songwriters
  • Alejandro Martínez
  • David Parejo
  • Gonzalo Pinillos
  • Luis Ramiro
Placement
Final result5th, 152 points
Participation chronology
◄2024 • 2025

Spain was represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Érase una vez (Once Upon a Time)", written by Alejandro Martínez, David Parejo, Gonzalo Pinillos and Luis Ramiro, and performed by Pinillos himself. The Spanish participating broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), internally selected its entry for the contest.

Background

Prior to the 2025 contest, Spain had participated in the contest ten times since its first entry in the inaugural 2003 contest. Since then, it has won the contest on one occasion: in 2004 with "Antes muerta que sencilla" by María Isabel.[1] The nation opted not to take part in the contest between 2007 and 2018, with Javier Pons [ca], then-director of Televisión Española (TVE), the broadcaster that had represented Spain until 2006, claiming it "promotes stereotypes [they] do not share".[2] The country's return proved successful, with its entrants placing third in 2019 and 2020 and second in 2023. In 2024, Chloe DelaRosa competed for Spain with the song "Como la Lola", which ended up in 6th place out of 17 entries with 144 points.[1]

Before Junior Eurovision

Internal selection

RTVE internally selected its entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The broadcaster opened a submission process for interested artists aged between nine and fourteen on 27 May 2025. All submissions required participants to enter covers of two songs, with applications open until 30 June 2025.[3][4] It was also revealed that the Spanish entry for the contest would once again be selected from a pool of songs submitted by "a large group of [both] national and international composers" in a separate process, as had been the case since 2022, and later recorded in September, with suitability to the vocal abilities and style of the selected artist named as the main criteria in the song selection.[3]

At the closing of the application window, 270 applications had been received.[5] Twelve acts were selected to take part in an audition round, held on 21 July 2025 at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón,[6] where the Spanish representative was chosen unanimously by a panel consisting of the head of the Spanish delegation to the contest Ana María Bordas [es], Benidorm Fest producer César Vallejo, vocal coach Verónica Ferreiro and three RTVE employees, namely head of communications María Eizaguirre [es], executive producer Miriam García Corrales and director Sergio Calderón.[7] On 23 July 2025, Gonzalo Pinillos from Madrid was announced as the selected entrant; he had previously auditioned to represent the country in 2024.[8][6][9] His competing entry, "Érase una vez (Once Upon a Time)", had been selected by 12 September[10] and was released on 6 October;[11] its songwriters had previously written the Spanish entries for the 2023 and 2024 contests.[12]

Promotion

As part of the promotion of his participation in the contest, Gonzalo Pinillos starred in the 26th edition of the charity campaign Un juguete, una ilusión alongside Chenoa.[13] On 20 October 2025, the music video of his entry was aired ahead of an episode of prime time show La revuelta on La 1.[14] On 28 November 2025, he was received at the Georgian embassy in Madrid by ambassador Alexander Chkuaseli, where he was presented with a message by 2025 Georgian entrant Anita Abgariani.[15] On 3 December 2025, he performed at a special "farewell party" at the La Mistral bookstore in Madrid.[16]

At Junior Eurovision

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2025 took place at the Gymnastic Hall of Olympic City in Tbilisi, Georgia on 13 December 2025. On 4 November 2025, an allocation draw was held to determine the running order of the contest, ahead of which each song was classified into a different category based on its musical style and tempo. Spain was drawn to perform in position 14, following the entry from the Portugal and before the entry from Georgia.[17]

In Spain, the event was broadcast on La 1 with commentary by Julia Varela and Tony Aguilar.[18] In addition, RTVE aired the contest internationally through TVE Internacional as well as online via RTVE Play.[19]

Performance

Gonzalo Pinillos took part in technical rehearsals on 8 and 10 December,[20] followed by two dress rehearsals on 12 December.[21] His performance of "Érase una vez (Once Upon a Time)" at the contest is staged by Juan Sebastián Domínguez, who previously worked in an analogous position for Spain at the 2024 adult contest, and choreographed by Monica Peña.[12] It features two supporting dancers who perform a theatrical choreography alongside Pinillos as well as a piano which is later replaced by a circular bookcase prop and references to book characters Asterix, Naruto Uzumaki and Obelix;[22] it had been anticipated that the staging would feature references to the music video.[23]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition will be used, where the results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every participating broadcaster assembles a national jury that consists of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who are citizens of the country they represent. The rankings of those jurors are combined to make an overall top ten.[24]

The online voting consists of two phases. The first phase of the online voting will begin on 12 December 2025 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances is shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers can vote. After this, voters will also have the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting will end on 13 December at 16:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting will take place during the live show and begin right after the last performance and will be open for 15 minutes. International viewers will be able to vote for three songs.[25] They will also be able to vote for their own country's song. These votes will then be turned into points which will be determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song receives 10% of the votes, it will receive 10% of the available points.

The spokesperson for the Spanish jury was Chloe DelaRosa, who represented Spain in the 2024 contest.[18] Spain placed fifth in the final, scoring 152 points; 54 points from the online vote and 98 points from the juries.

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Spanish jury:[27]

  • Daniel Ruiz Gómez
  • David Pizarro
  • Gio García Alonso
  • Rocío Aguilar
  • Sandra Valero Azizi [es]
Detailed voting results from Spain[26]
Draw Country Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Rank Points
01  Malta 6 8 10 9 8 8 3
02  Azerbaijan 7 13 12 17 17 14
03  Croatia 9 17 11 13 7 11
04  San Marino 13 14 13 8 16 16
05  Armenia 5 7 4 6 15 7 4
06  Ukraine 12 6 8 15 6 9 2
07  Ireland 8 16 15 4 12 10 1
08  Netherlands 2 10 6 7 3 4 7
09  Poland 4 4 5 5 5 3 8
10  North Macedonia 11 5 7 1 14 6 5
11  Montenegro 15 11 9 10 13 12
12  Italy 14 12 16 11 9 15
13  Portugal 16 9 14 12 10 13
14  Spain
15  Georgia 1 1 3 3 1 1 12
16  Cyprus 17 15 17 16 11 17
17  France 3 2 1 2 2 2 10
18  Albania 10 3 2 14 4 5 6

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