Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the second edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 20 November 2004 at Håkons Hall in Lillehammer, Norway, and presented by Stian Barsnes Simonsen and Nadia Hasnaoui. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). It was broadcast in twenty countries and viewed by 100 million people. Broadcasters from eighteen countries participated, with France and Switzerland participating for the first time.

The winner was Spain with the song "Antes muerta que sencilla" by 9-year-old María Isabel 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 Isabel. Since then, she 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.