User:Fameglory/sandbox/JESC 2022

Participating countries
On 26 September 2022, the EBU announced that 16 countries would participate in the contest. After a 16-year hiatus, the returned to the contest, with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) replacing ITV, who previously organised the country’s participation in the contest between 2003 and 2005. ,, and  did not return after having participated in 2021, with the latter's broadcasters having been indefinitely suspended from the EBU. Prior to the contest, the songs from each of the participating countries were featured on a compilation album titled Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Yerevan 2022, put together by the EBU and released on 30 November 2022 by Universal Music.

As the event began, the United Kingdom's Freya Skye was unable to sing live for the rehearsal that was filmed before the voting opened due to medical reasons, and playback was used. The issue continued into the jury show, where footage from the first rehearsal was used as a replacement. During the jury show, camera and in-ear device issues were reported for Serbia's Katarina Savić, who was allowed to perform again after the scheduled final performance of Ukraine's Zlata Dziunka. On the day of the contest, it was announced that Savić would not be performing live due to medical issues, and that footage from her jury show performance would be used instead.

's Lissandro was the winner of the contest with the song "Oh maman!". This was France's second victory in the contest, having last won in.