Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

16th Junior Eurovision Song Contest
motto	#LightUp
date	November 25, 2018
Host country	Belarus
venue	Minsk Arena , Minsk
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Eugene Perlin, Helena Merai and Zena
Opening act	Anna Kviloria and Denis Dudinsky
participating countries	20th
winner	Poland
First time participation	Kazakhstan Wales
Returning participants	Azerbaijan France Israel
Withdrawn participants	Cyprus
Voting rule	The final result consisted of 50% online voting and 50% a jury.
◄ JESC 2017 • JESC 2019 ►

The 16th Junior Eurovision Song Contest took place on November 25, 2018 in Belarus' capital Minsk . It was the second time since 2010 that Belarus has hosted. The Belarusian television company BTRC was responsible for hosting the competition.

Poland won the first ever Eurovision Song Contest when it entered the competition for the fifth time. The first-time participants had varying degrees of success: while Kazakhstan came in sixth, Wales came last in 20th place. France, returning after 14 years, came in second just ahead of Australia.

venue

On October 15, 2017, the EBU announced that the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 would take place in the Belarusian capital Minsk - even though Russia later won the competition in 2017.

The EBU justified the premature decision with the fact that Minsk had submitted a very strong application to host. In addition, the early decision gives more time to organize the next competition.

The host of the contest was the Belarusian television broadcaster BTRC , which already hosted the JESC in 2010.

In November 2017, the EBU announced that the Minsk Arena would be the venue for the competition. The arena was the venue in 2010 . It is also considered to be one of the largest venues in the history of the JESC.

For the following competition it was announced that, as between 2013 and 2017, the winner will have the privilege to host the next JESC.

Attendees

countries

Countries that participated in 2018

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 2018

A total of 20 countries took part in 2018, a record since the Junior Eurovision Song Contest began in 2003. Never before have so many countries participated at the same time.

Wales and Kazakhstan took part in a Eurovision Song Contest for the very first time, but in 2017 Wales already entered the “Eurovision Choir Of The Year”. France returned for the first time since debuting in 2004, while Azerbaijan competed for the first time since 2013. Although a rule says that a maximum of 18 countries can participate, this rule has been suspended for the 2018 ESC winner from Israel, who participated for the third time after a one-year break. Ukraine had previously announced that it would withdraw from the competition due to financial difficulties, but in the end it was on the official list of participants of the EBU. Cyprus canceled its participation without giving any specific reasons. The last place in the previous year may be a reason.

On the basis of decisions by the NDR - which is responsible for Germany's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest - Germany has not been allowed to take part in the competition since the Junior Eurovision Song Contest was founded .

National preliminary decisions

The 20 participating countries used the following formats to select their respective participants:

country	Preliminary decision
Albania	Junior Fest 2018
Armenia	Depi Mankakan Evratesil 2018
Azerbaijan	internal selection
Australia	internal selection
France	internal selection
Georgia	Ranina 2018
Israel	National preliminary decision
Ireland	Junior Eurovision Éire 2018
Italy	internal selection
Kazakhstan	National preliminary decision
Malta	Malta Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Netherlands	Junior Song Festival 2018
North Macedonia	internal selection
Poland	internal selection
Portugal	Juniores de Portugal
Russia	National preliminary decision
Serbia	internal selection
Ukraine	National online preliminary decision
Wales	Chwilio on the Seren
Belarus	National preliminary decision

final

The final took place on November 25, 2018 at 2 p.m. ( CET ) in the Minsk Arena in Minsk. All participating countries were entitled to vote.

After the jury vote, Australia, Malta and Georgia topped the list. The eventual winner Poland only ended up in seventh place. During the audience vote, Australia could not hold first place and had to give it up to Poland. Poland received 136 points from the spectators, so that the country was able to prevail with a twelve point lead over France.

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points	image
01.	20th	Poland	Roksana Węgiel	Anyone I Want To Be M: Maegan Cottone, Nathan Duvall, Cutfather, Peter Wallevik, Daniel Davidsen, Małgorzata Uściłowska, Patryk Kumór; T: Maegan Cottone, Nathan Duvall, Cutfather, Peter Wallevik, Daniel Davidsen	Polish , English	Anyone I want to be	215
02.	15th	France	Angélina Nava	Jamais sans toi M / T: Fico, Comblat, Stawski, Age Ali	French , English	Never without You	203
03.	12	Australia	Jael Wena	Champion M / T: MSquared	English	winner	201
04th	01	Ukraine	Darina Krasnovetska Дарина Красновецька	Say Love M: Mikhailo Klimenko; T: Mikhailo Klimenko, Volodimir Sharikov, Darina Krasnovetska	Ukrainian , English	Say love	182
05.	19th	Malta	Ela Mangion	Marchin 'On M: Emil Calleja Bayliss; T: Cyprian Cassar	English	March on	181
06th	03	Kazakhstan	Danelija Tuleschowa Данэлия Тулешова	Ózińe sen (Өзіңе сен) M: Kamila Dairowa, Danelija Tuleschowa, Artjom Kuzmenkow; T: Ivan Lopukhow	Kazakh , English	You yourself	171
07th	11	Italy	Melissa & Marco	What Is Love M: Mario Gardini, Fabrizio Palaferri, Marco Boni, Melissa Di Pasca; T: Franco Fasano, Marco Iardella	Italian	What is love?	151
08th.	13	Georgia	Tamar Edilashvili თამარ ედილაშვილი	Your Voice M: Aleksandre Lortkipanidze; T: Sopio Toroschelidze	Georgian , English	Your voice	144
09.	17th	Armenia	LEVON	LEVON M / T: Artem Valter	Armenian	-	125
10.	05	Russia	Anna Filipchuk Анна Филипчук	Nepobedimy (Непобедимы) M / T: Taras Demchuk	Russian , English	Indisputable	122
11.	08th	Belarus (hosts)	Daniel Yastremski Даниель Ястремский	Time M: Roman Kolodko; T: Kirill Good	Russian, English	time	114
12.	16	North Macedonia	Marija Spasovska Мария Спасовска	Doma (Дома) M: Darko Dimitrov; T: Darko Dimitrov, Elena Risteska	Macedonian	At home	099
13.	06th	Netherlands	Max & Anne	Seed M: Babette Labeij; T: Babette Labeij, Dimitri Veltkamp, ​​Robin van Veen	Dutch , English	Together	091
14th	14th	Israel	Noam Dadon נועם דדון	Yelaad'im kaeele (ילדים כאלה) M / T: Eden Hason	Hebrew	Such children	081
15th	09	Ireland	Taylor Hynes	IOU MT: Taylor Hynes, Niall Mooney; T: Jonas Gladnikoff, Niall Mooney	Irish	-	048
16.	07th	Azerbaijan	Fidan Hüseynowa	I Wanna Be Like You M: Ayten Ismikhanova, Elvira Michieva; T: Isa Melikov, Fidan Huseynova	Azerbaijani , English	I wanna be like you	047
17th	04th	Albania	Efi Gijka	Barby M: Hristina Gjika; T: Efthimia Gjika	Albanian , English	Barbie	044
18th	02	Portugal	Rita Laranjeira	Gosto de tudo (Já nicht gosto de nada) M / T: João Só	Portuguese	I like everything (and nothing more)	042
19th	10	Serbia	Bojana Radovanović Бојана Радовановић	Svet (Свет) M: Maria Marić Marković; T: Maria Marić Marković, Bojana Radovanović	Serbian	world	030th
20th	18th	Wales	Manw	Perta M: Ywain Gwynedd, Ifan Siôn Davies, Richard James Hooson Roberts; T: Ywain Gwynedd	Welsh	the most beautiful	029

Statistics of the twelve-point award (jury)

number	country	received from
6th	Australia	Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Ukraine, Wales, Belarus
3	Georgia	Ireland, Israel, Russia
2	France	Albania, Malta
	North Macedonia	Kazakhstan, Serbia
	Malta	Australia, Georgia
1	Italy	Macedonia
	Poland	France
	Russia	Azerbaijan
	Ukraine	Poland
	Belarus	Armenia

Jury and online voting

	Jury voting	Points	Online voting	Points
1.	Australia	148	Poland	136
2.	Malta	138	France	117
3.	Georgia	105	Kazakhstan	103
4th	Ukraine	104	Ukraine	78
5.	Italy	94	Armenia	70
6th	France	86	Netherlands	68
7th	Poland	79	Russia	62
8th.	Kazakhstan	68	Italy	57
9.	North Macedonia	64	Australia	53
10.	Belarus	61	Belarus	53
11.	Russia	60	Israel	47
12.	Armenia	55	Malta	43
13.	Israel	34	Portugal	42
14th	Netherlands	23	Georgia	39
15th	Azerbaijan	17th	Ireland	36
16.	Ireland	12	North Macedonia	35
17th	Albania	10	Albania	34
18th	Serbia	2	Azerbaijan	30th
19th	Portugal	0	Wales	29
20th	Wales	0	Serbia	28

Points speaker

The points speakers announce the results of the jury vote in their countries. The following order was determined by the EBU.

No.	country	Points speaker	Remarks
01	Ukraine	Anastasiya Baginska	Participant for Ukraine 2017
02	Portugal	Nadezhda Sidorova
03	Kazakhstan	Aruzhan Hafiz
04th	Albania	Daniil Lazuko
05	Russia	Khryusha
06th	Netherlands	Vincent Miranovich
07th	Azerbaijan	Valeh Huseynbeyli
08th	Belarus	Arina Rovba
09	Ireland	Alex Hynes
10	Serbia	Lana Karić
11	Italy	Yan Musvidas
12	Australia	Ksenia Galetskaya
13	Georgia	Nikoloz Vasadze	Participant in the Georgian preliminary decision Ranina 2018
14th	Israel	Adi
15th	France	Daniil Rotenko & Lubava Marchuk
16	North Macedonia	Arina Pekhtereva	Participant in the Belarusian preliminary decision Eurabatschanne 2017
17th	Armenia	Vardan Margaryan	Participant in the Armenian preliminary decision Depi Mankakan Evratesil 2018
18th	Wales	Gwen
19th	Malta	Milana Borodko
20th	Poland	Grace

Cancel

Cancellation and therefore no return to JESC

country	Reason and remark	last participation
Bulgaria	On May 19, 2018, the Bulgarian broadcaster BNT announced that there were no plans to take part in the competition in 2018 either.	2016
Latvia	On July 23, 2018 it was announced that Latvia will not return to the JESC.	2011
Lithuania	On February 28, 2018, the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT announced that there are no plans to return to the competition in the near future.	2011
Moldova	TVM announced on June 11, 2018 that Moldova would not return to the competition in 2018 either. The main reason for this are financial reasons.	2013
Norway	Norway will not return to the competition in 2018 either. This was confirmed by the Norwegian broadcaster NRK on June 1, 2018.	2005
Romania	The Romanian broadcaster TVR excluded participation for 2018.	2009
San Marino	SMTV has no plans to return to JESC with San Marino in 2018. They stayed out of the competition for the past four years.	2016
Sweden	On May 21, 2018, the Swedish broadcaster SVT announced that it would not return in 2018 either. The competition has been withdrawn since 2015.	2014
Switzerland	On May 28, 2018, the Swiss broadcaster RSI announced that it did not want to participate in JESC 2018.	2004
Slovenia	On May 23, 2018, the Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO announced that it did not want to participate in JESC 2018.	2015
Spain	Participation for this year's JESC has not been confirmed, but a return in the next few years cannot be ruled out.	2006
United Kingdom	On April 4, 2018, the BBC announced that it would not participate in the competition in 2018 either. In addition, they did not take part in conferences related to the JESC.	2005
Cyprus	On June 11, 2018, the Cypriot TV station PIK announced that it would not participate in 2018. A specific reason for the withdrawal was not given.	2017

Cancellation and therefore no debut at JESC

country	Reason and remark
Germany	On May 23, 2018, Norddeutsche Rundfunk announced that Germany would not take part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018.
Finland	On May 25, 2018, the Finnish broadcaster YLE announced that it would not make its JESC debut.
Hungary	MTVA ruled out Hungary's debut at the JESC on July 22, 2018.

transmission

Television broadcast

country	Channel	Moderation / comment
participating countries
Albania	RTSH 1	Andri Xhahu
Armenia	ARMTV	NN
Australia	ABC Me	Grace Koh, Pip Rasmussen & Lawrence Gunatilaka
Azerbaijan	İTV	Shafiga Efendiyeva
France	France 2	Madame Monsieur & Stéphane Bern
Georgia	SSM	Helen Kalandadze & George Abashidze
Ireland	TG4	Mícheál Ó Ciarradh & Sinéad Ní Uallacháin
Israel	Kan 11 , Kan Educational	Dudu Erez & Alma Zohar
Italy	Rai Gulp	Federica Carta & Mario Acampa
Kazakhstan	Khabar	NN
Malta	TVM	NN
Netherlands	NPO Zapp	Jan Smit
North Macedonia	MRI 1	Eli Tanaskovska
Poland	TVP ABC , TVP Polonia , TVP HD	Artur Orzech
Portugal	RTP1, RTP Internacional, RTP África	Nuno Galopim
Russia	Carousel	Anton Zorkin
Serbia	RTS2, RTS SAT	Tamara Petković
Ukraine	WP: Perschyj , WP: Crimea, WP: Kultura	Timur Miroshnychenko
Wales	S4C	Trystan Ellis-Morris ( Welsh )
	S4C	Stifyn Parri ( English )

Radio broadcast

country	Channel	Moderation / comment
Countries not participating
New Zealand	World FM 88.2	Ewan Spence, Sharleen Wright & Ben Robertson
United Kingdom	Radio Six International, Fun Kids	Ewan Spence, Sharleen Wright & Ben Robertson

Web links

Commons : Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest (English)

Individual evidence

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22. ↑ Switzerland: RSI Rules out Return to Junior Eurovision in 2018 - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . May 28, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed May 28, 2018]).
23. ^ Slovenia: Will Not Participate in Junior Eurovision 2018 - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . May 23, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed May 28, 2018]).
24. ↑ Spain: RTVE Will Assess Participation in Future Editions of Junior Euro Vision - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . September 4, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed September 5, 2018]).
25. ↑ Russia: Confirms Junior Eurovision 2018 Participation - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . January 22, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed July 8, 2018]).
26. ^ Cyprus: Withdraws from Junior Eurovision - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . June 11, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed June 16, 2018]).
27. ^ Anthony Granger: Germany: NDR Will Not Participate in Junior Eurovision 2018. In: eurovoix.com. May 23, 2018, accessed May 23, 2018 . 
28. ↑ Finland: YLE Will Not Debut At Junior Eurovision 2018 - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . May 25, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed May 28, 2018]).
29. ^ Hungary: MTVA Rules Out Junior Eurovision Debut - Eurovoix . In: Eurovoix . July 22, 2018 ( eurovoix.com [accessed July 25, 2018]).