Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018

The **Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018** was the sixteenth edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. It took place at the Minsk-Arena, Minsk, Belarus on 25 November 2018, Russian broadcaster Carousel was the host broadcaster for the event in the AI version where AI videos take over the edition. The motto for the contest was  _"#LightUp"_.

## Results

On 9 August 2017, it was confirmed that sixteen countries would take part in the contest. Israel was given permission to participate as they had won the adult contest earlier that year.

Despite withdrawing from the contest on 2 July 2018 due to financial difficulties, Ukraine were added to the list of participating countries on 2 August 2018, setting a record of 20 participating countries.

|scope="col"|Draw|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language(s)|scope="col"|Place|scope="col"|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Darina Krasnovetska|"Say Love"|Ukrainian, English|4|182|||||||||
||Rita Laranjeira|"Gosto de tudo (já não gosto de nada)"|Portuguese|18|42|||||||||
||Daneliya Tuleshova|"Ózińe sen" <small>()</small>|Kazakh, English|6|171|||||||||
||Efi Gjika|"Barbie"|Albanian, English|17|44|||||||||
||Anna Filipchuk|"Unbreakable"|Russian, English|10|122|||||||||
||Max and Anne|"Samen"|Dutch, English|13|91|||||||||
||Fidan Huseynova|"I Wanna Be Like You"|Azerbaijani, English|16|47|||||||||
||Daniel Yastremski|"Time"|Russian, English|11|114|||||||||
||Taylor Hynes|"IOU"|Irish|15|48|||||||||
||Bojana Radovanović|"Svet" <small>()</small>|Serbian|19|30|||||||||
||Melissa and Marco|"What Is Love"|Italian, English|7|151|||||||||
||Jael|"Champion"|English|3|201|||||||||
||Tamar Edilashvili|"Your Voice"|Georgian, English|8|144|||||||||
||Noam Dadon|"Children Like These"|Hebrew|14|81|||||||||
||Angélina|"Jamais sans toi"|French, English|2|203|||||||||
||Marija Spasovska|"Doma" <small>()</small>|Macedonian|12|99|||||||||
||L.E.V.O.N|"L.E.V.O.N"|Armenian|9|125|||||||||
||Manw|"Perta"|Welsh|20|29|||||||||
||Ela|"Marchin' On"|English|5|181|||||||||
||Roksana Węgiel|"Anyone I Want to Be"|Polish, English|1|215|||||||||

## Score sheet

|colspan="5"|Split results|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||136||148|
||117||138|
||103||105|
||78||104|
||70||94|
||68||86|
||62||79|
||57||68|
||53||64|
||53||61|
||47||60|
||43||55|
||42||34|
||39||23|
||36||17|
||35||12|
||34||10|
||30||2|
||29||0|
||28||0|

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|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ukraine|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|182|78||7|6|2|3|4|3|3|5|8|7||10|8|5|10|2|5|4|**12**||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Portugal|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|42|42||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Kazakhstan|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|171|103|5|||4|7|5|8|6|4|5|||6|||8|4||6|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Albania|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|44|34|||||||1||1|||||||1||2|5|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Russia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|122|62||1|4|||3|**12**|2||||8||5|||10|7|2|6||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Netherlands|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|91|68|1||||2|||||1||3|2|3|4||6|1||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Azerbaijan|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|47|30||||6|||||3||4|||||||3|1|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Belarus|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|114|53||10|2|||8|10||2||5|1|1||||**12**||10|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Ireland|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|48|36|||||||||||||3||1|||||8||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Serbia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|30|28||||||||||||||||2||||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Italy|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|151|57|6|4|10||||4|7|10|6||7|7|7|3|**12**|||8|3||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Australia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|201|53|**12**|**12**|3|7|10|**12**|6|**12**|7|3|**12**||8|2|6|7|7|**12**||10||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Georgia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|144|39|7|2|5||**12**|2|2||**12**|2|10|5||**12**|10|5|8|10||1||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Israel|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|81|47|4|3|7|1|5|1|||||6||||2||||3|2||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|France|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|203|117||5||**12**|6|7|7|8|6|7||4|4|1||6|1||**12**|||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Macedonia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|99|35|2||**12**|10|1|||1||**12**|1|2|||7||5|4||7||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Armenia|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|125|70|3|6||3||6||5|||3|6||4|8||||7|4||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Wales|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|29|29||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; background:#f2f2f2;"|Malta|style="text-align:right; background:#f2f2f2;"|181|43|10|8|8|5|8|10|5|10|8|4|8|**12**|**12**|10||4|3|8||5||||||||||||||||||
|style="text-align:left; font-weight:bold;"|Poland|style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;"|215|136|8||1|8|4|||4||10|2|10|5|6|**12**|3||6||||||||||||||||||||

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received from each country's professional juries.

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### Spokespersons

1. Anastasiya Baginska
1. Nadezhda Sidorova
1. Aruzhan Khafiz
1. Daniil Lazuko
1. Dina Baru and Khryusha
1. Vincent Miranovich
1. Valeh Huseynbeyli
1. Arina Rovba
1. Alex Hynes
1. Lana Karić
1. Yan Musvidas
1. Ksenia Galetskaya
1. Nikoloz Vasadze
1. Adi
1. Daniil Rotenko and Lubava Marchuk
1. Arina Pekhtereva
1. Vardan Margaryan
1. Gwen Rowley
1. Milana Borodko
1. Grace

## Infobox (song contest)

- **name**: Junior Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2018
- **theme**: _#LightUp_ (real), "Touch the Moon" (AI)
- **final**: 25 November 2018
- **presenters**: Evgeny Perlin
Zinaida Kupriyanovich

- **exsupervisor**: Martin Österdahl, Jon Ola Sand
- **exproducer**: Olga Shlyager
- **director**: Gordon Bonello
 Daniel Jelinek
- **host**: Carousel (TV channel), Carousel
- **venue**: Moscow Creative Mall, Moscow, Russia
- **vote**: Each country's professional jury award 12, 10, 8–1 points to their top 10 songs. International viewers vote for 3–5 songs, and votes are converted to points by proportional representation.
- **entries**: 20
- **winner**:
"Anyone I Want to Be"
- **return**:

- **debut**:

- **opening**: Flag parade introducing the 20 participating countries
- **interval**: Polina Bogusevich with "Wings (Polina Bogusevich song), Wings"
All participants with "Light Up"
- **green**: y
- **yellow**: y
- **semi**: 12 November 2018 (AI only)