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.

 Draw Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points 01   Darina Krasnovetska "Say Love" Ukrainian, English 4 182 02  Rita Laranjeira "Gosto de tudo (já não gosto de nada)" Portuguese 18 42 03  Daneliya Tuleshova "Ózińe sen" () Kazakh, English 6 171 04  Efi Gjika "Barbie" Albanian, English 17 44 05  Anna Filipchuk "Unbreakable" Russian, English 10 122 06  Max and Anne "Samen" Dutch, English 13 91 07  Fidan Huseynova "I Wanna Be Like You" Azerbaijani, English 16 47 08  Daniel Yastremski "Time" Russian, English 11 114 09  Taylor Hynes "IOU" Irish 15 48 10  Bojana Radovanović "Svet" () Serbian 19 30 11  Melissa and Marco "What Is Love" Italian, English 7 151 12  Jael "Champion" English 3 201 13  Tamar Edilashvili "Your Voice" Georgian, English 8 144 14  Noam Dadon "Children Like These" Hebrew 14 81 15  Angélina "Jamais sans toi" French, English 2 203  16  Marija Spasovska "Doma" () Macedonian 12 99 17  L.E.V.O.N "L.E.V.O.N" Armenian 9 125 18  Manw "Perta" Welsh 20 29 19  Ela "Marchin' On" English 5 181 20  Roksana Węgiel "Anyone I Want to Be" Polish, English 1 215

Score sheet
 Split results Place Online Voting Jury Country Points Country Points 1  136  148 2  117  138 3  103  105 4  78  104 5  70  94 6  68  86 7  62  79 8   57  68 9  53  64 10  53  61 11  47  60 12  43  55 13  42   34 14  39  23 15  36  17 16  35  12 17  34  10 18  30  2 19  29  0 20  28  0

+ Voting results Voting procedure used: scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  scope="col"  rowspan="20"  Ukraine 182 78   7  6  2  3  4  3  3  5  8  7    10  8  5  10  2  5  4  12 Portugal 42 42                                       Kazakhstan 171 103  5     4  7  5  8  6  4  5      6      8  4    6    Albania 44 34             1    1              1    2  5   Russia 122 62    1  4     3  12  2        8    5      10  7  2  6 Netherlands 91 68  1        2         1    3  2  3  4    6  1     Azerbaijan 47 30        6         3    4              3  1   Belarus 114 53    10  2      8  10   2    5  1  1        12    10   Ireland 48 36                         3    1          8 Serbia 30 28                              2           Italy 151 57  6  4  10        4  7  10  6   7  7  7  3  12      8  3 Australia 201 53  12  12  3  7  10  12  6  12  7  3  12   8  2  6  7  7  12    10   Georgia 144 39  7  2  5    12  2  2    12  2  10  5   12  10  5  8  10    1  Israel 81 47  4  3  7  1  5  1          6        2        3  2   France 203 117    5    12  6  7  7  8  6  7    4  4  1   6  1    12   Macedonia 99 35  2    12  10  1      1    12  1  2      7   5  4    7 Armenia 125 70  3  6    3    6    5      3  6    4  8       7  4 Wales 29 29                                        Malta 181 43  10  8  8  5  8  10  5  10  8  4  8  12  12  10    4  3  8   5 Poland 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.

 N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 6   , , , , ,  3   , ,  2   ,    ,    ,  1               

 Spokespersons 

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

 References 

 Other websites 


Category:2018 in Europe
Category:2018 in music
Category:Junior Eurovision Song Contest by year