Junior Eurovision craziness is taking Europe by storm — and acts keep popping up day by day. Since our last your-favourite-so-far poll, six more countries — Armenia, Italy, Georgia, FYR Macedonia, Serbia and debutant Australia — have revealed their hopefuls for JESC 2015 in Sofia. That’s as many songs as we had in the previous poll!For its inaugural performance Australia has selected 13-year-old Bella Paige with a song penned by Delta Goodrem. FYR Macedonia and Italy will unleash female vocal power with their girl-girl duets, and Armenia seeks to spread some love with Mika and his delightful #CupidIncorporated theme. Serbia is calling for peace with the power ballad “Lena’s song”, while Georgia’s “Gabede” is an earworm — and a whole lot of fun.
But which one do you like most? Do any stand out from the pack at this point? Below you can listen to all 12 entries released so far. Then vote for your favourite(s) in the poll. You can vote for as many acts you want, but you can vote only ONE time, so make it count. The poll closes ahead of Ireland’s final this weekend.
Be sure to check out our first reactions in the YouTube playlist at the bottom.
ALBANIA: MISHELA RAPO WITH “DAMBAJE”
ARMENIA: MIKA WITH “LOVE”
AUSTRALIA: BELLA PAIGE WITH “MY GIRLS”
BELARUS: RUSLAN ASLANOV WITH “MAGIC”
GEORGIA: THE VIRUS WITH “GABEDE”
ITALY: CHIARA & MARTINA SCARPARI WITH “VIVA”
FYR MACEDONIA: IVANA & MAGDALENA WITH “PLETENKA”
THE NETHERLANDS: SHALISA WITH “MILLION LIGHTS”
RUSSIA: MIKHAIL SMIRNOV WITH “MECHTA”
SERBIA: LENA STAMENKOVIC WITH “LENINA PESMA”
SLOVENIA: LINA KUDUZOVIC WITH “PRVA LJUBEZEN”
UKRAINE: ANNA TRINCHER WITH “POCHNY Z SEBE”
[polldaddy poll=9124731]JESC 2015: Our first reactions
Personal favourites (As of October 11)
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My favourite is Georgia
1 win Armenia!
1-Georgia
2-Armenia
3-Serbia
Georgia is strange original and crazy you are listining and you don’t know what you feel… But this is so cool
I agree I love Georgian kids I want to see them on the stage! Armenia is good too
Georgia & Armenia are super! This is junior eurovision!
I pretty much like most if the participants so far( with 1-2 exceptions)
1) Armenia – funny, energetic, well performed and importandly- COOL SHOW
2) Australia – the voice is simply Divine, but she resembles to a grown up/ adult singer…singing about ???? Are we in Junior? and boring 🙁 sorry
3) Serbia- beautiful voice and beautiful performance…!
My comments on the current poll leaders: Armenia: Well, I personally am not a fan of ’50s rock ‘n roll. But, given what it is, I think the song is all right and it’s fun to listen to. 7 / 10 Australia: It has some really great moments of musicality (such as the mature harmonies), but those artistic peaks are somewhat obscured by the very typical pop sound throughout. 7 / 10 Slovenia: This is my favorite song revealed so far. It grabs attention right away with the angular piano figures at the opening followed by the verse which gives… Read more »
My favourites are Australia, Slovenia, Armenia and Ukraine (and my guilty pleasure Georgia… :p). And I like the English parts of the Netherlands entry but Dutch is really not a nice language to listen to…
Down the bottom for me are Italy, Russia and Belarus
Not a strong year but we have more countries to go…..
1.Australia (Simply the best !! Better than all the rest 🙂 )
2.Slovenia (Masterpiece !!)
3.The Netherlands (Love-It !!)
4.Albania (Underrated because of the audio…)
5.Macedonia (Good one,so underrated !!)
6.Italy (I like how Italian this is !! )
7.Armenia (Good one !!)
8.Russia (Nothing Special….)
9.Serbia (The Message of the song is beautiful,But its a boring ballad)
10.Belarus (Voice = good but the song is boring….)
11.Ukraine (Overrated…)
12.Georgia (To “junior eurovisionary” for me)
I like The Virus they are super kids. I cut you Virus (From Germany)
The best for Junior eurovision song is Georgian, The Virus and also Armenia
1. Georgia
2. Armenia
last is Australia (Sorry)
1. Serbia
2. Slovenia
The rest are ok. But I think the winner’s gonna be someone from the former Yugoslav countries – Serbia, Slovenia or Montenegro. Just has to be. It was Malta, then Italy and now it’s gotta be one of these. But hopefully Serbia 😀
1 Georgia
2 Armenia
3 Australia
1.Armenia
2.Georgia
3.Australia
4.Belarus
5.Serbia
6.Albania
7.The Netherlands
8.Ukraine
9.F.Y.R Macedonia
10.Slovenia
11.Russia
12.Italy
I don’t think this year is as bad as people make it out to be. I binge listened to all 12 songs today (most for the first time) and I like every single one. Yes, they’re not as strong as last year, but I still think this will be a fun and interesting year!
Anyways, my rankings are –
1. Slovenia
2. Ukraine
3. Australia
4. Netherlands
5. Serbia
6. Armenia
7. FYR Macedonia
8. Russia
9. Italy
10. Belarus
11. Albania
12. Georgia
I voted for: Slovenia, Armenia, Australia and Serbia and my guilty pleasure, Georgia.
Australia, Ukraine and Georgia (this is a shocker for me, but the georgian song grew a lot on me these days!)
Albania and Australia. Other songs are pure trash! Last year was so much better…
Serbia, Belarus and Australia
My New Top: 1: Ukraine (-) – This is the total package. Anna delivers the song really well and I can’t not put her first 2: Serbia (+2) – This is a grower but I really think that this is beautiful and I usually hate the Balkan type ballads. 3: Georgia (-1) – There’s so much undeserved hate for this one. I actually REMEMBER the song and they look like they’re having fun so I’m having fun 4: Slovenia (-1) – She sings it well and is a contender 5: Armenia (-) – I love-hate this one. It’s sort of… Read more »
Top 12:
1-Australia <3 <3 10/10
2-Albania <3 9/10
3-Slovenia 8.5/10
4-Armenia 8/10
5-The Netherlands 7/10
6-Italy 6.5/10
7-FYR Macedonia 6/10
8-Serbia 5.5/10
9-Russia 5/10
10-Ukraine 4.5/10
11-Belarus 4/10
12-Georgia 2/10 sorry
My favourite is Australia! Very powerful and big, which we need.
I actually caught my mom singing “Dibi Dibi Dambaje”. Because I am singing it every day xD
Armenia,serbia,australia and macedonia are my favorites 🙂
My top 12 so far:
1. The Netherlands
2. Australia
3. Slovenia
4. Albania
5. Ukraine
6. Armenia
7. Belarus
8. Russia
9. Serbia
10. Italy
11. Macedonia
12. Georgia
I voted for Russia, but I also like Armena very much