This year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest is simply too close to call. The quality of songs is, in our opinion, stronger than some of the recent editions of the adult Eurovision. But, as always, we’ve attempted to look into a crystal ball and provide some kind of forecast for who will win JESC 2015. After combining the results of our JESC 2015 fan poll and the results of the Wiwi Jury, we are pleased to announce that Malta’s Destiny Chukunyere has emerged as our winner.
This comes with several caveats. First of all, all of the songs were reviewed by the Wiwi Jury using official music videos. Our fan poll was also open long before anyone saw the acts live. Therefore these rankings and assessments do not account for rehearsals (which you can watch here), staging, or live vocals. Russia, for instance, blew many of us away the moment we heard it live. Had we reviewed these songs after rehearsals these results may have been significantly different. In any event, here is how things panned out.
Combined Fan Poll-Wiwi Jury vote
The act that placed first in each category received 17 points. The act that placed second received 16 points and so on. Ties were broken using the results of our international jury.
RANK | COUNTRY | WIWI JURY | POLL | TOTAL |
1 | MALTA | 17 | 16 | 33 |
2 | SLOVENIA | 15 | 14 | 29 |
3 | AUSTRALIA | 16 | 12 | 28 |
4 | ARMENIA | 12 | 13 | 25 |
5 | GEORGIA | 7 | 17 | 24 |
6 | SERBIA | 13 | 9 | 22 |
7 | UKRAINE | 14 | 7 | 21 |
8 | IRELAND | 10 | 10 | 20 |
9 | ALBANIA | 11 | 8 | 19 |
10 | RUSSIA | 3 | 15 | 18 |
11 | SAN MARINO | 5 | 11 | 16 |
12 | BULGARIA | 8 | 6 | 14 |
13 | BELARUS | 9 | 3 | 12 |
14 | NETHERLANDS | 6 | 5 | 11 |
15 | ITALY | 4 | 2 | 6 |
16 | MACEDONIA | 1 | 4 | 5 |
17 | MONTENEGRO | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Wiwi Jury Results: Malta Wins
1. Malta: Destiny Chukunyere – “Not My Soul” (9.18)
2. Australia: Bella Paige – “My Girls” (8.89)
3. Slovenia: Lina Kuduzovic – “Prva Ljubezen” (8.74)
4. Ukraine: Anna Trincher – “Pochny Z Sebe” (8.55)
5. Serbia: Lena Stamenkovic – “Lenina Pesma” (8.08)
6. Armenia: Mika – “Love” (8)
7. Albania: Mishela Rapo – “Dambaje” (7.66)
8. Ireland: Aimee Banks – “Réalta na mara” (7.63)
9. Belarus: Ruslan Aslanov – “Volshebstvo” (Magic) (7.5)
10. Bulgaria: Gabriela Yordanova & Ivan Stoyanov – “Colour of Hope” (7.42)
11. Georgia: The Virus – “Gabede” (Dare) (7.26)**
12. The Netherlands: Shalisa – “Million Lights” (7.26)**
13. San Marino: Kamilla Ismailova – “Mirror” (7.16)
14. Italy: Chiara & Martina Scarpari – ““Viva”” (6.79)
15. Russia: Mikhail Smirnov – “Mechta” (6.76)
16. Montenegro: Jana Mirkovic – “Oluja” (6.5)
17. FYR Macedonia: Ivana & Magdalena – “Pletenka” (6.43)
Junior Eurovision 2015 Fan Poll: Georgia wins
Total Votes: 6,331
READ ALL OF OUR REHEARSAL REVIEWS HERE
READ OUR JESC 2015 SONG REVIEWS HERE
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Photo: Elena Volotova (EBU)
My full top 17 1. Armenia (A danceable song) 2. Russia (Unique song, in a positive way) 3. Georgia (As many of those who like it would say: it looks like they are having fun and when they are having fun, I think it’s fun) 4. Slovenia (It is a good song in the same style as “Let it go” and “Verjamem”, I like it) 5. Serbia (Go Mini-Bojana, this song is awesome) 6. Malta (I like it, because I’ve never heard a similar song in JESC, but I still hear similarities with “Forget you” by Cee lo Green) 7.… Read more »
go malta you should win ..
My prediction for TOP 5 in final
1. Australia (thanks to overrated juries votes like Sweden 2015 in adult contest)
2. Armenia
3. Georgia
4. Malta (thanks to juries)
5. Russia (thanks to televote, many points from ex URRS, plus huge votes from Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro)
My TOP 5 before rehearsals was
1. Armenia
2. Georgia
3. Australia
4. Serbia
5. Albania
But after rehearsals I change my TOP 5
1. Georgia
2. Ireland
3. Armenia
4. Australia
5. Serbia
Yay! Thats all my top 3. Plus last years quality of songs were also on point. Just horrible winner imo.
malta is so overrated!!! don’t like the song
please
San Marino is definitely underrated, as well as Russia. And I think it’s pretty obvious that nobody outside of Georgia would give so much to Georgia..
Any of the first four wins and I’ll be happy. I also like San Marino, Russia and Ireland. Georgia is really bad. Only made it up there because of Georgian fanatics…. from Georgia.
Russia Must win