Seventeen acts will compete at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Malta, but there can only be one winner. To help you make an informed decision about where to cast your vote, the Wiwi Jury—our in-house panel of music un-professionals—will preview and review each of this year’s acts. We’re ready to pick our JESC favourites!
Our jury for this edition consists of 21 jurors who hail from Australia, Croatia, Georgia, Ireland, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States. We are truly international, y’all! Each juror assesses each song independently, and then awards each song a score from 0 to 10. Before calculating the Wiwi Jury verdict, we drop the highest and lowest scores to reduce potential bias and outliers.
We’ll be unrolling these one by one over the coming weeks. You can read the completed reviews by clicking on the song title.
JUNIOR EUROVISION 2016: REVIEWS AND RANKINGS
- Russia: Sofia Fisenko & The Water of Life Project with “Water of Life” (9.29)
- FYR Macedonia: Martija Stanojkovic with “Love Will Lead Our Way” (8.13)
- Italy: Fiamma Boccia with “Cara Mamma (Dear Mom)” (8.05)
- Bulgaria: Lidia Ganeva with “Magical Day” (7.76)
- Malta: Christina Magrin with “Parachute” (7.71)
- Albania: Klesta Qehaja with “Besoj” (7.68)
- Armenia: Anahit & Mary with “Tarber” (7.66)
- Serbia: Dunja Jelicic with “U La La La” (7.63)
- The Netherlands: Kisses with “Kisses and Dancin'” (7.61)
- Australia: Alexa Curtis with “We Are” (7.45)
- Georgia: Mariam Mamadashvili with “Mzeo” (7.32)
- Belarus: Alexander Minyonok with “Muzyka Moikh Pobed” (6.92)
- Cyprus: George Michaelides with “Dance Floor” (6.89)
- Ireland: Zena Donnelly with “Brice Ar Bhrice” (6.87)
- Poland: Olivia Wieczorek with “Nie Zapomnij” (6.82)
- Israel: Shir & Tim with “Follow My Heart” (6.76)
- Ukraine: Sofia Rol with “Planet Craves For Love” (6.26)
@Sanja
True. The performance is really energetic and her vocals are very good, I expect something similar on Sunday. And of course a place in the top 5. 🙂
+J(ESC) Fanatic
Thank you for wishing Martija to do well. 🙂 One of the judges said that her “maturity serves her well”. It really does, as the rehearsal showed. One of the reasons why she won’t disappoint is because she is always so professional. Just have a look at her live performances in Pinkove zvezdice. :)))))))
@Sanja
Certainty? I said “they MIGHT”. I want them to do well, especially after the great rehearsal, but I just said that there is a possibility they won’t.
+(J)ESD Fanatic
And how do you know that with such certainty? 😉
@Sanja
Don’t fangirl too much because they might finish outside of the top 10.
Macedonia has the second highest average mark out of 17 countries, according to the Wiwi judges. Added to the results of the Wiwibloggs poll where Love Will Lead Our Way is in the lead, Macedonia is again deservedly at the very top, both according to the opinion of the Wiwi judges and that of the Eurovision fans. Way to go Macedonia. Thumbs up to holding Junior Eurovision 2017 in Skopje. :)))))))))))))
The points of the Talent Jury aka me are:
1 – Malta
2 – Georgia
3 – Macedonia
4 – The Netherlands
5 – Albania
6 – Belarus
7 – Russia
8 – Bulgaria
10 – Italy
12 – POLAND
Aside from Macedonia and Ireland, the rest are placed very similarly in my own top 🙂 Good going!
Great to see you gave new (and higher) scores to Albania, as they revamped their song! 😀
Russia is an amazing winner, not surprising at all they won your vote! I expect them to win the actual contest too. 🙂
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I can’t believe you put Poland lower than Cyprus, Georgia or Serbia lol
I can’t believe y’all lashed Belarus so much. That’s a fun song, and he’s serving Christina Aguilera-level vocals in it. I can’t wait to read your reviews for the real winner, Poland!
Albania is very underrated… also are Belarus and Cyprus. The Netherlands, Malta and Bulgaria are too overrated
Why is Ukraine and Serbia so low ;(
I imagine Zena and Christina will be underrated aswell
Martija is deservedly at the top.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for her to stay there after all the reviews. 🙂
Glad to see Albania high! 🙂
Russia will probably win here.