Last night the stars of Junior Eurovision 2016 turned up and turned out for the Opening Ceremony and running order draw.
And afterwards producers set to finalising the running order for Sunday’s show, hoping to create the right balance of entertainment — aka, let’s thin the wall of power ballads with some fierce, fun, uptempo ditties!
The final running order was released on Tuesday morning and is as follows
Junior Eurovision 2016 running order
- Ireland
- Armenia
- Albania
- Russia
- Malta
- Bulgaria
- F.Y.R. Macedonia
- Poland
- Belarus
- Ukraine
- Italy
- Serbia
- Israel
- Australia
- The Netherlands
- Cyprus
- Georgia
The running order does a good job of avoiding too many same-same songs one after the other.
Ireland, who drew the first starting position last night, opens with a pop-folk number. From there we move on to the uptempo stylings of Armenia’s Anahit & Mary, who will serve a heady mix of soul, funk and R&B. Then comes the Mother Earth realness of Russia and the cutesy electro pop of Malta.
We then move into ballad-dance-ballad-dance-ballad territory with Bulgaria, Macedonia, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.
In spot 11 is Italy’s Fiamma, whose sweet ballad contrasts sharply with the urban stylings of Serbia in spot 12. Israel will light a candle in position 13, followed by the perfectly produced Alexa Curtis, the Dutch dancing queens from the Netherlands, and rising house music star George from Cyprus.
Georgia’s Mariam, who drew the last position last night, will close the show — presumably in her now iconic yellow dress.
William plz, we know you think Albania’s song is horrible and it’s before Russia’s, but you know it exists too? “From there we move on to the uptempo stylings of Armenia’s Anahit & Mary, who will serve a heady mix of soul, funk and R&B. Then comes the Mother Earth realness of Russia and the cutesy electro pop of Malta.” NO, BEFORE THAT STUPID RUSSIAN ACT(I hate how Sofia hasn’t the spolight all on her anymore but instead the BACK VOCALISTS are stealing it)IS ALBANIA. ALBANIA TOO EXISTS, YOU KNOW?! btw I’m scared for Armenia and FYR Macedonia, the first… Read more »
@ Polegend Godgarina,
Yeah the song is good…..I thought that there was something other than the song itself that is making people watch happy day that I was missing
@ Kris – Because in the end, talent always wins.
The Netherlands are surrounded by boring acts, they’re good candidates as winners. The kids will LOVE Kisses and Dancin’!
Somebody please explain why lizi pop’s happy day ( Georgia 2014) is so popular on the jesc channel?
D’oh…..they have literally put all my top 5 one after the other…….. Had it been a televote year Italy would have had a massive advantage
That red car behind William though. :))
Russia has a big chance of winning, but I think Australia will take it home. Georgia is my last tho… With no televoting this really doesn’t change anything.
Something tells me that Russia won’t win. I think it will be Italy or Serbia. Macedonia is awesome, but it will flop.
Cyprus, win please.
I think Italy will win, and Cyprus will probably end up in top 5.
Can see Macedonia winning Italy is in a good spot too
My favorites are performing really early… anyway, it doesn’t really matter since only juries decide on the results. 🙂
Macedonia is at a good spot!! I think they might win!!
Australia still seem like winning material to me, while Cyprus is quite the dark horse.
OH MY GOOD I THINK THAT ITALY HAVE THE BEST PLACE OF THE FAVORITES BECAUSE ALL ARE FROM 2 TO 7 AND THE END OF THE SHOW IS FLAT WITH 4 SONGS NOT TO MUCH BILLIANTS.