Similar to what I had done back in June with the adult contest, my goal in the upcoming weeks is - whenever I have the time and motivation - to create tops on past years of Junior Eurovision, and once I have successfully gone through all the years I want to, I will try to create a ranking of every competing country's average positions.

The 2018 edition of the contest was held in Minsk - Belarus. Ironically, the previous winner of the 2017 edition, was not from Belarus, but from Russia, she being Polina Bogusevich, with her song Wings, which won the contest the year prior. This is the first instance since 2012, where the contest was not held in the country that won the contest the year before. The 2018 contest was won by Poland for the first time, with Roksana Wegiel taking the trophy home with the song Anyone I Want To Be.

A total of 20 countries competed this year, which in terms of amount, is the highest amount of competing countries the contest has ever had, up until 2021 at least. Two countries, Kazakhstan and Wales, made their debut (Wales appearing separately from the UK who competed prior) and Azerbaijan, France and Israel returned to the contest. At the cost of those new countries, Cyprus chose to withdraw from the contest.

The official ranking of the contest: ( '!' means record position achieved, '=' means the country had its debut)
1 - Poland!
2 - France!
3 - Australia!
4 - Ukraine
5 - Malta
6 - Kazakhstan=
7 - Italy
8 - Georgia
9 - Armenia
10 - Russia
11 - Belarus
12 - North Macedonia
13 - The Netherlands
14 - Israel
15 - Ireland
16 - Azerbaijan
17 - Albania
18 - Portugal
19 - Serbia
20 - Wales=

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