Bulgaria in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Draw Artist Song ( Original artist ) Result
1 Eleonora Ivanova Wrecking Ball ( Miley Cyrus ) Advanced
2 Aleksandrina Mehandzhiyska The Edge of Glory ( Lady Gaga ) Eliminated
3 Pavel Mateev Nikoi ( Grafa ) Advanced
4 Preslava Petrova One Night Only ( Jennifer Hudson ) Eliminated
5 Yuliana Mur Nashe lyato ( Lili Ivanova ) Eliminated
6 Ivan Stoyanov Mercy ( Duffy ) Advanced
Before Junior Eurovision -- Semi-finals
In the semifinals , six children will each perform a three-minute pop song together with the 'Ku-Ku Band ' - the resident band of `` Slavi 's show '' . The public will be able to choose their favourite of the six to go to the final , by voting online and by SMS . The jury will choose another two artists , making a total of three from each show and 12 finalists overall . Petya Dikova , a liftstyle journalist from bTV , and Boris Soltariyski , one of the backing vocalists for `` Ku-Ku Band '' , will be the hosts for both the semi-finals and the final . [ 13 ] The semifinals will take place each day between the 31 August to 3 September . [ 14 ] Twelve participants qualified from the semi-finals , and will go on to compete in the televised live final on 8 September . The winner will go on to represent Bulgaria at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 , on home soil . [ 15 ] Key legend Finalist chosen by jury Finalist chosen by televoting Semi-final 1 The first semi-final took place on 31 August . Eleonora Ivanova , Pavel Mateev and Ivan Stoyanov advanced to the final . [ 16 ]
Bulgaria participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015, as the host country, after Italy who had won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014, declined the invitation from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to host the contest. The event took place at the Arena Armeec on 21 November 2015. National broadcasters Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and bTV jointly organised the national selection process, in order to decide who would represent them on home soil. Submissions for the national selection shows opened in July 2015, for singers aged between 10-15. A professional jury of members from the music industry, selected the best entries to proceed forward to a non-televised auditions event that took place in August 2015. Twenty-four artists were chosen to participate in one of four semi-finals, which were broadcast live between 31 August to 3 September 2015. Jury members selected two artists from each of the four semi-finals, whilst the remaining artist from each semi-final was determined by a public televote. The twelve chosen artists from the semi-finals, advanced into the grand final which was scheduled to take place on 8 September 2015. The winning participant was selected by a 50/50 combination of both telephone vote and the votes of jury members made up of music professionals. Gabriela Yordanova represented Bulgaria in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015. The song that she performed at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is Colour of Hope and she was accompanied by the runner-up of the election, Ivan Stoyanov. Bulgaria finished 9th in the final with 62 points.