Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest

Serbia and Montenegro Yugoslavia←→Serbia, Montenegro
Member station	RTS RTCG
National selection events	Evropesma
Appearances
Appearances	2
First appearance	2004
Last appearance	2005
Best result	2nd: 2004
Worst result	7th: 2005
External links
[http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-country/country?country=42 Serbia and Montenegro Yugoslavia←→Serbia, Montenegro's page at Eurovision.tv]

Željko Joksimović at Istanbul (2004)

Serbia and Montenegro participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, from 2004 (see Eurovision 2004). This entry was a success, the country finishing second with the performance of Željko Joksimović. In 2005, the second performance fared 7th, courtesy of the band No Name from Podgorica, Montenegro. Serbia and Montenegro is one of the few countries that have sent all the songs in one of the official languages.

Serbia and Montenegro had been sent to take part in the 2003. However they were unable to take part after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) decided that too many countries would be relegated if the country took part. RTS held a contest – Beovizija 2003 – to be used as a "rehearsal" for next years Eurovision selection, held between 12–14 April. The winner was Toše Proeski with "Čija si" – Proeski would go on to represent his home country Macedonia the following year.

No Name were close to becoming the national entry once more, for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, however since their 2005 win of the national qualifier had been disputed due to tactical voting by the Radio-Television of Montenegro jury, and since the 2006 vote saw a repeat of this, the UJRT, the national union of broadcasters, did not reach an agreement on sending them to the contest again. On 20 March, 2006, Serbia and Montenegro officially withdrew from the ESC. The country did however participate in the final voting for the winner. The Eurovision semifinal was not broadcast in Montenegro in 2006, and so the votes from Serbia & Montenegro, were actually from Serbia alone.

Both countries sent separate entries to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, after the Montenegrin referendum on independence and dissolution of the state union in June 2006. Montenegro made their debut as independent state and sent Stevan Faddy, and Serbia sent Marija Šerifović that brought the trophy to Serbia for the first time in their Eurovision history.

Contestants

Year	Artist	Title	Final	Points	Semi	Points
2004	Željko Joksimović	"Lane moje" (Лане моје)	2	263	1	263
2005	No Name	"Zauvijek moja" (Заувијек моја)	7	137	X	X

• XX on Semi Finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to two reasons. If a country won the previous year, they did not have to compete in Semi Finals, or back in the early 2005-2007 era, countries who done well did not have to compete in Semi Finals the following year. The top ten non-Big four along with the Big four countries automatically qualified, for example, if Germany and France placed inside the top 10, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's Grand Final along with everyone within the top 10.
• XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.

Voting history (2004-2006)

2004 - 2006

Serbia & Montenegro withdrew from the 2006 contest, but still was allowed to vote. Serbia and Montenegro gave the most points to...

Rank	Country	Points
1	Macedonia	27
2	Croatia	25
=	Greece	25
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22
4	Albania	16
5	Ukraine	12

2004 - 2005

Serbia and Montenegro received the most points from...

Rank	Country	Points
1	Austria	24
=	Croatia	24
=	Switzerland	24
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22
=	Slovenia	22
3	Cyprus	20
=	Macedonia	20
4	France	16
=	Russia	16
=	Sweden	16
5	Ukraine	15

NOTE: The totals in the above tables include only points awarded in Eurovision finals, and not the semi-finals.

Marcel Bezençon Awards

Further information: Marcel Bezençon Awards

Press Award

Year	Song	Performer	Final Result	Points	Host city
2004	"Lane moje" (Лане моје)	Željko Joksimović	2nd	263	Istanbul

Composer Award

Year	Song	Composer(s) Lyrics (l) / Music (m)	Performer	Final Result	Points	Host city
2005	"Zauvijek moja"	Slaven Knezović (m) and Milan Perić (l)	No Name	7th	137	Kiev

Commentators

Jovana Janković represented votes of Serbia and Montenegro during the final of Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Year(s)	Serbian commentator	Dual Serbian commentator	Spokesperson	Montenegran commentator	Dual Montenegran commentator	Trio Montenegran commentator
1992	Mladen Popović	No Dual Commentator	Veselin Mrđen	No broadcast	No broadcast	No broadcast
1993		Extra Nena	Serbia and Montenegro did not participate
1994		No Dual Commentator
1995	Sanja Damić	Enver Petrovci
1996	No broadcast	No broadcast
1997	Boško Negovanović	Bebi Dol
1998	Mladen Popović	Radoš Bajić
1999	No broadcast	No broadcast
2000	Tanja Zeljković	Radoš Bajić
2001	Boško Negovanović	No Dual Commentator
2002	Mladen Popović
2003		Duška Vučinić-Lučić
2004			Nataša Miljković	Dražen Bauković	Tamara Ivanković	No trio Commentator
2005			Nina Radulović			Danijel Popović
2006			Jovana Janković			No trio Commentator

See also

• Evrop(j)esma: details about the national pre-selections 2004-2006.
• Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia and Montenegro in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

External links

• Points to and from Serbia and Montenegro eurovisioncovers.co.uk