Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989

Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Country	Yugoslavia
National selection
Selection process	Yugoslav Finals 1989
Selection date(s)	4 March 1989
Selected entrant	Riva
Selected song	"Rock me"
Finals performance
Final result	winner, 137 points
Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Yugoslavia was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, and won the competition for the first time.

National final

The Yugoslavian national final to select their entry, Yugoslav Final 1989, was held on 4 March at the Grand Hall of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, and was hosted by Dina Čolić and Boško Negovanović.

The winning song was chosen from a selection of 16 songs, by the votes of 8 regional juries. Each TV studio had to choose 1 song that entered straight into the competition and submitted few more songs from which the rest 8 songs were chosen.

Draw	Artist	Song	TV station	Votes	TVSA	TVLJ	TVBG	TVZG	TVSK	TVPR	TVNS	TVTG	place
1	Jelena Džoja & Ambasadori	"Kad ljubav umire"	TVSa	26	0+2+0			0+0+2			2+0+1	7+5+7	7
2	Caffe, Mojca & Marta	"Kadar sem sama"	TVLj	13	7+0+1	3+2+0							12
3	BG Sound	"Voli me opet"	TVBg	54	5+1+3		5+5+7	0+2+3		1+1+5	3+0+5	3+2+3	3
4	Massimo Savić	"Plavi anđeo"	TVZg	65	0+3+0	7+7+5	7+3+5	7+5+0	1+5+0	0+0+1	7+0+0	0+0+2	2
5	Zdravko Skender & Intervali	"Ogan gori"	TVSk	18		0+1+2		0+1+1	3+2+7			0+1+0	10
6	Riva	"Rock me"	TVZg	66	0+7+7			3+3+5	0+0+3	7+7+7	0+7+7	2+0+1	1
7	Trio Rona	"Fjollat"	TVPr	7				1+0+0		2+2+2			15
8	Toni Janković	"Pričaj mi"	TVSa	8	3+0+5								14
9	Vesna Ivić & Tedi Bajić	"Pregrni me nežno"	TVSk	38		5+0+7	3+7+0		5+3+2	0+3+3			4
10	Pop Design	"Baby blue"	TVLj	20		1+5+3	0+1+0	2+0+0		3+5+0			9
11	Jasna Zlokić	"Sve duge godine"	TVZg	34	2+5+2	0+3+0	1+0+1	5+7+7				1+0+0	5
12	Ana Kostovska	"Umesto da se ljubimo"	TVNS	14			2+2+2		2+1+0		0+2+0	0+3+0	11
13	Frenki	"Reka bez povratka"	TVBg	4		2+0+1			0+0+1				16
14	Lidija Kocovska	"Tajna"	TVSk	29	1+0+0				7+7+5		5+1+3		6
15	Biljana Krstić & Srđan Marjanović	"Još jedan poljubac za kraj"	TVTg	26			0+0+3				1+3+2	5+7+5	7
16	Foto Model	"Neću da te delim"	TVNS	10						5+0+0	0+5+0		13

At Eurovision

Riva was the twenty-second and last performer on the night of the Contest, following Germany. Their song "Rock Me" won the contest with a score of 137 points. However, according to author and historian John Kennedy O'Connor in The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History it was a very unexpected win and BBC TV commentator Terry Wogan described it as "the death knell" for the contest.

Points awarded to Yugoslavia

Points awarded to Yugoslavia

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Ireland Israel Turkey United Kingdom	Austria Belgium Denmark	Netherlands Sweden	Finland Norway	Iceland
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Cyprus Luxembourg Switzerland	Portugal	France		Germany

Points awarded by Yugoslavia

12 points	Sweden
10 points	Finland
8 points	Italy
7 points	Israel
6 points	United Kingdom
5 points	Austria
4 points	Turkey
3 points	France
2 points	Ireland
1 point	Denmark

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 1989

External links

• Yugoslavian National Final 1989