Serbia: record submissions for Pesma za Evroviziju ’24!

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Serbia has received a record number of entries willing to participate in the national final Pesma za Evroviziju ’24.  Former head of the entertainment programme at RTS and creative supervisor for Eurovision, Ms. Olivera Kovačević  made this revelation in the podcast Evrovizijske priče.

During the podcast, she revealed the increased interest for the national final:

“We received around 235 compositions. Last year there were around 185. We received almost 50 more compositions and authors than last year. From year to year there has been more interest and I can say this includes people with amateur recordings to top professionals, to young gifted, to people with a successful career,”

However, she said that at this stage she can not reveal who are the artists that are in the competition.  The Selection Committee will listen to all the entries on December 11.  In the coming days we will  get to know the names of the competitors for Pesma za Evroviziju ’24.

RTS is still evaluating the exact number of candidates but there will be somewhere between 30 to 34 songs in the competition.  We will get the final list before new year.

The preliminary dates for Pesma za Evroviziju ‘24 are February 27 and 29 for the Semifinals with the final taking place on March 02, 2024.

Lukek Black represented Serbia in Liverpool.  He ended in 24th place in the Grand Final.

Source: RTS

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Serbia: Sara Jo about her possible comeback!

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Sara Jo, who represented Serbia in 2013 as a member of Moje 3, caught the attention of Eurofans again in 2022 when she tried to represent her country again by participating in the Serbian national final with the song “Muškarčina”.

Recently, she attended an event where, in an interview with Serbian media, she was asked whether she had prepared anything for this year’s Pesma Za Evroviziju and whether she plans to return to the competition, with her answering:

“I’m not thinking about it at the moment. In 2022 I signed up quite spontaneously and without much consideration. I had a song that I had fallen in love with, I knew exactly how it would be on stage, but this year I had no inspiration for it. I’d rather focus on my album, and maybe one day… who knows.”

Source: Pink.rs

Moje 3

Moje 3, consisting of Sara Jo, Nevena Božović (Serbia 2019) and Mirna Radulović (who has applied for PZE 2024), represented Serbia in Malmö in 2013 with the song “Ljubav je svuda”, finishing 11th in the first semi-final.

PZE 2022 – Muškarčina

In 2022 Sara Jo competed at PZE 2022 with the song “Muškarčina” finishing second, very close to the country’s representation which was eventually won by Konstrakta and “In Corpore Sano”.

Would you like to see Sara back on the Eurovision stage? Let us know in the comments below!

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Eurovision 2024: 37 countries will join the 68th contest in Malmö!

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The Eurovision season has officially started! Just moments ago, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced the participants’ list of Eurovision 2024 in Malmö. In total, 37 countries will participate in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.

In detail, the following countries will take part in Malmö:

 Albania – RTSH

 Australia – SBS

 Armenia – AMPTV

 Austria – ORF

 Azerbaijan – İctimai

Belgium – RTBF

Croatia – HRT

 Cyprus – CyBC

Czech Republic – ČT

 Denmark – DR

 Estonia – ERR

 Finland – YLE

 France – FT

 Georgia – GPB

 Germany – ARD/NDR

 Greece – ERT

 Iceland – RÚV

 Ireland – RTÉ

 Israel – IPBC/Kan

Italy – RAI

 Latvia – LTV

 Lithuania – LRT

Luxembourg – RTL

 Malta – PBS

 Moldova – TRM

Netherlands – AVROTROS

 Norway – NRK

 Poland – TVP

 Portugal – RTP

 San Marino – SMRTV

 Serbia – RTS

 Slovenia – RTVSLO

 Spain – TVE

 Sweden – SVT

 Switzerland – SRG / SSR

 Ukraine – UA:PBC

 United Kingdom – BBC

Whilst Romania is currently not confirmed to compete next year, talks are continuing with TVR on their potential participation as well. That means we might have 38 nations competing in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.

Luxembourg, one of the founding members of Eurovision as well as successful, having won the contest five times, will return after three decades long absence. In fact, Luxembourg’s return was known to public since May and it was even announced during the Grand Final of Eurovision 2023.

North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Montenegro still remain out, claiming financial reasons.

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden during 7-11 of May 2024, following Loreen’s second win in Liverpool.

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Serbia: Former participant reports PZE as rigged!

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Angellina, who participated in both editions of Pesma Za Evroviziju in 2022 and 2023, yesterday challenged the objectivity and impartiality of the Serbian national final.

The young singer while answering questions on her personal Instagram account also mentioned her participation in PZE:

The question was as follows

“Are you ever again participating in PZE?”

With her answering

“Never again, nor in any other rigged competition!
I never really needed it, I did it somewhat naively and only out of immense love for my country… However, I believe there are many better ways to make your country proud..”

Instagram // @angellinaofficial

Another relevant question that was answered was the following:

“What do you think about your last song on PZE?”

“It was very interesting. But too much for that moment. My mistake is that I did it out of spite and not out of love.
I had way better songs, but that’s how I felt at the time.”

Instagram // @angellinaofficial

Angellina came 4th in the 2022 national final with “Origami”, while in 2023 she failed to qualify for Saturday’s final, finishing 12th in the semi-final with “Lanac”.

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Serbia: RTS extends submission deadline for Pesma za Evroviziju 2024

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The Serbian Public Broadcaster RTS announced that it has decided to extend the submission deadline for the national final of the country, Pesma za Evroviziju 2024.

Initially, submissions began on August 1st but according to a statement by the  Head of the Serbian delegation at the Eurovision Song Contest, Uroš Marković, the new deadline for submissions is November 10, 2023. 

This is to allow artists and songwriters to refine their entries which are to be showcased on such an important platform as Pezma za Evroviziju 2024. RTS encourages both up-and-coming and established artists to submit entries.

Luke Black won Pezma za Evroviziju 2023 and therefore represented Serbia in Eurovision 2023 with the song “Samo Mi Se Spava” , finishing at the 24th place.

Source: Escunited

Serbia: Breskvica has applied for Pesma Za Evroviziju 2024!

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Breskevica was on a Serbian TV show where, among other things, she said that this year she managed to submit her entry to Pesma Za Evroviziju (PZE), which has been a big wish of her fans for the last few years.

More specifically, the young singer said:

“We have prepared a song! We wrote it together with Generacija Zed”

“I didn’t want to participate in the national final with just any song. I believe that a song that competes to go to Eurovision should reflect the country it represents. Both in terms of lyrics and music as well as meaning and stage presence. We thought a lot about that and that’s how we came to write the one we submitted”

“I really believe in this song and I’m sure people will love it as well!”

Who is Breskvica?

Andjela Ignjatović, professionally known as Breskvica, started releasing her own music in 2019. She, then, rose to popularity by collaborating with her then-boyfriend Voyage on a series of singles between 2019 and 2021.

After their breakup she pursued a solo career and to date she remains one of the hottest names amongst the younger generations.

Her songs nowadays are mostly pop mixed with Balkan and eastern elements but lately her two folk-Balkan ballads featuring Henny called “Sava i Dunav” and “Ko to tamo” have gained a lot of acceptance from the Balkan public.

Here you can check one of her latest singles, “Loš”:

Do you think that Breskevica would be a good choice for Serbia? What other names would you like to see take part in PZE? Let us know in the comments below!

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Serbia preparations for 2024 start as the country withdraws from Junior Eurovision

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Serbia has confirmed their intention to participate to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.

Public broadcaster RTS has already started their search for their representative for Malmö.  According to the statement of the broadcaster, the submission period is opened until November 01, 2023.  Interested artists can submit their entries filling an online application available on the broadcaster’s website.

After the submission period closes, a panel of music experts selected by RTS will select the artists that will participate in the Serbian national final based “solely on the artist quality of the entries”.

The results of the Serbian Eurovision national final consists on a 50% televote, 50% jury vote mirroring the current rules of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Serbia withdrawal from Junior Eurovision 2023

Serbia has withdrawn to the Junior Eurovision 2023 citing financial reasons.  The country participated in the previous Junior Eurovision 2022 with Katarina Savić who finished in 13th place.

Serbian withdrawal from the Junior Eurovision was confirmed by RTS editor in chief, Olivera Kovacevic  This marks the first time Serbia will not participate at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest since 2014.  Serbia had previously withdrawn from the Junior Eurovision due to financial difficulties in 2011.

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Nice, France after the victory of Lissandro last year.

Source: RTS, Eurofestivales

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Serbia: Confirmed participation and national final for Eurovision 2024!

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Serbia has confirmed its participation in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.

Serbian broadcaster RTS revealed to OGAE Serbia that the country will participate in Eurovision 2024. The broadcaster confirmed that it will again use a national final to select the representative, with details to be announced in the coming weeks.

To date, 19 countries have confirmed their participation in Eurovision 2024:

  • Austria
  • Cyprus
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Moldova
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Serbia
  • Spain
  • Sweden

Serbia selected its representative for Eurovision 2023 through Pesma za Evroviziju. After winning the national final, Luke Black finished 24th in the Eurovision 2023 Final, the worst place Serbia has ever finished in a Final, with just 30 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRfg9wzbpw

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Source: Evropesma.org

Eurovision 2023: Stand-in rehearsal clips are leaked!

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It has already been two months since the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. 37 performers stepped on the stage of the M&S Bank Arena giving it all and representing their countries in the biggest song competition in the world, after months of intense preparations.

The impressive stage performances that they pulled off were first tried on the Eurovision stage a few days before their arrival through simulations, known as stand in rehearsals. Stand in rehearsals are usually executed by local artists and performers so all participants can know in advance the television result of the performances. On a later stage, they have the opportunity to ask for changes during the technical rehearsals executed by the representatives themselves.

Each year we have the chance to take a look in these performances and compare this preparatory work to what we actually saw on the TV show. For example, last year we had the chance to see how some performances would look like if there weren’t the technical problems regarding the “sun” not being able to turn around.

This year, 7 videos of stand in rehearsals have leaked so far and they are the following:

  • Switzerland

  • Israel

  • Serbia

  • Portugal

  • Italy

  • Finland

  • Cyprus

There were obviously some changes made to performances. The dance break on the Israeli performance obviously changed and Portugal finally decided not to use the led screens.

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Weird broken records of EUROVISION 2023!

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Every year, including this one, we witnessed numerous peculiar results, variations between finals and semifinals, top rankings in records, and so forth. So, let’s examine each of them individually, shall we?

1. Albania

 

Albania, despite finishing 9th in the televote of the semi-final, achieved the second-best result among the countries from the second semi-final in the final itself, following Poland. This success led Albania to secure the 10th place overall in the final audience. Well done Albania!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI9rSDhXwyc&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

2. Austria

 

In contrast, even though Austria achieved the second position in the semi-final audience, in the final unexpectedly ended up in the very last position among the countries from the second semi-final. Unfortunately, Austria could only manage to secure the 22nd place in the final. Ouch.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uk64V9h0Ko&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

3. Serbia

 

Serbia managed to get the beloved ticket to the final, earning just 37 points and maintaining a significant gap of 37 points(!) from the next contestant in 9th place. Interestingly, 9th place had twice as many points as the 10th place. Wow, that’s symmetry brah. However, Serbia achieved a new record for the lowest number of points obtained by a contestant in the 10th place during the semi-final, surpassing Iceland’s previous record of 39 points in 2022.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRfg9wzbpw&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

4. Australia

 

Australia pulled through and won their semi-final, convincing the crowd that they had the best track among the 16. The crowd must have been forgotten somewhere in the final, as Australia only climbed to 20th place, earning the record for worst-placed semi-final winner in the final, when it comes to the televote. Followed by Greece in 2010 and Romania in 2013, with 7th place in the final, as semi-final winners. I think they completely forgot about Australia, they might have been snacking during the “promise” performance and not paying attention. Shame, shame, shame, first the music then the eating people!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSoy_mJMlMY&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

5. Sweden

 

Sweden overtook Ireland in wins, Loreen became the first woman to win the trophy twice and also this year’s Nordic country’s entry managed to set a new record by winning Eurovision with no 12 points from the audience. Like it or not, these are the trade-offs. Finally, this year’s Swedish entry managed to win, having a distance of 133 points from the winner of the televote, breaking the previous record, which was again its own, in 2015 with a distance of 87 points. In conclusion, 4 records for this year’s winner. Well played!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE2Fj0W4jP4&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

6. Estonia

 

Alika, just 20 years old, against all odds, made it to the final by finishing 10th in her semi-final. Hopefully, the judges had other plans, and while in the audience of the final she finished in 19th place (one place above the winner of her semi-final, Australia!), they shared her 146 points, giving her a decent place in this year’s top ten! Not being among the 10 favourite to pass in the big final, and finally reaching the final top ten, is undoubtedly something that even she did not expect. (credits to Katerina Mitika)

 

 

Did we miss any record or something peculiar this year? Let us know in the comments below!

 

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