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Slovenia: Klemen will represent the country with “How Much Time Do We Have Left”

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A few moments ago, EMA 2025—Slovenia’s national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest—wrapped up, marking its return after a three-year hiatus. The show was hosted by Raiven – Slovenia’s Eurovision 2024 representative – and Štras. 

The show

Opening act

Raiven opened the show with a symphonic version of her last year’s entry, “Veronica”. Subsequently the competing artists take the stage.

The competing entries

ANNA – “Čau”


ZveN – “Divja”


PolarAce – “Kind”

Astrid & The Scandals – “Touché”

Jon Vitezič – “Vse ti dam”

KiKi – “O-ou!”

Eva Pavli – “Niti”

Klemen – “How Much Time Do We Have Left”

July Jones – “New Religion”

Žan Videc – “Pusti da gori”

Trine – “Grace”

RAI – “Frederick’s Dead”

Interval acts

The show’s hosts took the stage for special performances—Štras delivered a medley of his biggest hits, while Raiven captivated the audience with her new single, “Hedonista”.

Voting

Round 1

The result was determined through two rounds of voting.

In the first round, a jury panel evaluated all 12 competing entries and selected the top two songs to advance to the final round. The jury panel consisted of 5 committees from specific groups, which voted in the same method as in Eurovision:

  • Music jury (singers, musicians, producers, songwriters creators etc.): 12 points awarded to Klemen 
  • Television jury (editors, presenters, directors, choreographers etc.) 12 points awarded to Klemen 
  • Radio jury (radio editors, journalists, presenters, etc.): 12 points awarded to Klemen 
  • OGAE Slovenia jury: 12 points awarded to July Jones
  • International Eurovision influencer jury (bloggers, vloggers, online journalists etc.):  12 points awarded to July Jones 

The two acts that advanced to the second and final round were the following:

  • July Jones – New Religion
  • Klemen – How Much Time Do We Have Left

The jury’s detailed results were as follows:

Round 2

In the final round, the two artists performed again, with the Slovenian public having the final say on who would represent the country at Eurovision 2025.

During the voting process, Ana Soklič, Slovenia’s representative at Eurovision 2020 and 2021, took the stage alongside Soul Crew to perform “Silvia”.

She was followed by Lea Sirk, the country’s 2018 Eurovision representative, as well as Urban Koritnik and Filip Vidušin, two members of the band LPS, which represented Slovenia in the 2022 contest. Together, they delivered a rendition of Slovenia’s 1993 Eurovision entry, “Tih deževen dan”.

Lastly, the two hosts, Raiven and Štras, performed “Zaljubila” along with a rendition of “Zažarim”, the song Raiven competed with in the country’s national final in 2017.

Ultimately, Klemen emerged victorious with his song “How Much Time Do We Have Left”, securing his place as Slovenia’s representative in Basel.

What do you think of Slovenia’s Eurovision 2025 entry? Will Klemen manage to continue the country’s qualification streak for the third consecutive year? Which EMA 2025 act was your favourite?

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Slovenia: Listen to the snippets of the EMA 2025 songs!

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Just a while ago, the public broadcaster of Slovenia, RTVSLO, released Snippets of the 12 songs that will take part in EMA, the country’s national final, for Eurovision Song Contest 2025!

You can listen to the 12 Snippets below:

  1. Eva Pavli – “Niti”
  2. KiKi – “O-ou!”
  3. Jon Vitezič – “Vse ti dam”
  4. Trine – “Grace”
  5. Klemen – “How Much Time Do We Have Left”
  6. Žan Videc – “Pusti da gori”
  7. ANNA – “Čau”
  8. July Jones – “New Religion”
  9. ZveN – “Divja”
  10. PolarAce – “Kind”
  11. Astrid & The Scandals – “Touché”
  12. RAI – “Frederick’s Dead”

EMA 2025

EMA 2025 will be held on February 1. The result will be determined through two rounds of voting. In the first round, five committees will vote using the same method used in Eurovision (1-8, 10 and 12). Each committee will consist of five members who will belong to specific groups of people. The five committees will be:

  • Music jury (singers, musicians, producers, songwriters creators etc.)
  • Television jury (editors, presenters, directors, choreographers etc.)
  • Radio jury (radio editors, journalists, presenters, etc.)
  • OGAE Slovenia jury
  • International Eurovision influencer jury (bloggers, vloggers, online journalists etc.)

After the above juries have cast their votes, the top two songs will continue to the EMA superfinal round. In this round, the winner will be determined by the public vote.

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Slovenian participation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel!

Source: RTVSLO

Slovenia: Alleged irregularities in Raiven’s selection lead to the resignation of an RTV SLO employee

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Chief editor of Slovenia‘s national television entertainment program Vanja Vardjan resigned earlier today due to suspected irregularities over the country’s participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Specifically, in relation to a complaint filed with the Committee for the Prevention of Corruption, it is claimed that Slovenia’s national broadcaster disregarded the rules it had established for the representative selection process.

More precisely, RTV SLO declared in October of last year that a national competition named “Misija Malmö” will select the artist who will represent the country in Malmö. The four participating artists were even mentioned as having already been chosen. The songs that the artists had submitted were supposed to be released on December 12.  However, this didn’t happen because Raiven was ultimately selected as the country’s representative on December 5.

Later, Vanja Vardjan claimed that there was never any consideration of holding a national final and that Raiven’s candidacy had a significant advantage over the other submissions.

Astrid Kljun, another “Misija Malmö” contender, responded as well, saying that Raiven was already chosen internally and did not apply to compete in the national final.

The Committee for the Prevention of Corruption released a report after Vanja Vardjan resigned, stating that there is currently no evidence that RTV SLO engaged in any irregularities during the representative selection process. Notwithstanding the artist or song selected, the process-oriented investigations will go on.

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Source: siol.net

Slovenia: Raiven will be the Slovenian representative at Eurovision 2024, with her song ‘Veronika’!

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A while ago, the sixth artist for Eurovision 2024 was announced. Slovenia suprised us, as for the third time in history, the artist who will represent the country in the contest will not be chosen through a national final, but by internal selection.

Slovenian public television (RTVSLO) in a special press conference confirmed the rumors of recent months and announced that Raiven, a mezzo-soprano, pop singer, songwriter and harpist, will raise the country’s flag in Malmö.

Raiven will represent Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö this May with her song ‘Veronika’.

 

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Who is Raiven?

Sara Briški Ciman, better known as Raiven is a singer who regularly appears on the country’s public television. He has presented numerous shows, and has appeared in a variety of concerts and music shows.

Her latest single titled “Ikona“ has become a big sensation in the country after being featured in RTVSLO’s Popevka 2023, alongside Helena Blagne.

No one can deny her professionalism, vocal skills, stage appearance and close relationships with RTVS, a set of things that fits perfectly with Eurovision.

Many Eurofans certainly remember Raiven, from her appearances in the Slovenian national final, EMA, having finished third in 2017 and second in 2016 (by just 100 votes) and 2019.

Watch her presentation video below:

What is your opinion about Raiven getting selected? Tell us in the comments below!

Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Slovenia’s participation in Eurovision 2024.

 

Slovenia: The country’s entry for Eurovision 2024 will be released on January 20!

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The song that will represent Slovenia in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in May in Malmö, Sweden, will be revealed on January 20, as stated by the country’s public broadcaster RTVSLO.

The Slovenian representative is to be revealed tomorrow at a press conference.

The selection procedure 

The selection of the Slovenian entry was made internally through the ‘Misija Malmö’ procedure. More precisely, over 100 songs were submitted to compete for the Slovenian representation, according to the country’s public broadcaster. Five of these songs then advanced to the next round of the process, where the ultimate winner was determined, following an assessment conducted by an RTVSLO committee that was especially constituted for this purpose.

Last year, Slovenia was represented by Joker Out with the song “Carpe Diem”, giving the country its first qualification to the final since 2019!

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Source: RTVSLO

Slovenia: 4 songs will compete at EMA 2024!

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Slovenia’s public broadcaster, RTV, announced that EMA, which was previously used to choose the country’s representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, will once more be used, after a year’s absence.

However, there will be certain differences from other years in the competition’s structure. In particular, at most four songs can compete in the EMA, which will take place in January 2024.

The participants must reside in Slovenia, whether they do so continuously or just occasionally. This requirement does not apply to the performers who will provide vocal accompaniment for the main performance.

Interested artists may submit their applications until 15 November 2023.

The four songs will be chosen through voting by global expert committees based on the following criteria: quality, voice and stage presence, popularity, modernity/innovation, and global recognition.

Last year, Slovenia was represented by Joker Out with the song “Carpe Diem”, giving the country its first qualification to the final since 2019!

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Source: RTVSLO, Evrovizija.com 

 

Joker Out: We will have a lot of interaction with the crowd!

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Joker Out gave an interview to EurovisionFun’s Paschalis about their participation in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Carpe Diem“. Kris, Jan, Jure and Nace were with us.

Some things about the song:

We recorded the song in Hamburg in December. The lyrics are telling what happened there. We stayed all night in the studio and just created the song. We did that to avoid all of the negative energy. We tell the people to play the game of hate for themselves, we are just dancing and singing.

The song was written for Eurovision, but we didn’t have in mind to do something special. We had the idea and recorded the song, it’s a song that represents us as Joker Out.

Some things about the performance:

It will be a 3-minute Joker Out concert. We’re going to keep the same energy, be as close to each other as possible and try to have as much interaction with the crowd as possible.

Slovenia is a relatively small country with not much financial power. We believe some of the Slovenian entries have been really good and deserved better. We are here to set this trend upside down!

There will be an English version of the song as well, but we are going to keep the Slovenian version.

Their favorite Eurovision entries:

We are fans of Eurovision and our first memory is Ruslana!

Our favorite Slovenian Eurovision entry is Samo Ljubezen from 2002.

Their message to the readers of EurovisionFun:

Hello EurovisionFun! Thank you so much for all of your support and we can’t wait to meet you in Liverpool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDBSIGITdY4&ab_channel=EurovisionSongContest

We would like to thank Joker Out for their interview and wish them best of luck!