Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Yugoslavia participated from 1961 to 1992 at the Euro Vision Song Contest, where Yugoslavia consisted only of Serbia and Montenegro in its participation in 1992. Shortly before the Croatian group Riva brought with her song Rock me the trophy in 1989 for the first time to the Balkans.

Participations

In the first part, the Serbian singer Lola Novakovic TV Ljubljana represented with Neke Davne zvezde in Cannes and took fourth place, what should be the best placement of Yugoslavia remain until 1983.

Apart from 1989, were the whole 1980 a relatively successful time for Yugoslavia. The other decades were the Yugoslav posts most likely to end the scoring scale.

Thanks to the popularity of the music event in the former Yugoslavia, was also the local qualifying round, Jugovizija, always come up with the stars of the Balkan Peninsula. For example, Bebi Dol, Lepa Brena, Neda Ukraden, Tereza Kesovija, Oliver Dragojević and many others.

During the winning song Rock me in Yugoslavia itself had moderate success and is known only to the ESC fans today are different titles that took part in the Jugovizija as Ne iznad idi ( Mira Beširević ) negde planeta ( Dado Topić & Slađana Milošević ) Dzeni ( Oliver Dragojević ), Rat i mir ( Viktorija ) Sitnije Cile sitnije ( Lepa Brena ), saj rode saj ( Neda Ukraden ) ... become classics.

1967 represented the Dubrovački Trubaduri ( troubadours from Dubrovnik) with Jedan dan the Balkan country on the ESC. Since then, groups of two persons were not admitted ( until 1973), were two members of the band under their name.

Zdravko Colic Gori 's vatra, despite the bad placement of one of its most popular saddles and paved the way for him to even greater career.

Extra Nena had in Malmö special protection by security forces. Because of financial reasons no conductor and accordion players could travel to Sweden, the Swede Anders Berglund had to conduct and play the accordion at the same time.

A year later contributions from Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina were already represented as new Euro Vision participants in 1998 was added in Macedonia. Serbia and Montenegro remained from 1993 to 2003 the ESC away, took off again in 2004 in the competition and took second place. Since 2007, Serbia and Montenegro take part as independent states.

The contributions for the years 1961, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1970 and 1975 were sent by the Slovenian television channel TV Ljubljana. 1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1986-1990 were the contributions from Croatian TV station Zagreb, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1976 and 1981 by the BiH Transmitter TV Sarajevo and 1974, 1982, 1991 and 1992 by Serbian TV station Beograd posted. 1983 and 1984 could innerjugoslawisch the Montenegrin broadcaster TV Titograd (now Podgorica ) prevail. The television stations in the Republic of Macedonia ( Skopje TV ) and the Serbian province of Vojvodina ( Novi Sad TV ) and Kosovo ( Pristina TV ) were regularly represented with their own contributions in the national preliminary round, but never succeeded in winning a victory. Thus, Yugoslavia was never internationally represented by an article in Macedonian or Albanian language.

List of posts

Note: Wins are yellow, last places in dark red and light red years without finals.