Beovizija

Television broadcast
Original title	Beovizija / Беовизија
Country of production	Serbia
Broadcasting cycle	2003–2009, since 2018
genre	Music show
idea	Marina Tucaković
Moderation	different
First broadcast	April 12, 2003 on

Marija Šerifović 2007 with her background choir, the Beauty Queens.

Beovizija Logo (2003 to 2009)

The Beovizija ( Serbian - Cyrillic Беовизија ) is a music festival in Serbia , which serves as the national preliminary decision for Serbia's representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest .

history

Beovizija is organized by the public service broadcaster RTS and is broadcast on national television, via satellite and online. The event takes place in February or March in the large hall of the Sava Centar with a capacity of 4,000 people or in the studios of RTS on Košutnjak in Belgrade .

The first Beovizija took place in 2003. Here Toše Proeski won with the song Čija Si . However, since Serbia-Montenegro did not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest at the time, the title was not submitted to the EBU. After the country had been excluded from the singing competition for 12 years due to the sanctions, the state union of Serbia and Montenegro entered again for the first time in 2004.

Initially it was planned that Beovizija should determine the representative for Serbia and Montenegro at the ESC. However, it was later agreed that RTS and RTCG should each send an equal number of participants to the joint final. Therefore, the Beovizija acted as the Serbian semi-final, while the Montenegrin semi-final was called Montevizija . In the final Evropesma (Evropjesma) the best placed participants of both festivals then appeared.

After Montenegro left the confederation in 2006, the Beovizija has been a purely Serbian competition since 2007. In the same year the rating system was reformed and the influence of the jury relativized. Now the televoting and the jury evaluation were included in the evaluation in equal parts.

At the Beovizija it was natural that the Eurovision participants from the other former Yugoslav republics act as Interval Acts.

After 2009 the Beovizija was no longer organized because of the economic crisis in order to keep the costs of participation in the ESC as low as possible. The Serbian radio announced in January 2018 that the Beovizija will be reorganized after nine years and will appoint the Serbian representative for the ESC in the future. In 2019, for the first time in the history of the festival, there were two semi-finals and a grand final.

winner

year	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Result at the ESC
					Place final	Points final	Place semifinals	Points semifinals
2003	Toše Proeski	Čija si M / T: Toše Proeski	Serbian	Who are you?	No participation
2004	Negatives	Zbunjena M / T: Negatives	Serbian	Confused
2005	Jelena Tomašević	Jutro M / T: Jelena Tomašević	Serbian	tomorrow
2006	Flamingosi feat. Louis	Ludi Letnji Ples M / T: Flamingosi, Louis	Serbian	Crazy summer dance
2007	Marija Serifović	Molitva M: Vladimir Graić; T: Saša Milošević Mare	Serbian	prayer	01.	268	01.	298
2008	Jelena Tomašević	Oro M: Željko Joksimović; T: Dejan Ivanović	Serbian	Oro (Serbian folk dance)	06th	160	Qualified directly for the final
2009	Marko Kon & Milan Nikolić	Cipela M: Aleksandar Kobac, Marko Kon, Milan Nikolić; T: Aleksandar Kobac, Marko Kon	Serbian	shoe	Eliminated		10.	060
2010 to 2017	Beovizija did not take place
2018	Sanja Ilić & Balkanika	Nova deca M: Aleksandar Sanja Ilić, Tatjana Karajanov Ilić; T: Danica Krstajić	Serbian, Torlak	New children	19th	113	09.	117
2019	Nevena Božović	Kruna M: Nevena Božović , Darko Dimitrov; T: Nevena Božović	Serbian, English	Crown	18th	089	07th	156
2020	Hurricane	Hasta La Vista M: Nemanja Antonić; T: Sanja Vučić , Kosana Stojić	Serbian	See you soon	No participation

See also

• Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest
• Serbia and Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beovizija: Promenjen način izbora ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Ewan Mccaig: SERBIA: BEOVIZIJA RETURNS FOR EUROVISION 2018. (No longer available online.) In: eurovoix.com. October 9, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 10, 2017 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.