Evrovizijska Melodija 2020

EMA Freš
Preliminary decision data
country	Slovenia
Broadcasting ; station	TV SLO 1
Producing ; broadcaster	RTV SLO
place	Studio 2 RTV SLO, Ljubljana
date	January 18, 2020
Time	8:00 p.m. ( CET )
Duration	about 90 minutes
Number of participants	18th
Number of contributions	18th
poll	50% jury voting, ; 50% internet voting
Moderation
	Maja Pinterič and Bojan Cvjetićanin

Evrovizijska Melodija 2020
Preliminary decision data
country	Slovenia
Broadcasting ; station	TV SLO 1
Producing ; broadcaster	RTV SLO
place	Studio 1 RTV SLO, Ljubljana
date	February 22, 2020
Time	8:00 p.m. ( CET )
Duration	approx. 120 minutes
Number of participants	12
Number of contributions	12
Preliminary rounds	EMA Freš
; Preliminary round dates	January 18, 2020
poll	First round:; 100% jury voting ; Super final:; 100% televoting
Opening act	Klemen Slakonja: Arcade (Music / Text: Duncan de Moor , Joel Sjöö, Wouter Hardy, Willi Knox)
Pause filler	zalagasperl : Me & My Boi (Music / Text: Zala Kralj , Gašper Šantl )
Moderation
	Klemen Slakonja

The 22nd Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA) (or EMA Evrovizija ) was the Slovenian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam ( Netherlands ) and took place on February 22nd, 2020. Ana Soklič won with her song Voda .

format

concept

On August 1, 2019, the public service broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV SLO) published the continuation of Evrovizijska Melodija. The broadcaster presented an innovation in the preliminary decision concept. The broadcaster organized a program called EMA Freš in which two wildcards for the final were given to previously unknown artists. The comedian Klemen Slakonja will moderate the show.

Choice of contribution

From August 1, 2019 to November 18, 2019, contributions could be submitted to RTV SLO. This applied to artists who had already published three songs by February 1, 2020. The performers and their songs released on December 20, 2019.

A three-person jury, consisting of the singer Raiven, the head of the ZKP RTVS publishing house, Mojca Menart, and the music editor in charge of the VAL 202 broadcaster, Jernej Vene, selected ten performers from all 74 entries.

Attendees

On December 20, 2019 at 3 p.m. ( CET ) RTV SLO presented ten of the total of 12 performers in the preliminary round. The remaining two candidates, Saška and Parvani Violet, were determined by EMA Freš. The singer Tinkara Kovač will return to the competition after 2014. At that time she won the preliminary round and represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen ( Denmark ). The singer Lina Kuduzović represented Slovenia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 . There she took third place and got the best result to date for Slovenia in a song contest edition.

final

The final of Evrovizijska Melodija 2020 took place on February 22, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. ( CET ). It consisted of two rounds. In the first round, all 12 participants presented their songs. A three-person jury consisting of Maja Keuc , Darja Švajger and Nuša Derenda then decided that Ana Soklič and Lina Kuduzović had qualified for the superfinal. There the two interpreters appeared again. In the superfinal, in which only the audience voted, prevailed with almost 54 percent of the audience votes cast. The comedian Klemen Slakonja hosted the show.

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)
01.	04th	Ana Soklič	Voda M: Ana Soklič , Bojan Simončič; T: Ana Soklič	Slovenian	water
02.	12	Lina Kuduzović	Man Like U M / T: Lina Kuduzović	English	Man like you
03.	09	Parvani Violet	Cupid M: Veronika Steiner, Anže Zaveršnik, Aljaž Šumej, Florjan Ajdnik, Jaka Jeršič, Anže Lečnik; T: Veronika Steiner	English	-
04th	01	Simon Vadnjal	Nisi Sam M: Kevin Koradin, Clifford Goilo; T: Simon Vadnjal	Slovenian	You're not alone
	02	Saška	Še kar lovim tvoj nasmeh M / T: Jure Skaza, Matic Mlakar	Slovenian	I'm still after your smile
	07th	Tinkara Kovač	Forever M: Aleš Klinar; T: Anja Rupel	English	Forever
07th	03	Gaja Prestor	Verjamem vase M: Žan Serčič; T: Gaja Prestor, Žan Serčič	Slovenian	I believe in you
	05	Inmate	The Salt M: Andrej Bezjak, Marko Duplišak, Miha Oblišsar, Jure Grundnik; T: Andrej Bezjak, Marko Duplišak	English	The salt
	10	Klara Jazbec	Stop The World M: Ed Fisher; T: Ani Cordero, Klara Jazbec	English	Stop the world
10.	06th	Manca Berlec	Večnost M: Patrik Šimenc, Manca Berlec	Slovenian	eternity
11.	11	In set	Femme Fatale M: Jaka Peterka, Dejan Macura, Blaž Horvat, Jaka Ažman, Matej Pečaver; T: Ron Lunaček	Slovenian	Femme fatale
12.	08th	Božidar Wolfand Wolf	Maybe Someday M: Grigor Koprov ; T: Božidar Wolfand Wolf, Helena B. Wolfand	English	Maybe one day

Candidate qualified for the super final.

Super finals

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	Audience votes (televoting & SMS)
space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	be right	%
1.	1	Ana Soklič	Voda M: Ana Soklič, Bojan Simončič; T: Ana Soklič	5,035	53.54%
2.	2	Lina Kuduzović	Man Like U M / T: Lina Kuduzović	4,369	46.46%

EMA Freš

Under the title EMA Freš , RTV SLO organized an internet preliminary round for the first time in which young performers had the opportunity to get a starting place at EMA 2020. Potential candidates had to submit a one-minute application video. The preliminary decision is aimed at under 26-year-olds who have so far not published more than three songs. The closing date for entries was September 19, 2019. RTV SLO will publish the submitted entries from November 4, 2019 on its website and the broadcaster's social media channels, so that viewers can choose a winner within five weeks.

The selection process continued over several rounds and lasted around five weeks. Every week from Monday to Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. ( CET ), a total of six performers and their songs were presented, i.e. two every day. They competed against each other in duels and the audience decided on the winner of the three duels. The winners qualified for a weekly final on Friday, in which the audience and a jury could choose two winners. Thus six performers qualified for the final in the first three weeks of the EMA Freš. The 12 performers who have not yet qualified for the final competed against each other in a second, two-week round using the same procedure as in the first round. Thus, four more performers qualified for the final, so that a total of ten performers competed in the final. The two winners of the final received a wildcard for EMA 2020.

On October 21, 2019 RTV SLO presented the participants and their songs.