Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest

For Macedonia's upcoming participation, see Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
Macedonia
◄ Yugoslavia

Republic of Macedonia

Member station Macedonian Radio Television
National selection events
Appearances
Appearances 16 (8 finals)
First appearance 1998
Best result 12th: 2006
Worst result 16th SF: 2011, 2013
External links
MRT page
Macedonia's page at Eurovision.tv

Macedonia, presented in the contest as Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,[1] officially debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998. However, the country had already made efforts to enter the contest two years before since the Eurovision Song Contest 1996's pre-selection round where it submitted its first song entry, "Samo ti" (Само ти) sung by Kaliopi, which failed to qualify to the final thus eliminating the nation from competing for the first time. Macedonia's efforts to enter the contest were again hindered in 1997 when another new system was introduced where countries with the lowest average scores over the previous four years were excluded from participating.

The country's best result was in 2006, when Elena Risteska sang "Ninanajna" (Нинанајна) in Athens, Greece and came 12th. Macedonia is the only country to have qualified from every semi-final from 2004 to 2007 (other countries have qualified for every final but due to them finishing in the top 10 the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-final). Despite never finishing in the top 10, their record of qualifying for every final was only broken in 2008, when the jury vote used in the semi-final chose Sweden as a finalist, despite Tamara, Vrčak and Adrian having come 10th in the televote and not saved by the jury. Since then, only in 2012 Macedonia have made the final.

Macedonian Radio-Television (MRT), which broadcasts the event, has used the Skopje Fest festival to select the national entry since the country's debut, although it made several changes in the national final format, so the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2012 national finals were organised outside the Skopje Festival.

Prior declaring independence in 1991, as a constituent country of SFR Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Macedonia participated in the Yugoslav pre-selection called among the other Yugoslav federal units.[2] Also, Macedonian composers wrote songs for candidates from other parts of Yugoslavia.[3] However, the Macedonian entries never managed to win, and the SR Macedonia was among the few federal states never to send a Yugoslav entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. An exception occurred when Maja Odžaklievska won the Yugoslav competition in 1979,[2] but she did not perform in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 due to the Yugoslavian decision not to participate that year.

Contestants

For contestants prior to 1996, see Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Table key
  Winner
  Second place
  Third place
  Last place
Year Artist Language Title Final Points Semi Points
19961 Kaliopi Macedonian "Samo ti" (Само ти) Failed to qualify 26 14
1997 Did not participate No semi-finals
1998 Vlado Janevski Macedonian "Ne zori, zoro" (Не зори, зоро) 19 16
1999 Did not participate
2000 XXL Macedonian, English "100% te ljubam" (100% те љубам) 15 29
2001 Did not participate
2002 Karolina Gočeva Macedonian "Od nas zavisi" (Од нас зависи) 19 25
2003 Did not participate
2004 Toše Proeski English "Life" 14 47 10 71
2005 Martin Vučić English "Make My Day" 17 52 9 97
2006 Elena Risteska English, Macedonian "Ninanajna" (Нинанајна) 12 56 10 76
2007 Karolina Gočeva Macedonian, English "Mojot svet" (Мојот свет) 14 73 9 97
2008 Tamara, Vrčak and Adrian English "Let Me Love You" Failed to qualify 102 64
2009 Next Time Macedonian "Nešto što kje ostane" (Нешто што ќе остане) 102 45
2010 Gjoko Taneski, Billy Zver & Pejčin Macedonian "Jas ja imam silata" (Јас ја имам силата) 15 37
2011 Vlatko Ilievski Macedonian, English "Rusinka" (Русинкa) 16 36
2012 Kaliopi Macedonian "Crno i belo" (Црно и бело) 13 71 9 53
2013 Esma & Lozano Macedonian, Romani "Pred da se razdeni" (Пред да се раздени) Failed to qualify 16 28
2014 Tijana English "To the Sky" 13 33
2015 Daniel Kajmakoski English "Autumn Leaves" 15 28
2016 Kaliopi Macedonian "Dona"
NOTES:
1. ^ Macedonia unsuccessfully attempted to participate in 1996, when there was an audio-only pre-qualifying round for all countries (excluding hosts Norway). The official Eurovision site does not count 1996 in Macedonia's list of appearances.
2. ^ Whilst 10th place in the televote would have been sufficient to qualify in previous years, in 2008 and 2009 only the top nine places qualified automatically and the tenth place was decided based on the votes of the backup juries. Macedonia did not progress to the final in either year: in 2008 Sweden beat Macedonia to the final, while the same occurred in 2009 with Finland.
3. If a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. The other reason being that back in 2004-2007, the top ten countries who were not members of the big four did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year. If, for example, Germany and France placed inside the top ten with Spain and the United Kingdom finishing after 13th place, the countries who placed 11th and 12th were advanced to the following year's grand final along with the rest of the top ten countries.

Voting history

As of 2015, Macedonia's voting history is as follows:

Most points given in the grand finals only
Rank Country Points
1  Turkey 79
 Albania 79
2  Bosnia and Herzegovina 66
3  Serbia 57
4  Croatia 56
Most points received in the grand finals only
Rank Country Points
1  Croatia 57
2  Bosnia and Herzegovina 43
3  Slovenia 37
4  Albania 30
5  Serbia and Montenegro 27
Most points given in the semis and finals
Rank Country Points
1  Albania 157
2  Turkey 125
3  Bosnia and Herzegovina 116
4  Serbia 103
5  Croatia 97
Most points received in the semis and finals
Rank Country Points
1  Bosnia and Herzegovina 114
2  Albania 113
3  Croatia 109
4  Slovenia 95
5  Bulgaria 84

Commentators and spokespersons

Year(s) Commentator Spokesperson
1992 John Ilija Apelgrin Macedonia did not participate
1993 Antonio Dimitrievski and Ivan Mircevski
1994 Milanka Rašik
1995 Vlado Janevski
1996
1997 Dragan B. Kostik
1998 Milanka Rašik Evgenija Teodosievska
1999 Ivan Mircevski Macedonia did not participate
2000 Milanka Rašik Sandra Todorovska
2001 Macedonia did not participate
2002 Biljana Debarlieva
2003 Macedonia did not participate
2004 Ivan Mircevski Karolina Petkovska
2005 Ivan Mircevski Karolina Gočeva
2006 Karolina Petkovska Martin Vučić
2007 Milanka Rašik Elena Risteska
2008 Ognen Janeski
2009 Karolina Petkovska Frosina Josifovska
2010 Milica Roštikjl
2011 Eli Tanaskovska Kristina Talevska
2012 Karolina Petkovska
2013 Dimitar Atanasovski
2014 Marko Mark
2015
2016 TBA TBA

Photogallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ Participating member of EBU as former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  2. 1 2 Opatijo, oh Fabulous - Yugoslavian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest - statistics by year, Eurodalmatia official ESC fan club, Dalmatia, Croatia
  3. ↑ Official Site of OGAE Macedonia, see section: Jugovizija.

External links

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