Serbia: RTS confirms Eurovision 2023 participation

Serbia: RTS confirms Eurovision 2023 participation
Thursday, 25 August 2022

  • The Serbian national broadcaster, RTS, will be taking part in the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest next year in the UK. 

    RTS have confirms to ESCToday that they will be participating in Eurovision 2023 marking the country's 15th appearance in the competition. 

    Usually the Balkan nation selects their Eurovision hopeful through a national selection and that is likely to be the case for Eurovision 2023 too. However RTS is expected to shed more light on the format for the next contest over the next weeks. 

     

    Serbia In Eurovision 

    Serbia participated as an independent state in the contest in 2007, a year which the country was crowned winner with Marija Šerifović and her entry Molitva and remains the only country to win on its debut in the contest. (apart from Switzerland which won in the first edition of the contest back in 1956).

    The nation has a total of 11 participations and one year of absence (2014) It has achieved to qualify 7 times in the Grand  final while 3 times it fiailed for only one place  (10th in 2009, 11th in 2013&  2017). Apart from its victory Serbia has achieveda top 10  placing three more times (6th in 2008, 3rd in 2012, 10th in 2015).

    Serbia participated twice as part of the Serbia- Montenegrin Federation (2nd in 2004 and 7th in 2005), while since 1961 until 1992 participated as part of the united then Yugoslavia. Six of these Yugoslavian entries came from the Serbian region. Yugoslavia had won the contest once, in 1989.

    In 2020  the female group  Hurricane was set to represent the country with their song ‘Hasta La Vista’  in the contest in Rotterdam which was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Hurricane were internally confirmed for Rotterdam in this year's contest where they gave an energetic performance of their song "Loco Loco" which came 15th in the Grand final, placed 21st by the juries and 9th in the televoting. 

    This year national final winner Konstrakta flew the flag in Turin singing 'Il corpore sano' which finished 3rd in the semi-final and brought to Serbia a 5th placing in the Grand final the country's best result since 2012. 

     

    News Source: ESCToday

    Image; EBU/Corinne Cumming

     

     

     

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  • Angelos D.

    Angelos D.

    Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.