North Macedonia: MKRTV confirms its Eurovision 2021 participation

North Macedonia: MKRTV confirms its Eurovision 2021 participation
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

  • The North Macedonian national broadcaster, MKRTV, has confirmed that it will be taking part in the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest in May 2021. 

    MKRTV, has confirmed to ESCToday that the country wlill be joining the party in Rotterdam next May marking its 20th participation in the Eurovision Song Contest,. 

    Although the broadcaster gave no further details on the formula it will use in order to determine the next North Macedonian act, more details on the nation's way of selection to be revealed the following weeks. 

     

    North Macedonia in Eurovision 

    The Balkan country debuted at the comeptition in 1998 with the name FYR Macedonia. As FYR Macedonia the country attempted to participate for the first time at the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo with Kaliopi, but didn’t make through the special premliminary audio semi-final.

    In its 19 years of participation the best result came this year with Tamara Todevska and her entry “Proud” which finished 7th in the final , while it has qualified only 9 times in the final.In 2019 internally selected Tamara , not only interrupted the six years of non qualifying results by coming 7th in the final, but also achieved to top the jury voting. This was the country’s first top ten placing.

    This year Vasil  was internally selected  to represent the country at Eurovision 2020 with his entry "You"  but unfortunately didn't have the chance to complete his Eurovision journey as the contest was cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Up to date the country's broadcaster, hasn't yet unveiled its intentions for Eurovision 2021 regarding its ESC 2020 hopeful. 

     

    News Source : ESCToday