North Macedonia: MKRTV switches to a national final for Eurovision 2022

North Macedonia: MKRTV switches to a national final for Eurovision 2022
Friday, 10 December 2021

  • The North Macedonian national broadcaster, MKRTV, has revealed that they will be turning to a national final in order to determine their Eurovision 2022 representative. 

    After consecutive years of internal selections for Eurovision, since 2016 precisely, MKRTV decided this year to hold a national final in order to select the country's Eurovision 2022 act and entry. In the past most of the North Macedonian entries, apart from those between 2012 ans 2014, were determined by a national final and mostly by Skopje Fest. 

    The broadcaster is swtiching to a national final and has made an open call to singers and composers that ambition to represent the  landlocked country in Turin. All singers and composers should be North Macedonian citizens, while interested acts should send their applications to [email protected]. not later than January 16, 2022.

     

    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. 

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