Serbia: RTS confirms Eurovision 2022 participation and the return of a national final

Serbia: RTS confirms Eurovision 2022 participation and the return of a national final
Tuesday, 25 May 2021

  • The Serbian national, RTS, has confirmed that they will be participating in Eurovision 2022 with the next representative to be determined through a national selection. 

    The head of the RTS Entertainment department, Olivera Kovačević confirmed yesterday during an interview on Nova S Serbia’s Eurovision 2022 participation and the return of a national selection to determine the nation's hopeful. 

    Serbia will be using Beovizija as their national selection format, with more details on the process to be unveiled in mid-june. The submission period will open in June and end in mid-November while the national final is exprected to take place in February 2022. 

     

    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 2019 the country was represented by Nevena Božović with her song “Kruna” while 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. 

     

     

    News Source: ESC Serbia / Eurovoix.com

    Image: EBU/THOMAS HANSES