Serbia: RTS confirms Junior Eurovision 2021 participation and opens the submission window for Paris

Serbia: RTS confirms Junior Eurovision 2021 participation and opens the submission window for Paris
Tuesday, 27 July 2021

  • The Serbian broadcaster, RTS, has confirmed its participation in Junior Eurovision 2020 and has opened the submission window for the upcoming competition in Paris next December. 

    RTS will be present in the 19th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and has already opened the submission window for acts that ambition to represent the country at the competition in Paris. The submission period closes on September 20, 2021. All the terms and conditions for submission can be found on the official RTS website

    For one more year the Serbian broadcaster is opting for an internal selection. 2017 was the last year RTS held a televised national selection. A committee of exprerts will determine the next hopeful and the song which will travel to Paris. However, the broadcaster resereves the right to pick an artist and song outside the submissions, if it finds that no candidate entry meets the required quality for representing the nation in Junior Eurovision. 

    The 19th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is set to take place on December 19, 2021 in Paris at the La Seine Musicale.

     

    Serbia in Junior Eurovision 

    Serbia debuted as an independent country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in the 2006 edition, previously in the 2005 edition participated under the name "Serbia and Montenegro" when both countries were one.

    The country has participated since 2006 in all editions with the exception of the three-year parenthesis (2011 - 2013), still Serbia's best position in third place came in the 2007 and 2010 editions, while worst result was in the 2016 edition ranking last.

    In 2019 the Balkan country was represented by Darija Vračević  performed "Podigni glas" achieve a top 10 placing as she finished 10th with 109 points. Last year in Warsaw Petar Aničić represented the nation with his song “Heartbeat” finishing 11th with a total of 85 points. 

     

    News Source: RTS/Eurovoix

    Cover photo: EBU / STIJN SMULDERS