| Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2005 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) | |||
| Country |  Macedonia | |||
| Selection process | Makedonski Evrosong 2005 | |||
| Selection date | 19 February 2005 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Make My Day" | |||
| Artist | Martin Vučić | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (9th, 97 points) | |||
| Final result | 17th, 52 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Macedonia[a] was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Make My Day", written byDragan Vučić and Branka Kostić, and performed byMartin Vučić. The Macedonian participating broadcaster,Macedonian Radio Television (MRT), organised the national finalMakedonski Evrosong 2005 in order to select its entry for the contest. Five artists were presented to the public in November 2004 and an eight-member jury panel and a public televote selected two artists to qualify to the compete in the competition on 19 February 2005, where "Ti si son"(Ти си сон) performed by Martin Vučić was selected following two rounds of voting from a twelve-member jury panel, an audience vote and a public televote. The song was later translated from Macedonian to English for Eurovision and was titled "Make My Day".
Macedonia competed in the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 19 May 2005. Performing during the show in position 17, "Make My Day" was announced among the top 10 entries of the semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 21 May. It was later revealed that Macedonia placed ninth out of the 25 participating countries in the semi-final with 97 points. In the final, Macedonia performed in position 15 and placed seventeenth out of the 24 participating countries, scoring 52 points.
Prior to the 2005 contest,Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) had participated in theEurovision Song Contest representing Macedonia four times since its first entry in1998.[1] Its best result in the contest to this point was fourteenth, achievedin 2004 with the song "Life" performed byToše Proeski.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, MRT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster had previously selected its entry for the contest through both national finals and internal selections. MRT confirmed its intentions to participate at the 2005 contest on 22 October 2004.[2] Since 1996, the broadcaster selected its entries using a national final, a procedure that continued for its 2005 entry.
Makedonski Evrosong2005 was the national final organised by MRT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. The competition took place on 19 February 2005 at the Universal Hall inSkopje, hosted by Karolina Petkovska and Aneta Andonova and was broadcast onMTV 1,MTV Sat and online via the broadcaster's official Eurovision Song Contest websiteeurosong.com.mk.[3][4]
A committee consisting of sixteen members each nominated eight artists for the national final. The six most nominated acts were presented to the public on 7 November 2004 in a special show titledEurovision Day in Macedonia that was broadcast on MTV 1 and MTV Sat, and the public could vote through televoting until 14 November 2004.[5][6] On 9 November 2004, MRT announced thatKaliopi had withdrawn from the artist selection.[7] The top two artists qualified to compete inMakedonski Evrosong2005 by a 50/50 combination of the public televote and an eight-member jury panel, consisting of seven individual members and the results of an aggregate 20-member press vote as the eighth member, and were announced on 14 November during the MTV 1 programmeNe zaspivaj sega.[8] Over 1,500 votes were registered by the televote.[9]
| Draw | Artist | Points | Place |
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| 1 | Martin Vučić | 87 | 1 |
| 2 | Tamara Todevska | 35 | 5 |
| 3 | Tijana Dapčević | 37 | 4 |
| 4 | Superhiks | 44 | 3 |
| 5 | Aleksandra Pileva | 53 | 2 |
Makedonski Evrosong2005 took place on 19 February 2005 where the two selected artists, Aleksandra Pileva andMartin Vučić, each performed four candidate Eurovision songs: three selected from over 100 songs that MRT received through an open submission and one provided by the artists themselves.[10] The winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a combination of public televoting (1/3), votes from the audience in the venue (1/3) and a twelve-member jury panel (1/3) selected one song per artist to advance to the second round. In the second round, the public, audience and jury vote selected "Ti si son" performed byMartin Vučić as the winner.[11] The jury panel consisted of Metodi Čepreganov (doctor), Avni Qahili (MTV 2), Diki Tavitjan (musician), Valentina Todoroska (Utrinski vesnik), Joško Boškovski (Radio Macedonia), Vlatko Plevneš (musician), Tanja Grkovska (MTV), Robert Sazdov (producer), Cvetanka Laskova (singer), Katerina Kocevska (actress), Beni Šakiri (musician) and Nikola Firiev (MTV). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the competition featured guest performances by Biba Dodeva,Andrijana Janevska, Iskra Trpeva,Tamara Todevska and Martina Siljanovska (who representedMacedonia in Junior Eurovision 2004).[12]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Audience | Televote | Total | Place | |
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| Votes | Points | |||||||
| 1 | Aleksandra Pileva | "Ne!"(Не!) | 40 | 48 | 4,329 | 48 | 136 | 3 |
| 2 | Martin Vučić | "Dali vredi?"(Дали вреди?) | 15 | 36 | 732 | 0 | 51 | 7 |
| 3 | Aleksandra Pileva | "Baknješ za kraj"(Бакњеш за крај) | 22 | 12 | 808 | 0 | 34 | 8 |
| 4 | Martin Vučić | "Kolku bolka ostana"(Колку болка остана) | 31 | 0 | 2,124 | 36 | 67 | 4 |
| 5 | Aleksandra Pileva | "Izvini"(Извини) | 16 | 24 | 882 | 12 | 52 | 6 |
| 6 | Martin Vučić | "Ljubovna parada"(Љубовна парада) | 30 | 0 | 1,440 | 24 | 54 | 5 |
| 7 | Aleksandra Pileva | "Sonce i mesečina"(Сонце и месечина) | 48 | 72 | 35,375 | 96 | 216 | 2 |
| 8 | Martin Vučić | "Ti si son"(Ти си сон) | 86 | 96 | 14,556 | 72 | 254 | 1 |
| Draw | Song | Metodi Čepreganov | Avni Qahili | Diki Tavitjan | Valentina Todoroska | Joško Boškovski | Vlatko Plevneš | Tanja Grkovska | Robert Sazdov | Cvetanka Laskova | Katerina Kocevska | Beni Šakiri | Nikola Firiev | Total |
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| 1 | "Ne!" | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 40 | ||
| 2 | "Dali vredi?" | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | ||||
| 3 | "Baknješ za kraj" | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 22 | |||||
| 4 | "Kolku bolka ostana" | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 31 | ||
| 5 | "Izvini" | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 16 | ||||||
| 6 | "Ljubovna parada" | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 30 | |
| 7 | "Sonce i mesečina" | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 48 | |||
| 8 | "Ti si son" | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 86 |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Audience | Televote | Total | Place | ||
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| Votes | Points | Votes | Points | ||||||
| 1 | Aleksandra Pileva | "Sonce i mesečina" | 2 | 494 | 0 | 50,159 | 12 | 14 | 2 |
| 2 | Martin Vučić | "Ti si son" | 10 | 570 | 14 | 8,790 | 0 | 24 | 1 |
| Draw | Song | Metodi Čepreganov | Avni Qahili | Diki Tavitjan | Valentina Todoroska | Joško Boškovski | Vlatko Plevneš | Tanja Grkovska | Robert Sazdov | Cvetanka Laskova | Katerina Kocevska | Beni Šakiri | Nikola Firiev | Total |
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| 1 | "Sonce i mesečina" | X | X | 2 | ||||||||||
| 2 | "Ti si son" | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | 10 |
The Macedonian national final sparked controversy due to the large discrepancy between the jury and public vote; Aleksandra Pileva won the televote in both rounds but lost out to Martin Vučić despite receiving six times more votes than him in the second round.[11] In addition, some of the audience members later admitted that they have been given free tickets to attend the show in order to vote for Vučić.[13] Martin Vučić and his father Dragan Vučić (also the co-composer of "Ti si son") were physically and verbally assaulted outside the venue by the supporters of Pileva, while Macedonian Prime MinisterVlado Bučkovski who also attended the show expressed concern over the way the points were awarded.[14][15]
Macedonian Eurovision Head of Delegation Ivan Mircevski later stated that he was at fault for determining the voting system and that he personally apologised to both artists for the scandal.[16] MRT released a statement on 25 February affirming Martin Vučić as the winner after no irregularities with the voting were found.[17]
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country, the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom), and the ten highest placed finishers in the2004 contest are required to qualify from the semi-final on 19 May 2005 in order to compete for the final on 21 May 2005; the top ten countries from the semi-final progress to the final. On 22 March 2005, a special allocation draw was held which determined the running order for the semi-final and Macedonia was set to perform in position 17, following the entry fromFinland and before the entry fromAndorra.[18] Martin Vučić performed the English version of "Ti si son" at the contest, titled "Make My Day". At the end of the semi-final, Macedonia was announced as having finished in the top 10 and subsequently qualifying for the grand final. It was later revealed that Macedonia placed third in the semi-final, receiving a total of 185 points.[19] The draw for the running order for the final was done by the presenters during the announcement of the ten qualifying countries during the semi-final and Macedonia was drawn to perform in position 15, following the entry fromSweden and before the entry fromUkraine. Macedonia placed seventeenth in the final, scoring 52 points.[20]
The semi-final and final were broadcast in Macedonia onMTV 1 andMTV Sat with commentary by Ivan Mirčevski. MRT appointedKarolina Gočeva (who representedMacedonia in 2002) as its spokesperson to announce the Macedonian votes during the final.[21]
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Macedonia and awarded by Macedonia in the semi-final and grand final of the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points toCroatia in the semi-final and toAlbania in the final of the contest.
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