| Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2024 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) | |||
| Country |  Serbia | |||
| Selection process | Pesma za Evroviziju '24 | |||
| Selection date | 2 March 2024 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Ramonda" | |||
| Artist | Teya Dora | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (10th, 47 points) | |||
| Final result | 17th, 54 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Serbia was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Ramonda", performed byTeya Dora and written by Teya Dora along with Andrijano Kadović and Luka Jovanović. The Serbian participating broadcaster,Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), organised the national finalPesma za Evroviziju '24 in order to select its entry for the contest.
Serbia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 7 May 2024 and was later selected to perform in position 2. At the end of the show, "Ramonda" was announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Serbia placed tenth out of the fifteen participating countries in the semi-final with 47 points. In the final, Serbia performed in position 16 and placed seventeenth out of the 25 performing countries, scoring a total of 54 points.
Prior to the 2024 contest,Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) had participated in theEurovision Song Contest representing Serbia fifteen times since its first entry in2007, winning the contest with its debut entry "Molitva" performed byMarija Šerifović. Since then, 12 out of the 15 total Serbian entries had featured in the final with RTS failing to qualify in2009,2013, and2017. Serbian2023 entry, "Samo mi se spava" performed byLuke Black, qualified to the final and placed 24th.[1]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTS organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster had used both internal selections and national finals to determine its entries throughout the years. Between 2007 and2009, RTS used theBeovizija national final, but after its 2009 entry failed to qualify Serbia to the final, the broadcaster shifted its selection strategy to selecting specific composers to create songs for artists. After a successful internal selection in2012, in2013 RTS returned to an open national final format, titledBeosong, but it failed to qualify to the final. After reverting to internal selection in2016 and2017, it returned to use theBeovizija national final in2018 and2019, managing to qualify to the final on both occasions. In2022, RTS returned to organising a national final under the namePesma za Evroviziju, a format which was re-confirmed in 2023.
On 13 July 2023, RTS confirmed its participation in the 2024 contest, announcing the organisation of a national final in order to select its entry.[2] This was later confirmed to bePesma za Evroviziju for a third time.[3][4]
The third edition ofPesma za Evroviziju, the Serbian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, took place between 27 February and 2 March 2024 among 28 competing entries.[5]
The final took place on 2 March 2024. The winner was selected based on the 50/50 combination of votes from five jurors and from a public televote. The winner was "Ramonda" written byTeodora Pavlovska (Teya Dora), Luka Jovanović and Andrijano Kadović, and performed by Teya Dora.[8][9]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place |
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| 1 | Iva Lorens | "Dom" | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| 2 | Džordži | "Luna park" | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| 3 | Breskvica | "Gnezdo orlovo" | 5 | 12 | 17 | 2 |
| 4 | Teya Dora | "Ramonda" | 12 | 10 | 22 | 1 |
| 5 | Hristina | "Bedem" | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Marko Mandić | "Dno" | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 7 | M.IRA | "Percepcija" | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| 8 | Nemanja Radošević | "Jutra bez tebe" | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 9 | Milan Bujaković | "Moje tvoje" | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 10 | Keni nije mrtav | "Dijamanti" | 0 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 11 | Zorja | "Lik u ogledalu" | 10 | 7 | 17 | 3 |
| 12 | Zejna | "Najbolja" | 7 | 4 | 11 | 5 |
| 13 | Konstrakta | "Novo, bolje" | 8 | 8 | 16 | 4 |
| 14 | Bojana and David | "No No No" | 0 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 15 | Lena Kovačević | "Zovi me Lena" | 6 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 16 | Dušan Kurtić | "Zbog tebe živim" | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 |
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As part of the promotion of her participation in the contest, Teya Dora attended the PrePartyES inMadrid on 30 March 2024, theBarcelona Eurovision Party on 6 April 2024, the Eurovision in Concert event inAmsterdam on 13 April 2024 and theCopenhagen Eurovision Party (Malmöhagen) on 4 May 2024.[10][11][12][13] On 1 May, Teya Dora took part in her birthday party organised by the Serbian andCroatian delegations and open to press and fans.[14][15] In addition, she performed at the Eurovision Village in Malmö on 8 May 2024.[16] A day prior to the first semi-final, RTS aired a documentary on Teya Dora's life, career and Eurovision journey, titledStazama Ramonde (transl. "Walking the path of 'Ramonda'").[17]
In April 24, RTS held a ceremonial farewell for the Serbian representative to the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The ceremony was attended by numerous guests, including theSwedish ambassador to Serbia Annika Ben David, the editor in chief of RTS' entertainment program Sandra Perović and the director of RTS Dragan Bujošević, as well as members ofOGAE Serbia, fans of the competition, journalists and others. At the ceremony, Teya Dora was given theflag of Sweden by the Swedish ambassador and was handed over theflag of Serbia byLuke Black, who representedSerbia in 2023.[18]
TheEurovision Song Contest 2024 took place at theMalmö Arena inMalmö, Sweden, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 7 and 9 May and the final on 11 May 2024. All nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) were required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progressed to the final. On 30 January 2024, an allocation draw was held to determine which of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show, each country would perform in; theEuropean Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot.[19] Serbia was scheduled for the first half of the first semi-final.[20] The shows' producers then decided the running order for the semi-finals; Serbia was set to perform in position 2.[21]
In Serbia, all the shows were broadcast onRTS 1,[22] as well as internationally throughRTS Svet,[23][24][25] with commentary provided byDuška Vučinić.[26]Radio Beograd 1 [sr] aired the first semi-final, with commentary by Katarina Epstein,[27] and the final, with commentary by Katarina Epstein and Nikoleta Dojčinović.[28] During the performance of Poland in the first semi-final, the broadcast was moved from RTS 1 toRTS 2 with no warning, so the former could air the arrival ceremony ofGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) andChairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus theparamount leader of China,Xi Jinping. RTS 2 aired approximately 25 minutes of the semi-final, including the remainder of the Polish entry, performances from Iceland, Croatia, and the first part of the German performance, before the broadcast was eventually restored to RTS 1.[29]
Teya Dora took part in technical rehearsals on 27 April and 1 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 6 and 7 May.[30] The staging of her performance of "Ramonda" at the contest featured blue lighting, smoke and a rock-shaped prop.[31] The LED graphics were designed by Branko Tmušić, the performance's artistic director,[32] whilst Milica Soldatović Mikić directed the performance.[33]
Serbia performed in position 2, following the entry fromCyprus and before the entry fromLithuania.[21] At the end of the show, the country was announced as a qualifier for the final. It was later revealed that Serbia placed tenth out of the fifteen participating countries in the first semi-final with 47 points.
Following the semi-final, Serbia drew "producer's choice" for the final, meaning that the country will perform in the half decided by the contest's producers.[34] Serbia performed in position 16, following the entry fromItaly and before the entry fromFinland.[35] Teya Dora once again took part in dress rehearsals on 10 and 11 May before the final, including the jury final where the professional juries cast their final votes before the live show on 11 May. She performed a repeat of her semi-final performance during the final on 11 May. Serbia placed seventeenth in the final, scoring 54 points; 32 points from the public televoting and 22 points from the juries.
Below is a breakdown of points awarded by and to Serbia in the first semi-final and in the final. Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting in the final vote, while the semi-final vote was based entirely on the vote of the public.[36] The Serbian jury consisted of Alek Aleksov,Luke Black, who representedSerbia in the 2023 contest, Milovan Bošković,Lena Kovačević, andZejna.[37] In the first semi-final, Serbia placed 10th with 47 points, receiving maximum twelve points fromCroatia and marking the country's sixth consecutive qualification to the final. In the final, Serbia placed 17th with 54 points, receiving twelve points in the televote from Croatia. Over the course of the contest, Serbia awarded its 12 points to Croatia in the first semi-final, and in both the jury vote and televote in the final.[38][39]
RTS appointedKonstrakta, who representedSerbia in 2022, as its spokesperson to announce the Serbian jury's votes in the final.[40]
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Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.[41] The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
The following members comprised the Serbian jury:[37]
| Draw | Country | Televote | |
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| Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Cyprus | 7 | 4 |
| 02 | Serbia | ||
| 03 |  Lithuania | 9 | 2 |
| 04 |  Ireland | 4 | 7 |
| 05 |  Ukraine | 5 | 6 |
| 06 |  Poland | 14 | |
| 07 |  Croatia | 1 | 12 |
| 08 |  Iceland | 13 | |
| 09 |  Slovenia | 2 | 10 |
| 10 |  Finland | 11 | |
| 11 |  Moldova | 8 | 3 |
| 12 |  Azerbaijan | 10 | 1 |
| 13 |  Australia | 12 | |
| 14 |  Portugal | 6 | 5 |
| 15 |  Luxembourg | 3 | 8 |
| Draw | Country | Jury | Televote | |||||||
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| Juror A | Juror B | Juror C | Juror D | Juror E | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | ||
| 01 |  Sweden | 9 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 02 | Ukraine | 16 | 25 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 11 | |
| 03 |  Germany | 10 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 22 | ||
| 04 | Luxembourg | 8 | 23 | 12 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 16 | ||
 Netherlands | N/A | |||||||||
| 06 |  Israel | 23 | 16 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 8 | 3 | |
| 07 | Lithuania | 4 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 19 | |
| 08 |  Spain | 12 | 13 | 8 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 14 | ||
| 09 |  Estonia | 22 | 22 | 16 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 15 | ||
| 10 | Ireland | 25 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 11 |  Latvia | 19 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 20 | 21 | 23 | ||
| 12 |  Greece | 18 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 13 |  United Kingdom | 13 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 24 | |
| 14 |  Norway | 14 | 18 | 23 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 18 | ||
| 15 |  Italy | 11 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
| 16 | Serbia | |||||||||
| 17 | Finland | 20 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 17 | ||
| 18 | Portugal | 6 | 20 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 20 | ||
| 19 |  Armenia | 15 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 1 | |
| 20 | Cyprus | 7 | 21 | 10 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 13 | ||
| 21 |  Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 6 |
| 22 | Slovenia | 24 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 25 | 9 | 2 | |
| 23 | Croatia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 12 |
| 24 |  Georgia | 5 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 21 | ||
| 25 |  France | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 26 |  Austria | 21 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 12 | ||
In Serbia, a total of 1,860,832 people watched at least a minute of the final. An average of 837,678 people watched the final of the contest. The final recorded 37% audience share.[44] The rating of the final was 13.4%.[45]
The rating of Teya Dora's semi-final in Serbia was 8.5%, with the other semi-final recording a rating of 7.1%.[45]
