Evropesma (Serbian Cyrillic:Европесма) orEuropjesma (Montenegrin:Еуропјесма) was a pop song contest inSerbia and Montenegro which ran from 2004 to 2006. The winning song represented the country in theEurovision Song Contest. It was organized by the Serbia and Montenegro union of broadcastersUJRT (consisting ofRTS andRTCG).

In 2005 and 2006,Beovizija andMontevizija served asSerbia's andMontenegro's semi-finals forEvropesma (respectively). After the dissolution of the state union between Serbia and Montenegro, the semifinal contests took over the role of this festival.

RTCG argued that fairly anonymous representatives fromMontenegro have little chance against a number of big music stars that generally take part on behalf ofRTS, and who are usually famous in Montenegro itself.RTCG failed to engage any of the bigMontenegro stars that could actually gaintelevotes to take part inMontevizija. Because of this, RTCG demanded that televoting should only be a part of the decision on who is going to win the competition. As a result, there are four judges appointed by RTCG, four by RTS and televoting was the ninth jury member. Points are allocated as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 or 12 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in 2004).

Year	Date	Venue	Song	Artist(s)	Language	Songwriter(s)	Result in the Eurovision Song Contest
							Place	Points
2004	21 February	Sava Centar,Belgrade,Serbia	"Lane Moje"	Željko Joksimović	Serbian	Željko Joksimović,Leontina Vukomanović	2nd	263
2005	4 March	RTCG Studios,Podgorica,Montenegro	"Zauvijek moja"	No Name	Montenegrin	Milan Perić, Slaven Knezović	7th	137
2006	11 March	Sava Centar,Belgrade,Serbia	"Moja ljubavi"	No Name	Montenegrin	Milan Perić, Dalibor Nedović	WithdrawnX

The firstEvropesma, held on February 21, 2004, inBelgrade,Serbia, featured 24 performers, 19 from Serbia and only 5 fromMontenegro. Four of the songs that represented RTS were selected inBeovizija 2004, which was in part a semifinal forEvropesma. The representatives for RTCG were selected internally, and the others were selected byUJRT.Željko Joksimović won the 2004Evropesma with "Lane moje", going on to reach second place in theEurovision Song Contest 2004 inIstanbul,Turkey. The members of the Serbian jury didn't give a single point to the songs that representedMontenegro and member of Montenegrin jury didn't give points to winner and the runner up ofBeovizija, which caused some controversy.^{[citation needed]}

Europjesma 2005 was held on March 4, 2005, inPodgorica,Montenegro. Even before the contest started there were some controversies. RTCG said that RTS was favoring their entrantsOgi Radivojević andJelena Tomašević, runner up and winner, respectively, ofBeovizija 2005.Željko Joksimović, author of the song "Jutro" performed by Jelena Tomašević, even arranged a winning party for Jelena, before the show. RTCG judges voted by awarding few points to any of the Serbian performers, while giving the maximum points the bandNo Name (who also won thetelevote).

Before allowing "Zauvijek moja" to be confirmed asSerbia and Montenegro's entry, theEBU launched an investigation into a number of formal complaints, which also related to hotly disputed allegations of plagiarism. However, after prolonged deliberations, the song was given the green light.

There were rumors that the televote, which only lasted for 10 minutes, was free of charge in Montenegro and not in Serbia, but it was proven false.

In the table above, shaded columns correspond to jurors from Montenegro and italicized rows correspond to songs from Serbia. Serbian bandLuna initially planned to compete in the final, but the band withdrew just before the event started due to boycott. They were allocated to perform 11th with the song "Sentimientos".

2006 Evropesma, held inBelgrade,Serbia, on March 11, 2006, saw the same voting pattern from the judges from both republics: this year's favorites, once again winners and the runner up ofBeovizija 2006,Flamingosi (Serbian-Montenegrin duo) feat.Louis andAna Nikolić, respectively, received no points from the RTCG judges. The judges appointed by RTS in turn awarded eight points toNo Name and four points toStevan Faddy, enough for No Name to score another win. TheBeovizija favorites Flamingosi finished second. The televote placedBeovizija favorites first and second and No Name third.

The stir began during the voting, as the audience started leaving the event in the midst of it, after realizing that their favourites were not going to win. The remaining audience booed No Name off the stage, and threw objects (such as bottles) at the stage, as they came out to accept the award and perform their song again, in the Eurovision Song Contest tradition. The audience then wooed Flamingosi on stage and they performed their song with the other finalists fromBeovizija present on stage.

As a result, the Executive Board ofUJRT did not accept the victory of No Name, stating that voting violated the merits of the competition, albeit not being found irregular.Source: UJRT statement

The Director General of the RTS and the head of UJRT,Aleksandar Tijanić, wrote a letter to his counterpart at the RTCG,Radovan Miljanić, suggesting that a new contest be held, featuring five songs from both semi-finals that got the most points. The winner would be selected solely throughtelevoting.^[1] At the same time, RTCG requested from theEuropean Broadcasting Union that they intervene in accepting the voting results from the controversial contest.^[2] The European Broadcasting Union responded on March 18, 2006, two days before the deadline for the submission of the national entry to the2006 Eurovision Song Contest, by suggesting that the broadcasters find a solution on their own.^[3] This was to no avail, and finally, on March 20, 2006, Serbia and Montenegro officially withdrew from the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. As the UJRT broadcast the semifinal and final, the viewers were able to vote.

As the withdrawal left an empty slot in the final,Croatia and their representativeSeverina took it. The2005 Eurovision Song ContestCroatian representativeBoris Novković won 11th place, one place below the cutoff for the direct entry into the final.

In this table, red color denotes songs and jurors from Montenegro, blue those from Serbia.

All three editions of the festival were broadcast onRTS1 in Serbia and onTVCG 1 in Montenegro, as well as on RTS and RTCG's respective international channels,RTS Sat (currently RTS Svet) andTVCG Sat (currently TVCG MNE).

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