Serbia: Beovizija 2018 participants and song titles revealed.
The Serbian national broadcaster, RTS, revealed the 17 participants and songs of Beovizija 2018, the country’s national selection for this year.
The 17 competing acts are:
1.Rambo Amadeus & Beti Đorđević–You’re Gone (Нема те)
2.Boris Režak–Fairy (Vila)
3.Sanja Ilić and Balkanika – Our Children (Naša deca)
4.Saška Janković–Song For You
5.Srđan Marijanović – If Only I knew (Bar da znam)
6.Osmi Vazduh and Friends – Wake Up (Probudi se)
7.Dušan Svilar – Under the Locust Tree (Pod krošnjom bagrema)
8.Biber and DJ Niko Bravo – This Morning(Wedding Guests) (Jutros (Svatovi))
9.BASS – Tired (Umoran)
10.Lana and Aldo – The Strongest of All (Jača sam od svih)
11.SevdahBABY – Let’s Dance Now (Hajde da igramo sada)
12.Igor Lazarević – Get Away From Me (Beži od mene)
13.Ivan Kurtić–Neither Sun, Nor Moon” (Ni sunca, ni meseca)
14.Lord – Just Let It Turn (Samo nek se okreće)
15.Maja Nikolić-Wonderland (Zemlja čuda)
16.Koktel Balkan – Because (Zato)
17.Danijel Pavlović – The Rose of Destiny (Ruža sudbine)
Notable, among the names is that of Rambo Amadeus, who was Montenegro’s Eurovision 2012 representative with his entry Euro Neuro which didn’t make it to the Grand final (15th place- 20 points).
Boris Rezak was a participant in Bosnia Herzegovina’s national final BH Eurosong in 2002 , alongside with Kati Karney and their song Ti i ja smo mogli sve, achieving an honorable 4th place. On the contrary, Sevdah Bejbi took part in Beovizija 2009 without managing any remarkable result.
This specific kind of national final comes back after a 8 year break, since 2009 was the last year the country chose its representative via this type of selection. Then Μarko Kon & Milaan and their song Cipela represented Serbia. Since then the country experienced different ways of selecting its Eurovision representative, either through internal selections or choosing internally the composer and holding a national final where the candidates performed the composer’s proposed songs.
This year the executives in charge of the national selection process revived the format of BEovizija. The winner of Beovizija 2018 will have the right to represent Serbia in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest next May in Lisbon and will be determined by a combination of public and jury voting. The exact date of the national final is to be shortly announced the days to come.
Last year Serbia was represented by Tijana Bogićević with her entry In too Deep, which missed the grand final since it finished at 11th place in the semi final.
