Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
| Eurovision Song Contest 2025 | ||||
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| Country |  Serbia | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Pesma za Evroviziju '25 | |||
| Selection date(s) | TBA, 2025 | |||
| Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Serbia is set to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Switzerland. The Serbian national broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), is expected to organise the national final Pesma za Evroviziju '25 in order to select the Serbian entry for the 2025 contest.
Background
[edit]Prior to the 2025 contest, Serbia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixteen times since its first entry in 2007, winning the contest with their debut entry "Molitva" performed by Marija Šerifović. Since 2007, 13 out of the 16 total Serbian entries have featured in the final with the nation failing to qualify in 2009, 2013 and 2017. Serbia's 2024 entry, "Ramonda" performed by Teya Dora, qualified to the final and placed 17th.[1]
The Serbian national broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), broadcasts the event within Serbia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. The broadcaster has used both internal selections and national finals to determine their entries throughout the years. Between 2007 and 2009, Serbia used the Beovizija national final, but after their 2009 entry failed to qualify Serbia to the final, the broadcaster shifted their selection strategy to selecting specific composers to create songs for artists. After a successful internal selection in 2012, in 2013 RTS returned to an open national final format, titled Beosong, but the country failed to qualify to the final. After reverting to internal selection in 2016 and 2017, the country returned to using the Beovizija national final between 2018 and 2020, managing to qualify to the final in both 2018 and 2019, with Eurvision having been cancelled in 2020. In 2022, RTS returned to organising a national final under the name Pesma za Evroviziju '22, with this format being used every year since.
On 18 July 2023, RTS confirmed Serbia's participation in the 2024 contest, announcing the organisation of Pesma za Evroviziju '25 in order to select the country's entry.[2]
Before Eurovision
[edit]Pesma za Evroviziju '25
[edit]The fourth edition of Pesma za Evroviziju will be organized by RTS in order to select Serbia's entry.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Serbia". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ a b "RTS raspisuje konkurs za izbor kompozicije koja će predstavljati Srbiju na Pesmi Evrovizije 2025". Radio Television of Serbia. 18 July 2024. Archived from the original on 18 July 2024.