Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

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**Croatia**

Member station	HRT
National selection event(s)	Dora
Appearances	14
First appearance	1993
Best result	4th, 1996 and 1999
Worst result	17th, 1997

The Croatian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest is selected at the pop festival Dora, an annual event organized by the national public broadcaster HRT. The first Dora was held in 1993, after Croatia gained independence from Yugoslavia and continued to participate in the ESC. Together with Sweden and Malta, and the 4 countries that are for financial reasons entitled to take part every year, Croatia is one of the few countries that has not missed a contest since 1993, when the lowest scorers each year got relegated. There have been no interruptions in the Croatian participation in the ESC from their first appearance in 1993 to 2006 making it one of the few countries that participated in every final since its first entry.

[edit] Participants

Year	Performer	Song	Placement on the ESC	Points
1993	Put	Don't Ever Cry	15	31
1994	Tony Cetinski	Nek' ti bude ljubav sva	16	27
1995	Magazin& Lidija Horvat-Dunjko	Nostalgija	6	91
1996	Maja Blagdan	Sveta ljubav	4	98
1997	E.N.I.	Probudi me	17	24
1998	Danijela	Neka mi ne svane	5	131
1999	Doris Dragović	Marija Magdalena	4	118
2000	Goran Karan	Kad zaspu anđeli	9	70
2001	Vanna	Strings Of My Heart	10	42
2002	Vesna Pisarović	Everything I Want	11	44
2003	Claudia Beni	Više nisam tvoja	15	29
2004	Ivan Mikulić	You Are The Only One	12	50
2005	Boris Novković feat. Lado Members	Vukovi umiru sami	11	115
2006	Severina	Moja štikla	12	56
2007	Dragonfly feat. Dado Topić	Vjerujem u ljubav

[edit] Participation as a part of Yugoslavia

Eurovision Song Contest was already held in Croatia, Zagreb in 1990 after Croatian band RIVA won the contest in 1989 with "Rock me". It's also notable that Croatian artists participated in ESC presenting Yugoslavia on many occasions - 12 times in total (out of 27 times Yugoslavia participated in ESC).

Year	Song	Performer	Final Rank
1963	Brodovi	Vice Vukov	11th
1965	Čežnja	Vice Vukov	12th
1968	Jedan dan	Luci Capurso & Hamo Hajdarhodžić	7th
1969	Pozdrav svijetu	"Ivan & Los M's"	13th
1971	Tvoj dječak je tužan	Krunoslav Slabinac	14th
1972	Muzika i ti	Tereza Kesovija	9th
1983	Džuli	Danijel Popović	4th
1986	Željo moja	Doris Dragović	11th
1987	Ja sam za ples	"Novi fosili"	4th
1988	Mangup	"Srebrna krila"	6th
1989	Rock me	"Riva"	1st
1990	Hajde da ludujemo	Tatjana Matejaš-Tajči	7th