Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

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The national final was held in Podgorica on 4 March 2005. It featured 14 songs selected by Serbian broadcaster RTS in Beovizija 2005 festival and 10 songs that qualified from the Montenegrin semifinal "Montevizija 2005". "Zauvijek Moja" (Forever Mine) by the band No Name, a qualifier from Montenegro's semifinal, was the controversial winner of the event which was decided by a mixture of jury selection and televote. The Serbian favourite Jelena Tomašević with the song Jutro did not receive any points from the Montenegrin jury while No Name received a small amount of points from the Serbian jury. The probable partisan feeling that led to such a polarised outcome may be partly attributable to the fallout from an earlier heated dispute, initiated when the Serbian qualifiers had been actively promoted on the airwaves in the run-up to the final, in a breach of the rules agreed between the two sides, and one of the reason is probably last year's Evropesma, when all of the Montenegrin songs weren't awarded a single point by the Serbian jury. Before allowing "Zauvijek Moja" to be confirmed as Serbia and Montenegro's entry, the EBU 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. The song won the award for the best composition in the contest. The song is written by Milan Perić and composed by Slaven Knezović.


[edit] Evropesma results

Song Singer Points Place
1 Bolje da te nemam Lu Lu 2 19th
2 Zauvijek moja No Name 84 1st
3 Pobedila si ljubav Džej & Maja 7 15th
4 Hajde cico Ogi 51 3rd
5 Šta će mi dani Andrea Demirović 42 5th
6 Ti si kriv Teodora Bojović 9 14th
7 Nevidljiva Ana Cvetković 25 10th
8 Praznina Svetlana Raičković 6 16th
9 Jutro Jelena Tomašević 54 2nd
10 Kad ljubav umire Biljana Mitrović 2 19th
11 U oku tvom Ivana Popović 12 13th
12 Minđuša Koktel bend 6 16th
13 Kaži, sestro Viktorija 0 21st
14 Sve ti boje dobro stoje Andrijana Božović 35 6th
15 Ko je kriv Tanja Đorđević 0 21st
16 Svejedno Bojan Marović 29 9th
17 Nama treba ljubav Maja Mitrović 30 8th
18 Ponuda Marija Šerifović 5 18th
19 Govor tijela Marko Vukčević 35 6th
20 Dobre devojke Nataša Kojić– Taša 0 21st
21 Pronađi put Marija Božović 23 11th
22 Nebo Dušan Zrnić 15 12th
23 Utjeha Stevan Faddy 50 4th