EMA (Slovenia)

“”EMA (Evrovizijska Melodija; English: Eurovision Melody) is the national contest in Slovenia to select the country's entry since 1996 to the Eurovision Song Contest. The contest has been held since the country's debut in the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been held every year since, except for on two occasions (1994 and 2000) when Slovenia did not compete at Eurovision. The contest is organized and broadcast by the Slovene broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTV SLO). The contest was previously known as Slovenski izbor za pesem Evrovizije (literally Slovenian selection for the Eurovision Song Contest)

Format

The contest had previously been a one-night contest, in which the winner would be decided through jury, or a mixture of both televoting and the votes of an independent jury. Due to some criticism in the past over the use of jury voting, which is some cases has been completely contrary to the televoting results, 100% televoting was used in 2007 and 2008.^[1]

In 2004, the contest was extended over five nights (4 semifinals & final). In each semifinal there were 8 songs and three of them were qualified to final. In the final there were twelve songs from semifinals and four. The final had two rounds: in the first voting was done by jury and televote(50:50), in the second round (top 3 songs) voting was conducted by televote only.

In 2007, the contest was extended over three nights, with two semi-finals and one final. Between 10 and 12 songs competed in each semi-final, with the top 5 or 6 songs progressing to the final. The winner was decided through two rounds of televoting: in the first round the top two songs were decided, who would then progress to a Super Final. the second round of voting would then selected the winner from these two songs.

Changes were made to the format for the 2009 EMA. A mixture of jury and televoting has returned to the contest, which was shortened to just two nights. 14 songs competed in the semi-final, with 8 songs progressing to the final, where they were joined by six more songs, internally selected by RTV Slovenia to compete.^[2] These six songs have been composed by those who have achieved remarkable success at EMA in recent years and celebrated some hits in the Slovenian charts.^[3] The final of EMA 2009 has been held on 1 February 2009, with the semi-final one day earlier, on 31 January.^[4]

The 2010 contest featured two major changes to the 2009 format, which remains intact. Fistly televoting solely decided the winner, removing the jury vote. Furthermore all songs had to be performed in Slovene, with the winning song performed in Slovene at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo.^[5]

Guests

Through the years special guest have been asked to make an appearance. The guest list includes:Katrina Leskanich the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1997, Lys Assia the winner of the first Eurovision Song Contest and in 2010 Alexander Rybak the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Winners

See also

• Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest
• EMA 2007

References

External links

• EMA Official site (in Slovene)

v t e Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest   Participation 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014   Artists 1990s 1X Band 1994 Darja Švajger Regina Tanja Ribič Vili Resnik Darja Švajger 2000s 2000 Nuša Derenda Sestre Karmen Stavec Platin Omar Naber Anžej Dežan Alenka Gotar Rebeka Dremelj Quartissimo feat. Martina Majerle 2010s Ansambel Žlindra and Kalamari Maja Keuc Eva Boto Hannah Mancini   Songs 1990s "Tih deževen dan" 1994 "Prisluhni mi" "Dan najlepših sanj" "Zbudi se" "Naj bogovi slišijo" "For a Thousand Years" 2000s 2000 "Energy" "Samo ljubezen" "Nanana" "Stay Forever" "Stop" "Mr Nobody" "Cvet z juga" "Vrag naj vzame" "Love Symphony" 2010s "Narodnozabavni rock" "No One" "Verjamem" "Straight Into Love" (Note: Entries scored out are when Slovenia did not compete)