Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

The Republic of Macedonia[1] (officially under the provisional appellation "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", abbreviated "FYR Macedonia") participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "Dance Alone" performed by Jana Burčeska and written by Bobi-Leon Milanov, Alex Omar, Joacim Perrson and Florence A. The singer and song were internally selected by the Macedonian broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) to compete for Macedonia at the 2017 contest in Kiev, Ukraine.

Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Country	Macedonia
National selection
Selection process	Internal Selection
Selection date(s)	Artist: 21 November 2016 Song: 10 March 2017
Selected entrant	Jana Burčeska
Selected song	"Dance Alone"
Selected songwriter(s)	Borislav Milanov Alex Omar Joacim Perrson Florence A.
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Failed to qualify (15th, 69 points)
Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Macedonia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2016. Performing during the show in position 3, "Dance Alone" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final.

Background

Prior to the 2016 contest, Macedonia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifteen times since its first entry in 1998.[2] The nation's best result in the contest to this point was twelfth, which it achieved in 2006 with the song "Ninanajna" performed by Elena Risteska. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Macedonia had featured in only five finals. In 2016 Kaliopi failed to bring the country to the final with her song Dona, that marked the nations fourth failure in a row.

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

On 21 November 2016, MRT announced that they had internally selected Jana Burčeska to represent Macedonia in Kiev. On 2 December it was announced that MRT began a public search for Jana's entry. The said they hoped to send an entry that delivers a "quality and dignified representation" of the nation but also said they wanted a "modern and attractive" entry.

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot.[3] On 31 January 2017, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Macedonia was placed into the second semi-final, held on 11 May 2017, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.[4]

Points awarded to Macedonia

Points awarded to Macedonia (Semi-final 2)
Televote
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Bulgaria	Serbia			Croatia
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Israel	San Marino	Switzerland
Jury
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
		France  Malta
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Serbia		Norway  Ukraine	Hungary

Points awarded by Macedonia

Semi-final 2 Score Televote Jury 12 points  Serbia  Bulgaria 10 points  Bulgaria  Romania 8 points  Croatia  Malta 7 points  Israel  Denmark 6 points  Hungary  Netherlands 5 points   Switzerland  Hungary 4 points  Estonia  Lithuania 3 points  Romania  Austria 2 points  Netherlands  Estonia 1 point  Ireland   Switzerland

Final Score Televote Jury 12 points  Bulgaria  Bulgaria 10 points  Croatia  Portugal 8 points  Italy  Australia 7 points  Portugal  Denmark 6 points  France  Moldova 5 points  Sweden  France 4 points  Belgium  Romania 3 points  Hungary  United Kingdom 2 points  Moldova  Norway 1 point  Israel  Sweden

Split voting results from Macedonia (Semi-final 2)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		S. Mase	K. Velkovska	M. Mark	Silvi	A. Gigovska	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Serbia	17	12	14	8	11	14		1	12
02	Austria	12	3	9	7	17	8	3	11
03	Macedonia
04	Malta	1	4	4	3	3	3	8	15
05	Romania	2	5	2	2	2	2	10	8	3
06	Netherlands	5	10	5	4	6	5	6	9	2
07	Hungary	9	6	6	17	5	6	5	5	6
08	Denmark	4	2	3	5	4	4	7	12
09	Ireland	10	16	7	15	7	11		10	1
10	San Marino	11	15	13	13	8	12		16
11	Croatia	16	17	17	12	12	17		3	8
12	Norway	13	11	12	10	15	13		13
13	Switzerland	8	13	11	6	16	10	1	6	5
14	Belarus	14	7	15	14	13	15		14
15	Bulgaria	3	1	1	1	1	1	12	2	10
16	Lithuania	7	8	8	11	10	7	4	17
17	Estonia	6	9	10	16	9	9	2	7	4
18	Israel	15	14	16	9	14	16		4	7

Split voting results from Macedonia (final)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		S. Mase	K. Velkovska	M. Mark	Silvi	A. Gigovska	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Israel	14	17	20	12	14	15		10	1
02	Poland	22	14	18	14	11	16		26
03	Belarus	21	19	17	16	17	18		24
04	Austria	11	8	7	11	19	11		23
05	Armenia	20	18	12	13	12	14		22
06	Netherlands	19	12	15	6	13	12		17
07	Moldova	7	10	1	5	7	5	6	9	2
08	Hungary	23	11	23	22	26	23		8	3
09	Italy	15	20	19	20	24	21		3	8
10	Denmark	4	3	10	1	1	4	7	14
11	Portugal	2	4	2	4	4	2	10	4	7
12	Azerbaijan	16	15	11	24	20	17		21
13	Croatia	24	26	24	23	23	25		2	10
14	Australia	3	1	5	3	5	3	8	20
15	Greece	26	25	25	21	25	26		12
16	Spain	12	24	21	26	21	22		25
17	Norway	10	13	4	10	10	9	2	19
18	United Kingdom	9	7	14	7	9	8	3	15
19	Cyprus	25	23	26	25	15	24		13
20	Romania	8	6	8	9	6	7	4	11
21	Germany	18	22	22	15	18	20		16
22	Ukraine	17	21	16	18	22	19		18
23	Belgium	13	16	6	17	16	13		7	4
24	Sweden	6	9	13	19	8	10	1	6	5
25	Bulgaria	1	2	3	2	2	1	12	1	12
26	France	5	5	9	8	3	6	5	5	6

References

1. Participating member of EBU as former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
2. "F.Y.R. Macedonia Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
3. Jordan, Paul (25 January 2017). "Semi-Final Allocation draw to take place in Kyiv". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
4. Jordan, Paul (31 January 2017). "Results of the Semi-Final Allocation Draw". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 31 January 2017.