Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Serbia and Montenegro were represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 by Montenegrin group No Name with the song "Zauvijek Moja".

Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country	Serbia and Montenegro
National selection
Selection process	National final
Selection date(s)	Beovizija 19 February 2005 Montevizija 2 March 2005 Evropjesma 4 March 2005
Selected entrant	No Name
Selected song	"Zauvijek Moja"
Finals performance
Final result	7th, 137 points
Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Before Eurovision

Evropesma 2005

For full results, see Evropesma 2005

The national final was held in Podgorica on 4 March 2005. It featured 13 (originally 14) songs selected by Serbian broadcaster RTS in Beovizija 2005 festival and 10 songs that qualified from the Montenegrin semifinal "Montevizija 2005". Serbian band Luna initially planned to compete in the final, but the band withdrew just before the event started due to boycott. They were allocated to perform 11th with the song "Sentimientos".

"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 number 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 were not 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.

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote		Total	Place
				Votes	Points
1	Lu Lu	"Bolje da te nemam"	2	—	0	2	19
2	No Name	"Zauvijek moja"	72	32,607	12	84	1
3	Džej & Maja	"Pobedila si ljubav"	5	898	2	7	15
4	Ogi	"Hajde cico"	44	4,187	7	51	3
5	Andrea Demirović	"Šta će mi dani"	38	1,784	4	42	5
6	Teodora Bojović	"Ti si kriv"	9	—	0	9	14
7	Ana Cvetković	"Nevidljiva"	24	748	1	25	10
8	Svetlana Raičković	"Praznina"	6	—	0	6	16
9	Jelena Tomašević	"Jutro"	44	16,978	10	54	2
10	Biljana Mitrović	"Kad ljubav umire"	2	—	0	2	19
11	Luna	"Sentimientos"	—	—	—	—	—
12	Ivana Popović	"U oku tvom"	7	2,066	5	12	13
13	Koktel bend	"Minđuša"	6	—	0	6	16
14	Viktorija	"Kaži, sestro"	0	—	0	0	21
15	Andrijana Božović	"Sve ti boje dobro stoje"	32	1,466	3	35	6
16	Tatjana Đorđević	"Ko je kriv"	0	—	0	0	21
17	Bojan Marović	"Svejedno"	23	3,079	6	29	9
18	Maja Mitrović	"Nama treba ljubav"	30	—	0	30	8
19	Marija Šerifović	"Ponuda"	5	—	0	5	18
20	Marko Vukčević	"Govor tijela"	35	—	0	35	6
21	Nataša Kojić – Taša	"Dobre devojke"	0	—	0	0	21
22	Marija Božović	"Pronađi put"	23	—	0	23	11
23	Dušan Zrnić	"Nebo"	15	—	0	15	12
24	Stevan Faddy	"Utjeha"	42	4,283	8	50	4

Detailed Jury Votes
Draw	Song	RTS				RTCG				Total
		Juror 1	Juror 2	Juror 3	Juror 4	Juror 1	Juror 2	Juror 3	Juror 4
1	"Bolje da te nemam"	2								2
2	"Zauvijek moja"	6	6	5	7	12	12	12	12	72
3	"Pobedila si ljubav"		5							5
4	"Hajde cico"	10	10	12	12					44
5	"Šta će mi dani"		4			8	8	8	10	38
6	"Ti si kriv"		3	3	1			2		9
7	"Nevidljiva"	1	7	4		6		4	2	24
8	"Praznina"							6		6
9	"Jutro"	12	12	10	10					44
10	"Kad ljubav umire"						1	1		2
11	"U oku tvom"					1			6	7
12	"Minđuša"				3				3	6
13	"Kaži, sestro"									0
14	"Sve ti boje dobro stoje"		8	1		5	6	7	5	32
15	"Ko je kriv"									0
16	"Svejedno"	4	1		4	4	5	5		23
17	"Nama treba ljubav"	7	2	8	6		7			30
18	"Ponuda"					2	3			5
19	"Govor tijela"	8		6	8	3	2		8	35
20	"Dobre devojke"									0
21	"Pronađi put"	3		2		7	4	3	4	23
22	"Nebo"	5		7	2				1	15
23	"Utjeha"				5	10	10	10	7	42

At Eurovision

Serbia & Montenegro automatically qualified to the grand final, because it was on the top 12 last year. In the grand final, finished 7th with 137 points.meaning that Serbia and Montenegro automatically qualified for the final in the 2006 contest. The spokesperson who revealed Serbia and Montenegro's votes for other countries was RTCG journalist and presenter Nina Radulovic.[1]

Points awarded by Serbia and Montenegro

Semi final 12 points  Croatia 10 points  Macedonia 8 points  Hungary 7 points  Slovenia 6 points  Moldova 5 points  Romania 4 points  Norway 3 points  Israel 2 points   Switzerland 1 point  Bulgaria

Final 12 points  Greece 10 points  Croatia 8 points  Albania 7 points  Macedonia 6 points  Hungary 5 points  Moldova 4 points  Bosnia and Herzegovina 3 points  Romania 2 points  Norway 1 point  Cyprus

Points awarded to Serbia and Montenegro

Points awarded to Serbia and Montenegro (final)

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Austria  Croatia   Switzerland	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Cyprus  Macedonia  Slovenia			Albania  France  Greece  Monaco  Romania  Russia
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
	Bulgaria  Netherlands  Sweden	Belarus  Germany  Ukraine	Hungary	Latvia  Moldova

References

1. Philips, Roel (17 May 2005). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Retrieved 28 April 2009.