Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest

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**Yugoslavia**

Member station	JRT
National selection event(s)	Jugovizija
Appearances	28
First appearance	1961
Best result	1st, 1989
Worst result	21st, 1991

Yugoslavia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 27 times, debuting in 1961 (see ESC 1961) and since competing in every year until 1992, with the exceptions of 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1985. Yugoslavia was the only communist country in European Broadcasting Union and naturally the only country of eastern Bloc taking part in the contest. This was because Yugoslavia was not part of the Warsaw Pact.

Over the years, Yugoslavia was represented by a variety of artists from five of the six republics that constituted Yugoslavia. These artists were from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, missing only Macedonia. With Croatia being most successful as their performers won national contest 12 out of 27 times Yugoslavia participated in ESC.

Yugoslavia won the Eurovision Song Contest 1989. Following the rules of the contest, in 1990, the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Zagreb (Now Croatia).

Since the breakup of Yugoslavia, all former Yugoslav republics have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest, although the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia did not re-appear at the contest for the remainder of its existence until the early 2000's. In 2004, however, Serbia and Montenegro debuted and came in 2nd. Overall the results of the new republics have been mixed: Croatia had some early successes in the mid-90's, and Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina have enjoyed some success in recent years, while the FYR of Macedonia have never secured a top 10 result.

[edit] Contestants

Year	Finished	Artist	Song
1961	8th	Ljiljana Petrović	Neke davne zvezde
1962	4th	Lola Novaković	Ne pali svetla u sumrak
1963	11th	Vice Vukov	Brodovi
1964	13th	Sabahudin Kurt	Život je sklopio krug
1965	12th	Vice Vukov	Čežnja
1966	7th	Berta Ambrož	Brez besed
1967	8th	Lado Leskovar	Vse rože sveta
1968	7th	Luči Kapurso & Hamo Hajdarhodžić	Jedan dan
1969	13th	Ivan & 3M	Pozdrav svijetu
1970	11th	Eva Sršen	Pridi, dala ti bom cvet
1971	14th	Krunoslav Slabinac	Tvoj dječak je tužan
1972	9th	Tereza Kesovija	Muzika i ti
1973	15th	Zdravko Čolić	Gori Vatra
1974	12th	Korni grupa	Moja Generacija
1975	13th	Pepel in Kri	Dan ljubezni
1976	17th	Ambasadori	Ne mogu skriti svoj bol
did not participate in 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1980
1981	15th	Seid Memić-Vajta	Leila
1982	14th	Aska	Halo Halo
1983	4th	Daniel	Džuli
1984	18th	Vlado Kalember & Izolda Barudžija.	Ciao, Amore
did not participate in 1985 because the Contest in Gothenburg happened to fall on May 4, 1985 - 5th anniversary of the death of Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito
1986	11th	Doris Dragović	Željo moja
1987	4th	Novi fosili	Ja sam za ples
1988	6th	Srebrna Krila	Mangup
1989	1st	Riva	Rock me
1990	7th	Tajči	Hajde da ludujemo
1991	21st	Baby Doll	Brazil
1992	13th	Extra Nena	Ljubim te pesmama