Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

ESC National Year
Year = 2009
Country = SRB
Preselection = Beovizija 2009
Preselection date = March 9 2008
Entrant =
Song =
SF result =
Final result = Serbia will participate at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, after hosting the 2008 contest in Belgrade.

The Serbian national final, Beovizija 2009, will be in late February or early March 2009 and be in the same format as last year's contest. It is expected to have a semi-final and a final held respectively at Sava Centar in Belgrade to determine Serbia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 to be held in Russia in May. Currently it is unknown which singers will participate in the event and who the hosts of Beovizija 2009 will be.

Beovizija 2009

Beovizija 2009, the Serbian national final, will be the 7th Beovizija music festival. The format will remain the same as in previous years with one semi-finals and one final most to be held either in late February or early March. The voting will consist of 50% jury and 50% televoting, either. The winner of this Beovizija will represent Serbia in one of the the semi-finals of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in May 2009 at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Moscow, Russia

Participants

Singers and composers wishing to enter the 7th Beovizija will be able to do so when applications open in late September 2008 with applications to close in November unless extended as was the case in 2007.

Serbian singer Stefan Savić has said that he will try for Beovizija 2009, working with Vladimir Graić, composer of the winning Eurovision 2007 song "Molitva". [cite web|url=http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=4084|title=Stefan Savic to try for Beovizija 2009|last=Backfish|first=Emma |date=2008-09-14|publisher="Oikotimes"|accessdate=2008-09-15]

At Eurovision

Since Serbia is not one of the "Big Four" and is not the host of the 2009 contest, it will have to compete in one of the two semi-finals.

ee also

*Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest
*Eurovision Song Contest 2009

References

External links

* [http://www.rts.rs RTS]