Serbia: New dates for Beovizija announced

by Stella Floras 62 views

RTS have announced the new dates for the country's preselection for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Beovizija was postponed due to the political situation in Serbia after the declaration of independence in Kosovo two days before it was originally scheduled to take place.

The Beovizija semi final will now be held on 9th March, and it will be followed the next day by the final. Twenty songs will compete in the semi final and the ten qualifiers will be decided by a mixture of televote and jury vote. Stefan Filipovic, the 2008 Montenegrin entrant will be a special guest at the show.

The running order for the semi final is:

1. Studio Alektik and Cveta Majtanovic – Iznad nas(Above Us)

2. Drum'n'Zez – Dunav (The Danube)

3. Negativ – S tobom bih ostala (I Would Stay With You)

4. Mogul – Mo�da baš (Maybe)

5. Nenad Ceranic – Slepa ulica (Cul-de-sac)

6. Betty Boop – Kvar (Breakdown)

7. Sloba Bajic – Prečica do dna (Shortcut to the Bottom)

8. Aleksa Jelic & Ana Stajdohar – Beli jablan (White poplar)

9. Beauty Queens – Zavet (The Sacrament)

10. Andrej Ilic Band – Tijana

11. Lejla Hot – Da si tu (If You Were Here)

12. Ivana Cosic – Kao da hodam(As if I Am Walking)

13. Tamara Nikezic – Nisi prvi (You're not the First One)

14. Dejan Vozlic – Ako me čuješ (If You Hear Me)

15. Zana Band – U �ivot kockam se (I bet on My Life)

16. Marko Vulinovic – Sada ili nikada (Now or Never)

17. Zoe Kida u Zemlji Gruva – Čudesni svetovi (Wondrous Worlds)

18. Ognjen and friends – Čućemo, čućete (We'll Hear, You'll Hear)

19. Denis and Obule – Bezimena (Nameless)

20. Jelena Tomasevic – Oro

You can watch all video clips of this year's participants and listen to all twenty Beovizija entries here.

Stella Floras

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