Tonight, the first semi final of the FYR Macedonian selection for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest was held. 16 songs competed and the top eight were chosen by televoting and a jury to move forward to the national final this Saturday.
The following eight songs reached the national final:
- Next time – Nesto sto ke ostane
- Risto Samardjiev – Samo son ke ni ostane
- Slang- Gengsta oro
- Proekt Makedonija – Pomalku naivno
- Daniel – Sila na ljubovta
- Andrijana Janevska – Drvo bez koren
- Kostadin Papa – Za nea postojam
- Verce Pandilovska – Severno od mene, juzno od tebe
The complete results of the semi final were:
| Pl. | Performer | Jury | Televote | Total |
| 1 | Next Time | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| 2 | Risto Samardjiev | 12 | 7 | 19 |
| 3 | Slang | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 | Proekt Makedonija | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 | Daniel | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| =6 | Andrijana Janevska | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| =6 | Kostadin Papa | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 8 | Verce Pandilovska | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Dimitar Andonovski | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| =10 | Ana Simonovska | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| =10 | Jane Dulimaglovski | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | Treta Dimnzija | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | Vodoliva | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| =14 | Lili | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| =14 | Zarmenia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| =14 | Emilija Gievska | 0 | 0 | 0 |
esctoday.com poll results
The poll results and results of the semi final widely agreed: Six of the eight songs that qualified were also in the top eight of the poll, among them the top four. However, it has to be mentioned that the runaway poll winner Andrijana Janevskaonly finished sixth and got no points from the televoters.
FYR Macedonia has qualified for the Eurovision Song Contestfinal in every year with one semi final just to miss the top ten. Last year, Tamara, Vrcak & Adrijan would have also qualified according to the televoting as they finished 10th with their song Let me love you. However, the jury joker was given to Sweden eliminatingthe FYRMacedonian entry in thesecond semi final.
