- Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005
ESC National Year
Year = 2005
Country = SCG
Preselection = Evropesma 2005
Preselection date =15 March 2005
Entrant = No Name
Song = "Zauvijek Moja "
SF result =
Final result = 7th, 137 pointsThe national final was held inPodgorica on4 March 2005 . It featured 14 songs selected by Serbian broadcaster RTS inBeovizija 2005 festival and 10 songs that qualified from the Montenegrin semifinal "Montevizija 2005 ". "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 favouriteJelena Tomašević with the song "Jutro" did not receive any points from the Montenegrin jury while No Name received a small amount 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 weren't 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 ofplagiarism . 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 byMilan Perić and composed bySlaven Knezović .Evropesma 2005
:"For full results, see Evropesma 2005"
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.