Tinkara Kovač wins EMA 2014

The winner of the national selection in Slovenia.

Ljubljana, Slovenia - Evrovizijska melodija (EMA) is a TV show, traditionally organized by the Slovenian national broadcaster – RTV SLO, where the best perfomers and songs take part competing for the role of representative at Eurovision Song Contest, every year. This year seven artists and bands were among the finalists, but there’s only one winner and it’s Tinkara Kovač.

As it was announced, there were seven great live performances, we could enjoy while wathing EMA 2014 live from Ljubljana tonight:

1. Omar Naber I Won’t Give Up
2. Nermin Puškar and Samuel Lucas Masquerade
3. Bilbi To Ni Blues
4. Nude Be Ok!
5. Rudi Bučar and Elevators Tja
6. Tinkara Kovač Spet / Round And Round
7. Muff Let Me Be (Myself)

During the show, TV audience was reminded about some of the greatest Slovenian entries at Eurovision in the previous years and Ula Furlan (the host of the show) gave her best to make the atmosphere in the studio even more exciting. She used the moments between the performances to talk with all the contestants, but also with the members of the expert jury, even though they don’t have any influence on the outcome of the voting in Slovenia.
Except the competing songs, there was also an interval act, so those who were following EMA 2014 tonight, could enjoy the new song from Maja Keuc (Slovenian representative at Eurovision 2011) and hear her new single Close To You.
And then came the first most important moment of EMA 2014 - as the first round of voting ended. Ula Furlan announced the names of two superfinalists: TINKARA KOVAČ and MUFF. After we heard two potential entries once again, the second round of voting was open, but this time two new phone lines were open for five minutes only. Eventually, the second televoting was finally over and the winner of EMA 2014 was declared:

1. TINKARA KOVAČ (7932 votes)
2. MUFF (3450 votes)

About EMA 2014

At the beginning of February, the expert jury consisted of: Miša Molk (editor of EMA contest), Darja Švajger (professional musician and singer) and Andrea F. (radio music editor, musician and producer), announced the names of the contestants at EMA 2014, who we saw performing tonight, live from Ljubljana.
In the last few weeks, radio listeners and TV viewers in Slovenia could hear and enjoy all the competing songs and to find out much more about the artists and authors, through a lot of interviews. Nevertheless, in comparing to others national selections across Europe, TV audience in Slovenia has the full resposibility for the outcome, as there’s televoting only an no jury evaluation of the performances.

About the voting

There were two rounds of televoting during the Grand final in Slovenia. In the first round, viewers could give their support to some of the performers among seven finalists. They had ten minutes for calling some of the numbers shown on the screen or sending SMS messages.

Two contestants with the highest number of votes were considered as superfinalists and they took part in the second round of voting. This time TV viewers had only five minutes to vote.

About the voting

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Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Slovenia participated 19 times, debuting in 1993. The best results were achieved by Darja Švajger (1995) and Nuša Derenda (2001). They both won seventh place.
For those who missed the Allocation Draw for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest held on 20th of January in Copenhagen – Slovenia will take part in second half of the Second Semi-Final, on Thursday, 8th of May.
If you missed the show, you can still watch EMA 2014 in our Web TV section.

Did you watch the show? What do you think about this year's Slovenian entry?

Tonight: EMA 2014 live from Ljubljana

Rudi Bučar and Elevators rehearsing

Ljubljana, Slovenia - The countdown for EMA has been running since the end of January, when the national brodcaster in Slovenia (TVSLO) decided to take part at 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. Tonight, seven finalists are going to perform their songs and compete for this year’s Eurovision ticket to Copenhagen. And most importantly, who will represent Slovenia in Denmark, it’s up to the audience only!

At the beginning of February, the expert jury consisting of: Miša Molk (editor of EMA contest), Darja Švajger (professional musician and singer) and Andrea F. (radio music editor, musician and producer), announced the names of the contestants at EMA 2014. In the meantime, the order of their appearance in the show, that you can also watch LIVE on Eurovision.tv - is confirmed too.

Omar Naber I Won’t Give Up
(O. Naber, M. Štibernik)

Nermin Puškar and Samuel Lucas Masquerade
(K. Tomec, I. Leonardi, N. Puškar, L. Delalić, D. Osterc)

Bilbi To Ni Blues
(M. Stermecki, G. Stermecki, P. Dekleva)

Nude Be Ok!
(G. Marolt, T. Amanović)

Rudi Bučar and Elevators Tja
(R. Bučar, Evelevators)

Tinkara Kovač Spet / Round And Round
(Raay, T. Kovač, H. Mancini, T. Piš)

Muff Let Me Be (Myself)
(S. Hajdarpašić, M. Gorše, T. Košir, A. Kacafura)

Only the TV viewers decide

In the last few weeks, radio listeners and TV viewers in Slovenia could hear and enjoy all the competing songs and to find out much more about the artists and authors, through a lot of interviews.
Nevertheless, in comparison to others national contests across Europe, the TV audience in Slovenia has the full resposibility for the outcome, as there’s televoting only, with no jury evaluation of the performances.
However, there are two rounds of voting planned for tonight’s Grand final. In the first round, viewers will be giving support to their favourite performers amongst the seven finalists, through ten minutes of voting.
The two contestants with the highest number of votes will be considered as superfinalists and the second round of voting will then decide this year’s representative for Eurovision and entry from Slovenia.
Apart from the competing songs, during the interval act, those who are going to follow EMA 2014 will see Maja Keuc (Slovenian representative at Eurovision 2011) and hear her new single. The host of the show is Ula Furlan.
Don’t forget, the show is scheduled for tonight, at 20:00 CET and there’s going to be LIVE webcast at Eurovision.tv!

Any favourites among the finalists so far?

A busy national selection weekend ahead!

Europe - With only a little more than one week till the official deadline, more and more countries are approaching the final decision on their entries for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. This weekend, you can watch the national finals in Slovenia, Sweden and Denmark, and the Montenegrin song will be premiered on Sunday!

Are you still looking for evening entertainment options for the upcoming weekend? Then look no further - here is a complete overview of all national selection shows for the next few days! Be sure to check out our full calendar too, to see when the remaining countries will be choosing their entries for Copenhagen.
As soon as we know the results of each respective show, we will announce them on Eurovision.tv as well as on the official Eurovision pages on Facebook, Google+, VK and Twitter.

Friday

20:05 CET: First semi-final in Norway, broadcast live on the NRK website.

Saturday

20:00 CET: Slovenia is ready to select their entry for Copenhagen, and guess what: we will broadcast it live on Eurovision.tv! Watch it in our WebTV Player.
20:00 CET: It's time for one of the most loved national selection shows, the final of Melodifestivalen in Sweden! Watch it live on the SVT website.
20:00 CET: The host country Denmark is also selecting their entry. You can watch the show live on the DR website.
20:55 CET: Second semi-final in Norway, broadcast live on the NRK website.
22:15 CET: Portugal provides us with some late night entertainment - you can watch the national semi-final live on the RTP website.

Sunday

20:05 CET: Third semi-final in Norway, broadcast live on the NRK website.
20:30 CET: The third semi-final will take place in Belgium - watch it live on the een website.

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Slovenia: EMA participants revealed

One of the contestants: Tinkara Kovač.

Ljubljana, Slovenia - The names of all contestants who are going to take part at EMA 2014 show, scheduled for the 8th of March at 20:00 CET in Ljubljana, were confirmed by Slovenian national broadcaster (RTV SLO) today. Decision about the finalists was made by Slovenian jury panel, whose members were chosen by the executive director of RTV Slovenija.

The expert jury consisted of: Miša Molk (editor of EMA contest), Darja Švajger (professional musician and singer) and Andrea F. (radio music editor, musician and producer), has been listening a lot of songs (between 23rd of January and 5th of February) and finally made decision about who is going to have an opportunity to compete for the role of Slovenian representative at 2014 Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark.
According to RTV SLO, following artists are going to perform at EMA 2014 in March:

• Bilbi
• Muff
• Nermin Puškar and Samuel Lucas
• Nude
• Omar Naber
• Rudi Bučar & Elevators
• Tinkara Kovač

More content on Social media coming soon

The procedure and criteria for this year’s national selection in Slovenia are quite clear and transparent. Not only that the competing songs need to be "exclusive, up to three minutes long and to reflect musical diversity“, members of the jury panel are also obligated to consensus decision making. They were dealing with a difficult task, considering that 29 authors and publishers took part and 42 songs were submited, listened and evaluated.
All the fans and audience will be informed about contestants and songs in details. Beside news and information that can be found on RTV SLO website, more content will be available on EMA's Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel, very soon too. In other words, preparations in Ljubljana for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in May are in a full swing. And don't forget: EMA 2014 is scheduled for 8th of March at 22:00 CET. Who is going to represent Slovenia in Denmark this year, will be decided through televoting only.

Any expectations, suggestions and remarks?

Slovenian EMA scheduled for March

Ljubljana, Slovenia - RTV Slovenija made a decision about taking part in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark, in the very last moment, after deadline was extended for ten days by EBU. In the meantime, Slovenian national broadcaster announced first details about internal selection of artists, who will perform at EMA 2014 show on 8th of March.

The most important details are being set. After a lot of speculations, Miša Molk (Editor of EMA contest) and Aleksander Radić (Head of Slovenian delegation at Eurovision Song Contest) confirmed that decision about the artist who will represent the country in Copenhagen is going to be made through televoting in a TV show scheduled for Saturday, 8th of March at 20:00 CET, on the first channel of RTV Slovenija.
In other words, TV audience will have a final vote, but before that, there will be an internal selection of artists and authors, who are going to be part of EMA 2014 (National selection also known as Evrovizijska melodija). The contest has been traditionally organised since 1993 (except in 1994 and 2000 when Slovenia didn’t take part at Eurovision).

 

More details to be announced soon!

This TV show has a format that went through a lot of changes and adjustments over the past years, but it always managed to get a lot of attention even outside of the country. EMA has great TV ratings and some of the competing songs usually end up in Slovenian charts and turn into big hits.
Nevertheless, more details about EMA 2014 are going to be announced in the following weeks.
For those who missed the Allocation Draw for the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest held on Monday, 20th of January in Copenhagen – Slovenia will take part in second half of the Second Semi-Final, on Thursday, 8th of May.
In the previous Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö (2013), this country was represented by Hannah Mancini with the song Straight Into Love (check the video). However, she didn’t manage to qualify for the Final.

Any expectations, thoughts or suggestions for Slovenia this year?

Slovenia joins Eurovision 2014, Semi-Final Allocation Draw on Monday

 

 

Copenhagen, Denmark - While it was announced that 36 countries would take part in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, the Slovenian broadcaster RTVSLO has decided to join the contest as well. Which countries will be in which Semi-Final will be decided on Monday at the Semi-Final Allocation Draw.

The Slovenian broadcaster had a final deadline for their decision on taking part in Copenhagen and have now confirmed they will indeed be competing in Copenhagen.
This means that this year's 37 participants are the broadcasters in Albania (RTSH), Armenia (AMPTV), Austria (ORF), Azerbaijan (Ictimai TV), Belarus (BTRC), Belgium (VRT), Denmark (DR), Estonia (ERR), Finland (YLE), France (France 3), Georgia (GPB), Germany (NDR), Greece (NERIT), Hungary (MTV), Iceland (RÚV), Ireland (RTÉ), Israel (IBA), Italy (RAI), Latvia (LTV), Lithuania (LRT), FYR Macedonia (MKRTV), Malta (PBS), Moldova (TRM), Montenegro (RTCG), the Netherlands (AvroTros), Norway (NRK), Poland (TVP), Portugal (RTP), Romania (TVR), Russia (RTR), San Marino (SRMTV), Slovenia (RTVSLO),Spain (TVE), Sweden (SVT), Switzerland (SRG SSR), United Kingdom (BBC) and Ukraine (NTU).

Time for a draw

The decision came just days before the so-called Semi-Final Allocation Draw where all Semi-Finalists will be drawn into their respective Semi-Finals. In addition to that the draw will decide which show will the pre-qualified countries of Denmark, France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom broadcast and vote in.
Germany will broadcast the second Semi-Final for scheduling reasons, as requested by their broadcaster NDR and approved by the Reference Group.
You can see the draw LIVE on Eurovision.tv, starting at 14.00 CET on Monday!
It'll also be drawn in which half of the shows they'll take part. This is done due to planning purposes for the delegations - the ones performing in the second half of the shows can arrive a day later in Copenhagen.

The pots

To create more excitement, like past years, the 30 countries will be allocated to 5 pots based on voting patterns from the previous nine years. The pots were calculated by the televoting partner Digame and are as follows:
Pot 1

• Albania
• FYR Macedonia
• Montenegro
• Slovenia
• Switzerland

Pot 2

• Estonia
• Finland
• Iceland
• Latvia
• Lithuania

Pot 3

• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Georgia
• Russia
• Ukraine

Pot 4

• Armenia
• Belgium
• Greece
• Ireland
• The Netherlands

Pot 5

• Austria
• Hungary
• Poland
• San Marino

Pot 6

• Malta
• Moldova
• Portugal
• Romania

Norway and Sweden were already previously drawn into Semi-Finals to assure a fair allocation of tickets in the Nordic region. Israel will take part in the second Semi-Final due to the first Semi-Final falling on their Independence day.
The whole process will be overseen by the EBU Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand and Thomas Niedermeyer from Digame.
The same day also the Host City Insignia handover ceremony will take place where the mayor of Malmö will hand over the symbolic Eurovision Song Contest host city keys to the mayor of Copenhagen.