The Republic of Macedonia (officially under the provisional appellation "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", abbreviated "FYR Macedonia") participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, selecting their entry through a televised national final, organised by Macedonian broadcaster Makedonska Radio Televizija (MKRTV).
Skopje Fest 2011 was a song contest organized by MRT that served as Macedonia's national final to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. The competition took place on 27 February 2011 at the Universal Hall in Skopje, hosted by Elena Miteva and Zoran Mircevski and was broadcast on MTV 1, MTV Sat and online via the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.[1]
Competing entries[]
A submission period was opened for interested artists and composers to submit their entries between 29 November 2010 and 10 January 2011.[2][3] MRT received 88 submissions at the closing of the deadline. Twenty entries were selected and the competing artists and songs were announced on 27 January 2011.[4]
On 3 February 2011, "Vo mojot svet imaš dom", written by Grigor Koprov, Vladimir Dojcinovski and Borce Dimitrov and to have been performed by Nade Talevska, was withdrawn from the competition due to overseas arrangements of the artist.[5] "Neka e so pomin", written by Ljupčo Mirkovski and Ognen Nedelkovski and to have been performed by Dule i Koki, was withdrawn from the competition due to the artists stating that Skopje Fest is rigged.[6][7] "Kukuriku" performed Rok Agresori and "Posledna pesna" performed by Amir Ibrahimovski & Art Sound were later announced as the replacements that would compete in the competition instead.
Artist
Song
Songwriter(s)
Amir Ibrahimovski and Art Sound
"Posledna pesna" (Последна песна)
Jovan Vasilevski, Gligor Kodoski
Angelina Stojanoska
"Znaeš li" (Знаеш ли)
Daniel Mitrevski, Petar Dimitrovski, Irena Dimovska
The final took place on 27 February 2011.[8] Twenty entries competed and a 50/50 combination of public televoting and a jury panel selected "Rusinka" performed by Vlatko Ilievski as the winner. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the competition featured guest performances by 2006 Macedonian Eurovision representativeElena Risteska and 2005 Bosnian and 2010 Croatian Eurovision representativesFemminem.[9]
On 12 May, Macedonia competed eleventh in the second semi-final of the contest. They placed sixteenth with 36 points and failed to qualify for the final.[10] The public awarded Macedonia 17th place with 33 points and the jury awarded 14th place with 47 points.[11]
Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
Israel
Moldova
