Eurovision Song Contest 2019 | ||||
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Country | Croatia | |||
National selection | ||||
Selection process | Dora 2019 | |||
Selection date(s) | 16 February 2019 | |||
Selected entrant | Roko | |||
Selected song | "The Dream" | |||
Selected songwriter(s) |
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Finals performance | ||||
Semi-final result | Failedāāto qualify (14th) | |||
Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "The Dream" written by, Jacques Houdek, Andrea ÄubriÄ and Charlie Mason. The song was performed by Roko. Songwriter Jacques Houdek represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "My Friend" where he placed thirteenth in the "grand final of the competition." The Croatian broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) organised the national final Dora 2019āāto select the Croatian entry for the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sixteen entries competed in the national final on 16 February 2019. And "The Dream" performed by Roko was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from ten regional juries and "a public televote."
Croatia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 16 May 2019. Performing during the show in position 10, "The Dream" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Croatia placed fourteenth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 64 points.
Backgroundā»
Prior to the 2019 contest, Croatia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty-four times since its first entry in 1993. The nation's best result in the contest was fourth, which it achieved on two occasions: in 1996 with the song "Sveta ljubav" performed by Maja Blagdan and in 1999 with the song "Marija Magdalena" performed by Doris DragoviÄ. Following the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, Croatia had thus far featured in seven finals. Since 2018, the Croatian entries failed to qualify from the semi-finals; the last time Croatia competed in the final was in 2017 with the song "My Friend" performed by Jacques Houdek. In 2018, Croatia failed to qualify to the final with Franka and the song "Crazy".
The Croatian national broadcaster, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), broadcasts the event within Croatia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. HRT confirmed Croatia's participation in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on 26 September 2018. Between 1993 and 2011, HRT organised the national final Dora in order to select the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2012 and 2013, "the broadcaster opted to internally select the entry." The Croatian broadcaster continued the internal selection procedure since 2016 after missing the contest in 2014 and 2015, "however," HRT announced on 2 October 2018 that Dora would return to select Croatia's entry at the 2019 contest.
Before Eurovisionā»
Dora 2019ā»
Dora 2019 was the twentieth edition of the Croatian national selection Dora which selected Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The competition consisted of sixteen entries competing in one final on 16 February 2019 at the Marino CvetkoviÄ Sports Hall in Opatija, hosted by Mirko Fodor, Jelena GliÅ”iÄ and Iva Å ulentiÄ. The show was broadcast on HRT 1 as well as online via the broadcaster's streaming service HRTi. The national final was watched by 543,912 viewers in Croatia with a market share of 32%.
Competing entriesā»
On 20 November 2018, HRT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster with the deadline on 10 January 2019. Songs submitted were required to be, in English, French, Italian/Croatian. 162 entries were received by the broadcaster during the submission period. A seven-member expert committee consisting of Ivana Vrdoljak Vanna (singer), Zlatko Turkalj Turki (radio host), Igor Geržina (producer of HRT's Jazz Orchestra), Ante PecotiÄ (composer and producer), Antonija Å ola (singer, actress and composer), Zlatko Gal (music critic) and Željen KlaÅ”terka (Head of the Croatian Eurovision Delegation) reviewed the received submissions and selected sixteen artists and songs for the competition. HRT announced the competing entries on 23 December 2018 and among the artists were Neda Parmac of Gelato Sisters who represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 and Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 as a member of Feminnem, and Marko Å kugor of 4 Tenora who represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as a member of Klapa s Mora. On 29 January 2019, 4 Tenora withdrew their song "Brod bez imena", written by Eduard BotriÄ and Matko Å imac, due to a previously scheduled concert and replaced with "Nisam to Å”to žele" performed by Kim Verson. The running order of the final was determined by HRT and announced on 4 February 2019.
Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
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Beta Sudar | "Don't Give Up" | Predrag Martinjak, Malin Johansson |
Bernarda | "I Believe in True Love" | DuÅ”ko Rapotec Ute, Bernarda BrunoviÄ, Tatjana Bon |
Bojan JambroÅ”iÄ and Danijela PintariÄ | "Vrijeme predaje" | Ante Toni EteroviÄ, Leonardo ÄeÄi Baksa |
Domenica | "Indigo" | TonÄi HuljiÄ, Vjekoslava HuljiÄ |
Elis LovriÄ | "All I Really Want" | Elis LovriÄ, Olja DeÅ”iÄ |
Ema Gagro | "Redemption" | Andreas Bjƶrkman, Adriana Pupavac, Kalle Persson, Ema Gagro |
Gelato Sisters | "Back to That Swing" | Tvrtko Hrelec |
Jelena BosanÄiÄ | "Tell Me" | Jelena BosanÄiÄ |
Jure BrkljaÄa | "Ne postojim kad nisi tu" | Miroslav DrljaÄa Rus |
Kim Verson | "Nisam to Ŕto žele" | Kim Verson |
Lea MijatoviÄ | "Tebi pripadam" | Igor IvanoviÄ, Marko VojvodiÄ |
Lidija BaÄiÄ | "Tek je poÄelo" | Denis DumanÄiÄ, Fayo |
Lorena BuÄan | "Tower of Babylon" | TonÄi HuljiÄ, Ivan HuljiÄ, Vjekoslava HuljiÄ |
Luka NižetiÄ | "Brutalero" | Branimir MihaljeviÄ, Mario MihaljeviÄ |
Manntra | "In the Shadows" | Marko MatijeviÄ Sekul, Maja KolariÄ, Boris KolariÄ |
Roko BlaževiÄ | "The Dream" | Jacques Houdek, Andrea ÄubriÄ, Charlie Mason |
Finalā»
The final took place on 16 February 2019. The winner, "The Dream" performed by Roko BlaževiÄ, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from ten regional juries and a public televote. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show was opened by Sudar Percussion and 2018 Croatian Eurovision entrant Franka BateliÄ, while Mia NegovetiÄ, 2001 Croatian Eurovision entrant Vanna and Croatian Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 winner Dino JelusiÄ performed as the interval acts.
Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | |||
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Phone | SMS | Total | Points | ||||||
1 | Bojan JambroÅ”iÄ and Danijela PintariÄ | "Vrijeme predaje" | 0 | 1,410 | 775 | 2,185 | 6 | 6 | 9 |
2 | Jelena BosanÄiÄ | "Tell Me" | 0 | 790 | 157 | 947 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
3 | Kim Verson | "Nisam to Ŕto žele" | 0 | 210 | 133 | 343 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
4 | Jure BrkljaÄa | "Ne postojim kad nisi tu" | 2 | 1,328 | 841 | 2,169 | 5 | 7 | 8 |
5 | Beta Sudar | "Don't Give Up" | 4 | 1,250 | 565 | 1,815 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
6 | Lea MijatoviÄ | "Tebi pripadam" | 0 | 615 | 221 | 836 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
7 | Gelato Sisters | "Back to That Swing" | 1 | 827 | 338 | 1,165 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
8 | Luka NižetiÄ | "Brutalero" | 3 | 3,663 | 3,175 | 6,838 | 10 | 13 | 3 |
9 | Elis LovriÄ | "All I Really Want" | 8 | 831 | 381 | 1,194 | 0 | 8 | 7 |
10 | Domenica | "Indigo" | 0 | 817 | 577 | 1,394 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
11 | Roko BlaževiÄ | "The Dream" | 12 | 7,088 | 4,436 | 11,524 | 12 | 24 | 1 |
12 | Ema Gagro | "Redemption" | 7 | 1,063 | 907 | 1,970 | 4 | 11 | 5 |
13 | Lidija BaÄiÄ | "Tek je poÄelo" | 0 | 945 | 564 | 1,509 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
14 | Lorena BuÄan | "Tower of Babylon" | 10 | 3,538 | 2,047 | 5,585 | 8 | 18 | 2 |
15 | Bernarda BrunoviÄ | "I Believe in True Love" | 6 | 1,145 | 710 | 1,855 | 3 | 9 | 6 |
16 | Manntra | "In the Shadows" | 5 | 2,183 | 1,738 | 3,921 | 7 | 12 | 4 |
Draw | Song | Zagreb | Vukovar | Varaždin and Äakovec |
Rijeka | Pula | Osijek | Zadar | Knin and Å ibenik |
Split | Dubrovnik | Total | Points |
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1 | "Vrijeme predaje" | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||
2 | "Tell Me" | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
3 | "Nisam to Ŕto žele" | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||
4 | "Ne postojim kad nisi tu" | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 2 | ||
5 | "Don't Give Up" | 6 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 41 | 4 | ||
6 | "Tebi pripadam" | 7 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 0 | |||||||
7 | "Back to the Swing" | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 1 | ||
8 | "Brutalero" | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 38 | 3 | ||||||
9 | "All I Really Want" | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 68 | 8 |
10 | "Indigo" | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 0 | ||||
11 | "The Dream" | 8 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 77 | 12 |
12 | "Redemption" | 3 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 62 | 7 |
13 | "Tek je poÄelo" | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
14 | "Tower of Babylon" | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 72 | 10 | |
15 | "I Believe in True Love" | 12 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 58 | 6 | ||
16 | "In the Shadows" | 7 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 55 | 5 |
Promotionā»
Roko made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "The Dream" as the Croatian Eurovision entry. On 21 April, Roko performed during the Eurovision Pre-Party Madrid event, which was held at the Sala La Riviera venue in Madrid, Spain and hosted by Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela. On 24 April, Roko performed during the Eurovision Pre-Party, which was held at the Vegas City Hall in Moscow, Russia and hosted by Alexey Lebedev and Andres Safari.
At Eurovisionā»
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 28 January 2019, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Croatia was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 16 May 2019. And was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.
Once all the competing songs for the 2019 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Croatia was set to perform in position 10, following the entry from Austria and before the entry from Malta.
The two semi-finals and the final were broadcast in Croatia on HRT 1 and via radio on HR 2 with commentary by DuÅ”ko ÄurliÄ. The Croatian spokesperson, who announced the top 12-point score awarded by the Croatian jury during the final, was Monika Lelas Halambek.
Semi-finalā»
Roko took part in technical rehearsals on 7 and 11 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 15 and 16 May. This included the jury show on 15 May where the professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries.
The Croatian performance featured Roko dressed in white jeans, jacket and t-shirt and joined on stage by two dancers with golden wings. The performance began with Roko laying on the stage LED floor that displayed angel wings. At the end of the first chorus, the dancers appeared on stage and gave Roko wings over his outfit. The stage LED screens transitioned from fire, meteors and flowing lava to a cloudy daylight sky and displayed the dancers falling to the stage and flying away through clouds towards the sky. The choreographer of the Croatian performance was Leo MujiÄ. The two dancers that joined Roko were Diego Siqueira and Endi Schrƶtter. Co-composer of "The Dream" Jacques Houdek also appeared as an off-stage backing vocalist; Houdek previously represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 where he placed thirteenth in the contest with the song "My Friend".
At the end of the show, Croatia was not announced among the top 10 entries in the first semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Croatia placed fourteenth in the semi-final, receiving total of 64 points: 38 points from the televoting and 26 points from the juries.
Votingā»
Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1ā8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results will be released shortly after the grand final.
Below is: a breakdown of points awarded to Croatia and awarded by Croatia in the second semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:
Points awarded to Croatiaā»
Score | Televote | Jury |
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12 points | ||
10 points | North Macedonia | |
8 points | Austria | United Kingdom |
7 points | ||
6 points | ||
5 points | Switzerland | |
4 points | ||
3 points | ||
2 points | Armenia | Albania |
1 point | Ireland |
Points awarded by Croatiaā»
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Detailed voting resultsā»
The following members comprised the Croatian jury:
- Zlatko Turkalj [hr] (jury chairperson) – Managing Editor of the Croatian Radio Entertainment Program Department
- Doris KaramatiÄ – harp professor, harpist
- Bojan JambroÅ”iÄ – singer
- Silvestar GlojnariÄ – composer and conductor
- Franka BateliÄ – singer, represented Croatia in the 2018 contest
Draw | Country | Jury | Televote | |||||||
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D. KaramatiÄ | B. JambroÅ”iÄ | S. GlojnariÄ | Z. Turkalj | F. BateliÄ | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | ||
01 | Armenia | 6 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 16 | |
02 | Ireland | 8 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 14 | ||
03 | Moldova | 4 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 15 | |
04 | Switzerland | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 8 |
05 | Latvia | 11 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 13 | ||
06 | Romania | 12 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 12 | ||
07 | Denmark | 17 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 1 | |
08 | Sweden | 7 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
09 | Austria | 16 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 17 | ||
10 | Croatia | |||||||||
11 | Malta | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 2 |
12 | Lithuania | 13 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 | ||
13 | Russia | 15 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
14 | Albania | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
15 | Norway | 14 | 16 | 11 | 16 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 10 | |
16 | Netherlands | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 7 |
17 | North Macedonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 12 |
18 | Azerbaijan | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
Draw | Country | Jury | Televote | |||||||
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D. KaramatiÄ | B. JambroÅ”iÄ | S. GlojnariÄ | Z. Turkalj | F. BateliÄ | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | ||
01 | Malta | 16 | 10 | 20 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 19 | ||
02 | Albania | 8 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 1 | |
03 | Czech Republic | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 20 | |
04 | Germany | 20 | 18 | 14 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
05 | Russia | 12 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 12 | |
06 | Denmark | 24 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 24 | 17 | ||
07 | San Marino | 25 | 26 | 18 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 9 | 2 | |
08 | North Macedonia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 7 |
09 | Sweden | 11 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 11 | |
10 | Slovenia | 13 | 16 | 25 | 14 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 10 | |
11 | Cyprus | 14 | 13 | 13 | 23 | 15 | 18 | 21 | ||
12 | Netherlands | 7 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
13 | Greece | 23 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 23 | 22 | 26 | ||
14 | Israel | 22 | 15 | 11 | 21 | 24 | 20 | 23 | ||
15 | Norway | 21 | 24 | 15 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 6 | 5 | |
16 | United Kingdom | 17 | 17 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 25 | ||
17 | Iceland | 26 | 22 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 8 | 3 | |
18 | Estonia | 3 | 19 | 12 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 15 | |
19 | Belarus | 18 | 23 | 10 | 17 | 21 | 19 | 24 | ||
20 | Azerbaijan | 15 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 13 | ||
21 | France | 6 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 18 | |
22 | Italy | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 12 |
23 | Serbia | 4 | 4 | 24 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
24 | Switzerland | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 6 |
25 | Australia | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | ||
26 | Spain | 19 | 20 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 16 | 16 |
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