won it in 2007
Serbia at Eurovision
Serbia first sang at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 and has entered 18 contests. It has won once, in 2007, with “Molitva” by Marija Šerifović. The contest has been held there once, in Belgrade in 2008.
- 18
- contests
- 1
- win
- 1
- hosted
- first song
- 2007
- contests
- 18
- wins
- 1 — 2007
- in the final
- 14 of 18 tries since semi-finals began in 2004
- sung in
- Serbian (15), English (4), Latin (1)
- hosted
- Belgrade 2008
- not in the line-up
- 2014
The win
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2007, Helsinki “Molitva (Молитва)”
Marija Šerifović · 268 points
Photos are stills from the contest’s own videos on YouTube. Each one opens that year’s story.
Every song
All 19 entries, newest first. The year opens the story of that contest; the name opens the artist.
| Year | Artist | Song | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Vienna | Lavina | “Kraj mene (Крај мене)” Serbian | 17th of 25 | 90 |
| 2025 Basel | Princ | “Mila (Мила)” Serbian | Out in semi-final 2 (14th of 16) | 28 |
| 2024 Malmö | Teya Dora | “Ramonda (Рамонда)” Serbian | 17th of 26 | 54 |
| 2023 Liverpool | Luke Black | “Samo mi se spava (Само ми се спава)” Serbian, English | 24th of 26 | 30 |
| 2022 Turin | Konstrakta | “In corpore sano” Serbian, Latin | 5th of 25 | 312 |
| 2021 Rotterdam | Hurricane | “Loco loco” Serbian | 15th of 26 | 102 |
| 2020 Rotterdam | Hurricane | “Hasta la vista” Serbian | Contest cancelled | — |
| 2019 Tel Aviv | Nevena Božović | “Kruna (Круна)” Serbian | 18th of 26 | 89 |
| 2018 Lisbon | Sanja Ilić and Balkanika | “Nova deca (Нова деца)” Serbian | 19th of 26 | 113 |
| 2017 Kyiv | Tijana Bogićević | “In Too Deep” English | Out in semi-final 2 (11th of 18) | 98 |
| 2016 Stockholm | Sanja Vučić Zaa | “Goodbye (Shelter)” English | 18th of 26 | 115 |
| 2015 Vienna | Bojana Stamenov | “Beauty Never Lies” English | 10th of 27 | 53 |
| 2013 Malmö | Moje 3 | “Ljubav je svuda (Љубав је свуда)” Serbian | Out in semi-final 1 (11th of 16) | 46 |
| 2012 Baku | Željko Joksimović | “Nije ljubav stvar (Није љубав ствар)” Serbian | 3rd of 26 | 214 |
| 2011 Düsseldorf | Nina | “Čaroban (Чаробан)” Serbian | 14th of 25 | 85 |
| 2010 Oslo | Milan Stanković | “Ovo je Balkan (Oво je Балкан)” Serbian | 13th of 25 | 72 |
| 2009 Moscow | Marko Kon and Milaan | “Cipela (Ципела)” Serbian | Out in semi-final 2 (10th of 19) | 60 |
| 2008 Belgrade | Jelena Tomašević Bora Dugić | “Oro (Оро)” Serbian | 6th of 25 | 160 |
| 2007 Helsinki | Marija Šerifović | “Molitva (Молитва)” Serbian | winner! | 268 |
Points for a song that went out in a semi-final are its semi-final points. Before 2004 there were no semi-finals: every song sang on the one night.
Sent more than once
The one act Serbia has sent to more than one contest.
- Hurricane 2020 (cancelled), 2021
Hosting
The one contest held in Serbia.
On air at home
The channels that carried the contest in Serbia, year by year, and who commentated where our source names them. Newest first.
- 2026
- RTS 1, RTS Svet Duška Vučinić
- Radio Belgrade 1 (semi-final 1, final)
- 2025
- RTS 1, RTS Svet Duška Vučinić
- Radio Belgrade 1 (semi-final 2, final) Nikoleta Dojčinović and Katarina Tošić
- 2024
- RTS1 Duška Vučinić
- Radio Beograd 1 (semi-final 1) Katarina Epstein
- Radio Beograd 1 (final) Katarina Epstein and Nikoleta Dojčinović
- 2023
- RTS Svet Duška Vučinić
- RTS 3 (semi‑finals) Duška Vučinić
- RTS 1 (final) Duška Vučinić
- Radio Beograd 1 (final) Duška Vučinić
- 2022
- RTS 1, RTS Planeta, RTS Svet (semi-final 1) Silvana Grujić
- RTS 1, RTS Planeta, RTS Svet (semi-final 2 and final) Duška Vučinić
- 2021
- RTS 1, RTS Planeta, RTS Svet Duška Vučinić
- Radio Belgrade 1 (final) Katarina Epštajn and Nikoleta Dojčinović
- 2019
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS Svet (semi-final 1 and final) Duška Vučinić
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS Svet (semi-final 2) Tamara Petković and Katarina Epstein
- Radio Belgrade 1 (final) Nikoleta Dojčinović and Katarina Epstein
- 2018
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT, RTS Planeta (semi-final 1) Silvana Grujić and Tamara Petković
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT, RTS Planeta (semi-final 2 and final) Duška Vučinić
- Radio Beograd 1 (semi-final 2 and final) Katarina Epstein and Nataša Raketić
- 2017
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT (semi-final 1) Silvana Grujić and Olga Kapor
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT (semi-final 2 and final) Duška Vučinić
- 2016
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT (semi-final 1) Dragan Ilić
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT (semi-final 2 and final) Duška Vučinić
- 2015
- RTS1, RTS HD, RTS SAT (semi-final 1 and final) Duška Vučinić
- RTS2, RTS SAT (semi-final 2) Silvana Grujić
- Radio Beograd 1 (final) Katarina Epstein and Nataša Raketić
- 2014
- RTS1, RTS Digital, RTS SAT, RTS HD Silvana Grujić
- 2013
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 1) Duška Vučinić-Lučić
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 2) Dragoljub Ilić
- RTS2, RTS Sat, RTS HD, RTS Digital (final) Silvana Grujić
- 2012
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 1) Dragan Ilić
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 2 and final) Duška Vučinić-Lučić
- 2011
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 1) Marina Nikolić
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 2) Dragan Ilić
- RTS1, RTS Sat (final) Duška Vučinić-Lučić
- Radio Belgrade Tanja Zeljković
- 2010
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 1 and final) Duška Vučinić-Lučić
- RTS1, RTS Sat (semi-final 2) Dragan Ilić
- 2009
- RTS1, RTS Digital, RTS Sat
- 2008
- RTS1, RTS Sat Dragan Ilić and Mladen Popović
- 2007
- RTS1, RTS Sat Duška Vučinić-Lučić
In our contest stories
Lines about Serbia from our story of each contest. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 2006 A country that voted without singing
Viewers in Serbia voted in both the semi-final and the final of a contest their own country was not in.
- 2007 The semi-final
The ten that went through were Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, Belarus, Latvia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Georgia, Macedonia and Moldova.
- 2007 The result
Serbia won the semi-final, and then the final.
- 2008
On 17 February 2008 Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.
- 2008 The audience
In Serbia the final drew 3.35 million viewers.
- 2012 The result
Serbia's Željko Joksimović was third.
- 2014 A smaller contest
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and Serbia stayed at home.
- 2015 Vienna
Cyprus and Serbia were back, and the Czech Republic returned after five years.
- 2017 The result
It was the first winning song sung entirely in its country's own language since Serbia's in 2007.
Results as published by the European Broadcasting Union. “Not in the line-up” means no song from Serbia was in that year’s contest, whatever the reason. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.