Yugoslavia at Eurovision

• 1989, Lausanne

  “Rock Me”

  Riva · 137 points

Photos are stills from the contest’s own videos on YouTube. Each one opens that year’s story.

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.

• Vice Vukov 1963, 1965

• 1990 Zagreb Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall won by Italy

1. 2002
   • RTS 2
2. 2001
   • YU Info
3. 1997
   • RTS 2
4. 1996
   • RTS 2
5. 1995
   • RTS 3K
6. 1994
   • RTS 3K
7. 1992
   • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad 1 Mladen Popović
   • Radio Beograd 202
8. 1991
   • TV Beograd 1, TVCG 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina Mladen Popović
   • HTV 1, TV Sarajevo 1, TV Slovenija 1, TV Skopje 1 Ksenija Urličić
9. 1990
   • TV Beograd 1, Radio Beograd 1
   • TV Novi Sad
   • TV Ljubljana 1, Val 202
   • TV Prishtina
   • TV Zagreb 1, Radio Zagreb 1
10. 1989
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Prishtina
    • TV Skopje 1
11. 1988
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina, TV Sarajevo 1, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Ljubljana 1
12. 1987
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Zagreb 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Sarajevo 1, TV Titograd 1 Ksenija Urličić
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1 Vesna Pfeifer
    • TV Prishtina
    • TV Skopje 1
13. 1986
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Sarajevo 1, TV Titograd 1, TV Zagreb 1 Ksenija Urličić
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • Val 202
    • TV Prishtina
    • TV Skopje 1
14. 1984
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina, TV Titograd 1, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Skopje 1
15. 1983
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Ljubljana 1
16. 1982
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
17. 1981
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Novi Sad, TV Prishtina, TV Zagreb 1 Minja Subota and Helga Vlahović
    • TV Ljubljana 1
18. 1978
    • TV Beograd 1
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Zagreb 1
19. 1977
    • TV Beograd 1
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Zagreb 1
20. 1976
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
21. 1975
    • TV Beograd 1
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Sarajevo
    • TV Skopje
    • TV Zagreb 1
22. 1974
    • TV Beograd 1
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Zagreb 1
23. 1973
    • TV Beograd 1
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Skopje
    • TV Zagreb 1
24. 1972
    • TV Beograd 1, TV Zagreb 1 Oliver Mlakar
    • TV Koper-Capodistria
    • TV Ljubljana 1
25. 1971
    • TV Beograd
    • TV Ljubljana 1
    • TV Skopje
    • TV Zagreb
26. 1970
    • Televizija Beograd, Televizija Zagreb Oliver Mlakar
    • Televizija Ljubljana Sandi Čolnik
27. 1969
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
28. 1968
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
29. 1967
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
30. 1966
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
31. 1965
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
32. 1964
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
33. 1963
    • Televizija Beograd, Televizija Ljubljana, Televizija Zagreb Saša Novak
34. 1962
    • Televizija Beograd
    • Televizija Ljubljana
    • Televizija Zagreb
35. 1961
    • Televizija Beograd, Radio Beograd 1, Televizija Ljubljana, Televizija Zagreb Saša Novak
    • Radio Ljubljana 2

• 1961 A record field

  Finland, Spain and Yugoslavia all entered for the first time.

• 1964 The result

  At the bottom, four countries had nothing: Portugal on its debut, and Germany, Switzerland and Yugoslavia, each scoring zero for the first time.

• 1965 Eighteen

  Three singers had done this before: Spain's Conchita Bautista, Yugoslavia's Vice Vukov, and Austria's Udo Jürgens, back for a second year running.

• 1968 One vote

  Katie Boyle misunderstood Yugoslavia's votes and Switzerland was credited with three instead of two.

• 1972 The same eighteen

  Tereza Kesovija, who had sung for Monaco in 1966, now sang for Yugoslavia.

• 1975 Rehearsal oddities

  Yugoslavia and Portugal both sang in English at the dress rehearsal, and in Slovene and Portuguese on the night.

• 1976 Four points that went missing

  When France read out its votes, its spokesperson left out the four points it had given Yugoslavia.

• 1976 Four points that went missing

  On the night, then, Yugoslavia finished last with six points and Norway second from last.

• 1977 Eighteen, and a country that never arrived

  Yugoslavia left, discouraged by a run of bad results, and did not come back until 1981.

• 1979 Turkey withdraws

  Yugoslavia stayed away as well, for political reasons, and did not show the contest — although almost a hundred thousand people had backed a return in a public poll.

• 1981 Twenty, nearly twenty-one

  Israel was back after its forced absence, and Yugoslavia after five years.

• 1983 The result

  Sweden's Carola Häggkvist was third, a single point ahead of Yugoslavia.

• 1985 Two absences on the same day

  In Yugoslavia it was the anniversary of the death of President Tito.

• 1989 The result

  Yugoslavia sang last, and won.

• 1989 The result

  Yugoslavia had been entering since 1961, and this was its first victory in 24 attempts.

• 1990 The result

  It was Italy's second victory, 26 years after its first, and at 46 he was the oldest winner the contest had had. His backing singers were a Slovene group who had represented Yugoslavia in 1975.