Serbian national broadcaster RTS has just published the names and songtitles of the 36 acts who are going to be competing in the 2022 national selection. A total of 36 acts have been selected (the highest number of entries ever in a Serbian national final), and they will be competing over two semi finals and a Grand Final from the 3rd-5th of March in a re-branded festival called “Pesma za Evroviziju 22”, to win the Serbian ticket to Turin.
The 36 acts are as follows:
- Naiva – Skidam
- Biber – Dve godine i šes’ dana
- Marija Mirković – Požuri, požuri
- Gift – Haos
- Boris Subotić – Vrati mi
- Marko Nikolić – Dođi da te volim
- Vasco – Znaš li
- Bane Lalić & MVP – Tu gde je ljubav tu ne postoji mrak
- Ivana Vladović & Jovana Stanimirović – Prijaće ti
- Marija Mikić – Ljubav me inspiriše
- Julija – Brižna
- Angellina – Origami
- VIS Limunada – Pesma ljubavi
- Aca Lukas – Oskar
- Igor Simić – Nisam ja
- Goca Tržan – Fitilj
- Sanja Bogosavljević – Priđi mi
- Dušan Svilar – Samo ne reci da voliš
- Srđan Lazić – Tražim te
- Julijana Vincan – Istina i laži
- Jelena Pajić – Pogledi
- Bojana Mašković – Dama
- Zoe kida – Bejbi
- Orkestar Aleksandra Sofronijevića – Anđele moj
- Sara Jo – Muškarčina (Zabranjeno voće)
- Mia – Blanko
- Zejna Murkić – Nema te
- Gramophonedzie – Počinjem da ludim
- Stefan Zdravković (Princ od Vranje) – Ljubi svog čoveka
- Zorja Pajić – Zorja
- Lift – Drama
- Konstrakta – Corpore sano
- Ivona Pantelić – Znam
- Rocher Etno Band – Hajde sad nek’ svak peva
- Ana Stanić – Put bez povratka
- Euterpa – Nedostaješ
The list includes multiple returnees including one former Eurovision entrant – Sara Jo, who represented Serbia in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest as part of Moje 3, and various singers who have been to Eurovision as backing vocalists: Marko Nikolić (backing vocalist for Bojana Stamenov in 2015), Sanja Bogosavljević (backing vocalist for multiple Serbian entries, including the ones in 2007 and 2011), Jelena Pajić (backing vocalist for Montenegro in 2015), Ivana Vladović (backing vocalist for multiple entries, including Montenegro’s entry in 2015 and Serbia’s entry in 2019).
Other returnees are Dušan Svilar who finished in second place in 2013 with “Spas”, the runner-up of the 2020 Beovizija – Naiva, as well as Biber, Igor Simić, Srđan Lazić, Bojana Mašković, Zoe Kida, Lift and Rocher Etno Band. Goca Tržan was supposed to compete in 2008, but she withdrew in the last moment due to the illness of her husband, and her song was then performed by the composers of the song – the duo Zana.
Some of the songs are already available online:
The other 33 songs are going to be released in the coming days/weeks. The two semi finals are going to take place on the 3rd and 4th of March, whilst the Grand Final will take place on the 5th of March.
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