Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

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Participating broadcasterRadiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO)
Country Slovenia
SelectionprocessEvrovizijska Melodija 2020
Selectiondate22 February 2020
Slovenia in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Participating broadcasterRadiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO)
Country Slovenia
Selection processEvrovizijska Melodija 2020
Selection date22 February 2020
Competing entry
Song"Voda"
ArtistAna Soklič
Songwriters
  • Ana Soklič
  • Bojan Simončič
Placement
Final resultContest cancelled
Participation chronology
◄2019 2020 2021►

Slovenia was set to be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "Voda" written by Ana Soklič and Bojan Simončič, and performed by Soklič herself. The Slovene participating broadcaster, Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO), organised the national final Evrovizijska Melodija 2020 in order to select its entry for the contest. 18 entries competed in the first stage of the national final, EMA FREŠ 2020, from which two entries qualified to compete in EMA 2020 following a two-month-long competition. Twelve entries competed in EMA 2020 where the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, the top two entries were selected by a three-member jury panel. In the second round, "Voda" performed by Ana Soklič was selected as the winner entirely by a public vote.

Slovenia was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2020. However, the contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to the 2020 contest, Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Slovenia twenty-five times since its first entry in 1993.[1] Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been seventh place, achieved on two occasions: in 1995 with the song "Prisluhni mi" performed by Darja Švajger and in 2001 with the song "Energy" performed by Nuša Derenda. The country's only other top ten result was achieved in 1997 when Tanja Ribič performing "Zbudi se" placed tenth. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the contest in 2004, Slovenia had thus far only managed to qualify to the final on six occasions. In 2019, "Sebi" performed by Zala Kralj and Gašper Šantl qualified to the final and placed fifteenth.

As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTVSLO organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster confirmed its participation in the 2020 contest on 1 August 2019.[2] RTVSLO has traditionally selected its entry through a national final entitled Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA), which has been produced with variable formats. To this point, the broadcaster has only foregone the use of this national final in 2013 when the entry was internally selected. For 2020, the broadcaster opted to organise Evrovizijska Melodija 2020 (EMA 2020) to select the entry and launched the newly created associated competition EMA FREŠ that acted as a preselector for EMA itself.[3]

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