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Skopje Fest 2008 was a song contest organised by MRT that served as Macedonia's national final to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Fifteen entries participated in the competition which took place on 23 February 2008 at the Metropolis Arena in Skopje , hosted by Živkica Gjurčinovska and Borislav Tnokovski and was ...
Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
Skopje Fest was revived in 1994, after Macedonia gained its independence from Yugoslavia, and has since taken over MakFest as North Macedonia's chief music festival. Since the late 1990s, Skopje Fest has also been used as the Macedonian national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest. The first Macedonian representative in Eurovision, Vlado ...
The following tables list the entries which have been performed at the contest since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004. Entries are listed by order of their first performance in the contest; entry numbers provide a cumulative total of all songs performed at the contest throughout its history, and a second cumulative total outlines the total entries for each country.
MRT has intermittently used the Skopje Fest to select the national entry since the country's debut, although it made several changes in the national final format, so the 2004, 2005, and 2006 national finals were organised outside the Skopje Fest. For 2019, the country competed for the first time under the name North Macedonia. [3]
In February 2008, Tamara won the Skopje Fest 2008 with the composition "Vo ime na ljubovta" featuring Rade Vrchakovski and Adrian Gaxha, thus gaining right to represent Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. [7] The song was a hit in the Balkans, and was predicted to do well in the Eurovision.
The discography of the Eurovision Song Contest winners includes all the winning singles of the annual competition held since 1956. As of 2024, 71 songs have won the competition, including four entries which were declared joint winners in 1969.
Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) broadcasts the event within North Macedonia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. MRT confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest on 6 September 2019. [2] Between 2008 and 2011, North Macedonia selected their entries using the national final Skopje Fest ...