Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

EMA 2004

EMA 2004 held on 15 February 2004 in Hall A - Gospodarsko Razstavišče, Ljubljana. Unlike previous editions of EMA this contains 4 weekly semifinals on 11th, 18, 25 January, and 1 February 2004. Total of 32 entrants participated in the EMA 2004, but only half of them; 16 made to the finale night in which was chosen the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 representative.
Presenters of EMA 2004 were Miša Molk, Peter Poles, and Bernarda Žarn. But Molk didn't appear in semifinals as a presenter, Poles and Žarn appear in the finale as co-presenters in green room and spokespersons of televote points.

Platin

Platin (Duo Platin) is a Slovenian music duet. The singers are Simon Platin and Diana Platin. They married in Turkey, while they were representing Slovenia in Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

Semi-finals

Four semifinals held on 11, 18, 25 January and 1 February 2004. Eight participants performed a song in each semifinal. At the end of each semifinal viewers were given 5min to cast a televote during a Eurovision medley performed by semifinal participants. The three with the highest televote score qualified for the final.

When semifinals were completed the jury was asked to vote. The jury chose a "wildcard" from each heat to proceed to the final night.

Semi-final 1 (EMA 04 - predizbor 01)

Semi-final 2 (EMA 04 - predizbor 02)

Semi-final 3 (EMA 04 - predizbor 03)

Semi-final 4 (EMA 04 - predizbor 04)

Final

Sixteen acts chosen in heats participated in EMA 2004 finale. On 15 February 2004 held two round selection process to determinate Slovenian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. In round one mixature vote of jury and televote determinate three superfinalists, in round two teleote determinate Eurovision Song contest 2004 representative.
Panel

• Karolina Gočeva
• Manuel Ortega
• Daniela Tami (Jury Chairman)
• Drago Ivanuša
• Lara Baruca

Final

Superfinal

Controversy

Like in many previous editions of EMA, the public televote and the jury awarded conflicting scores. This caused some controversy, because the strongest televote favorite Natalija Verboten, received 0 points from the jury. Similarly, Bepop in 2003, Karmen Stavec in 2002, and Tinkara Kovač in 1999 were also televote favorites. These entries usually came 2nd, or failed to qualify for the semifinals, because the points awarded by the jury outweighed the points they received from the televotes.
The controversy resulted in the 2005 EMA scores basing solely on the results of the televote.

At Eurovision

For the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, a semi-final round was introduced in order to accommodate the influx of nations that wanted to compete in the contest.Because Slovenia placed 23rd at the 2003 contest, country was forced to compete in the first Eurovision semi-final, held on 12 May 2004. Country performed 16th in the semi final. It finished on second last 21st place with only 5 points, failing to qualify to the Grand Final.Therefore, Slovenia will have to compete in the semi-final again in ESC 2005.

Points Awarded by Slovenia

Semi final 12 points  Serbia and Montenegro 10 points  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 points  Ukraine 7 points  Croatia 6 points  Macedonia 5 points  Albania 4 points  Greece 3 points  Cyprus 2 points  Netherlands 1 point  Malta

Final 12 points  Serbia and Montenegro 10 points  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 points  Ukraine 7 points  Macedonia 6 points  Greece 5 points  Croatia 4 points  Albania 3 points  Germany 2 points  Sweden 1 point  Cyprus

External links

• EMA 2004