Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Country	Serbia
National selection
Selection process	Beovizija 2008
Selection date(s)	Semi-final; March 9, 2008; Final; March 10, 2008
Selected entrant	Jelena Tomašević
Selected song	"Oro"
Finals performance
Final result	6th, 160 points
Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest

The Serbian National Final, Beovizija 2008, was held on March 9 (semi-finals) and March 10, 2008 (finals) at Sava Centar in Belgrade to determine Serbia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Serbia in May. Beovizija was hosted by Kristina Radenković, Branislav Katić, Đorđe Maričić and Nina Radulović, and the winner was Jelena Tomašević with the song "Oro" scoring the maximum from both the jury and televoters.^[1]

20 songs competed in the semi-finals. The top 10 songs from the semi-final qualified for the national final. The voting was a mixture of televoting (50%) and a professional jury (50%).

Beovizija 2008

For the results of the semi-final, see Beovizija 2008.

Draw	Artist	Song	Televote		Jury	Total	Place
1	Betty Boop	"Квар (Kvar)"	1510	6	7	13	4
2	Beauty Queens	"Завет (Zavet)"	3504	8	8	16	3
3	Drum'n'Zez	"Дунав (Dunav)"	1020	5	1	6	9
4	Марко Вулиновић – Marko Vulinović	"Сада или никада (Sada ili nikada)"	311	1	6	7	7
5	Алеска Јелић и Ана Штајдохар – Aleksa Jelić and Ana Štajdohar	"Beli jablan"	3634	10	10	20	2
6	Студио Алектик & Цвета Мајтановић – Studio Alektik & Cveta Majtanović	"Изнад нас (Iznad nas)"	2525	7	4	11	5
7	Јелена Томашевић – Jelena Tomašević	"Оро (Oro)"	8653	12	12	24	1
8	Огњен и пријатељи – Ognjen i prijatelji	"Чућемо, чућете – Čućemo,čućete"	425	2	3	5	10
9	Зои Кида у Земљи Грува – Zoe Kida u Zemlji Gruva	"Чудесни светови (Čudesni svetovi)"	784	4	2	6	8
10	Лејла Хот – Lejla Hot	"Да си ту (Da si tu)"	732	3	5	8	6

Eurovision

As the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and the host of the competition, Serbia was one of the five countries directly qualified into the final on May 24, 2008 performing 23rd, following Spain and preceding the Russia it came sixth in the overall score board with 160 points, receiving the maximum 12 points from BH,Slovenia,Switzerland and Montenegro.

Points awarded by Serbia

Semi-final 2

12 points	Macedonia
10 points	Croatia
8 points	Ukraine
7 points	Georgia
6 points	Portugal
5 points	Bulgaria
4 points	Hungary
3 points	Sweden
2 points	Latvia
1 point	Cyprus

Final

12 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
10 points	Russia
8 points	Greece
7 points	Israel
6 points	Ukraine
5 points	Armenia
4 points	Norway
3 points	Croatia
2 points	Sweden
1 point	Portugal

Points awarded to Serbia (Final)
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Slovenia Switzerland	Croatia Macedonia	Germany Netherlands	France Hungary Romania	Czech Republic Norway Sweden
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Albania Cyprus Greece	Bulgaria Poland Russia	Armenia	Azerbaijan Iceland	Belarus Malta Moldova