Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021
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Serbia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Loco loco" written by Nemanja Antonić, Sanja Vučić and Darko Dimitrov. The song was performed by the group Hurricane, which were internally selected by the Serbian national broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) to represent Serbia in the 2021 contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Among the members of the group included Sanja Vučić who had previously represented Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 where she placed eighteenth with the song "Goodbye (Shelter)". Hurricane was announced as the Serbian representative on 17 December 2020 after they were due to compete in the 2020 contest with "Hasta la vista" before the event's cancellation, while the song, "Loco loco", was presented on 5 March 2021.
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Country | Serbia | |||
National selection | ||||
Selection process | Internal selection | |||
Selection date(s) | Artist: 17 December 2020 Song: 5 March 2021 | |||
Selected entrant | Hurricane | |||
Selected song | "Loco loco" | |||
Selected songwriter(s) |
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Finals performance | ||||
Semi-final result | Qualified (8th, 124 points) | |||
Final result | 15th, 102 points | |||
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Serbia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 20 May 2021. Performing during the show in position 9, "Loco loco" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 22 May. It was later revealed that Serbia placed eighth out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 124 points. In the final, Serbia performed in position 8 and placed fifteenth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 102 points.