Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996

Eurovision Song Contest 1996

Country

Croatia

National selection

Selection process

Dora 1996
Televoting

Selection date(s)

Final
3 March 1996

Selected entrant

Maja Blagdan

Selected song

"Sveta ljubav"

Finals performance

Final result

4th, 98 points

Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Croatia selected its entry for the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest through the "Dora 1996" contest, which was held on 3 March 1996, organised by the Croatian national broadcaster Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) in Opatija. The winner was Maja Blagdan with "Sveta ljubav".

Dora 1996

HRT organised the Dora contest to select the Croatian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, held in Opatija. The national contest consisted of a televised final with 20 songs. The songs were selected from a public call for submissions from songwriters and composers and were placed in the final based on televoting.

**Dora 1996, held on 3 March 1996 in Opatija**
Draw	Artist	Song	Place	Pts
1	Alen Vitasović	"Marija"	13	18
2	Erwin	"Uvijek ti"	14	16
3	Novi fosili	"Spray"	6	76
4	Leo	"Postojiš"	15	11
5	Srebrna krila	"Divno je znati da netko te voli"	9	52
6	Juci	"Moja posljednja molitva"	19	4
7	Marinella & Tutti Frutti	"Sjeti se"	3	137
8	Massimo	"Kao more"	12	33
9	Branimir Mihaljević	"Zbog ljubavi"	11	39
10	Giuliano	"Sjaj u očima otkriva te"	5	104
11	Ivana Banfić & Rene Cooler	"Dani ludila"	20	1
12	Renata Kos	"O mama, mama"	17	10
13	Maja Blagdan	"Sveta ljubav"	1	214
14	Divas	"Sexy Cool"	10	50
15	Jelena	"Aha"	2	156
16	Naim Ayra	"Dvije ruže"	17	10
17	Ivan Mikulić	"Budi ona prava"	8	55
18	Zrinka	"Tako sam ranjiva"	4	106
19	Petar Grašo	"Otkada nije mi tu"	7	57
20	Sandra Sagena	"Ne želim biti dama"	15	11

At Eurovision

Maja Blagdan competed for Croatia the Eurovision contest on 18 May 1996 in Oslo, Norway, and finished 4th with 98 votes.

Voting

Points awarded to Croatia

Points Awarded to Croatia
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
	Bosnia and Herzegovina Portugal	Cyprus Turkey	Malta Norway	Estonia Ireland
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Iceland Netherlands Slovakia Spain	Belgium United Kingdom	Slovenia	Poland	Greece Sweden Switzerland

Points awarded by Croatia

12 points	Malta
10 points	Portugal
8 points	Cyprus
7 points	United Kingdom
6 points	Slovenia
5 points	Norway
4 points	Spain
3 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2 points	Belgium
1 point	Turkey

References

External links

Dora 1996 at the Eurofest Croatia website (Croatian)

Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation

1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 ~~2014 to 2015~~ 2016

Artists

1990s	Put Tony Cetinski Magazin & Lidija Horvat-Dunjko Maja Blagdan E.N.I. Danijela Martinović Doris Dragović

2000s	Goran Karan Ivana Vrdoljak- Vanna Vesna Pisarović Claudia Beni Ivan Mikulić Boris Novković feat. Lado Severina Vučković Dragonfly feat. Dado Topić Kraljevi ulice & 75 Cents Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea Šušnjara

2010s	Feminnem Daria Kinzer Nina Badrić Klapa s Mora ~~2014~~ ~~2015~~ Nina Kraljić

Songs

1990s	"Don't Ever Cry" "Nek' ti bude ljubav sva" "Nostalgija" "Sveta ljubav" "Probudi me" "Neka mi ne svane" "Marija Magdalena"

2000s	"Kad zaspu anđeli" "Strings of My Heart" "Everything I Want" "Više nisam tvoja" "You Are The Only One" "Vukovi umiru sami" "Moja štikla" "Vjerujem u ljubav" "Romanca" "Lijepa Tena"

2010s	"Lako je sve" "Celebrate" "Nebo" "Mižerja" ~~2014~~ ~~2015~~ "Lighthouse"

(Note: Entries scored out are when Croatia did not compete)