Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Eurovision Song Contest 1999
Country	Croatia
National selection
Selection process	Dora 1999
Selection date(s)	7 March 1999
Selected entrant	Doris Dragović
Selected song	"Marija Magdalena"
Finals performance
Final result	4th, 118 points
Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄1998 • 1999 • 2000►

Croatia competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, held in Jerusalem, Israel. The Croatian entry for the contest was Doris Dragović with the song "Marija Magdalena".

The Croatian broadcater Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) held a national final, Dora, to select the Croatian entry for the contest.

Dora 1999

The 1999 edition of Dora was held on 7 March at the HRT TV studios in Zagreb, hosted by Oliver Mlakar and Vlatka Pokos. 24 songs competed, with the winner decided by 21 juries, 20 regional juries and a 21st jury made up of televoting results.

The winner of the contest was Doris Dragović with "Marija Magdalena". Dragović had previously represented Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia, at the 1986 contest with the song "Željo moja".

At Eurovision 1999

On the night of the contest Dragović performed 4th, following Spain and preceding the United Kingdom. The song received 118 points at the close of the voting, placing 4th of 23 countries competing. This was, and still is as of 2013, Croatia's joint-best placing at the contest, sharing with Croatia's 1996 entry, "Sveta ljubav" with Maja Blagdan.

After the contest, the European Broadcasting Union (BU), the organizers of the contest, were forced to reduce Croatia's score to 79 for the calculation of the country's five-year average score, used to relegate countries from the next contest. This was due to the use of synthesised male vocals on the backing track, which the EBU said broke the "spirit of the rule" in which no live vocals could be featured on backing tracks. However, overall, the original score remained the same.

Points Awarded to Croatia

Points Awarded by Croatia

12 points	Slovenia
10 points	Bosnia and Herzegovina
8 points	Israel
7 points	Norway
6 points	Malta
5 points	United Kingdom
4 points	Belgium
3 points	Germany
2 points	Lithuania
1 point	Spain

See also

• Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Song Contest 1999

External links

• Croatian National Final 1999

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)