Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991

The Yugoslav national final to select their entry was held on 9 March 1991 at TV Studio A in Sarajevo, and was hosted by Draginja Balać and Senad Hadžifejzović. The formal name of the contest was JRT izbor za pjesmu Evrovizije – Sarajevo '91. There were 16 songs in the final, from all subnational public broadcasters.[1] This was the final Jugovizija participation for the broadcasters in Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia before declaring independence later in the same year.[2]

The winner was chosen by the votes of twenty-four jurors coming from eight broadcasting stations, one three-member jury for each of the subnational public broadcasters of JRT. Each jury was consisted of at least two professionals within the music industry, and one under age of 30. Each of the jurors gave points to their favorite songs according to a system with the ascending format of going from 1–3, 5 and finally 7 points. The subnational public broadcasters could vote for their own entries. The winning entry was "Brazil", performed by Serbian singer Bebi Dol, composed by Zoran Vračević and written by Bebi Dol herself.[3]

The tensions in Yugoslavia at the time were showing through Jugovizija. The contest was held under the presumption that an entry from Croatia's HTV wouldn't win the contest, with high tensions between the Yugoslav federal institutions led by the Serbian president Slobodan Milošević and the Croatian president Franjo Tuđman.[4] With Milošević excerting control over institutions Montenegro, Vojvodina and Kosovo - including the broadcasters - the three broadcasters were pressured to vote in a similar fashion to Serbia's RTB.[2] The winning song, "Brazil" by Bebi Dol, received points from Belgrade (Serbia), Titograd (Montenegro), Novi Sad (Vojvodina) and Priština (Kosovo), and received no points from Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Skopje (Macedonia) and Zagreb (Croatia). [5] The favourite candidate from Croatia, "Daj, obuci levisice" by Danijel Popović, received no points from Belgrade and Priština.[4][2]

Final – 9 March 1991

Draw	TV station	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	HTV, Zagreb	Tedi Spalato	"Gospode moj"	29	5
2	TVBg, Belgrade	Zorana Pavić	"Ritam ljubavi"	26	6
3	TVPr, Prishtina	Milica Milisavljević-Dugalić	"Sta će nebo reći"	20	10
4	TVBg, Belgrade	Bebi Dol	"Brazil"	68	1
5	TVSl, Ljubljana	Miran Rudan	"Ne reci goodbye"	5	15
6	TVSa, Sarajevo	Jelena Džoja	"Čuvaj se ljubavi"	9	13
7	TVSk, Skopje	Margarita Hristova	"Daj mi krilja"	3	16
8	TVNS, Novi Sad	Vesna Ivić	"Ime"	11	11
9	HTV, Zagreb	Ivana Banfić	"Daj, povedi me"	57	3
10	TVSl, Ljubljana	Helena Blagne	"Navaden majski dan"	25	7
11	TVBg, Belgrade	Šeri	"Da li već spavaš"	6	14
12	TVCg, Titograd	Ponoćni express	"Pjesma o tebi"	22	8
13	TVNS, Novi Sad	Tony Cetinski	"Marina"	22	8
14	HTV, Zagreb	Daniel	"Ma daj obuci levisice"	66	2
15	TVSk, Skopje	Anastasija Nizamova-Muhić	"Molitva"	11	11
16	TVSa, Sarajevo	Zerina Cokoja	"Bez tebe"	52	4

Underlined points were awarded by the competing broadcasters to their own songs.

• HTV, Zagreb: Mirna Berend (chairperson), Stipica Kalogjera,[lower-alpha 1] Danijela Bilbija, Ivica Krajač
• TVBg, Belgrade: Majda Ropret (chairperson), Boba Stefanović, Katarina Gojković, Laza Ristovski
• TVPr, Prishtina: Mirjana Bojović (chairperson), Anđela Karaferić, Dragan Nikolić, Ljiljana Đorđević
• TVSl, Ljubljana: Miša Molk (chairperson), Nino Robič, Tomaž Dobicelj, Tanja Ribič[lower-alpha 2]
• TVSa, Sarajevo: Mirjana Potpara (chairperson), Fadil Redžić, Jadranka Crnogorac, Anton Josipović
• TVSk, Skopje: Svetlana Stojanovska (chairperson), Mario Lipša, Jana Andreevska, Stole Popov
• TVNS, Novi Sad: Hajnalka Buda (chairperson), Mladen Vranešević, Gordana Dean-Gačić, Jovan Adamov
• TVCG, Titograd: Melani Bulatović (chairperson), Goran Pejović, Aco Đukanović, Rade Keković