Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Beovizija 2005 was the 3rd edition of Beovizija. Jelena Tomašević won Beovizija 2005 with the song Jutro, written by Željko Joksimović and Aleksandra Milutinović. She received 78 points from the jury and the maximum 12 points by SMS and televoting. The hosts were actors Slobodan Ninković and Jelena Jovičić, who sang many former Eurovision Song Contest hits as a tribute to 50th anniversary of the event.

Montevizija 2005 was the first edition of Montevizija, a Montenegrin pop music festival that was the Montenegrin semifinal for choosing the Serbo-Montenegrin entry for Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The final was held on 2 March 2005 in Podgorica and presented by Andrija Milošević, Žana Gardašević and Anđela Nenadović. Twenty-four songs competed and nine juries – 8 jury members and a public televote determined the ten songs to progress to the final of Evropjesma.[3]

Evropesma-Europjesma 2005 was national final organised by UJRT in order to select the Serbian and Monetengrin entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. The competition took place at the RTCG studios in Podgorica on 4 March 2005, hosted by Andela Nenadović, Žana Gardašević and Andrija Milošević. The show was broadcast in Serbia on RTS1 and RTS Sat as well as streamed online via the broadcaster's website rts.co.yu, and in Montenegro on TVCG 1 and TVCG Sat.[4]

The two broadcasters in Serbia and Montenegro, Serbian broadcaster RTS and Montenegrin broadcaster RTCG, each conducted separate selections in order to select the twenty-four entries to proceed to the national final: RTS organised Beovizija 2005 on 19 February 2005 where twenty-three songs competed, while RTCG organised Montevizija 2005 on 2 March 2005 with twenty-four entries competing. The top fourteen entries from Beovizija 2005 and the top ten entries from Montevizija 2005 qualified for the national final.[5][6] Shortly before the competition, "Sentimientos" performed by Luna, which was allocated to perform eleventh during the show, was withdrawn due to boycott.

The final took place on 4 March 2005 where twenty-three songs competed. The winner, "Zauvijek moja" performed by No Name, was decided by a combination of votes from a jury panel (8/9) and the Serbian and Montenegrin public via televoting (1/9). The Serbian jury consisted of Ognjen Popović (musician and composer), Petar Ivanović (conductor and professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade), Silvana Ružić-Grujić (RTS music editor and music critic) and Biljana Arsić-Krstić (musician), while the Montenegrin jury consisted of Marina Tuca (singer and music professor), Zoran Živković (producer and artistic director), Tonči Petrović (composer) and Tijana Jovović (music professor and critic). Eurovision contestants Constantinos Christoforou, who would represent Cyprus in 2005, and Martin Vučić, who would represent Macedonia in 2005, were featured as guest performers during the show.[7]

During the voting of Evropesma-Europjesma 2005, the Montenegrin jurors did not award any points to the Serbian Beovizija 2005 winner and runner-up, Jelena Tomašević and Ogi. The probable partisan feeling that led to such a polarised outcome may be partly attributable to the fallout from earlier disputes, including a breach of the rules regarding the active airplay of the Serbian acts before the competition and that the Serbian jurors did not award any points to the Montenegrin acts in Evropesma-Europjesma 2004.[8]

On 7 March, former Serbian and Montenegrin Eurovision contestant and composer of Tomašević's song, Željko Joksimović, released a statement expressing his dissatisfaction towards the voting process as "the songs from Serbia were outvoted in a deeply unfair manner", while RTCG responded by stating that they did not influence the voting in any way. Plagiarism claims were also made towards "Zauvijek moja" as the introduction of the song was taken from the unofficial hymn of the Liberal Party of Montenegro titled "Poljem se vije".[9][10] Following an investigation by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group concluded that "Zauvijek moja" was eligible for the contest.

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Serbia and Montenegro and awarded by Serbia and Montenegro in the semi-final and grand final of the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points to Croatia in the semi-final and to Greece in the final of the contest.