• Source: Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

      • Croatia will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, which will be held in Basel, Switzerland. The Croatian participating broadcaster, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), will organise the national final Dora 2025 in order to select its entry for the contest.


      Background



      Prior to the 2025 contest, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Croatia 29 times since its first entry in 1993. Its best result in the contest was second, achieved in 2024 with the song "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" performed by Baby Lasagna. This was also its first top-five finish since "Marija Magdalena" by Doris Dragović in 1999. Following the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, Croatia had thus far featured in nine finals.
      As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, HRT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster confirmed its participation in the 2025 contest on 20 September 2024. Between 1993 and 2011, HRT organised the national final Dora in order to select its entry, while it opted to internally select its entry in 2012 and 2013. After missing the contest in 2014 and 2015, HRT continued the internal selection procedure between 2016 and 2018. Since 2019, it has used Dora to select its entry, a method that was continued for its 2025 participation.


      Before Eurovision




      = Dora 2025

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      Dora 2025 will be the twenty-sixth edition of the national selection Dora organised by HRT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. The competition will feature twenty-four competing entries and consist of three shows in the second half of February 2025. All shows will be broadcast on HTV as well as online via the streaming service HRTi and the broadcaster's website hrt.hr.


      Competing entries


      On 20 September 2024, HRT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster with the deadline on 15 November 2024. 221 entries were received by the broadcaster during the submission period, a new record since Dora was relaunched in 2019. A seven-member expert committee consisting of Željen Klašterka (musician and composer), Tihomir Preradović (composer and music producer), Monika Lelas (radio host and editor), Ivan Pešut (musician, music producer, composer and guitarist), Jelena Balent (music editor and singer), Davor Medaković (music editor) and Luka Grgić (stage director) reviewed the received submissions and selected twenty-four artists and songs as well as four backup entries for the competition. HRT announced the competing entries on 5 December 2024 and among the competing artists are Magazin which represented Croatia in 1995 and Marko Škugor who represented Croatia in 2013 as a member of Klapa s Mora.


      References




      External links


      Official Dora website
      Official HRT Eurovision website

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