Eurovision Song Contest 2015 | ||||
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Country | Slovenia | |||
National selection | ||||
Selection process | EMA 2015 | |||
Selection date(s) | 28 February 2015 | |||
Selected entrant | Maraaya | |||
Selected song | "Here for You" | |||
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Finals performance | ||||
Semi-final result | Qualified (5th, 92 points) | |||
Final result | 14th, 39 points | |||
Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Slovenia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Here for You", written by Raay, Marjetka Vovk and Charlie Mason. The song was performed by Maraaya, which was composed of Raay and Marjetka Vovk. Slovenian broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO) organised the national final EMA 2015 in order to select the Slovenian entry for the 2015 contest in Vienna, Austria. After a jury reduced eight competing songs to two superfinalists, a public televote selected "Here For You" performed by Maraaya as the winner of the national final. In the second of the Eurovision semi-finals "Here For You" placed fifth out of the 17 participating countries, securing its place among the 27 other songs in the final. In Slovenia's twenty-first Eurovision appearance on 23 May, "Here For You" finished in fourteenth place, receiving 39 points.
Prior to the 2015 Contest, Slovenia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty times since its first entry in 1993. Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been seventh place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in 1995 with the song "Prisluhni mi" performed by Darja Švajger and in 2001 with the song "Energy" performed by Nuša Derenda. The country's only other top ten result was achieved in 1997 when Tanja Ribič performing "Zbudi se" placed tenth. Since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the contest in 2004, Slovenia had thus far only managed to qualify to the final on three occasions, which included their entry in 2014 when Tinkara Kovač and the song "Round and Round" managed to place 25th in the final.