Country Slovenia Selected entrant Platin | Selection process EMA 2004 Selected song "Stay forever" | |
Selection date(s) Semifinals
11 January 2004
18 January 2004
25 January 2004
1 February 2004
Final
15 February 2004 Semi-final result Failed to qualify
(21st, 5 points) | ||
EMA 2004
EMA 2004 held on 15 February 2004 in Hall A - Gospodarsko Razstavišče, Ljubljana. Unlike previous editions of EMA this contains 4 weekly semifinals on 11th, 18, 25 January, and 1 February 2004. Total of 32 entrants participated in the EMA 2004, but only half of them; 16 made to the finale night in which was chosen the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 representative.
Presenters of EMA 2004 were Miša Molk, Peter Poles, and Bernarda Žarn. But Molk didn't appear in semifinals as a presenter, Poles and Žarn appear in the finale as co-presenters in green room and spokespersons of televote points.
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Platin
Platin (Duo Platin) is a Slovenian music duet. The singers are Simon Platin and Diana Platin. They married in Turkey, while they were representing Slovenia in Eurovision Song Contest 2004.
Semi-finals
Four semifinals held on 11, 18, 25 January and 1 February 2004. Eight participants performed a song in each semifinal. At the end of each semifinal viewers were given 5min to cast a televote during a Eurovision medley performed by semifinal participants. The three with the highest televote score qualified for the final.
When semifinals were completed the jury was asked to vote. The jury chose a "wildcard" from each heat to proceed to the final night.
Semi-final 1 (EMA 04 - predizbor 01)
Semi-final 2 (EMA 04 - predizbor 02)
Semi-final 3 (EMA 04 - predizbor 03)
Semi-final 4 (EMA 04 - predizbor 04)
Final
Sixteen acts chosen in heats participated in EMA 2004 finale. On 15 February 2004 held two round selection process to determinate Slovenian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. In round one mixature vote of jury and televote determinate three superfinalists, in round two teleote determinate Eurovision Song contest 2004 representative.
Panel
Round One
Round Two
Controversy
Like in many previous editions of EMA, the public televote and the jury awarded conflicting scores. This caused some controversy, because the strongest televote favorite Natalija Verboten, received 0 points from the jury. Similarly, Bepop in 2003, Karmen Stavec in 2002, and Tinkara Kovač in 1999 were also televote favorites. These entries usually came 2nd, or failed to qualify for the semifinals, because the points awarded by the jury outweighed the points they received from the televotes.
The controversy resulted in the 2005 EMA scores basing solely on the results of the televote.
At Eurovision
Slovenia performed 16th in the semi final. It finished on second last 21st place with only 5 points, failing to qualify to the Grand Finals