Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 information
Eurovision Song Contest 2016
Country
Bosnia and Herzegovina
National selection
Selection process
Internal selection
Selection date(s)
Artist: 25 November 2015 Song: 19 February 2016
Selected entrant
Dalal and Deen feat. Ana Rucner and Jala
Selected song
"Ljubav je"
Selected songwriter(s)
Almir Ajanović
Jasmin Fazlić Jala
Finals performance
Semi-final result
Failed to qualify (11th)
Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest
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2016
Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "Ljubav je" written by Almir Ajanović and Jasmin Fazlić Jala. The song was performed by Dalal and Deen featuring Ana Rucner and Jala. Dalal and Deen are Bosnian singers, the former known as a member of the duo Erato and the latter having represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, while Ana Rucner is a Croatian cellist and Jala is a Bosnian rapper. In November 2015, the Bosnian broadcaster Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT) announced that they would be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest after a three-year absence after securing sponsorship to cover both the participation fee and all costs related to the participation. In the same month, the broadcaster revealed that they had internally selected Dalal Midhat-Talakić, Fuad Backović-Deen, Ana Rucner and Jasmin Fazlić Jala to compete at the 2016 contest in Stockholm, Sweden. Their song, "Ljubav je", was presented to the public during a show entitled BH Eurosong Show 2016 on 19 February 2016.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 10 May 2016. Performing during the show in position 17, "Ljubav je" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. This marked the first time that Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to qualify to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest from a semi-final since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004. It was later revealed that Bosnia and Herzegovina placed eleventh out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 104 points.
As of 2024[update], this was Bosnia and Herzegovina's last entry in the contest, before the country withdrew the following year. The absence has continued in every edition since.
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