Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The Macedonian broadcaster announced Toše Proeski as the Macedonian entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Tose Proeski participated in 2000 Macedonian National Final and 1998 as well. In 2000, Tose Proeski won the televote (with about 38,000 votes) and XXL were 2nd (with about 30,000 votes). In 1998 he came eighth.

Proeski also won Beovizija in Belgrade on April 2003, with a Serbian song entitled "Čija Si" ("To Whom Do You Belong?"), a song which became a huge hit in Macedonia and the other former Yugoslav republics. This song was due to represent Serbia and Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 but the EBU stated that too many countries wanted to enter in that year and so some would be forced to withdraw. Serbia and Montenegro (who participated as one country at the time) were one of them.

Eight songs competed, which were all recorded in Macedonian and appeared on Proeski's album Den Za Nas. Six of the songs from the final were recorded in Serbian and appeared on the Serbian version of the album entitled Dan za nas. All eight songs were also recorded in English and a small sample of each of these were played after each song was performed at the national final, lasting approximately 40 seconds each. This was to give viewers an idea as to what the song would sound like in English.

On February 14 2004, the final took place at the Universal Hall in Skopje and hosted by Aneta Andonova and Karolina Petkovska. Tose Proeski sang all the songs and the winner was chosen by televoting (1/3), an "expert" jury (1/3) and Tose himself (1/3) - "Angel si ti" was the favourite with all three. The song was written by Jovan Jovanov, who also participated in the Macedonian National Final in 2007 and came fourth. The English version of "Angel si ti", titled "Life", appears on both versions of the album as well as the official Eurovision Song Contest 2004 compilation album, however the full English versions of the other seven songs have yet to be released.