Serbia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006 which culminated into the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro,[1] both nations use to compete at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest and Eurovision Song Contest as Serbia and Montenegro.[2] Serbia were the first of the two nations to compete at a Junior Contest, making their debut at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006.[3] While it was at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 when Montenegro would make their debut as an independent nation.[4] Neustrašivi učitelji stranih jezika went on to being Serbia's first participant in 2006 as an independent nation with the song "Učimo strane jezike" (Serbian Cyrillic: Учимо стране језике).[3]

Serbia continued to participate at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, in which they had selected Nevena Božović to represent Serbia with the song "Piši mi" (Serbian Cyrillic: Пиши ми). Božović also became the first Junior Eurovision participant to take part in the senior Eurovision Song Contest as part of the group Moje 3, performing the song "Ljubav je svuda" (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубав је свуда),[5] which achieved forty-six points and failing to qualify to the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 after finishing in 11th place.[6] However, she managed to qualify in the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Kruna" (Serbian Cyrillic: Круна) and finished in 18th place with 89 points.

The nation continued to participate at every Junior Contest until 2010, which would be their last appearance at that present time,[3] following the broadcaster's announcement on 5 June 2011 that Serbia would withdraw from the 2011 contest.[7] On 25 July 2014, Serbia announced its return to the 2014 contest, after a three-year absence.[8] Serbia selected their 2014 entry through an internal selection for the first time in their history. On 1 October 2014 it was revealed that Emilija Đonin would represent Serbia in the contest with the song "Svet u mojim očima".[9]

On 4 May 2015, it was announced on a Eurovision news website that Serbia's national broadcaster, RTS, had not started any planning in regards to their participation at the 2015 contest, and that such decision would be taken after the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. On 20 August 2015, Serbia confirmed its participation.[10] RTS announced on 21 September 2015, that they had internally selected Lena Stamenković with the song "Lenina pesma" (Serbian Cyrillic: Ленина песма) to represent them at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015,[11] which took place at the Arena Armeec, in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, on 21 November 2015.[12] On 14 September 2016, Serbia confirmed its participation in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Valletta, Malta.[13]

Notes

1.^ Contains only 2 lines of chorus in Serbian, while 24 lines of verses are mostly sung in English and a few lines are sung in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Japanese.

The table below list the details of each commentator and spokesperson since 2006.

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  Lena Stamenković in Sofia (2015)
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  Dunja Jeličić in Valletta (2016)
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  Bojana Radovanović in Minsk (2018)
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  Darija Vračević in Gliwice (2019)

• Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest – Senior version of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.
• Serbia in the Eurovision Young Musicians – A competition organised by the EBU for musicians aged 18 years and younger.
• Sandžak in the Turkvision Song Contest – A historical geo-political region, now divided by the border between Serbia and Montenegro,[24] which competes under the name Sandžak in a contest for countries and regions which are of Turkic-speaking or Turkic ethnicity.