Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

EMA 2011 was the 16th edition of the Slovenian national final format Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA). The competition was used by RTV Slovenija to select Slovenia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and was broadcast on TV SLO1 and online via the broadcaster's website rtvslo.si and the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.[2]

Ten songs competed in a televised show where the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a three-member expert jury selected two finalists out of the ten competing songs to proceed to a superfinal. Each member of the expert jury assigned a score of 1 (lowest score) to 5 (highest score) to each song with the top two being determined by the songs that receive the highest overall scores when the jury votes are combined. Ties were broken by giving priority to the song(s) that achieved a higher number of top scores (5), which would be followed by each juror indicating their preferred song should a tie still have persisted. In the superfinal, public televoting exclusively determined the winner. In case of technical problems with the televote, the jury would have voted to determine the winner in a similar process as in the first round of the competition.

Ten artists selected by the editors of the broadcaster's entertainment program were directly invited to submit entries. The competing artists were announced on 20 January 2011. Among the competing artists was former Slovenian Eurovision contestant Omar Naber who represented Slovenia in 2005.[3]

EMA 2011 took place on 27 February 2011 at the RTV Slovenija Studio 1 in Ljubljana, hosted by Klemen Slakonja. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 1995 and 1999 Slovenian Eurovision entrant Darja Švajger and 2006 Croatian Eurovision entrant Croatian Eurovision entrant Severina performed as guests. The winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a three-member jury panel selected two entries to proceed to the second round: "Vanilija" performed by Maja Keuc and "Ladadidej" performed by April. The jury consisted of Darja Švajger, Severina and Mojca Mavec (television presenter). In the second round, a public vote selected "Vanilija" performed by Maja Keuc as the winner.

• In the Semi-final 2 Slovenia came 3rd with 112 points: the public awarded Slovenia 7th place with 68 points and the jury awarded 1st place with 146 points.
• In the Final Slovenia came 13th with 96 points: the public awarded Slovenia 22nd place with 39 points and the jury awarded 4th place with 160 points.