Prior to the 2026 contest, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Serbia seventeen times since its first entry in 2007, winning the contest with its debut entry "Molitva" performed by Marija Šerifović. Since then, 13 out of the 17 total Serbian entries have featured in the final with RTS failing to qualify in 2009, 2013, 2017, and 2025. In 2025, "Mila" performed by Princ, failed to qualify to the final, placing 14th in its semi-final, Serbia's worst result to date.[1]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTS organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster has used both internal selections and national finals to determine its entries throughout the years. Between 2007 and 2009, RTS used the Beovizija national final, but after its 2009 entry failed to qualify to the final, the broadcaster shifted its selection strategy to selecting specific composers to create songs for artists. After a successful internal selection in 2012, in 2013 RTS returned to an open national final format, titled Beosong, but it failed to qualify to the final. After reverting to internal selection in 2016 and 2017, it returned to use the Beovizija national final between 2018 and 2020, managing to qualify to the final in both 2018 and 2019, with Eurovision having been cancelled in 2020. In 2022, RTS returned to organising a national final under the name Pesma za Evroviziju '22, with this format being used every year since.
On 27 May 2025, RTS confirmed its commitment to not withdraw from the contest.[2] On 15 September 2025, RTS announced its intention to select its entry through Pesma za Evroviziju '26.[3]
The fifth edition of Pesma za Evroviziju is set to be organized by RTS in order to select its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026.[3] On 1 December 2025, a new logo for 2026 was unveiled. It contains Cyrillic letters "P" (П), "Z" (З) and "E".[4]
Format
Competing entries
On 15 September 2025, RTS opened an online form for interested artists to submit their entries. The submission period is set to last until 1 November 2025.[5] Performers are required to hold Serbian citizenship, whilst there were no limitations as to whom could be a songwriter. At least 51% of lyrics of the submitted entries had to be in one of the official languages of Serbia.[6]
The 24 contestants were announced on 3 December 2025.[7] The list of participants includes Mirna Radulović, who, as part of the group Moje 3, represented Serbia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. In addition to Radulović, the following artists are returning to the Serbian selection:
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