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Running order for Skopje Fest semifinals decided
Out of 126 submitted entries, a jury appointed by Macedonian national broadcaster MRT selected 28 songs to compete for the honour of representing FYR Macedonia in Oslo. Today, the 28 songs were split into two semi finals, where they will fight for eight spots each in the grand final of Skopje Fest. Just like in the Eurovision Song Contest, the winner will be decided bye a 50/50 mix of jury- and televoting. The national final will take place on February 20th.
Running order for the first semi final, to be held on February 18th:
- Duo Slide - Mrazam
- Suzana Spasovska & Darko Nešovski - Bog Go Ima Sekoj Kljuc
- Kerber - Chorbadzija
- Treta Dimenzija - Bolest Zaraza
- Tumbao Salsa Bend - Poludena Vo Nokta Studena
- Bravo Band - Taa Ima Se
- Vlatko Ilievski - Sreka
- Gorjan Stojanovski - Najmila
- Aleksandar Belov - Ostani
- Gjoko Taneski - Jas Ja Imam Silata
- Daniel Stojmanovski - Akcija Reakcija
- Darko Ilievski - Lagi
- Nataša Malinkova - Sever I Jug
- Igor Mitrovic - Malecka
Running order for the second semi final, to be held on February 19th:
- Pampers - Sni
- Vodolija - Solza
- Nade Talevska - Sreken kraj
- Teodora Trajkovska - Ljubovna Pesna
- Boyan Aleksovski - Beli Konji
- Dimitar Andonovski - Kameno srce
- Angela Zdravkova - Zaboravaš
- Viktorija Apostolova - Zaboravi Na Se
- Vlatko Lozanoski - Letam Kon Tebe
- Jova Radevska - Se Ushte �ekame
- Esma's Band - Džipsi Dens
- Maja Vukicevic - Fama
- Kristijan Jovanov - Nikoj Na Ovoj Svet
- Parketi - Ti Si Kisi Fenomen
The first snippets of some songs have already appeared on the internet:
Aleksandar Belov - Ostani:
Aleksandar during the draw for the running order:
Aleksandar Belov came 3rd in the 2008- 2009 edition of the music talent TV reality show Operacija Trijumf, the same edition in which Vukašin Brajic, the representative of Bosnia & Herzegovina at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, came 2nd.
Vlatko Lozanoski - Letam Kon Tebe
Darko Ilievski - Lagi
Daniel Stojmanovski - Akcija Reakcija
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Esmas Bend has the best song. I'd be so happy if they win the Macedonian ticket to Oslo. Thier song is one of the few up-tempo non-rock songs!!! Also Jova Radeska's song is so beautiful and amazing!!! Best luck to them and to everyone on SkopjeFest 2010!!! May the best song (Dzipsi Dens) win!!!
Zanic Eleni, saying so doesn't bush FYROM. She clearly says that your songs have been simply very moderate.
P. S Do not say that I am politically obsessed because I am Cypriot ;-)
Pampers - Sni
lol
ust dont send suzana spasovska lol... she will have to be kept away from black men, and she has the kleptomaniac gene lol
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! 
Ελένη loves ESC
Only a Greek, with both her favourite countries as Greece and Cyprus could bash Macedonia for no reason.. (minus politics which have no place in Eurovision)
Moderators should remove these comments, they involve nothing constructive.
Macedonia impressed me in, 2005 and 2008 and I adore the countries 2006 and 2007 songs 
Good luck for 2010 and I hope I'm impressed again 
Macedonia needs to get the ethusiasm they had earlier.I loved most of their entries and I don't see a reason they can not find the right song
good luck
Always boring songs from Fyrom.
I think they will send Darko
ok after painfully listening to all the refrains im pinning my tiny hopes on JOVA whom i adore and the gypsy band haha...the rest, what can i say, i apoloigise for my homeland...again *rolls eyes*
GAH im not holding my breath... Macedonia disappoints me year after year... they should abolish skopje fest and have it like Makfest, atleast the songs would be more relavent to the mkd music scene- which believe it or not is quite modern.... i agree with stefan p, the kiddies vote for a name and not the song 
Well belov i will never be a fan of, vlatko's song sounds like it could be ok, lagi and akcija reakcija sound ok.. I pray to god every night that the kids voting will by some miracler send Jova Radevska, she is awesome, her songs are so pretty and she is awesome in english! Not that im supporting mkd singing in english, its just in case they do! Ill reserve proper judgement until i hear the full songs though.. just dont send suzana spasovska lol... she will have to be kept away from black men, and she has the kleptomaniac gene lol
A ballad would be good! Makedonija havent sent one in AGES! so as long as it is performed well and is obviously a nice ballad it should be good!
Id actually rather Aleksandar Belov over Lozano! for some reason i don't like Vlatko Lozanovski that much considering how popular he is..but he'll probably win
I Skopje Fest, they always have several good songs. This year is obviously no exception. I don't have time now to listen to them all, but I heard the 4 in this article. Vlatko is GREAT! Aleksandar too! The other two are also OK. Vlatko best of them!
most of the songs are listenable. too many ballads,i think one of them will make it.
And the snippets from the second semifinal:
http://www.youtube.com/v/TEylLCwv8-k
Here are all the snippets of the songs from the first semi-final:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=3_ZDQhD-gBM
Wow Aleksandar Belov surprised me. I think that he is going to have a good song.
Vlatko Lozanoski can do better than this but I still like his entry.
There are many songs and they might be very good. Who knows? Sadly the Macedonian public tends to vote more for the singer than the song. On a poll on a Macedonian website Aleksandar Belov and Vlatko Lozanoski have way more votes than the others. I think one of these two will win. If Belov has a good song like I think he will this trend in voting might be a good thing for once. I just hope that there isn't a really good song that won't be sent because the singer that sings it is not very famous.
@ Ben Gray - ummmmm u can't say they have never sent anything getting excited about..they happen to be my, and from what i can see here, some other peoples favourite countries..just cos ur too limited in that you only like cheap western european crap in English doesn't mean other dont appreciate real talent like Karolina Goceva and Elena Risteska!!
All songs are nice but Akcija Reakcija and Lagi are the better ones from what I could here from these teasers.
Good luck Macedonia
A very good luck to МАКЕДОНИЈА which is one my favourite countries ever : Не зори, зоро (1998), Од нас зависи (2002), Make my day (2005), Нинанајна (2006) and Мојот свет (2007), which are all so amazing songs !
I hope that the best song will win !
Best of Luck Macedonia!
I adore their 2005 and 2006 entries! I also liked their 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2009 songs. They're great in ESC I think but to win, they need to go up a notch. Maybe send something daring.
hahahahhaahahha
loved them in 2002, 2004 & 2006, 2005 stil pi sses me off, 2007 was nice, but then i lost intrest, all though i liked them in 2008 but they should've sticked to the orginal not went for the english version
i can't remember ther entry from last year...
Good luck
Of those snippets "Akcija reakcija" sounds the best!!
I hope for good entry, I Macedonia 2006 Elena Risteska!!! She's AMAZING!! Then i like 2007 Karolina Gocheva, Toshe Proeski 
(2005)!
And of course XXL, my favourite in 2000 
Sto posto te ljubam sto posto e da
Da nadez izgubam as nemam namera....
P.S. Last year Skopje fest was good! 
I don't expect much from FYR Macedonia, a really good entry would be a big surprise!
I have never liked their entries.
Best of Luck to Macedonia hope you get through to the final this time
Macedonia sent many nice songs in the past,they can do better
good luck
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