CROATIA: Listen to the songs of Dora 2024!

The Dora 2024 songs, one of which will be invited to represent Croatia at the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in May in Malmö, Sweden, have finally been uploaded to YouTube today by HRT.

We remind you that on Thursday, January 4, 2024, the broadcast of the songs by HR 2 Radio took place between 14:00 – 16:00 CET. The paradox is that with the completion of the playlist with the 24 songs, there was silence on HRT’s social media, which in this way wanted to prolong the fans’ agony. At the same time the whole set of songs was made available to the public via archive, by the radio show “Svijet Diskografie” on the official channel of HRTi.

In total, 24 songs (and 4 back-ups) will compete for the famous Dora figurine and let’s listen to them together!

Listen to the songs of the 24 finalists with just one click on the title!

• A TAMBURITZA LULLABY – Alen Đuras
• BABAROGA – Let 3
• BABY, BABY – Noelle
• CAN WE TALK – Boris Štok
• DIJAMANTI – Natalie Balmix
• DO MJESECA – Pavel
• GASOLINE – Marcela
• HOW DO YOU LOVE ME – Erna
• LYING EYES – Vinko
• MORE – Lana Mandarić
• NEBO PLAČE – James Night
• NE PLAČEM ZBOG NJE – Saša Lozar
• NEPOBJEDIVA – Barbara Munjas
• NE VJERUJEM TI – Lara Demarin
• OD KAD TE SANJAM – The Splitters
• ONE DAY – Misha
• PAMETNOM DOSTA – ET
• PLAVI LEPTIR – Lu Dedić
• RIM TIM TAGI DIM – Baby Lasagna
• SLATKE SUZE, GORKA LJUBAV – Vatra
• SRETNIH DANA DAT’ ĆE BOG – Stefany Žužić
• TIŠINE – Eugen
• VODU PITI TRIZAN BITI – Mario Battifiaca feat. Robert Ferlin
• VOLJENA ŽENO – Damir Kedžo

The above list was formed after the sudden withdrawal of Zsa Zsa, who was originally going to perform “Probudi Usne Moje”. Her place in the list of finalists was taken by Baby Lasagna with the song Rim Tim Tagi Dim.

Three more songs are vying for a spot on Dora and they are as follows:

• STAVI SE NA MJESTO – Cota G4
• VRATI SE – Mihael Kvorka
• DUBOKO RONI – Ether

The returns!

Among the finalists we find a number of big names from the Croatian music scene, who are also known to eurofans due to their previous participation in either Eurovision or Dora!

Let 3: We got to know the disruptive Let 3 very well last year, after their comfortable win at Dora 2023, which gave them the golden ticket to Liverpool! Hailing from Rijeka, LET3 is a rock band formed way back in 1987! Damir “Mrle” Martinović has taken on the role of bassist and guitarist, while Zoran “Prlja” Prodanović handles the vocal part of the band! For 36 years now, the band enjoys the recognition of both the Croatians and the public of the other countries of the former Yugoslav republic! In Liverpool, they managed to qualify from their semi-final, finishing in eighth place, to find themselves thirteenth in the Grand Final with 123 points! It is worth noting that Croatia won seventh place in the TV audience vote!

Damir Kedžo: Damir won Dora 2020 with the song Divlji Vjetre but was unable to represent Croatia at Eurovision due to the cancellation of the contest. In 2023, he returned to the Croatian music festival with Angels and Demons. Earlier, he had competed in Dora in 2005 with the song Zašto taking tenth place. Zašto was joined by another finalist of this year, Saša Lozar.

The Splitters: They also competed in Dora last year with the song Lost and Found and placed fourth.

Barbara Munjas: She competed in the 2007 Dora with the song Ti si tu and came 12th in the second semi-final. In 2023, she returned with the song Putem snova and finished in eighth place.

ET: Meri Andrakovic participated composing the song. She also competed in Dora 2023 with the song Bye bye blonde finishing in 9th place.

Boris Štok: Boris also competed last year with the song Grijeh and finished in 14th place.

Mario Battifiaca: As a member of the band Battifiaca he made his debut in Dora in 1995 with the song Jos vavek. In 2009, he returned with the song Ma gdje bila to reach number 9 on the chart. In fact, last year he was one of the presenters of Dora!

Alen Đuras: He was on vocals for Jacques Houdek at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017.

The dates of Dora 2024!

The Croatian National Final will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2024, at the HRT studios in Zagreb, while there will also be 2 semi-final rounds on February 22 and 23 respectively!

• 22/02/2024- Semi-final #1
• 23/02/2024- Semi-final #2
• 25/02/2024- Grand Final

Croatia in Eurovision!

• Participations : 28
• Final appearances : 19
• Best place : 4th ( 1996 , 1999 )
• Worst position : 2018 (Franka – Crazy – NQ – 63 points)
• Last year’s participation : Let 3 – Mama SC! (13th place – 123 points)

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