| Eurovision Song Contest 1999 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Vaš šlager sezone 1999 | |||
| Selection date(s) | 6 March 1999 | |||
| Selected entrant | Dino & Béatrice | |||
| Selected song | "Putnici" | |||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 7th, 86 points | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Bosnia and Herzegovina returned to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1999, after being relegated from the 1998 contest due to a low point average after the 1997 contest.
For the 1999 contest, the Bosnian broadcaster Radio-Televizija Bosne i Hercegovine (RTVBiH) held a national final, Vaš šlager sezone 1999, to select the Bosnian Eurovision entry.
Before Eurovision
Vaš šlager sezone 1999
The final was held on 6 March 1999 at the Skenderija City Hall in Sarajevo, hosted by Segmedina Srna and Lejla Babović. 17 songs competed, with the winner being decided by 8 regional juries located in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a ninth jury located in Germany.[1]
The original winner was declared to be Hari Mata Hari with "Starac i more" (The old man and the sea), however was later disqualified after it became aware that the song had previously been released in 1997 by a Finnish singer. Consequently, the runner-up, Dino & Béatrice with "Putnici", was declared the new winner and represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest 1999.
| Final – 6 March 1999 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Points | Place |
| 1 | Eldin Huseinbegović | "Volio obolio" | Nesib Delibegović | 13 | 13 |
| 2 | Beat House | "Kunem te ja" | Mahir Sulejmanović | 39 | 6 |
| 3 | Krug | "U ritmu novom" | Jasminka Glimac, Osman Garagić | 33 | 8 |
| 4 | Seven Up | "Daj, spusti se" | Zoltan Milić, Gordan Radić | 58 | 3 |
| 5 | Dražen Žerić | "Proveo bi život ispod mostova" | Zlatan Fazlić | 16 | 12 |
| 6 | Dunja Galineo & Nurudin Vatrenjak | "Budi tu" | Nurudin Vatrenjak, Zlatan Burzić | 0 | 17 |
| 7 | Sarajevo Old Stars | "Šampion" | Saša Lošić | 51 | 4 |
| 8 | Zejnaida Mesihović | "Dala bih ti život" | Zejnaida Mesihović, Faruk Kadić | 38 | 7 |
| 9 | Željka Katavić-Pilj | "Bog mi je svjedok" | Jasminko Šetka, Aleksandar Popov, Miroslav Plij | 40 | 5 |
| 10 | Sanja Volić | "Jedini, ljubim te" | Mladen Vidović | 10 | 14 |
| 11 | Seid Memić-Vajta | "Stare melodije" | Edin Tahirović | 19 | 11 |
| 12 | Elvana Dučić | "Priznat ću ti sve" | Elvana Dučić | 7 | 16 |
| 13 | Hari Mata Hari | "Starac i more" | Fahrudin Pecikoza, Hari Varešanović | 70 | 1 |
| 14 | Dino & Béatrice | "Putnici" | Dino Dervišhalidović | 65 | 2 |
| 15 | Igor | "Glumica" | Igor Vukojević, Vladimir Vukojević | 28 | 9 |
| 16 | Sarajevska Ruža | "Želja" | Slobodan Ćosić | 10 | 14 |
| 17 | Andrej & Romana | "Ostavi suze" | Zoran Šugić | 25 | 10 |
| Detailed Regional Jury Votes | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Draw | Song | Banja Luka | Bihać | Bonn | Goražde | Livno | Mostar | Sarajevo | Tuzla | Zenica | Total |
| 1 | "Volio obolio" | 7 | 1 | 5 | 13 | ||||||
| 2 | "Kunem te ja" | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 39 | ||
| 3 | "U ritmu novom" | 1 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 33 | |||
| 4 | "Daj, spusti se" | 10 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 58 | ||
| 5 | "Proveo bi život ispod mostova" | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | |||||
| 6 | "Budi tu" | 0 | |||||||||
| 7 | "Šampion" | 4 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 51 | ||
| 8 | "Dala bih ti život" | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 38 | ||
| 9 | "Bog mi je svjedok" | 5 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 40 | ||||
| 10 | "Jedini, ljubim te" | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | |||||
| 11 | "Stare melodije" | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 19 | ||||
| 12 | "Priznat ću ti sve" | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| 13 | "Starac i more" | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 70 | |
| 14 | "Putnici" | 6 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 65 | |
| 15 | "Glumica" | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 28 | |||
| 16 | "Želja" | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | ||||||
| 17 | "Ostavi suze" | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 25 | ||||
At Eurovision
On the night of the contest Dino and Béatrice performed 22nd, following Germany and preceding Estonia. The song received 86 points at the close of the voting (including maximum 12 points from Austria), placing 7th of 23 countries competing.
It was the highest ranking Bosnia and Herzegovina had received in the Contest up to that time, and it will remain so until 2006, when Hari Mata Hari, the original winners of this year's national final, were selected to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina with the song "Lejla", where they came third.
Despite high placement, Bosnia and Herzegovina had low average score over the past 5 contests, and so was forced to skip the 2000 Contest. It would eventually return to Eurovision in 2001.
Points awarded by Bosnia and Herzegovina[2]
| 12 points |  Sweden |
| 10 points |  Germany |
| 8 points |  Croatia |
| 7 points |  Malta |
| 6 points |  Poland |
| 5 points |  Slovenia |
| 4 points |  Netherlands |
| 3 points |  Estonia |
| 2 points |  Israel |
| 1 point |  United Kingdom |
Points awarded to Bosnia and Herzegovina
| 12 points | 10 points | 8 points | 7 points | 6 points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 points | 4 points | 3 points | 2 points | 1 point |
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