LAVINA Wins Eurovision Final 2026 Serbia Vote With 30,000 Televotes
LAVINA won Serbia’s eurovision final 2026 selection after nearly 30,000 televotes pushed Kraj Mene past 27 other acts in Pesma za Evroviziju 2026. The six-piece band will now carry Serbia’s entry into Vienna with the song that won the public vote.
Pesma za Evroviziju 2026
Twenty-eight acts competed for the Serbian spot, and LAVINA emerged with the clearest public mandate in the field. The vote total matters here because it separates a narrow jury favorite from a song that collected broad viewer support, which is the kind of result broadcasters lean on when they want a pick to travel beyond a studio audience.
Luka Aranđelović, who helped form the band in 2020, is one of six members heading to Eurovision 2026 alongside Pavle Aranđelović, Pavle Samardžić, Andrija Cvetanović, Nikola Petrović and Bojan Ilić. The group first formed in Niš, released its first album in 2022, and began a string of English-language songs from 2024 onward.
Serbia After 2025
RTS brought Pesma za Evroviziju back after Princ failed to reach the Grand Final in 2025, when Serbia finished fourteenth in the semi-final with 28 points. That makes LAVINA’s win more than a routine national selection result: Serbia is trying to turn a missed qualification into a cleaner run through the semifinal round.
Serbia debuted as an independent country in 2007, won that year with Marija Šerifović and Molitva, and has now participated 16 times with 13 Grand Final qualifications. LAVINA will close the first semi-final from position 15, so the public vote has already translated into a specific running-order slot that puts the band at the end of the night’s first qualifier race.
Kraj Mene in Vienna
Kraj Mene is the song Serbia is sending to Vienna, and the title is what broadcasters and rivals now have to prepare around. For LAVINA, the next step is not another selection round but performance execution: a strong televote in Serbia is useful, yet the real test begins in the first semi-final slot 15, where the band has to convert domestic momentum into a place in the Grand Final.
