Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018

On 13 February 2018, the Croatian national broadcaster HRT announced that it had internally selected Franka Batelić to represent Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.[3] The song that Batelić performed at the Eurovision Song Contest, "Crazy", was presented on 6 March 2018 during the news programme Dnevnik HRT broadcast on HRT 1. The song was written by Batelić and Branimir Mihaljević, and produced by Paul Norris in the United Kingdom.[5] Mihaljević was also the co-writer of "Lako je sve", the Croatian Eurovision Song Contest entry in 2010. In regards to her song, Batelić stated: "We came up with this song in an unexpected way. We recorded three songs in the studio as Eurovision suggestions, and this one suddenly came about. Branimir started playing it on the piano, I started singing the lyrics and the song came about. It simply worked as it was unusual and unexpected. The song is powerful, emotional, and modern. I hope the public will love it".[6]

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.

The following members comprised the Croatian jury:[11][12]

• Mustafa Softić (Muc; jury chairperson) – music producer, arranger
• Lara Antić Prskalo – singer (jury member in semi-final 1)
• Zdenka Kovačiček – singer
• Gina Damjanović – singer, songwriter
• Miroslav Lesić (Lesique) – musician, producer
• Kornelije Hećimović – radio producer (jury member in the final)

Detailed voting results from Croatia (Semi-final 1)[9]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		L. Antić Prskalo	Z. Kovačiček	G. Damjanović	Muc	Lesique	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Azerbaijan	13	18	16	9	10	17		6	5
02	Iceland	16	7	9	17	12	14		18
03	Albania	10	16	7	4	6	7	4	7	4
04	Belgium	15	17	8	7	9	10	1	16
05	Czech Republic	3	1	1	6	3	2	10	2	10
06	Lithuania	4	5	2	2	1	3	8	14
07	Israel	1	3	3	1	2	1	12	11
08	Belarus	18	9	15	12	18	18		15
09	Estonia	5	15	12	14	13	12		5	6
10	Bulgaria	6	4	6	18	7	5	6	12
11	Macedonia	14	6	17	16	16	16		10	1
12	Croatia
13	Austria	12	14	5	13	14	11		4	7
14	Greece	2	13	10	15	8	8	3	8	3
15	Finland	9	11	13	10	11	13		13
16	Armenia	11	8	14	11	15	15		17
17	Switzerland	8	10	11	5	4	6	5	9	2
18	Ireland	7	2	4	8	17	4	7	3	8
19	Cyprus	17	12	18	3	5	9	2	1	12

Detailed voting results from Croatia (Final)[10]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Z. Kovačiček	G. Damjanović	Muc	Lesique	K. Hećimović	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Ukraine	17	16	26	20	18	24		20
02	Spain	11	17	8	7	24	15		19
03	Slovenia	8	21	7	19	19	16		4	7
04	Lithuania	4	8	1	2	3	1	12	24
05	Austria	7	6	12	18	26	14		11
06	Estonia	16	13	21	25	7	18		13
07	Norway	22	4	2	6	11	6	5	14
08	Portugal	15	15	22	11	10	19		26
09	United Kingdom	21	18	14	13	1	9	2	18
10	Serbia	14	14	23	16	17	21		1	12
11	Germany	20	12	19	24	16	22		8	3
12	Albania	24	7	6	10	13	10	1	7	4
13	France	13	2	9	5	4	5	6	12
14	Czech Republic	3	10	10	4	8	7	4	6	5
15	Denmark	23	26	25	14	14	23		9	2
16	Australia	2	24	15	22	20	12		17
17	Finland	10	23	11	15	25	20		25
18	Bulgaria	1	1	20	9	15	4	7	10	1
19	Moldova	9	11	4	1	5	3	8	22
20	Sweden	12	5	13	12	12	13		23
21	Hungary	26	22	24	23	21	26		16
22	Israel	6	3	3	3	22	2	10	5	6
23	Netherlands	25	20	16	26	23	25		21
24	Ireland	5	9	17	21	2	8	3	15
25	Cyprus	18	25	5	8	9	11		3	8
26	Italy	19	19	18	17	6	17		2	10