North Macedonia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Proud" written by Darko Dimitrov, Robert Bilbilov, Lazar Cvetkoski, Kosta Petrov and Sanja Popovska. The song was performed by Tamara Todevska, who was internally selected by the Macedonian broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) to compete for Macedonia at the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel. Todevska previously represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Let Me Love You" together with Vrčak and Adrijan but failed to qualify to the final. Tamara Todevska's appointment as the Macedonian representative was announced on 25 January 2019, while her song, "Proud", was presented to the public on 8 March 2019.
North Macedonia was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 16 May 2019. Performing during the show in position 17, "Proud" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 18 May. It was later revealed that North Macedonia placed second out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 239 points. In the final, North Macedonia performed in position 8 and placed seventh out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 305 points. This was North Macedonia's first top ten placement and also the highest placement ever for North Macedonia in the history of the contest.
Background
Prior to the 2019 contest, Macedonia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest eighteen times since its first entry in under the provisional appellation "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", abbreviated "FYR Macedonia". The nation's best result in the contest to this point was twelfth, which it achieved in 2006 with the song "Ninanajna" performed by Elena Risteska. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the , Macedonia had featured in only five finals.
The Macedonian national broadcaster, Macedonian Radio Television (MRT), broadcasts the event within Macedonia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. MRT confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on 21 September 2018. Between 2008 and 2011, Macedonia selected their entries using the national final Skopje Fest. During this period, the nation failed to qualify to the final on every occasion. Between 2012 and 2014, the broadcaster internally selected Macedonia's entry, resulting in a single qualification to the final during this period in . After failing to qualify in 2015 where Skopje Fest was used as a national final, the broadcaster internally selected the nation's entry since 2016. All entries failed to bring the country to the final, including in 2018 with Eye Cue and the song "Lost and Found". For 2019, the broadcaster again opted to internally select the Macedonian entry.
Before Eurovision
Internal selection
On 25 January 2019, MRT announced that they had internally selected Tamara Todevska to represent Macedonia in Tel Aviv. Todevska previously competed in the contest in 2008 where she performed the song "Let Me Love You" together with Vrčak and Adrijan but failed to qualify for the final. Todevska had also attempted to represent Macedonia at the Eurovision Song Contest on several occasions. Her earliest attempt was in 2005 when she failed to qualify from the first phase of the national final selection. She later competed in the national finals in 2007 with the song "Kaži koj si ti" and in 2015 with the song "Brod što tone", both of which placed second.
On 9 February 2019, it was announced that Tamara Todevska would perform the song "Proud" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. "Proud" was originally scheduled to be presented to the public on 4 March 2019 through the release of the official music video via the official Eurovision Song Contest's YouTube channel, however it was delayed to 8 March 2019 to coincide with International Women's Day. The song, composed by Darko Dimitrov, Robert Bilbilov and Lazar Cvetkoski with lyrics written by Kosta Petrov and Sanja Popovska, was selected by a four-member committee consisting of Aneta Andonova (MRT), Meri Popova (MRT 1), Avni Qahili (MRT 2) and Toni Cifrovski (MRT 1) from several proposals that MRT received.