The 2019

Music Awards Ceremony The Music Awards Ceremony (often simply called the MAC) are annual popular music awards for Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro presented by Skymedia Group. The awards were first held on 29 January 20 ...

(often simply called the MAC) is the first edition of the annual awards presented by Belgrade-based company, Sky Music to recognize achievements in the regional music industry of

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of the eligibility year, which ran from January 1, 2017, to August 30, 2018. The event, sponsored by

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, was held on 29 January 2019 at

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in Belgrade. The 2019 MAC was presented by Serbian musician

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, Croatian singer and presenter

Ida Prester Lollobrigida girls, also known as VIS Lollobrigida (VIS is a Croatian language acronym for 'singing and instrument playing band', used often in the 1970s) or Lollobrigida is originally a Croatian, Zagreb–based, female electro-pop/synthpop band. ...

, and Bosnian presenter Aida Jokanović. All income from tickets sales and SMS votes was donated to

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Performances

Categories and nominees

Public vote-based categories

Other awards

References