Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018  North Macedonia (officially under the provisional appellation "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", abbreviated "FYR Macedonia") participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Lost and Found" written by Bojan Trajkovski and Darko Dimitrov. The song was performed by Eye Cue, who were internally selected by the Macedonian broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) to represent the nation at the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal. Prior to the 2018 contest, Macedonia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest seventeen times since its first entry in . 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. In 2017, Jana Burčeska failed to bring the country to the final with her song "Dance Alone", that marked the nation's fifth failure in a row. On 26 January 2018, Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) launched a call to submissions to find their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Out of the 382 submitted entries, a special jury selected Eye Cue and their song "Lost and Found" to represent Macedonia in Lisbon. Eye Cue was revealed as Macedonia's representatives on 13 February 2018. The song and its music video was revealed on 11 March 2018. According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 29 January 2018, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Macedonia was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 8 May 2018, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show. Once all the competing songs for the 2018 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other.