Slovenia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 with the song "For a Thousand Years", written by Saà ¡o Fajon and Primoà ¾ Peterca, and performed by Darja à  vajger. The Slovene participating broadcaster, (RTVSLO), held the national final 1999 in order to select its entry for the contest. à  vajger had previously represented .
17 entries competed in the national final where "" performed by Darja à  vajger was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from a four-member jury panel and a public televote. The song was later translated from Slovene to English for Eurovision and was titled "For a Thousand Years" .
Slovenia competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 29 May 1999. Performing during the show in position 6, Slovenia placed eleventh out of the 23 participating countries, scoring 50 points.
Prior to the 1999 contest, (RTVSLO) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Slovenia five times since its first entry . Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been seventh place, achieved in with the song "" performed by Darja à  vajger. Its only other top ten result was achieved when "" performed by Tanja Ribiàplaced tenth. In , "" performed by Vili Resnik placed eighteenth.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTVSLO organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster has traditionally selected its entry through a national final entitled (EMA), which has been produced with variable formats. For 1999, RTVSLO opted to organise 1999 (EMA 1999) to select its entry.
1999 (EMA 1999) was the fifth edition of the national final format (EMA). The competition was used by RTVSLO to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 and took place on 26 February 1999 at its Studio 1 in Ljubljana. The show was hosted by Mojca Mavec and was broadcast on TV SLO 1.
Seventeen songs competed in a televised show where the combination of points from a four-member expert jury and a public televote selected the winner. Each member of the expert jury assigned scores as follows: 1âÂÂ8, 10 and 12, while the public televote assigned scores which had a weighting equal to the votes of two jurors. The song that received the highest score when the votes were combined was determined the winner.
An expert committee consisting of Mià ¡a Molk (Head of Entertainment and Sports at RTVSLO), Mojmir Sepe (conductor and composer) and Andrej Karoli (music editor for Radio Slovenija) selected seventeen artists and songs for the competition from 71 received submissions. Among the competing artists was former Slovenian Eurovision entrant Darja à  vajger who represented .
EMA 1999 took place on 26 February 1999. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, Marc Roberts, who represented , performed as a guest. The combination of points from a four-member jury panel (2/3) and a public televote (1/3) selected "" performed by Darja à  vajger as the winner. The jury consisted of Roberts, Mià ¡a Molk (Head of Entertainment and Sports at RTVSLO), Mojmir Sepe (conductor and composer) and Andrej Karoli (music editor for Radio Slovenija).
Slovenia performed in position 6, following the entry from the and before the entry from . At the contest, Darja à  vajger performed the English version of "", titled "For a Thousand Years". Slovenia finished in eleventh place with 50 points.
The show was televised in Slovenia on RTV SLO1.
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Slovenia and awarded by Slovenia in the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points to in the contest.
RTVSLO appointed Mira Berginc as its spokesperson to announce the Slovenian votes during the show.