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Den za nas

2004 studio album by Toše Proeski

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3409240
Source-derived summary

Den za nas (Macedonian: Ден за нас, lit. 'A Day for Us') is the fourth studio album by Macedonian singer Toše Proeski, released in 2004. It contains all of the songs performed on the national final in order to select a song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with which Proeski would represent Macedonia in the contest. The winning song was "Life" which qualified for the final and finished on the 14th place in the final. Some extra songs such as "Dzvezdo Severnice", "Me sakaš so zborovi", "Ima li den za nas" and others were recorded especially for the album.

Release

In 2004, Proeski released the album Den za nas (A Day for Us) in two CDs. Proeski also released a Serbian version of the album titled Dan za nas (Serbian Cyrillic: Дан за нас). English versions of seven songs have been also made but they are unpublished.

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The public source identifies “Den za nas” as 2004 studio album by Toše Proeski. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around studio, album and Toše.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with studio, album and Toše providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3409240. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Den za nas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.