Montenegrin broadcaster RTCG will organize the national selection for Eurovision 2025: “Montesong 2024“.
A total of 32 valid submissions have been received by RTCG.
The professional committee listened to the submitted songs and shortlisted 16 of them The professional committee will listen to the submitted songs and shortlist up to 16 songs to take part in the selection:
The songs were judged based on 3 criteria: 50 points for composition, 30 points for lyrics, and 20 points for production.
The 16 acts have just been revealed:
- ANASTASIJA KOPROLČEC – Kraj (Eng: End)
- BEND “9” – Stop war
- BOBAN RAJOVIĆ – Suze (Eng: Tears)
- DOLCE HERA – Repeat (Eng: Repeat)
- ĐURĐA – To ljubav je (Eng: That’s Love)
- GLUMCI BEND – San
- ISAK ŠABANOVIĆ – Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto (Eng: Summer, summer, summer)
- KEJT – Obala raja (Eng: Shore of Paradise)
- LUKA PERAZIĆ I RADE VUKČEVIĆ – Dva srca (Eng: Two Hearts)
- LUKA RADOVIĆ – Kada dođe maj (Eng: When May Comes)
- MILENA VUČIĆ – Škorpija (Eng: Scorpio)
- NEMANJA PETROVIĆ – Među zvijezdama (Eng: Among the stars)
- NEONOEN – Clickbait
- NINA ŽIŽIĆ – Dobro došli (Eng: Welcome)
- TINA DŽANKIĆ – Nova (Eng: New)
- VERICA ČULJKOVIĆ – Čuješ li (Eng: Do You Hear It?)
Among the participants we can recognize Nina Žižić, who represented Montenegro in Eurovision 2013 (together with Who See).
They performed the song “Igranka”:
Katarina Bogićević (Kejt) competed in “Montevizija 2018”, and finished in 2nd place with the song “Nezeljena”:
Milena Vučić competed in “Evropesma 2006” (Serbia and Montenegro’s national selection for Eurovision 2006)
In addition, 3 more songs have been selected as back-up, in case one of the selected 16 won’t be able to participate:
- TAMARA ŽIVKOVIĆ – Poguban let
- HANIBAL – Čuvaj me
- DANIJEL POPOVIĆ – Kano kastigan
The professional committee is composed of representatives of the Radio and Television of Montenegro and the Association of Variety Artists and Performers:
RTCG representatives:
- President of the Commission: Boris Šarančić – editor of the TVCG entertainment program
- Dražen Bauković – journalist and editor of music shows
- Eva Papović – music editor at TVCG
- Ana Petrović – music editor at RCG
UEUI representatives:
- Renata Perazić – musician and author
- Marija Božović – musician and author
- Natalija Pavićević – songwriter
“Montesong 2024” – Known Details
- The national selection will be held on Wednesday the 27th of November 2024.
- The shows will be held at the Voco Hotel in Podgorica
- The national selection results will be based on 50% jury and 50% public voting. The jury will also include an international jury.
- The shortlisted songs will premiere on November 17th.
Danijel Alibabić, who represented the country at Eurovision 2005 (as part of “No Name”) will be the festival director, commented:
“Nobody is invited to specifically participate in Montesong, nor can they be invited to represent Montenegro at the Eurovision, without first being part of the festival. There are no invitations from the Association of Variety Artists and Performers, nor from the RTCG.”
Vladana Vucinic, who represented the country at Eurovision 2022 and now acts as the Creative Director of RTCG, commented:
“By this, we will know if there is a basis for this competition to continue year after year. I hope that the musicians will live up to expectations and that Montesong will become a tradition”
Montenegro recently participated in the contest in 2022.
Over the years, Montenegro has been absent from the contest in several occasions: 2010, 2011, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024.
The country qualified for the final only twice, in 2014 and 2015.
Vladana represented Montenegro at Eurovision 2022 with the song “Breathe”.
She finished in 17th place with 11 points in semi-final 2, failing to qualify for the final.
Eurovision 2025 will be held in Basel, Switzerland on the 13th, 15th and 17th of May 2025
