Good evening Podgorica! The Eurovision 2025 train has finally departed from the capital of Montenegro. It will stop in all 38 participating countries and finally halt in Basel, Switzerland. Eurovision fans can rejoice: we have the very first entry this season. The band NeonoeN won Montesong 2024 and will represent Montenegro at Eurovision 2025 with the entry Clickbait.

Montesong 2024

A total of 16 acts were competing tonight hoping to represent Montenegro at Eurovision 2025. The show took place at Voco Hall in Podgorica and was broadcasted on RTCG 1. The Montenegrin Eurovision entry and act was determined via 50/50 expert jury-public voting deliberation. On top on tonight’s varied choice of performances, the audience was delighted to see on stage two former representatives: Sergej Ćetković (Eurovision 2014) and Danijel Popović (Yougoslavia, Eurovision 1984).

The event was directed by Danijel Alibabić, who went to Eurovision in 2005 as part of the band No Name, representing Serbia and Montenegro. Co-hosts of the show were Marko Todorović and former Eurovision entrant Vladana Vučinić (Eurovision, 2022).

Montenegro is gearing up for a great Eurovision comeback after two years of absence. Their last participation was in Turin in 2022.

Tonight’s line-up

1. Anastasija Koprolčec – Kraj
2. Tina Džankić – Nova
3. Nemanja Petrović – Među svijezdama
4. Band 9 – Stop war
5. Tamara Živković – Poguban let
6. Luka Radović – Kada dođe maj
7. Đurđa – To ljubav je
8. Kejt – Obala raja
9. Nina Žižić – Dobrodošli
10. NeonoeN – Clickbait
11. Isak Šabanović – Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto 
12. Glumci bend – San
13. Dolce Hera – Repeat
14. Baryak – Dva srca
15. Verica Čuljković – Čuješ li
16. Milena Vučić – Škorpija

We have a winner!

While televoters were casting their preferences, the co-hosts announced a series of prizes. The interval act was ensured by Sergej Ćetković and his iconic Moj svijet, the first Montenegrin song to perform in a Eurovision Grand Final, as well as by former Eurovision winner Emmelie de Forest (Denmark, Eurovision 2013) with Only teardrops, who was also part of the expert jury.

The winner was proclaimed at the end of an exciting voting sequence. Nina Žižić with the entry Dobrodošli won the jury vote with 59 points, but the televote was yet to come. The 59 points were transformed into the douze points from the jury.

Finally, the band NeonoeN created the surprise getting 10 points also from the televote and topping the final ranking with 20 points. The act will receive the honour of representing the Balkan country at Eurovision 2025 in Basel, Switzerland.

Montenegro in Eurovision

Montenegro debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 with Stefan Faddy and is yet to win the competition. The country achieved its best results in the contest in 2015 with Knez‘s Balkan ballad Adio who placed 13th in the Grand Final of Vienna with 44 points.

The former Yugoslav republic has only made it to the Eurovision Grand Final on two occasions, namely in 2014 and 2015. The Balkan country has competed in Europe’s favourite television show 12 times.

In 2022 Vladana represented Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy with her entry Breathe but failed to reach the Grand Final.