After returning to Eurovision following a two-year break, Montenegro haven’t wasted any time in deciding who will represent the nation in Basel next year. During Montesong 2024, the country chose NeonoeN with the song “Cllickbait”.
Montesong was the first national final of the Eurovision 2025 season, and saw 16 acts battling to become the nation’s representative.
Montesong 2024 Results
The final outcome was determined 50% by a professional jury and 50% by votes from the Montenegrin public.
Overall result
- NeonoeN – 20 points
- Nina Žižić – 19 points
- Baryak – 15 points
- Đurđa – 12 points
- Kejt – 9 points
- Milena Vučić – 8 points
- Tina Džankić – 8 points
- Isak Šabanović – 7 points
- Tamara Živković – 6 points
- Glumci bend – 6 points
- Verica Čuljković – 4 points
- Nemanja Petrović – 1 point
- Luka Radović – 1 point
- Anastasija Koprolčec – 0 points
- Bend 9 – 0 points
- Dolce Hera – 0 points
Jury vote
Individual jury members awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points (given in brackets below), which was then converted into an overall 12-1 ranking.
- Nina Žižić – 12 points (59 points)
- NeonoeN – 10 points (54 points)
- Milena Vučić – 8 points (48 points)
- Kejt – 7 points (45 points)
- Tamara Živković – 6 points (39 points)
- Tina Džankić – 5 points (34 points)
- Đurđa – 4 points (26 points)
- Baryak – 3 points (25 points)
- Isak Šabanović – 2 points (24 points)
- Nemanja Petrović – 1 point (18 points)
- Anastasija Koprolčec – 0 points (9 points)
- Dolce Hera – 0 points (8 points)
- Verica Čuljković – 0 points (6 points)
- Luka Radović – 0 points (5 points)
- Glumci bend – 0 points (4 points)
- Bend 9 – 0 points (2 points)
Public vote
- Baryak – 12 points
- NeonoeN – 10 points
- Đurđa – 8 points
- Nina Žižić – 7 points
- Glumci bend – 6 points
- Isak Šabanović – 5 points
- Verica Čuljković – 4 points
- Tina Džankić – 3 points
- Kejt – 2 points
- Luka Radović – 1 point
All other acts received 0 points from the televote.
Montesong 2024 running order
- Anastasija Koprolčec – “Kraj”
- Tina Džankić – “Nova”
- Nemanja Petrović – “Među zvijezdama”
- Bend 9 – “Stop War”
- Tamara Živković – “Poguban let”
- Luka Radović – “Kada dođe maj”
- Đurđa – “To ljubav je”
- Kejt – “Obala raja”
- Nina Žižić – “Dobrodošli”
- NeonoeN – “Clickbait”
- Isak Šabanović – “Ljeto, ljeto, ljeto”
- Glumci bend – “San”
- Dolce Hera – “Repeat”
- Baryak – “Dva srca”
- Verica Čuljković – “Čuješ li”
- Milena Vučić – “Škorpija”
What do you think of Montesong 2024? Do you think Montenegro will make a big impression upon their return to Eurovision? Let us know in the comments.
It reminds me of “we care a lot” by Faith no more. It’s a bit repetitive but not bad.
i think its unique i am glad they send this over boring tamara and nina
Alas, Nina and Tamara will always be ? iconic ?
See you all in Podgorica in 2026!
When a country returns to the contest you always hope they do well so they know it was worth it and hopefully stick around.
Sadly think this is a guaranteed NQ
I hate having to be negative but Nina and Tamara were awesome, the one they chose is clearly much much worse
Another awful year on the making.
Imagine thinking this year will be awful, because we start with one bad entry.
NQ
I only remember Goddess Dolce Hera; what about you?
Can’t say it’s a sure NQ. If they go full on Croatia 2023 in staging, get the right mix of countries in the semi, they could squeak in against in semi-final composed of ballads, generic europop and 3-4 real contenders that get all the 8-12 points.
Croatia 2023 was a way better than this…
Croatia 2023 had a fairly good song and character to start with.
Let’s take a moment to consider how spot on William and Deban were with their initial reactions.
Quite repetitive, sorry
as Montenegro is in general one of my fave countries my personal advice for these guys would be, study and watch Croatia 2023 Mama SC performance, go wackier with the performance is what i would advise, perfect those vocals song wise it is quite basic, but the performance already looked like it has some potential, i rather wish them to be another Mama SC than another Circus Mircus flop one good thing they have going for them is native language, since ethno entries tend to qualify in 100% televote semi system, that and if an entry is a good representation… Read more »
I’m not convinced on this one. Points for putting some effort into the presentation, but this sounds like just another generic rock song. I just don’t see them making it out of the semis.
Not a strong start of the season.
I’m afraid this is not it. I would have loved to see Montenegro qualify for once, but this most likely won’t do.
What a nice surprise. This is the song that made the best first impression on me but I had no idea that it was a contender. A welcome start to the season!
Well, all of the Songs would’ve been a NQ. Montenegro barely qualifies with their chosen entries. We all knew that from the beginning…
The competition would have to be extremely weak for Montenegro to qualify, but again this is only the first entry so far. We have a long way to go before we can make predictions of who’s gonna qualify or not
Grattis to the winners! The song is not bad – it reminds me of Malta 2023 and a David Bowie song put together but in Montenegrin. The most interesting thing imo is the name of the band which is a palindrome. I enjoyed watching the show. The intro looked quality, the 16 performances mostly elevated the studio versions, the staging looked like a lot of effort was put into it, the greenu roomu conversations seemed fun, re la x ed and p rofes sional. I do wonder however about the seemingly low number of vo te s as read elsewhere… Read more »
David Bowie never had such a bad song lol
At least one is already out of the finals, who ever gets it in the semi is lucky.
Cyprus still the best entry so far by a long mile
Theo Evan way more talented than these losers
The two eyes two different colours thing, they could do something clever with that concept for the The Festival performance and staging.
My winner was “Repeat”, the song is really good and performance was so cheeky I just loved it.
your taste is awful confirmed LOL
i don’t even know which gibberish language they sing in lmao
I like it!
me too
NQ
Sorry Montenegro, zero point
Y’all sheeting on this song, but it’s currently my winner of ESC 2025 <3
It’s the only song out right now, so of course it is your number one ?
no, not for me, i won’t do any rankings until we are 11 songs in, so i don’t have to rank these ugly loser talentless trolls
welcome to the joke!
I did get the joke. the question mark was supposed to be this emoji ?
😉
Now that the season has officially started, I have to ask this question… When will they announce the official participating countries list? If I remember well, they usually do it in the second half of October or at the very beginning of November, right? It’s November 28th… I hope it’s because some countries are currently in discussion with EBU for a possible participation (North Macedonia, Romania, perhaps even Monaco according to some media).
Maybe there will be a surprise…
Montenegro 3/12
It can only get better…. hopefully…
Again a bit of Rammstein, I like it but I’m not overwhelmed by it, anyway good luck.
Last place NQ incoming lmao
can even see this getting 0 points either LOL LOL LOL
I don’t like the winning song. There were much better songs
first non-returning country! God this is awful…
I hope the reason Montenegro has selected their song so early is because they plan to spend the next few months revamping the winner, because my god this definitely needs it
Typical Eurovision Trash. The song has no melody and is very repetitive.
member of team baryak is very sad now.
I think the main issue with this national final is extremely low viewing of the show. In comparison, the winner of Serbia’s national final in 2018 had 12k votes, while here the winner didn’t even have 500 votes. Most regular people didn’t even watch the show and I think including international jury was a huge mistake.
This is a bad choice. Yes, the live performance is good, but damn the song is flat, it literally doesn’t have any impact on me while listening to it. I don’t think this will qualify, and I did say Mama SC and No Rules would qualify at Eurovision in comparison. This is much like Bulgaria/Georgia 2022.
Not me sitting back, sipping tea and watching chaos unfold.
I am aware that Montenegro is a small country. I am aware that ESC is not very popular there. But the fact that the public winner had less than 500 votes just stuns me! The worst song of the evening (performed by the bend Glumci) was 5th in televote just Because friends and family from 6 members voted for them. Baryak and Neon got first and second place just because they were groups and not solo artists. This just does not feel fair or OK to me.
IMO not great, not terrible – but I’m glad Montesong ended with surprising final, I’m not a big fan of Dobrodosli
Don”t get the hate. For me it wasthe clear stand out among a sea of bland ballads and over the top dramatic performances.
Fun, energetic, loud. The only song I remember from this selection, I can barely hum the others
they deserve lots of hate honestly
and they deserve to get boo’d at the pre-parties
Why bother returning with another NQ song?
My poor Baryak is robbed ;_;
Hell yeah! I’m happy my favorite one. Starting the Eurovision NF season on the right foot. Well done, Montenegro! 😀
We have our first song for eurovision 2025 ladies and gentlemen.
Don’t forget the NBs! 🙂
I don’t get the negativity. For me it was a clear stand out among a sea of bland ballads and over dramatic perfomances. It was different. Fun. Energetic. Woke me up for sure. Probably the only song I will remember from this selection whereas I struggle to even hum the rest.
The best choice was made, good luck!
People in this fandom always throw a fit whenever their favorite national final song doesn’t win.
If they wanted something energetic they should have picked Baryak or Isak
Well, to be fair, Baryak did win the televote, but they and the jury favorite Nina were cancelled out by lower scores in the other category, and Clickbait was the runner up for both Jury and Televote, so their combined score, 20 points, was the highest. Isak, though, as much as I liked his song, his performance was a flop because he was stiff with minimal charisma.
Clickbait is so good
Happy my favorite won the televote, but disappointed with the 2025 national season kicking off with a non-proportional point conversion system… ugh! We need to get rid of these!
We found our winner already for 2025. Podgorica 2026. Well done Montenegro.
Cancel all upcoming national finals so. It’s over.
Škorpija !!! was amazing on stage…. It was almost at hand to win and the juries choose this.. omg.. why
Actually, televote gave Skorpija 0 points
Oh it’s the opposite I mean the juries did good job then but public was interesting choice
It definitely embraced the camp.