The second edition of the new national selection for Montenegro, which will take place on December 21, will see fifteen acts compete to represent the country in Eurovision 2026. Today, RTCG and the Eurovision website revealed the names of the artists and the titles of their entries.
The full line-up of 15 entrants
Montesong will “only” have 15 acts, compared to 16 last year, who will all perform in a single show, on December 21. The entries are:
- Andrea Demirović — “I Believe”
- Baryak — “Minerva”
- Dolce Hera — “Casanova 91”
- Đurđa — “Dominos”
- Krstinja Matanović — “Oli Oli”
- Lana Vukčević i Đorđe Savković — “Temperatura”
- Lana Lopičić — “Doline”
- Lara Baltić — “Rhythm Boy”
- Luka Radović — “Pjevaj Vilo”
- Majda Božović — “Ipak Smo Ljudi”
- Mila Nikić — “Kao Varnica”
- Neno Murić — “Ako Čuješ Glas”
- Stefan Vukotić — “Nedekodirana”
- Tamara Živković — “Nova Zora”
- Tina Džankić — “Shadows”
The songs themselves will be released in early December, a few weeks before the show.
More than a third of returning artists
Among these fifteen entrants, five will make a return from Montesong 2024: Baryak (3rd), Đurđa (4th), Tamara Živković (9th), Dolce Hera (14th) and Luka Radović (13th).
The show will also see the return of a Eurovision act from Montenegro, Andrea Demirović, who represented her country in 2009, with “Just Get Out Of My Life”. She finished 11th in the first semi-final, where she performed first in the running order, thus “opening” the Eurovision Song Contest that year.
A second edition for Montesong
Montenegro confirmed its participation in Eurovision 2026 last summer, and the use of its new national selection format, Montesong, which was launched last year for its 2025 return to Eurovision.
The first edition was memorable on more than one level. Held very early in the season (in November 2024), it saw the victory of music band NeonoeN, with “Clickbait”. After their victory, a video emerged of the band performing the song in public in 2023, which led them to withdraw from Eurovision, meaning the runner-up, Nina Žižić ended up going to Basel instead, and caused a small PR crisis for RTCG with the resignation of Montesong’s artistic director, Vladana.
In Basel, with a very difficult position in its semi-final’s running order (#2), Vladana’s entry “Dobrodošli” finished in last place and did not qualify.
What do you thing about this lineup? Is there any entry you are particularly expecting? And with a new selection in late December, will we shift from #Fikmas to #Christmontesong? Tell us more in the comments below or on social media!
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