Montenegro’s national broadcaster RTCG has confirmed that Highway, the X Factor-alumni boyband chosen to represent the country, will finally have their Eurovision entry premiered on March 4th. Highway were one of the first artists selected to fly their country’s flag at the contest in Stockholm this May, but as a result of this announcements they will be one of the …
Montenegro: Bojan Jovović Joins Highway
Highway, the trio representing Montenegro in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest have now became a quartet. The band have now been joined by former Eurovision Song Contest singer Bojan Jovović, who represented Serbia & Montenegro in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, and should have represented the former nation in the 2006 contest after winning the national final, only later for the …
Montenegro’s Highway release new song and video
While there has been little news since the announcement of Highway as the 2016 Montenegrin performers, the band have clearly been busy behind the scenes. Today, the former X Factor three-piece released a video for their new song “Sam”, which sees the band change through various outfits while performing in caverns. You can watch the new video from Highway below; …
JESC: Montenegrin Song “Oluja” Revealed
After a delay of two days, the Montenegrin song has finally been revealed. It was announced that the song would be revealed on Friday, although the big reveal was delayed by two day and was in fact, revealed today. The song, “Oluja”, which will be performed by Jana Mirković in Sofia on the 21st of November in the 2015 Junior Eurovision Song …
ESC United Podcast: Montenegro picks the act, Italy and the UK take Eurovision seriously and should we change the Point System
The Eurovision season is slowly picking up so it’s time to start with our first Podcast of the 2016 season. Over the next months, Matt and Adam are going to discuss anything Eurovision and share their thoughs and ideas. This time it’s only going to be the two of them but they’ll have special guests going forward to bring in …
Highway to represent Montenegro
Highway, a three-piece boyband who found fame during the second series of The X Factor Adria, finishing fourth, will represent Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, it has emerged. Despite rumours of a Montenegrin walkout over the jury scandal in Vienna, RTCG has confirmed that Highway will succeed Knez as the Montenegrin performers. They become the second confirmed performers …
Knez (Montenegro): “I want to dedicate my performance to [my father]”
Knez (Montenegro) is a well-established artist and it shows in his first rehearsal of “Adio.” This has classic Željko written all over it. He and his team of backup singers have great vocals and well-polished staging. Many are saying this may be Željko’s weakest work, but we shall see if Knez’s strong performance can keep the Željko qualification streak alive. …
LIVE COVERAGE: Rehearsal Day 3
Day 3 is here and after a fun night of watching some of the artists and backing singers at the U4 Diskothek perform, we are LIVE from the press centre at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna. The weather is a bit wet today, but that won’t stop us from providing you with up-to-date coverage. The first rehearsals for Semi-Final 1 are complete …
OGAE: Andorra, Malta, Romania and Montenegro
Another day, another step closer to Eurovision and another four sets of votes from the OGAE International network. Let’s see how today’s votes will affect the standings, including those from the dearly missed Andorra. Andorra 12 Sweden 10 Slovenia 8 Estonia 7 Italy 6 Australia 5 Norway 4 Spain 3 Russia 2 Israel 1 Germany Malta 12 Italy 10 Sweden …
Knez (Montenegro) introduces his team
Adio (Eurovision 2015 – Montenegro) As previously reported, Knez is going to represent Montenegro at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. His song Adio, penned by Eurovision veteran Zeljko Joksimovich, is a beautiful Balkan song and one of the few countries that are not in English. Now they have revealed the team that is going to join the popular singer …