Report Card: Montenegro at Eurovision in the 2020s

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With five Eurovision Song Contests completed this decade, how is each nation faring?

In an ongoing series, the Aussievision team will rate the performance of each Eurovision nation in alphabetical order.

We’ll look back at their results from 2021 to 2025, their qualification record, give our team’s rating, and see how they stack up against other countries.

Montenegro's Eurovision results of the 2020s

2022: Vladana - Breathe: 17th in Semi-Final (Did not qualify)
2025: Nina Žižić – Dobrodošli: 16th in Semi-Final (Did not qualify)

Top 10s: 0%
Qualifications: 0%

Team rating of Montenegro: 18.2%

We asked the Aussievision team to rate Montenegro Eurovision 2020s entries on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

This gave us an average overall score from the eight contributors who voted. We then converted that into a percentage.

Montenegro's score was: 18.2%.

The scores ranged from a 1/10 to a 4/10, with seven members rating 1/10.

Team comments

"Ooof I hate to give a low score to Montenegro. Look, that national final last year .... I am not going to lie - I loved it. So many of those artists had a vision on what they wanted to do and there was some quality. But the winner? that was a shock. It is clear to me its either ballads or rock in Montenegro maybe it is time they need to send maybe a decent rock song! Or just send Knez again." ~ Hayley

"Yep you cant think of a worst start to a decade than Montenegro. I know they are a small country but artists from there have contributed to top ten placings by Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro in the past, so they are capable of doing well. I think break glass option in this case would be to get Željko Joksimović to write them another beautiful ballad. I want Montenegro to stay in the contest so fingers crossed they can turn it around." ~ Sam

"I’m really loathe to give Montenegro a 1, but things could not have gone worse for them, finishing 16th and 17th in their semis. It’s such a shame, because I feel like I was the only person in the world who actually enjoyed Nina Žižić’s Dobrodošli this year." ~ Joel

"Highly talented folk sent with the wrong songs. Consistently. Rather than attempts to subvert what Eurovision is with their entries like some other nations, I feel they just misunderstand what ESC has become." ~ Troy

Updated rankings:

Here’s how the leaderboard looks so far in our 2020s Report Card series:

1st: Italy - 90.7%

2nd: Finland - 88.1%

3rd: France 81.1%

4th: Greece - 80.8%

5th: Estonia - 80%

6th: Lithuania - 77.2%

7th: Austria - 71.4%

8th: Armenia - 70.8%

9th: Luxembourg - 68%

10th: Albania - 67.5%

11th: Cyprus - 66.4%

12th: Croatia - 64.4%

13th: Moldova - 63.7

14th=: Belgium - 53.3%

14th=: Czechia - 53.3%

14th=: Iceland - 53.3%

17th: Malta - 53%

18th: Latvia - 50%

19th: Australia - 45.4%

20th: Germany - 41%

21st: Azerbaijan - 32.5%

22nd: Ireland - 32%

23rd: Denmark - 28%

24th: Georgia - 26.1%

25th: Montenegro - 18.2%

Montenegro is the lowest result so far.

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