MontenegroSong 2007 was the national final organised by RTCG in order to select Montenegro’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. Ten entries competed in a televised final on 25 February 2007, which was held at the RTCG studios in Podgorica and hosted by Dražen Bauković and Olivera Simunović. The show was televised on TVCG 1 as well as broadcast online via the broadcaster’s website rtcg.org.

Competing entries

Artists and songwriters were able to submit their entries between 13 January 2007 and 9 February 2007. All artists and composers were required to have Montenegrin nationality or citizenship to be eligible to submit entries and songs were required to be in the Montenegrin language. At the closing of the deadline, RTCG received 16 entries. A selection jury consisting of KIC „Budo Tomović“ music editor Maja Popović, composer Slobodan Kovačević and RTCG music editor Vesna Ivanović evaluated the received submissions and selected ten entries for the national final.[3][4] The selected artists and songs were announced on 14 and 17 February 2007, respectively. The running order draw for the competing entries took place on 18 February 2007.

Final

The final took place on 25 February 2007. „‚Ajde, kroči“ performed by Stevan Faddy was selected as the winner entirely by public televoting. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the show featured guest performances by 2007 Belarusian Eurovision entrant Dmitry Koldun, 2005 Serbian and Montenegrin Eurovision entrants No Name and 2007 Slovenian Eurovision entrant Alenka Gotar.

Stevan Faddy previously came 4th in the 2005 Serbia & Montenegro Final & equal 3rd in 2006. At the ESC Semi-Final he was equal 22nd. Amongst his backing group was Marko Peric who represented Serbia & Montenegro in ESC 2005 in the group No Name.