Montenegro in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
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Montenegro participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Zauvijek volim te" written by Grigor Koprov and Ognen Nedelkovski. The song was performed by Stefan Filipović. The Montenegrin broadcaster Radio i televizija Crne Gore (RTCG) organised the national final MontenegroSong 2008 in order to select the Montenegrin representative for the 2008 contest in Belgrade, Serbia. Six artists competed in the national final on 27 January 2008 where public televoting selected Stefan Filipović as the winner with 3,325 votes. His song, "Zauvijek volim te", was internally selected and presented to the public in a television special on 8 March 2008.
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Country | Montenegro | |||
National selection | ||||
Selection process | Artist: MontenegroSong 2008 Song: Internal selection | |||
Selection date(s) | Artist: 27 January 2008 Song: 8 March 2008 | |||
Selected entrant | Stefan Filipović | |||
Selected song | "Zauvijek volim te" | |||
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Finals performance | ||||
Semi-final result | Failed to qualify (14th) | |||
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Montenegro was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 20 May 2008. Performing as the opening entry for the show in position 1, "Zauvijek volim te" was not announced among the 10 qualifying entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Montenegro placed fourteenth out of the 19 participating countries in the semi-final with 23 points.