Montenegro participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel with the song "Heaven" performed by D mol. The group won the national final Montevizija 2019, where they were credited as D-Moll. The spelling of their name was later changed to D mol. Background Prior to the 2019 contest, Montenegro had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest as an independent nation ten times since its first entry in its own right in . The nation's best placing in the contest was thirteenth, which they achieved in 2015 with the song "" performed by Knez. In , Montenegro qualified to the final for the first time since they began participating and have since featured in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest two times up to this point. The nation briefly withdrew from the competition between 2010 and 2011 citing financial difficulties as the reason for their absence. In 2007 and 2008, the Montenegrin entry was selected via the national final MontenegroSong. Since 2009, the broadcaster had opted to internally select both the artist and song that would represent Montenegro. For the selection of the 2018 entry, RTCG, the national broadcaster, opted to return to a national final format. In 2018, Montenegro failed to qualify to the final, placing 16th in the second semi-final with the song "" performed by Vanja Radovanović. Before Eurovision Montevizija 2019 Montevizija 2019 was the national final organised by RTCG in order to select Montenegro's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. Five entries competed in a televised final on 9 February 2019, which was held at the RTCG studios in Podgorica and hosted by Ajda Šufta and Ivan Maksimović. The show was televised on TVCG 1, TVCG SAT and RTCG HD as well as broadcast online via the broadcaster's website rtcg.me. Competing entries Artists and songwriters were able to submit their entries between 28 October 2018 and 28 November 2018. Songwriters of any nationality were allowed to submit entries, but songs were required to be either in Montenegrin or English. At the closing of the deadline, RTCG received 27 entries. A selection jury consisting of composer Slaven Knezović, singer Vladimir Maraš, music and singing teacher Aleksandra Vojvodić Jovović, composer Slobodan Bučevac and producer, composer and arranger Mihailo Radonjić evaluated and marked the received submissions against a number of criteria: up to 50 points for composition, up to 30 points for lyrics and up