Tonight we have concluded the first of the Nordic national finals The Melodi Grand Prix. After several weeks of live shows, we know the Norwegian representative for Eurovision 2024 in Malmö, Sweden.
The MGP final was held in Trondheim Spektrum arena. Alessandra Mele opened the show with a spectacular performance of “Queen of Kings”, the last year’s winning song that finished 5th at Eurovision. Nine acts qualifier for the final from three semi-final rounds that took place in January and the running order was decided earlier this week by NRK. The official running order was:
- KEiiNO – “Damdiggida”
- Annprincess – “Save Me”
- Gothminister – “We Come Alive”
- Ingrid Jasmin – “Eya”
- Miia – “Green Lights”
- Margaret Berger – “Oblivion”
- Dag Erik Oksvold and Anne Fagermo – “Judge Tenderly On Me”
- Gåte – “Ulveham”
- Super Rob and Erika Norwich – “My AI”
The Voting Results
Just like last year, artists received points both from national expert juries and televote, where televote gave 60% of total points and juries 40%.
Jury members from 10 countries (United Kingdom, Finland, Switzerland, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Netherlands, Iceland, Czechia, and Sweden) ranked songs and the scoreboard after their votes looked like this.
KEiiNO was in the lead, 22 points ahead of Gåte in second and 40 points ahead of Daf Erik Oksvold & Anne Fagermo in third place. It was hard to predict anything at this stage and everyone anxiously waited for the televote points to drop. In the meantime, we got to enjoy a medley of ex-Eurovision artists. Bobbysocks performed ABBA’s Waterloo (1974), Tix performed Måns’ Heroes (2015), Ulrikke Branstorp performed Loreen’s Euphoria (2012), Alexander Rybak performed Herreys’ Diggi-Loo Diggy-Ley (1984), and Carola performed two of her entries Främling (1983) and Fångad Av En Stormvind (1991).
Finally, the public televote was revealed, starting from the last placed song with the jury vote and working to the jury winner – modeling the Eurovision voting method.
Until the very last moment, the battle between two fan favorites was intense. Both KEiiNO and Gåte waited for the final announcement from the host. Gåte received whooping 174 points from the juries which meant that KEiiNO needed 151 points to win. In the end, KEiiNO received 146 points and finished second.
The winner of MGP 2024 is Gåte who will be headed to Malmö in May to represent Norway in the second semi-final with the song “Ulveham”.
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