Another day another poll here at ESCUnited, and it’s time for us to head back to Norway’s Melodi Grand Prix for the final semi-final! This weekend we will see the last batch of artists compete for the covered ticket to the delfinale, and remain in the competition to represent Norway at Eurovision 2024. So far our readers have correctly guessed …
Another Saturday night, means that we’ve had another amount of shows going on around in Europe, and one of them took place in Norway as well. Melodi Grand Prix continued tonight with another 6 acts competing for the 3 spots into the final, so let’s see what happened. Melodi Grand Prix 2024 – Semi-final 2 The format of Melodi Grand …
Norway is helping to keep January exciting with its current national music competition, the Melodi Grand Prix 2024, being in full swing. During this time, we have had the opportunity to chat with a couple of the artists. Our conversation of the day featured Dag Erik Oksvold and Anne Fagermo. Throughout this interview, we delved into their beginnings in the …
We are happily back again with our second interview from this year’s MGP. Thomas Jenssen, who you can see in the third heat of Melodi Grand Prix 2024, took his time to answer some of our questions. Today, we discussed his lifelong dream of competing in MGP, his homage to the local drag community, and what we can expect to …
The season of the national finals is amongst us and the always-early country of Norway is currently having its Melodi Grand Prix 2024 semi-finals. Thankfully, we have had the pleasure of speaking to some of the artists competing in the upcoming weeks. In this interview, we speak with Benedicte Adrian about teaming up with Andreas Odden, how much the Melodi …
In just two days time the first semi-final of the Norwegian Eurovision selection Melodi Grand Prix will be well underway, with only three of the six acts moving on to the grand final on February 3rd. The list of artists competing in Saturday’s semi-final show were revealed on January 5th to be: Mathilde SPZ ft. Chris Archer & Slam Dunk …
It’s been one month now, since Loreen managed to become the second ever artist, to ever win the competition twice, as well as tying Sweden as the most succesful country in the contest, with Ireland. However, as most might even recall, she didn’t quite convince the televote and yesterday, the debate continued, but this time, it happened within a broadcaster. …
As is tradition, NRK has officially opened the submission period for Melodi Grand Prix 2024 entries about a month after the close of Eurovision 2023. And this year NRK will introduce a new change to the rules of MGP. This rule change will allow songs to be considered for the Norwegian national final even if they have been publicly released …
Alessandra, the Norwegian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has today released the Italian version of her entry ‘Queen of Kings’. The release is seen as a signal to her Italian heritage. Alessandra states: ‘I can finally release Queen of Kings in Italian! It was a really fun challenge to translate the song, and I actually had to call …
Each year prior to the Eurovision Song Contest, the Norwegian broadcaster NRK organizes “Adresse” to review the competing entries over four, one-hour televised shows. The show features a jury panel, celebrity guest, and public jury who each critique the entries, and then cast their points for that entry. The process is then repeated for the next 8-9 entries, and at …
