Norway: Melodi Grand Prix 2024 dates, venues and timeline confirmed

Norway: Melodi Grand Prix 2024 dates, venues and timeline confirmed
Tuesday, 07 November 2023

  • The Norwegian broadcaster, NRK, has shed light on the Melodi Grand Prix 2024 details regarding the dates, venues and formula of the competition. 

    The Norwegian national selection for Eurovision 2024, Melodi Grand Prix, will unfold over three semi-final shows and a grand final night. The first semi-final will hit the screen on January 13, 2024 live from Oslo while the Grand final is set for February 3 at the Trondheim Spektrum in Trondheim.

    A total of 18 artists will take part  in the selection that will unwind over four weeks. Six acts will competing in each semi-final with 3 qualifying spots leading to the Grand final. Melodi Grand Prix 2024 schedule look like following: 

    • 13/01/2024 - MGP 2024 Semifinal 1
    • 20/01/2024 - MGP 2024 Semifinal 2
    • 27/01/2024 - MGP 2024 Semifinal 3
    • 03/02/2024- MGP 2024 Grand Final

    Via a special press conference on 05 January in Oslo NRK will  officially announce the eighteen MGP 2024 competing acts.Tickets for MGP 2024 are scheduled to go to on sale on 16 November 2023.

     

    Norway in Eurovision 

    Norway has been taking part in the Eurovision Song contest since 1960 and has won the contest three times, in 1985, 1995 and 2009. However the country has marked some records , as it has finished in the last place most times than any other country, finishing in the last placing on the scoreboard 11 times. A total of four times it has received zero points, while in 2009 victory it received the remarkable number 16 sets of 12 points and was voted by every single country, reaching the impressive winning score of 387 points! Norway hasn’t qualified two times in the final the last decade, in 2011 with Stella Mwangi and in 2016 with Agnete

    In 2021 TIX was crowned winner in the national final with his song 'Fallen Angel' which he performed on Rotterdam Ahoy's stage achieving to qualify to the grand final, where he finished 18th. In 2022, Subwoolfer were crowned winners of Melodi Grand Pirx 2022 with the song 'Give that wold a banana' and flew the flag in Turin where they achieved to finish 10th with 182 points in the overall score. 

    Alessandra won Melodi Grand Prix 2023 with “Queen of Kings”. She achieved an honorable 5th place for Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, scoring 268 points.

     

    New Source:  NRK

    Image: EBU/ Chloe Hashemi

     

     

     

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