Today the Norwegian broadcaster NRK revealed the 10 artists taking part in this year’s Melodi Grand Prix. February 27 will be a busy day, as along with Slovenia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova, Norway will also select their entry on this Super Saturday. The final will be hosted by Silya Nymoen and Kåre Magnus Bergh.

Among the ten competing artists are boyband Suite 16, Norway’s Got Talent winner Stine Hole Ulla and Agnete, who took part in Melodi Grand Prix 2011 with her band The BlackSheeps. Together with the list of artists, NRK also gave us 15-second clips of all the competing songs, which you can listen to here. The full songs are due to be released within the next two weeks.

Melodi Grand Prix 2016 artists

1. Suite 16 with “Anna Lee”

2. Stine Hole Ulla with “Traces”

3. Stage Dolls with “Into The Fire”

4. Elouiz with “History”

5. Freddy Kalas with “Happy Rush”

6. Makeda with “Stand Up”

7. Pegasus with “Anyway”

@pegasusband er med i årets MGP med låta “Anyway” skrevet av Tommy Nilsen og Ronny Nilsen #pegasus #anyway #nrkmgp

Video, jonka Melodi Grand Prix (NRK) (@nrkmgp) julkaisi

8. Laila Samuels with “Afterglow”

9. The Hungry Hearts feat. Lisa Dillan with “Laika”

10. Agnete with “Icebreaker”

Who do you want to see representing Norway in Stockholm? Let us know in the comments!

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Samuel
Samuel
8 years ago

Afterglow sounds amazing.

StianF
StianF
8 years ago

Looking forward to hearing all the songs 🙂 So far its Laila that is my big favorite of the lot – sounds like something really different that will stand out in Eurovision 🙂 Not sure about Agnetes song as her song supposedly has a change in rythm during the song so I am afraid we are having another San Marino 2013 or Serbia 2015 … i dont really like these songs taht change pace midway through the song… Suite 16 sounds fun. I like them from before. I think their work is just as good as anything One Direction has… Read more »

Eric
Eric
8 years ago

good snippets

I like Agnete, Laila, Pegasus, Makeda, Elouiz, and Stage Dolls.

Ashley In Sirens
Ashley In Sirens
8 years ago

Laika and Icebreaker for the win!!!

My top 2 for sure, can’t wait for the full songs 🙂

AndersP
AndersP
8 years ago

Someone must have noticed the obvious double entendre of the lyrics, “don’t come with me, oh come on Anna Lee”. Surely someone is having a laugh.

cheesecake
cheesecake
8 years ago

Laila or Agnete probably.
Seems like a pretty weak NF though.

Delfina
Delfina
8 years ago

I like Makeda the best. Her song reminds me of Destiny’s “Not my Soul.” I approve!

Huh
Huh
8 years ago

I wanna stick to the live versions instead. Thank you.

Bronson
Bronson
8 years ago

I know you can’t really judge from such a small snippet, but last year’s MGP songs seem to be better. On the snippets alone, Agnete is miles ahead of the rest.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

To put it bluntly: gays are good, but islam is bad.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

What I mean is that you need to know that there are problems, but you need to know EXACTLY where they are. If you think that everything is good you will not work, but if you think that everything is bad, you will not work also. Although this second is probably worse.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

It is easy to get lost doing something by force. Finally, somewhere had to take the saying: “jump out of the frying pan and into the fire”.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

I will not develop the theme of violence in this forum, but this problem really exists in reality.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

There are many people in this world for whom everything is good and people for whom everything is bad. I try to break out of this mental companies. Here is a lot of things in life, which are good, but also here are things, which are not good. Probably here is more earlier mentioned things, but here is also at least one big bad thing. It’s about some brutality. I do not like violence.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

Eurovision Song Contest is very big and interesting contest and I will be always a big fan of this occurrence. Please believe me. That’s why I registered here. Let’s start all over again, because it’s time for a great new start.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

Health + wealth + security + good entries and results at the ESC = full prosperity.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

Of course Sweden is also not perfect country overall, but if they can present themselves well in the ESC, so I think Norway also can improve here. It is also important not to spoil what they already have good. The point is not to change one possesion to another, but to fight for it all. Do not change, only add.

mad-professor
mad-professor
8 years ago

From the snippets, probably only Afterglow. What’s happened? Was A Monster Like Me where Norway peaked?

blondboybc
blondboybc
8 years ago

Why is every song in English?? All the other Nordic countries have some or all songs in their native language…no, not Norway. Sad. Why???

EF0912
EF0912
8 years ago

Laila looks so much like Simone from Denmark its unreal.
Anwyays, I like Laila and Agnete but im getting DMGP 2015 vibes this year
though not as bad.
I reserve judgement before the snippets as last year I was just as unimpressed but then ending up prasing the selection immensley so I’m holding out hope.

Comi
Comi
8 years ago

One word: Agnete.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

One more thing to be clear. All previous my comments are NOT my final opinion in 100%. Most important will be stage presentation of performances, BUT it is good to be able to predict what will be good and what will be not good. So now I give very little chance of Norway for success in Stockholm.

Ryan
Ryan
8 years ago

From what I’ve heard I like 1,4,5,7,8 and 10

Calum Macleod
Calum Macleod
8 years ago

“Icebreaker” sounds great! “Ann Lee” sounds very Vamps-like.

Hugh
Hugh
8 years ago

None of them are exciting me so far, but the full songs might change that. I hope. Possibly. Theoretically.

bartosz
bartosz
8 years ago

Laila and Agnete seems to be the best

mocosuburbian
mocosuburbian
8 years ago

this is really not the year for the Nordic countries though
Songvakeppnin, DMGP, and MGP all lacking songs that could qualify
UMK not having anyone that can flat out win the contest
Sweden is hosting so they’re practically out of the race
rough…

mocosuburbian
mocosuburbian
8 years ago

afterglow hands down
that voiceeeeeeee

Ola
Ola
8 years ago

Laila or Agnete. The rest sounds dreadful!
What’s happening with Norway?!

Anis
Anis
8 years ago

aferglow or icebreaker. hands down!!!

Hollandique
Hollandique
8 years ago

Suite 16 or Agnete

Deli
Deli
8 years ago

More room for Mikael Saari/Saara Aalto to slay in Stockholm

Shijie Yu
Shijie Yu
8 years ago

The Hungry Hearts feat. Lisa Dillan with “Laika” !!!! for the win

jr esc nl
jr esc nl
8 years ago

i kinda like suite 16,stine hole,laila,agnete and the hungry hearts xD

Ian
Ian
8 years ago

I have to give credit to Freddy Kalas for having the only EDM song we’ve heard so far that actually sounds like current EDM and not stuff from 5 years ago.
I don’t care about any of these, but if I had to make a bet on any of them, I’d probably bet that Agnete will be winning.

bastian
bastian
8 years ago

Ah, One of my fav esc-nations: Norway 🙂 Although the snippets are extremely short, it gives an idea of the whole song. Last year, i couldn’t wait to hear songs in their full length, this year…im disappointed. They all sound pretty weak to me. For now i only liked Elouiz, Stine Hole Ulla and Makeda.

Kjetil H
Kjetil H
8 years ago

Quite disappointed with our selections this year especially as I got tickets to the NF! Agnete seems like the stand-out pick for me, don’t get the hype for Laila. We’ll see when they release the full songs though

Ben Rafter
Ben Rafter
8 years ago

Very disappointing considering they have had good songs every year since 2005.

sarah
sarah
8 years ago

so we arent in scandinavia in 2017 unless sweden send a killer song

Paul D
Paul D
8 years ago

Laila is incredibly similar with Simone from DMGP, imagine if both win their national finals LOL

Johnny from Portugal
Johnny from Portugal
8 years ago

Laila or Hungry Hearts ,the rest of the songs are terrible lol

Richard Yudistira
Richard Yudistira
8 years ago

What the heck!! It’s the weakest year after 2012 🙁 I can named all my second favourite to win in 2013-2015, but this year no song deserves the trophy except Agnette – Icebreakers. Just send her, and Norway will survive pass the semifinal

Paul D
Paul D
8 years ago

Laila with ”Afterglow” is the standout, but there are others that are very good as well.
Overral very good selection, Norway never disappoints!

Jan
Jan
8 years ago

“Happy Rush”, “Afterglow”, “Laika” and “Icebreaker” are going to be my favourites, I guess 😀

I’m really looking forward to the full version of “Laika”, it sounds so epic xD

Héctor
Héctor
8 years ago

Don’t see any of these making the Top 10… Not much quality.

1. LAILA SAMUELS WITH “AFTERGLOW”
2. SUITE 16 WITH “ANNA LEE” (One Direction, Auryn, Denmark 2015 wannabe)
3. AGNETE WITH “ICEBREAKER”

D
D
8 years ago

After three years of masterpieces, it seems Norway’s run out of good songs. I think only Laila and Agnete have a chance of qualifying, but I do really like Hungry Hearts too, it’s giving me Robyn-vibes.

sarah
sarah
8 years ago

SUITE 16 SUITE 16 SUITE16 AAAAAAHHHH THEIR SOO HOT OMG OMG!!

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

Norway has to cancel Melodi Grand Prix 2016 because none of these songs are presented sufficient quality for ESC. They need completely different quality.

MGR
MGR
8 years ago

Do you feel the situation? Eurovision Song Contest is the biggest music contest on earth with hundreds of millions viewers. And Norway will send for this great event some weak, trivial crap. In this way Norway become similar to Latvia with “Cake To Bake”, “Here We Go” or “Beautiful Song”. Do they really can’t afford one good, polished entry in year?

olivia
olivia
8 years ago

Laila Samuels really stands out! The best by far