The 18 artists competing in Melodi Grand Prix 2024 — Norway’s national selection for Eurovision — will be revealed on Friday 5 January.
And you can rest assured when we say it’s going to be a star-studded lineup with some juicy surprises. Just ask Stig Karlsen, the brain behind the show, which will have three semi-finals on 13, 20, and 27 January.
“We are very excited about the line-up in MGP,” he said in a statement. “We can promise a very high level of artists and songs. There will be big and well-known artists, there will be new shooting stars, a wide selection of genres and expressions.”
”We have the songs that can assert themselves strongly in Europe and the world. And who knows, maybe 2024 will be the year when Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest again!”
The semi-finals will take place in Oslo, at the NRK studio in Marienlyst. Six acts will compete and three will advance to the final.
The final will get a major upgrade from the semis. It will unfold in the 8,500 capacity Spektrum arena in Trondheim. It takes at least 6h40 to reach Trondheim by train from Oslo.
Melodi Grand Prix 2024 dates
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Artist Presentation: Friday 5 January
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Semi-final 1: Saturday 13 January
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Semi-final 2: Saturday 20 January
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Semi-final 3: Saturday 27 January
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Grand Final: Saturday 3 February
You can watch Alessandra winning last year’s final — and inside the Spektrum — below.
I’m praying for KEiiNO & Kristin Husøy!
winter is…no!
keiino is coming.
😀
It’d be interesting if Kudos, Golfklubb, Bausa and other chart toppers tried MGP out
Dagny? Sigrid? Astrid? Emma?
Stig Karlsen frightens me.
Any update on the backing vocals rule for 2024? EBU should revert to normal course now, the Covid excuse is dead.
Also I will not be surprised if EBU announce a reduced jury percentage for next year, perhaps 80/20 in favour of the public vote. For this I will blame Stig.
For Jury/Public vote change we can only blame Juries themselves, by giving massive votes to acts that have clearly had not as high interest with the public.
For example: Sweden 2018 was 2nd with juries, while public voted them 23rd. Azerbaijan 2022 getting zero points from public, but advancing still to the final because of juries.
They are extreme examples. In any case, a split in opinion is the whole point. Juries should NOT be considering what is popular with the public. They judge on quality, not popularity. It is the whole reason for their existence.
Agreed, provided the jury does its job and votes for quality. But were Sweden 2018 or Azerbaijan 2022 objectively good quality songs? Quality should be independent of the genre and language of the song, but juries tend to favor mainstream songs in English.
If it is true that the EBU instructs jurors to consider staging, and vocals, then I can understand those results. Sweden had strong staging in 2018, Azerbaijan had strong vocals in 2022. Jurors marked accordingly. Same with Loreen this year. She had powerful vocals, and powerful staging. I can see why they put Sweden first. Finland had wonderful staging… but not-great vocals. Plus an overreliance on pre-recorded cha cha cha’s for the chorus. It is perfectly understandable why this would be scored down. The best thing the EBU can do is to tell the jury to focus on song only.… Read more »
One cannot decide what is a quality music if a jury panel of 5 members represent only Pop genre though.
Reform is needed, I can’t deny that. More diverse and larger juries. An unequivocal instruction from the EBU to judge SUBJECTIVELY, not OBJECTIVEY. Which is what I think leads to some surprise results. No need to care about the quality of vocals if the song is terrible. Or to deduct marks from a great song because the singer missed a note.
There seems to be these extreme examples every now and then:
Finland 2010 (Semifinal)
-> Public 6th – Jury 15th
Sweden 2013 (Grand Final)
-> Public 18th – Jury 3rd
Poland 2016 (Grand Final)
-> Public 3rd – Jury 25th
Denmark 2018 (Grand Final)
-> Public 5th – Jury 20th
Norway 2019 (Grand Final)
-> Public 1st – Jury 18th
Denmark 2021 (Semifinal)
-> Public 7th – Jury 15th
For years juries have pushed down artists that don’t perform mainstream pop in English, or songs that don’t seem the usual radio-ready songs. Salvador Sobral was right.
But juries voted extremely generically and have done so for several years. By far if we had had only televoting we would have had way more diverse winners instead of mostly english language pop songs/ballads.
So you would have been OK with say Croatia getting zero points from juries in semi but still advancing?
I never said that juries have to be all gone? I prefer juries having less impact 40/60 for example would be better and that they’d be formed from a larger group, consisting people from different backgrounds.
The Maltese contingent should lobby for 0/100 jury percentage in the semis
Keep downplaying juries like this and some countries will not return to ESC. Italy and Austria for instance only came back thanks to juries. Lets see if they are interested in competing with reduced juries.
Besides if the audience have an overweight over juries fäyhen why even bother keeping juries? It is pointless if they do not Wright equal
Kristin Husøy for MGP, please!! If she was in it and won, I might watch “SWEurovision 2024”.
You’re really going to skip next year’s contest?
9.99 out of 10 that I shall skip it.
I hope you reconsider.
If Kristin is not in and/or not winning I shall remind myself of what you said and think of an *out of this world* reason to watch “SWEurovision 2024”.
You should watch. If not as an endorsement of the EBU, then strictly for “monitoring” purposes. An independent observer.
Oh, wow, you’re so edgy!
She hasn’t released anything since MGP 2020
THUNDERANDGLORIAPOINTTWO!
big and well known artists lmao, big artists don’t do eurovision
Please no Keeino!! People like them because they was the public favorite in 2019, but Duncan was WAY better. We cant have same singers every single year
Serious question because I’m honestly curious—for those who live in Norway—are KEEINO popular outside of MGP? Like are they actually played on the radio or fill arenas in Norway? Or are they just a “talent show/television” act that the Eurovision community loves but they are not that popular for everyday Norwegians.
They’re not popular at all out of that bubble in Norway
They’re not really that popular outside of the Eurovision/MGP bubble. Their only charted songs are the ones from MGP. They have some sort of fan base, I guess, but they’re far from being the biggest artists we have such as Sigrid, Aurora, Astrid etc. Keiino might fill clubs, theatre stages and various local stages around the country, but not arenas.
But for Loreen it’s ok but for Keiino no?
I love the double standard of the eurofans!
Comeback of Agnete , KEEINO ? I’m so exciting because I love MGP, very good & strong selection !
Why is EVERYBODY so obsessed with Keeino? Their songs are not like masterpieces or something
What you’re saying may be true but people still have the right to like something.
Jealous !!!!
When everybody was excited for Loreen returning, did you say the same?