{"id":264315,"date":"2026-01-26T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264315\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:08:06","slug":"listen-to-the-songs-for-melodi-grand-prix-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264315\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the songs for Melodi Grand Prix 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the songs for Melodi Grand Prix 2026<\/a> have been released on streaming platforms and YouTube. MGP 2026 will select the Norwegian artist and song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna.<\/p>\n

Nine acts will compete in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix on 28 February. Eight of the artists were revealed<\/a> two weeks ago, and the last artist will be decided tomorrow (Tuesday) at around 10:15 CET, when we have the result from the Final of MGP Cup 2026<\/a>. Skrellex and Raylee are fighting for the ninth spot in Melodi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Melodi Grand Prix 2026LineupMelodi Grand Prix 2026 <\/a><\/p>\n

Melodi Grand Prix 2026<\/a> takes place on Saturday 28 February 2026. H\u00e5kons Hall in Lillehammer is the venue and the hosts are Marte Stokstad, Markus Neby and Ronny Brede Aase.<\/p>\n

Melodi Grand Prix 2026All about Melodi Grand Prix 2026<\/a>Norway in Eurovision <\/a>Norway 1995: Secret Garden – “Nocturne”<\/p>\n

Since their debut in 1960, Norway has participated in Eurovision 63 times. They have won the competition three times:<\/p>\n

Norway 1995: Secret Garden – “Nocturne”<\/p>\n

In 2009<\/a>, Alexander Rybak’s Fairytale<\/a> received the most points ever in the old voting system: 387 points \u2013 getting 12 points from 16 countries. However, Norway holds another Eurovision record together with Finland; the country that has finished last<\/a> the most times \u2013 10 last place finishes!<\/p>\n

Since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004, Norway has been very successful; qualifying for the Grand Final 18 out of 21 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the songs for Melodi Grand Prix 2026 have been released on streaming platforms and YouTube. MGP 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,21295,17948,61,60,130330,119444,298,130331,282,21299],"class_list":{"0":"post-264315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-esc","10":"tag-eurovision","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mgp","14":"tag-national-selections","15":"tag-norway","16":"tag-nrk","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-vienna-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}