{"id":321214,"date":"2026-02-28T04:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:19:15","slug":"your-preview-for-norways-melodi-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321214\/","title":{"rendered":"Your preview for Norway’s ‘Melodi Grand Prix’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norway selects for Vienna on Saturday night<\/p>\n

HOW TO WATCH: Melodi Grand Prix starts at 19:45 on Saturday 28 February. Broadcaster NRK will be streaming the show on their website<\/a>, which will be open for international viewers to watch, too.<\/p>\n

\"Celina<\/p>\n

We’re off to H\u00e5kons Hall in Lillehammer (the same venue that hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2004!) on Saturday night, as Markus Neby, Marte Stokstad and Ronny Brede Aase guide us through the 2026 edition of Norway’s long-running Eurovision pre-selection Melodi Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Nine artists have been selected to take part in MGP 2026, including one performer who has won the Eurovision Song Contest before – Moscow 2009 champion Alexander Rybak.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Ahead of Saturday night’s selection, you can already listen to all nine songs on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the running order for Melodi Grand Prix 2026:<\/p>\n

Skrellex \u2013 Into the Wild<\/a>Hedda Mae \u2013 Snap Back<\/a>STORM \u2013 Lullaby<\/a>Mileo \u2013 Frankenstein<\/a>Silke \u2013 Forevermore<\/a>Alexander Rybak \u2013 Rise<\/a>emma \u2013 Northern Lights<\/a>Leonardo Amor \u2013 Prayer<\/a>JONAS LOVV \u2013 Ya Ya Ya<\/a>\"Kyle<\/p>\n

The winner of Melodi Grand Prix 2025 was the song Lighter performed by Kyle Alessandro.<\/p>\n

At the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Kyle’s fiery performance took Norway to the Grand Final, where Lighter finished in 18th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway selects for Vienna on Saturday night HOW TO WATCH: Melodi Grand Prix starts at 19:45 on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-321214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321214","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=321214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}