DR has revealed the eight acts and songs that will be competing in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026.
The Danish broadcaster DR has announced the names of the eight acts that will compete in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026.
The acts of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026 are as follows:
Emil Otto – “Copenhagen Noir”
Ericka Jane – “Death Of Me”
Lasse Skriver – “Roaring Heart”
Late Runner – “Can U Feel It?”
Myrkur – “Touch My Love And Die”
Sander Sanchez – “Two Spirits”
Sissal – “Infinity”
Søren Torpegaard Lund – “Før vi går hjem” (Before we go home)
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026 Participants. Image source: Pressefoto / DR
DR’s music strategy for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026 is to find eight songs that sound like the perfect Dansk Melodi Grand Prix/Eurovision songs for 2026. The artists were selected first and the performances have been built around them. DR has aims for each performance to be a complete package; artist, song and staging.
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2026 will take place in Frederikshavn on February 14.
Sissal represented Denmark at Eurovision 2025 with “Hallucination”, bringing Denmark to the final for the first time since 2019. In the final, she finished in 23rd place with 47 points.
Image source: Alma Bengtsson / EBU | Source: DR
Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest+
Denmark debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 alongside Austria and the United Kingdom. To date, Denmark has won the contest on three occasions, the first being in 1963 when Grethe & Jorgen Ingmann performed “Dansevise”. Denmark won the contest again in 2000, represented by the Olsen Brothers. Their most recent victory came in 2013, when Emmelie de Forest performed “Only Teardrops”.