{"id":381635,"date":"2026-01-21T05:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:01:15","slug":"today-%f0%9f%87%b3%f0%9f%87%b4-melodi-grand-prix-duels-%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%ae-umk-2026-song-six-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381635\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 Melodi Grand Prix Duels &#038; \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee UMK 2026 Song Six Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wildcard duels are underway for Melodi Grand Prix 2026, while UMK 2026 continues to reveal the competing songs. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 Norway \u2013 Melodi Grand Prix 2026 \u2013 Wildcard Duels \u2013 08:00 CET<\/p>\n<p>The results of the first duel in Melodi Grand Prix 2026 will be revealed this morning, while the second round of voting will open.<\/p>\n<p>The duels for the wildcard in Melodi Grand Prix 2026 are underway, with voting closing for the first duel at 10:00 CET. The two acts who are competing in the first duel are Skrellex with \u201cInto the Wild\u201d and EMMY with \u201cSykt fin\u201d (Very nice). The results will be announced this morning.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:00 CET, the voting will open for the second duel in which GOTHMINISTER ft. Thomas Jenssen are competing with \u201cThe spell\u201d against Vika Anonymous with \u201cHar du itt v\u00f8rri p\u00e5 toten?\u201d (Do you have a knife on your belt?) You can listen to the duels as part of Nitimen on NRK Radio 1. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee Finland: CHACHI \u2013 \u201cCherry Cake\u201d \u2013 Release \u2013 23:00 CET<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAABAAAAAJAAQMAAAApW4aWAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAF5JREFUeNrtwQEBAAAAgiD\/r25IQAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAO8GIk8AAbOpTZoAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180883 pk-lazyload\" data-pk- data-ls- data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/UMK26_artists_1920x1080px_CHACHI_Credit_Yle_Miska_Voinoff-1024x576.png\" data-pk- id=\"pagespeed_img_f-vWV7Audv7\"\/>Image source: Yle\/Miska Voinoff<\/p>\n<p>CHACHI is the next artist to reveal their song competing in UMK 2026. CHACHI is from the United States and is best known as a dancer, choreographer and singer. She has lived in Finland since 2019 with her husband, who is a stunt performer. Her song \u201cCherry Cake\u201d and its official music video will be released on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wildcard duels are underway for Melodi Grand Prix 2026, while UMK 2026 continues to reveal the competing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,33958,143954,391,56,138917,54,55],"class_list":["post-381635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-headline","tag-melodi-grand-prix-2026","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-umk-2026","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}