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Norwegian national broadcaster, NRK, has released the nine songs competing in the “Melodi Grand Prix 2025.” The winner, selected on February 15, will represent Norway at Eurovision 2025. Listen to the songs!

The Norwegian National Broadcaster, NRK, unveiled last night the nine songs that will compete in the Norwegian pre-Eurovision contest, “Melodi Grand Prix 2025.” The winner will represent Norway at Eurovision 2025, which will be held on May 13, 15, and 17 in Basel, Switzerland. For the first time since 2019, the Norwegian pre-Eurovision will be held without semifinals, with the main event scheduled for February 15, at the end of which the Norwegian representative and song for the upcoming Eurovision will be selected. The nine songs have been released on various streaming platforms and YouTube.

Lavrans Svendsen, a Norwegian singer who participated in the latest season of “The Voice” Norway, withdrew from the Norwegian pre-selection shortly before the announcement of the participating artists list. Consequently, the list includes nine contestants instead of the initially planned ten.




Melodi Grand Prix 2025 Participating Artists and Song Titles

Click on the song name to listen to it!

Notable Participants

  • Bobbysocks, the 1985 Eurovision winners with “La det swinge“, are returning to the Norwegian pre-selection after 40 years since their victory in Gothenburg, Sweden. The duo consists of Elisabeth Andreassen, 66, and Hanne Krogh, 68. Since their iconic win, both have developed impressive solo careers while maintaining a close friendship. Now, they are set to reunite on stage, reminding us why they became Norwegian and European musical icons.
  • Wig Wam band, Norway’s representatives in the 2005 Eurovision with the song “In My Dreams,” where they reached ninth place. The band also participated in the Norwegian Eurovision pre-selection in 2024 with the song “Crazy Things” and finished in third place.
  • Nora Jabri competed in the 2012 Norwegian pre-selection with the song “Somewhere Beautiful“, finishing second in the final.




Melodi Grand Prix 2025 – Details So Far

This year’s Melodi Grand Prix is facing significant format changes. It will be the first time since 2019 that the competition will be held without semi-finals. The show is scheduled for February 15, 2025, at the Oslo Spektrum, one of Norway’s largest venues, which also hosted the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest. Last year’s Melodi Grand Prix included three semi-finals, with public voting determining three artists from each semi-final to advance to the grand final. The final results were determined by a 60/40 split between public opinion and an international jury, with greater weight given to public voting. Additionally, the pre-selection allowed contestants to use auto-tune, despite it being prohibited in the Eurovision competition itself.

Norway’s participation in Eurovision 2024 was not smooth sailing. It began with the Norwegian delegation’s boycott of Israel, continued with the politicization of jury voting, and ended with a disappointing result for Norway – Gåte and their song “Ulveham” finishing 25th and last in the final. Post-Eurovision, there was significant criticism of the Norwegian delegation, leading to many structural changes in the Norwegian national broadcaster, including the replacement of the Norwegian Head of Delegation, Stig Karlsen, who had allowed the Norwegian boycott of Israel, as well as the major changes in this year’s Melodi Grand Prix format.




Norway in Eurovision 2024

Gåte represented Norway at Eurovision 2024 with the song “Ulveham”. The band won the Norwigian national finals “MGP”. Norway advanced to the Eurovision final after placing tenth in the second semi-final with 43 points. In the grand final, Norway finished in 25th and last place with 16 points. This marks the first time since Eurovision 2012 that Norway has finished last, and the twelfth time overall since joining the competition.

Source: Eurovisionworld.

Eurovision 2025: This will be Norway’s 63rd participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Norway joined the competition in 1960 and has won it three times. Norway’s most recent victory was in 2009 with the song “Fairytale,” performed by Alexander Rybak.