DR, the Danish national broadcaster has released the 2018 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix entries as Aalborg gears up for next Saturday’s Danish national final.

DMGP 2018

The 2018 Danish national final is scheduled to be held at the Gigantium in Aalborg on Saturday 10 February. The show will be aired live at 20:00 CET on DR1. DMGP 2018 will be hosted by Annette Heick and Johannes Nymark.

The 2018 Danish Eurovision entry act will be determined via a 50/50 jury-public televoting deliberation. The show will consist of 2 parts: during the first part all 10 acts will peform and the top 3 acts will proceed to the Superfinal. During the second part the top 3 acts will battle for the right to represent Denmark at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon at the Superfinal.

The 2014 Austrian  Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst will be gracing the ocassion and will perform during the show.

Listen to the songs

The  2018 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix competing entries have been released today. You can listen to the songs here

The 2018 DMGP songs are also available on Deezer, Spotify and Tidal.

The competing candidates

1. Ditte Marie – Riot
2. Anna Ritsmar – Starlight
3. Rasmussen – Higher ground
4. Sannie – Boys on girls
5. Sandra – Angels to my battlefield
6. Lasse Meling – Unfound
7. CARLSEN – Standing up for love
8. KARUI – Signals
9. Rikke Ganer-Tolsøe – Holder fast i ingenting
10. Albin Fredy – Music for the road

Denmark in Eurovision

Denmark joined the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 and has won the competition three times: 1963 (Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann), 2000 (Olsen Brothers) and 2013 (Emmelie de Forest)

In 2017, Anja Nissen represented Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv with her entry Where I am.