Good evening Denmark, may we have your votes please? The final of the 55th Dansk Melodi Grand Prix took place tonight at Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning. We finally know who is going to represent Denmark at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, next May. It is Sissal with the entry ‘Hallucination’.
About the show
The final of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025 consisted of 8 acts vying to go to Eurovision. Hosts of the show were Stéphanie Surrugue and Sara Bro. A combined jury/public vote delibration determined the final outcome. The interval act saw the performances of two former DMGP winners: Birthe Kjær (1989) and Saba (2024).
The Participants
This was tonight’s line-up
- Mariya – I belong to me
- Tim Schou – Proud
- Max Ulver – Supernova
- Hervé Toure – Allez Allez
- Maria Mathea – Air
- Adel The Second – The unluckiest boy alive
- Sissal – Hallucination
- Andreas Kruse – Hear my prayer
Teardrops of joy
After a very exciting voting sequence the two co-hosts declared Sissal with the entry ‘Hallucination’ winner of the 55th Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. Sissal will therefore represent Denmark at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in Basel. Denmark will join the competition during the second half of the second semi-final on Thursday 15 May 2025.
Sissal will try to reverse the negative streak of NQ in Eurovision semi-finals. The last appearance in a Eurovision final for Denmark was in 2019 with Leonora (Love is forever).
Denmark in Eurovision
Denmark debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 and has won the competition three time: 1963 (Grethe & Jorgen Ingmann), 2000 (Olsen Brothers) and 2013 (Emmelie de Forest).
The Nordic country has hosted the competition following each victory in its iconic capital Copenhagen (1964, 2001 and 2014) and also played host to the 50th Eurovision anniversary special show in 2005.
Denmark has partaken 52 times in the Eurovision Song Contest. Saba represented Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with her entry Sand. She placed 12th in semi final two with 36 points, missing the pass to the Grand Final.
Source: DR
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