Last Saturday saw the Norwegian national final, Melodi Grand Prix 2024, where 843 thousand viewers watched it.
The Norwegian broadcaster reports that the final had 144,000 fewer viewers than last year.
Last year, almost a million viewers, more precisely 987 thousand viewers, saw Alessandra Mele win the final of MGP 2023. In relation to 2022 where she had 250 thousand less, when Subwoolfer won. In 2021, when Tix won, the MGP final drew 1.1 million viewers. In 2020, 972,000 watched Ulrikke Brandstorp.
So this year the state channel reached 843,000 viewers.
We beat the numbers from 2022 by a good margin. These are numbers we are very happy with. It shows that MGP does not stop working, even at a time when linear viewership is falling, says Mads Tørklep, project manager for MGP at NRK, in a written statement.
This year’s three semi-finals at the MGP drew fewer viewers than last year, when all semi-finals drew more than 600 thousand viewers.
The first semi-final this year attracted 530 thousand viewers, the second semi-final attracted 547,000 and the third landed at 497,000 viewers, making it the least watched.
Gåte took a narrow win at Trondheim Spektrum on Saturday and will thus represent Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö in May.
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Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Norway’s participation in Eurovision 2024, in Malmö!
Mandy Pettersen / ESCNorge 
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