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Norway: The Spotify streams of the third semifinal

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Tonight is the third semifinal of MGP 2022, Norway’s national final for the selection of the song that will represent the country in Eurovision 2022.

Four songs will compete once again. The competition will have the form of duels, the winners of which will compete against each other for a ticket to the grand final.

The four songs are available on Spotify and are ranked by streams as follows:

  1. Vilde – Titans 113817
  2. Oda Gondrosen – Hammer of Thor  74061
  3. Mari Bølla – Your Loss 72731
  4. Sturla – Skår i hjerte  59104

Among all MGP 2022 songs, Elsie Bay‘s Death Of Us and Subwoolfer‘s Give That Wolf A Banana have a major lead.

The previous two weeks the streams failed to correctly predict the winners of the semifinals. Will that change tonight?

You can watch the third semifinal of MGP 2022 at 20:55 through the official website of NRK, by clicking here.

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photo: JULIA MARIE NAGLESTAD / NRK

Norway: The duels for the second semifinal of the MGP have been announced!

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Norwegian broadcaster NRK has announced the duels for the second semi-final of the Melodi Grand Prix 2022. Four artists will compete for a ticket to the final, while Christian Ingebrigtsen has already qualified for the grand final.

Program director Kåre Magnus Bergh did the draw for the duels. It will be two duels between a ballad, a pop, a rock and a country song.

The first duel is between rock star Lily Lowe and country singer Stefen Jakobsen.

Lily Lowe– Bad Baby VS  Stefen Jakobsen– With me Tonight

The second duel will be a showdown between Farida‘s dynamic voice and pop artist Daniel Lucas.

Farida– Dangerous  VS  Lucas– Kvelertak

After both duels are completed, the winners advance to the golden duel and the winner advances to the final. Only one of the candidate songs will make it to the grand final and one will compete at the second opportunity to get a ticket to the final.

We remind you that the second semifinal will take place this Saturday 22-01 at 19:50 CET .

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Source: NRK

Norway: Results of the first heat of Melodi Grand Prix

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The first heat of Melodi Grand Prix 2022 took place today at 19:50 CET. We witnessed 5 amazing performances. Four hopefuls competed for the ticket to the Grand Final which will take place on February 19. We saw one of the automatic qualifiers perform on the stage as well. Three more heats, so-called ‘Last Chance’ and the Grand Final are yet to come!

The hosts of the show were Kåre Magnus Bergh, Annika Momrak, Mikkel Niva.

 

The four contestants of the first heat were:

These four competed in duels, where the two selected winners also competed with each other, in order to secure a place at the Grand Final of Melodi Grand Prix.

The duels that were determined by a draw yesterday are shown here:

The odds before the show looked like this:

 

The winner of the first duel (Mira Craig – We still here VS  Eline Noelia – Ecstasy) was…

Eline Noelia with her song “Ecstasy”

The winner of the second duel (TrollfesT – Dance like a pink flamingo  VS  Frode Vassel – Black Flowers) was…

Frode Vassel with the song “Black Flowers”

Elsie Bay, one of the automatic qualifiers, performed her song ‘Death of Us‘ right after the first 2 winners were selected:

 

Eline and Frode once again performed their songs. The final duel determined the winner of the heat and the first qualifier as well:

The choice was made and the winner of the first heat and the first qualifier is:

Frode Vassel with his song “Black Flowers”

 

The next heat will take place next Saturday at 19:50 CET! You can watch MGP 2022 by clicking here.

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Norway: The first betting odds, right before the 1st heat of MGP 2022!

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Today is the date! In a few moments the first heat of MGP 2022 will take place. Four songs will compete, to secure a place at the Final, which will be held on the 19th of February. But what do the betting odds predict for today’s heat?

The odds

It seems like the battle will be between two songs, in the hopes of qualifying to the Final of MGP. Eline Noelia with her song Ecstasy, places now first in the odds, throwing Trollfest and their song Dance like a pink flamingo to the second place, despite the fact that they are currently first in streams, at Spotify.

Today is the first heat

The first heat will be broadcasted tonight and the four contestants to compete are the following:

The above four contestants will compete in duels, where the two selected winners will compete with each other, in order to secure a place at the Grand Final of the Norwegian national selection for this year.

The duels, that were determined by a draw yesterday are the following:

  1. Mira Craig – We still here VS  Eline Noelia – Ecstasy
  2. TrollfesT – Dance like a pink flamingo  VS  Frode Vassel – Black Flowers

After the two duels are completed, their two winners will compete at the Gold Duel and the winner will qualify to the Final..

Elsie Bay, one of the five automatic qualifiers, will appear as a guest and will perform her song “Death of Us”.

The hosts of tonight’s show will be: Kåre Magnus Bergh, Annika Momrak and Mikkel Niva.

You can watch the first heat of MGP 2022 tonight at 19:50 CET at the official webpage of the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK by clicking here.

Stay tuned at EurovisionFun, for all the latest developments regarding the Norwegian entry at Eurovision Song Contest 2022!

Norway: A Eurostar among the rumoured MGP 2022 participants!

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The participants of Melodi Grand Prix 2022 will be announced next week but escNorge.no has already revealed some names that according to them will be among the competitors.

It seems that VILDE, Kim Wigaard, Northkid, Farida, Maria Mohn, Christian Ingebrigtsen, Oda Gondrosen, Mari Bølla and Elsie Bay might be on the list of the participants of the Norwegian national final.

Also, former Melodi Grand Prix participants Anna-Lisa Kumoji (MGP 2019) and Alexandra Joner (MGP 2015) are likely to return.

However, what is perhaps the most interesting revelation is that a former MGP winner is probably in the running, aiming to represent Norway once more, or for the first time, in case the former winner turns out to be Ulrikke.

The participation of a former MGP winner was also hinted by the Twitter account of Eurovision Norway :

NRK will reveal the 22 competing artists on Monday, January 10th 2022 and all the songs will be released later on the same day.

The schedule for the Melodi Grand Prix shows is as follows:

  • January 15 – Semi-Final One
  • January 22 – Semi-Final Two
  • January 29 – Semi-Final Three
  • February 5 – Semi-Final Four
  • February 12 – Second Chance Round
  • February 19 – Grand Final

Source: escNorge

Who do you think is the returning MGP winner? Are you excited for any of the other competitors? Comment below!

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