Eurovision 2012 – Another day’s rehearsals have taken place at the Crystal Hall and reports coming through from Baku say the Russian grannies put on a good first performance, and Ireland had a nice fountain. Israel, San Marino, Cyprus, Hungary, Denmark, Austria and Moldova have also rehearsed. Pasha for Moldova got a bit racy.
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Eurovision 2012: Second Day of Rehearsals Completed
Posted: May 14, 2012 by hulluna in Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Moldova, Russia, San Marino11
Denmark – Denmark tonight chose its representative to send to the 2012 Euovision final in Azerbaijan and picked Soluna Samay, singing “Should’ve Known Better“. Soluna beat “Take our hearts” by Jesper Nohrstedt, and Christian Brøns & Patrik Isaksson’s “Venter” in the superfinal of three acts in a nail biting finish. All foreign juries had voted [...]
Denmark: The Final of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012
Posted: January 21, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – Tonight the third Eurovision entry of the 2012 will be chosen in Denmark. DRK will broadcast the final of the national selection “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix” live from Aalborg. The show will see a total of nine artist fighting for the Danish ticket to Baku. Originally ten songs were supposed to compete [...]
Denmark – In a surprise move Jesper Nohrstedt has released a music video for his Danks Melodi Grand Prix entry “Take Our Hearts”. Only rarely do competitors in the competition publish a music video before the competition. The show selecting the Danish Eurovision entrant will take place this Saturday with a number of Eurovision [...]
Denmark: Satellite Composers In Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
Posted: January 17, 2012 by S G E Murray in DenmarkDenmark – Today the official ESC website has linked to Danish national selection page so we can hear this years contestants in the annual Melodi Grand Prix (listen to them here). It is the first chance to hear the return of ESC song writing champions Julie Frost & John Gordon with the song ‘Best Thing [...]
Denmark: National Final Poll – Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012
Posted: January 16, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – Just 6 days to the Danish national final. On January 21 nine songs will compete for the Danish ticket to the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku. ave you found your favourite yet? You can listen to snippets of all nine songs on DRK’s official website! The entire songs can be downloaded on [...]
Denmark: Snippets of Melodi Grand Prix Songs Online
Posted: January 16, 2012 by luludrops in DenmarkDenmark – The Danish national broadcaster DRK has just published snippets of the nine songs that will compete in the Danish national final “Melodi Grand PRix 2012″. Originally, a ten-song event was planned but Valen:tine and her song ‘Nowhere’ were disqualified after it was discovered that the song had been posted online before September [...]
Denmark: Alexander Rybak and Ell/Nikki in Danish International Jury
Posted: January 14, 2012 by hulluna in DenmarkDenmark – The Denmark national broadcaster DR has announced the International Juries who will help decide the result of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (DMGP). This includes big names of former winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. DR has employed four professional juries from the past four winning countries – Azerbaijan, Germany, Norway and Russia. [...]
Denmark: Entry of Melodi Grand Prix 2012 To Be Disqualified?
Posted: January 6, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – Just hours after the entries of the Danish national final 2012 were revealed, allegations arose saying that one of the songs has already been published on the internet, which breaches DR’s rules and possibly been uploaded as early as July, which breaches the rules of the EBU. In case these allegations are [...]
Denmark: DRK Announces Dansk Melodi Grand Prix Participants
Posted: January 5, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – DRK announced the ten participants of this year’s Danish national final “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012″ in a special press conference today. Snippets of the songs will be published on January 16, while the CD will be published two days later. The songwriters of the 2010 winning song “Satellite”, John Gordon and [...]
Denmark – The Danish national broadcaster’s official website announced today that music experts from Germany, Norway, Russia and Azerbaijan will join the jury of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix this year. DR spokesperson Jan Lagermand Lundme said that Denmark was close to win the contest in recent years and with the new format they’d try [...]
Denmark: Susanne Georgi, Soluna Samay, Philip Halloun in Melodi Grand Prix 2012?
Posted: January 2, 2012 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – In three days the Danish national broadcaster DR will reveal the list of participants for the Danish national final “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2012″ which will be held on January 21. The official blog of the competition has published three names today that may participate in the national final. Among them is [...]
Denmark: OGAE President Calls for Boycott of Eurovision 2012
Posted: December 22, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in Azerbaijan, Denmark, Eurovision Song Contest 2012OGAE Denmark – Eurovisionary reports, that the newly elected president of OGAE Denmark has called for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 due to human rights violations related to the construction of the 2012 venue “Baku Crystal Hall“. Johann Sørensen sent out a press release suggesting to the Danish national broadcaster DRK [...]
Is the Danish entry “New Tomorrow” plagiarism?
Posted: February 27, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – Yesterday the band “A Friend in London” won the Danks Melodi Grand Prix with the song “New Tomorrow”. Since then the song has stirred some debates. The readers of the site pj.dk, claim that the song that will represent Denmark in Germany is a case of plagiarism of the song “Sing for me”, [...]
Denmark: “A Friend in London – New Tomorrow” to Eurovision
Posted: February 27, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – Tonight, Denmark chose its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in their traditional “Melodi Grand Prix”. The band “A Friend in London” won the national final with their song “New tomorrow” and will thus fly the Danish flag in Düsseldorf next May. Previously “A friend in London” had competed against “Stine Knick” [...]
Denmark Decides: The Final of Melodi Grand Prix
Posted: February 26, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – Tonight, Denmark will choose its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in their traditional “Melodi Grand Prix”. The national final will be held in the Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen. Ten artists will compete for the ticket to Düsseldorf. The songs were previously chosen out of over 650 submissions. Felix Smith and [...]
Denmark – Tomorrow evening the Danish national final “Melodi Grand Prix” will be held in Copenhagen. Ten songs were chosen by a jury of the national broadcaster out of over 660 submissions. Now DRK has publish the songs in full on their website. You may listen to them by clicking here. In the national final [...]
Denmark: Listen to Snippets of the Finalists
Posted: February 21, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – The Danish national broadcaster has published snippets of all ten finalists of their “Melodi Grand Prix 2011″. The winner of this contest will represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest in Germany. The national final will be held in the Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen. The songs were previously chosen out of over [...]
Denmark: The Melodi Grand Prix 2011 Finalists
Posted: February 3, 2011 by eurovisiontimes in DenmarkDenmark – The Danish national broadcaster has revealed the participants of the Melodi Grand Prix 2011, today. The national final will be held on February 26 in Copenhagen. The composer Thomas G:son has 2 songs in the national final. Anna Noa, Stine Kinck and Jenny Berggren were invited by DR while the other 7 qualified [...]
Eurovision recap (15)
Posted: November 2, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, SwedenThis time with news from Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Belarus and Sweden. Ireland – As the Irish newspaper “The Independent” reports, the green islands television channel RTÉ spent 180.000 euro for their Eurovision participation. 63.000 were spent on the national final, 33.000 for hotels in Oslo, 20.000 for travel and food expenses and another 63.000 were [...]
Denmark – Today Danish national broadcaster DR has announced the date and venue of the Danish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. The “Melodi Grand Prix” will return to the Ballerup Super Arena, one of the biggest Danish arenas, and for the first time since 2002 the contest will be held in the [...]
Romania – The Romania national final will be held December 31, 2010. International authors may submit songs as long as at least one of the authors or lyricists of the song is from Romania. Songs may be submitted until November 5 this year. To see an overview of all the known dates of the Selection [...]
Voting analysis 8: Who voted for Denmark?
Posted: June 22, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, DenmarkTags: Analysis, Eurovision Song Contest
Denmark – Chanée and N’evergreen achieved the best result in years for the Scandinavian country just a month ago in Oslo. Their Eurovision-popsong “In a moment like this” got points from a lot of European countries and thus reached 4th place behind Germany, Turkey and Romania.Was the Scandinavian block at work again? And who also [...]
Score analysis 5: Places 01-05
Posted: June 20, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Analysis, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Germany, Turkey05. Azerbaijan – Safura – Drip Drop Safura was the big favourite this year to win the competition and there is no doubt that the Azeri delegation excepted nothing less than to take home the crown. All the money spent for choreography, video and promotion “only” resulted in a 5th place. 2010 saw Azerbaijan’s 3rd [...]
Eurovision recap (1)
Posted: June 4, 2010 by eurovisiontimes in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Malta, PolandIreland – After a disappointing 23rd place in Saturday’s final, controversy arises in Ireland.Ronan Keating, who wrote the Danish entry for Brink last year has critizised RTÉ for being baised towards 1993 winner Niamh Kavanagh during the selection process. He stated that other competitors had no real chance. The Irish national final was held March [...]
