This year Denmark celebrates the 60th edition of their selection for Eurovision Song Contest. What a great number to celebrate!

The interest to take part in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix was really high this year with a high record of 1,115 songs submitted.

Only 10 acts were chosen and between them we can find:

Two X Factor winners: Thomas Ring, who won the third season in 2010, and Anthony, who won the program in 2014 as part of duo Anthony Jasmin.

Another winner of a talent show Anja, who won The Voice in Australia in 2014 and last year ended up in second place in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with the song ‘Never Alone’.

Also René Machon returns to the Grand Prix scene for the second time. He participated in 2015 with the song ‘Mi Amore’.

Livind doll S ada Vidoo, which last year impressed the judges in the British version of X Factor.

The complete list with the acts is as follows:

Melodi nummer 1: ‘One’

Solist: Ida Una

Tekst og musik: Peter Bjørnskov og Lene Dissing

Melodi nummer 2: ‘Vesterbro’

Solist: Thomas Ring

Tekst og musik: Thomas Ring

Melodi nummer 3: ‘Color My World’

Solist: Rikke Skytte

Tekst og musik: Mads Løkkegaard, Joël Pagiël MacDonald, Mohamed Alitou og Laura Kloos

Melodi nummer 4: ‘Where I Am’

Solist: Anja

Tekst og musik: Anja Nissen, Angel Tupai og Michael D’Arcy

Melodi nummer 5: ‘Big Little Lies’

Solist: Calling Mercury

Tekst og musik: Thomas Sardorf, Rune Braager og Martin Luke Brown

Melodi nummer 6: ‘Smoke In My Eyes’

Solist: Anthony

Tekst og musik: Kim Nowak-Zorde, Kasper Larsen, Hans Petersen, Ollie Marland og Phil Plested

Melodi nummer 7: ‘Warriors’

Solist: René Machon

Tekst og musik: Astrid Cordes, Alexander Grandjean, Hans Petersen og Lars Andersen

Melodi nummer 8: ‘Northern Lights’

Solist: Sada Vidoo

Tekst og musik: Christoffer Lauridsen, Andreas Öhrn og Alessandra Günthardt

Melodi nummer 9: ‘Hurricane’

Solist: Jeanette Bonde

Tekst og musik: Jeanette Bonde, Alexander Grandjean, Jeppe Pilgaard Ulrichsen og Nermin Harambasic

Melodi nummer 10: ‘A.S.A.P.’

Solist: Johanna Beijbom

Tekst og musik: Peter Wallevik, Daniel Heløy Davidsen, Patrick Devine, Dimitri Stassos og Freja Jonsson Blomberg

The selection will take place in February 25 with the show being hosted by Johannes Nymarkhas and Annette Heick.

Can Denmark win it again? We’ll have to wait to find out. In the meantime, if you want to buy tickets to the show, you can do it by following this link.

Author: Bogdan Stefan

Source: dr.dk, Eurovision Ireland