Denmark: Sissal wins Melodi Grand Prix 2025
Denmark's Melodi Grand Prix 2025 was held tonight with eight songs fighting for the throne. The Danish representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will be Sissal with the song "Hallucination"
Denmark held its national selection Melodi Grand Prix 2025 tonight in Boxen in Herning.
After more than 2 hours and eight songs, all the focus was on the winner Sissal and the song "Hallucination," who will compete for Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel.
Three songs from the eight competing acts advanced to the Superfinal, determined by a jury and the public viewers via app/SMS throughout the week and during the show: Sissal, Tim Schou, and Adel the Second. In the Superfinal, the voting was reset and the Danish viewers and the jury selected Sissal as the winner of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025.
"Hallucination" was written by Sissal herself along with Chris Chordz, Line Spangsberg, Linnea Deb, Malthe Johansen, Marcus Winther-John, and Melanie Wehbe.
Melodi Grand Prix 2025
First round
Superfinal
Sissal
Faroese singer Sissal Jóhanna Norðberg Niclasen won the Danish Melodi Grand Prix with the pop hit "Hallucination."
According to Sissal, the song "Hallucination" is about meeting a person where the connection feels so real that it almost seems unreal.
Although she does not come from a musical family, her mother has said that Sissal started singing before she could talk. She always sang in front of her family and performed for the first time on a public stage at the age of 10 in a competition similar to MGP Junior.
As an adult she has released music under her own name, which has been highlighted by DR's own talent project KarriereKanonen, among other things.
– I hope that people can see themselves in my music and in me as a person. I want to show that you can be delicious and healthy, even if you are not thin, and I encourage everyone to stand by themselves and their dreams, Sissal says to DR.
Source: DR
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025 was broadcast on Saturday 1 March at 20:00 CET live from Boxen in Herning. Hosts were Stéphanie Surrugue and Sara Bro.
The voting started one week before the show. From Saturday, 22 February to Friday, 28 February people could cast one vote on each song every day on the official DR Grand Prix app. The votes were added to the votes received during Saturday's show (app/SMS), and combined with a jury's votes (50%).
The top three songs proceeded to the Superfinal. There, the votes were reset and a new vote among the three superfinalists (50% public / 50% jury) decided the Danish act for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest
Denmark has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 52 times. Since its debut in 1957, Denmark has won the contest 3 times:
Their worst result came in 2002 (last). Since the introduction of the Semi-finals in Eurovision in 2004, Denmark has qualified for the Grand Final 12 out of 20 times.
