DR will be working to improve Dansk Melodi Grand Prix for 2024 following another failed qualification.
The Head of Melodi Grand Prix to DR, Erik Struve Hansen has spoken about the Danish selection process following a third failed qualification in a row. Speaking to DR, he commented when asked about whether DR would internally select a representative:
“No, I can’t imagine that. There are so many traditions around Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, and it is one of the most watched programs of its kind in Denmark over the course of an entire year.
It has been a tradition that we have gathered around for decades, and I think it can do a lot of things in its own right as a large, unifying event around which we meet and have opinions about. It would be a shame to tinker”
DR will discuss how they can improve the selection process over the coming months to ensure a better result come the 2024 competition. Mr Struve Hansen added:
We are already in the process of looking at what strategy we will have for next year’s Grand Prix musically. That work already started before Eurovision, and we will continue with it.
Reiley represented Denmark at Eurovision 2023 but failed to qualify for the Grand Final. Denmark has failed to qualify for a Eurovision Grand Final since the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Image source: Sarah Louise Bennett /EBU | Source: DR
Denmark debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 alongside Austria and the United Kingdom. To date, Denmark has won the contest on three occasions, the first being in 1963 when Grethe & Jorgen Ingmann performed “Dansevise”. Denmark won the contest again in 2000 represented by the Olsen Brothers. Their most recent victory came in 2013 when Emmelie de Forest performed “Only Teardrops”.
