- Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2008
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Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2008 Date: 2 February 2008 Presenter: Camilla Ottesen & Adam Duvå Hall Venue: Forum Horsens (other venues hosted semifinals) Voting: SMS voting Winner: All Night Long performed by Simon Mathew Winner's result at Eurovision: 15th place Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2008 was the selection for the song to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Two semi-finals and two wildcard selections took place to select the 10 songs that would compete to sing for Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia.
In each semi-final the viewers of DR chose which 4 songs would progress to the final through telephone and SMS voting. After the semi-finals two wildcard selections were held for the listeners of Danish radio stations P3 and P4, who selected two songs from those rejected in the semi-finals to progress to the final.
443 songs were submitted, 16 of which competed and the winner was "All Night Long" sung by Simon Mathew.
Contents
Final
Draw Artist Song Points Result 1 Hassing & Hassing Come On Over 10 6th 2 Simon Mathew All Night Long 48 1st 3 Amin Jensen Luciano 8 7th 4 Kendra Lou Until We're Satisfied 16 4th 5 Unite Tree Of Life 46 2nd 6 Lasse Lindorff Hooked On You 6 9th 7 Charlie Den Jeg Er 0 10th 8 Josefine & Lars Sweet Memories of You 8 7th 9 The Dreams La' Mig Være 16 4th 10 Sandee May Spanish Soul 42 3rd Voting
Song North
JutlandSouth Jutland
and FunenZealand
& The IslandsCopenhagen Total Come On Over 10 - - - - 10 All Night Long 12 10 12 6 8 48 Luciano - - 4 4 - 8 Until We're Satisfied - 6 6 - 4 16 Tree Of Life 6 8 10 10 12 46 Hooked On You - - - - 6 6 Den Jeg Er - - - - - 0 Sweet Memories Of You 8 - - - - 8 La' Mig Være - 4 - 12 - 16 Spanish Soul 4 12 8 8 10 42 Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 1 Date: 12 January 2008 Presenter: Camilla Ottesen & Adam Duvå Hall Venue: DR Studios, Copenhagen Voting: SMS voting Qualifiers: Tree of Life performed by Unite, Luciano performed by Amin Jensen, Come On Over performed by Hassing & Hassing and Den jeg er performed by Charlie Draw Artist Song 1 Anorah Laying Down My Cards 2 Sidse Holte Vi er der om lidt 3 Unite Tree of Life 4 Amin Jensen Luciano 5 Hassing & Hassing Come On Over 6 Louise Victoria Grøn mand gå 7 Camille & Ulrik Underneath the Moon 8 Charlie Den jeg er Semifinal 2
Semifinal 2 Date: 19 January 2008 Presenter: Camilla Ottesen & Adam Duvå Hall Venue: DR Studios, Copenhagen Voting: SMS voting Qualifiers: 'All Night Long performed by Simon Mathew, Sweet Memories of You performed by Josefine & Lars Spanish Soul performed by Sandee May and La' mig være performed by The Dreams Draw Artist Song 1 Gunhild Vilde hjerter 2 Julie Rugaard kan Ikke forstå 3 Simon Mathew All Night Long 4 Kendra Lou Until We're Satisfied 5 Josefine & Lars Sweet Memories of You 6 Sandee May Spanish Soul 7 Lasse Lindorff Hooked on You 8 The Dreams La' mig være P3 Wildcard Selection
P3 Wildcard Selection Date: 21 January 2008 - 25 January 2008 Voting: SMS voting Qualifier: Until We're Staisfied performed by Kendra Lou Draw Artist Song 1 Louise Victoria Grøn mand gå 2 Anorah Laying Down My Cards 3 Julie Rugaard Kan ikke forstå 4 Kendra Lou Until We're Satisfied P4 Wildcard Selection
P4 Wildcard Selection Date: 21 January 2008 - 25 January 2008 Voting: SMS voting Qualifier: Hooked on You performed by Lasse Lindorff Draw Artist Song 1 Lasse Lindorff Hooked on You 2 Gunhild Vilde hjerter 3 Sidse Holte Vi er der om Lidt 4 Camille & Ulrik Underneath the Moon See also
ESC history
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
Sister contests
Sweden - Melodifestivalen 2008
Norway - Melodi Grand Prix 2008
Finland - Euroviisut 2008
Iceland - Laugardagslögin
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