Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest

Norway's first entrant in the contest in 1960 was Nora Brockstedt, who finished fourth. Åse Kleveland then finished third in 1966. Following Kleveland's result, Norway would fail to reach the top ten in 14 out of their next 15 attempts, the exception being Bendik Singers seventh place in 1973.

Before 1985, Norway had only reached the top five in two out of 24 attempts and had finished last six times. In 1985, Bobbysocks gave the country its first victory with the song "La det swinge" (Let It Swing). Norway went on to achieve two more top five results over the next ten years, with both Karoline Krüger in 1988 and Silje Vige in 1993, finishing fifth.

Norway's second victory came in 1995 with Secret Garden's mainly instrumental, Celtic-influenced ethno-piece "Nocturne". In 1996, Elisabeth Andreassen, who had won the contest as one half of Bobbysocks, returned to finish second. In 2003, Jostein Hasselgård was fourth.

Norway won for the third time in 2009, with Alexander Rybak's smash hit "Fairytale". The 2009 winning score of 387 points being the highest ever winning total under the voting system used between 1975 and 2015. It also achieved the biggest ever margin of victory. 492 points were able to be rewarded in 2009. (2009-Norway) That's 78.7% of the total points that could be rewarded.

In 2012, Norway finished last in the final for the 11th time. Norway has the two dubious distinctions of having finished last in the Eurovision final more than any other country and for having the most "nul points" (zero points) in the contest, failing to score a point four times, in 1963, 1978, 1981 and 1997. Austria has also scored "nul points" four times.

Since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Norway has finished in the top ten seven times. Wig Wam finished ninth with the song "In My Dreams" in 2005, Maria Haukaas Storeng was fifth in 2008 with "Hold On Be Strong", Alexander Rybak won in 2009, Margaret Berger was fourth in 2013 with "I Feed You My Love", Carl Espen finished eighth in 2014 performing "Silent Storm", Mørland & Debrah Scarlett finished eighth in 2015 with "A Monster Like Me", Jowst featuring Aleksander Walmann finished tenth with the song "Grab the Moment" in 2017 and Keiino finished sixth with the song "Spirit in the Sky" in 2019 (when they also finished first with the televote in the Grand Final). Norway has a total of 11 top five and 24 top ten results in the contest.

List of supervisors of Melodi Grand Prix, better known as MGP-general or GP-general in Norway:

• Per Sundnes (c. 2007–2012)[18]
• Vivi Stenberg (2013–2015)[19]
• Jan Fredrik Karlsen (2016–2017)[20]
• Stig Karlsen (2018–present)[20]

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  Anne-Karine Strøm performing "Mata Hari" in The Hague (1976)
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  Bobbysocks performing "La det swinge" in Gothenburg (1985)
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  Guri Schanke performing "Ven a bailar conmigo" in Helsinki (2007)
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  Maria Haukaas Storeng performing "Hold On Be Strong" in Belgrade (2008)
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  Didrik Solli-Tangen performing "My Heart Is Yours" in Oslo (2010)
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  Margaret Berger performing "I Feed You My Love" in Malmö (2013)
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  Carl Espen performing "Silent Storm" in Copenhagen (2014)
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  Mørland & Debrah Scarlett performing "A Monster Like Me" in Vienna (2015)
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  Agnete performing "Icebreaker" in Stockholm (2016)
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  Jowst performing "Grab the Moment" in Kyiv (2017)
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  Alexander Rybak performing "That's How You Write a Song" in Lisbon (2018)
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  Keiino performing "Spirit in the Sky" in Tel Aviv (2019)

• Melodi Grand Prix
• Norway in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Norway in the Eurovision Young Dancers – A competition organised by the EBU for younger dancers aged between 16 and 21.
• Norway in the Eurovision Young Musicians – A competition organised by the EBU for musicians aged 18 years and younger.

• Melodi Grand Prix
• Points to and from Norway eurovisioncovers.co.uk