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National Final Awards 2010
Melodi Grand Prix wins Best national final award
The esctoday.com National Final Award for Best national final goes to...
...Melodi Grand Prix (Norway)
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Melodi Grand Prix, also known as MGP, took place over five weeks. After three semi finals and a second chance round, the national final was held with eight acts competing. The winner was chosen by a mixture of jury voting and televoting.
This award is given out for the fifth time. On the previous four occasions, it always went to Swedish Melodifestivalen.
This concludes the announcement of the winners in the 2010 esctoday.com National Final Awards. Tomorrow, we will publish the full results in all categories as well as an updated hall of fame for all categories.
Related polls
- Hungary: Vote for your favourite act in the second semifinal of A Dal
- Norway: Vote for your favourite song in the third semifinal of Melodi Grand Prix
- Sweden: Vote for your favourite act in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the semifinal of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Hungary: Vote for your favourite act in the first semifinal of A Dal
- Norway: Vote for your favourite song in semifinal 2
- Iceland: Vote for your favourite act in the third semifinal of Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins
- Bulgaria: Vote for your favourite act in the Bulgarian national final 2012
- Latvia: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Eirodziesma 2012
- Belarus: Vote for your favourite act in the final of EuroFest 2012
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I think that if majority voted on the norwegian MGP it really deserved to win. I enjoyed the swedish MF much because of the four singing "gepid" girls Timoteij from Västergötland, which is the same area as the "geat" Beowulf came from. I really like the finnish song because it seems so genuinely folklore. =:-)
LOL Dumbla
Engla 
They maybe cheated and dident count all the ones who voted on Melodifestivalen !!!
Maybe Melodifestivalen won in previous years because Princess Engla made numerous accounts. Just a thought.
Engla
I still think it's alot of panic votes for MGP. Are we sure that people didn't make multiple accounts to vote against MF??
yeah 10 is so much more than 8, lool! But that not explain why Sweden wins more of the other catergories. I mean if MGP really has the best songs then they should do much better than this. It really smell fishy in here!
Seriously, who would use energy on making a lot of new accounts just to vote for awards like this? Why can't you just accept that MGP was voted as the best this year. Do you expect MF to win every award there is and if you not win, someone is cheating? You say that MF have won so many awards this year and therefor should have won this too (??). Timotej won for best folk song, MGP didn't have any folk song (so we couldn't be nominated in that category). It’s all about the total impression. Even if you won a couple of categories doesn’t mean that people thought your NF was the best (regarding the quality of all songs in the NF inclusive the songs in semi and qualification rounds). One of the categories was ”best staging and presentation”, but this cathegory was ”best national final”.
Marcus Klier:
next year we may add another category called "Princess Engla's favourite national final" and MF will get all five nominations
Hahaha, thanks Marcus, that made my day 
Bjørn B
Thanks 
May I also add some information (just in case people wasn't aware of Didrik singing with Jose Carreras) 
:
Last night (3rd May) 4,000 people filled the Hamar Olympic Arena to hear one of the leading tenors - Jose Carreras performing together with the Mexican soprano Rebeca Olvera, and the Norwegian MGP winner Didrik Solli-Tangen (22).
Carreras, who previously has shared the stage with, among others, Luciano Pavarotti, wanted to have Didrik joining him on stage when he was performing in Hamar. And the boy himself describes the invitation he got about a month ago, like this: "almost like it had to be for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer when he got the phone from Manchester United”.
- ”This is what I've dreamt of all my life. Carreras is a great role model and he is doing what I like best, popular music within the opera”, said Didrik.
The 22-year-old, who in less than one month will be representing Norway in the Eurovision final in Oslo, also admits that to sing with Carreras is bigger for him than to participate in ESC.
- ”So far in my life this concert is the biggest that has ever happened to me, he said”.
A photo of Didrik, Rebeca Olvera and Jose Carreras:
http://pub.tv2.no/mu(...)til_nett_803286i.jpg
Didrik:Norway with Jose Carreras on stage in Hamar May 1st:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=qi7nIqd1FQw
This is the final I had voted for, I enjoyed it very much even though I didn't agree with the winner.
This can be nothing but a good sign! If the people who are going to host the Eurovision finals also hosted the best national selection, I trust we are in very good hands indeed. I was a bit worried that Norway might leave Eurovision to their trolls and reindeer like they did in much of the 70s and 80s, but thank heavens they seem to be over that oddly peculiar hey lola lola craze and decided to put forward something significantly more politically correct. Blessed be the new hosts, be they from the cold plains, the rural countrysides or the sandy deserts of Norway! I'm eternally grateful that we shall be spared the little piglet who hosted the MGP finals. A most splendid host without a doubt, but not much of a looker I'm afraid. Naturally I would have given the honour of hosting the show to the genteel and glorious Aase Kleveland, but I accept the fact that her voice has now become too deep and that her given name too closely resembles a bit of a naughty word. Nevertheless I'm acutely confident that the diverse little Norwegians on the other side of the ash cloud will stage a neat and nifty show for everyone to enjoy, no matter what home country they vote for.
WTF?????????
One of the worst final this year! Really crap and so boring songs! I think Spain had the best final.
finally....even esc fans have to admit that there are better national finals than melodi,which was a very mediocre one this year.
and danish gp was even better!
COME ON GUYS has no- one noticed that DENMARKS SONG IS A RIP-OFF ...THE POLICE EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE.....SINCE YOU.VE GONE IVE BEEN LOST......THEN SOME ABBA KICKS IN.....GO LISTEN TO EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE and LOOK AT THE LYRICS then see how many words in DENMARKS SONG are the same....since you,ve gone BECOMES ever since you went away........DENMARK,s song sounds soo old its STUCK in yhe 70,s and 80,s plus the guy who sings it even looks a bit like STING
Haha, Marcus Klier.
You know it's time to hush when an editor makes a joke about you. 
Glad this won! Found Norway's national final the most enjoyable! Wanted Keep of Kalessin to win it but I'm more than happy with the lovely Didrik!!
Denmark's final had an amazing and it was good but chose the worst song possible. Should have been Silas and Kat.
Sweden's was ok. Few awesome songs and the stage was really nice but they chose a crappy song.
Also personally enjoyed Finland, Armenia, Poland, Moldova finals too. UK's was the worst! We suck at national finals!
Haven't seen it so MF should have won.
Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix should recive this award last year. Danish one deserved it this year.
Kevin
Next year the BBC will put a glass of water on stage for you
its nice to see so many others who thought the staging at DMGP was great...i loved the way they brought open water into it and still made it fit nicely
congrats DR
I voted for DMGP. Even though it was for one night, the production, stage, songs, performers and presenters were great!
The final certainly was good, however I can never like the MGP stages, they annoy me so much Norway do deserve the award. Unfortunately the countries NF who is always superior to others, Albania, wasn't so good this year, which is a great shame to see. They normally have a handful of really great songs, which didn't happen this year. Also for the first time ever, I think MF deserves the award. I've always liked the format of MF, just the songs have been majorly crap, but this year they have had some great songs in, and really modern ones too. Such as Salem, Pauline or POS etc. It was probably the most enjoyable NF of the year for me, so it's funny that MF doesn't win the year I like it and COME BACK ANDORRA !! We need a NF in a local pub again !!
Obvious! Melofestivalen is a great event all years. Brilliant production and perfomances and this year with a lot of good songs better than Eurovision songs. Congrats Sweden
I absoutely agree. The Norwegian MGP is the best, thanks to the online broadcast of the Norwegian TV, I follow the MGP since 2008.
@ dimitris
Oh!Now i see You are a schlager lover seeing you have Iceland as your number 1 this year..So i fully understand why you disliked this year's M.F..It was not schlager-dominated...
haha, yeah i do love pop/dance and certain types of schlager, although i do have a thing for power ballads also ...
Kevin Knight
Oh!Now i see You are a schlager lover seeing you have Iceland as your number 1 this year..So i fully understand why you disliked this year's M.F..It was not schlager-dominated...
It really smell fishy in here!
Rinse your nose!
lmao marcus!
@Sanka: Well it's more probably it's fishy when you win ONE catergory than you wins 4 or 5. Or can you explain for me how MGP could win this one when the almost didn't won any other catergories? So why people voted for MGP? Because they have the best songs performances?? Then why people voted for them in the other catergories?? They didn't win best stage/presentation or voting either. So how and why the won? Also if you looked at the nominations before the voting started, Sweden had the most by far! This is very strange!
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