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This year 8 songs are going to compete in order to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. Here you can listen to the competing songs and learn about the artists

1. Emil Otto – “Copenhagen Noir”

A singer-pianist working in that warm, velvet-lit corner of crooner jazz: swing that feels friendly rather than intimidating, with melodies built to be sung back to you. His debut album Ain’t Love a Beautiful Thing (2022) leans on originals (plus a few standards) and frames his voice inside classic jazz instrumentation: tasteful, upbeat, and very “Sunday lounge, but in a good way.”

2. Ericka Jane – “Death of Me”

A Danish-Filipino pop artist who writes with a sharp, hyper-online wink: glossy hooks, club energy, and a persona that’s equal parts flirt and provocation. After an early X Factor run and a viral “Marvin’s Room” cover that helped kickstart her career, she built a run of punchy singles (“Only for the Better”, “I Say Stupid Things”, etc.) before rolling into her debut album era with <3Disc: a project positioned in press as girly pop with electronic bite (90s-house / hyperpop touches), and a “comeback” narrative after a serious cycling injury.

3. Lasse Skriver – “Roaring Hearts”

A Danish pop singer-songwriter whose breakthrough came through X Factor (2022) and who’s since translated that TV momentum into stream-friendly singles and a major-label rollout (Sony Music). His songs sit in modern Scandinavian pop: emotive, direct, built around big choruses, very “heart on sleeve,” but packaged cleanly for radio and playlists.

4. Late Runner – “Can U Feel It?”

Copenhagen indie-pop with a long memory: what began as Asger Tarpgaard’s project became a duo with Tanja Forsberg Simonsen, and the music carries that sense of musicians who’ve lived through multiple scenes and are now distilling what they actually want to say. Their output moves between introspective, folk-tinged melancholy and brighter, synth-pop lift, still intimate, just more kinetic.

5. Myrkur – “Touch My Love and Die”

The genre-hybrid universe led by Danish musician Amalie Bruun, built on contrast: black-metal intensity and Nordic-folk atmosphere, stitched together with a composer’s instinct for texture and drama. Spine (2023) is often framed as one of her most expansive statements: cinematic, heavy when it needs to be, but never locked into one tradition.

6. Sander Sanchez – “Two Spirits”

Best known to a wider Danish audience from Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2020, where “Screens” placed 2nd, but his broader catalogue leans into dreamy pop with dance/house edges: romantic, a bit cosmic, and clearly written with performance in mind. Think polished pop craftsmanship, with an appetite for electronic shimmer rather than guitar-band grit.

7. Sissal – “Infinity”

A Faroese-born artist based in Copenhagen who stepped onto the big stage as Denmark’s Eurovision 2025 representative with “Hallucination.” Her positioning is very “power vocalist in modern Scandinavian dance-pop”: emotional clarity on top, sleek EDM/pop architecture underneath, made for arenas, but still personal in tone.

8. Søren Torpegaard Lund – “Før vi går hjem”

A musical-theatre leading man who also releases pop under his own name—so you get stage-trained presence, precision, and big emotional delivery, but channelled into concise, contemporary songs. He’s performed in major productions and earned notable recognition (including a Reumert talent prize), while also appearing in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix with “Lige her” and releasing tracks like “In a Perfect World”