Denmark has its entry to the 69th Eurovision Song Contest! Sissal will fly the Danish flag in Basel with the song 'Hallucination'.

On Saturday 1 March, Denmark got to select its song for the 69th Eurovision Song Contest. Melodi Grand Prix returned as the country's national final, with 8 songs in the running to claim that sought-after ticket to Basel.

We have a winner and Denmark has its song! Sissal lifted the Melodi Grand Prix trophy after a vocally impressive performance of her song Hallucination .

Hallucination 's path to victory came via a 'superfinal' - which had three of the 8 songs voted into it via the combination of a jury vote and a public vote. Hallucination was joined in the superfinal by Proud (performed by Tim Schou) and The Unluckiest Boy Alive (by Adel the Second).

Once all three songs had been performed again, voting opened once more; with the club banger Hallucination emerging as Denmark's pick for Basel!

Hallucination was composed by Malthe Johansen, Chris Rohde-Frisk, Line Spangsberg, Marcus Winther-John, Linnea Deb and Melanie Wehbe. It will perform in the Second Half of the Second Semi-Final on Thursday 15 May.

Sissal

Sissal lives in Copenhagen but is originally from Thorshavn in the Faroe Islands, where she performed for the first time on stage at the age of 10. Since moving to Denmark, she's played at festivals, voiced a role in the Danish dub of a Disney film, and even performed for the King of Denmark!

The artist is inspired by Nordic electropop from the likes of Dagny and Robyn, and is also a big fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, describing it as a world that she feels right at home in.

Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest

Denmark got off to a strong start in their Eurovision Song Contest history, finishing third on their debut in 1957 thanks to duo Birthe Wilke and Gustav Winckler.

Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann scored the first Danish (and Scandinavian) victory with the hypnotic ballad Dansevise (‘Dance Song’), taking the Contest to Copenhagen the following year.

A second win came in 2000 courtesy of the Olsen Brothers, a veteran duo who had been competing in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (Denmark’s national final) since the 1970s. Their winning song Fly On The Wings Of Love enjoyed life after the Contest when Spanish dance act XTM released a chart-topping trance cover version.

Denmark’s most recent triumph was in 2013 when Emmelie de Forest’s Only Teardrops won over both the jury and televote to take the trophy in Malmö.