DR recorded its largest audience for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019, as Denmark headed into last week’s competition as one of the favourites for victory.
The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 was watched by 847,000 live viewers, up nearly 50,000 viewers on the 2025 final. This is the largest audience for a Eurovision Song Contest final in Denmark since the 2019 final in Tel Aviv, israel, when Leonora competed with “Love is Forever”. Semi-Final Two was followed by an audience of 563,000 viewers, and Semi-Final One by 322,000. Overall the final was the most watched TV show on Danish television last week, with Semi-Final Two third and Semi-Final one thirteenth.
Søren Torpegaard Lund represented Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with “Før Vi Går Hjem”. In the final he placed 7th with 243 points, including 12 points from the juries in Czechia and Norway, and the public in Norway.
Source: Nielsen
Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest+
Denmark debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 alongside Austria and the United Kingdom. To date, Denmark has won the contest on three occasions, the first being in 1963 when Grethe & Jorgen Ingmann performed “Dansevise”. Denmark won the contest again in 2000, represented by the Olsen Brothers. Their most recent victory came in 2013, when Emmelie de Forest performed “Only Teardrops”.