Worst to best result — 🇩🇰 Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest (1957–2024)

In this video you see a ranking from the worst to the best result of all Danish Eurovision entries. The ranking is based on both placements and amount of points. Pause the video during the info-texts in the beginning to read more about how I have calculated the ranking. Feel free to ask any questions!

Denmark was one of the first countries to debut in the second edition in 1957. They were quite successful, with a victory in 1963, despite being accused of favouring from neighbour voting. Despite the success, the Danish broadcaster did not care that much for the show. When hosting in 1964, they ”lost” the tapes and that’s why there are no full recording of the broadcast. The lack of interest died completely after their flop in 1966 and they left the contest for a long time.

In 1978 Denmark returned and stayed forever and did pretty well. A second victory was received in 2000. The following year Copenhagen hosted the show in the largest arena ever, which was criticised as too large. The audience was too loud and many people in the audience couldn’t see anything.

In 2013 they won once again in Sweden. The following year they organised one of the most extra shows ever. The stage and the interval acts had everything. They had so much planned that they had to cut out an interval act at last minute. Afterwards the bill showed that the budget had passed over 30 million. Eurovision 2014 is remembered as a spectacular show by fans, but for the Danish broadcaster it’s remembered as an infrastructural and economical nightmare. Maybe Danes shouldn’t host the contest. That seems to be the logic of the broadcaster, because in the last decade they have gotten really bad results. Currently Denmark is the country with the longest non-qualification streak.

Denmark almost always sends happy pop songs and they have only sung once in Danish since 1999.

[basquat]

It's funny that some of the most famous ones in Denmark are at the bottom of the list

[zebras]

The country that brought us the wonderful Dansevise

[AurioDK]

Dansevisen is just so beautiful, I also quite liked Fra Mols til Skagen.

[fabbi]

Denmark had such a good first half in the last decade. From 2014, then it went all downhill.

[TheMafrand]

Anders Frandsen 1991 was much better than the finishing result.

[fabbi]

#15, #12, #9, #6, #5, #4 and #1 😍

[-JustHuman-]

It went from being something refined to just "make a show or statement and get points"

[jonathsnparrish]

2002 so underrated. Really love her song

[kevinonlinegamer]

Im from denmark and i live in there my county🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

[nogen-uunu]

its criminal how low under stjernerne på himlen is

[hitrapperandartistdababy]

I swear, Higher ground waw done dirty back then

[GompBeanie]

i coundt see Reiley?? is he longer down the list :0

[oleholm]

Several of them are actually pretty good.

[Teddyngham]

I'm from Faroe Islands, the same country Reiley, the 50th best Danish result is from...

...I'm from Denmark.

[nightblue]

Why do I feel like this is a kind of an insult to Denmark?😢

[cyrilleUwU]

Why saba is 29/36 ? In 2024, 37 have competed .

[Jonath_an]

Tommy Seebach så lavt wtf?? Det er jo nok de mest kendte sange i danmark ud af dem alle. Det nok også de eneste der stadig bliver sunget😂

[Lisbeth]

Dansevisen, Only teardrops and fly on the wings of love, where true winners...the rest should never been admitted

[mathmols]

The fact that some of the best songs are at the bottom, really shows how terrible the Eurovision is.
Well I am not even surprised, it is well known that to win the Eurovision you need to be weird af/sing terrible/have a sad background… Like just look at some of the terrible winners that have been