Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978
| Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1978 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) | |||
| Country | Norway | |||
| Selection process | Melodi Grand Prix 1978 | |||
| Selection date | 18 March 1978 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Mil etter mil" | |||
| Artist | Jahn Teigen | |||
| Songwriter | Kai Eide | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 20th, 0 points | |||
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Norway was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 with the song "Mil etter mil", written by Kai Eide, and performed by Jahn Teigen. The Norwegian participating broadcaster, Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), selected its entry through the Melodi Grand Prix 1978. Teigen would also represent Norway in 1982 and 1983.
"Mil etter mil" is famous both for Teigen's notoriously bizarre stage performance in Paris, and for being the first song ever to score nul-points under the 12 points voting system. (It was said that one of the reasons for the introduction of the current system in 1975 had been that the European Broadcasting Union had considered it unlikely in the extreme that any song would finish the evening with a zero with national juries now able to vote for ten songs, rather than the three or five which had been the case with previous ranking systems used in the 1960s and which had led to so many going home empty-handed.)