Eurovision 2009 Moscow – Alexander Rybak – “Fairytale” (Norway)

Alexander Rybak won the final of the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix 2009 and will be representing Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, singing Fairytale, a song inspired by Russian and Norwegian folk music. The song was composed and written by Rybak himself. The song is performed with the modern folk dance company Frikar. The song has received good reviews with a 6 out of 6 from Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.In an ESCtoday poll he was the lead in a poll with 71.3% to get into the final from the semi he was in.

Rybak achieved a clean sweep, gaining the top score of all nine voting districts, ending with a combined televote and jury score of 747,888, whereas the runner up Tone Damli Aaberge received a combined score of merely 121,856.^[8]

The song competed in the second semi-final and won a place in the Eurovision final.

Popularity: 41% [?]

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