Norway Win Eurovision 2009
Posted Sat 16 May 2009 11:36PM BST by Hammy Syzmek in The Guestlist
Singer and violinist Alexander Rybak has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest for Norway with his song "Fairytale".
Iceland came second in the contest followed by Azerbaijan in third and Turkey in fourth place.
Jade Ewen finished fifth with her Andrew Lloyd Webber penned track "It's My Time" giving the United Kingdom their best result in years.
Watch Norway's winning performance below or click here for a full list of winners.

Norway's song was okay, after I heard it for a second time, but there were other songs far better. As for UK (Royaume Uni) it all looked promising from the first few votes, 10, 10, 8 etc... but then clearly Norway were onto a winner. Maybe I heard a different version to the rest of Europe. Incidentally, he is Russian descent ... living in Norway!! Interesting.
Maybe, if UK adopted the Euro, and really considered themselves European, fully integrating, then we would win. We are Europeans/Europhiles by lip service alone.
Jade did a good job; the song was okay, not stunning, but she belted her heart out and hit the notes. I think Malta should have received more than it did and Germany too (if swing is your thing) obviously not for Europe!!
Oh well, off to Norway next year then - should be nice. Love Scandinavian countries.
The record version with all its "adjustments" faer better.
Strange the UK entry the only "coloured" entry from all of Europe.
And for all those saying the UK doesnt have any talent, you know what to do.
LMFAO!!!! LMFAO!!!!!!!!! hilarious! im english yet its so true haa!
Plus, the guy can play the violin very well and the dancers were quite good themselves. The performance was also rather unusual, so yeah, I liked it.
I wanted germany to win :( gutting
i didnt like Norway to begin with but i heard the song a few times and i guess it was probably the best entry, however my favourite was finland or moldova (:
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Well done Graham!!
Back to the constest - not the best song to win, but clearly that is the type of music the rest of Europe are going for - think about it, it is kinda like your typical EV song, isn't it.
UK deserved better postitioning - Jade did a great job even though the song was a bit West End(ish) - what happened to any votes for Malta, Germany, Sweden? They were good songs. OMG, did you see Russia's entry, with the face turning old? It was freaky to say the least and what a screecher the singer was - awful! I bet Vladimir Putin is sooooooo embarrassed this morning!
The UK need to get a real feel-good-factor song, something that mentions, love, peace, harmony, fishing, Euro, jobs in UK for all, free housing blah, de blah!