Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th Eurovision Song Contest, it was held in Moscow, Russia after Dima Bilan won the 2008 contest for Russia with Believe. The semi finals took place on May 12 and May 14 and the final was held on May 16. It was won by Alexander Rybak for Norway with Fairytale.

There were 42 countries taking part with Slovakia making a return for the first time in 11 years and San Marino and Georgia, two countries from last year, not appearing in the contest.

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Montenegro	English	Andrea Demirović	"Just get out of my life"	-	11	44
02	Czech Republic	Gypsy	Gipsy.cz	Aven Romale	Come on, Gypsy	18	0
03	Belgium	English	Copycat	Copycat	-	17	1
04	Belarus	English	Petr Elfimov	Eyes that never lie	-	13	25
05	Sweden	English, French	Malena Ernman	La voix	The voice	4	105
06	Armenia	English, Armenian	Inga & Anush	Jan Jan	-	5	99
07	Andorra	English, Spanish	Susanne Georgi	"La teva decisió (Get a life)"	-	15	8
08	Switzerland	English	Lovebugs	The highest heights		14	13
09	Turkey	English	Hadise	Düm tek tek	-	2	172

Spokespersons

• Albania - Leon Menkshi
• Armenia - Sirusho
• Belgium - Maureem Louys
• Bosnia&Herzegovina - Elvir Laković Laka
• Estonia - Laura Põldvere
• Germany - Thomas Anders
• Greece - Alexis Kostas
• Hungary - Éva Novodomszky
• Russia - Ingeborga Dapkunaité
• Serbia - Jovana Janković
• Slovenia - Peter Poles
• Turkey - Meltem Yazgan
• Ukraine - Marysia Horobets

Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Media

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  Olimpiysky Arena, Moscow – host venue of the 2009 contest.

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       Countries in the first semi-final      Countries in the second semi-final      Countries voting in the first semi-final      Countries voting in the second semi-final

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  Alexander Rybak after winning the final.

References

• Eurovision Fun Clup ESC Archived 2009-02-18 at the Wayback Machine