10.
As we close the Noughties we find the contest in Moscow for the first time in its entire history. The show was off the scale and seemed to be have reached a new level of excess. It was rumoured that Russian television had used nearly half the worlds LED screens for their stage at the 2009 contest. The winner however would come from the old Eurovision family. Alexander Rybak’s Fairytale was the outright and hot pre-contest favourite to take the prize. And he did so in spectacular fashion by winning with an overwhelming majority of 387 points giving Norway its third victory in the history of the contest. Ryback’s Fairytale charted across Europe and even made it into the American Billboard charts giving Eurovision its biggest hit song since really Gina G’s Oooh ahh in 1996.
