VENUE Olympic Indoor Arena, Moscow		ENTRIES 25
HOSTS Alsou Ivan Urgant		DEBUTS None

The 2009 contest saw an attempt by the European Broadcasting Union to rein in the excesses of 100% public voting by ensuring that 50% of each country's vote came from a jury of five musical experts. This did not apply to the semi-finals though, and pretty much all the countries who qualified in 2008 also did so a year later, with the exception of Serbia (kept out by the one "jury save" going to Croatia in a delicious snippet of Balkan irony).

Come the final though, the voting change immediately manifested itself after just a few set of votes, and by the end of voting, Ukraine, Greece, Russia and Armenia were licking their wounds to the general delight of contest fans from virtually everywhere else.  At last a song could prosper no matter how few ex-pats or neighbours it had. 

The other story of 2009 of course is the utter supremacy of Norway.  Quite possibly the biggest Eurovision landslide of all time (we're still measuring Alexander against Gigliola and Sandie!), the voting rapidly became a race for second place. But a vibrant race with genuine excitement at where each "douze points" was going.  Eurovision is back with a boom bang a bang!    

WINNER: Norway

FAIRYTALE by Alexander Rybak

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