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The Full Results: Saved by the Jury

Posted 17 May, 2009 - 23:47 by Steve Paxton

The results of both semifinals have now been released by the EBU. They make interesting reading. The jury overturned the telephone vote to save countries in each of the semifinals. Quite annoying if your country finished 10th in the phone vote.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2009: The Day the Music Triumphed

Posted 17 May, 2009 - 10:23 by Steve Paxton

Alexander Rybak {Copyright:Charlotte Jensen, EuroVisionary}

In a contest which nobody could call close, Norway won the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in the Olympiyskiy Arena in Moscow. He scored a record 387 points, leaving him a long way in front of Iceland and Azerbaijan in second and third places respectively.

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Eurovision 2009: Day 7 Press Conferences

Posted 10 May, 2009 - 00:24 by Steve Paxton

Alex Swings, Oscar Sings © Indrek Galetin, EBU

A week into rehearsals and finally the five countries already in the final took to the stage. Before that, it was the turn of some of the remaining countries in Thursday’s second semifinal to rehearse for the second time.

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Can One of the Big 4 Win?

Posted 23 April, 2009 - 00:31 by Steve Paxton

Over the last couple of weeks, Eurovisionary has assessed the chances of the songs competing in the semifinals. Now it is time to analyse the chances of the ‘big 4’ and the hosts.

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2009de Alex Swings; Oscar Sings - Miss Kiss Kiss Bang

Posted 9 April, 2009 - 22:26 by Serkan Uluçay

Alex & Oscar will be representing Germany at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest with this song called Miss Kiss Kiss Bang. Last year Germany were in the final where they finished 23rd.

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High Five for the Big Four

Posted 1 March, 2009 - 15:09 by Steve Paxton

They have come in for a lot of criticism since the introduction of the semifinals, but the Big Four are showing that this year, they really do mean business.