Fairytale

Tonight, Russian broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest, RTR, hosted the show that would decide who would represent Russia in Oslo. Peter Nalitch won the ticket with the song Lost And Forgotten.

Swedish broadcaster, SVT has revealed the full results of the public phone vote. Unsurprisingly, Norway came out on top.

The father of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest winner has told the story about how he escaped the KGB who were chasing him, ended up in Norway and later managed to get his wife and their little son, Alexander to follow him.

For the second week in a row the Finnish single top20 features four of the entries from the newly held Eurovision Song Contest. All of them have suffered a little drop though compared to the first week where three of them were placed as second, third and fourth.

The polish broadcaster has today released the full televoting & jury results from the 2009 semifinal and final. Results shows that Azerbaijan scored a huge win in the semifinal over Norway and that Denmark benefited a lot from the jury.

Eurovision Song Contest winner Alexander Rybak is popular in both the Netherlands and Belgium. De Toppers is doing well on the Dutch chart and in Belgium Hadise is on both the ones from Flanders and Wallonia, although the two charts are very different.

It is not common that a Eurovision Song Contest winner makes it to the UK chart – or that their own participant does. Both Alexander Rybak and Jade Ewen made it – together with the official album with all 42 participating songs.