The Nordic countries enjoyed an excellent Eurovision 2009, with all five Nordic songs progressing to the final and Norway and Iceland ending up first and second.
Norway were runaway winners on the night in Moscow with 387 points, including top marks (12 points) from 16 countries.
Iceland came second with 218 points, including ‘Douze Points’ from three countries: Norway, Malta and Ireland.
In third place was Azerbaijan with a very respectable 207 points.
Iceland’s Johanna (Yohanna) Gudrun Jonsdottir equalled her country’s best showing when Selma also bagged second in 1999.
Norway’s Alexander Rybak brings Eurovision home for the third time after Norwegian victories in 1985 and 1995.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 will take place in Norway.
(Photo: mbl.is/Reuters)
According to me, Iceland was the best, but unfortunately more countries did not have the same opinion. :-)))) Greeting from Slovakia.
Jeremy. In what world are you living? It’s public vote! Did you get it? Not yet? Then try to guess why Germany, France and Belgium voted for Turkey and Azerbaijan… Still didn’t get it?
Because there are HUGE Turkey and Azer diaspora of all over Europe (that’s why in some places it’s no longer Europe). And they will vote for their streaptese dancers (as it’s hard to call them singers) no matter what.
And Malta, Sweden and UK can blame only themselves for poor performance – wrong music, wrong lyrics and in wrong time ….
“So no longer the country of Nul Points, norway goes on to win the damn thing!” It’s really funny to see how the “nul points” label is still sticking to Norway after some dismal results 30-40 years ago. Since 1985, Norway has now won the Eurovision Song Contest three times, and was the best Western European nation even last year, ending 5th. I’d say that’s a well-above-average performance for a country of its size.
I still cannot digest the maltese and the swedish points! How come they’ve been much better than that, then Azerbaijan 3rd!!!! I liked the winning song and Iceland both of them deserved it but still I am disappointed of the results in general. As long the votes are coming from european jury it will be always corruption I ask myself will it not be better if the jury will be out of europe if we cannot handle a fair play?! This joke has to stop one day!!!
Iceland was amazing and deserved 2nd by far!
However Norway was the favourite to win and got had a good song.
But to be honest I liked Iceland better.
Eurovision= Nul points
Please stop it. Now. Really, its not even funny anymore.
Its now gone from comedy to tragedy. Because that’s what it is, when we are dealing with people of low self-respect and high ambitions performing for people of low cultural standards and bad taste. Who, on top of this, sometimes may even think that they have a sense of humour.
SIR EURO is being an arse again…
Thank you Eastern Europe for helping Norway and Iceland to win!
Also with me being an American, the song from Rybak of Norway is really very similiar to very old Southern folk songs of the 1800’s. In others words, this for us in American is like music for village folks.
YEAH, BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT JOHANA´S SONG WAS A BAD TASTE ( THE LIRICS ARE VERY POOR) COUNTRY SONG, SANG AS IF IT WAS THE TITANIC SONG AND WEARING A DRESS LIKE IN A DISNEY MOVIE. ANY COUNTRY SINGER OF THE MIDWEST AT ANY BAR AND SINGING AFTER HAVING 10 BEERS COULD PERFORM WAY MUCH BETTER THAN THIS JOHANA. JOHANAS PERFORMANCE WAS SO ARTIFICIAL, YOU JUST HAVE TO SEE HER HOW SHE SMILED SO ARTIFICIALLY WHEN SHE JUST FINNISHED SINGING… SHE WAS DRY ACTING. WE WHERE LAUGHING SO MUCH WHEN WE SAW HER COMING ON STAGE ON HER DISNEYLAND PRINCESS DRESS… HAHAHAHAH AND SHE WAS HORRIBLE SINGING…
SIMPLY HORRIBLE…
ANDY, EUROVISION IS A VERY POLITICALLY INFLUENCED SONG CONTEST… NORWAY WON BECAUSE THE GUY IS AN EASTERN EUROPEAN… HE DOES NOT LOOK NORWEGIAN AT ALL… AND HE HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF RUSSIAN SPEAKING HERE AND THERE… YOU SAW HE GOT MOST OF HIS VOTES FROM EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES…
AND JOHANA WAS ABOUT HOW FAMOUS IS ICELAND NOW BECUASE OF ITS ECONOMIC RUIN… BUT SHE IS A HORRIBLE SINGER..
WELL, NORWAY WON EUROVISION BECAUSE IT WAS A FOREIGN GUY SINGING, WITH LOTS OF PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER. I DON´T THINK THERE IS A SINGLE SCANDINAVIAN WHO COULD BE THAT EXPRESIVE AND SENSATIONAL… WELL, LETS SAY THAT NORWAY HAD TO USE THE “IMPORTED” FORCE TO BE ABLE TO WIN…
AND AS FOR ICELAND, WELL, I THINK THE ECONOMIC CRISIS MADE THE COUNTRY GOOD AT THE END. ICELAND HAS BEEN SO FAMOUS LATELY FOR THE CORRUPTION SCANDALS AND FOR BEING BAGGING FOR MONEY THAT THERE IS NOT A SINGLE NATION THAT HAS NOT NOTICED IT. SO YES, BEFORE NO ONE CARED ABOUT ICELAND, BUT YOU ARE FAMOUS!!
CAN YOU SEE HOW MUCH IMPACT ALL THE PUBLICITY HAS? IT IS LIKE HOLLYWOOD STARS AND SINGERS ,THEY SELL MORE WHEN THEY HAVE PROBLEMS, USE DRUGS, GET DIVORCED AND STUFF LIKE THAT…
BUT APART OF THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS, I THINK JOHANA COULD NOT EVEN MAKE IT IN THE CHEAPEST COUNTRY SONG CONTEST OF THE MIDDLE WEST. HER SONG WAS TOTALLY HORRIBLE, HER VOICE IS MEDIOCRE- TO VERY BAD… SHE WAS SINGING A VERY BAD COUNTRY-STYLE SONG AND KIND OF TRYING TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THE TITANIC SONG…
HORRIBLE REALLY…
My wife who is Ukrainain (I’m American) are really quite stunned at the final results. I thought that Yohanna was simply stunning in both her performance and stage set.
This really upset us when Yohanna came in second.
For us to watch Lithuania an Malta finish so poorly is really a testament to very poor judging.
Also with me being an American, the song from Rybak of Norway is really very similiar to very old Southern folk songs of the 1800′s. In others words, this for us in American is like music for village folks. For a musical act like this to appeal to Europeans (especially Russians) is really quite bizarre.
I live in Moscow, Russia. My wife and me visited “Dress Rehearsals” of first and second semi-finals. We have listen all of promo-video before it and Yohanna didn’t impressed us so much.
But live performance of Yohanna just made us crazy. It was wonderfull! The best song and the best voice.
In Final voting we voted to Yohanna, we made a call from home-phone and we sent 3 SMS with “07″ from mobile-phones to Yohanna song. It was very strange, but we couldn’t send SMS or called after 7-8 minutes of voting :-(. May be it was thechnical failure.
Yohanna – the best singer of ESC 2009!!!
But I felt a shame when I find out that Russia marked only 3 to Iceland :-( I read russian blogs, a lot of people mean that Iceland and Estonia are the best! Especialy Yohanna from Iceland. “Disney’s Princess with a wonderfull voice and a magic song”.
Ours congratulations to Iceland and Norway, it’s real success!!! Second place – it very very good… And we wish success to Yohanna!!!
Russia loves Yohanna :-)
i think Eurovision is a song contest ! nothing to do with politics or arguments between countries …. what do you say Alexander E ? “IS IT TRUE” ?? lol ;-)
It’s not her time :-)
>This is what Icelanders need. I meet to much of them saying “What can we do – we are so small!”
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>DO YOUR BEST!!!
Yes. Of course pessamist like Easy will have some other idea.
I didnt think much of Norway song either, but think it is a relief that Iceland do not have to host the song contest next year.
It would be possible but of course we not have our oil and gas money by then — 3 years to go for that I expect — and Norway does have they cash flow from it now.
Many Icelander will be going to Norway next year for the show I expect though.
Ofcourse, UK did deserve, points from iceland. Everyone ofcourse deserved. Cant find anyone in this competition that did not deserve points.
Iceland deffenetly deserve the 2nd place, and norway the 1st and by a CLEAR MILLE, Iceland couldn’t spect for more(thank God!! we dont even have the money to hold it)but coulden’t spect for less either, now lets be carefull, because this is the perfect oportunity for the goberment to give some good old fashon “CIRCUS FOR THE MASSES” so lets not loose sight of what matters(really, whats eurovision after all?)because 1 or 2 weeks of jeepy, jeepy!! is the perfect oportunity for them to help you forget whats going on, and more over perfect oportunity for them on some “desition makeing”.
They allready working on it:
“Timabært að njóta velgengni”
“Jóhönnu fagnað á Austurvelli síðdegis”
“Útvarpsstjóri: Jóhönna er ljós í myrkri”
“Forsætisráðherra hringdi í nöfnu sína”
“Forsetahjónin sendu hamingjuóskir”
“Is it true? vinsælasta lagið í Svíþjóð”
“„Þetta er eins og ljós í myrkrinu, líkt og loforð um betri tíð,” (please!! this is just riduculos)
All this means absolutely nothing to Iceland and will bring absolutely NOTHING to our current situation,(exept a little boost for the self-esteem) how can a second place in a singing competition be a light in the dark, or signs of better times?
Well just a bit of reallity in the middle of this. sorry if I’m beeing a partty-pooper, fore all of those who like to live in a wonderfull world.
yes and belgium 1 point.
well done iceland.
mark from belgium
I’ve got 2 reasons to be happy: I like very much Scandinavian countries and their people, and it’s nice to know that next Contest takes place in not-eastern country. I’m waiting for Oslo-Show. :)
so the UK entry didn’t deserve any points from iceland then ???
So no longer the country of Nul Points, norway goes on to win the damn thing! Mind you i wasn´t very impressed with the song. But it did get a large amount of support from all over the continent, so perhaps this new voting system may be working…
AS for Iceland, this was the best result they could expect. My wife and her mates were more relieved with second place. Most of them were going “Sh*t, what if we win it? We would be bankrupted!!”
OOOOOOOOOOOoo Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Azerbaijan number1.
Johanna was the best singer but she couldn’t beat the “cute beast” ;-) He got support from all Baltic countries (as Norvegian singer), from all ex-USSR countries (as he was born there) and from all girls and ladies (who are more active in voting than boys and men who voted for Johanna).
BUT! She beat crap our of turko-azero crap supported by all turks and azers all over Europe!
And I have the only explanation with just 3 points to Iceland from Russia. As it was rather late and Russia has 11 time zones – eastern parts of the country didn’t vote really. And in the west part too many guys from Azerbaijan are living (maybe more than in Azerbaidjan itself). Otherwise – ***k you, guys, for you 3 points (as my daughter said).
And congratulation!!!
This is what Icelanders need. I meet to much of them saying “What can we do – we are so small!”
DO YOUR BEST!!!
Congratulations Norway
As usual, generalized corruption.
Can anybody understand the 23 spanish points? It has been GREAT!!!
Can anybody understand the 33 swedish or the 31 maltese points? Those girls are angels! Their songs are great!!!
And, can anybody understand the 207, 177 and 103 points – Azerbaijan, Turkey and Bosnia – ??? Ohhh … yes!! … my neighbor, my cousin, my ally, my godfather, my ‘silicone’ … : corruption.
We are disappointed; Spain is disappointed with this trick!
And certainly, by all means, the best song this year: I C E L A N D ! ! ! !
CONGRATULATIONS ICELAND !
Fantastic results!
norway is the best one. The singer Alexander Rybak created memorable image. But Yohanna!!!! she has really fantastic voice…she is really nice girl. IT’S TRUE!
Iceland was the best !!!