This year, the 16th May it is 10 years ago since Alexander Rybak won the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia, with his self-composed song “Fairytale”.
This is an overview of his footsteps through many events and media appearances in throughout these two busy and exciting weeks all the way to the big victory in the Grand Final and then to the celebrations both in Russia and Norway - with many video interviews in Norwegian, English or Russian, partially with translation in subtitles.
After three semi-finals winning in the biggest landslide in the history of the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix on 21 February 2009, Alexander's "Fairytale" won in the Grand Final of ESC in Moscow with the highest recorded score since the contest began, with 387 points (out of a maximum of 492), and with a margin of 169 points over the second place.
After three semi-finals winning in the biggest landslide in the history of the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix on 21 February 2009, Alexander's "Fairytale" won in the Grand Final of ESC in Moscow with the highest recorded score since the contest began, with 387 points (out of a maximum of 492), and with a margin of 169 points over the second place.
