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That's it for 2009. It's been a weird year of excess, confusion, propaganda and nostalgia.

It's certainly one of Eurovision's three-yearly inflection points. After the blow-out, what will the hangover be like?

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💬 1  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009 - Wrap Up · It was a year for burying hatchets. Time to put the past behind and move on to the future. Several traditional Eurovision nations made gestures towards…
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July 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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The juries were back in the final, and televoting wasn't smooth this year.

Would bloc-voting be stymied? Would the ballads sneak back in?

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Televoting Watch · Juries are back. After several years of complaints, the old school scoring method has returned for 2009. But only for the grand final and onl…
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July 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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It's time to look back on 2009's more interesting, distinctive entries one again.

Ding dong.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Eurovision 2009 - Interesting Entries · More entries from the wilder outreaches of the national finals. First Malta. I could have put together a whole blog about the songs from t…
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July 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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She's a one-woman tornado of activity, singing, marketing, charity and self-promotion.

But most of all, she's your anti-crisis girl. Svetlana Loboda

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Bonus Content! - Svetlana Loboda - "Be my Valentine! (Anti-crisis Girl)" · Another song that didn't make my top sixty-four, although this one perhaps should have.…
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July 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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You thought I'd missed him out!

I had.

Despite Alexander Rybak having one of the all time Eurovision songs, Fairytale holds some problems for me.
A symptom of something bruised at the heart of Europe and Eurovision in 2009.

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Bonus Content! - Alexander Rybak - "Fairytale" · So why isn't the most popular, enduring Eurovision winner ever in my top 64 for 2009? Well, there's always the…
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July 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Armenia and Azerbaijan were having a moment at Eurovision 2009.

Rising above all of that soared Inga and Anush, weaving delicate patterns around each other's voices, and with their hair through their outfits.

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💬 1  🔁 1  ❤️ 3 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 1 - Inga & Anush - "Jan Jan" · 2009 saw the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan find a new venue at Eurovision. Although actual fighting between the…
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July 16, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Portugal and RTP had their problems with the Festival da Canção in 2009, but the winner that emerged was magnificent.

Putting a smile on everyone's face were Flor-de-lis

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 3 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 2 - Flor-de-lis - "Todas As Ruas Do Amor" · The Festival da Canção 2009 was a bit of an oddball. The open submission and selection process resulted in sev…
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July 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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They're a band who had been separated by war and were now dressed like soldiers from 1812 on a stage in Moscow.

But Regina just want to protect and commemorate.

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💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 3 - Regina - "Bistra voda" · They came on stage in Moscow looking like ghosts from a Napoleonic conflict. Were the fallen returning after defending Russia…
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July 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Sandra Nurmsalu's fringe and violin wowed Eurovision in 2009.

But Urban Symphony nearly didn't make through Eesti Laul thanks to jury and superfinal shenanigans.

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💬 1  🔁 1  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 4 - Urban Symphony - "Rändajad" · Two Estonias in a row! And two songs by Sven Lõhmus in a row. What's more, as beloved as this song is among Eurovision…
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July 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Patricia Kaas was one of the most obvious internal selections for Eurovision ever, as well as one of the most professional.

She definitely puts in the hours and miles when touring.

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 0 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 13 - Patricia Kaas - "Et S'il Fallait Le Faire" · In 2009 there was one overwhelmingly obvious choice for the French Eurovision representative. France Té…
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July 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Intars Busulis hates being stuck in traffic.

Even with some clever musical tricks, it turns out the Eurovision watching public don't like to be reminded of traffic jams.

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 25 - Intars Busulis - "Probka" · Yes, it's Intars. He made it to Eurovision at his second attempt solo, fourth attempt in total. Keep on trying and just…
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June 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Bridging Europe like no one else can, Hadise may have had a really bad cold in 2009, but she's still doing everything that she can for Türkiye (and Belgium).

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 4 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 37 - Hadise - "Düm Tek Tek" · Another day, another fan favourite and top five finisher in the mid-30s on my list. What's going on?! Hadise Açıkgöz is a…
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June 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Back from her teens spent out of the spotlight, child star Yohanna created some magic at Eurovision 2009.

That her main song-writer was once the star of 1970s sex comedies comes as a surprise.

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 38 - Yohanna - "Is It True?" · Yohanna is known (in Iceland as all the articles state) as Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir. In 2009 she turned nineteen, but this…
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June 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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The very definition of a Eurovision ethnobop.

Nelly Ciobanu bring a piece of Moldova to the stage in 2009 and blesses us all with joy, luck and a man with a big stick.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 40 - Nelly Ciobanu - "Hora din Moldova" · Nelly had been winning prizes for her singing for at least ten years prior to this, including the golden prize at…
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June 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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2009 was the year Eurolaul became Eesti Laul, but they were still in the same TV studio in Tallinn.

The music selection is evolving more towards what Estonia has become known for though. This year it's indie-rock with StereoChemistry.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 45 - StereoChemistry - "Öösiti kõndides" · Occasionally an unknown student band gets to sneak into a national final. Unheralded, unknown but they've got a…
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June 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Ireland were pretty much the only Eurovision country who had managed to sneak a girl-fronted rock act through to the main event in 2009.

To do it, there had to be sacrifices...

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 46 - Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy - "Et Cetera" · RTÉ in Ireland had settled on the qualification format that would become a staple. Six songs and a Late L…
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June 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Kejsi Tola had only just turned seventeen when she performed for Albania on the Eurovision stage in Moscow.

If the staging was any indication, she was having some exceptionally strange dreams.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 54 - Kejsi Tola - "Carry Me In Your Dreams" · Kejsi Tola was having one of those careers in the music industry that starts with a sudden burst of intense f…
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May 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Chiara's third and final Eurovision appearance was in 2009, and if anyone has a voice big enough to fill that massive arena, it's her.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 57 - Chiara - "What If We" · Chiara Siracusa returned to Eurovision in 2009 for her third tilt at the title. She'd almost done it in 1998, losing out with…
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May 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Serbian wedding traditions are an unusual subject for a Eurovision song, but then why not?

Marko Kon, Milaan and his accordion almost made it to the 2009 Eurovision grand final. Almost.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009 - Number 59 - Marko Kon & Milaan - "Cipela" · Marko Kon is a name who was already well known in the Serbian national final Beovizija as well as the wider Serbian m…
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May 19, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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The postcards for Eurovision 2009 were minimalist when the rest of the competition had gone large.

They did feature a Miss World, some language lessons, and a sense of humour.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009: The Postcards · This year's postcards are little different to those of the previous years. Each one features Ksenia Sukhinova, model and reigning Miss World at th…
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May 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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2009 had jacket mishaps, tanks on stage, dancing bears, and some acrobats flopping around in plastic bags filled with water.

The Eurovision 2009 Interval Acts.

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💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 0 · Eurovision 2009: The Interval Act and Other Performances · Two semi-finals and a final require three opening acts and three interval acts. Although the big names were reserved for…
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May 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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2009 was certainly a maximalist Eurovision. It was vast. Perhaps slightly too big.

Did they really use 30% of the world's entire supply of LED screens?

Stage and set design detail for 2009.

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Eurovision 2009: The Stage and Set Design · The stage that was built for the 2009 contest is the stuff of legend and hyperbole. 30% of the world's entire stock of LED screens bein…
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May 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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The juries returned in 2009, but only in the final. How would that affect the scoreboards? Would bloc voting be a thing of the past?

Here are the scoreboards for 2009.

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💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009: The Scoreboards · C1R had opted for a simple clean scoreboard and graphics for 2009. Reminiscent of contemporary user interface design, all corners neatly round w…
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May 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Despite one fewer country attending Eurovision in 2009, there were still over 100 more songs in contention than the year before.

That's a lot of songs...

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Eurovision 2009: Qualification · There were slightly fewer countries this year, forty-two. Despite persistent rumours about Monaco returning, and there was the on-again, off-again…
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May 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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2009 is here and yes, it's in Moscow. They have at least brought the juries back for the final after last year's weirdness and turkey-related complaints.

There are two sets of hosts for the semis and the final. Will that be a success?

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · Eurovision 2009: Welcome to Moscow! · Another year, another new host. Eurovision travels to Moscow where Russia are determined to show their money and their might. Somewhat unusu…
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May 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM