Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Dates
Semi-final 1	12 May 2009 (2009-05-12)
Semi-final 2	14 May 2009 (2009-05-14)
Final	16 May 2009 (2009-05-16)
Host
Venue	Olimpiysky Arena Moscow, Russia
Presenter(s)	Semi-finals: Natalia Vodianova Andrey Malakhov Final: Ivan Urgant Alsou Abramova[1]
Directed by	Andrei Boltenko
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Yury Aksyuta
Host broadcaster	Channel One (C1R)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/moscow-2009
Participants
Number of entries	42
Number of finalists	25
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Slovakia
Non-returning countries	Georgia  San Marino
Participation map      Finalist countries     Countries eliminated in the semi-finals     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2009
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Winning song	Norway "Fairytale"
2008 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2010

The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Moscow, Russia, following the country's victory at the 2008 contest with the song "Believe" by Dima Bilan. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Channel One (C1R), the contest was held at the Olimpiysky Arena, and consisted of two semi-finals on 12 and 14 May, and a final on 16 May 2009. The semi-finals were presented by Russian model Natalia Vodianova and television presenter Andrey Malakhov, while the final was presented by Russian television presenter Ivan Urgant and former Russian contestant Alsou Abramova, becoming the first and to date only time that two different sets of presenters had hosted the semi-finals and finals.

Forty-two countries participated in the contest, down one from the record forty-three the year before. Slovakia returned to the contest for the first time since 1998, while San Marino did not enter due to financial issues. Latvia and Georgia originally announced their intention not to participate, but it was later stated by the EBU that both countries would participate.^[2] However, Georgia later decided to withdraw after the EBU rejected its selected song as being a breach of the contest's rules.

The winner was Norway with the song "Fairytale", performed and written by Alexander Rybak. The song won both the jury vote and televote and received 387 points out of a possible 492, at the time the highest total score in the history of the contest. Iceland, Azerbaijan, Turkey and the United Kingdom rounded out the top five, with the latter achieving its best placing since 2002. Iceland's second-place finish was the country's best placing in a decade.

After criticism of the voting system in 2007, changes in the voting procedure were finally made prior to this contest, with the re-introduction of a national jury alongside televoting for the final, while the format of the semi-finals remained the same.

Location[edit]

The contest was held in Russia following its victory in the 2008 contest in Belgrade, Serbia, with Dima Bilan's "Believe".^[3] Vladimir Putin, then-Prime Minister of Russia, stated that the contest would be held in Moscow.^[4]

It was proposed by Channel One that the contest be held in Moscow's Olimpiysky Arena, and this proposal was evaluated by the EBU and confirmed on 13 September 2008.^[4][5] The Director-General of the venue, Vladimir Churilin, refuted rumours of an emergency reconstruction of the building, saying: "It will not be required for the Eurovision Song Contest. We now can take up to 25 thousand spectators."^{[citation needed]}

Participating countries[edit]

Following the release of the final participants list by the EBU, 42 countries confirmed their participation in the 2009 contest, including Slovakia, which returned to the contest after 11 years.^[2][6] Georgia originally announced that it was not to participate in the contest due to the Russo-Georgian War in protest of the foreign policies of Russia,^[7][8] but later decided to return to the contest, inspired by its win at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008, as well as Russia's 12 points to it in the same contest.^[9][10] The country eventually withdrew from the contest due to its entry being deemed to contain political references, including in the title a play on words of Russia's prime minister's surname.^[11]

Rumours arose surrounding the participation and return of San Marino and Monaco. Télé Monte Carlo (TMC), the Monegasque broadcaster, confirmed that there were talks with the EBU over a Monegasque return to the 2009 contest.^[12] At the same time, rumours spread that San Marino's broadcaster, Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV), would not participate in the contest due to poor placing at the 2008 contest.^[13] In the end, after originally confirming their intent to participate in Moscow, SMRTV was forced to withdraw from the event due to financial difficulties that prevented a second entry.^[14][15]

The Latvian broadcaster, Latvijas Televīzija (LTV), had reportedly withdrawn from the 2009 contest on 17 December 2008, three days after the final participation deadline. This came about due to budget cuts of over 2 million lati (2.8 million euros) from the LTV budget, hindering their ability to pay the participation fee.^[16] LTV confirmed that they had informed the EBU of their intent to withdraw based solely on financial difficulties. LTV then went into discussions with the EBU in an attempt to find a solution that would keep the country in the contest.^[17][18] On 20 December 2008, LTV announced that it would be withdrawing from the contest, and that both the EBU and Channel One had agreed not to force a financial penalty on the late withdrawal of the broadcaster from the 2009 contest. LTV also announced its intent to be at the 2010 contest.^[19][20] However, on 12 January 2009, it was announced that Latvia would participate in the 2009 contest.^[2] Each country chose its entry for the contest through its own selection process. Some countries selected their entry through an internal selection, where the representing network chose both the song and artist, while others held national finals where the public chose the song, the artist, or both.

Thirty-seven countries participated in one of the two semi-finals of the contest.^[2] The semi-final allocation draw took place on 30 January 2009,^[21][22] while the draw for the running order was held on 16 March 2009.^[23][24]

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009^[25][26]

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)
Albania	RTSH	Kejsi Tola	"Carry Me in Your Dreams"	English	Agim Doçi Edmond Zhulali
Andorra	RTVA	Susanne Georgi	"La teva decisió (Get a Life)"	Catalan, English	Rune Braager Lene Dissing Pernille Georgi Susanne Georgi Josep Roca Vila Marcus Winther-John
Armenia	AMPTV	Inga and Anush	"Jan Jan" (Ջան Ջան)	English, Armenian	Avet Barseghyan Mane Hakobyan Vardan Zadoyan
Azerbaijan	İTV	Aysel and Arash	"Always"	English	Johan Bejerholm Marcus Englöf Arash Labaf Alex Papaconstantinou Robert Uhlmann Anderz Wrethov Elin Wrethov
Belarus	BTRC	Petr Elfimov	"Eyes That Never Lie"	English	Petr Elfimov Valery Prokhozhy
Belgium	RTBF	Copycat	"Copycat"	English	Jacques Duvall Benjamin Schoos
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT	Regina	"Bistra voda"	Bosnian	Aleksandar Čović
Bulgaria	BNT	Krassimir Avramov	"Illusion"	English	Krassimir Avramov Casie Tabanau William Tabanau
Croatia	HRT	Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea	"Lijepa Tena"	Croatian	Tonči Huljić Vjekoslava Huljić
Cyprus	CyBC	Christina Metaxa	"Firefly"	English	Nikolas Metaxas
Czech Republic	ČT	Gipsy.cz	"Aven Romale"	English, Romani	Radoslav "Gipsy" Banga
Denmark	DR	Brinck	"Believe Again"	English	Lars Halvor Jensen Ronan Keating Martin Michael Larsson
Estonia	ERR	Urban Symphony	"Rändajad"	Estonian	Sven Lõhmus
Finland	YLE	Waldo's People	"Lose Control"	English	Karima Annie Kratz-Gutå Ari Lehtonen Waldo
France	France Télévisions	Patricia Kaas	"Et s'il fallait le faire"	French	Fred Blondin Anse Lazio
Germany	NDR[a]	Alex Swings Oscar Sings!	"Miss Kiss Kiss Bang"	English	Alex Christensen Steffen Häfelinger
Greece	ERT	Sakis Rouvas	"This Is Our Night"	English	Cameron Giles-Webb Dimitris Kontopoulos Craig Porteils
Hungary	MTV	Zoli Ádok	"Dance with Me"	English	Kasai Zé Szabó
Iceland	RÚV	Yohanna	"Is It True?"	English	Tinatin Japaridze Christopher Neil Óskar Páll Sveinsson
Ireland	RTÉ	Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy	"Et Cetera"	English	Jonas Gladnikoff Niall Mooney Daniele Moretti Christina Schilling
Israel	IBA	Noa and Mira Awad	"There Must Be Another Way"	English, Hebrew, Arabic	Mira Awad Gil Dor Noa
Latvia	LTV	Intars Busulis	"Probka" (Пробка)	Russian	Jānis Elsbergs Kārlis Lācis Sergejs Timofejevs
Lithuania	LRT	Sasha Son	"Love"	English, Russian	Dmitrij Šavrov
Macedonia	MRT	Next Time	"Nešto što kje ostane" (Нешто што ќе остане)	Macedonian	Jovan Jovanov Damjan Lazarov Elvir Mekić
Malta	PBS	Chiara	"What If We"	English	Gregory Bilsen Marc Paelinck
Moldova	TRM	Nelly Ciobanu	"Hora din Moldova"	Romanian, English	Nelly Ciobanu Veaceslav Daniliuc Andrei Hadjiu
Montenegro	RTCG	Andrea Demirović	"Just Get Out of My Life"	English	Bernd Meinunger José Juan Santana Rodríguez Ralph Siegel
Netherlands	NOS	The Toppers	"Shine"	English	Gordon Heuckeroth
Norway	NRK	Alexander Rybak	"Fairytale"	English	Alexander Rybak
Poland	TVP	Lidia Kopania	"I Don't Wanna Leave"	English	Dee Adam Rike Boomgaarden Alex Geringas Bernd Klimpel
Portugal	RTP	Flor-de-Lis	"Todas as ruas do amor"	Portuguese	Pedro Marques Paulo Pereira
Romania	TVR	Elena	"The Balkan Girls"	English	Ovidiu Bistriceanu Laurențiu Duță Daris Mangal Alexandru Pelin
Russia	C1R	Anastasia Prikhodko	"Mamo" (Мамо)	Russian, Ukrainian	Diana Golde Konstantin Meladze
Serbia	RTS	Marko Kon and Milaan	"Cipela" (Ципела)	Serbian	Aleksandar Kobac Marko Kon Milan Nikolić
Slovakia	STV	Kamil Mikulčík and Nela Pocisková	"Leť tmou"	Slovak	Rastislav Dubovský Petronela Kolevská Anna Žigová
Slovenia	RTVSLO	Quartissimo feat. Martina	"Love Symphony"	English, Slovene	Andrej Babić Saša Lendero
Spain	RTVE	Soraya Arnelas	"La noche es para mí"	Spanish	Jason Gill Irini Michas Felipe Pedroso Dimitri Stassos
Sweden	SVT	Malena Ernman	"La Voix"	French, English	Malena Ernman Fredrik Kempe
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Lovebugs	"The Highest Heights"	English	Lovebugs Florian Senn Adrian Sieber Thomas Rechberger
Turkey	TRT	Hadise	"Düm Tek Tek"	English	Hadise Açıkgöz Sinan Akçıl Stefaan Fernande
Ukraine	NTU	Svetlana Loboda	"Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)"	English	Svetlana Loboda Yevgeny Matyushenko
United Kingdom	BBC	Jade Ewen	"It's My Time"	English	Andrew Lloyd Webber Diane Warren

Returning artists[edit]

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Chiara	Malta	1998 and 2005
Petr Elfimov	Belarus	2004 (as backing singer for Aleksandra and Konstantin)
Sakis Rouvas	Greece	2004, 2006 (as host)
Alexandros Panayi (backing singer for Rouvas)		For  Cyprus: 1989 (as backing singer for Fani Polymeri and Yiannis Savvidakis), 1991 (as backing singer for Elena Patroklou), 1995, 2000 (as member of Voice) For Greece: 2005 (as backing singer for Helena Paparizou)
Martina	Slovenia	2003 (for  Croatia, as backing singer for Claudia Beni), 2007 (as backing singer for Alenka Gotar), 2008 (for  Montenegro, as backing singer for Stefan Filipović)
Friðrik Ómar (backing singer for Yohanna)	Iceland	2008 (as member of Euroband)

Format[edit]

Thirty-seven countries participated in one of the two semi-finals of the contest, with the "Big Four" countries (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the host (Russia) pre-qualified for the final.^[2] In addition to those pre-qualified, the final also included the ten selected countries from each semi-final, making a total of twenty-five participants.

A discussion on changes to the format of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest had taken place at an EBU meeting in Athens, Greece in June 2008 where a proposal was made that could have resulted in the "Big Four" losing their automatic place in the final of the contest.^[28] However, it was confirmed that the "Big Four" countries would continue to automatically qualify for the final at the 2009 contest.^[29]

Graphic design[edit]

Host broadcaster Channel One presented the sub-logo and theme for the 2009 contest on 30 January 2009.^[30] The sub-logo is based upon a "Fantasy Bird", which can be used with many colours. As in previous years, the sub-logo was presented alongside the generic logo.^[30] 2009 is the only year since 2002 without a slogan.

The stage was designed by New York-based set designer John Casey, and was based around the theme of contemporary Russian avant-garde. Casey, who had previously designed the stage for the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 in Dublin, was also involved in design teams for the 1994 and 1995 contests. He explained that "even before [he] worked with the Russians on the TEFI Awards in Moscow in 1998, [he] was inspired by and drawn to art from the Russian Avant Garde period, especially the constructivists... [He] tried to come up with a theatrical design for the contest that incorporates Russian avant-garde art into a contemporary setting, almost entirely made up of different types of LED screens."^[31] Casey explained that together, the various LED shapes form the finished product. Furthermore, large sections of the stage can move, including the circular central portion of curved LED screens, which can be moved to effect and allow each song to have a different feel.

Postcards[edit]

The music accompanying the postcards used to introduce each participating country was written and produced by British electronic musician Matthew Herbert.^[32]

The postcards opened with the words "Moskva 2009" (Москва 2009), the transliterated Russian way to say "Moscow 2009". It continued with the appearance of Miss World 2008, Ksenia Sukhinova of Russia, and then a group of famous landmarks from the participating country were shown in computer animation. The animation would simulate a pop-up book, with each "page turn" showing different landmarks. Then Sukhinova reappeared again, wearing a hat comprising all of the landmarks shown (as well as having different hairstyle & make-up each time) and a T-shirt with the colours of the respective country's flag. The Russian video had the exact appearance of Sukhinova shown in the first part of every video, and no different hairstyle was shown for the Russian entry.

Then, on the right, the 2009 contest logo appeared with the name and the flag of the country. Finally a phrase in transliterated Russian word and its English translation were shown. The words shown were as were as following, listed in alphabetical order:

Semi-final allocation draw[edit]

On Friday 30 January 2009, the draw to decide which countries would appear in either the first or second semi-final took place at the Marriott Royal Aurora Hotel. The participating countries excluding the automatic finalists (France, Germany, host country Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom) were split into six pots, based upon how those countries have been voting. From these pots, half (or as close to half as is possible) competed in the first semi-final on 12 May 2009. The other half in that particular pot will compete in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009.^[33][21][22] The draw for the running order of the semi-finals, finals, and the order of voting, occurred on 16 March 2009 at Cosmos Hotel.^[34][2]

Voting system[edit]

In response to some broadcasters' continued complaints about politically charged, neighbourly and diaspora voting, the EBU evaluated the voting procedure used in the contest, with the possibility of a change in the voting system for 2009. Contest organisers sent a questionnaire regarding the voting system to participating broadcasters, and a reference group incorporated the responses into their suggestions for next year's format.^[35] Telewizja Polska (TVP), the Polish broadcaster, suggested that an international jury similar to the one used in the 2008 Eurovision Dance Contest be introduced in the Eurovision Song Contest to lessen the impact of neighbourly voting and place more emphasis on the artistic value of the song.^[36] A jury would lead to less political and diaspora voting as the jury members, mandated to be music industry experts, would also have a say in addition to "random members of the public".^[37]

It was decided that for the contest final, each country's votes would be decided by a combination of 50% televoting results and 50% national jury.^[38] The method of selecting the semi-final qualifiers remained the same for the most part, with nine countries, instead of the ten as in years past, qualifying from each semi-final based on the televoting results.^[39][40] For the tenth qualifier from each semi-final, the highest placed country on the back-up jury scoreboard that had not already qualified, was chosen for the final.^[38] At the final, each country combined their 1–7, 8, 10,12 points from the televote with their 1–7,8,10,12 jury points to create their "national scorecard". The country with the most points received 12 points, the second placed country received 10 points, the third placed country received 8 points and so on to 1 points. If a tie arose, the song with the higher televote position was given the advantage and the higher point value.^[38] National juries were originally phased out of the contest beginning in 1997, with televoting having become mandatory for nearly all participants since 2003.

Edgar Böhm, director of entertainment for Austria's public broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), has stated that the 2008 format with two semi-finals "still incorporates a mix of countries who will be politically favoured in the voting process," and "that, unless a clear guideline as to how the semifinals are organised is made by the EBU, Austria will not be taking part in Moscow 2009."^[41][42] Despite the inclusion of jury voting in the final, Austria did not return to the contest in 2009.^[43]

Juries[edit]

"In each of the 42 participating countries, a jury of five music industry professionals (including one jury chairperson) will judge the entries taking part in the Final. Their decision will be based on the second dress rehearsal. The names of the jury members must be revealed by the respective participating broadcasters before or during the Final.

• Each jury member of each national jury will make a ranking of their ten favourite songs and award points from 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points. The chairperson will allocate 12 points to the song having obtained the highest number of votes from all jury members, 10 points to the song having obtained the second highest number of votes, 8 points to the song having obtained the third highest number of votes, 7 points to the next, and so on down to 1 point for the song having obtained the tenth highest number of votes from all jury members. In the event of a tie for any of the above positions, the order of the tying songs shall be ascertained by a show of hands by the jury members (abstentions are not allowed).
• The jury should consist of a variety of members in terms of age, gender and background. All jury members must be citizens of the country they are representing.
• None of the jury members must be connected with any of the participating songs/artists in such a way that they cannot vote independently. The participating broadcasters must send a letter of compliance with the voting instructions together with signed declarations by each jury member stating that they will vote independently. The jury voting will be monitored by an independent notary and auditor in each country". – Quotes from Eurovision.tv^[44]

Contest overview[edit]

Semi-final 1[edit]

The first semi final took place in Moscow on 12 May 2009. The United Kingdom and Germany voted in this semi-final.^[45] Before its withdrawal, Georgia was originally drawn to perform in this semi-final.

Results of the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009^[46]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Montenegro	Andrea Demirović	"Just Get Out of My Life"	44	11
2	Czech Republic	Gipsy.cz	"Aven Romale"	0	18
3	Belgium	Copycat	"Copycat"	1	17
4	Belarus	Petr Elfimov	"Eyes That Never Lie"	25	13
5	Sweden	Malena Ernman	"La Voix"	105	4
6	Armenia	Inga and Anush	"Jan Jan"	99	5
7	Andorra	Susanne Georgi	"La teva decisió (Get a Life)"	8	15
8	Switzerland	Lovebugs	"The Highest Heights"	15	14
9	Turkey	Hadise	"Düm Tek Tek"	172	2
10	Israel	Noa and Mira Awad	"There Must Be Another Way"	75	7
11	Bulgaria	Krassimir Avramov	"Illusion"	7	16
12	Iceland	Yohanna	"Is It True?"	174	1
13	Macedonia	Next Time	"Nešto što kje ostane"	45	10
14	Romania	Elena	"The Balkan Girls"	67	9
15	Finland	Waldo's People	"Lose Control"	42	12 ‡
16	Portugal	Flor-de-Lis	"Todas as ruas do amor"	70	8
17	Malta	Chiara	"What If We"	86	6
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Regina	"Bistra voda"	125	3

Semi-final 2[edit]

The second semi final took place in Moscow on 14 May 2009. France and Russia voted in this semi-final.^[45] Spain was also scheduled to televote in this semi-final, but due to scheduling errors at TVE, the semi-final was aired late and Spanish viewers were not able to vote, so the Spanish jury's vote was used instead.^[47]

Results of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009^[48]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Croatia	Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea	"Lijepa Tena"	33	13 ‡
2	Ireland	Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy	"Et Cetera"	52	11
3	Latvia	Intars Busulis	"Probka"	7	19
4	Serbia	Marko Kon and Milaan	"Cipela"	60	10
5	Poland	Lidia Kopania	"I Don't Wanna Leave"	43	12
6	Norway	Alexander Rybak	"Fairytale"	201	1
7	Cyprus	Christina Metaxa	"Firefly"	32	14
8	Slovakia	Kamil Mikulčík and Nela Pocisková	"Leť tmou"	8	18
9	Denmark	Brinck	"Believe Again"	69	8
10	Slovenia	Quartissimo feat. Martina	"Love Symphony"	14	16
11	Hungary	Zoli Ádok	"Dance with Me"	16	15
12	Azerbaijan	Aysel and Arash	"Always"	180	2
13	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	"This Is Our Night"	110	4
14	Lithuania	Sasha Son	"Love"	66	9
15	Moldova	Nelly Ciobanu	"Hora din Moldova"	106	5
16	Albania	Kejsi Tola	"Carry Me in Your Dreams"	73	7
17	Ukraine	Svetlana Loboda	"Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)"	80	6
18	Estonia	Urban Symphony	"Rändajad"	115	3
19	Netherlands	The Toppers	"Shine"	11	17

Final[edit]

The finalists were:

• the "Big Four" countries (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom);
• the host country (Russia);
• the top nine countries from the first semi-final plus one wildcard from the juries;
• the top nine countries from the second semi-final plus one wildcard from the juries.

The final took place in Moscow on 16 May 2009 at 23:00 MST (19:00 UTC) and was won by Norway.

Results of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009^[49]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Lithuania	Sasha Son	"Love"	23	23
2	Israel	Noa and Mira Awad	"There Must Be Another Way"	53	16
3	France	Patricia Kaas	"Et s'il fallait le faire"	107	8
4	Sweden	Malena Ernman	"La Voix"	33	21
5	Croatia	Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea	"Lijepa Tena"	45	18
6	Portugal	Flor-de-Lis	"Todas as ruas do amor"	57	15
7	Iceland	Yohanna	"Is It True?"	218	2
8	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	"This Is Our Night"	120	7
9	Armenia	Inga and Anush	"Jan Jan"	92	10
10	Russia	Anastasia Prikhodko	"Mamo"	91	11
11	Azerbaijan	Aysel and Arash	"Always"	207	3
12	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Regina	"Bistra voda"	106	9
13	Moldova	Nelly Ciobanu	"Hora din Moldova"	69	14
14	Malta	Chiara	"What If We"	31	22
15	Estonia	Urban Symphony	"Rändajad"	129	6
16	Denmark	Brinck	"Believe Again"	74	13
17	Germany	Alex Swings Oscar Sings!	"Miss Kiss Kiss Bang"	35	20
18	Turkey	Hadise	"Düm Tek Tek"	177	4
19	Albania	Kejsi Tola	"Carry Me in Your Dreams"	48	17
20	Norway	Alexander Rybak	"Fairytale"	387	1
21	Ukraine	Svetlana Loboda	"Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)"	76	12
22	Romania	Elena	"The Balkan Girls"	40	19
23	United Kingdom	Jade Ewen	"It's My Time"	173	5
24	Finland	Waldo's People	"Lose Control"	22	25
25	Spain	Soraya Arnelas	"La noche es para mí"	23	24

Spokespersons[edit]

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The voting order and spokespersons during the final were as follows:^[50]

Detailed voting results[edit]

There were a few glitches out of the 84 total televote counts from the two semi-finals and grand final.^[52] In the second semi final, Spain's and Albania's delays in broadcasting the show meant that their results were provided by the back-up juries. In the final, SMS voting was the only method used to provide the Hungarian public voting scores as the televotes could not be counted due to a technical problem, and Norway's jury vote was used because a technical mistake by the local telephone operator rendered the televotes and SMS texts unusable. The full split jury/televoting results of the final were announced by the EBU in July 2009.^[53]

Semi-final 1[edit]

12 points[edit]

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the 1st semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
8	Turkey	Belgium,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Bulgaria,  Germany,  Macedonia,  Romania,   Switzerland,  United Kingdom
7	Iceland	Armenia,  Belarus,  Finland,  Israel,  Malta,  Portugal,  Sweden
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Montenegro,  Turkey
1	Armenia	Czech Republic
	Finland	Iceland
	Portugal	Andorra

Semi-final 2[edit]

12 points[edit]

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the 2nd semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
6	Norway	Azerbaijan,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Lithuania,  Netherlands,  Spain
	Azerbaijan	Hungary,  Moldova,  Poland,  Russia,  Slovakia,  Ukraine
3	Serbia	Croatia,  France,  Slovenia
2	Greece	Albania,  Cyprus
1	Cyprus	Greece
	Denmark	Norway
	Croatia	Serbia
	Lithuania	Ireland
	Estonia	Latvia

Final[edit]

Split results of the final^[53]

Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Norway	387	Norway	312	Norway	378
2	Iceland	218	Iceland	260	Azerbaijan	253
3	Azerbaijan	207	United Kingdom	223	Turkey	203
4	Turkey	177	France	164	Iceland	173
5	United Kingdom	173	Estonia	124	Greece	151
6	Estonia	129	Denmark	120	Estonia	129
7	Greece	120	Turkey	114	Bosnia and Herzegovina	124
8	France	107	Azerbaijan	112	Russia	118
9	Bosnia and Herzegovina	106	Israel	107	Armenia	111
10	Armenia	92	Moldova	93	United Kingdom	105
11	Russia	91	Greece	93	Albania	81
12	Ukraine	76	Bosnia and Herzegovina	90	Ukraine	70
13	Denmark	74	Malta	87	Moldova	66
14	Moldova	69	Germany	73	Romania	64
15	Portugal	57	Armenia	71	Sweden	59
16	Israel	53	Ukraine	68	Croatia	55
17	Albania	48	Russia	67	France	54
18	Croatia	45	Portugal	64	Portugal	45
19	Romania	40	Croatia	58	Denmark	40
20	Germany	35	Lithuania	31	Lithuania	38
21	Sweden	33	Romania	31	Spain	38
22	Malta	31	Sweden	27	Finland	30
23	Lithuania	23[d]	Albania	26	Germany	18
24	Spain	23[d]	Finland	12	Malta	18
25	Finland	22	Spain	9	Israel	15

12 points[edit]

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
16	Norway	Belarus,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Germany,  Hungary,  Iceland,  Israel,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Netherlands,  Poland,  Russia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Sweden,  Ukraine
6	Turkey	Azerbaijan,  Belgium,  France,  Macedonia,   Switzerland,  United Kingdom
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