'Fairytale' is a song written and composed by Belarusian-Norwegian violinist/singer Alexander Rybak, and the first single from Rybak's debut album Fairytales. This song was the winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, Russia.[1][2]
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Writing and inspiration[edit]
Download torrent mount & blade warband. In February 2009, Norwegian media reported that 'Fairytale' is about Rybak's ex-girlfriend Ingrid Berg Mehus whom he got to know through the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo.[3][4][5] Rybak has since confirmed this. At a press conference in May 2009 he revealed that the song's inspiration came from the Huldra, a beautiful female creature from Scandinavian folklore, who lures young men to her, and then may curse them for all time.[6] The Russian-language version of the song is entitled 'Skazka' (Russian: 'Сказка').
Eurovision 2009[edit]
The song was elected through the Norwegian festival Melodi Grand Prix 2009 on 21 February, winning in the biggest landslide of the contest's history,[7] and competed against eighteen other Eurovision entries in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009, where it qualified for the final. The final took place on 16 May and the song won with 387 points – a new ESC record. It was Norway's third Eurovision Song Contest win.
The backing dancers for the Eurovision performance, Sigbjørn Rua, Torkjell Lunde Børsheim and Hallgrim Hansegård, are from the Norwegian dance company Frikar,[8] performing the folk dance halling.The backing singers, Jorunn Hauge[9] and Karianne Kjærnes,[10] wore long pink dresses designed by Norwegian designer Leila Hafzi.[11]
Music video[edit]
The first official music video for the song, which was used to present the song before the Eurovision final, was Alexander Rybak's Performance at the Melodi Grand Prix 2009 in Norway. The most recent video was of Alexander Rybak playing the Violin and singing with his backing dancers behind him, where the background occasionally changes from white to black.
A video of Rybak's performance of the song at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest final in Moscow, was chosen by YouTube as one of its 31 most memorable videos of 2009.[12]
Record[edit]
In the Norwegian preselection, Melodi Grand Prix 2009, Rybak's 'Fairytale' won with a combined televote and jury score of 747,888, in the biggest victory of the contest's history. Dragon ball z wrath of the dragon download. The song received over 600,000 votes more than the runner-up, which made it the clearest win in the history of Melodi Grand Prix.[1][7]
At the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, Rybak won with the highest recorded score since the contest began, with 387 points (out of a maximum of 492), surpassing Lordi's 2006 record of 292. Download tribe called quest new album. He held this record until 2016 when Jamala from Ukraine, the first self written winner after Rybak, won with a record 534 points (but because of the new scoring system with separate sets of televotes and jury votes, the results are not comparable with each other). His average score of 9.4 points from every voting nation was the highest since the wide use of televoting began in 1998. Rybak received sixteen scores of 12 points, also a new record, surpassing the previous record of ten held by Katrina and the Waves (1997) and Helena Paparizou (2005); this record was surpassed in 2012, by Loreen, who received eighteen.
Charts[edit]
The song also debuted on the Norwegian Singles Chart on the week of 11 February 2009 at number 3,[13] before rising to number one on the following week, the week of the Melodi Grand Prix final.[14] This was the first time that the Melodi Grand Prix winner reached number 1 before winning the contest. The song remained at number 1 for 8 consecutive weeks.[15] The song has since entered the Swedish Sverigetopplistan, debuting at number 47, before rising to number 7 in its third week, the week of Eurovision - eventually reaching the top spot. After the song gaining the Top Spot on Eurovision, it entered the Top Ten of many Charts across Europe, and also the No. 1 position in many countries.[16] The song debuted on the UK charts at #10 on Downloads Alone and then dropped to #38 the next week, it also reached Number 3 on the Download Chart. 'Fairytale' is the ninth non-UK Eurovision entry to reach the top ten in the UK charts since the contest began in 1956, most recently Johnny Logan reached #2 representing Ireland in 1987.[17] It sold over 8,000 copies in Finland which means it received a Gold certification,[18] 20,000 copies in Norway thus getting a Gold certification[19] and 200,000 copies in Russia[20] and therefore it was certified platinum.
Russian certification[edit]
The single went multi-platinum in different formats in Russia. Antony santos me enamore mp3 download torrent. It first went platinum as realtone/ full track and sold 100,000 copies.[45] Then it was certified 2x platinum as ring-back tone with another 400,000 copies sold.[46]Combined sales of the song are 500,000 copies without online downloads.
Year-end charts[edit]
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