Eurovision Past Winners

2009 Norway: Alexander Rybak representing Norway was the favourite to take Eurovision, the result was rarely in doubt and he could be called the winner as soon as the first votes came in. Iceland came a surprising second and Azerbaijan again performed well in taking 3rd spot.

2008 Russia: Last years Eurovision winner was the popular Dima Bilan who oddly performed whilst an ice skater pirouetted around him. Bilan had previously represented Russia in 2006 when the contest was held in Athens. The song this time around was Believe and was always to the head of the scoreboard.

2007 Serbia: Controversy in Helsinki where eastern european countries just seemed to vote for their neighbours. The winners Serbia were competing for the first time in the Eurovision Song Contest and won with the song Molitva.

2006 Finland: Heavy rock took Eurovision in the strange shape of Lordi. They wore masks and came across very uneurovision but the voters loved them. The Finnish band amassed the highest Eurovision points total ever when they scored 292.

2005 Greece: The song My Number One became number 1 for Greece in Europe after holding off a sustained challange from Malta. The 2005 Eurovision contest was held in Kiev.

2004 Ukraine: Wild Dances was the winner for the Ukraine in Istanbul. The singer Ruslana had promoted the song prior to the contest and it paid off.

2003 Turkey: Sertab Erener is a big star in Turkey and showed that star quality when winning Eurovision with the remixed song Every Way That I Can.

2002 Latvia: Latvia were a late entry into the contest but only had to travel a short distance to Tallin in Estonia where the song won.

2001 Estonia: The funky song Everybody was the surprise winner for Estonia in the contest held in Copenhagen. A massive live audience watched the show in a refurbished football stadium.

2000 Denmark: Fly On The Wings Of Love by the Olsen Brothers won easily in the Millenium Eurovision held in Stockholm.

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1999 Sweden: The contest held in Jeruselem was won by Sweden with an Abba type song sung Take Me To Your Heaven sung by Charlotte Nilsson. Sweden held off Germany and Iceland in a close contest.