Despite their losing form, Norway has also won the contest 3 times: Bobbysocks! gave the country its first win in 1985, Secret Garden followed 10 years later in 1995, and in 2009, Alexander Rybak's Fairytale shattered the all-time point record and earned 16 sets of 12-point scores. Eurovision Song Contest winner, winner of the annual Eurovision Song Contest organized by the European Broadcasting Union. A glass trophy in the shape of a microphone is awarded to the winning performer, and smaller trophies are given to the winning songwriters. The country represented by the Even though the Eurovision Song Contest took place 64 times, it has 67 winners. In 1969, 4 countries topped the scoreboard with an equal amount of points; the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands and France. Norway originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The Norwegian broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) organised the national final Melodi Grand Prix 2020 in order to select the Norwegian entry for the 2020 contest in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The competition was won by Ulrikke with the song "Attention". Background. Prior to the 2021 contest, Norway had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty-nine times since their first entry in 1960. [1] Norway had won the contest on three occasions: in 1985 with the song "La det swinge" performed by Bobbysocks!, in 1995 with the song "Nocturne" performed by Secret Garden and in 2009 with the song Norway was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 16 May 2019. Performing during the show in position 15, "Spirit in the Sky" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 18 May. Norway has finished last in eleven Eurovision finals, of which four times with "nul points". Norway has a total of 12 top-five results in the contest, the latest being Alessandra 's fifth place in 2023 . Centre: Rolf L酶vland, the winning songwriter in 1985 and 1995 for Norway, with Fionnuala Sherry, winning performer in 1995. Right: Lu铆sa Sobral, winning songwriter in 2017 for Portugal. Left: Lys Assia, the first Eurovision winner (1956), and Dima Bilan, winner in 2008. Map showing each country's number of Eurovision wins as of 2023. Graph showing number of countries in the contest by year. Fifty-two countries have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since it started in 1956. Winners of the contest have come from twenty-seven of those countries. The contest, organised by the European Broadcasting Union It was hhistoric in some ways - Dave Benton was the first black performer to win Eurovision and it was the first entry from a former Soviet country to win - but not, alas, musically. 63. Paul Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra became the 2022 winners after climbing to the top of the leaderboard after the public vote. In a huge surprise, the UK came second in the competition - the closest Did you know Norway won the contest in 1995 with the song "Nocturne". It contained only 24 words accompanied by long violin solos Did you know Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden boycotted the 1970 contest as they were not pleased with the result of 1969 and the voting structure Eurovision News Eurovision 2023: Results Quite impressive That and the multiple backflips! Four times null points equals null points We know that Norway has climbed the highest peaks of the Eurovision Song Contest stage but before this the country had a pretty abysmal reputation. In fact Norway still holds the record for the most number of null points received by any country. We haven't had a bigger chance of winning since Rybak in 2009. Norway is currently the fourth favourite to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, its best position with the bookmakers since the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal. "Queen of Kings" has become a viral hit across many countries having accumulated nearly 29 million streams on Eurovision places by country Who participated in Eurovision the most? Eurovision Most Wins Who won Eurovision the most? 7 times: Ireland 路 Sweden 5 times: France 路 Luxembourg 路 Netherlands 路 United Kingdom 4 times: Israel 3 times: Denmark 路 Italy 路 Norway 路 Ukraine 2 times: Austria 路 Germany 路 Spain 路 Switzerland 1 time: .
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