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Evrovidenie 2009 - Nacionalny Otbor was the fifth edition of Evrovidenie, the music competition that selects Russia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.The show took place on 7 March 2009 at Studio 1 of Ostankino Technical Center in Moscow and hosted by Andrey Malakhov and Yana Churikova with Dmitry Shepelev hosting segments from the green room. [3]
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 .
At the close of voting, "Vechny strannik" performed by Youddiph received the most votes and was selected as the Russian entry. [12] At the Eurovision Song Contest 1994, Russia finished ninth with 70 points. [13] For Russia's second participation in the contest, ORT organised a public selection process to select Russian entrant.
The song faced severe criticism from Russian embassy in Stockholm for its image of Russia. "Tingaliin" was the last of the series of Tingeling songs performed by Dorsin during the intermissions of the Melodifestivalen 2009 in preparation for Eurovision Song Contest 2009, scheduled to be organized in Moscow.
Russia won their first and so far only contest in 2008, when Dima Bilan, participating for the second time in the contest, won with the song "Believe", bringing the contest to Russia for 2009. Russia was the most successful country in Eurovision between 2000 and 2009, with one win, two-second places, and two third places.
It became a Top 10 hit in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greece, Switzerland, and also charted in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Russia, Slovakia, the UK, and reaching #14 in the European Hot 100 chart, making it the second best-selling Eurovision entry of the year, only surpassed by Alexander Rybak's winning song "Fairytale".
The song was the first single from Rybak's debut album Fairytales released on 29 May 2009 just after the contest. A video of Rybak's performance of the song at the Eurovision Song Contest final was chosen by YouTube as one of its 31 most memorable videos of 2009. [15]
On the 20 February 2009, the band, performing with Irish singer Sinéad Mulvey, won the Irish pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.They competed in the second semi-final on 14 May 2009, [3] failing to reach the final.