Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Song Contest 2009 finals in Moscow with the song ""Fairytale"" after getting through the semi-finals. Rybak won by a significant margin, scoring 387 points, 169 points over second placed Yohanna, representing Iceland. Having been voted for by all 41 countries, Norway scored the highest number of points for any entry in any Eurovision Song Contest until 2016. The smallest score was 2 points given by Bulgaria. They received 12 points from 16 countries: Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine. This record was broken by Sweden in 2012 when they
Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest Estonia, which shares close cultural and linguistic ties with Finland. Besides, Hungary with shared Finno-Ugric descents, as well as other Baltic nations such as Latvia have gained votes from Finland, and the other way around. In 2004, Finland's first-place vote went to Sweden; in 2005, it contributed 12 points to Norway; in 2006, it was Russia's turn to get the 12 points, but it was Serbia who got their top score in 2007. The first time in Eurovision history that Sweden gave Finland 12 points was in 2006 for Lordi's song "Hard Rock Hallelujah." In 2007, they repeated this, giving