Eurovision Song Contest 2009

The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was the 54th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 12 and 14 May presented by Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malakhov, and a final on 16 May 2009 presented by Ivan Urgant and Alsou Abramova, all held at the Olimpiyskiy Arena in Moscow, Russia. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Channel One (C1R), which staged the event after the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) won the 2008 contest for Russia with the song "Believe" by Dima Bilan. It was the first and as of 2024 only time that two different sets of presenters had hosted the semi-finals and finals. It was also the first (and as of 2026 only) time that the event was hosted in the previous year's winning country by a different broadcaster than the previous year's winning broadcaster.

Broadcasters from forty-two countries participated in the contest, down one from the record forty-three the year before. Slovakia returned to the contest for the first time since 1998, while San Marino did not enter due to financial issues. Latvia and Georgia originally announced their intention not to participate, but it was later stated by the EBU that both countries would participate. The Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) ultimately decided to withdraw after the EBU rejected its selected song as being a breach of the contest's rules. For the first time since 2003, there were no debuting countries.

The winner was Norway with the song "Fairytale", performed and written by Alexander Rybak. The song won both the jury vote and televote and received 387 points out of a possible 492, at the time the highest total score in the history of the contest. Iceland, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom rounded out the top five, with the latter achieving its best placing since 2002 and Iceland equalling their best result from 1999.

After criticism of the voting system in 2007, changes in the voting procedure were finally made prior to this contest, with the re-introduction of a national jury alongside televoting for the final, while the format of the semi-finals remained the same.