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OGAE SONG CONTEST 2009 - UK wins the Contest, Croatia 9th

08. December 2009, 17:25

United Kindom has won the OGAE Song Contest 2009 with its entry Viva la vida by Coldplay. This worldwide known band managed to gain 248 points from OGAE Clubs. The runner-up is Greece (Mando, Ston Egokero) with 211 points, and the third positioned is Italy (Giusy Ferreri, Non ti scordar mai di me) with 152 points.

Croatia's entry Možda volim te (Maybe I love you) by Franka Batelić ended up at 9th place! Congratiulations Franka!

After gathering 30 participating countries to this year's edition of OGAE Song Contest, Croatian branch of OGAE Network – Eurofest Croatia – has organized a great show that included presentation of all the songs and artists as well as making of the final voting video show!

A grand total of 30 clubs applied to the 2009 competition, with some familiar names to Eurovision fans: Mando for Greece, Rebeka Dremelj for Slovenia, Anita Skorgan for Norway, Jelena Tomasevic for Serbia, Edyta Gorniak for Poland, Shiri Maimon for Israel, Petra Frey for Austria. Not to forget artists who tried their luck in various Eurovision selections.

You may listen to all the songs, find out the biographies of the artists as well as learn all the lyrics (with englisg translation), watch the draw video and the Final video on the official website of the Contest.

The Final video will also be broadcasted on Eurofest Croatia youtube channel tomorrow.

Congratiulations to the organizer and to the winner!