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National Final Awards: The winners are... (2)
The 2009 esctoday.com National Final Award for BEST MALE PERFORMANCE goes to...
- ...Aleksandar Belov for his performance of the song Zastani solzi izbrisi in the FYR Macedonian national final
Alesandar Belov became famous during his participation in thetalent search Operacija trijumf, where he finished third. During the shows, he performed with many former Eurovision Song Contest entrants: Karolina (FYR Macedonia 2002 & 2007), Boris Novkovic (Croatia 2005), Dado Topic (Croatia 2007), Goran Karan (Croatia 2000) and Sakis Rouvas (Greece 2004 & 2009). With his song Zastani solzi izbrisi, he finished third in the second semi final and equal seventh in the final of the 2009 FYR Macedonian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Live performance:
This is the first national final award for FYR Macedonia. Previously, this award went to Adreas Johnson (Sweden) in 2006, Måns Zelmerlöw (Sweden) in 2007 and Kostas Martakis (Greece) in 2008. The complete results this year were as follows:
- FYR Macedonia - 43.2%
- Måns Zelmerlöw (Sweden) - 28.2%
- Alexander Stenerud (Norway) - 11.1%
- Omar Naber (Slovenia) - 10.1%
- Mark Evans (United Kingdom) - 7.2%
The 2009 esctoday.com National Final Award for BEST UP TEMPO SONG goes to...
- ...Stay the night from the Swedish national final written by Andreas Lundstedt, Therese Merkel, Lina Hedlund, Anders Hansson & Mårten Sandén
Stay the night was co-written by Alcazar's current members along with Anders Hansson & Mårten Sandén. The song finished fifth in the Swedish national final; Alcazar had previously finished third both in 2003 and 2005. The song peaked at number two in the Swedish single charts, which marks the band's highest position since Alcastar in 2005.
The song (studio version):
This award was given out for the first time. The complete results were as follows:
- Sweden - 48.4%
- Stop (Romania) - 15.0%
- Destiny (Estonia) - 13.7%
- Det' det (Denmark) - 11.8%
- Tricky (Norway) - 11.0%
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- Sweden: Vote for your favourite act in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the semifinal of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
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haha i cant believe, finally we are first at something i don t like belov but i m really happy that my country is finally first at something thank you for voting for him
Stupid choices.
Congratulations for Belov. He was my fave. Bravo!
ÄŒestitka Aco Belov!
Please return to Skopjefest 2010!
I really liked Mans' performance, but I would still like to congratulate to our neighbours - FYR Macedonia.
how was Mans not the winner? and also...how was Sakis not nominated? oh, well. 
@ Gorjan
Hahaha, I don't think even 0,000000000000002 % of the Macedonian population knows what esctoday is, and same in Norway and all other countries.
@Gorjan Anastasovsson
I have looked at ur profile, and saw there, that u had birthday yestarday! 
Happy birthday! 
Congratulations for the winners! (Belov and Alcazar)
I think that he won because every household in Macedonia has an Internet connection. When it comes to polls, they are mass-prepared to vote. They are united. Swedes are not united because Sarah Dawn Finer did not win Melodifestivalen 2009
well, omar is MUCH beter that aleksandar... but zastani solzi izbriši is a good song, so congrats to macedonian brothers!!
Makedonijo, Slovenija te saka!!
Makedonija, Slovenija te 'ma rada!
Macedonia, Slovenia loves you!
Interesting
"stay the night " was a great great song...as allways Sweden comimng up with amazing songs!
i do not agree with the male performance as I think Sweden's Mans was by far better.
concerning the category "best up-tempo song" , Alcazar definitely deserved this award...
I agree the male award is a joke. Of course Mans was better. But Omar was the best.
@ws
the "jealous" was mostly ironic now why they prefered Belov over the others i really dont know but for sure he wasnt better than all the others IMO!
But still, why would people who have no problem voting for Sweden, all of a sudden start voting for Macedonia out of jealousy?
@ws
its a performance category....Mans sung better and did a professional stage appearance(a performance ready for esc stage) something i didnt see from Belov(he couldnt even sing..).
Plus i liked Mans song and some others from Sweden this year but even if u dont like his song u can see that he can sing live at do a good stage appearance isnt it obvious...!
Does that make sense Danniela? People don't seem to have a problem voting for Sweden in these polls. And now all of a sudden they are getting "jealous" and vote for Macedonia. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
And did all of you listen to Mans' song? What was so great about it. Heard a million times before. (Same is true for "Stay the night" 
. When these songs had been sung in another country's final, I am sure people wouldn't have judged them so mildly.
Congrats!
Like Mina I voted for Omar Naber 
Omar!! How could he not win? He's got a fantastic voice!
MANS ZELMERLOW was the best.... :-)
Mans is the only one that can bring again Eurovision to Sweden...Come on Swedish people vote for him if they go to Melodifestivalen...
MANS THE BEST!!!
ROFL !! The Macedonian song and performance did make me laugh, especially because it won best male performance Shows the quality of the male species this year
I really don't like Alcazar, their song was waaaay too camp and completely overrated for me. It wouldn't have worked at all at ESC, considering most of their vocals were covered by the backing track.
I hope the results get better Besa the Besta for the win !! 
and also Emilia and Noa & Mira !!
ohhhhhhhhhhh pls its obvious that Sweden with Mans should had won at the the performance category but people are jealous that Sweden wins alot of awards...Belov is horrible....!
Crap results!!!! Regional winners?
I really don't like 'Stay the night', makes me want to 
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!
i absolutely love "Stay The Night"
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