Countries Norway

Success would prove elusive until 1985 when duo Bobbysocks! triumphed with their schlager anthem La Det Swinge (‘Let It Swing’) at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg. 

A second victory arrived in 1995 when another twosome, Secret Garden, entranced the audience in Dublin’s Point Theatre with their mostly instrumental dream-pop track Nocturne.

Alexander Rybak delivered a record-breaking tally of points in 2009, as the violinist romped to a third Norwegian victory at the Contest in Moscow with his anthemic folk-inspired ballad Fairytale.