At the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 , Rybak won with the highest recorded score since the contest began , with 387 points ( out of a maximum of 492 ) , surpassing Lordi 's 2006 record of 292 . He held this record until 2016 when Jamala from Ukraine , the first self written winner after Rybak , won with a record 534 points ( but because of the new scoring system with separate sets of televotes and jury votes , the results are not comparable with each other ) . His average score of 9.4 points from every voting nation was the highest since the wide use of televoting began in 1998 . Rybak received sixteen scores of 12 points , also a new record , surpassing the previous record of ten held by Katrina and the Waves ( 1997 ) and Helena Paparizou ( 2005 ) ; this record was surpassed in 2012 , by Loreen , who received eighteen
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Fairytale (Alexander Rybak song)