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Fairytales is the debut studio album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak. It was released in Norway and most of Europe on 29 May 2009, and in the UK on 15 June. Most of the songs on the album are written and/or composed by Rybak himself. The first single of this album is Rybak's "Fairytale", the winning song from the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. His entry broke the previous record of 292 in the festival and achieved a total of 387 points. All the participating countries voted for the song. Rybak wrote English lyrics for one Russian and one Norwegian song, for the album. The chorus in the song "Abandoned", uses music by Kirill Moltchanov, from the theme from the 1968 Russian film Доживем до понедельника. The song "If You Were Gone", is an English version of the Norwegian song "Vårsøg", with music by Henning Sommerro. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyta...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
