to reach the top of the charts before the final. The esctoday.com poll voters agreed with the choice as Alexander Rybak was the runaway poll winner with 63.5%. Tone Damli Aaberge finished second in the national final and in the poll. Maria Haukaas Storeng easily won the 2008 Melodi Grand Prix final getting almost 80000 votes more than runner-up Torstein Sødal. With the song Hold on be strong, she finished 5th in the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade giving Norway its best placing since ...