OSLO, Norway — Germany’s Lena Meyer-Landrut, below, won the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with “Satellite,” an upbeat, catchy pop song, edging out Turkey and Romania.
Meyer-Landrut, who turned 19 during the competition in Norway, won 246 points in the voting by a panel of judges and telephone votes from fans in the 39 participating countries.
It was Germany’s second win in the songfest’s 55-year history, and the victory means it will host next year’s contest.
Meyer-Landrut had been second-favorite among leading bookmakers but first in a Google-predictor program. Her victory marks the second year in a row that the Google program has correctly projected the winner of Eurovision, after predicting Norwegian fiddler Alexander Rybak’s win in Moscow last year.
