Norway

Following its Nordic neighbors Denmark and Sweden (who joined the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 and 1958 respectively), Norway debuted at the 1960 London show with Nora Brockstedt's Voi Voi and coming in fourth in a field of thirteen competing countries.  After its initial success, it didn't take too long for the country to earn its first nul point in 1963 in London (Norway holds the distinction for the most nul point, with four total and the last one in 1997, two years after the country's second victory).  Three years later, the country scored its first Top Three spot and then ended up in last place again in 1969.  Even though Norway's Eurovision patterns are a bit erratic, they include several wins (the country's first of three wins came in 1985's Goteborg Contest, after Sweden's second victory in Luxembourg the year before) and two more of those four nul point finishes.  The first Norweigian victory was thanks to pop duo BobbySocks! and their now Eurovision classic song La det swinge ("Let it swing"):

After hosting the 1986 Contest in Bergen, Norway continued its roller coaster journey up and down the Eurovision score boards with each successive year and competition, still managing to place in the Top Ten four times in the decade between their first win and the second (the latter came in Dublin in 1995 with Secret Garden's ethereal Nocturne).  While hosting in 1996 in Oslo, the country came close to pulling off a consecutive years win, but ultimately lost to Ireland, ending up in second place that year.  The following year in Dublin, Norway scored its last (and record-setting) nul point with Tor Endressen's San Francisco, with the Norwegian public hoping that this would also be the end of their last place streak.  That wish was not to be:  The country has finished last three times since then (not including the times that Norway has not qualified for the Final).  In 2009, the country scored its third win with Alexander Rybak's Fairytale (scoring a total of 387 points, the highest ever in Eurovision history).  Last year a very popular Tooji entered the Baku Contest with high expectations for his song Stay, and was stunned (along with most commentators and viewers) with his 26th place finish (logging another last place, for a total of 11, for the country).  This year, Norway enters the Malmo Contest with Margaret Berger's catchy electronica infused Feed You My Love.  Margaret is well known in Scandinavia as the runner up of the 2004 version of Norwegian Idol, has since released three albums, and most recently has been working as the music director for one of the nation-wide public radio channels in her home country.  Keep your eyes on this Trondheim native...if I had massive amounts of money to bet, I would put most of it down on her this year: