"Run Away" is a song performed by SunStroke Project

SunStroke Project

SunStroke Project are a Moldovan dance/pop trio composed of Sergei Yalovitsky , Anton Ragoza and Sergey Stepanov , the band's producer is Aleksei Myslicky. They are famous for representing Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010...

 and Olia Tira

Olia Tira

Olia Tira is a singer based in Moldova.-Early life:Tira was born in 1988 into a Soviet military family in Potsdam, East Germany. She spent a few years there and moved to Chişinău...

, and represented Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Eurovision Song Contest 2010

The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was the 55th annual Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast from the Telenor Arena in Bærum, Greater Oslo, Norway. It was the third time Norway had hosted the contest, having previously done so in 1986 and 1996. The 2010 winner was Germany with Lena singing "Satellite",...

 in May 2010 in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The song won the final of the O melodie pentru Europa 2010

Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Moldova will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and will select their entry through a national final, O melodie pentru Europa , organised by Moldovan broadcaster TRM .-O melodie pentru Europa 2010:...

, that took place on 6 March. It gained the maximum number of points from both the juries and the televotes.

In the contest, it was performed first on the night of the first semi-final, preceding Russia's Lost and Forgotten

Lost and Forgotten

"Lost and Forgotten" is a song by Peter Nalitch and Friends, who represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, in Oslo.In the first semifinal, it was performed second on the night, after Moldova's Run Away and preceding Estonia's Siren, and passed to the final...

 and passed to the final.

After the contest, "Run Away" would also become the subject of a major internet meme

Internet meme

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 surrounding the saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 solos performed by singer Sergey Stepanov, who in a phenomenon similar to Rickroll and Trololo

Eduard Khil

Eduard Anatolyevich Khil , sometimes anglicised as Edward Hill, is a Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the RSFSR.- Early life :...

, was dubbed the "Epic Sax Guy" in videos on YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

, despite a rule

Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest

The official rules of the Eurovision Song Contest are long, technical, and ever-changing. Many of the rules cover technical aspects of the television broadcast itself. However, a few of the more important rules affecting the conduct and outcome of the Contest follow.-Number of songs:Each country in...

 prohibiting musical instruments being played on stage.

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Norway (VG-lista VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by... )	7
Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	31

External links

• Official music video - Youtube