[6] A Dutch reviewer suggested that Rybak could have done better by spreading his music over multiple albums.

RIA Novosti[8] accused Alexander of plagiarizing Konstantin Meladze's music (which has already been used in Valery Meladze's song "Kak ty krasiva segodnya" on YouTube) and using it in his song "5000 Letters".

Some other sources, as RIA Novosti says, have already revealed that the music was not written by Alexander Rybak himself and there was no act of plagiarism.

In 2011 he re-sung the song “Europe's Skies” in the Belarusian language as “Небасхіл Еўропы” for the Budzma!

Perazagruzka-2 compilation album.”[14] In her review for the magazine “Большой,” music critic Taciana Zamiroŭskaja came to the conclusion that, unlike in Russian, Alexander Rybak sings in Belarusian quite naturally.