“Fuego” is the most streamed Eurovision 2018 song on Spotify….with “Toy” in 3rd place

Success in Eurovision doesn’t always mean commercial success outside of the Eurovision bubble. And the placing of a song in Eurovision doesn’t always harmonise with how popular it was before the contest or how popular it becomes after the contest.

Aussievision has made a list of the most streamed Eurovision 2018 songs on Spotify and we’re going to take a look at how it corresponds to this year’s actual results.

Let’s start with the Top 10 of the most streamed tracks on Spotify.

1.  Eleni Foureira – Fuego – 48,170,949
2.  Michael Schulte – You Let Me Walk Alone – 30,216,260
3.  Netta – Toy – 28,610,295
4.  Benjamin Ingrosso – Dance You Off – 24,609,087
5. Mikolas Josef – Lie To Me – 22,379,877
6. Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro  – Non mi avete fatto niente – 19,160,972
7. Amaia, Alfred – Tu Cancion – 13,899,271
8. Rasmussen – Higher Ground – 9,246,724
9. Cesar Sampson – Nobody But You – 9,071,679
10. Saara Aalto – Monsters – 8,069,108

It doesn’t come as a surprise that the most streamed song of Eurovision 2018 is Eleni Foureira’s  Fuego. However, the 2018 winner — Netta’s Toy —  “only” managed to become the third most streamed of the bunch with a whooping 20 million fewer streams than Eleni’s fiery banger.

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Congrats to @foureira for being the most streamed artist of #Eurovision 2018 on Spotify. @aussievisionnet compiled the Top 10. ?? _____ 1. Eleni Foureira – Fuego – 48,170,949 2. Michael Schulte – You Let Me Walk Alone – 30,216,260 3. Netta – Toy – 28,610,295 4. Benjamin Ingrosso – Dance You Off – 24,609,087 5. Mikolas Josef – Lie To Me – 22,379,877 6. Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro – Non mi avete fatto niente – 19,160,972 7. Amaia, Alfred – Tu Cancion – 13,899,271 8. Rasmussen – Higher Ground – 9,246,724 9. Cesar Sampson – Nobody But You – 9,071,679 10. Saara Aalto – Monsters – 8,069,108 #eurovisionsongcontest #wiwijam #esc2018

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If you take a closer look at the most streamed top 10s you probably noticed that there are two songs that make it to the list that were far from making it to the actual top 10 of Eurovision 2018. The seventh most streamed song — Amaia & Alfred’s Tu Cancion — ended up in 23rd place. And the 10th most streamed song — Saara Aalto’s Monsters — narrowly made it to the final where it ended up in 25th place.

Even though the rest of the songs all ended up in Eurovision 2018’s top 10 there are a few interesting inconsistencies you can probably put your finger on.

For example, Benjamin Ingrosso’s Dance you off got over 24 million streams and came fourth on this list. But in the song contest it was only the juries that saved Sweden from not making it to the top 10. Viewers only ranked it 23rd!

Another thing to notice is that in the actual contest the viewers “only” ranked Austria — that’s César Sampson’s Nobody But You — 13th. But it made it to the top 10 on the streaming charts.

But now let’s take a look at where the rest of the 43 songs got ranked.

11. Madame Monsieur – Mercy – 7,640,779
12. Alexander Rybak – That’s How You Write a Song – 6,922,684
13. Jessica Mauboy – We Got Love – 6,442,571
14. Waylon – Outlaw In Em – 5,818,097
15. Gromee – Light Me Up – 5,644,141
16. EQUINOX – Bones – 4,887,404
17. Ryan O’Shaughnessy – 4,476,434
18. Melovin – Under the Ladder – 4,212,825
19. Ieva Zasimauskaite – When We’re Old – 3,622,245
20. SuRie – Storm – 3,558,580
21. Elina Nechayeva – La Forza – 3,148,530
22. Claudia Pascoal – O Jardim –  2,868,784
23. DoReDoS – My Lucky Day – 2,372,032
24. Sennek – A Matter of Time – 2,318,080
25. Lea Sirk – Hvala Ne – 2,291,993
26. Yianna Terzi – Oniro Mou – 2,286,684
27. AWS – Viszlat nyar – 1,790,909
28. ZiBBZ – Stones – 1,609,698
29. Eye Cue – Lost and Found – 1,469,903
30. Sanja Ilic & Balkanika – Nova Deca – 1,427,582
31. Laura Rizzotto – Funny Girl – 1,415,499
32. Christabelle – Taboo – 1,406,845
33. Julia Samoylova – I Won’t Break – 1,248,187
34. Eugent Bushpepa – Mall – 1,238,667
35. AISEL – X My Heart – 1,208,469
36. Franka – Crazy – 1,099,077
37. The Humans – Goodbye – 1,078,018
38. Ari Olafsson – Our Choice – 882,443
39. Jessika ft Jenifer Brening – Who We Are – 816,921
40. Sevak Khanagyan – Qami – 775,814
41. Alekseev – Forever – 693,455
42. Iriao – For You – 623,207
43. Vanja Radovanovic – Inje – 598,545

You can see here that the Eurovision 2018 final and the top 26 streamed songs of 2018 mostly correspond with each other.

Note that there are three non-qualifiers among the top 26 most streamed songs, and three qualifiers that aren’t.

The highest jump is Poland’s entry – Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer’s Light Me Up – which is the 15th most streamed song but ended up 14th in Semi Final 2.

The other two non-qualifiers are Belgium’s entry – Sennek’s A Matter of Time – in 24th place on the streams list — but 12th in Semi Final 1 of Eurovision, and Greece’s entry – Yianna Terzi’s Oniro Mou – in 26th place on the streaming list, but only 14th in Semi Final 1.

Some qualifiers obviously made more of an impact live than in the studio version. Albania’s entry – Eugent Bushpepa’s Mall – just missed out of the top 10 in the Eurovision final, ending up in 11th place. But it only made it to 34th place on the most streamed list.

The other two are Hungary’s entry – AWS’s Viszlát Nyár – that ended up in 21st place in the Grand Final but reached 27th place in streaming, and Serbia’s entry – Sanja Ilic & Balkanika’s Nova Deca – that got 19th place in the Grand Final but 30th place on the streaming list.

We would like to thank Aussievision for putting up the list.

What do you think about these rankings? What surprises you the most? Let us know in the comment section below.