Only one country walks away with the Eurovision trophy. But plenty more walk away as winners. Just act the 23 Eurovision 2022 artists who currently have songs in the Spotify Global Viral Top 50!
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra lead the way with their winning song “Stefania,” which currently sits at #3. That puts them just ahead of Moldova’s Zdob si Zdub & Fratii Advahov (#4) and Latvia’s Citi Zeni (#6).
Norway’s Subwoolfer (who are #1 on the Viral charts in Australia, Austria, Israel, and Ukraine) are the only other act in the Top 10.
The highest-charting Big 5 entry comes from Germany. Malik Harris is currently at #26 with “Rockstars”, which puts him ahead of Spain’s Chanel (#30), the UK’s Sam Ryder (#31), and France’s Alvan & Ahez (#33). Italy’s Mahmood & Blanco do not feature on the Top 50, though they did reach the Top 5 of the chart following the Sanremo Festival in February.
The UK’s Sam Ryder has hit #1 in his home market.
Eurovision artists on the Spotify Global Viral Top 50 chart
#3 🇺🇦 Kalush Orchestra — Stefania
#4 🇲🇩 Zdob si Zdub & Fratii Advahov — Trenuletul
#6 🇱🇻 Citi Zeni — Eat Your Salad
#7 🇳🇴 Subwoolfer — Give That Wolf A Banana
#12 🇵🇹 Maro — saudade, saudade
#13 🇷🇸 Konstrakta — In corpore sano
#15 🇦🇲 Rosa Linn — Snap
#20 🇦🇿 Nadir Rustamli — Fade to Black
#24 🇱🇹 Monika Liu — Sentimentai
#26 🇩🇪 Malik Harris — Rockstars
#27 🇸🇮 LPS — Disko
#28 🇳🇱 S10 — De Diepte
#29 🇧🇪 Jeremie Makiese — Miss You
#30 🇪🇸 Chanel — SloMo
#31 🇬🇧 Sam Ryder — SPACE MAN
#32 🇸🇪 Cornelia Jakobs — Hold Me Closer
#33 🇫🇷 Alvan & Ahez — Fulenn
#36 🇮🇸 Systur — Með hækkandi sól
#39 🇬🇷 Amanda Georgiadis Tenfjord — Die Together
#40 🇪🇪 Stefan — Hope
#45 🇨🇾 Andromache — Ela
#49 🇨🇭 Marius Bear — Boys Do Cry
#50 🇷🇴 WRS — Llamame
We haven’t gone through all the individual country viral lists. Which songs are charting where you live? Let us know in the comments box below.
In Greece:
1) Ukraine
2) Greece
3) Spain
4) Norway
5) Serbia
6) Sweden
14) Netherlands
17) Portugal
18) Italy
22) Latvia
25) Cyprus
29) Lithuania
33) Armenia
34) France
37) Australia
41) UK
42) Moldova
46) Poland
50) Romania
61) Albania
65) Azerbaijan
Personally I am happy that Netherlands, France, Lithuania, Australia, Norway and Latvia are on the list. Also happy that UK and Moldova are relatively low. I hope I didn’t forgot any ESC song.
I am in Ukraine. Kalush have 11 songs in the top 100. But this is normal, Kalush are the biggest band in Ukraine. Eurovision win does not increase their popularity here. Kalush are already popular.
All the positions for Eurovision songs in the Viral 50 chart in Australia: 1: Norway – Subwoolfer – Give That Wolf a Banana 2: Latvia: Citi Zeni – Eat Your Salad 4: Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra – Stefania 8: Sweden – Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer 11: Spain – Chanel – SloMo 13: Portugal – Maro – Saudade Saudade 14: Serbia – Konstrakta – In Corpore Sano 16: The Netherlands – S10 – De Diepte 18: Australia – Sheldon Riley – Not The Same 23: Die Together – Amanda (Georgidis) Tenfjord 29: The UK – Space Man – Sam Ryder… Read more »
Interesting how Germany is high their song didn’t deserve last place in the contest.
I was watching Eurovision with a friend of mine from Peru who never watched it before and his favourite was Germany
lol
These are the viral charts, why not show the actual global chart where Kalush and Sam are riding high?
There’s quite a difference when the song is widely listened to in their home country or in few countries vs globally. These songs have a wider reach globally, which includes listens and shares..
After seeing Måneskin crack the Billboard charts in the U.S. with one of their follow-ups, and Duncan Laurence go gold here with “Arcade”, 2 years after it made its debut on the ESC stage and 4 years after a preliminary version (which he performed) was posted at YouTube, I’m anticipating that both Sam and Kalush will crack the Billboard charts and peak fairly high on the Hot 100.
In Hungary:
#2 Ukraine
#16 Sweden
#23 Netherlands
#25 Latvia
#32 Spain
#34 Moldova
#35 Serbia
#44 France <3
#47 Portugal
Thank god the charts cant be manipulated by the corrupted ebu and the swedish mafia
Who said that? Record labels do this a looot, indeed. Sorry to tell you.
Spotify is Swedish
Javk ass
Nerdy as I am I made some maths to see how the different songs are played outside their own country. (I took the total streams and substracted the domestic streams)
It brings some changes in the list:
Ukraine being clearly the most played outside of Ukraine, and Sweden and Norway passing UK and Spain in the list.
1 Ukraine 1 876 687
2 Norway 936 116
3 Sweden 903 507
4 Uk 889 898
5 Spain 809 550
6 Italy 682 921
7 Netherlands 649 114
And to clarify, this is not from the viral list but from the actual streams…
Swedish seeing slightly more play than the U.K. isn’t that surprising. It’s not like the U.K. beat Sweden by much in the televote, a mere 3 points. Likewise, Sweden’s only beating the U.K. by 14000 plays according to your statistics. I’m surprised Spain isn’t beating Sweden and the U.K., but I assume that’s because Spain was more a visual spectacular and people didn’t really care too much about the song itself.
But where’s Moldova?
Slovenia on #27 ??? 🙂 like, how?
It’s popular on TikTok and catchy af
That boyband was basically engineered (whether on purpose or not) to be TikTok heartthrobs.
I have just checked viral 50 playlists in Poland (where I from) and Belgium (where I live) and wow, both are filled with Eurovision songs! In Belgium the whole top 11 is just Eurovision!
When it comes to my personal taste, I found it surprising that before the contest I was listening to pretty much every song from the big 5 except for Germany and now after the contest it is Germany that got stuck in my head. Can’t explain why! I did not pay attention to this song at all before. Funny how that works. You never know when and why a particular song just gets stuck in your head.
You can see here what people really like. We are influenced by specific taste of ESC fans before the contest. They are obsessed with average female pop like Andromache, Amanda etc. Now you can see that other people doesnt care about this type of songs. Fans gave Moldova on last places in their almost every personal ranking. People could think this is really bad song. The reality is, thats the 2nd most popular song in Europe. Thanks God that ESC fans are not the only ones who votes in Eurovision.
A lot of the higher up ones are to do with that country rallying around their entry.
Now we know who the real winners are from the contest.
… Ukraine?
Then Spotify listeners should have voted more then.
Ukraine is in top, my friend.
So happy for Latvia’s ‘Eat your salad’. SO well deserved. The world community seems to like it more than we thought.
Or a lot of people found funny to hear the word pussy in a song.
There will be some, for sure. The song has built a strong fandom though which goes beyond a single word.
The viral charts don’t matter that much, but I didn’t expect to see Eat Your Salad so high here nevertheless
which is positively surprising, given that it didn’t make it to the final
My personal opinion as a Swede: I love Eurovision, but i think EBU really needs to step up the visibility of the winner post contest.
Something is off if on the second day, the winner of a national contest (Brividi in Sanremo) is streamed by more than 3.500.000 people, while Stefania is streamed by “only” 2.000.000. The contest needs to be entertaining for us, but it should also be an attractive platform for the artists.
Well, choosing the rightful winner might help
Some context since Eurofans don’t seem to know this: Of those 3.5 million streams, nearly 3.4 million were in Italy. Blanco was already a huge star prior to Sanremo and Mahmood was a former winner. They have large fan bases and incredibly busy careers, which is why they were both touring right up to ESC rehearsals. It’s not a fair comparison to look at the success of established artists within their own country singing their own language, and compare it to the first 24 hours of a Ukrainian artist exposed to the rest of Europe for the first time. But… Read more »
That is not accurate: Brividi reached almost 1.000.000 streams in Europe, not 100.000: it peaked at #1 in Switzerland, and it reached top 10 in many more countries. I think it is pretty obvious that most streams were in Italy, as Brividi’s performance is average right now in Europe. However, it still does not change the fact that a national selection can be a better platform than Eurovision, which shouldn’t be the case. None of the songs in Mahmood’s Ghettolimpo (one of my favorite albums) even showed up in the top 10 in Italy; Blanco was fairly unknown to the… Read more »
For the sake of clarification, by no means I am saying Eurovision is not a good platform. If you are talented, it is a great chance to let the public know your music.
However, I think it does not provide enough visibility to the winner after the concert ends. Considering how popular Eurovision is, the streams are not enough.
The marketing support provided to the artist should continue way beyond the night of the contest.
I was discussing the numbers for the first day after Brividi was released since that’s all we have to compare with Stefania’s first day post-Eurovision. Brividi was streamed in Italy 3,384,192 times the day after it debuted at Sanremo, nearly doubling the previous streaming record. I wasn’t trying to say it didn’t become known outside Italy after that, but that the impressive numbers that put it in the top 10 on Spotify were due to its popularity at home. Sanremo provides a huge platform *within Italy*, but we’re discussing popular artists in their own country (Blanco was on 4 of… Read more »
I don’t think acknowledging the limits that EBU has in promoting winners equals to discredit them. I have often highlighted the strengths (although i do think the improvements of last years are thanks to an overall increase in the quality of entries starting from the 2010s, rather than to a shift in the management). I do understand that a deep comparison between a national contest and international contest is not accurate due to the difference in contexts. But this exactly what i am trying to point out: Sanremo’s songs have a total market of 60.000.000 people (population of Italy), and… Read more »
The EBU is in a strange place right now as two, somewhat opposing, views of Eurovision clash: is it a serious music competition that can launch emerging artists to fame such as with Måneskin? Or is it a silly and camp extravaganza that is at its worst when it takes itself too seriously (the overload of ballads)? Some countries and artists believe the former, but many hold onto the latter. These are the shifting attitudes Eurovision has to juggle in a reputation rebuild from the 2000s era, but without pushing away casual fans. That means that many viewers do turn… Read more »
I think rather than being torn between two movements, Eurovision is once again in the midst of an inevitable generational shifts, and it seems EBU is fighting to keep the status quo. The times of musically mediocre but kitsch performances ended after Loreen’s landslide victory in 2011. Since then, a sort of Melodifestivalen era began, with songs really affected by Swedish norms. You still had extravagant and entertaining winners, but now the music needed to be well produced (Rise like a Phoenix, Toy) and yet most of the wins of the last decade were “tuned down” (Heroes, Only Teardrops etc).… Read more »
apologies, i wanted to reply to your last comment
Agree. Amaia and Alfred got insane numbers in Spain, but it was not a good song… they just came from a very viewed TV program where they had a love story and the song was part of all that “fiction”.
Yes. It might help a little to stop geo-blocking the contest and performance videos. The record companies should want to increase exposure of their artists around the world, and The ESC should stand up to the record companies in contract negotiations around this geo-blocking nonsense. Geo-blocking hurts the artists and the fans.
I loved Supermodel. I hope it does very well.
Worldwide iTunes Song Chart – 2022/05/16 1=Harry Styles – As It Was 2=KALUSH – Stefania 3=Camila Cabello – Bam Bam 4+3Elton John & Dua Lipa – Cold Heart 5-1Sam Ryder – SPACE MAN 6-1Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer 7+1Lady Gaga – Hold My Hand 8+1Chanel – SloMo 9-3Måneskin – SUPERMODEL 10=Lizzo – About Damn Time 11+1S10 – De Diepte 12-1Subwoolfer – Give That Wolf A Banana 13=Tiësto & Ava Max – The Motto 14+5Jack Harlow – First Class 15+1Rosa Linn – SNAP 16+10Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott – Where Are You Now 17 Sia – Unstoppable 18-3Maro – saudade,… Read more »
Some final, brief comments about each country’s overall ranking in the final: Ukraine – obviously overrated, clearly wouldn’t have won without the solidarity vote but they’re far from the “worst” winners ever The UK – reasonable and fully deserved Spain – highly overrated, but guess I should stop moaning about it since they’ve been suffering for so long results-wise anyway? Oh, the plight of the poor Spanish fans… Sweden – reasonable and fully deserved Serbia – reasonable and fully deserved Italy – reasonable, deserved Moldova – unbelievably overrated, will anyone ever be able to explain how they did so well… Read more »
Poor Spanish fans? Now one of the most followed Twitter Spanish Eurovision account says that Chanel placed second and Sam Ryder third. Honestly, the most toxic Eurovision fandom this year.
I thought the sarcasm was obvious?
Your sarcasm is mixed with bad education y lack of respect., by the way many of the strange votes given by UER were given to the UK.
They are not saying that. They are saying that if the votes of all those six juries were included as they were supposed to it might have happened that Chanel was second instead of third. That’s all.
And the hate against Spain keeps on…
Don’t know why this comment have so many dislikes. I agree with everything .
Don’t take your personal taste for the absolute truth. I disagree with many of Midnight Gold’s comments.
Thanks a lot, Joe, glad to see some like-minded people even on a site like wiwi! Most of the dislikes must be from Chanel fans, they’re probably disappointed that I’m not sharing their enthusiasm for the booty hypnotic, sorry but it is what it is. To be honest, I didn’t mind the booty hypnotic part of it at all either, especially the really cute brunette girl next to Chanel, it’s just the song that I really never cared too much about so I had to rank it accordingly, hopefully next year I’ll get to be more positive about their entry…
So it seems that you have the absolute truth and not all those people that voted in Europe. They are all wrong.
Well, nobody’s got the absolute truth, after all it’s just my own opinion, taste, biases and so on, but it’s still a much more informed opinion than the usual televoter, whether you agree or not… I admit one of those is being biased against that genre (Spain 2022, Switzerland 2019, Cyprus 2018 and the likes) which I just don’t want to see win ESC again, but that doesn’t mean I would have “disgraced” Spain or anything like that, I’d have still recognized Chanel’s ability and their effort, placing them somewhere in that 9th-12th range, just don’t expect me to rank… Read more »
Regarding Moldova. “…will anyone ever be able to explain how they did so well on the televote? “ It’s very easy. Because it was a good song. Then, this year there were too many ballads and slow songs. Then, most of the uptempo numbers were subpar and got eliminated. Then, two of the high energy numbers were placed on slots 1 & 2. Then, Norway didn’t stand out as much as I thought it would. Then, Moldova was lucky to draw 2nd half of the running order, which meant it was surrounded by slower songs. Watching the show very carefully at… Read more »
you are absolutly right
Seeing how they got 12s from almost every single televote, you would think Stefania would be doing a lot better in the charts than it is.
A lot of older people don’t use streaming platforms.
I’m only in my twenties, but I don’t use them either, I still buy a lot of CD’s that aren’t available digitally (older operatic recitals and similar stuff) and rip them myself.
And I guess it’s impossible to completely deny that there may have been some solidarity votes… But ultimately the charts don’t matter. Music, not the bling.
“Ultimately the charts don’t matter”…Said no artist ever hahaha Thanks to their positions on charts, they literally earn money. Of course charts matter
Live performances are the main source of income for a lot of artists; most money from music sales goes to record companies, unless you’re not on a label and self-publish stuff.
That’s how there a lot of artists from niche genres who never chart, yet they still do well for themselves. Most of my music library consists of classical singers and you never really see their albums or tracks chart.
But I concede, charts are important in popular music. If for nothing else, at least they gave stans ammo and serve as for methaphoric dick-measuring contests.
You are right, but this mostly applies to niche artists. Eurovision is meant to take these artists out of the niche and show them to millions of people, or expand their audience if they are already big.
On a macro-level, especially in a world emerging from two years of pandemic, charts increase visibility. And visibility guarantees sponsorships, partnerships and advertisements. The implications are beyond the direct revenues of charts (we all know how platform like Spotify effectively steal profits from artists)
Oh, you’re right, I never even thought about sponsorships and such stuff. I guess I tried to erase that whole concept out of my brain back when Youtuber and Social media influencer started being mentioned as actual career paths.
Well, then I’ll just have to cross my fingers and hope Kalush chart for many years to come, while enjoying their music regardless. 🙂
Unless the televote is wrong?!
Here’s the actual stream from @esc_charts on Twitter
Most-streamed #Eurovision 2022 songs on Spotify on May 15:
1. Stefania (2,073,011 streams) ??
2. SloMo (1,810,402) ??
3. Space Man (1,412,642) ??
4. Hold Me Closer (1,233,631) ??
5. Give That Wolf a Banana (1,085,132) ??
6. Brividi (1,032,655) ??
7. De diepte (1,000,881) ??
Do a post on actual stream as the Spotify viral chart doesn’t actually go off of pure streams. From Spotify “ Spotify Viral Charts capture the songs gaining the most buzz on Spotify. Chart placement’s based on a few factors: If a song’s recently risen in plays. How often people share the song.”
The viral charts are not really relevant, better write an article about the global charts
Stefania is at position 38 which is quite disappointing in my opinion
It’s not disappointing when almost the entire albums of Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny are ahead of it as they are major world wide artists taking up most of the spots. As time goes on Stefania will rise as the songs that aren’t singles from KL and BB fade post release. Also Stefania is the only Eurovision song on the global top 50 rn so how is that disappointing for Stefania???
It is disappointing, considering that last year Maneskin reached #9. And that was just Zitti e Buoni: I Wanna be Your Slave and Begging did even better (Begging no #1). I wish Eurovision was a better platform for winners when it comes to charts, since it is viewed by 200 million people.
Yeah I definitely agree that I wish more artists from success post Eurovision… I do think Måneskin is more marketable than Kalush Orchestra and success is relative so I still think Stefania being the highest charting Ukrainian song, the current most daily streamed song of any Eurovision 2022 songs can still be counted as a success. Success for one artists looks different for another!
True, but i thought that the current invasion of Ukraine would grant them more success (by no means i mean exploiting, i mean providing a beautiful culture with the spotlight it deserves, while its cultural roots are being endangered by war).
Still wishing for better numbers for Eurovision songs; summer is still long, high hopes for Chanel in the Mediterranean
And Also Zitti e Buoni dealt with Rauw Alejandro’s and Olivia Rodrigo’s entire albums
Let’s see the numbers of Stefania in the next days, if you’re right or not. Eurovision is seen by 180 million people around Europe, I would expect the winning song to chart higher. Zitti e Buoni was at position 9 last year with almost 4 million streams.
We shall see indeed I could be very wrong… I just know that this is also the highest charting Ukrainian language song and Italy has a bigger demographic on Spotify than Ukraine which zitti e buoni benefitted from as well. But I’m so happy that Måneskin and Duncan last year found success on Spotify and the charts!!!
It shows that Ukraine didn’t win because of the song.
And it probably ruined other songs’ chances to succeed
Wait, what? How in the world did LPS make this chart and why are we higher than the UK and Spain? What does this chart even mean?
The viral chart holds less merit than the overall chart, from Spotify “ Spotify Viral Charts capture the songs gaining the most buzz on Spotify. Chart placement’s based on a few factors: If a song’s recently risen in plays. How often people share the song.” so it’s not necessarily about the amount of streams.
Oh. Well, at least they’re getting some streams, so that’s good.
Thank you. 🙂
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interesting seeing so many songs that didn’t too well in the televote doing better than others that did…I have to imagine fun/party songs are always bound to do well…which Im surprised why sloMo is not…i also think it has to do with fan passion…televote might be about how broad you are but actually streaming a song is about how much did you really love the song to listen to it on repeat
This is the viral chart. You can find the real streaming chart here:
https://spotifycharts.com/regional/
Brividi reached #5 on the Spotify Top Global, not the Viral Top 50 mentioned in this article. Being on the Top Global list is way more difficult as it gives an honest representation of how many people are actually streaming the song. Of this year’s songs only Stefania is currently trending at #38.
Makes sense. Years from now, Stefania and Brividi will be the classics from 2022. Maybe Spaceman.
Not sure if we can use the word ‘honest’. Most of the actual streams are taking place in its own country (see Italy for example) or a few countries. The Viral chart shows the global reach which is not affected by local streams. It also has the buzz (sharing, new listens) which shows the impact.
It’s really interesting and shows how specific Eurovision is! Latvia before most top 10. I’m quite shocked about UK not being more viral though
The UK official mid week chart update, released every Monday, with the official chart announced on Friday.
Today (Monday 16th May 2022) the chart update features:
3 – Sam Ryder – Space man
54 – Maneskin – Supermodel
58 – Subwolfer – Give that wolf a banana
66 – Kalush – Stefania
84 – Cornelia – Hold me closer
off top
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