She rode a wave of hype to win Finland’s hyper-competitive national selection Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2025 with her song “ICH KOMME.” And then at Eurovision Erika Vikman placed 11th, a result many fans found just a bit too low.
Well today Erika — Ms. Vikman if you’re nasty — has reminded us that you don’t have to win the contest to win hearts and minds. After counting 22,109 votes, we can now reveal that “ICH KOMME” is the Eurovision 2025 song our readers are listening to the most.
We launched the poll in July and gave our readers six weeks to cast their votes. In the end it was Finland’s Erika Vikman who came out on top — appropriate for a woman who mounted a gigantic microphone that shot sparks as she belted it out in Basel’s St. Jakobshalle.
She earned a total of 2,317 votes — or just over one in every ten votes cast. Finland’s Prime Minister may have turned his back on our girl, but our readers most definitely did not. They respect Erika’s song and her spirit of slaying despite the headwinds. You go girl!
In second place were Sweden’s KAJ, the Swedish-speaking Finns who stole Sweden’s heart at Melodifestivalen (and who won the support of said President Alexander Stubb). They earned 1,596 votes, which was just over 7% of all those cast.
In third place was this year’s winner — Austria’s JJ with the poperatic number “Wasted Love.” He didn’t waste no love on our readers. They gave it right back to him with a very respectable 1,455 votes — or around 6.5% of all those cast.
?? Finland’s President Alexander Stubb says he’s fully behind Sweden’s KAJ winning #Eurovision 2025.
— William Lee Adams (@willyleeadams) May 11, 2025
? So how does Finland’s contestant Erika Vikman feel about that?
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Poll results: Erika Vikman’s “ICH KOMME” is the Eurovision 2025 song our readers are still listening to the most
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🇫🇮 Finland — 10.48% — 2,317 votes
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🇸🇪 Sweden — 7.22% — 1,596 votes
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🇦🇹 Austria — 6.58% — 1,455 votes
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🇩🇰 Denmark — 6.09% — 1,347 votes
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🇨🇭 Switzerland — 5.73% — 1,266 votes
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🇮🇸 Iceland — 4.97% — 1,098 votes
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🇳🇴 Norway — 4.96% — 1,097 votes
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 4.87% — 1,076 votes
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🇩🇪 Germany — 4.81% — 1,063 votes
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🇦🇱 Albania — 4.67% — 1,033 votes
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🇦🇺 Australia — 3.76% — 831 votes
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🇪🇪 Estonia — 3.32% — 735 votes
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🇱🇺 Luxembourg — 2.25% — 498 votes
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🇪🇸 Spain — 2.07% — 458 votes
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🇮🇪 Ireland — 2.04% — 450 votes
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🇲🇹 Malta — 1.97% — 435 votes
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🇨🇿 Czechia — 1.94% — 429 votes
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🇬🇷 Greece — 1.87% — 413 votes
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🇵🇹 Portugal — 1.83% — 404 votes
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🇫🇷 France — 1.70% — 376 votes
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🇧🇪 Belgium — 1.69% — 374 votes
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🇮🇹 Italy — 1.65% — 365 votes
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🇱🇹 Lithuania — 1.48% — 328 votes
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🇱🇻 Latvia — 1.32% — 292 votes
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🇳🇱 Netherlands — 1.30% — 288 votes
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🇺🇦 Ukraine — 1.24% — 275 votes
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🇵🇱 Poland — 1.23% — 272 votes
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🇸🇲 San Marino — 1.16% — 257 votes
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🇨🇾 Cyprus — 1.06% — 234 votes
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🇲🇪 Montenegro — 0.99% — 219 votes
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🇦🇲 Armenia — 0.98% — 217 votes
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🇮🇱 Israel — 0.96% — 213 votes
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🇸🇮 Slovenia — 0.49% — 108 votes
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🇦🇿 Azerbaijan — 0.47% — 105 votes
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🇭🇷 Croatia — 0.39% — 87 votes
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🇷🇸 Serbia — 0.25% — 55 votes
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🇬🇪 Georgia — 0.19% — 43 votes
Total Votes: 22,109
Erika joins a storied list of past winners of this poll. Turkey’s maNga won our inaugural edition way back in 2010 and were followed by artists including Mahmood and Käärijä.
Past poll winners
- 2024: Nemo — “The Code” (Switzerland)
- 2023: Käärija — “Cha Cha Cha” (Finland)
- 2022: Kalush Orchestra – “Stefania” (Ukraine)
- 2021: Måneskin – “Zitti e buoni” (Italy)
- 2020: Daði & Gagnamagnið – “Think About Things” (Iceland)
- 2019: Mahmood – “Soldi” (Italy)
- 2018: Eleni Foureira – “Fuego” (Cyprus)
- 2017: Blanche – “City Lights” (Belgium)
- 2016: Michal Szpak – “Color of Your Life” (Poland)
- 2015: Måns Zelmerlöw – “Heroes” (Sweden)
- 2014: Mei Finegold – “Same Heart” (Israel)
- 2013: Cezar – “It’s My Life” (Romania)
- 2012: Jedward – “Waterline” (Ireland)
- 2011: Eric Saade – “Popular” (Sweden)
- 2010: maNga – “We Could Be the Same” (Turkey)
So which Eurovision 2025 songs are YOU still listening to? Let us know in the comments box down below!
Aw, why is Italy so low? That was a perfectly well executed piece, but oh well, each their own (in my case soft rock)
Also, YEAH BABEEEEEEEE ERIKA!!!!!
Seeing Switzerland in 5th makes me very happy. Still gutted about Zoe’s 0 points.
Still can’t believe how Alexander Stubb commented on who he supports, I mean okay he later said he is supporting both (KAJ & Erika), but I felt like that was mainly damage control to prevent social backslash going any further.
It’s always men who get support no matter of what, but women are expected to still be Mrs. Housewife type wallpapers.
Or maybe he just think it was a better song?
To be honest, I feel like only the fan bubble like Erika. There was no real hype for her in real life
Erika is liked outside the usual Eurovision fans, but Alexander Stubb is half Finnish-Swede and as usual he likes more the ones he can reflect himself with, in this case the Swedish speaking Finns as it’s his main language.
Still, it was kinda embarrassing statement in my opinnion as well.
Det är, vad det är.
Love it, it’s my most played song of the year!
Schei$e
The transition from Ich Komme to Baller just scratches something in my brain so perfectly I keep the two on loop.
Same.
And that’s exactly the order I play them both in too haha
Still listening to Finland and Germany. Germany was underrated on the night BIG TIME! What a banger. Definitely one of their best entries since Lena in my opinion.
but I guess when some if the results are questionable, Germany probably would have done better…..
Shocker that the song that won the televote last year is only 32 in this poll. Almost as if it wasn’t really a fan fav ?
Who’d have thought?
makes it seem like it wasn’t a genuine result and that there may have been external forces at play.
Isra*li song was clearly not popular during the contest, and it isn’t popular now, but the reason why these results look like this is the crowd who visit these pages outside Eurovision season – mostly British people as this is website registered in their country + you can see British song high in rank, which is clearly not a realistic rank for that song 🙂
I’m aware of that. I do understand this poll is done to mostly ESC fans but the numbers in streaming platforms do echo what we see here. The statistic is a bit biased but I’d love to see this article reflect what people outside the WIWIBLOGGS sphere also think of the songs to get a broader perspective.
Switzerland stuck on me like a tattoo-oo. I think it’ll become one of my all time favorites. Austria is the right winner and I will always love it. Finland is not far behind. Aside from my 3, big respect to Estonia. The winner of the televote under normal circumstances, no doubt and certainly the biggest success after the contest. I love to see small countries taking the lead. Quite frankly, Israel stole from Estonia.
Since you care about honesty and balance; quite frankly, Austria stole from Israel and Estonia, based on biased anti-juries who pilled points on 1 country to make sure Israel won’t win. Austria finished 4th or 5th in the televote as Swifzerland’s 2024 and your 2023 tattoo-oo corrupted (133 televote gap from cha-cha-cha) stolen jury manipulated “victories”. If Israel and Estonia would have gotten less televote points, especially Israel if there wasn’t so much toxicity from loud fans and politicians which drove positive people to support the country, and the juries would give much higher deserved points for Israel and Estonia,… Read more »
Did you see the 32nd place on this poll before you posted that reply?