Eurovision winning songs ranked by Spotify streams
Out of the 68 Eurovision winning songs, 67 of them can be streamed on Spotify in Australia.
It has been nearly three months since the Eurovision 2021 winners, Måneskin from Italy, were crowned!
Today we take a look and see how the Eurovision winning songs stack up against each other based on Spotify streams, so we have pulled together full rankings.
Only one Eurovision winning song isn't on Spotify in Australia. It is the 2001 Eurovision winning song ‘Everybody’ by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL.
This ranking of Spotify streams were collated as of August 4, 2021:
1. Duncan Laurence - 'Arcade' - 2019 - The Netherlands - 472,559,699 total streams
2. Måneskin - 'Zitti e buoni' - 2021 - Italy - 181,195,400
3. Loreen - 'Euphoria' - 2012 - Sweden - 168,935,870
4. ABBA - 'Waterloo' - 1974 - Sweden - 138,060,659
5. Måns Zelmerlöw - 'Heroes' - 2015 - Sweden - 130,871,168
6. Netta - 'Toy' - 2018 - Israel - 83,769,111
7. Alexander Rybak - 'Fairytale' - 2009 - Norway - 79,460,059
8. Lena - 'Satellite' - 2010 - Germany - 52,347,202
9. Lordi - 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' - 2006 - Finland - 44,747,742
10. Emmelie de Forest - 'Only Teardrops' - 2013 - Denmark - 40,233,692
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11. Salvador Sobral - 'Amar pelos dois' - 2017 - Portugal - 24,709,376
12. Johnny Logan - 'Hold Me Now' - 1987 - Ireland - 24,384,253
13. Secret Garden - 'Nocturne' - 1995 - Norway - 22,588,283
14. Carola - 'Fångad av en stormvind' - 1991 - Sweden - 22,109,099
15. France Gall - 'Poupée de cire, poupée de son' - 1965 - Luxembourg - 19,757,271
16. Conchita Wurst - 'Rise Like a Phoenix' - 2014 - Austria - 19,532,974
17. Helena Paparizou - 'My Number One' - 2005 - Greece - 14763725
18. Olsen Brothers - 'Fly on the Wings of Love' - 2000 - Denmark - 13356100
19. Bucks Fizz - 'Making Your Mind Up' - 1981 - United Kingdom - 12,924,904
20. Jamala - '1944' - 2016 - Ukraine - 12,059,957
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21. Katrina and the Waves - 'Love Shine a Light' - 1997 - United Kingdom - 11,689,524
22. Sertab Erener - 'Every Way That I Can' - 2003 - Turkey - 11,140,466
23. Herreys - 'Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley' - 1984 - Sweden - 10,915,171
24. Ruslana - 'Wild Dances' - 2004 - Ukraine - 10,001,137
25. Sandra Kim - 'J'aime la vie' - 1986 - Belgium - 7,228,192
26. Brotherhood of Man - 'Save Your Kisses for Me' - 1976 - United Kingdom - 6,710,697
27. Johnny Logan - 'What's Another Year' - 1980 - Ireland - 6,433,623
28. Vicky Leandros - 'Après toi' - 1972 - Luxembourg - 6,256,251
29. Bobbysocks! - 'La det swinge' - 1985 - Norway - 5,992,153
30. Gigliola Cinquetti - 'Non ho l'età' - 1964 - Italy - 5,907,248
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31. Toto Cutugno - 'Insieme: 1992' - 1990 - Italy - 5,583,035
32. Sandie Shaw - 'Puppet on a String' - 1967 - United Kingdom - 5,340,317
33. Marija Šerifović - 'Molitva' - 2007 - Serbia - 5,300,186
34. Céline Dion - 'Ne partez pas sans moi' - 1988 - Switzerland - 4,905,271
35. Charlotte Nilsson - 'Take Me to Your Heaven' - 1999 - Sweden - 4,737,384
36. Nicole - 'Ein bißchen Frieden' - 1982 - Germany - 4,662,690
37. Teach-In - 'Ding-a-dong' - 1975 - Netherlands - 4,217,793
38. Ell and Nikki - 'Running Scared' - 2011 - Azerbaijan - 4,054,101
39. Marie Myriam - 'L'oiseau et l'enfant' - 1977 - France - 3,455,103
40. Udo Jürgens - 'Merci, Chérie' - 1966 - Austria - 3,294,198
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41. Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann - 'Dansevise' - 1963 - Denmark - 1,796,637
42. Massiel - 'La, la, la' - 1968 - Spain - 1,791,413
43. Dana International - 'Diva' - 1998 - Israel - 1,744,236
44. Dana - 'All Kinds of Everything' - 1970 - Ireland - 1,717,386
45. Lulu - 'Boom Bang-a-Bang' - 1969 - United Kingdom - 1,591,025
46. Milk and Honey - 'Hallelujah' - 1979 - Israel - 1,351,299
47. Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan - 'Rock 'n' Roll Kids' - 1994 - Ireland - 1,275,160
48. Salomé - 'Vivo cantando' - 1969 - Spain - 1,056,140
49. Anne-Marie David - 'Tu te reconnaîtras' - 1973 - Luxembourg - 949,638
50. Dima Bilan - 'Believe' - 2008 - Russia - 936,774
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51. Corinne Hermès - 'Si la vie est cadeau' - 1983 - Luxembourg - 877,967
52. Linda Martin - 'Why Me' - 1992 - Ireland - 750,141
53. Frida Boccara - 'Un jour, un enfant' - 1969 - France - 727,411
54. Marie N - 'I Wanna' - 2002 - Latvia - 662,293
55. Séverine - 'Un banc, un arbre, une rue' - 1971 - Monaco - 628,804
56. Jean-Claude Pascal - 'Nous les amoureux' - 1961 - Luxembourg - 506,254
57. Teddy Scholten - 'Een beetje' - 1959 - Netherlands - 489,728
58. Riva - 'Rock Me' - 1989 - Yugoslavia - 417,406
59. Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta - 'A-Ba-Ni-Bi' - 1978 - Israel - 344,265
60. Jacqueline Boyer - 'Tom Pillibi' - 1960 - France - 293,227
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61. Eimear Quinn - 'The Voice' - 1996 - Ireland - 264,416
62. Isabelle Aubret - 'Un premier amour' - 1962 - France - 254,978
63. Lys Assia - 'Refrain' - 1956 - Switzerland - 250,674
64. André Claveau - 'Dors, mon amour' - 1958 - France - 230,513
65. Lenny Kuhr - 'De troubadour' - 1969 - Netherlands - 179,585
66. Corry Brokken - 'Net als toen' - 1957 - Netherlands - 107,842
67. Niamh Kavanagh - 'In Your Eyes' - 1993 - Ireland - 14,895
It comes at no surprise that ‘Arcade’ is the most streamed song on Spotify! The song regained a resurgence over 2020 and 2021 thanks to TikTok and it is not too far from passing 500 million stream milestone for the original version of the song. If you were to also collate the ‘Arcade’ duet of Duncan Laurence with FLETCHER and the acoustic version ‘Arcade’ together with the original version the Eurovision 2019 winning song has amassed over 546 million streams on Spotify!!
'Arcade' is also currently climbing the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, edging closer to the Top 50.
As expected this years Eurovision winner makes its debut in our list at No. 2. 'Zitti e buoni’. Gaining huge streaming numbers when Måneskin competed at Sanremo 2021 and skyrocketed after their win. The surge of streams on Spotify continued after their Eurovision win. Italy’s latest Eurovision winning song will surpass 200 million streams before the end of the year.
The more recent Eurovision winning songs have been played the most, with seven Eurovision winning songs from the 2010 and 2020’s’s making the top 10.
The oldest Eurovision winning song with the highest ranking is 'Poupée de cire, poupée de son’ from 1965 reaching the top 20 in 15th place with over 19 million streams.
Out of the countries with multiple Eurovision winning songs, we thought it would be interesting to look at their best song ranked in this list - with countries with three or more victories, they are:
Ireland (7 victories) - 12th place - Johnny Logan - 'Hold Me Now' - 1987 - 24,384,253 streams
Sweden (6 victories) - 3rd place - Loreen - 'Euphoria' - 2012 - 168,935,870
France (5 victories) - 39th place - Marie Myriam - 'L'oiseau et l'enfant' - 1977 - 3,455,103
Luxembourg (5 victories) - 15th place - France Gall - 'Poupée de cire, poupée de son' - 1965 - 19,757,271
United Kingdom (5 victories) - 19th place Bucks Fizz - 'Making Your Mind Up' - 1981 - 12,924,904
Netherlands (5 victories) - 1st place - Duncan Laurence - 'Arcade' - 2019 - 472,559,699
Israel (4 victories) - 6th place - Netta - 'Toy' - 2018 - 83,769,111
Denmark (3 victories) - 10th place - Emmelie de Forest - 'Only Teardrops' - 2013 - 40,233,692
Italy (3 victories) - 2nd place - Måneskin - 'Zitti e buoni' - 2021 - 181,195,400
Norway (3 victories) - 7th place - Alexander Rybak - 'Fairytale' - 2009 - 79,460,059
Original article published on 23 September 2020.
Check out our Eurovision runner up songs ranking by Spotify streams article here.