Eurovision Song Contest 2022 - 14th May, Turin, Italy

[flopho]

and the outfit too tbh, I have a feeling she'll change some things after the reactions on twatter

[flopho]

Apparently there are multiple delegations already unhappy with the amount of technical issues, the worst one being the kinetic sun is not rotating/moving even though it's supposed to be...I'm guessing this was a key element in one or two performances (maybe North Macedonia? )

Also, first rehearsal footage will only be uploaded on tiktok..ugh.

Albania
https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?feed_m...53815638215942

Not feeling the pink hair tbh, but that's just my personal opinion.

Latvia
https://www.tiktok.com/@eurovision/v...61412399467782

Not even showing the live audio

[SholasBoy]

A solution has been confirmed and Israel will be present
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-705371

While it’s not one of my favourite songs this year, I think it’s good news that they’ll be there.

[SholasBoy]

From the very small clips we have of the performances...sadly Ronela hasn't gone all out Game Of Thrones for Albania as I'd hoped...but my guilty pleasure Slovenia have a very cool enormous disco ball!

[jordi_89]

Apparently there are multiple delegations already unhappy with the amount of technical issues,

Omg no Hope they fix everything in the next 10 days.

[jordi_89]

From the very small clips we have of the performances...sadly Ronela hasn't gone all out Game Of Thrones for Albania as I'd hoped...but my guilty pleasure Slovenia have a very cool enormous disco ball!

I'm still rooting for Albania. Maybe they'll do some last minute changes. And btw Slovenia and Sweden are growing on me now.

[greek_boy]

Maybe. But I'm sure Chanel will sell it just like Eleni, while Elena and especially Tamta didn't sell it as whole package.

100% it's how you sell the song.

[greek_boy]

Ugh Albania what r u doing? Looks messy. That pink wig looks so cheaaaap

I don't like the outfit at all, big mess alert. I don't mind the wig (Christina Aguilera Your Body vibes) even though she looks better with red I think. The outfit needs to go and I think I read somewhere that she's changing/trying different outfits. Wiwibloggs said that there will be an LGBT vibe between her and the female dancer lol I'm certain now that this is going to be a messy performance. In any case, it will be a strong opening entry.

[greek_boy]

More from Dutch rehearsal. Loving S10 and the song BUT where are the laser lights we saw on the Dutch talk show performance? I'm disappointed I'll wait for the full rehearsal though as I can't really judge based on a few seconds.

[greek_boy]

I think Moldova and Latvia are strong enough to qualify. Latvia gave me Iceland 2014 vibes, Moldova being Moldova. Both should be top 10 with the public.

[heppolo]

100% it's how you sell the song.

also the mood of the room and the running order matter

[heppolo]

cute version

[SholasBoy]

cute version

Love this. It’s such a performance piece and she never breaks character. I know there’s obviously more than 6 people in this video but I quite like the idea of other people joining her at a table like this rather than her being alone on stage.

[heppolo]

Love this. It’s such a performance piece and she never breaks character. I know there’s obviously more than 6 people in this video but I quite like the idea of other people joining her at a table like this rather than her being alone on stage.

also impeccable outfit choices

[greek_boy]

More drama:

[Blondini]

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...d-more__36199/

30 April 2022
Eurovision: The Official All-Time Most Streamed Songs revealed including ABBA, Måneskin, Duncan Laurence, Dadi Freyr and more

Official Charts Company can reveal the Official Top 100 most streamed Eurovision Song Contest tracks ever
By Carl Smith
Arcade by Duncan Laurence is the UK's Official All-Time Most Streamed Eurovision Song Contest entry, Official Charts Company can reveal.

The list, compiled using official UK audio and video streaming data, sees the Netherlands' 2019 representative Duncan claim the top spot with over 55 million streams of his winning song. At the time, he became the fifth Dutch contestant ever to have won the competition.

Arcade's success is thanks, in part, to the song's unexpected resurgence on TikTok last year. At the time, he told OfficialCharts.com: "It started growing and growing on TikTok, but also on digital music platforms such as Spotify. And it’s still growing!"

ABBA's 1974 track Waterloo places second on the list. The song, which saw the group take victory for their homeland of Sweden, boasts almost 42 million UK streams to date.


MORE: Your definitive guide to Eurovision 2022


Icelandic artist Dađi Freyr finds himself at Number 3 with his 2020 entry Think About Things. Despite the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning the song wasn't performed, Dađi's would've-been entry has racked up over 32 million streams in the UK to date.

Elsewhere in the Top 5, 2012 winner Loreen makes Number 4 with Euphoria. The track, which saw her take the crown for Sweden with a staggering 372 points, has been streamed almost 20 million times in the UK.

Rounding out the Top 5 are the contest's reigning champions; Italian representatives Måneskin. The group's winning song, Zitti E Buoni, reached the Official Singles Chart Top 20 in their week of victory, and has since accumulated over 19.5 million streams in the UK.

Other notable Top 10 entries come courtesy of 2009 Norwegian winner Alexander Rybak with the irresistibly-catchy Fairytale (6), Netta's quirky track Toy (7) and the first of the United Kingdom's entries on the list; Bucks Fizz's 1981 winner Making Your Mind Up.

In total, the UK features in the Top 100 list 17 times, including appearances from Gina G's 1996 entry Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit (15), James Newman's 2021 track Embers (17) and Scooch's (immensely underrated, if you ask us) Flying the Flag (For You) (62).
Official All-Time Most Streamed Eurovision Songs

POS	TITLE	ARTIST	YEAR	PEAK
1	ARCADE	DUNCAN LAURENCE	2019	29
2	WATERLOO	ABBA	1974	1
3	THINK ABOUT THINGS	DADI FREYR	2020	34
4	EUPHORIA	LOREEN	2012	3
5	ZITTI E BUONI	MANESKIN	2021	17
6	FAIRYTALE	ALEXANDER RYBAK	2009	10
7	TOY	NETTA	2018	49
8	MAKING YOUR MIND UP	BUCKS FIZZ	1981	1
9	HEROES	MANS ZELMERLOW	2015	11
10	SOLDI	MAHMOOD	2019	73
11	IF I WERE SORRY	FRANS	2016	61
12	FUEGO	ELENI FOUREIRA	2018	64
13	SHUM	GO A	2021	59
14	10 YEARS	DADI FREYR	2021	43
15	OOH AAH JUST A LITTLE BIT	GINA G	1996	1
16	HARD ROCK HALLELUJAH	LORDI	2006	25
17	EMBERS	JAMES NEWMAN	2021	47
18	CITY LIGHTS	BLANCHE	2017
19	SPIRIT IN THE SKY	KEIINO	2019	61
20	HOLD ME NOW	JOHNNY LOGAN	1987	2
21	SHE GOT ME	LUCA HANNI	2019
22	DARK SIDE	BLIND CHANNEL	2021	66
23	VOILA	BARBARA PRAVI	2021	62
24	YOU LET ME WALK ALONE	MICHAEL SCHULTE	2018
25	RISE LIKE A PHOENIX	CONCHITA WURST	2014	17
26	EL DIABLO	ELENA TSAGRINOU	2021	86
27	ONLY TEARDROPS	EMMELIE DE FOREST	2013	15
28	UNDO	SANNA NIELSEN	2014	40
29	DISCOTEQUE	ROOP	2021
30	LIE TO ME	MIKOLAS JOSEF	2018
31	AMAR PELOS DOIS	SALVADOR SOBRAL	2017	97
32	STORM	SURIE	2018	50
33	LOVE SHINE A LIGHT	KATRINA & THE WAVES	1997	3
34	DANCE YOU OFF	BENJAMIN INGROSSO	2018
35	JE ME CASSE	DESTINY	2021
36	SATELLITE	LENA	2010	30
37	CONGRATULATIONS	CLIFF RICHARD	1968	1
38	PUPPET ON A STRING	SANDIE SHAW	1967	1
39	TOUT L'UNIVERS	GJON'S TEARS	2021	93
40	SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME	BROTHERHOOD OF MAN	1976	1
41	UNO	LITTLE BIG	2020
42	NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU	LUCIE JONES	2017	73
43	REPLAY	TAMTA	2019
44	TOO LATE FOR LOVE	JOHN LUNDVIK	2019
45	CALM AFTER THE STORM	COMMON LINNETS	2014	9
46	BEAUTIFUL MESS	KRISTIAN KOSTOV	2017
47	WE GOT LOVE	JESSICA MAUBOY	2018
48	MY LAST BREATH	JAMES NEWMAN	2020
49	GRANDE AMORE	IL VOLO	2015
50	OCCIDENTALI'S KARMA	FRANCESCO GABBANI	2017
51	SOUND OF SILENCE	DAMI IM	2016
52	FALLEN ANGEL	TIX	2021
53	MATA HARI	EFENDI	2021
54	FRIEND OF A FRIEND	LAKE MALAWI	2019
55	BIGGER THAN US	MICHAEL RICE	2019
56	VOICES	TUSSE	2021
57	J'AI CHERCHE	AMIR	2016
58	RHYTHM INSIDE	LOIC NOTTET	2015	69
59	MONSTERS	SAARA AALTO	2018
60	YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE	SERGEY LARAREV	2016
61	I CAN'T GO ON	ROBIN BENGTSSON	2017
62	FLYING THE FLAG (FOR YOU)	SCOOCH	2007	5
63	1944	JAMALA	2016
64	LA VENDA	MIKI NUNEZ	2019
65	CHAMELEON	MICHELA	2019
66	CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE	MOLLY	2014	23
67	YOU'RE NOT ALONE	JOE & JAKE	2016	81
68	HIGHER GROUND	RASMUSSEN	2018
69	MOVE	MAMAS	2020
70	NOCTURNE	SECRET GARDEN	1995	90
71	RUN AWAY	SUNSTROKE PROJECT & OLIA TIRA	2010
72	RUSSIAN WOMAN	MANIZHA	2021
73	LAST DANCE	STEFANIA	2021
74	SET ME FREE	EDEN ALENE	2021
75	TOGETHER	RYAN O'SHAUGHNESSY	2018
76	YES	BEN & TAN	2020
77	FAI RUMORE	DIODATO	2020
78	IF LOVE WAS A CRIME	POLI GENOVA	2016
79	NOBODY BUT YOU	CESAR SAMPSON	2018
80	ON FIRE	ROOP	2020
81	DON'T COME EASY	ISAIAH	2017
82	YODEL IT	ILINCA FT ALEX FLOREA	2017
83	MERCY	MADAME MONSIEUR	2018
84	HATRIAO MUN SIGRA	HATARI	2019
85	ROCKEFELLER STREET	GETTER JAANI	2011
86	DANCING LASHA TUMBAI	VERKA SERDUCHKA	2007	28
87	TRUTH	CHINGIZ	2019
88	GOLDEN BOY	NADAV GUEDJ	2015
89	SUGAR	NATALIA GORDIENKO	2021
90	I CAN	BLUE	2011	16
91	COLOR OF YOUR LIFE	MICHAL SZPAK	2016
92	WHAT'S ANOTHER YEAR	JOHNNY LOGAN	1980	1
93	BOOM BANG A BANG	LULU	1969	2
94	THAT'S HOW YOU WRITE A SONG	ALEXANDER RYBAK	2018
95	MY NUMBER ONE	HELENA PAPARIZOU	2005
96	NON MI AVETE FATTO NIENTE	ERMAL META & FABRIZIO MORO	2018
97	THE WRONG PLACE	HOOVERPHONIC	2021
98	BONES	EQUINOX	2018
99	MOUSTACHE	TWIN TWIN	2014	89
100	STORM	VICTOR CRONE	2019

©2022 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

Hear Michelle Visage count down Eurovision's Official Top 50 All-Time Most Streamed on BBC Sounds from today, or listen as part of BBC Radio 2's Eurovision Super Saturday, 1-3pm on Saturday May 14.


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Blanche!

[SholasBoy]

Frans If I Were Sorry shockingly high for a flop entry!

[greek_boy]

I expected Love Shine a Light, Conchita and Verka to be higher.

[Spartan]

I accidentally stumbled across the Latvian entry on my Spotiy and love it.

[SholasBoy]

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This whole thing with Ronela seems super unfair considering they have already seen a “live on tape” performance of the song and not made them change anything previously. In the past we’ve had the Polish milk maids, Icelandic BDSM and many many other sexualised performances, there’s suggestions it may be due to Chinese sponsorship (with TikTok) due to some homoerotic parts with her dancers. If that is the case, they should be ashamed, when the Chinese broadcasters cut Ryan O’Shaughnessys performance a few years back, the ESC quite rightly cut the rest of their feed and now they are pandering to Chinese sponsors?

They should be concentrating on fixing the broken stage which multiple delegations have complained about.

[SholasBoy]

The gorgeous AJ Odudu will read out the UK points this year, so no more Amanda Holden embarrassing us or Lorraine Kelly’s falseness.

[Tansike]

There seems to be a lot of drama this year + most entries are not as great as most entries from previous years. Guess it had to happen at some point... so far, I'm not that impressed with this years contest and now I just hope the live shows will change that (though I won't be able to even watch the second Semi )

[heppolo]

Frans If I Were Sorry shockingly high for a flop entry!

it finished top 5, it wasn't exactly a flop (esp. for a host country)

[greek_boy]

The gorgeous AJ Odudu will read out the UK points this year, so no more Amanda Holden embarrassing us or Lorraine Kelly’s falseness.

I loved Nigella Lawson in 2015.

[greek_boy]

it finished top 5, it wasn't exactly a flop (esp. for a host country)

I think he meant flop entry in terms of chart performance (peak).