![]() The official Eurovision playlist is on Spotify now and features all this year’s entrants from the final in Kiev. The visual element is clearly very important. It’s about the presentation and the performance. Another view is that Eurovision isn’t just about the song. ![]() Which opens the discussion again on whether politics play a part in how people vote. Similarly, Australia performed poorly despite being one of the top streamed songs, while Moldova, who did not feature in the streaming chart performed well in the telephone vote. Interestingly, Austria came last in the telephone voting with zero points awarded even though they came top in Spotify’s streaming chart. The results of the contest are based on a combination of the public vote and points awarded by a jury of music industry professionals from each country. Of course, the UK entrant, Lucie Jones, does not feature on this list because as we all know, you are not allowed to vote for your own country so her streams were omitted. In the regular Contest back in May, singer Rosa Linn represented the country with the song, 'Snap', which, despite finishing a lowly 20th place, became a viral hit on Spotify and topped the charts in Belgium and the United Kingdom. They also compiled a list of the top 5 songs according to UK fans. Spotify also compiled a chart of most Eurovision obsessed countries, basing this on the number of streams from users in the competing countries. Salvador Sobral– Amar Pelos Dois (Portugal).Kristian Kristov– Beautiful Mess (Bulgaria).Robin Bengtsson– I Can’t Go On (Sweden).Streams from the two weeks before the final were used to predict the following top 10: They obviously excluded each entrant’s home country! They used these findings to award points and then combined the figures to compile these charts. Spotify took data from each individual country with voting power (where Spotify is available) and ranked the Eurovision entries in order of popularity. ![]() Spotify have released a chart which gives an indication of which songs have been the most popular across the continent in the lead up to the contest. With much of Europe going Eurovision crazy over the last couple of weeks, many turned to Spotify to predict how the finals of the contest would play out. ![]()
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