Can You Predict The Eurovision Winner From the YouTube Hits? Photo : computimesinc
You may be wondering what measures can be used to determine which official are the most popular out there in the real world. As you may know, all except for Italy now have their official videos on the official Eurovision Song Contest Youtube channel. Other channels are available, but this is probably the best measure of how a song is doing.
So which are the popular ones? The figures below show the average number of hits per day since an official video appeared on the official Youtube channel as at 1800 CET on 23 March. San Marino’s hits are based on the new uptempo version of the song. Here are the top 10 videos:
| 1 | Poland | 191250 |
| 2 | Australia | 106479 |
| 3 | Malta | 94785 |
| 4 | Serbia | 90015 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 85003 |
| 6 | Croatia | 82963 |
| 7 | France | 81464 |
| 8 | Armenia | 72965 |
| 9 | Azerbaijan | 72758 |
| 10 | San Marino | 54207 |
Michał Szpak’s ‘Color of your life’ (sic) is way ahead of the rest at the moment. Will he still be as popular during Eurovision fortnight?
The other songs are:
| 11 | Spain | 49110 |
| 12 | Russia | 44956 |
| 13 | Czech Republic | 42535 |
| 14 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 42267 |
| 15 | Netherlands | 40884 |
| 16 | Belgium | 37356 |
| 17 | Greece | 34689 |
| 18 | Albania | 27295 |
| 19 | Sweden | 27064 |
| 20 | Macedonia | 23140 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 22699 |
| 22 | Iceland | 21130 |
| 23 | Israel | 20674 |
| 24 | Cyprus | 19426 |
| 25 | Austria | 19228 |
| 26 | Germany | 19035 |
| 27 | UK | 16811 |
| 28 | Denmark | 15283 |
| 29 | Montenegro | 14238 |
| 30 | Estonia | 12834 |
| 31 | Hungary | 11725 |
| 32 | Norway | 10580 |
| 33 | Switzerland | 8312 |
| 34 | Moldova | 8295 |
| 35 | Lithuania | 8169 |
| 36 | Finland | 7851 |
| 37 | Latvia | 7789 |
| 38 | Georgia | 7268 |
| 39 | Romania | 6669 |
| 40 | Slovenia | 6224 |
| 41 | Belarus | 6117 |
| 42 | Ireland | 5963 |
There’s still time yet to see your favourite videos climb (including the cracker of a song from Nicky Byrne). But what are they?
Author: John Stanton
Source: Eurovision Ireland
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Poland very deserved on nr 1 !! A great song, a great artist and one of the most beautiful video’s !
We seem to forget that he is so popular in other parts of Europe Edith. I think he could surprise at Eurovision