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Spotify Data Reveals Eurovision 2025 Fan Favorites, With Sweden’s KAJ Leading the Pack

May 9, 2025

As excitement builds for the annual Eurovision Song Contest, Spotify data offers a fascinating glimpse into the songs and artists capturing the world’s attention. Sweden—the most successful country in Eurovision history with seven victories—is once again in the spotlight, with the dynamic trio KAJ and their song “Bara Bada Bastu” emerging as the current 2025 frontrunners.

With the semifinals beginning May 13 in Basel, Switzerland, the streaming data* provides an early indication of which entries are resonating with fans. “Bara Bada Bastu” has clearly struck a chord, generating twice as many streams as its closest competitor.

The top 5 most-streamed Eurovision 2025 entries on Spotify

Beyond the top contenders, the data also reveals the diverse range of musical styles and languages captivating Eurovision fans. Entries from Italy, the Netherlands, San Marino, and Estonia round out the top 5, showcasing the pan-European appeal of the competition.

    1. “Bara Bada Bastu” by KAJ (Sweden)
    2. “Volevo essere un duro” by Lucio Corsi (Italy)
    3. “C’est La Vie” by Claude (Netherlands)
    4. “Tutta L’Italia” by Gabry Ponte (San Marino)
    5. “Espresso Macchiato” by Tommy Cash (Estonia)

A launchpad for global talent

Eurovision is more than a song contest—it’s a powerful platform for European artists to reach a global audience. On average, past winners of the Eurovision Song Contest have seen their Spotify streams grow by more than 1,500% in the year following their winning performance.

Following Nemo’s 2024 triumph with “The Code,” their streams have skyrocketed by more than 1,700% in the past year. Austrian entrant Conchita Wurst, who won Eurovision in 2014 with “Rise Like a Phoenix,” experienced a staggering stream growth of more than 6,000% in the year following their victory.

Will KAJ maintain their Eurovision 2025 lead, or will another entry emerge as the fan favorite? Only time will tell, but one thing is certain: Europe’s biggest music event continues to shape the global music landscape.

Stream Spotify’s Eurovision 2025 playlist to hear all of this year’s entries.

*Global streams between April 1–May 4, 2025.

Eurovision Is Back. Spotify Has Everything You Need To Know

May 10, 2022

Playlist cover art for Eurovision 2022

Catchy ballads, wild performances, outrageous outfits—Eurovision, Europe’s biggest music event, has returned in all of its pop pageantry. Fans love to both prepare for and relive the music of the competition on Spotify: During last year’s competition, streams of Eurovision-related playlists on Spotify increased by 594%, and nearly 27 million minutes were streamed on the platform.

The streams don’t lie

Last year, Spotify data successfully predicted Måneskin’s win, with “ZITTI E BUONI” claiming a spot as the most-streamed Eurovision entry between March 2021 and May 2021. This May, it’s looking like Italy could produce another winner, with the host country’s entry, “Brividi” by Mahmood and BLANCO, generating five times as many streams as the next-most-popular entries: “Hold Me Closer” by Sweden’s Cornelia Jakobs and “De Deipte” by the Netherlands’ S10. 

“Brividi” is the top song in 28 out of 40 participating countries after you remove each market’s home entry. But in the history of Eurovision, only four other countries—Spain, Luxembourg, Israel, and Ireland—have won the competition twice in a row. 

Either way, Mahmood and BLANCO are holding onto hope: “Once you get here, you realize that everything that happened before is erased because you are in a different situation and in a new context with totally different circumstances, both from Sanremo and from everything that happened before. So actually, maybe it’s better not to think about it too much and enjoy the moment.”

Ukraine’s competition entry is also gaining traction on Spotify. “Stefania” by Ukrainian hip-hop trio KALUSH ranks as the top foreign entry in five of the Eurovision markets—second only to “Brividi” in this regard—and the track has seen over six million global streams on the platform. In a third of the Eurovision countries, “Stefania” is either number one or number two, excluding home entries, and ranks among the top 10 foreign Eurovision entries for every other participating country.

Eurovision’s star-making power

Eurovision may be just one week, but the competition serves as a career launchpad for many of its winners. Since Måneskin’s 2021 win, the Italian rock band has only continued its rise, and their track “Beggin’” recently entered the illustrious Billions Club. 

And it’s not just the fans in Italy propelling Måneskin to new heights. Their top five fan markets on Spotify comprise the United States, Italy, Brazil, Germany, and Mexico. When looking at Måneskin’s streams between January and March of 2022 and comparing it to the same period in 2021, the group has seen a massive 5,400% increase in international streams. 

Over the years, some Eurovision songs have been complete misses with fans, earning the dreaded distinction of being “nul points” entries. But this doesn’t automatically make these tracks failures, and many have gone on to achieve iconic status with fans on Spotify after the competition—such as James Newman’s “Embers” (performed by the U.K. 2021), which now has over 10 million streams on the platform. Ann Sophie’s “Black Smoke” 2015 entry for Germany has over four million streams, and Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund’s “En gång i Stockholm” from Eurovision 1963 now has over 1.5 million streams on the platform. 

Queuing up Eurovision 2022

For 2022, Spotify has launched the official Eurovision 2022 playlist and is celebrating the competition with a series of playlists curated by legendary Eurovision contestants and personalities from the past. The glittering list of contributors includes Jedward (The Sound of Ireland), Barbara Pravi (The Sound of France), Rosa Lopez (The Sound of Spain), Loreen (The Sound of Sweden), Duncan Laurence (The Sound of the Netherlands), KEiiNO (The Sound of Norway), Conchita Wurst (The Sound of Austria), Francesca Michielin (The Sound of Italy), and Eli Huli (The Sound of Israel), each of whom shines a spotlight on the music and culture of their respective nation.