Sweden – The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 has a winner. Loreen won for Sweden with her song Euphoria and with the second highest score in Eurovision history (closely following Alexander Rybak). She has now officially achieved success beyond other Eurovision winners by reaching the #1 on iTunes UK. Additionally she is #1 in 20 other countries as well and is still increasing in most of them.
In Germany and Denmark, Euphoria sells 70% more than it’s nearest competitor in second position. In Switzerland and Spain it doubles the second place’s sales. Here are all available iTunes charts:
#1 United Kingdom
#1 Germany
#1 Spain
#1 Netherlands
#1 Austria
#1 Belgium
#1 Cyprus
#1 Denmark
#1 Estonia
#1 Finland
#1 Greece
#1 Ireland
#1 Latvia
#1 Lithuania
#1 Luxembourg
#1 Malta
#1 Norway
#1 Romania
#1 Slovenia
#1 Sweden
#1 Switzerland
#8 France
#8 Hungary
#8 Portugal
#15 Australia
#22 Italy
#52 Poland
#158 Mexico
#169 New Zealand
And it’s really deserved!
Impressive !
This is undisputed winner.
Smashing success..New Zealand ? Eurovision is flying to a whole new level thanks to Loreen. The first place in the UK says much more than an ignorant author in the Guardian can say..
[...] to the Eurovision Times, Loreen’s Eurovision-topping “Euphoria” now has reached the Itunes #1 spot in 21 [...]