United Kingdom 2024: Olly Alexander - Dizzy (1 Viewer)

Left you Dizzy?

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Seems to be holding up better on Apple and Amazon although admittedly I have no idea how (in)significant that is.
 
Isn't a lot of that list down to countries with bigger populations/Spotify listeners having higher streams as normal? I mean, as if France is the 3rd most popular song for streaming in real terms!

Although that Dutch crap being up there is presumably an indication of something.
 
Raining on Me said:
Isn't a lot of that list down to countries with bigger populations/Spotify listeners having higher streams as normal? I mean, as if France is the 3rd most popular song for streaming in real terms!

Although that Dutch crap being up there is presumably an indication of something.
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I don't know if there's a way to see how many of those streams are from each home country. On the one hand I'm calling it a delightful success for R OLLY, on the other I completely agree that there's surely no way France could ever be that popular among people with ears.
 
Raining on Me said:
Isn't a lot of that list down to countries with bigger populations/Spotify listeners having higher streams as normal? I mean, as if France is the 3rd most popular song for streaming in real terms!

Although that Dutch crap being up there is presumably an indication of something.
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Yes, I'd imagine that's a huge part of it.

We don't know the exact number of streams Dizzy got on that day in the UK, because it wasn't it the top 200. All we know for certain is that it had fewer than the 69,609 streams the #200 did have. So that must mean that at least approx 79k streams came from outside the UK.

We Will Rave was at #191 in Austria with 6,502 streams. So it had approx 76.5k streams from outside Austria.
 
to be fair I didn't like this on first listen but as a song that sits on a playlist in the background (albeit the Eurovision 2014 playlist) I think it's actually rather good.
 
Penelope said:
I feel like this could be quietly a bit of a success in contrast to all the personality disorder chaotic noise entries this year by just being a song.
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This is where I’m at. The public vote is a massive wildcard this year but I’d have thought it was a pretty safe bet to scoop up a good amount of jury points - it has a lot going for it that they’d normally go for.
 
Penelope said:
I feel like this could be quietly a bit of a success in contrast to all the personality disorder chaotic noise entries this year by just being a song.
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Yes this is what I mean by my response above. It’s an actual song and it does seem to be gaining traction even amongst those who were sceptical at the start.
 
There is an obvious lack of jury bait this year, but Cha Cha Cha did well with them. And with so many noisy entries, they're going to have to give points to some, or even favour some of those entries. I think Olly will do okay with them though.

Is he/Years & Years known in Europe at all? What with him being a lot more well known than our usual entry, I wondered if he had some profile, however small, elsewhere. I mean it's kind of nuts that he's the first act we've sent who's had any hits at all, never mind semi recently, since...I've no idea.
 
Raining on Me said:
There is an obvious lack of jury bait this year, but Cha Cha Cha did well with them. And with so many noisy entries, they're going to have to give points to some, or even favour some of those entries. I think Olly will do okay with them though.

Is he/Years & Years known in Europe at all? What with him being a lot more well known than our usual entry, I wondered if he had some profile, however small, elsewhere. I mean it's kind of nuts that he's the first act we've sent who's had any hits at all, never mind semi recently, since...I've no idea.
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Wikipedia tells me yes, and they've never lied to me about Eurovision, which I found out from that same article was invented by Selena Gomez in 1988 to annoy lesbians.
 
King was 9 years ago... If You're Over Me scraped #50 in Belgium and didn't chart in Germany, Netherlands, Sweden or France. All For You #79 Belgium and DOA elsewhere. Crave, Sweet Talker, Hallucination non-charters everywhere. I'm calling it for NOT KNOWN!
 
And even if those songs had been moderate hits, we've seen time and time again that that counts for nothing at Eurovision unless you're number one everywhere right now or Adele or someone.
 
Jark said:
If You're Over Me scraped #50 in Belgium
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Even that's more than most of the rest of our entries over the last 25 years combined :D

Obviously he's not a relevant current popstar, and yes I'm not saying it makes any difference whatsoever, but it's weird that we've never even had anything comparable since Blue
 
Pingu said:
And even if those songs had been moderate hits, we've seen time and time again that that counts for nothing at Eurovision unless you're number one everywhere right now or Adele or someone.
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Adele would be severely hamstrung by the fact that she's shite.

But yes, it really matters not a jot at Eurovision.
 
Where did that Channel 4 drama about miserable gays chart on the Ultratop 50 Singles (Walloon chart)?
 
Cascada had much more chart pedigree and more recently to their participation and it ended up counting for nothing. Quite a few ESC fans seem to recognise him more from It's A Sin (the show) if that means anything!
 
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