Joost Klein's entry into the Eurovision Song Contest European Pope It has already been streamed 1.2 million times in the Netherlands via Spotify within one day. The artist may have set a new record with this.
The song premiered on Thursday around 5pm and had already been streamed more than half a million times by the evening. It is rare for a song to gain more than half a million streams in one day in the Netherlands.
The record for Spotify streams in a single day is held by Duncan Laurence. The day after he won the Eurovision Song Contest in May 2019, his song corridor It has been streamed more than a million times. The agency representing Spotify in the Netherlands says this can only be said after the weekend European Pope In fact he set a new record.
Joost was not only a success in the Netherlands: with more than 1.6 million streams in one day, his song ranked 104th in the global rankings of most streamed songs. The song is also very popular in Belgium and Austria.
The conclusion too European Pope It is often found. The quiet final part of the song was released on Spotify and is at number two in the Netherlands with 337,000 streams. The song is also very popular on YouTube: the video has already been viewed nearly four million times at the time of writing. European Pope It already has more views than most of the other entries on the Eurovision Song Contest account.
This year's Eurovision Song Contest will take place from May 7 to 11 in Malmö, Sweden. Joost will represent the Netherlands in the second semi-final on May 9.
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