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Inspired by a previous post earlier this week, pointing out that this year’s streams are lower than in previous years, I got curious: which Eurovision songs have actually dominated Spotify this decade?

So I dug in. For each year from 2020 to 2025, I ranked every song by total streams. from most to least, and pulled together the top 10 for each year. A few things I observed:

• Sweden and Italy landed in the top 10 every single year.
• 2022 is the champion on total streams with nearly 2.4 billion combined streams of all songs from that year. This is mainly due to SNAP’s runaway success.
• The underdog: Austria 2022 (Halo) snook into the top 10 without making it to the final.
• Europapa takes the crown in 2024, also without a Grand Final performance.
• Iceland 2020 (Think About Things) proved you don’t even need a Eurovision stage to win over Spotify. They reached almost 170M streams without ever performing on the stage.
• Austria 2025 won the contest, but streaming-wise? A modest 7th place in its year.

And then there are quite some songs that didn’t do wel in the final but did on Spotify, among them: San Marino 2025 (Tuta L'Itallia), Norway 2025 (Lighter), Spain 2024 (Zorra), UK 2023 (I Wrote a Song), Germany 2022 (Rockstars), Armenia 2022 (Snap, of course), and Azerbaijan 2021 (Mata Hari).

That’s my little data deep dive, curious to hear what stands out to you!