EUROVISON HITS ! Is English a must for to create a hit?
No, it doesn't have to be an English
song.
Only a handful of artists are
singing in their native tongue during the Eurovision competition.
Even though they proudly represent their
countries with the relevant flags and colours , It appears that winning and
scoring a hit is more important.
Luckily there are exceptions, Spain's Alfred
and Amaia beautifully sang "Tu canción" in Spanish and although they did not win,
this beautiful song became a big hit in Spain with a remarkable 6M streams on Spotify as
of May 2019. 1*
In 2018 Mikolas Jozef did sing in English rather than in Czech and perhaps English does give an artist an edge.
My vote went to Spain that year but the
fact is that “Lie to me” became an even bigger hit than any of the songs
sung in a different language, with nearly 18M streams on Spotify to date.
A Spanish language version of Mikolas'
song was released but with limited success. 2*
One of my all-time favourite winning
song is Fairytale
by Alexander Rybak.
This song did really well on the charts
and Spotify.
It was sung in English and therefore I
must conclude that while English songs are not the only ones scoring, it seems that songs in Spanish, French and
other languages generally do less well with international audiences.*3
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1* https://as.com/epik/2019/05/18/portada/1558131781_433969.html
2* https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/noticias/mikolas-josef-eurovision-lanza-version-espanol-lie-to-me
2* https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/noticias/mikolas-josef-eurovision-lanza-version-espanol-lie-to-me
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