Official Eurovision site eurovision.tv has published a report on the number of views that each entrant at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest has received. It is important to note that on the most popular video portal there are a lot of videos available for every single entry. Anyway, Spain tops this particular chart, with over 8 million views for Rodolfo Chikilicuatre.
In second place, but very far away from Spain, comes Turkey. Mor Ve Ötesi's Deli reaches 1,300,000 views. Very close to them is Dustin the Turkey, the Irish representative, with 1.2 million hits.
Official site eurovision.tv stresses on the advantage that the songs chosen earlier enjoy over those elected later. This rule does not apply to the Spanish entry, one of the last to be chosen, on March 8th. Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, with 8.4 million video views, has overwhelmingly won the YouTube battle.
This is the top 10 published by eurovision.tv based on the YouTube video views:
- Spain – Rodolfo Chikilicuatre – Baila El Chiki Chiki
8,400,000 views - Turkey – Mor ve Ötesi – Deli
1,300,000 views - Ireland – Dustin the Turkey – Irelande Douze Pointe
1,200,000 views - Greece – Kalomira – Secret Combination
1,100,000 views - Sweden – Charlotte Perrelli – Hero
880,000 views - Germany – No Angels – Disappear
800,000 views - Poland – Isis Gee – For Life
490,000 views - Russia – Dima Bilan – Believe
400,000 views - Cyprus – Evdokia Kadi – Femme Fatale
330,000 views - Serbia – Jelena Tomašević – Oro
220,000 views
