This year’s Russian contestant, Sergey Lazarev, has enjoyed incredible chart success of his song You are the only one since his performance on Saturday night.

Despite only finishing third, Sergey Lazarev was the winner of the televoting public, receiving at least 3 points from the televote of each of the other 41 competing nations. The popularity of his song is also shown in the iTunes downloads charts below. These are the current chart positions of You are the only one.

  • Russia: 1
  • Estonia: 3
  • Kyrgyzstan: 3
  • Ukraine: 3
  • Sweden: 5
  • Slovenia: 7
  • Austria: 12
  • Belarus: 12
  • Belgium: 13
  • The Netherlands: 15
  • Poland: 15
  • Israel: 20
  • Finland: 22
  • Norway: 24
  • Spain: 24
  • Switzerland: 25
  • Latvia: 27
  • France: 32
  • Luxembourg: 32
  • Denmark: 38
  • United Kingdom: 39
  • Ireland: 40
  • Germany: 42
  • Kazakhstan: 80
  • Azerbaijan: 87
  • Australia: 88
  • Italy: 106
  • Malta: 106

Sergey Lazarev’s song is also charting in Spotify in Iceland and Sweden. It currently the 38th and 44th most streamed song respectively in the two nations.

Sergey Lazarev competed for Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 and finished third with his song You are the only one.


Eleanor (or Ellie), is 26 years old, is from Exeter in the UK. She combines motherhood with studying linguistics. Ellie was first allowed to stay up and watch the Eurovision Song Contest aged 5 in 1999, but really fell in love with it after the Athens 2006 contest. Big key changes and dramatic stage shows are an absolute must! Ellie has also written an A* academic dissertation on the cultural history of Eurovision.