May 25, 20215 yr El Diablo to remain top 100 please. It would be nice to see Embers go top 40 but I doubt it will manage it tbh.
May 25, 20215 yr Hoping that James Newman and Måneskin can both stay in the top 40 (not a huge fan of 'Embers' but it would be good to see a UK Eurovision song actually making the top 40 for the first time in years). Yass at Go_A being in the top 100 now as well *.*
May 25, 20215 yr Definitely feels like this year’s contest has made the most cultural impact since 2014 when Conchita won and four entries made the top 40. Nice to see a potentially positive streaming future for the contest, until Dadi went viral it looked like there’d never be a sizeable hit from the contest again.
May 25, 20215 yr It's hard to tell at this point how the Eurovision entries will stabilise or fall away.
May 25, 20215 yr if Maneskin stabilise would they have the first Italian language top 40 hit this millennium? or indeed ever since Volare? without counting We No Speak Americano as Italian, that is.
May 25, 20215 yr if Maneskin stabilise would they have the first Italian language top 40 hit this millennium? or indeed ever since Volare? without counting We No Speak Americano as Italian, that is. I think the last one might be Canto della Terra by Andrea Bocelli in 1999/2000?
May 25, 20215 yr Anyone know why multiple Marvin Gaye albums have popped up in the midweeks?. It's the 50th anniversary of What's Going On. 6Music (amongst others) have been celebrating the fact
May 25, 20215 yr if Maneskin stabilise would they have the first Italian language top 40 hit this millennium? or indeed ever since Volare? without counting We No Speak Americano as Italian, that is. 'We No Speak Americano' is actually literally not Italian - the song it's sampling is in the Neapolitan language (which is similar to Italian but technically a distinct language rather than a dialect). On a related note, if 'SHUM' holds in the top 100 I have to assume that is by far and away the most successful Ukrainian language song ever in the UK? :lol:
May 25, 20215 yr It's the 50th anniversary of What's Going On. 6Music (amongst others) have been celebrating the fact Thank you for confirming that. Will be nice to see if What’s going on or the compilations can stick around by Friday.
May 25, 20215 yr When was the last time a foreign language Eurovision song made the top 40? Looking sewn up now for Måneskin after an impressive hold on Spotify today. The two recent ones ‘Think About Things’ and ‘Arcade’ are both English and the whole invasion in 2014 comprised of English language songs too. Really can’t remember!
May 25, 20215 yr Good question - I guess 'Dancing Lasha Tumbai' in 2007 was mostly not in English but then in fairness it didn't really have substantial lyrics in any language :lol: of course the only other fully non-English language winners this side of the millennium are 'Molitva' (which missed the UK top 100) and 'Amar Pelos Dois' (which scraped in at #97), and it's not particularly common for non winning songs to make the top 40 so there must be very few! (have just realised that I guess 'Dancing Lasha Tumbai' can also be counted at least partly as a Ukrainian language song that of course did a little better in the charts than 'SHUM' lol - but the Ukrainian section of it is fairly minimal, likewise there were also some Ukrainian lyrics in Ruslana's 'Wild Dances' which charted at #47 in the UK)
May 25, 20215 yr I reckon these are the only foreign-language Eurovision hits of the last 30 years - and they were often translated to English before then! Dancing Lasha Tumbai #23 Wild Dances #47 Allez Olla Olé #81 Moustache #89 Nocturne #90 Amar Pelos Dois #97 Dancing In The Rain #102 Molitva #112 La Voix #138 Party For Everybody #159 Edited May 25, 20215 yr by AcerBen
May 25, 20215 yr If this OCC article is right (and according to some of the comments it looks like it might be missing a few), the last one to go top 40 in presumably non-translated form might be as far back as 1978 with Israel's winning entry A-Ba-Ni-Bi by Izhar Cohen & The Alphabeta which is in Hebrew. (Edit: turns out even that had an English version :lol:)
May 25, 20215 yr Assuming the version of Dana International's 'Diva' that got released in the UK was the English version? (It's listed as being in Hebrew on Wikipedia's list of Eurovision winners but there is an English version of it too).
May 25, 20215 yr Assuming the version of Dana International's 'Diva' that got released in the UK was the English version? (It's listed as being in Hebrew on Wikipedia's list of Eurovision winners but there is an English version of it too). Yep, pretty sure it was the English version (or at least, that's the version Radio 2 played in their Eurovision top 50 at the weekend :lol:)
May 25, 20215 yr I think the last one might be Canto della Terra by Andrea Bocelli in 1999/2000? ah, I was just thinking of Eurovision, didn't cross my mind that opera singers used to have chart hits on occasion. now you mention Bocelli, I now recall Pavarotti did make it to #12 with Nessun Dorma in 2007 after he died, although it previously went #2 in 1990 so yours may well be the newest recording. I already knew about WNSA being in Neapolitan as well which is why I specified it wasn't to count despite its being an Italian dialect (or as it turns out whole separate language as per Bre's post).
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