Eurovision Spotify chart updated May 10

Eurovision streaming charts are useful for one reason — they show where attention is piling up before the live shows scramble everything. The May 10 update gives a pretty clean read on that. Italy is still the song to beat on Spotify, Sweden and Finland are right behind, and Malta is doing something very different by crushing the official Eurovision YouTube chart instead. That matters because Eurovision hype is never just one audience, and 2026’s voting tweaks make that split even more interesting. ### Who led the new chart? Sal Da Vinci’s “Per sempre sì” for Italy finished first in Aussievision’s weekly Spotify ranking for May 4 to May 10 with 1,230,721 plays. Felicia’s “My System” for Sweden was second on 831,112, and Finland’s Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen took third with “Liekinheitin” on 778,850. That top three did not change from the previous week, which tells you the leaders are not just flashing once — they’re holding. (aussievision.net) ### What moved underneath the top three? The more interesting action was just below them. Israel’s Noam Bettan climbed one spot to fourth, Cyprus’s Antigoni also rose one to fifth, and Denmark’s Søren Torpegaard Lund slipped from fourth to sixth. Switzerland made one of the sharper jumps farther down, with Veronica Fusaro’s “Alice” rising three places to 18th, while San Marino’s Senhit and Boy George dropped four to 22nd. Basically, the top is stable, but the middle is still soft and movable. (aussievision.net) ### Is Italy only winning the week? No — Italy is also leading the full Spotify table as of May 10. “Per sempre sì” had 25,432,578 total streams since release, ahead of Sweden on 18,561,211 and Finland on 12,325,472. After that there’s a big gap. Denmark sat fourth on 5,661,234, just ahead of Cyprus on 5,596,796. That gap matters because it suggests Italy, Sweden, and Finland are not just ahead — they’re in a different tier of listener traction. (aussievision.net) ### So why is Malta suddenly part of the conversation? Because YouTube is telling a different story. Aidan’s “Bella” for Malta topped the Eurovision YouTube chart for May 4 to May 10 with 4,109,193 views — miles ahead of Greece in second on 473,997. The week before, Malta was already first there with 2,025,935 views after jumping 29 places. That kind of lead is not a rounding error. It looks more like a song or performance clip that has broken out visually, not just sonically. (aussievision.net) ### Do streaming charts predict the winner? Sort of — but only sort of. Aussievision notes that six of the current top 10 most-streamed songs also sit in the bookmakers’ top 10, and six of the bottom 10 streamed songs are also near the bottom of the odds. So the broad pattern holds. But the catch is timing. Some songs have been available since November, while others only hit streaming services in mid-March, which makes raw totals less clean than they look. (aussievision.net) ### Why do the 2026 voting changes matter here? Because streaming momentum and Eurovision results are related, not identical. The official Eurovision site published an open letter from contest director Martin Green about changes to the voting framework ahead of Vienna 2026, aimed at addressing controversy while keeping the show dramatic. That means fan attention still matters — maybe a lot — but the route from “people streamed this all week” to “this cleaned up on the night” is less direct than a simple chart ranking suggests. (aussievision.net) ### What should you watch next? Watch whether Italy keeps the Spotify lead once rehearsals and live clips reshape attention, and whether Malta’s YouTube surge spills over into broader streaming and betting support. Finland and Sweden still look like the steadiest challengers. But turns out the real story is the split — one song winning the audio race, another owning the visual one, and Eurovision sitting right in between. (eurovision.tv) ### Bottom line The May 10 chart did not crown a winner. It did something more useful — it showed that Eurovision 2026 already has multiple momentum lanes, and they are not pointing to exactly the same country. (aussievision.net)