Any knowledge of how many Eurovision songs in Sunday's UK top 100? I know the bearded lady is 17 and the floppy Molly in the 20s but outside the 40?

The very good Official Charts Website has the answer.


9 CALM AFTER THE STORM COMMON LINNETS THE NETHERLANDS
17 RISE LIKE A PHOENIX CONCHITA WURST AUSTRIA
23 CHILDREN OF THE UNIVERSE MOLLY UK
40 UNDO SANNA NIELSEN SWEDEN
46 CLICHE LOVE SONG BASIM DENMARK
70 NO PREJUDICE POLLAPONK ICELAND
73 RAINMAKER EMMELIE DE FOREST DENMARK
82 COMING HOME FIRELIGHT MALTA
85 HUNTER OF STARS SEBALTER SWITZERLAND
88 NOT ALONE ARAM MP3 ARMENIA
89 MOUSTACHE TWIN TWIN FRANCE
93 SOMETHING BETTER SOFTENGINE FINLAND
97 SILENT STORM CARL ESPEN NORWAY

There are another 4 titles between 101 - 200.

www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/eurovi...nners-revealed-3021/

I think this illustrates a) it was the best collection of songs in ages and b) that TV exposure still has a huge impact on sales. I wish we could say the same for radio.

Huge impact on sales ?

Don't you have to sell about 2 copies to get to No 97 ?

In The Know (but not this time) wrote:
Huge impact on sales ?

Don't you have to sell about 2 copies to get to No 97 ?

2,251 to be exact, to be 97 last week. (So, ITK, only 2,249 out. no surprise there!)

I'll bet the Eurovision songs, enjoyed by the public, got virtually no radio support and dropped in this week's chart. Record labels and radio programmers are SO rubbish!

The wonderful Alan Jones has provided the answer in the column he does for Music Week:

Last week's mass invasion of Eurovision entries is followed by a mass departure. Those that remain are down hugely - The Common Linnets' Calm After The Storm dives 9-54 (4,058 sales), Conchita Wurst's Rise Like A Phoenix slumps 17-64 (3,319 sales) and Molly's Children Of The Universe plummets 23-88 (2,458 sales). 16 Eurovision 2014 entries depart the Top 200, along with Emmelie De Forest's 2013 winner Only Teardrops, and her latest single Rainmaker, which served as the official song for but wasn't an entry in the 2014 competition.