Here it is finally, eagerly waited follow up to Duncan Laurence's Eurovision song contest winner Arcade. It seems the midtempo Love don't hate it has surprised many who thought he'd release another ballad and has met with general praise. And indeed, it's a good one.
The wait for the follow up has raised also a lot of talk in the Eurovision bubble why the winners take so long to release a follow up. Duncan's five months is in line with the others, or even a bit faster than average. On the other hand it is only the second song he has released so we can talk about a real debutant.
The 2018 winner Netta released her follow up Bassa sababa only in February the year after and has released a total of three singles so far.
Salvador Sobral, the 2017 winner, for obvious reasons, released his follow up a year later. Mano a mano was followed by his second studio album and two more singles. After Eurovision he released a live album of his debut album based tour.
Jamala was already a seasoned recording artist and has released an album right after her 2016 win and another one last year, plus seven singles since. Her follow up was a duet with DakhaBrahka in November, and solo follow up a year after.
Like Jamala also Måns Zelmerlöw had an album ready after Eurovision and has released two more after that with seven singles. The follow up was Should've gone home in August.
Conchita released her debut album during Eurovision, but follow up single only in November nicely announcing the next year's winner with her title Heroes. But she hasn't stopped since and two more albums and incarnations later she has already published 11 singles.
Emmelie De Forest was like Duncan, no releases before the win. Her debut album came out during Eurovision and the follow up single in August, followed by an acoustic Ep in September. Four-five singles have come out since but her career has somewhat dried out fast.
Loreen also took until October to release a follow up Crying out your name. Since then another album, one ep and string of singles (13), none of them really bothering the charts against all initial odds.
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