Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

It has taken awhile but this 2024 has been the year of Mahmood. He may have not won Sanremo this time but his Tuta gold has been by far the biggest success from Sanremo entries despite him placing only 6th missing out the Top-5 super final. The past week it was revealed that nearly 6 million votes were uncounted that night, most of them those that exceeded the number of votes one could vote but still there are almost two million mystery votes left uncounted. Could those have changed the fate? Mahmood won Sanremo 2019 somewhat surprisingly and was faced with a lot of racist hatred among other things that continued even after his second win 2022. But all of sudden in 2024 it seems even the haters have admitted he's good and goes from success to success. In 2024 he has sold already over 700.000 copies, over 400.000 of them Tuta gold , that has become his biggest hit to date after Brividi (800.000+), Soldi (200.000+) and Calipso (200.000+) collaboration. It's worth remembering ...

Amadeus has been not only the King of viewing figures but also a true hitmaker as every year more and more  songs have been certificated for their sales, and last year was the best yet. In 2023 22 out of 28 earned at least a gold record (so far). Below is all last year's sales, will 2024 do better? 7 x platinum (700.000+) Lazza - Cenere (2nd) 5 x platinum (500.000+) Marco Mengoni - Due vite (1st) 5 x platinum (500.000+) Mr.Rain - Supereroi (3rd) 4 x platinum (400.000+) Tananai - Tango (5th) 3 x platinum (300.000+) Madame - Il bene nel male (7th) 2 x platinum (200.000+) Elodie - Due (9th) 2 x platinum (200.000+) Rosa Chemical - Made in Italy (8th) 2 x platinum (200.000+) Mara Sattei - Duemilaminuti (19th) 1 x platinum (100.000+) Colapese Dimartino - Splash (10th) 1 x platino (100.000+) Paola & Chiara - Furore (17th) 1 x platino (100.000+) Ultimo - Alba (4th) 1 x platino (100.000+) Coma_Cose - L'addio (13th) 1 x platino (100.000+) Ariete - Mare di guai (14th) 1 x plat...

Tra le granite e le granate proves to be The summerhit of 2017 in Italy. It has now been certified platinum following the incredible success Francesco Gabbani is enjoying in radios and on his sold out tour. The single made it to #19 in official charts but keeps selling steadily after hitting #1 in Italian Airplay (four weeks and counting....). The video counts over 32 million views. The album Magellano  has sold already gold and made it to #1 in albums chart.  The Sanremo winner and Italy's Eurovision entry Occidentali's Karma sold four times platinum after hitting #1 in both official charts and Airplay (and San Marino) and #10 in Europe. The video is close to 148 million views... It's already the 4th most watched Italian video ever.   And let's not forget his very first platinum selling single, Amen .  UPDATE AUGUST 7:

Anouk hasn't been around much in Malmö 2013, but why be if actions speak louder than words? She does her own thing on stage - a bit like Marco Mengoni for Italy does stressing the point this Eurovision 2013 was supposed to be, downscaling. No thrills and no gimmicks. This blogger keeps fingers crossed for those acts tonight. meanwhile Anouk has released her Sad singalong songs album and four great videos from it: Birds, Kill, The Good Life and Pretending as Always . Watch them here . Great stuff indeed! And yes, she could win tonight.... she is still number one in the Netherlands with it in both albums and singles, and certified platinum!