The Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Stockholm at the weekend. Google evaluates search queries for the event and reveals the trends: Who has the greatest chance of winning? Which song is most searched for? And does Jamie-Lee have a chance?
The first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is over. Performers from ten countries have already taken the hurdle to the final, including Russian favorite Sergey Lazarev. The German starter Jamie-Lee Krievitz, along with the participants from France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and Great Britain, had already been selected as a finalist, but the 18-year-old is only treated as an outsider in the betting offices. And what about the Google users? For the ESC, Google evaluates German and global search behavior and can thus predict who is one of the top favorites on the Internet.
Malta likes mangas
Surprising: Based on the search queries over the past seven days, Kriewitz met with great interest, especially in Malta – her song "Ghost" got the highest possible ranking there on the Google search index (100 out of 100 points). Iceland (26 out of 100), Sweden (25 out of 100) and Montenegro (23 out of 100) also seem to be enthusiastic about the young woman with a manga penchant, most of the searches come from these countries. Are the German finalists sure of the relevant points? In their home country, the interest in the Naidoo replacement with 35 out of 100 points is less than that of the Maltese.
Nevertheless: Germans' hearts are most likely to beat for their candidate. The contributions from Great Britain, Spain and Sweden hardly interest anyone here (1 in 100), Italy (2 out of 100) and France (3 out of 100) also attract little interest in Kriewitz's homeland.
Live trends change constantly
On a specially set-up page, you can follow live how search interest is developing in Germany. Every update of the page brings new rankings, the leader changes quickly, so it is difficult to identify a favorite of the day. Only the Russian Sergey Lazarev stayed consistently at the top on May 11th, the other participants quickly change their places. Lazarev is also very popular in the global ranking; the German participant is not among the top ten.
In addition to the real-time lists, Google has also set up an ESC Trends website on which other surprising search trends are presented. There, users can find out, for example, that Jamie Lee fans have most frequently googled their height in the past seven days. On the evening of the first semi-final, the Swedish song "If I Were Sorry" was in high demand as well as the Russian contribution.
ESC heroes from Sweden
Will Sweden possibly achieve a double victory in Stockholm? In 2015 Måns Zelmerlöw won the competition with his song "Heroes", the piece is the most sought after ESC winning title ever. A Swedish contribution also follows in second place of the most wanted pieces: The 1974 song "Waterloo" by Abba was Sweden's contribution. Incidentally, third place went to the German ESC sensation Lena, who won the last title for Germany in 2010.
If you want to cheer in this country and keep your fingers crossed for the outsider Jamie-Lee or another of the 26 candidates, you could feel particularly comfortable in Hamburg, because this is where the interest in the ESC is greatest. There are especially many song contest grouches in Thuringia. Outside of Germany, especially the far north is the ESC area: According to Google Trends, most people in Iceland are looking forward to the event in a global comparison.
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