{"id":674056,"date":"2026-05-16T05:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:02:12","slug":"eurovision-2026-semi-final-2-youtube-views-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674056\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026: Semi-Final 2 YouTube views in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just 24 hours ago, 15 artists competed in semi-final 2 of Eurovision 2026 in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n

YouTube views help in looking at which entries left an impression on the general televoting public. It’s safe to say a televoter is more likely to vote for songs that they readily seek out after the show!<\/p>\n

We’ve crunched the numbers for the number of YouTube views the performances have amassed 24 hours after being uploaded to the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel. <\/p>\n

The views were collated 24 hours after the first semi-final 2 performances were uploaded to the channel.<\/p>\n

We also included Armenia, France and United Kingdom who weren’t competing in the semi, but did perform. <\/p>\n

Take a look at the results:<\/p>\n

Results<\/p>\n

1. Dara – Bangaranga (Bulgaria) – 939,186<\/p>\n

2. Aidan – Bella (Malta) – 858,449<\/p>\n

3. Alexandra C\u0103pit\u0103nescu – Choke Me (Romania) – 829,135<\/p>\n

4. Delta Goodrem – Eclipse (Australia) – 763,003<\/p>\n

5. Lel\u00e9ka – Ridnym (Ukraine) – 735,189<\/p>\n

6. Antigoni – Jalla (Cyprus) – 713,085<\/p>\n

7. Alis – N\u00e2n (Albania) – 528,241<\/p>\n

8. Daniel Zizka – Crossroads (Czechia) – 351,297<\/p>\n

9. S\u00f8ren Torpegaard Lund – F\u00f8r vi g\u00e5r hjem (Denmark) – 301,360<\/p>\n

10. Monroe – Regarde ! (France) – 285,172<\/p>\n

11. LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Eins, Zwei, Drei (United Kingdom) – 226,191<\/p>\n

12. Sim\u00f3n – Paloma Rumba (Armenia) – 178,778<\/p>\n

13. Jonas Lovv – Ya Ya Ya (Norway) – 152,455<\/p>\n

14. Veronica Fusaro – Alice (Switzerland) – 146,859<\/p>\n

15. COSM\u00d3 – Tanzschein (Austria) – 137,128<\/p>\n

16. Eva Marija – Mother Nature (Luxembourg) – 116,551<\/p>\n

17. Jiva – Just Go (Azerbaijan) – 89,828<\/p>\n

18. Atvara – \u0112n\u0101 (Latvia) – 87,195<\/p>\n

Bulgaria’s Dara has smashed it with the most YouTube views out of all the semi-final 2 performances in 24 hours – could we be witnessing a huge result for Bulgaria in the Grand Final? <\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

For continued updates on all the Eurovision Song Contest news follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Bluesky Threads and TikTok. All links at: https:\/\/linktr.ee\/aussievisionnet<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just 24 hours ago, 15 artists competed in semi-final 2 of Eurovision 2026 in Vienna, Austria. YouTube views…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-674056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}