Fredrik Gustafsson – Sida 7

Dami Im Breaks Spotify’s Global Tally

The verdict is out Dami Im’s ‘The Sound of Silence.’ Finally, the Spotify streaming figures from yesterday is out. As reported yesterday, Dami Im has enjoyed worldwide success. Yet, it’s not until today we can see the full impact of her amazing performance as streaming figures from yesterday is available. In other words, the day after her performance.

It’s definitely clear that Sweden loved this song! The track surges to a new peak, finally cracking the top ten. Frans moves 9-5 with ‘If I Were Sorry,’ while Justin Timberlake’s performance of the Trolls soundtrack cut storms to No.1 with 276,004 streams.

Dami Im, reaches a new peak in Australia (No.73) adding new chart territories such has Switzerland, Estonia and Denmark. For the first time, ‘Sound of Silence’ is a global Spotify streaming hit bowing at No.140. It’s still behind Frans (No.64) on the global tally.

Dami Im- The Sound of Silence

The Sound of Silence Peak Positions

Sweden: 10 (35)
Australia: 73 (187)
Norway: 89 (180)
Finland: 81 (165 )
Iceland: 25 (40)
Ireland: 123 (NE)
Malaysia: 146
Switzerland: 186 (NE)
Estonia: 36 (NE)
Global: 140 (NE)
Denmark: 138 (NE)
Poland: 61 (NE)
Austria: 85
Lithuania: 16

(Spotify Streaming chart positions as of May 15^th, 2016. Saturday’s positions in brackets).

Written by DNA Songs, songwriters Anthony Egizii and David Musumeci have written several hits for the likes of Ricky Martin, Delta Goodrem and The Veronicas.

DNA Songs Is Dami Im’s Secret Sauce

Dami Im was many a favorite as we were mesmerized by her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘The Sound of Silence.’ So, you want more of that? Production duo DNA Songs has many hits under their belt – and WelcheMusic has featured several hits in this blog post.

Anthony Egizii and David Musumeci have written hits for Ricky Martin, The Veronicas and The Saturdays through the years. I’m personally excited about Delta Goodrem – the biggest Australian female artist! She’s even bigger than Kylie Minogue in her home country.

The X Factor Breakthrough

In October 2013, Dami Im first worked with DNA Songs, when the duo penned and produced ‘Alive.’ The track was the first single off her eponymous sophomore set, eventually topping the ARIA singles chart. It went on to sell more than 70,000 copies. ‘Alive’ peaked at No.49 on Australia’s Spotify streaming chart. Dami Im had already won the fifth season of The X Factor Australia.

The Frans Effect on Spotify

The singer was a surefire bet for winning last night’s Eurovision Song Contest, but was beaten by Ukraine and Russia. Signed on Sony, ‘The Sound of Silence’ is also available in a couple of remixes (not on Spotify Sweden though).

Dami Im – Sound Of Silence (7th Heaven Radio Edit)

Dami Im – Alive

The Sound of Silence Peak Positions

Sweden: 35
Australia: 111
Norway: 180
Finland: 165
Iceland: 40
Malaysia: 146

(Spotify Streaming chart positions as of May 14^th, 2016).

As promised, do check out these amazing DNA Productions hits with Delta Goodrem.
Delta Goodrem – Dear Life

Delta Goodrem – Wings

Ace of Base Mastermind John Ballard behind Sergey Lazarev Entry

The Frans Effect on Spotify

We now know that Ukraine won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, yet it seems that Sweden’s entry Frans is the global winner. Turns out that ‘If I Were Sorry’ quickly became the biggest global selling download via iTunes following his No.5 peak at the Stockholm Globe Arena last night.

According to streaming data from Spotify from yesterday, the artist benefited from the success. Frans’ ’If I Were Sorry’ has so far spent 61 days on Spotify’s global daily chart, peaking at No.49. So far, it has spent 61 days on the chart and jumped 197-131 yesterday. The track now totals 27.6m streams across the globe, according to data from analyst site Kworb.net.

Spotify Daily Chart

(May 14th, 2016 – the day of the Eurovision Song Contest)

Estonia: 4 (11)
Iceland: 10 (17)
Lithuania: 14 (17)
Sweden: 9 (22)
Ireland: 71 (67)
UK: 81 (88)
Finland: 71 (92)
Netherlands: 87 (114)
Austria: 86 (126)
Norway: 115 (196)

The tally lists the current daily chart position, with the position on May 13th in brackets.

Frans’ If I Were Sorry Dominates Swedish Spotify Chart

According to the Swedish news daily Aftonbladet, the 17-year old Frans is pleased with the result. “It’s a great party and a wonderful evening,” adding that “I didn’t see two million, but 15,000 people with shining things. I was shocked trying to take it all in.”

Songwriter facts

Oscar Fogelström, Michael Saxell, Fredrik Andersson and Frans Jeppsson-Wall wrote the track. Frans is signed to Cardiac Records.

The Skåne-based record label signed a collaboration agreement with Sony Music Entertainment last November. It enjoyed great success with ‘Johnny G (The Guidetti Song)’ performed by Badpojken last year.

Ace of Base Mastermind John Ballard behind Sergey Lazarev Entry

Sergey Lazarev’s ‘You Are the Only One’ is one of the hotly anticipated winners of tomorrow’s Eurovision Song Contest final at the Stockholm Globe arena. An instant pop hit, few knows that there’s a genius mastermind behind the track.

Collaborated with Max Martin

The Gothenburg-based songwriter and producer John Ballard has written many hits. In 1995, he co-wrote Ace of Base’s ‘Beautiful Life’ (off the album The Bridge). The hit single was produced by none others than Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Jonas Berggren.

A Scot, John Ballard issued several albums and singles under his own name. He also competed in Sweden’s Melodifestivalen twice. In 1983, he sang a duet with Ann-Louise Hanson called ‘Bara en enda gång’ (Only once) and in 1984 he competed with ‘Rendez-vous.’ The former peaked at No.5, while the latter was No.3 in the Swedish contest.

In 1995, he contributed on Ace of Base’s The Bridge and Flowers albums with tracks such as ‘Perfect World’ and ‘Don’t Go Away.’ In 2013, he wrote the lyrics for ‘Hold Me’ with Farid Mammadov from Azerbaijan. It eventually came second in that year’s Eurovision. A year later, John Ballard came 7^th with Russia’s entry ‘Shine’ with Tolmachevy Sisters.

More facts about Sergey Lazarev

Will ‘You Are the Only One’ finally put him on the list of winning song-writers of the Eurovision? We’ll find out tomorrow. In such case, he will share the honors with fellow song-writers Filipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos and Ralph Charlie.

Some fun facts about Sergey Lazarev is that he contributed with the voices of cartoons in movies such as Shrek the Third, High School Musical and Alpha and Omega.

As of 13^th May, ‘You Are the Only One’ has been played 858,685 times on Spotify easily becoming Lazarev’s biggest hit on the network.