Disqualified after his semi-final for attacking a digicam operator backstage, and subsequently disadvantaged of the ultimate in Malmö, a primary within the historical past of the competitors, one would have thought that Joost Klein had misplaced all the things. Nay! The Dutch candidate is successful on Spotify. In Belgium, it has been on the prime of the listening charts since Could 8. Identical within the Netherlands, which makes extra sense. And the numbers are usually not reducing regardless of his misfortune. Quite the opposite!
A candidate excluded from Eurovision: a primary within the historical past of the Competitors
Higher but, his tune “Europapa”, which has all the things of a nod to “Euro-Imaginative and prescient” by Telex which represented Belgium in 1980, ranks twenty second among the many most listened to titles on a worldwide scale on the Swedish streaming platform. He was nonetheless solely thirty eighth on Saturday on this rating, and solely 131st the day earlier than, the day of his ouster from the competitors.
Joost Klein should savor this success, even when it’s a protected wager that he would have carried out effectively with out the controversy surrounding him and the destiny reserved for him by the organizers of Eurovision. All this with out forgetting that he dangers authorized issues in Sweden the place a criticism in opposition to him appears to be taking form.
Joost Klein exclusion: new data on what occurred
