The 2016 year is coming to an end. And while most people are now focusing on next year’s contest, we thought that this is a good opportunity to take a look back and find out which ESC 2016 acts ended up being the most popular and talked about artists of the year
Today, we are analyzing which artists were the most popular and searched entries of the 2016 calendar year on Wikipedia.
The results are below, this is how we ranked them: The most important determiner are the Average Daily Views so how many people visited Wikipedia each day to read up on a particular act. In the case of a tie, we took the overall view count into consideration. Please keep in mind that not all acts had a Wikipedia article on January 1st which means even though they had less views, the average Daily view may be higher due to that fact. We utilized the Pageview Analytics tool to obtain these figures. The count only includes visits to the English Wikipedia. We understand that this is not a completely fair scientific score so just have fun with it.
The most popular Wikipedia act shouldn’t come as a surprise. This was definitely Jamala’s year and a lot of people wanted to find out more about her after her win in Stockholm. Once again, Dami Im finds herself in the runner-up position so her participation definitely gave her a good amount of exposure. Joe and Jake from the United Kingdom are in third place which can be explained by the fact that they’re from one of the biggest countries in Europe that happens to speak English. The highest ranked Non-Qualifier is Nicky Byrne from Ireland which once again isn’t that shocking considering he was probably the biggest name in the running and he’s from a country that utilizes the English wikipedia more frequently.
Take a look, were there any major surprises?
[table caption=”Wikipedia Ranking” width=”750″ colwidth=”50|60|70|50|50″ colalign=”center|center|left|center|center”] no,country,artist,Daily Views,Overall Views
1,
,Jamala,1265,4451352,
,Dami Im,1160,4084923,
,Joe and Jake,916,2710234,
,Nicky Byrne,867,305208
5,
,Sergey Lazarev,598,210324
6,
,Frans,578,162522
7,
,Amir,466,163937
8,
,Jamie-Lee,393,134517
9,
,Freddie,314,92589
10,
,Michael Szpak,289,101583
11,
,Zoe,283,64501
12,
,Douwe Bob,268,94250
13,
,Poli Genova,262,92389
14,
,Iveta Mukuchyan,262,92194
15,
,Laura Tesoro,261,87751
16,
,Ira Losco,255,89817
17,
,Hovi Star,250,72605
18,
,Samra,245,69216
19,
,Donny Montell,244,85967
20,
,Francesca Michielin,244,85888
21,
,Sanja Vucic,227,65514
22,
,Barei,199,63836
23,
,Gabriela Guncikova,194,68156
24,
,Justs,185,58037
25,
,Nina Kraljic,162,48360
26,
,Minus One,154,54043
27,
,Juri Pootsmann,150,43431
28,
,Kaliopi,141,49514
29,
,Agnete,136,47197
30,
,Serhat,132,45693
31,
,Sandhja,126,37153
32,
,Lighthouse X,122,37677
33,
,Rykka,118,41671
34,
,Nika Kocharova & YGL,118,41494
35,
,Ivan,111,39211
36,
,Argo,107,33625
37,
,Greta Salome,105,36824
38,
,Jala,88,19442
39,
,Lidia Isac,86,25279
40,,Deen,84,29439
41,
,ManuElla,84,24820
42,
,Eneda Tarifa,82,28706
43,,Dalal,71,24985
44,,Ana Rucner,61,21417
45,
,Highway,56,19854
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We had to list the Bosnian act separately as they didn’t have a combined article since this was a project of theirs rather than an actual band.
