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More than 8 million views for Chikilicuatre
Spain wins YouTube battle overwhelmingly
In second place, but very far away from Spain, comes Turkey. Mor Ve Ötesi's Deli reaches 1,300,000 views. Very close to them is Dustin the Turkey, the Irish representative, with 1.2 million hits.
Official site eurovision.tv stresses on the advantage that the songs chosen earlier enjoy over those elected later. This rule does not apply to the Spanish entry, one of the last to be chosen, on March 8th. Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, with 8.4 million video views, has overwhelmingly won the YouTube battle.
This is the top 10 published by eurovision.tv based on the YouTube video views:
- Spain - Rodolfo Chikilicuatre - Baila El Chiki Chiki
8,400,000 views - Turkey - Mor ve Ötesi - Deli
1,300,000 views - Ireland - Dustin the Turkey - Irelande Douze Pointe
1,200,000 views - Greece - Kalomira - Secret Combination
1,100,000 views - Sweden - Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
880,000 views - Germany - No Angels - Disappear
800,000 views - Poland - Isis Gee - For Life
490,000 views - Russia - Dima Bilan - Believe
400,000 views - Cyprus - Evdokia Kadi - Femme Fatale
330,000 views - Serbia - Jelena Tomašević - Oro
220,000 views
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Spain: Perez Hilton's blog
Turkey: Turkish immigrants around the world
Ireland: Perez Hilton's blog
I find Greece's, Sweden's, and Germany's viewing figures the most impressive. =]
youtube is forbidden in Armenia...soo..... 
So ??...
who cares??!!...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Romanian song has more views than the Serbian song, thus making it 10th, if the list is right...
@melina
turkey maybe wont pass the sem?? hahahahahahahaha. thank god the song doesnt need any diaspora votes this time.. great april fool's joke indeed..
For Rita Belindarian : There are multiple videoes repeated with the video of the " chiki chiki" , the sum of all of them they do not 8,4 millions....I have added the most important and they were overcoming 10 millions 
I believe that it is the video of Eurovision most dress in Eurovision and still they stay two months for the contest ....
Not impressed at all- that means nothing!
@ J K, maybe, but the same holds true for all the other entries in the list as well (For example most comments in the Turkish entry's clips (that I've seen) have been in Turkish...)
@ A Night of Musical Comedy, yes, we will see in May 
Of course, you can never know what happens, but I'm 95% sure neither of those will be the winner... They don't have that "instant appeal" that an entry needs in the televoting era (even though I like them a lot, as I said). But we'll see...
That doesn't mean it's a good song..We watch something just because it's ridiculous as well, galantis
YEY SWEDEN AT NR 5TH
yes turkey and sebia more original than the other every year you can see same songs but always them failed for example
2003 belgium-2.
2003 turkey-1.
2004 ukraine-1.
2005 greece-1.
2006-finland-1.
2007.ukraine-2.
2008.turkey-1.
2008 serbia-2.
we all must be sure that TÜRKÄ°YE will be in the final.that's almost accurate.so we shall discuss wheter it could win or not
This must be April fools joke, look at those last figures end of each video, all ZEROs.
Well before Spain chose chiki chiki it was already popular in Spain, these viewers must all be Spanish. I can't imagine other people would waste a second for that irritating chiki chiki shit. I don't expect it to do well in eurovision either, no chance. Because it is just foolish chiki chiki and nothing special.
I was looking on Youtube the spanish video of Chicki Chiki. There are about 400 results. But there is only one video with 2,3 mln views. I didn't find anything with 8,4 mln views. Someone knows where is the video with 8 mln views?
Melina
no it aint no April fools joke. Turkey and Serbia songs are not easy to sing and are original, their tunes are Eurovision winning style. I also like Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland entries but Russian song is modern and it does remind me of the chorus from Greece entry 2001. As for Ukraine, We have seen the similar coreography or tunes through Sertab, Ruslana and Helena three years in a row and after that many other artists tried but failed with nonoriginal version, e.g. sibel tuzun 2006 (Superstar). And Switzerlan, its just singing loud the EUROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STUPENDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOO. (New Ricky Martin)
The top two position is left for Turkey and Serbia, Wellcome. We will see in May won't we. Anyway it is my analysis and my prediction, so don't panick.
I was told that clips of Finland's entry actually have about 500 000 views altogether, so should be in that list, obviously...!
@ A Night of Musical Comedy, "victory is between Turkey and Serbia"? That's the best April fools joke I've heard yet
(Not that they aren't good, but winners? No... And don't forget Turkey has to make it to the final first, and that may prove hard without the usual diaspora voters in semi 2...)
RODOLFO IS THE BEST!!!
LONG LIFE TO CHIKILICUATRE!!!!
GO CHIKI CHIKI!!
#1
Deli and mor ve otesi great and greece ( wonderfull girl ) , azerbaijan, cyprus , latvia & irelande douze pointe an dustin of turkey
400 000 spain
8 000 000 perez
latvian esc fan
Don't you have your own words? Yes we know, Turkish entry is truly GREAT, but is it a winner? Well, the victory is between Turkey and Serbia.
Either: Deli is winner
1. Turkey
2. Serbia
Or: Oro is the winner
1. Serbia
2. Turkey
However, it will be close battle both can be the winner even if one will take the victory.
Yes, yes, yes! Isis Gee
original
unique
great
fantastic
not ordinary like the others
cool
high talent
own language(also i like)
best and most interesting entry
powerful
every reactions say that number one
the best song
the best video
masterpice performance
best different song and video
i am not saying this reactions
all escfans think like that they are not my words
i agree to all of them
THE WINNER OF COURSE TURKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
very good jobbb
thanks turkeyyyy
rock 4 ever
OH MY GOD!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
There are so many sad people. BIG QUESTION: How can they possibly be viewing that irritating insect (Spanish entry)?
I am paranoid that this crap is gonna win esc, If that happens in May then I'll give up Eurovision.
SAD
According to my calculations, the viewed ones of the chiki chiki in youtube overcome the 10.000.000
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@ Khalid, I like Cyprus too, but there's no denying that it's not among the favourites this year
Haha, Spain is probably in the top because of Perez Hilton's link to the video at his world famous celebrity blog.
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