Most Successful Eurovision Winner Revealed…And Its Not ABBA!

Gigliola Cinquetti Named Eurovision’s Most Successful Winner In Shock Victory Over ABBA – But Who Is The Bookies Favourite For 2023
Italian singer and songwriter, Gigliola Cinquetti has been crowned Eurovision’s most successful winner beating out the likes of ABBA and Celine Dion. The research comes from Liverpool-based clothing brand Chums, which looked at all 68 winners to date ahead of the 2023 show in early May.

The competition, which is in its 67th year, is expected to take place in Liverpool from May 9th after the UK took second place behind Ukraine in 2022.

Traditionally the country that wins is given the honour of hosting the competition the following year, however, the decision was made for the UK to host the song contest due to safety concerns as a result of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

While the competition has been running since 1956, there has been a total of 68 winners to date following the cancellation of the 2020 event due to the pandemic and the infamous 1969 competition which saw four countries tie for the top spot.

With such a wide selection of winners, featuring some well-known artists such as Celine Dion, Chums wanted to determine which Eurovision winners had been the most successful following their win and who was perhaps more a ‘one-hit wonder’.

In order to do this, the company scored each artist against their net worth, the number of released singles and how many times their winning song has been streamed according to Spotify.

1964’s winner Gigliola Cinquetti took the top spot overall, with potential favourites ABBA barely making it into the top 20 coming 17th overall.

As part of their research, Chums ranked the winners from each decade individually. The winners for each were:

1950s – Corry Brokken who sang “Net als toen”
1960s – Gigliola Cinquetti who won with “Non ho l’età”
1970s – Swedish Superstars ABBA who sang “Waterloo”
1980s – Johnny Logan who won twice during the 80s in 1980 and again in 1987
1990s – Carola who won with their song “Fångad av en stormvind”
2000s – Alexander Rybak who won in 2009 with “Fairytale”
2010s – 2012 winner Loreen was the most successful following their win with “Euphoria”
2020s so far – 2021 winners Måneskin are leading the 2020s so far following their win with “Zitti e buoni”

Chums also looked at which country is currently expected to take the top spot this year according to the bookies, with Sweden being the favourite with odds of 9/10.

Sweden was followed by Finland (9/2), Ukraine (8/1) and Spain (16/1).