On the night of the Eurovision victory, rumors spread on social media after a clip from the broadcast went viral, showing the lead singer, Damiano David, hunched over a table backstage. With nearly 18 million listeners in the last month, Maneskin was performing better on the streaming service in the same period than Foo Fighters or Kings of Leon.Įurovision acts typically disappear from the spotlight as soon as the competition wraps, yet Maneskin’s members are hoping to build upon their existing fame here and newly won international interest to become a rare long-term Eurovision success story.Ī post-curtain controversy that dogged the group last month has only increased the band’s notoriety. Then the competition catapulted the band in front of 180 million viewers, and propelled its winning song “ Zitti e Buoni,” or “Shut Up and Behave,” into Spotify’s global Top 10, a first for an Italian band.Īs of Wednesday, the song had been streamed on Spotify more than 100 million times. ROME - When the rock group Maneskin won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, it was little known outside Italy.

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