Sweden's song for the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, 'Bara Bada Bastu' by the trio KAJ, becomes the first entry of Basel 2025 to pass 100 million plays on streaming platform Spotify.

It’s a music milestone that many of the biggest artists in the world choose to celebrate with their fans, but which many more acts never get the opportunity to. Passing the 100-million-plays mark on streaming platform Spotify has rightly become a badge of honour for your faves, and quite a few of your Eurovision Song Contest faves, too!

KAJ's sauna-saluting song for Sweden joins an elite Eurovision club that features all-time classics like 1974 winner Waterloo by ABBA, as well as recent success stories like 2024 champ The Code by Nemo, which passed the 100-million milestone on Spotify earlier in the summer of 2025.

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On Wednesday 3 September, little over 6 months on from its release, Bara Bada Bastu hit 100,015,831 plays on the streaming platform.

The song, which gave Sweden a 4th-place finish at St. Jakobhsalle in May, had also been one of three Basel 2025 songs to hit the Top 50 on Spotify's Global chart the day after the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final (alongside JJ's winner for Austria Wasted Love and Tommy Cash's Espresso Macchiato for Estonia).

On that same day, Bara Bada Bastu broke the all-time record for the most-streamed Swedish-language song in a single day on Spotify. It also reached number 1 on Spotify's Global Viral chart, cementing its status as one of this year's big crowd pleasers; both within the context of the Contest and well beyond it, too.

Back home in Sweden, the song from KAJ spent 13 weeks at number 1 on the official singles chart, becoming one of the longest-running chart toppers in the Nordic nation since records began.

Over on YouTube, our 'bastubröder' have enjoyed further streaming success, with their Eurovision song having surpassed a combined 60 million plays on official videos uploaded by the Eurovision Song Contest, Swedish broadcaster SVT and the trio themselves.

Heroes of our time

Currently, the list of Eurovision Song Contest entries that have managed to pass the 100-million milestone includes winners, classics and firm fan-faves.

A total of 10 Contest champs have achieved this feat: The Code (Switzerland 2024); Tattoo (Sweden 2023); ZITTI E BUONI (Italy 2021); Arcade (Netherlands 2019); Toy (Israel 2018); Heroes (Sweden 2015); Euphoria (Sweden 2012); Satellite (Germany 2010); Fairytale (Norway 2009); and Waterloo (Sweden 1974).

Contest runners-up have also gone on to find streaming success beyond their silver medals: Cha Cha Cha (Finland 2023); Voilà (France 2021); Soldi (Italy 2019); and Fuego (Cyprus 2018). 'The 100 club' features plenty of mainstream mega-hits, too, such as Shum (Ukraine 2021), SloMo (Spain 2022), Queen of Kings (Norway 2023), and even an entry from 2020's lineup, Think About Things (Iceland).

The biggest of the bunch, however, is Arcade by Duncan Laurence, which won for Netherlands at Tel Aviv 2019. At the time of writing, Arcade 's streaming tally is at over 1.4 billion.

Not far behind it is Rosa Linn's viral smash hit from the summer of 2022; Snap has amassed just under 1.3 billion streams on Spotify after representing Armenia at Turin that year. And in third place is Tattoo by Loreen (who has two songs inside the Top 10 most-streamed Eurovision entries of all time), which scored victory for Sweden at Liverpool 2023 and is currently on just over 775 million plays.

Basel 2025 still abuzz

KAJ are the first of the 'Class of 2025' to pass the 100-million point, but it's very unlikely they'll be the last.

Estonia's Tommy Cash has seen the streams of Espresso Macchiato fully caffeinated and zooming up to the 88 million mark currently, while viral songs of the summer Deslocado (by NAPA, for Portugal) and Baller (by Abor & Tynna, for Germany) are on well over 50 million streams each and still getting plenty of spins every day, as is Lucio Corsi's evergreen entry for Italy, Volevo Essere Un Duro .