The fifteenth season of Dear Singers got off to a hesitant start. At leastif we look at the ratings. On evenings when no football matches are broadcast,the program still attracts more than a million viewers. A hit like Takes toolong (Davina Michelle) or Through the wind (Miss Montreal) is not in ityet, but Jaap Reesema is successful with his interpretation of Nielsons_Gray_.
By Michiel Vos
The season is almost coming to an end. Tonight, in addition to Reesema andNielson, we will also see Claudia de Breij, Sarita Lorena, Roxeanne Hazes andBlanks interpret the music of Ferdi Bolland. The season ends next week with aduet episode. Although the program does not manage to attract a millionviewers every week, this viewing figure limit was broken again with the pasttwo broadcasts. And on YouTube, the individual performances are also viewedhundreds of thousands of times.
For the time being, Reesema has emerged as the most successful participant. Inthe fourth week of Dear Singers the artists decide which Nielson song theywant to sing. Reesema goes for the number Gray which Nielson released underhis own name Niels Littooij, on an EP he wrote after the death of his cousinand good friend.
Reesema’s version has been listened to more than 1.6 million times on Spotifywithin a few weeks, more than three times as often as the original so far.Reesema is currently in 27th place on the list of the most listened to songson Spotify in the Netherlands. The performance has been viewed nearly 600,000times on YouTube.
Reesema’s version of Gray scores a lot better than the other songs that havebeen featured in the program so far. In second place is Roxeanne Hazes, whowon the number in the second week Don ‘t Stop from Blanks edited to_Tonight_. The song has been listened to over 465,000 times on Spotify andover 200,000 times on YouTube. Nielson also has a success with his performancein the ‘Blanks week’. He translated New Rules from Dua Lipa to _Game rules_which was streamed almost 400,000 times on Spotify and about 170,000 times onYouTube.
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Davina Michelle still has the biggest hit
Davina Michelle still has the biggest hit from the program to her name. In2018 she released the song Takes too long by Glen Faria. The song was infirst place in the Dutch Top 40 for eleven weeks and has now collected morethan 106 million streams on Spotify.
Rolf Sanchez and Emma Heesters ended up in second place a year later withtheir hit Pa Olvidarte , which has been listened to 70 million times onSpotify. The most recent big hit from the program dates from 2020. Then MissMontreal sang the song Through the wind from Stef Bos to third place in theTop 40, with 40 million streams to date.
Reesema is already well on its way to surpassing last season’s biggest hit.Then stayed Hijo De La Luna , performed by Karsu, stabbing at 2.3 millionstreams. With the 83,000 streams Reesema is now raking in a day, it seems onlya matter of time before he exceeds that number.