The band celebrated the milestone on Instagram by releasing childhood photos of the four members – Damiano David on vocals, Victoria De Angelis on bass, Thomas Raggi on guitar and Ethan Torchio on drums – with the caption: “These kids just made it to first place in the global chart.”
The Rome glam-rockers, who beat good 4 u by Olivia Rodrigo and Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran in second and third place in the world charts, have clocked up almost seven and a half million Spotify plays with the song they came second on the 2017 edition of X Factor Italia.
The band’s victory at the Sanremo Music Festival, followed by their Eurovision triumph with Zitti e Buoni in May, paved the way to their meteoric rise to global fame.
For the duration of this week, Måneskin feature in a giant billboard in Times Square, New York, while they recently broke into the top 10 in the UK charts with I Wanna Be Your Slave and made the ARIA singles chart here in Australia with Beggin’.
Måneskin’s breakthrough success comes after a recent feature article in The New York Times suggested the Roman band was on the cusp of “conquering the world”.
