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Voting has now closed so let's get on with the results. What has been crowned the best single to miss the top 10 this year? Well it certainly isn't one of these.

#42. Chris & Kem - Little Bit Leave It [-03 points]
{15}-21-37-63->4

After "winning" the title of most hated song of 2017, it unsurprisingly finishes bottom here. With seven sets of negative points, not even its eleven positive points could save it. Last year the losing song scored 15 points but due to the lack of quality this time around we are left with 15 songs not even making it into double figures.

#41. Eminem - In Your Head [-02 points]
{19}-73->2

Eminem hasn't exactly had the best received era this time around with most people agreeing that he used to be a lot better in the past, including Eminem himself probably. That didn't stop him from getting a #1 hit with 'River' though as well as getting this album track into the top 20, sampling 'Zombie' by The Cranberries, just weeks before that band's lead singer's unfortunate and surprising death. Except it actually shouldn't have got anywhere near there in the first place as this charting was fully because of an error at either the label or OCC's end. Oops. It received no positive points and one set of negative points.

#40. Ed Sheeran - Save Myself [-01 points]
{19}-29-57-65->4

Of course we get a load of Ed Sheeran album tracks eligible for this rundown, but unsurprisingly none of them do particularly well. The lowest charting of them was 'Save Myself' which only made it to #19 (what a flop) which also performs the worst here with one set of negative votes and a single positive vote.

=#36. Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas [±00 points]
63-61-49-59R(50)-50-41-39R(50)-44-38-27-45R(49)-18-22-{13}->14

Poor Michael Bublé aka the King of Christmas received not a single vote for his cover version of the 50s Perry Como classic which thanks to the magic of streaming finally made it to the top 20 this year, peaking at #27 the previous year. Perhaps in 2018 he'll finally make the top 10?

=#36. Ed Sheeran - Hearts Don't Break Around Here [±00 points]
{15}-22-45-50-59-74->6

Yet another Ed Sheeran album track now and there's three of them that finish with absolute zero. I haven't even listened to this properly but from what I heard it sounds like a painfully boring acoustic guitar ballad.

=#36. Ed Sheeran - Eraser [±00 points]
{14}-26-49-54-62-73->6

And this one had Ed attempting to rap again, clearly that didn't go down too well as despite being track 1 on the album it failed to reach the top ten.

=#36. Ed Sheeran - Barcelona [±00 points]
{12}-13-26-33-41-45-53-55-58-61->10

This one isn't too bad actually, but still not worth much and I can't be upset this finished with nothing either. This is the one with Ed singing in Spanish for about a third of the song, even before Despacito was a thing.

=#34. Chris Brown - Questions [+02 points]
21-19-16-13-{12}-15-17-15-17-38-41-45-46-52-56->15

Because Chris Brown can still get a hit single when he wants to somehow, but only when he butchers a 00s classic for it.

=#34. Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year [+02 points]
43-25-21-21-64-63R(50)-71-74R(312)-61R(2)-61R(52)-55R(50)-50-41-24-37R(50)-37-{17}->17

As if this only got two points? Maybe if it was December you'd be kinder to it. A few more Christmas songs are yet to appear though. This one got stuck at #21 in 2007 after being used in an advert but finally made the top 20 this year thanks to streaming.

#33. Ed Sheeran - Nancy Mulligan [+04 points]
{13}-15-29-35-43-48-64-67-74->9

Oh hi Ed again. Couldn't bring myself to listen to more than about 10 seconds of this one.

#32. Rag'n'Bone Man - Skin [+04 points {more positive votes}]
35-51-25-20-18-37-42-60-30-23-18-17-16-{13}-15-14-24-26-28-34-40-39-53-58-65->25

Surprised this one's so low as it was quite a big hit. Though I suppose Buzzjack aren't very big on RnB Man. I don't care for this one at all anyway, at least it didn't get as overexposed as 'Human'.

#31. James Arthur - Naked [+06 points]
{11}-20-21-24-36-14-19-22-28-28->10

A song giving the mental image of James Arthur naked is definitely something nobody needed.