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Thanks to the 41 people who participated in each of the last pair of polls

Official results from week 7:

[ 22 ] Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM (#9)
[ 19 ] Djo - End Of Beginning (#100)
[ 16 ] Madison Beer - Make You Mine (#50)
[ 10 ] ¥$ - CARNIVAL (feat. Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti) (#12)
[ 10 ] Beyoncé - 16 CARRIAGES (#44)
[ 9 ] Sia and Kylie Minogue - Dance Alone (#60)
[ 8 ] ¥$ - BURN (#17)
[ 8 ] ¥$ - BACK TO ME (#18)
[ 7 ] Noah Kahan - Forever (#31)
[ 7 ] Wes Nelson - Abracadabra (feat. Craig David) (#37)
[ 4 ] Muni Long - Made For Me (#62)
[ 3 ] Shy Smith - Soaked (#77)
[ 3 ] Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Christian Borle, Amir Talai and Joel Perez - Stayed Gone (#92)
[ 2 ] K-Trap - Heaven Or Hell (#47)

Official results from week 8:

[ 36 ] Dua Lipa - Training Season (#4)
[ 17 ] Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man - Lovers In A Past Life (#19)
[ 12 ] Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé - Spicy Margarita (#80)
[ 4 ] Bryson Tiller - Whatever She Wants (#53)

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2024 week 7 and auto-qualifying for the February monthly round is Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM.
BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2024 week 8 and auto-qualifying for the February monthly round is Dua Lipa - Training Season.




From week 7 it's a first poll win for American superstar Beyoncé with the more popular (though weaker imo x) of the two joint lead singles from her forthcoming 8th solo studio album which may or may not be called 'RENAISSANCE ACT II' or some variant on that, her foray into country proving surprisingly dominant as it debuted in the top 10 on a partial week of tracking before zooming to #1 for 3 weeks and counting despite collapsing. 'TEXAS HOLD 'EM' got the support of 54% of voters, winning by 3 votes over the lowest new entry of the week (albeit one that would also go on to become a big hit) from Djo. A further 3 votes back in 3rd place was a midtable hit from Madison Beer, while 2 others just about made it to double figure votes in joint 4th, Beyoncé's second song of the week and the most popular song both in the chart and in this poll from the ever controversial ¥$ with assistance from Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti. The Kylie forum must have forgotten to mobilise votes to the poll as the Sia/Kylie Minogue song only finishes 6th with 9 votes. 4 songs fell short of the 5 vote margin (perhaps surprisingly not including any of the ¥$ songs), the wooden spoon with 2 votes went to the week's blink and you'll miss it UK rap hit of the week from K-Trap, while there were 3 votes each for the TikTok hit from Shy Smith and the 5th and perhaps last hit from Hazbin Hotel, and 4 votes for Muni Long (actually very surprised she got so few votes).

Week 8 is also won by the week's highest new entry, no surprise at all that it's British-Albanian kwen Dua Lipa's 3rd win out of 3 since these polls began with the second single from her yet to be named third studio album, following the wins for 'Dance The Night' and 'Houdini' last year. 'Training Season' won this poll nearly unanimously in fact - it did lack credible BuzzJack friendly opposition to be fair but I'm still rather stunned to see her get a vote from 88% of all voters, I'm sure that's the largest percentage to date by some margin! Only 5 people didn't throw a vote Dua's way. 2 of the 3 other songs on the list also passed double figure votes, with Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man coming in as the distant runner up, 19 votes behind (so slightly less than half of Dua's votes) while 12 people for some reason saw fit to vote for Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé. The final also-ran unfortunately fell just short of the 5 vote threshold, poor brave Bryson Tiller, I wouldn't normally be surprised at that outcome in a vacuum but really only a third of the votes of 'Spicy Margarita'? Smh x

Surprisingly enough there were no votes at all for 'none of the above' in either of these polls!

Weekly winners for 2024:
01 // 11/01/24 // The Cast Of Wonka - You've Never Had Chocolate Like This
02 // 18/01/24 // The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters
03 // 25/01/24 // Ariana Grande - yes, and?
04 // 01/02/24 // Noah Kahan - Homesick (w/ Sam Fender / solo) / Becky Hill and Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone
05 // 08/02/24 // Justin Timberlake - Selfish
06 // 15/02/24 // goddard. and Cat Burns - Wasted Youth / Jazzy - Shooting Star / Cat Janice - Dance You Outta My Head
07 // 22/02/24 // Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM
08 // 29/02/24 // Dua Lipa - Training Season

Weekly winners for previous years: 2023

Qualified for the 2024 yearly round:
January // Ariana Grande - yes, and? / Becky Hill and Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone / The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

Qualified for the playoff for the 2024 yearly round:
January // Noah Kahan - Homesick (w/ Sam Fender / solo)

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It's another 2 in 1 poll this week whoops, covering the first 2 weeks of March (which will have 5 weeks counting to it for these polls). Week 9 has 11 songs totalling 33 minutes and 5 seconds while week 10 has 9 songs totalling 31 minutes and 29 seconds, for a total playlist length of 1 hour and 4 minutes. I've had to be crafty to get the Pozer song title to appear unmangled in the poll since I can't shove in formatting tags like I do in a normal post - brownie points who figures out what I did xo



Vote for as many or as few songs as you want and would be ideal if you can make sure you've heard all the songs before voting if possible!

Tentatively aiming to get the next (single week) poll up on Sunday evening as ever, along with results from the February monthly round which I'll get up soon x