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Le Flops

105 ** 15 Walking on Cars - Speeding Cars
104 ** 28 Rihanna - Higher
103 ** 35 Nina Nesbitt - Chewing Gum
102 ** 42 Francis & The Lights (feat. Bon Iver) - Friends
101 97 49 Cheat Codes & Dante Klein - Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On)
100 ** 49 KT Tunstall - It Took Me So Long To Get Here, But Here I Am
99 ** 53 Burak Yeter (feat. Danelle Sandoval) - Tuesday
98 ** 55 Alok & Bruno Martini (feat. Zeeba) - Hear Me Now
97 ** 57 KANA-BOON - Silhouette
96 93 58 Frank Ocean - Nights
95 ** 59 Carly Rae Jepsen - Higher
94 ** 59 Nick Jonas (feat. Tove Lo) - Close
93 79 62 Seeb (feat. Neev) - Breathe
92 ** 67 Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
91 ** 68 Kings of Leon - Over
90 ** 71 Weeknd - A Lonely Night
89 91 73 Ace Wilder - Don't Worry
88 ** 73 Anna Meredith - Nautilus
87 ** 75 OneRepublic - Kids
86 ** 79 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities
85 ** 80 Rihanna - Desperado
84 71 81 Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs
83 ** 84 Biffy Clyro - Howl
82 57 84 Snakehips (feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper) - All My Friends
81 88 85 Lukas Graham - 7 Years
80 ** 87 Mystery Jets - Bubblegum
79 ** 87 KDA (feat. Tinashe) - Just Say
78 ** 94 Glass Animals - Youth
77 92 99 Mitski - Your Best American Girl
76 ** 100 Tove Lo - True Disaster
75 ** 103 Tom Odell - Magnetised
74 81 106 Vamps & Matoma - All Night
73 59 109 Glass Animals - Life Itself
72 85 110 Armand Van Helden - Wings
71 ** 110 Beyoncé - Sorry
70 47 111 Major Lazer (feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG) - Light It Up
69 51 112 Dua Lipa - Last Dance
68 46 112 Selena Gomez - Hands To Myself
67 ** 115 Jonas Blue (feat. JP Cooper) - Perfect Strangers
66 ** 115 Bastille - Good Grief
65 41 115 Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
64 66 116 Emeli Sandé - Hurts
63 83 127 Era Istrefi - Bonbon
62 90 127 Birdy - Keeping Your Head Up
61 75 131 Kygo (feat. Kodaline) - Raging

Nearly There...

60 74 134 Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha - In The Name Of Love
59 67 135 Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling
58 ** 137 Biffy Clyro - Re-arrange
57 55 138 Dami Im - Sound Of Silence
56 70 141 Calvin Harris - My Way
55 49 143 Viola Beach - Boys That Sing
54 62 144 Rae Sremmurd (feat. Gucci Mane) - Black Beatles
53 53 151 Imany - Don't Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix)
52 50 153 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
51 60 157 Alan Walker - Sing Me To Sleep
50 ** 161 DNCE - Cake By The Ocean
49 32 162 AlunaGeorge - I'm In Control 
48 45 163 Britney Spears (feat. G-Eazy) - Make Me…
47 54 164 Major Lazer (feat. Justin Bieber & MØ) - Cold Water
46 80 167 Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter
45 11 168 Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex 
44 39 170 Fifth Harmony - That's My Girl
43 ** 171 Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes
42 73 180 LP - Lost On You
41 56 181 MK & Becky Hill - Piece Of Me
40 31 181 Shawn Mendes - Stitches 
39 29 185 All Saints - One Strike 
38 43 185 Drake (feat. Wizkid & Kyla) - One Dance
37 33 185 Chainsmokers (feat. Halsey) - Closer 
36 21 190 Dua Lipa - Blow Your Mind (Mwah) 

Firstly a major yikes for Little Mix whose 'Shout Out To My Ex', a fairly safe semi-finalist last year, bombs out of the AQ zone down to #45. A bit of a surprise there but a welcome one in my opinion. All Saints are out with what I believe was their comeback single albeit not one that lit up any charts are out with 'One Strike', a song I'm surprised made it to AQ in the first place. Dua Lipa, Chainsmokers, AlunaGeorge and Shawn Mendes also lose their placings. In welcoming news MK & Becky Hill are up to #41 with 'Piece Of Me', hopefully in prime position to keep on climbing next year. Alan Walker also makes the top 60 this time with 'Sing Me To Sleep', the oft-forgot about follow-up to 'Faded' which sadly wasn't a UK hit. A few other good songs enter the 'flop but not terrible flop' section including the controversial Calvin Harris hit 'My Way', Porter Robinson and Madeon's biggest streaming hit 'Shelter' and one of the biggest missed hit opportunities of the year 'Lost On You' (joining fellow was-a-huge-Euro-hit-but-the-UK-slept-on-it song 'Don't Be So Shy').

Next Year's AQs...

35 42 193 Christine And The Queens - Saint Claude
34 48 194 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Never Ever
33 26 198 Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom 
32 38 199 Elle King - Ex's And Oh's
31 16 202 Adele - When We Were Young 
30 40 204 DJ Snake (feat. Justin Bieber) - Let Me Love You
29 30 211 Bruno Mars - 24k Magic 
28 24 214 Fifth Harmony (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Work from Home 
27 23 215 ZAYN – Pillowtalk
26 28 216 Chainsmokers (feat. Daya) - Don't Let Me Down 
25 08 223 Zara Larsson - Lush Life 
24 34 224 Clean Bandit (feat. Louisa Johnson) - Tears 
23 20 227 Little Mix (feat. Jason Derulo) - Secret Love Song 
22 25 230 Beyoncé - Formation 
21 36 231 Chainsmokers (feat. ROZES) - Roses

So what comes in to replace the outgoing songs? Christine always does well with 'Tilted' but this time around the follow-up single 'Saint Claude' also makes the top 35 just about. Röyksopp are also in with 'Never Ever', the 2nd song of theirs to AQ and not-coincidentally the 2nd song of theirs with Susanne Sundfør (but it's a really great song yay). Elle King has a small climb with 'Ex's & Oh's as does DJ Snake & Bieber with 'Let Me Love You'. Chainsmokers also got very close to making semis with 'Roses', now joining 'Don't Let Me Down' in the AQ zone. It is not a great year for Zara Larsson though besides underperforming with album #2 'Lush Life' is now out of the running having been top 10 last year. Adele also loses her spot with 'When We Were Young'. Maybe if she announced her comeback sooner it could have remained there (oops I've just delayed it to 2054 now). 'Secret Love Song' doesn't bomb as hard as their other song but likewise it is removed from the semis this year.

Semi-Finalists

20 18 234 Rihanna (feat. Drake) - Work 
19 35 238 MØ - Final Song 
18 22 242 Ariana Grande (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Side To Side 
17 27 249 1975 - The Sound 
16 09 262 Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell 
15 14 269 Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna) - This Is What You Came For
14 12 281 Sia - Cheap Thrills 
13 13 282 Blossoms - Charlemagne 
12 44 284 Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out
11 15 286 1975 - Somebody Else 
10 07 303 Clean Bandit (feat. Anne-Marie & Sean Paul) - Rockabye
09 17 309 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - I Feel It Coming 
08 19 313 Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix)
07 10 330 Rihanna - Kiss It Better 
06 06 388 Kungs vs Cookin On 3 Burners - This Girl

Replacing Adele, Little Mix and Zara this year in the semis we've got MØ, Ariana, The 1975 and TOP. Fairly good trade-offs there (besides us having to lose 'Lush Life'). I'm also glad we didn't end up losing 'Work' which was looking like going out the top 20 for most of the running. Besides 'The Sound' climbing in 'Somebody Else' is also up to #11 so overall a good year for them. A bonus point to whoever nominated 'Stressed Out' too which is the only song here that wasn't a previous AQ. It's also great to see Mike Posner jumping a fair bit into the top 10 and I can't complain with The Weeknd climbing in either.

Direkt Till Finalen

05 04 410 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) – Starboy
04 03 414 xx - On Hold
03 02 426 Christine And The Queens - Tilted / Christine
02 05 445 Alan Walker - Faded
01 01 513 Ariana Grande - Into You

The top 5 has the same familiar faces however and to no one's surprise 'Into You' is #1 yet again, a song that is definitely a contender to win the whole thing as ever especially now that Dancing On My Own has been removed from the contest. Alan Walker is now into 2nd with 'Faded' which is the real great news here however, a song that can hopefully continue to do well into the final. It means The Weeknd, The xx and Christine all drop a place each, sadly leaving Kungs at 6th place for another year.