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Record of the Decade: The 2010s Edition - Nominations

As Iz has decided to take a well deserved rest year from hosting Record of the Decade will be hosted by myself and ElectroBoy. Last year's edition had 'Bad Romance' win for a historic sixth time but as you all know, that song was released in 2009 so it won't be in the running this year. The runner-up, and thus this year's favourite to win, was Ariana's 'Into You', with her 'No Tears Left To Cry' finishing in 3rd making Ariana doubly likely to win here. But anything could happen..

Here's how this generally works, as per Iz from last year:

As with last year, there will be only one round for each and every year, so if you took part in earlier ROTD's but missed last year, we've done away with the first round, and just pile everything together in one big final.

If you're new, this is basically a huge ranking of songs (any songs, charted or not, but naturally, success trends towards the popular ones), arranged by year and then piled into one big final in the end to claim the ULTIMATE PRIZE. Which even newbies I hope can gather has been won rather a lot by Bad Romance over the years.

This first round, I just want all nominations that are missing from the current lineup that you think you should be in. You get 30 nominations, and can spread them out however you want, but I recommend 3 per year to keep it even and I won't allow any more than 7 for any one year from any one person. Nominations ideally should be like this:

201X
Song 1
Song 2
Song 3

Anything can be nominated, obscure tracks, album tracks, but hits that aren't in the list are the best options for actually getting other people to point them. But by all means try that BJSC hit or a cult classic, I'd love to see some new faces among the successful songs. As long as it was released in the last ten years or had its UK Chart peak in the last 10 years, it's fine (2010 to 2019 ONLY, no nominating any 2020 songs please). A song only needs to be nominated once to get through. You can nominate anything but it may be useful to try and predict what other people like because as much as I love individuality, a song isn't going to make an impact in the yearly rounds with only one person's votes.

Please try and police yourself which year a song is supposed to go in, I will check if it looks suspicious but if I don't know the song I won't. The arbitration on songs go in which year is as such: by release date or UK Chart peak, and the latter trumps the former in most circumstances (my go-to example of an exception is Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, which was released in 2010 but managed a new peak in 2012, but is obviously a 2010 song). Songs released around Dec-Jan are edge cases and can sometimes end up in either year, just go with what feels natural. To check these peaks you can use polyhex or the OCC site by searching the track in question.

The top 35 songs from each year are automatically qualified to save people's nominations for the most popular songs. They will be listed in the post below. I will also add nominated tracks to this post, so Ctrl + F before nominating, and also try and read the nomination posts just above you in case I haven't gotten around to updating the first post yet.

You have about a week, that's until 12PM Thursday 13th August, to give me your nominations for at least the first two years, 2010 and 2011. Years will close as their rounds go up, so you can either get it all out of the way in one go or run the gauntlet and nominate week to week.

If you want an idea of what to nominate, you can view all of last year's results through this post.