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Thanks to the 38 people who participated in last week's poll & 40 people who participated in the previous one

Official results from week 22:

[ 28 ] Dua Lipa - Dance The Night (#20)
[ 20 ] Hannah Laing and RoRo - Good Love (#63)
[ 16 ] Taylor Swift - Hits Different (#18)
[ 11 ] J Hus - It's Crazy (#15)
[ 3 ] Byron Messia - Talibans (#67)
[ 2 ] Lil Durk - Pelle Coat (#75)
[ 2 ] Bou - Closer (feat. Slay) (#76)

Official results from week 23:

[ 17 ] Dave and Central Cee - Sprinter (#1)
[ 16 ] The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular (#21)
[ 14 ] Dave and Central Cee - Trojan Horse (#14)
[ 10 ] Dave and Central Cee - UK Rap (#17)
[ 10 ] D.O.D - So Much In Love (#94)
[ 10 ] Foo Fighters - Under You (#98)
[ 7 ] Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky and Roisee - Am I Dreaming (#51)
[ 7 ] Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne and Offset - Annihilate (#59)
[ 4 ] Burna Boy - Sittin' On Top Of The World (#52)
[ 3 ] Gunna - bread & butter (#63)
[ 3 ] Dominic Fike - Mona Lisa (#90)
[ 3 ] Stray Kids - S-Class (#100)
[ 2 ] Metro Boomin, Swae Lee and NAV - Calling (feat. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie) (#56)
[ 1 ] Slim - Double R's (#99)

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2023 week 22 and auto-qualifying for the June monthly round is Dua Lipa - Dance The Night.
BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2023 week 23 and auto-qualifying for the June monthly round is Dave and Central Cee - Sprinter.




British popstar (with Albanian citizenship) and BuzzJack fave Dua Lipa logged her first new hit of the year in week 22 with the lead single from the soundtrack to the new Barbie film, continuing the disco pop sound from her enormously popular 'Future Nostalgia' album and landing another top 20 hit, and duly won the poll with ease, almost matching Kylie's performance from the previous week with 70% of participants giving her a vote (although significantly fewer total voters this time). Distant second place, 8 votes behind but still also picking up votes from half of participants, was the debut hit for both DJ Hannah Laing and vocalist RoRo. It was a closer race in week 23 with just one vote between the top 2, and a bit of a surprising winner albeit with a much lower 17 votes (the second lowest for a winner to date), British rap stars Dave and Central Cee (not quite as much BuzzJack faves as Dua, especially the latter x) came out on top with the latest UK #1 'Sprinter' which was one of three songs to chart from their surprise new collaborative EP 'Split Decision' and raced to the biggest first week sales of the year to date. They narrowly deny another soundtrack cut, The Weeknd's second single from his much-maligned HBO series The Idol which thus just fails to match the poll winning success of the first single despite swapping out Future for the more BuzzJack bait collaborator Madonna (and Playboi Carti). Madonna gets another shot at winning this week.

4 out of 7 songs from week 22 make it to double figures, with Taylor Swift's belatedly released 'Midnights' bonus track not managing to come too close to giving her a third win as it lands in third place while J Hus' comeback after 3 years of mostly silence put in a surprisingly strong 4th place showing. The other 3 were very much also-rans, joint last place on 2 votes going to a Lil Durk album track and the year's second new entry to desecrate sample Robert Miles' 'Children' this time with a drum n bass flavour, both beaten by one vote by a rare dancehall hit from Byron Messia. The top 6 from week 23 got to double figures and UK rap (quite literally in one case) continues to punch above its weight, with the other two Dave/Central Cee collabs coming in 3rd and joint 4th. It was a mostly rap dominated list of new entries, but there were still a few contenders from other genres with D.O.D and Foo Fighters repping dance and rock respectively also landing in tied 4th place. The bottom 6 however all fell short of the 5 vote mark, and UK rap still found its way to the bottom of this list with the first chart hit from the recently freed from prison Slim holding up the rear and thanking just the one voter for avoiding being the second addition to the 0 votes club (will we get to the halfway mark of the year without Clavish's 'No Difference' having any company?) Metro Boomin did clear the 5 vote mark with 2 out of 3 of his Spiderman soundtrack songs but the third, with Swae Lee, NAV and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, was much less popular with only 2 votes. Also from Spiderman, Dominic Fike doesn't do much better with 3 votes, tying with another post-prison release from Gunna and a chaotic K-Pop cut from Stray Kids, while Burna Boy's latest release with a prominent 90s R&B sample comes out on top of the also-rans with 4 votes.

Weekly winners to date:
01 // 12/01/23 // Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly
02 // 19/01/23 // Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan - Rumble
03 // 26/01/23 // Miley Cyrus - Flowers
04 // 02/02/23 // Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side
05 // 09/02/23 // P!nk - TRUSTFALL
06 // 16/02/23 // RAYE - Ice Cream Man.
07 // 23/02/23 // Linkin Park - Lost
08 // 02/03/23 // Lana Del Rey - A&W
09 // 09/03/23 // Gorillaz - Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)
10 // 16/03/23 // Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her
11 // 23/03/23 // Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle
12 // 30/03/23 // Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC
13 // 06/04/23 // Lana Del Rey - Paris, Texas (feat. SYML)
14 // 13/04/23 // Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH
15 // 20/04/23 // David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me
16 // 27/04/23 // Post Malone - Chemical / Taylor Swift - Karma
17 // 04/05/23 // The Weeknd - Double Fantasy (feat. Future) / Florence + The Machine - Mermaids
18 // 11/05/23 // The National - The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)
19 // 18/05/23 // Ed Sheeran - Curtains
20 // 25/05/23 // Loreen - Tattoo
21 // 01/06/23 // Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam
22 // 08/06/23 // Dua Lipa - Dance The Night
23 // 15/06/23 // Dave and Central Cee - Sprinter

Qualified for the yearly round:
January // Bizarrap and Shakira - Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 / Miley Cyrus - Flowers / Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly
February // Freya Ridings - Weekends / Lana Del Rey - A&W / P!nk - TRUSTFALL
March // Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle / Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC / Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her
April // Florence + The Machine - Mermaids / Post Malone - Chemical / Taylor Swift - Karma
May // revealed in next post

Qualified for the playoff for the yearly round:
January // Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side
February // Linkin Park - Lost
March // Miley Cyrus - River
April // Jonas Brothers - Waffle House
May // revealed in next post

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Finally back on schedule again and back to a poll covering just the one chart week And it's a pretty barren week with only 6 newies (totalling 18 minutes and 57 seconds). Think this one looks like a 1 horse race.



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