Will this countdown ever end?

 

It will end when I get to #1, silly.

 

(but I aim to have it finished in the next few days)

SINGLES: 55-51

 

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Chart Peak: #13

 

The only instrumental in my singles chart, and what an instrumental it is - being exactly what the Youtube video says, a dubstep violin instrumental. It's a fantastic piece of music and one I never tire of hearing. Also one of my most pleasing surprise successes in BJSC, the other one is still to come. Like I said on C.W's EOY chart, can't believe I only gave it 4 points originally, it is worth far more than that and finishes up as my second favourite from that contest. Despite it being dubstep, it's really.. soothing. That's all I can think of. It also manages to sound as epic as a violin piece can.

 

Chart Peak: #1 (#5 in 2012)

'ricochet, you take your aim'

 

I didn't want to put Titanium too high as it had already been my year-end #1 and it really feels more like a 2011 song to me given how much I played it back then. Yet it definitely had some influence on my 2012 and now the overplay's gone it sounds almost as good as when I had to play it 5 times in a row each time I thought about it. Notionally one of my absolute faves on this list but it's already had its time at #1 so will have to settle for just outside the top 50 this time. Guetta really had some good production this era, did he not? Even Without You sounds amazing now.

 

Chart Peak: #16

'until forever comes'

 

One of my longest running non-top 10s of the year, Chasing The Sun was surprisingly pervasive (and sounds epic on the chorus). It also really cemented my love for The Wanted as Britain's best boyband. I couldn't tell you what I Found You sounded like though. I'm crazy like that. Coming for my second-favourite Wanted song, behind the all-conquering Lose My Mind, and one of the few boyband songs I can honestly say I've never gotten bored of.

 

Chart Peak: #17

'now if you're never gonna move, all night long'

 

We seem to have lost the music video in the name change controversy. :( ANYWAY, I keep thinking every time I see a non-top 10 hit that 'this'll be the last' but it probably isn't. 110% took a little while to fully grow on me, but I always appreciated it far more than other Jessie Ware songs I had heard (the rest that I'd heard at that point honestly feel rather plain). Thankfully I do kinda like all her singles Night Light and after, but none as much as the bubbly, infectious pop song that is 110%. The sampe of 'carving my initials on your forehead' works brilliantly to lead into each chorus and her voice is just perfect. I know she is well liked around the internet and if she continues making songs like this I'll be all for it.

 

Chart Peak: #4

'Som en sjö utan vatten, som en lykta utan ljus'

 

SECHS PUNKTEN. You can always count on Finland for a good Eurovision entry (years that are a multiple of 3 + 1 excepted) and 2012 was no exception, with a beautiful Swedish ballad sung by the rather lovely Pernilla. Sadly, she flopped to all hell, joining Lose Control and Tykoi Ellaa in Eurovision purgatory. It was always destined to fail now I look back at it but still I was rather devastated. Not as much as for Verjamem and Love Unlimited as I saw it coming, it just hurt more to see a better song miss out on the final. Finland to come back with ROCK POWAH POWAH with Arion this year please.

 

 

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SINGLES: 50-46

 

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

20-04-08-18-26

'I've got you in my sights'

 

A triumph for the Voice series as a whole, Dia Frampton produced this great track for her album. I discovered it through BJSC, so it's another win for that contest (thank you Liam) - so perfect for a pop song. The lyrics are something about the Wild West and despite me not really liking that as a genre the story is really well told. I just can't get over Dia's sultry tones and the fantastic undercurrent of a beat. AMAZING. One BJSC entry that's stayed with me for the whole year and my 6th favourite discovery from there this year as a whole.

 

16-01-05-05-05-13-28

'and we were never gonna say goodbye'

 

A bit of a random #1 for me - a summer hit that further proves the rule of a song with 'paradise' in the title being exceptional (Paradise, Lost In Paradise, Dark Paradise etc). The singer's vocals seem so full and pure, despite it being a dance hit - this is what you get when pop-rock teams up with Sean Paul (who does his usual thing of butting in where he doesn't really belong - although his verse is fairly fab). I'm SLIGHTLY ashamed for liking it so much but it seems impossible to dislike and always makes me smile.

 

02-04-11-11-19-21-22-33

'crashing from the high'

 

Proving that I like rocky, ballady Katy the best out of all her various styles she's covered in her Teenage Dream, this final close to the era of Wide Awake really stuck with me far more than the previous single Part Of Me. Reminding me a little of Evanescence, always a good thing, her vocals are among her strongest here, and the whole thing has a natural ending feel to it. A great high from an artist who's had an on/off era with me, and has probably ended up third out of all her songs behind The One That Got Away (top 10 last year) and the always reliable Hot N Cold. Katy has matured greatly from the artist who burst onto the scene with I Kissed A Girl and this is the zenith of that maturity for me.

 

14-12-12-07-02-08-11-24-33

'I guess what I have found, is a castle on a cloud'

 

SERIOUSLY NOW, if you have never heard this before, mainly you BJSC pop people who don't enter UP, listen to it. It's a slice of popelectrorock gloriousness that will make all of your lives better. Except those who didn't give me points in UP. The chorus is so singable, at times it reminds me of Avril Lavigne, at others Ellie Goulding. Probably a cross between those two. Coming second for me in only my third contest, it's something quite special for me, as I was stunned by how well it did. At least with Love Stuck I was sort of expecting that kind of success. I do sometimes wonder how it would have done if I had entered it to BJSC, and I conclude it would have also smashed but not quite as hard, it's extremely poppy for Unknown Pleasures but it clearly fits there like a glove. Maybe y'all can watch out for of Verona coming to Séyetana next year. Incredible band with an incredible song.

 

15-05-10-12-20-20-20-34

'Can't believe how the time flies by, leaving you makes me wanna cry'

 

The third single from the best era Train have done - a DUET with a female singer. Catnip for me, especially given her vocal talent (and I have never heard of before but that does not matter). An instant highlight from California 37, it took them way too long to release it as a single. Not quite my favourite Train song, their second single is still to come, but my second favourite. I don't know if this was ever released in the UK, but it sounds like a huge radio hit, and given Drive By is so inferior, when they had this in their arsenal, why did it not lead off the album? WASTE. Not that it matters as Drive By smashed but STILL.

 

 

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I don't care. I don't hold down F5 like some people because it's not important to me how many people have viewed my topic.

 

Ha! :D

 

Best comeback I've ever seen.

SINGLES: 45-41

 

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

03-05-08-08-09-23-32-x-32-34-32

'I bring you my history that I expect your tender arms around me'

 

The only iamamiwhoami track to instantly hit me. I put it down to the swagger Jonna has that the beginning of the video. It's so dancey - something I couldn't imagine from them on the basis of sever, drops and even play before this premiered. Really sounds like the song with the most hit potential from Kin and is the highest peaking - maybe next time you can get a #1, Jonna, eh? The sounds she are making feel so ethereal and magical for a track like this, and I really want to get up and dance right now.

 

01-02-05-17-32-24-34-73-53-45-37-x-16-16-31

'i feel the energy'

 

SIEBEN PUNKTEN. One of only THREE Eurovision-related #1s this year, I suppose Euphoria blocked them all from the top, this early release from Ivi managed to largely avoid the Loreen juggernaut. Cyprus' best effort in years, it's a rather basic song and I forgot about it after the initial 'MUST PLAY THIS NOW' wore off quickly, only to return for that performance in Eurovision. Stunning example of a pop song with legs going into Eurovision. If there had been no Loreen I suspect this would have done very well indeed, it certainly would have eclipsed Greece live.

 

25-11-11-09-18

'sunshine slowly falls from your eyes'

 

Because BJSC entries have shit chart runs despite me loving them loads. One of the most beautiful entries I've ever discovered from there, one that should have gotten my 12 points in retrospect, despite me loving Happiness and Bodywork, my top 3 have ended up in the reverse order here. XLIII was my favourite contest of the year and this is my favourite entry from it, one that really should have smashed for FSR Rontvia (thank god it qualified, I didn't even give it that much in the semi). An emotional piano ballad reminding me of a quirky Christina Perri at her best (a HUGE compliment from me), it's my 5th favourite BJSC discovery of the year. It sounds like something that should have been huge, Rae doing a Gabrielle Aplin route to success (they strike me as being not TOO dissimilar) in a few years would be lovely.

 

03-03-04-04-05-08-16-35

'now we've stepped into a cruel world'

 

While Safe & Sound is LOVELY, this is the better of the two songs that Taylor did for The Hunger Games, and the better of the two that finally and completely won me over to her as an artist. It SPEAKS to me.. in some way. It might be the eyes. I do like keeping them open. Many puns on my username intended. At the time I was incredibly surprised that I was putting not one but TWO Taylor songs at the top at the same time, now I Knew You Were Trouble has gotten to #1 on my (unpublished, cba) chart. That's how to become a fan (have every album, I did before thanks to my brother but it doesn't matter)

 

10-16-24-31

'hold me down, let me drown'

 

4th most played song of the last 3 months according to last.fm I don't care about getting things right in my chart. The fantastic piece of electropop has the most wonderful extended synthy intro before the vocals come in and merge beautifully to a great climax. Addictive as anything. Dear god, it took a while for it to grow on me when it was entered into BJSC but once I'd properly listened to it there was no way this wasn't getting my 12. I've started to check out some of St. Lucia's other stuff and while it's fairly good (Before The Dive in particular, will keep following him if he makes stuff like this) September is the best. Also the best song by far on FIFA 13, there are normally a couple of fantastic songs on their soundtracks with Rhinestone Eyes, Ace Of Hz and Fire With Fire all on there in the past... all in '11 eh.. so that is always enjoyable when it comes on. NEARLY NEARLY NEARLY got in my top 40 but not quite. Everything here is too close.

 

 

I will get on this tonight. Top 40 will become a top 20. I promise.

 

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I've missed quite a bit soz, but love seeing Chasing The Sun and goods here out of the recent few :wub:

#40-#37

 

40. Little Mix - Wings

 

 

05-09-16-02-02-03-10-16-18-28-36-39-39

 

'your words don't mean a thing, I'm not listening'

 

So we kick off my top 40 with my most pointed #2 of the year and with the only act to have 3 songs in this top 40, LITTLE MIX (best x factor winna ever and for all time, Burke who?). I was slightly disappointed with this initially and it's my least-favourite of their charting singles on balance but as the quality is so high from them so far, that's not too bad. Highlights here are the individual verses, but the harmonies are so tight which makes the chorus fantastic too. Turned out to be a great little pop song in the end and while it's been a good year for #1s, this is one of the best (10th according to my votes in that thing in the chart forum, so 8th when you take out Paradise and Titanium)

 

39. Train - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye

 

 

31-25-02-02-03-02-06-12-15-26

 

'she went down in an airplane, fried getting suntanned, fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand'

 

I maintain that Train were high when they wrote this. Straight from my most pointed #2, to the one that spent the most weeks there without getting #1 and Train's best song ever - bizarre lyrics do that to me. Aside from those lyrics, it seems perfect for success, well-timed trumpet and a standard Train sound so it flopping was rather awful. I have no shame in admitting I was utterly obsessed with this for a little while. It's the more interesting cousin of Drive By with a tune lifted from Phantom Of The Opera *.*. Well, lifting a classic tune for your instrumental worked for Gotye so why not.

 

38. Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac

 

 

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'over and over I'm falling'

 

ACHT PUNKTEN. I have no shame and I am incredibly shallow but this is the better of the two Greece and Cyprus pop songs annihilated by Loreen. On the face of it it is a basic pop song but every time I hear that intro I fall in love for the next few minutes. Probably my favourite Greek entry out of the ones I've heard, I have very un-credible and unusual taste in their entries, loving OPA most before this appeared and not understanding why My Number One won, least good winner of its decade hi. Back to Aphrodisiac, (which sounds like everything MNO should've been) it's a 3 minute sugary summary of what Eurovision is, and that's why I love it. I'm still kinda in love with Eleftheria, which honestly has nothing to do with it. Seriously but she is FIT AS.

 

37. Lisa Miskovsky - Why Start A Fire?

 

 

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'all the roads we are travelling up and down'

 

This HAS to be my last non-top 10. This was only because I thought it was nice in Heat 4 of MF but didn't get the MP3 until much later, long after she'd failed in the final. I belatedly charted it but didn't put it top 10. It's a fantastic song from someone I hadn't heard of before this, but then it was my first Melodifestivalen. It also sounds a lot like Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart, which is a road which you can never go wrong on. I wonder where you came from, Lisa, and why I didn't show enough love to you first time round. :wub: Worth so much more than NINTH.

This countdown is not as good as Jahq's countdown.

 

WHICH SAYS A LOT. :kink:

Lovely to see Don't Go pop up in another end of year countdown, even in a crap year for FSR Rontvia it seems that the likes of Don't Go, Flares and Fireflies resonated with enough people to pop up in year end retrospective lists which is a huge compliment! Fingers crossed for Rae being big one day!

#36-#33

 

36. M.I.A - Bad Girls

 

 

03-05-07-06-07-04-08-16-26-33

 

'Cover me, cause I'm changing lanes'

 

Proving that M.I.A can do no wrong again, one of my longer top 10 hits of the year in Bad Girls. Also probably the worst injustice of the year when it somehow missed the top 40, leading me to coin the now well-known Buzzjack phrase 'I am cry'. Bad Girls is nothing particularly NEW for M.I.A but it's catchy and just done much BETTER than many of her singles. Also, the VIDEO.

 

35. Greta Salome & Jonsi - Never Forget

 

 

44-20-13-05-07-08-16-09-03-05-09-15

 

'And when the golden sun arises far across the sea, the dawn will break as darkness fades forever we‘ll be free.'

 

ZEHN PUNKTEN. It's going to be quite a while until we get to my favourite Eurovision song but you all know what that is so while we have a bit of unpredictability in our lives, here's my second favourite song from there, in the form of Iceland's... Scandinavian-duet-with-slightly-rocky-voiced-female. OH COME ON Iceland, you're just PANDERING to me now. But I like it, hee. I did like it in the original Icelandic but lyrics do help a song for me and the English version makes it feel that much more epic. Should absolutely have not finished as low as it did. :( The video is also one of the best I've ever seen for a Eurovision song, still gives me chills even now.

 

34. Little Mix - DNA

 

 

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'I'm the X to his Y, it's the colour of his eyes

 

Despite not peaking as high as Wings, it was a busier time of year and I do love this more, the best of Little Mix's original songs. It's a pop stomper and that's really all there is to it. While I prefer them doing happier stuff like in the Wings video, I still love the DNA video for what it is. Someone more into describing pop songs (probably a lot of this forum) would probably give a more lengthy commentary so I'll leave that to them. Also Leigh-Anne's verse. *.* Similar to what Frankie sometimes does for the Saturdays but BETTER.

 

33. Professor Green feat. Sierra Kusterbeck - Avalon

 

 

03-06-08-11-06-17-30

 

'I have your sword and cape, if you need them I'll be swimming in the lake'

 

A good way to get me to love something is throw in considerable mentions to something about the past or historical legend, particularly something not often covered. Therefore a song based around King Arthur's legends of the mythical island that healed his wounds, Avalon, is going to hit home with me. And then we have a female rock-vocal doing the chorus? PERFECT. I'm not really here for Professor Green but he does a fair job considering he's hasn't had as solid an era as his first one. Sierra's vocal on 'when everything was wrong and everything was gone' is perfect every SINGLE time. Actually her vocal is perfect throughout but especially there... I could use a part 2.

 

If I could, I'd run to Avalon. :wub:

This countdown is not as good as Jahq's countdown.

 

WHICH SAYS A LOT. :kink:

 

The first part is truth tea but what kind of backhanded compliment is this.

This countdown is not as good as Jahq's countdown.

 

WHICH SAYS A LOT. :kink:

 

Well isn't that just RUDE.

 

(besides Jack knocked out Cover Drive FAR too early, still sore)

 

Lovely to see Don't Go pop up in another end of year countdown, even in a crap year for FSR Rontvia it seems that the likes of Don't Go, Flares and Fireflies resonated with enough people to pop up in year end retrospective lists which is a huge compliment! Fingers crossed for Rae being big one day!

 

Don't Go is so so emotional, deserved to be your biggest hit this year. More like that for you should see a very good 2013, at least on my voting card.

You've got like ALL the best BJSC tracks in here - including two of mine and my UP entry. And I'll assume Major Lazer have missed the top 212 as them (him?) being in the top 40 would be ridic. AND two of the best four top 20 tracks of the year (Disclosure, Titanium). And a load I haven't heard. But yeah, surprisingly excellent! I only wish I was amazing as you and could appreciate shite-pop as well. :D

 

Soz, I needed my quota of thinly-veiled music snobbery disguised as complements to be fulfilled.

You've got like ALL the best BJSC tracks in here - including two of mine and my UP entry. And I'll assume Major Lazer have missed the top 212 as them (him?) being in the top 40 would be ridic. AND two of the best four top 20 tracks of the year (Disclosure, Titanium). And a load I haven't heard. But yeah, surprisingly excellent! I only wish I was amazing as you and could appreciate shite-pop as well. :D

 

Soz, I needed my quota of thinly-veiled music snobbery disguised as complements to be fulfilled.

 

Get Free was 231st, so not far off the cutoff point at all. Which is good, I would be very hard pressed to keep to a top 100 and a top 50 would be impossible, I have so much love filling my heart. :D

 

What were the other two top 20s then? Titanium was my #1 last year, I'm never sure what year it really belongs to (but 2011 really). I do take all that as a compliment , it's not bad music snobbery when you have taste enough to send St. Lucia and Electrovamp in the same year.

#32-#29

 

32. iamamiwhoami - sever

 

 

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'almost forgotten, the way we used to live for play'

 

The best thing to come out of the iamamiwhoami project. It took a long while to hit me - but it's perfect. Much better than play, which was all I'd heard prior. A beautiful, raw ballad which just sounds haunting on record - detached and not quite of this world - a very original take on a pop song. If the whole of the project sounded like this I would be all over it, but this and goods are the only two that make me want to rave about it in quite the same way that Pavel et al do.

 

31. Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna

 

 

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'you say that I'm kinda difficult, but it's always someone else's fault'

 

Clearly one of my largest epiphanies of 2012 was realising just how amazing Marina & The Diamonds is. As in, playing both albums over and over, resulting in a strong 4th best on last.fm for the last 12 months where previously she had been nowhere. A lot of that was due to her 'comeback single' Primadonna. Despite me going off it briefly at one point, it's her best single from Electra Heart and the only one to go anywhere near #1 for me. Her vocal delivery is great and it should have been on course to get a top 10 but we all know how that failed. 20m views and a perfect pop song to lead off a perfect album is not bad though.

 

30. Loreen - My Heart Is Refusing Me

 

 

2012 run: 05-02-07-05-11-17-27-24-34-35-37

 

'now I wanna leave but I'm lost'

 

This has appeared on my EOY charts twice now, in 2011 as I discovered it, and in 2012 for the new version as second single from Heal, which made it better and I'm not sure how that was possible. Either way, the added production gives it more of a wow factor, and that was enough for me to chart it as a 'completely new' song. A great contrast from Euphoria for people to hear, but has it even done anything internationally? :(

 

29. Years Away - Starting Fires

 

 

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'lay your hand in mine we are running out of time'

 

7 months on and this is still the only thing Years Away have uploaded to their Youtube channel. Eraserhead exists but I really do want more from this band. It has less than 3000 views still, which is just awful in terms of how good it is. Possibly my most inspired BJSC entry this year, I remember being genuinely surprised when it qualified and didn't break my final streak (which I lost the next contest. A streak of NINE and I lost it :cry:) - it doesn't sound like a big smash at all but a few people really got behind it and I was really touched. Beautiful song with a great amount of crashing drums, I do still count this as one of my favourite entries and since it started off the one-way Allecian >> Séyetana train of points I mark it as a turning point.

My Heart is Refusing Me >>>> Euphoria (there i said it).

 

Primadonna and sever are ofc amazing too :wub:

#28-#25

 

28. Charlotte Qvale - The Beginning Of The End

 

 

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'you walk the highs and I walk the lows'

 

One above my entry to XLVI, it's my 12 from that contest and my 3rd favourite BJSC discovery this year, the wonderful slice of Scandipop (as featured on that website) that is The Beginning Of The End. It passed me by when I listened to it before hearing it in the contest, as did the other two BJSC entries still left in, but I count it as a discovery because I didn't realise how great it actually was until the contest. The instrumental synths and fantastic progression along with Charlotte's lovely vocals really make it. I got addicted.

 

27. Ruby Frost - Water To Ice

 

 

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'we're upended, living in a red glass volcano'

 

I think that should be a red crystallised ice cube. :basil: I found this on Popjustice and decided to send it to BJSC, and it got fairly wide support so that was pleasing. I checked out Volition after that and we know what happened there - I should really check out more of my BJSC acts' albums. There's a lot of things to make comparisons to, it sounds like the perfect indie-pop song to become a big hit, as it sounds very commercial (and it peaked at #3 in New Zealand's charts apparently so it succeeded there). Her vocal delivery on here is perfect, even singing 'WATER TO IHICE' sounds compelling. My third favourite entry this year, also my third highest in terms of point gain. Woo hoo and all that, the one good thing Jack has done with his chart is putting this high.

 

26. Santigold - Disparate Youth

 

 

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'they said our dreams would carry us and if we don't fly we will run'

 

As this starts I'm reminded just how much of a triumph for electronica it is. I can be in pretty much any mood to listen to this, Santi does a fantastic detatched delivery and the occasional bursts of guitar strumming elevate it. A brilliant tune for the early summer and a highlight of Santigold's work that I know. Oh yeah, and this is about as indie as the top 30 is getting, I'd be surprised that the alternative tune I chose this year is this one - it's fantastic anyway. Every song from hereonout is a genuine 11/10 moment. :wub:

 

25. Alyssa Reid - Alone Again

 

 

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'and the night goes by so very slow'

 

I prefer P Reign. I first heard this last year, along with 'The Game' when I entered that one into BJSC - and while it wasn't quite as good as Heart's original, it was not entirely a disgrace to the original, I thought it was quite a good tribute actually, Alyssa puts so much emotion into it, at least from my point of view. It was something I never imagined would get big so it was quite surreal seeing a song that I'd discovered and played loads suddenly start receiving airplay and hype from radio stations across the country. I imagine this would have been even more pronounced had I entered this instead of The Game to BJSC - I can only imagine how Ryan or Hits feel (although it was heartbreaking to see BJ have a generally negative reaction to it, firstly, where were the people who gave 'The Game' points, secondly, YOU NORMALLY GO FOR THE CHEAP POP SONG BUZZJACK WHY NOT THIS TIME? and to bum Rita Ora/Tulisa at the same time just gives me a feeling of INCREDULITY :(). If anything, this was far more of a surprise hit than Carly or Gotye, already charting well internationally when they were entered, while Alone Again was only a quick top 10 hit or something in Canada (yes I know I didn't enter this exact song but The Game sounds extremely similar so work with me hurr). The UK release eventually found me giving this song a week at #1. Yeah, mainstreamness gave me more love for it. I am a mainstream whore. COOL. Joseph, back me up here, we seem to be its only fans.

Don't think you don't still OWE ME for all those 12 points this year Iz!

Bré keeps telling me I can't vote for you. :(

I'm a fan of Alone Again too, it was a #6 in my weekly chart but just missed out on my EOY top 100 at the unpublished #103! She was only every going to be a one hit wonder though, especially thanks to AATW. It's a VERY rare but amazing feeling when some random BJSC act that you've entered suddenly blows up out of nowhere, it's happened to me with Sara Bareilles, Pixie Lott, Example and Caro Emerald!