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SEQUENCES: Question 1

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A lot of people picked up on the fact that these songs reached number 1 in January/Q1. I'd like to say that it was a sneaky red herring, but it was a complete coincidence, I didn't even realise! The actual connection is that the number of credited artists increases by one each time (1 on drivers license, 2 on Somebody That I Used to Know, then 3 on Own It). So any song with 4 credited artists was correct! There's another accepted sequence found by two people (detailed below), it's far more complicated than I could've come up with but it's correct so that scores points too!

 

Correctly answered (9): dandy*, n4yr, xajnipi, Mangø, jimwatts, Doctor Blind, paulgilb, PeteFromLeeds, dan::G

Alternate accepted answers (2):

RabbitFurCoat, Riser: Descending number of weeks at #1, from 9>5>3>2, meaning the gap halves each time (first it's 4 less, then 2 less, then 1 less)

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I did think of the 9/5/3/2 thing first of all, but it seemed a little too arbitrary. Then once I got it, it took a while to think of a four-artist #1 (Feels is the one I came up with)

Oh nooo I noticed the descending number of weeks thing but thought that was too vague as a guess 😓

 

Note to self: anything is better than nothing as a guess!!

 

Definitely didn’t think about the features thing though.

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SEQUENCES: Question 2

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These are all synonyms for Taylor Swift lead singles. The next in the sequence is Willow, so anything representing that word was correct - most people went for the tree but there were also a few Willow Smiths and the character from Buffy!

 

Correctly answered (24): dandy*, chrissmith276, n4yr, JulianT, uptempo_owww!, AaronTM, RabbitFurCoat, rio309, xajnipi, Mangø, jimwatts, Soy Adrián, Doctor Blind, paulgilb, Riser, PeteFromLeeds, CJK, dan::G, Bjork, StoneDragon, Jade, Suedehead2, LewisGT, Chez Wombat

Correct connection but wrong 4th song (1 point): jakewild, coi

I guessed Q1 was something to do with ages at which you can do certain things (get a driving license, change your name and own property), but would have been very surprised if I’d been right!

Edited by JulianT

I quite liked my answer for the first one in Round 2 and it seemed to fit... All #1s and the first syllable on the next song is the same as the last syllable of the previous song...

Edited by chrissmith276

The number of artists one is probably the first of those which I don't feel annoyed at myself for not getting! :lol: The trend resumes though with this one, managing to get that they were Taylor singles but not lead singles!
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I quite liked my answer for the first one in Round 2 and it seemed to fit... All #1s and the first syllable on the next song is the same as the last syllable of the previous song...

I could see what you meant for "...Know" into "Own It" but I didn't think "...ense" into "Some..." quite worked, sorry!

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SEQUENCES: Question 3

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Some people said these all feature in adverts - as far as I know the only one that has is the Fleetwood Mac one? Take the first letter of the artist and song, and you'll get H G F E D C. It's the alphabet going backwards towards A, so any artist beginning with B who's had a song starting with A was correct!

 

Correctly answered (9): dandy*, chrissmith276, JulianT, rio309, xajnipi, Doctor Blind, paulgilb, Bjork, Chez Wombat

Alternate accepted answers:

PeteFromLeeds: Increasing syllables according to the Fibonacci sequence

I thought 2.1 had to do with age at which they got to #1, cos Olivia, Kimbra and Burna Boy were all young

so I thought the right answer was that guy that did Savage Love with Derulo :D

Yes, that only twigged with me after the deadline. Although I thought my idea was quite a good fit - the Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Fire - there's air Everywhere, right?) - so I went for Bangles - Eternal Flame as the 4th clue. Please could I at least have half a point for Bangles?

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Finally one that I can say I'd never have worked out! That Fibonacci answer is incredible :lol:
lol at the Fibonacci answer :D someone was watching Lost? :D

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