Posted April 12, 20214 yr http://i.imgur.com/sMSa9fD.png The audio file has been played 160 times (6.4 per participant on average); not enough for me to get a hit single sadly. Participants (25) garyfeld Mangø chrissmith276 jimwatts Dobbo. dan::G Bjork paulglib n4yr PeteFromLeeds Riser StoneDragon Jade coi Chez Wombat King Rollo LewisGT Ansel dandy* CJK Mack. vibe LiamSime uptempo_owww! awardinary Thanks very much all for entering and I hope you enjoyed it. I tried to make this reasonably tough when I put it together, but I wanted it to be fun and accessible at the same time so it was a difficult balance. As usual for Buzzjack the standard was very high, and the leaderboard is pretty tight!
April 12, 20214 yr Author First some boring notes about the scoring: Given the tightness of the scores I did deduct one point if featured artists were missed - sorry about that but I did say I wanted the full credit. (I didn’t deduct for omissions of bracketed parts of song titles or mis-spellings.) There were only a few tied positions in the final leaderboard, but as I really don’t like ties I have separated them on the following basis: - If someone with the same score identified more clips correctly out of 20 they will be placed higher - If the number of clips identified is also equal I will look at which tied participant answered the "harder" clips correctly, based on the number of correct answers for each clip For the purposes of the most and least correctly answered bonuses I have included half and quarter points for partial answers as appropriate. I hope that seems fair!
April 12, 20214 yr Well this is going to be fun! I can guarantee there will be lots of songs in here that I know but just couldn't remember the intros to.
April 12, 20214 yr Author Now let’s look at what you thought would be the most and least correctly answered! Most correctly answered: #1: 16 of you! - Mangø, chrissmith276, Dobbo., dan::G, paulglib, n4yr, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, Chez Wombat, LewisGT, dandy*, vibe, LiamSime, uptempo_owww! #3 - PeteFromLeeds, Ansel #7 - Bjork #9 - garyfeld #13 - jimwatts, Mack. #14 - King Rollo, CJK Least correctly answered: #2 - garyfeld, n4yr, uptempo_owww! #5 - Chez Wombat #6 - Bjork, Ansel #10 - CJK #12 - dan::G, coi, LiamSime #13 - Vibe #14 - Mack. #16 - PeteFromLeeds #17 - Dobbo. #19 - Riser #20: 9 of you - Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, paulglib, StoneDragon, Jade, King Rollo, LewisGT, dandy* So a clear favourite in both cases, and on the most guessed side it was overwhelming, but will the consensus be correct?
April 12, 20214 yr Oh I think I missed the bit about including the featured artists! Eep, I hope I did that anyway :lol:
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q1 Katy Perry - Firework #3, 2010 QGJuMBdaqIw The quiz started with one of Katy Perry’s most iconic hits. The third single of the Teenage Dream album had a relatively slow start entering at #5, but proved to be a long runner and became her first song to do over a million pure sales. Correct answers: 23/25 4 points: garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, Dobbo., dan::G, Bjork, paulglib, n4yr, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, Chez Wombat, LewisGT, Ansel, dandy*, CJK, Mack., vibe, LiamSime, uptempo_owww!, awardinary Most of you picked this as the most correctly answered. It was very well answered but not perfectly - will something else have done better?
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q2 Justin Bieber ft Chance the Rapper - Holy #7, 2020 pvPsJFRGleA This was the most recent song in the quiz; its claim to fame from a chart geek’s point of view was spending the most ever weeks at #10; 5 in total. Despite the recency and high profile of the artist some of you thought this was a tough one. I’ve also been very mean and deducted a point for anyone who didn’t mention Chance the Rapper. I mean how could anyone overlook poor Chance’s epic lyrical contributions such as “messy...like Lionel Messi” and “union in communion”? Correct answers:15.75/25 4 points: Mangø, jimwatts. dan::G, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, LewisGT, Ansel, LiamSime, awardinary 3 points (missing Chance): Chrissmith276, Dobbo., Bjork, dandy*, CJK garyfeld and n4yr chose this as the least answered, but surely something else will have done worse?
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q3 The 1975 - Chocolate #19, 2013 CHk5SWVO4p8 The 1975’s debut hit achieved renown well beyond its relatively lowly #19 peak, and has gone on to achieve double platinum status. Correct answers: 23/25 4 points: garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, Dobbo., dan::G, Bjork, paulglib, n4yr, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, Chez Wombat, LewisGT, Ansel, dandy*, CJK, Mack., LiamSime, uptempo_owww!, awardinary So this moves into joint pole position with Firework for the most guessed, and PeteFromLeeds and Ansel voted for this. But will anything score better?!
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q4 David Guetta ft Akon - Sexy b*tch (Sexy chick) #1, 2009 N9hazmsUxrM The approach of releasing a radio friendly version of the track alongside the main version seemed to work well here and was also used by Cee-Lo Green the following year. A long top 5 run after debuting at #1 led to this being the 12th biggest selling song of the year. I gave full points whether you answered with the official version or the radio version, though you may have come unstuck later if you didn’t think of the right one... Correct answers: 22.5/25 4 points: garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, Dobbo., dan::G, Bjork, paulglib, n4yr, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, Chez Wombat, LewisGT, Ansel, Mack., LiamSime, uptempo_owww!, awardinary 3 points: dandy* (missing Akon), vibe (missing Guetta)
April 12, 20214 yr Oh yay I did put the featured artist :cheer: I wrongly thought #2 was Freya Ridings - 'Lost Without You' at first but then Bieber clicked after a while after I knew what the theme was. 'Chocolate' was a lot more instant though, great song :heart:
April 12, 20214 yr I don't think I did particularly well here, I did love the theme though and I'm interested to see how the ones I didn't get fit into it x
April 12, 20214 yr That little bit at the end of the Chocolate clip helped - I wouldn't have got it straight away otherwise
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q5 New Order - True faith #4, 1987 mfI1S0PKJR8 One of New Order’s most iconic songs reached the Top 10 again in 1994 after being remixed, and was also covered by George Michael. Correct answers: 15.5/25 4 points: garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, dan::G, Bjork, PeteFromLeeds, StoneDragon, coi, King Rollo, Ansel, dandy*, CJK, LiamSime, awardinary 2 points (artist only correct): paulglib This narrowly overtakes Holy to become the least well answered so far (putting garyfeld and n4yr out of the running for that one). Chez Wombat chose this one - but surely there are lower scorers to come?
April 12, 20214 yr Author That little bit at the end of the Chocolate clip helped - I wouldn't have got it straight away otherwise Yes - I had thought about cutting that off but I didn't want people getting disheartened by Song 3! <_<
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q6 Maroon 5 - Sugar #7, 2015 09R8_2nJtjg This was one of Maroon 5s many slow burning hits. It had an astonishing 12 week Top 10 run without climbing higher than #7 and was the 13th biggest song of 2015. Correct answers: 18/25 4 points: garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, Dobbo., dan::G, paulglib, n4yr, Riser, stonedragon, Jade, coi, LewisGT, dandy*, CJK, Mack., LiamSime, uptempo_owww!, awardinary Some of you did struggle with this, including a couple who got almost all the others, but it definitely won’t be the least well answered (sorry Ansel and Bjork)
April 12, 20214 yr True Faith is great :wub: (although that George Michael cover wasn't), pleased that Firework is still the joint most answered so far and hoping it stays that way for the bonus points!
April 12, 20214 yr Author Q7 Florence & the Machine - Rabbit heart (Raise it up) #12, 2009 GF6kBNLTvaU This was the group’s first top 20 hit, a folky number complete with harp and Florence harmonising with herself to sound like a whole choir. Correct answers: 21/25 4 points: garyfeld, Mangø, chrissmith276, jimwatts, Dobbo., dan::G, Bjork, paulglib, n4yr, PeteFromLeeds, Riser, StoneDragon, Jade, coi, Chez Wombat, LewisGT, Ansel, dandy*, CJK, uptempo_owww!, awardinary This looked like it might be the best answered until quite late but several of the later entrants didn’t get it, putting Bjork out of the money for this bonus too.
April 12, 20214 yr This narrowly overtakes Holy to become the least well answered so far (putting garyfeld and n4yr out of the running for that one). Chez Wombat chose this one - but surely there are lower scorers to come? I only went with this as it sounded like it could be anything from the 80s with such a short clip and a quick drum beat, but clearly I'm not as familiar with it as some are! (I do love what I know of New Order, but I never would've got that) Ofc. Maroon 5 was one of those I didn't get, frickin' awful band.
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