2012 Results

 

109 NE 7 Keane - Disconnected

108 105 20 Jessie Ware - Running

107 NE 24 Hot Chip - Don't Deny Your Heart

106 NE 29 Avicii vs Lenny Kravitz - Superlove

105 104 31 Professor Green (feat. Ruth-Anne) - Remedy

104 NE 47 Guy Sebastian (feat. Lupe Fiasco) - Battle Scars

103 94 50 Ben Howard - Only Love

102 NE 53 Michel Telo - Ai Se Eu Te Pego

101 84 54 Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl (feat. Georgi Kay) - In My Mind (Axwell Mix)

100 103 56 alt-j - Matilda

99 NE 60 Gorillaz (feat. Andre 3000 & James Murhpy) - DoYa Thing

98 68 60 Sam & The Womp - Bom Bom

97 48 61 Santigold - Disparate Youth

96 98 63 Karmin - Brokenhearted

95 NE 65 Emeli Sandé - My Kind Of Love

94 80 65 Maroon 5 (feat. Wiz Khalifa) - Payphone

93 86 67 Justin Bieber (feat. Big Sean) - As Long As You Love Me

92 NE 70 Sub Focus (feat. Alpines) - Tidal Wave

91 NE 73 Script (feat. Will.i.am) - Hall Of Fame

90 56 74 Bastille - Flaws

89 78 75 Alyssa Reid (feat. Jump Smokers) - Alone Again

88 76 76 Nadia Ali - Rapture (Avicii Remix)

87 NE 76 Weeknd - High for This

86 97 78 Kendrick Lamar (feat. Jay Rock) - Money Trees

85 NE 79 Kendrick Lamar - Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst

84 85 80 Flo Rida (feat. Sia) - Wild Ones

83 NE 82 Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think

82 NE 83 Paloma Faith – Picking Up The Pieces

81 NE 84 Demi Lovato - Give Your Heart A Break

80 57 87 Beach House - Myth

79 74 89 Killers - Runaways

78 NE 90 Lumineers - Ho Hey

77 75 91 Swedish House Mafia vs Knife Party - Antidote

76 69 92 Sebastian Ingrosso & Alesso (feat. Ryan Tedder) - Calling (Lose My Mind)

75 NE 94 Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)

74 67 94 Muse - Madness

73 59 95 Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt

72 72 96 Plan B - ill Manors

71 47 97 Everything Everything - Cough Cough

70 66 97 Usher - Climax

69 NE 105 Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait

68 NE 108 Little Mix - Wings

67 35 110 Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws

66 NE 111 First Aid Kit - Emmylou

65 73 111 Jessie J - Domino

64 79 111 Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars - Safe & Sound

63 41 117 DJ Fresh (feat. Rita Ora) - Hot Right Now

62 25 117 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Running to The Sea

61 70 117 Taylor Swift - State of Grace

 

As always, quite a number of new entries in this section as it seems that it can be quite hard at times for ne songs to break through. Special mention to last place though; ‘Disconnected’ was on zero points until the very last vote, whereupon it gained 7pts… however wasn’t enough to lift it out of the bottom spot. There’s some quite big drops here and actually 2 casualties from last year auto-qualifiers; ‘Dirty Paws’ drops from 35 to 67 whilst ‘Running for the Sea’ has a terrible year and drops from 25 to 62. There aren’t any auto-qualifiers for next year as this is the last year for all these songs, however both of those finish poorly, but lets see what did a little better…

 

Almost There…

 

60 62 119 alt-j- Tessellate

59 39 119 Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

58 NE 122 Marina & The Diamonds - Bubblegum Bitch

57 55 123 Amelia Lily - You Bring Me Joy

56 37 123 Avicii - Silhouettes

55 63 125 Fun. - Some Nights

54 58 129 Girls Aloud - Something New

53 NE 130 P!nk - Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

52 54 131 Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments

51 44 135 xx - Angels

50 NE 137 Frank Ocean - Lost

49 46 139 M.I.A. - Bad Girls

48 40 140 Foals - My Number

47 29 148 Otto Knows - Million Voices

46 NE 149 Calvin Harris (feat. Example) - We'll Be Coming Back

45 32 150 Grimes - Oblivion

44 36 154 Jay-Z & Kanye West (feat. Frank Ocean) - No Church In The Wild

43 42 154 Katy Perry - Wide Awake

42 26 155 Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen

41 45 155 Frank Ocean - Pyramids

40 61 155 Nicki Minaj - Pound The Alarm

39 65 155 Weeknd - Wicked Games

38 33 166 Rihanna - Where Have You Been

37 50 168 Ke$ha - Die Young

36 28 169 PSY - Gangnam Style

 

Just before hitting the (would be) auto-qualifiers/ semi final/ finalist positions, here we can see a few more drops from last years auto-qualifiers list. ‘’Gangnam Style’, ‘Where Have You Been’, ‘Anything Could Happen’, ‘Oblivion’ and ‘Million Voices’ are gained auto-qualification last year, although this is their final year, all of these songs did lose their support, and don’t really end on a high. There are quite a number of new-entries in this section though as ‘Bubblegum Bitch’ enters at 58, ‘Blow Me’ enters at 53, ‘Lost’ at 50’ and ‘We’ll Be Coming Back’ is the second highest new entry at 46. We also have hefty gains for ‘Wicked Games’ which climbs from 65 to 39 and ‘Pound the Alarm’ which climbs 61 to 40; both songs finishing highly in their last year.

 

Would Be Auto Qualifiers

 

35 09 172 Calvin Harris (feat. Florence Welch) - Sweet Nothing

34 53 178 Little Mix – DNA

32 31 181 Coldplay (feat. Rihanna) - Princess Of China

33 30 181 Rihanna (feat. Mikky Ekko) - Stay

31 49 182 Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather

30 14 183 Woodkid - Run Boy Run

29 24 185 Solange - Losing You

28 NE 187 Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?

27 34 194 Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

26 81 196 Stooshe - Black Heart

25 52 197 Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

24 22 199 Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans

23 38 208 Alex Clare - Too Close

22 21 215 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

21 15 223 Swedish House Mafia – Greyhound

 

The would’ve been auto-qualifiers for next year sees quite a number of changes to last years list; ‘DNA’, ‘Black Heart’, ‘Sweater Weather’ and ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ all take big climbs to hit the (would be) auto-qualifiers list. ‘Too Close also surges 38-23 to also climb onto the list, ‘Too Close’ did extremely well this year and did have a semi-finalist position at certain points of the vote. ‘R U Mine’ also enters in 28th place. However whilst there has been some big movement upwards, there are quite a number of casualties from last years semi-final line up. ‘Sweet Nothing’ bombs this year, dropping 26 places to 35th place, ‘Run Boy Run’ drops 16 places and ‘Greyhound’ slides 6 places; all three out of the semi-finals in their final year. I would say that dance doesn’t seem to have been that badly affected, unlike 2013, as we shall see…

 

 

Semi-Finals

 

20 20 228 Porter Robinson - Language

19 19 230 Cheryl - Call My Name

18 27 230 Marina & The Diamonds - Primadonna

17 13 231 Lana Del Rey - Ride

16 18 234 Ellie Goulding - Figure 8

15 23 238 Jay-Z & Kanye West - N****s In Paris

14 16 249 P!nk - Try

13 04 290 David Guetta (feat. Sia) - Titanium

12 08 293 Rihanna - Diamonds

11 12 295 Fun. (feat. Janelle Monae) - We Are Young

10 10 315 Disclosure (feat. Sam Smith) - Latch

09 02 323 Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks

08 07 328 Azealia Banks (feat. Lazy Jay) - 212

07 03 329 Rudimental (feat. John Newman) - Feel The Love

06 64 330 Taylor Swift - All Too Well

 

So a few new faces going through to the semi-finals this year, ‘Primadonna’ and ‘N****s In Paris’ climb 8 places each to reach the semi-final in their last year. However the biggest climb here is ‘All Too Well’ which surges 58 places and into the semi-finals for the first time. The song has gained new attention thanks to the 10 minute version released in 2021, it misses out on going straight through to the final round by a single point. There’s also a mass exodus from last years top 5 as ‘Titanium’ drops 9 places to 13, ‘Little Talks’ drops 7 places to 9th and ‘Feel The Love’ drops 4 places to 7th. All 3 songs went directly through to the finals last year, this year they must battle it out in the semi-finals. Should also point out ‘Latch’ was doing incredibly well at certain points and challenging heavily for a finalist position, however couldn’t quite make it, but as you can see from the results places 10-2 are quite close…

 

:cheer: Finals :cheer:

 

05 17 331 Florence & The Machine - Spectrum (Original / Calvin Harris Remix)

04 06 338 Swedish House Mafia (feat. John Martin) - Don't You Worry Child

03 05 347 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

02 11 348 Loreen - Euphoria

01 01 461 Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used To Know

 

No real surprises as to what comes out on top in this group, ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ completely steamrolled all the competition and finishes 127pts ahead of 2nd place in its final year on Record of the Decade. However we have 3 different songs going straight to the finals this year compared to last… although all 3 have been in this position in previous years. ‘Spectrum’ dropped to 17th place last year from 3rd in 2020, so this year manages to recover and go straight through to the final again, beating ‘All Too Well’ by 1pt. Also recovering after dropping a couple of years ago from being automatically in the final is ‘Euphoria’ which managed to pull in quite a lot of support this year to gain 2nd place. ‘Don’t You Worry Child’ meanwhile climbs 2 places and back into the top 5, whilst ‘Born to Die’ climbs 2 places, into the top 3.

Edited August 19, 20222 yr by ElectroBoy

Gotye winning by a lot again is completely unsurprising but deserved, I'd put it down as a big contender for winning this year seeing as this is its final chance which may incentivise some voters.

 

Great to see Spectrum and DYWC returning to the top five, and I can get behind a Euphoria revival too, just a shame for Titanium to be losing a lot of ground but I trust it'll be able to smash the semi-finals.

 

Boo at Greyhound just missing out on a semi-final place but at least it didn't take Language down with it as well. Sweet Nothing's huge fall is rather WTF but it out-doing Spectrum last year was equally surprising. No point in caring for 'AQ status' anyhow for this year but at least it held on barely to the top 35.

 

Makes total sense for All Too Well to climb massively this year (even if it did miss my votes) and great to see Paris claim a SF place too. Much less enthused about Primadonna climbing in though.

Phew at Porter just barely scraping into the semi-finals a second year in a row (shame it's at the expense of 'Greyhound' but nvm)! Will count that as a decent result for it to bow out with regardless of how it does in the semis. Excellent to see 'All Too Well' (for obvious reasons) and 'Nathans In Paris' climbing to become semi-finalists too (supporting both Kanye and Taylor xx) + the moral AQs at the end of the runs for 'R U Mine?' and especially 'Sweater Weather' <3

 

Interesting to see the support returning to near full force for Loreen this time after faltering in the last edition. Think on the whole I prefer the songs exiting the top 5 to those entering but hope that 'Little Talks' should be good to make the final anyway (I don't think I actually voted for any of those 6 songs but that and 'Spectrum (Say My Name)' were very close).

Well that was a pretty dreadful set of results. So much that I voted for seemed to take massive tumbles - Jessie :( Woodkid :( Grimes :( Royksopp :cry:

 

Only All Too Well reversed the trend, which was probably to be expected - it went from 16 points to 28 in my own votes

Language squeaking through again also amazing to see Sweater Weather finally reach the top 35, buzzjack catching on to it being a modern classic!

 

a few questionable results here and there but at least Gotye still steamrolled everyone x

Loreen going back to where she deserves! Happy to see All Too Well do so well too! A decent Top 20 overall.

Pleased to see Sweater Weather in the top 35. As I nominated it for 2013, I can't help but feel it might have autoqualified for real there, still I'll take the moral victory of it doing enough to have done so in any year but this one. My other seven 2012/2013 nominations did as little as I expected.

Edited August 19, 20222 yr by jimwatts