October 11, 20222 yr First of all, thanks to Rob for hosting this great round - well done! Those introduction video's are truly iconique. And of course, thanks for all who voted for Honey.! I actually tried to enter it in PJSC last month, but it was blocked there, so I was very excited I got to enter it here - and now with this result! The melancholic ABBA sound, the harmonies... I recommend everybody that loved this song, to play ABBA's Don't Shut Me Down right after it.... On repeat :) And of course congrats to the other medalists! THANKS!
October 11, 20222 yr Congratulations to Lookylion! I can see the wide appeal to this song though it is not my cup of tea x The top 3 is alright. I certainly didn't see Altyr Muunilinst coming that high tbh. Cumulonimbia in 30th???? WUTTICE HUNNI :angry: :angry: ROBBED, ROBBED, ROBBED!!!! Should've landslided this edition fr! Greenfroze that low is Greenfrozephobia :nono: Y'all don't desere their serves edition after edition!! Happy to finish 12th to prove the bookies wrong again :kink: The high number of 15 pointers as well :o Thanks so much!! I was very scared that I overhyped the drop but it turns out a lot of people vibed to it! This actually is the best performing entry for Sovarasma this year and almost set a new points record too :o I certainly feel the pressure for my next entry... It's gonna be risky and I hope it will not give me the 2nd DNQ this year x Thanks Rob for the results presentation! I loved the trailer videos and the hype around it! Can't wait for a Lookylion-hosted contest again!
October 11, 20222 yr Well done Lookylion. It did grow on me during the final so a good enough winner. 25th for me is well a bit on the underwhelming of a finish really as it sounded to me a bit more than just your average trance song lmao. Oh well. St Burnia quite the flop there oops. Thanks Rob for some great hosting, the radio station addition has been fun especially to listen to.
October 11, 20222 yr Author Lookylion finished 16th in the semis, 12pts away from not qualifying, and beneath Botanikka, who finished last in the final. That is WILD to me. I'll post the full spreadsheets for them tomorrow but: SEMI 1 100 Sovarasma: Askjell - Autumn, Autumn 95 Bhangra: Amanda Tenfjord - All In 95 Aeroche: SUB-X - Thank You Baby 88 République d'Áskorza: Erika Vikman - Kateus 87 Suedeonia: Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know 81 Zanmatony: DJ Reiz - Dance Machine 96 75 Greenfroze: DAOKO & Yohji Igarashi - MAD 74 Summericia: Sean Tyas - The World (Darren Porter Remix) (feat. Lo-Fi Sugar) 70 Jadakissnia: She Pleasures Herself - Trust 69 Skall: -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté & Fatoumata Diawara - Manitoumani 67 Danæviia: altrice - places faces 65 Bøtanikkä: Lara Fabian - I Will Love Again (Thunderpuss Radio Mix) (more 12s) 65 Oslol: Kelli-Leigh - Back 64 Niceland: Rend Collective - Let It Roll 63 Arcodesia: Massano - The Feeling (more 12s) 63 Lookylion: Honey. - What Now (no 12s, 2 10s, 2 8s) 63 Fljótavík: yunè pinku - DC Rot (no 12s, 2 10s, 1 8) 57 N DNTN: Sylvan Esso - Echo Party 56 Kyriatine: Pussy Riot & salem ilese - PRINCESS CHARMING 54 East Rukahavian: LP Giobbi - Forever And A Day (feat. Caroline Byrne) SEMI 2 110 Persephonia: Hazel English - Hamilton 107 Altyr Muunilinst: ALMA - Summer Really Hurt Us 105 D'yermak'er: Daya - See You In My Dreams 97 Cor Lupus: U.S. Girls - So Typically Now 94 Elëdan: COBRAH - BRAND NEW BITCH 78 Thelonia: Effy - Not Yours (more 12s) 78 Kathaldazia: Lolahol - Lock&Key 74 St. Burbia: NEVE - Modern Romance 72 Hushkanukia: Sweet California - Whisper 63 FARC: Juicy Romance - Hummer (94 before deduction) 61 Harmonica: Turnstile - MYSTERY (more 12s) 61 Lotunia: IU - eight (feat. SUGA) 60 Kluminican Republic: Yseult - Corps 59 Jupiterdonia: Tom Ferry & Kiesza - I Think That I Like You 57 Kingdom of Horanius: Son Mieux - Multicolor 55 POPHub: MOTHERMARY - Pray (Tensnake Remix) 48 The Actual Republic of Bellamia: Ruel - YOU AGAINST YOURSELF 47 Flynnonda: Zach Campbell - Away From You 46 Aelandor: Ashbury Heights - Glow 44 Yehesi: Gia Woods - Lesbionic
October 11, 20222 yr Lookylion finished 16th in the semis, 12pts away from not qualifying, and beneath Botanikka, who finished last in the final. That is WILD to me. I'll post the full spreadsheets for them tomorrow but: SEMI 1 100 Sovarasma: Askjell - Autumn, Autumn 95 Bhangra: Amanda Tenfjord - All In 95 Aeroche: SUB-X - Thank You Baby 88 République d'Áskorza: Erika Vikman - Kateus 87 Suedeonia: Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know 81 Zanmatony: DJ Reiz - Dance Machine 96 75 Greenfroze: DAOKO & Yohji Igarashi - MAD 74 Summericia: Sean Tyas - The World (Darren Porter Remix) (feat. Lo-Fi Sugar) 70 Jadakissnia: She Pleasures Herself - Trust 69 Skall: -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté & Fatoumata Diawara - Manitoumani 67 Danæviia: altrice - places faces 65 Bøtanikkä: Lara Fabian - I Will Love Again (Thunderpuss Radio Mix) (more 12s) 65 Oslol: Kelli-Leigh - Back 64 Niceland: Rend Collective - Let It Roll 63 Arcodesia: Massano - The Feeling (more 12s) 63 Lookylion: Honey. - What Now (no 12s, 2 10s, 2 8s) 63 Fljótavík: yunè pinku - DC Rot (no 12s, 2 10s, 1 8) 57 N DNTN: Sylvan Esso - Echo Party 56 Kyriatine: Pussy Riot & salem ilese - PRINCESS CHARMING 54 East Rukahavian: LP Giobbi - Forever And A Day (feat. Caroline Byrne) SEMI 2 110 Persephonia: Hazel English - Hamilton 107 Altyr Muunilinst: ALMA - Summer Really Hurt Us 105 D'yermak'er: Daya - See You In My Dreams 97 Cor Lupus: U.S. Girls - So Typically Now 94 Elëdan: COBRAH - BRAND NEW BITCH 78 Thelonia: Effy - Not Yours (more 12s) 78 Kathaldazia: Lolahol - Lock&Key 74 St. Burbia: NEVE - Modern Romance 72 Hushkanukia: Sweet California - Whisper 63 FARC: Juicy Romance - Hummer (94 before deduction) 61 Harmonica: Turnstile - MYSTERY (more 12s) 61 Lotunia: IU - eight (feat. SUGA) 60 Kluminican Republic: Yseult - Corps 59 Jupiterdonia: Tom Ferry & Kiesza - I Think That I Like You 57 Kingdom of Horanius: Son Mieux - Multicolor 55 POPHub: MOTHERMARY - Pray (Tensnake Remix) 48 The Actual Republic of Bellamia: Ruel - YOU AGAINST YOURSELF 47 Flynnonda: Zach Campbell - Away From You 46 Aelandor: Ashbury Heights - Glow 44 Yehesi: Gia Woods - Lesbionic HA! I guess that is wild indeed!
October 11, 20222 yr Those semi results are remarkable! As if my entry that came 41st in the final finished higher in the semi than the eventual winner of the contest :lol:
October 11, 20222 yr Congrats to Lookylion! I didn't vote for it, but it wasn't miles off, a strong pop song that definitely gave ABBA/good Ellie Goulding vibes, a lot of the pop songs were good this month so I'm ok with them dominating (although shame about Modern Romance flopping despite the hype as that grew to be one of my favourites of them </3). Great to see FARC, Persephonia and Klum Rep in the top 10 from my own votes, Persephonia had the biggest grower for me of the contest and I'm here for a subtle French ballad overperforming <3 Wonderful to see Sovarasma and Suedeonia do so well, both massively standout entries. Would've liked Fljo and Jadakissnia a little higher but can't complain much overall x Wow at the semi-results difference, but luck of the draw is a massive thing these days, still annoys me as I'm sure I'd have been through in Semi 1 where all the dance/instrumental crowd were :( But hey, onwards and upwards (fourth time lucky this time surely? :lol:) Thank you for the excellent hosting Rob, a fantastic amount of effort and BJSC FM was a stroke of genius. I'm hoping there may be some way for us to keep it going using money earned from the site like we do for Music Week, but it's something I'd need to look into!
October 11, 20222 yr Wow at the semi-results difference, but luck of the draw is a massive thing these days, still annoys me as I'm sure I'd have been through in Semi 1 where all the dance/instrumental crowd were :( But hey, onwards and upwards (fourth time lucky this time surely? :lol:) Pretty sure you would have done, you were robbed!
October 11, 20222 yr Thank you for the excellent hosting Rob, a fantastic amount of effort and BJSC FM was a stroke of genius. I'm hoping there may be some way for us to keep it going using money earned from the site like we do for Music Week, but it's something I'd need to look into!well this is a TIL, tell us more
October 11, 20222 yr The old record for lowest semi-final position for a winner was N DNTN's BJSC 65 winner 'Tear The House Up' by Hervé and Zebra Katz which went from 12th to 1st (this is only definitely true up to the end of last year - I will find a solid few hours of hyper focus to get my stats caught up again one of these days - but I am fairly sure I'd have remembered if there was another winner this year that did worse than that in a semi). That's a loooong standing record casually being shattered!
October 11, 20222 yr Congrats Lookylion for the win. So, this should be the 2nd time Eastovka's silver medalist win the contest (after Cor Lupus' Third Party)! Despite the semi result that looked pretty safe, I'm still glad I wasn't sending "Multicolor" in previous contests. The song really needs an extra +12 to at least avoid the NQ. Thank you for the hosting, Hendinia. Enjoyed listening to BJSC FM for a while. ^_^
October 11, 20222 yr Congratulations to Lookylion. Your song wasn't too far away from getting points from me. Thanks Rob for a great job hosting the contest.
October 12, 20222 yr Points totals all match for me in the final scoreboard Rob posted so I won't post my whole scoreboard as well but I've just edited his final scoreboard post to add the tiebreaks which it appears he hadn't done yet! (Leaving it with no deductions as Rob indicated the other day, I guess the deadline was effectively just extended by a day). The Lotunia/East Rukahavian tiebreak was already in the right order but the other 3 I've flipped over from how Rob originally posted them, sorry to Roba, Noche and Jafet x I wasn't a big fan of 'What Now' (are we shocked x), was actually my least favourite song out of the top 3 and in my bottom 10 of the final overall oops, but what I will say is it's great to have such an inspired song choice winning, I feared this would just be a coronation for U.S. Girls which would have made 2 winners on the trot that I think probably should have been vetoed :kink: but I think this is a song that will have been a genuine discovery to near enough everyone so it's reaffirming that such songs can still win! Lookylion joining the 2-win club, you're in good company B-) After being briefly back to being quite well aligned with the top 10 (bar the winner) last time, this month we're back to having a top 10 with barely anything I voted for at all - although the two that did make it in (FARC and Hendinia) were both in my top 4 so at least that's a couple of big highlights, I don't get behind FARC entries nearly as often as I feel I should so very pleased with how much I loved this one, and the Hendinia song was always good but it suddenly clicked with me a lot more on my final relisten and jumped from a pencilled in 7 points all the way to 12 (pushing it up from 10th to 9th in the process I see)! Definitely a bit on the generic side for a song receiving so many points from me but I do occasionally stan the odd generic female reggaetón banger even from people not named ROSALÍA, what can I say x And of course the other big highlight of the top 10 being my own entry *.* 2nd top 10 of the year and my best result since Minuit Machine, hooray! Glad that I did ultimately at least come very close to living up to the last minute hype in the predictions thread, myself to blame that I missed the top 5 due to the foot shooting giving 15 to FARC. 'Hamilton' actually got the joint most votes of any song in this contest (32, equal with Cor Lupus) so I guess I was successful in appealing to a slightly wider audience than usual but not quite getting enough of the bigger points from anywhere to actually be a win contender - still very happy with 3 18s and 5 medal positions in all though, and although it wasn't actually reflected in the posted scoreboards due to unfortunate timing it's pleasing to know that I was actually briefly in the lead after 50/51 votes which is deep enough in to give me the confidence that I still have the ability to get that elusive third win one of these days with some luck. The wait goes on for now though. Hooray for another semi-final win at least - as Rob pointed out on Discord I won the semi the last time he hosted as well with 070 Shake, and that was in fact the last time I won the semi I believe (though come 2nd in the semi 4 times since then), we need Rob to host more often if he is my good luck charm like this :teresa: With so few of my votes coming top 10 that of course means there are quite a lot of songs I'd have liked to see higher here - Kathaldazia narrowly losing their top 10 streak is a shame as this was another really good entry from them, I see I was right that Thelonia and Zanmatony did very similarly to each other but quite disappointing that both of them were only in the lower top half as I would have bet on at least one being top 10 if I could get there with VII Circle (oops at Wardy actually being mega frontloaded for real in the end :ph34r:), and also would definitely have predicted and wanted slightly better results for Danæviia, Aelandor, Jadakissnia and N DNTN (and perhaps also Fljótavík and Greenfroze). Pleasantly surprised at how high Skall and Suedeonia are though, a better result for Fatoumata than the one I sent from her hooray! And also decent results that are about what I would have predicted for Sovarasma and Harmonica. Bøtanikkä is a surprising last place finisher, aw at coming so close to having everything over 100 points but that one falling 10 points short oops! (also just realised St. Burbia didn't end up doing particularly well - I didn't think it really sounded like a big hit but my predictions for pop songs are often way off and some others seemed to think this might do a Claudia Valentina so interesting that didn't really pan out this time) Thanks again to all of my voters and to Rob for another fantastic hosting job, even with being a bit short of time in the final week! <3 Hopefully off to Lookylion again next month then... and I'd better become a looky lion myself soon looking for another entry as I currently have nothing again xx
October 12, 20222 yr Interesting how spread out the votes were this time! What was the last dominant winner Bre? Depends on how you define 'dominant' but it has been 4 contests in a row now, and 6 of the 8 in the year to date, where the gap between the top 2 was at most 18 points (i.e. a single extra voter could have flipped it). Lotunia won by 36 points in BJSC 144, and Aeroche by 42 points in BJSC 141. The last indisputably 'dominant' win I guess would be Lookylion's last winner in BJSC 140 which won by 113 points. First of all, thanks to Rob for hosting this great round - well done! Those introduction video's are truly iconique. And of course, thanks for all who voted for Honey.! I actually tried to enter it in PJSC last month, but it was blocked there, so I was very excited I got to enter it here - and now with this result! The melancholic ABBA sound, the harmonies... I recommend everybody that loved this song, to play ABBA's Don't Shut Me Down right after it.... On repeat :) And of course congrats to the other medalists! THANKS! Wait why was Honey. not allowed in PJSC? Am I wrong about it being an inspired entry choice? :lol: Congrats to Lookylion! I didn't vote for it, but it wasn't miles off, a strong pop song that definitely gave ABBA/good Ellie Goulding vibes, a lot of the pop songs were good this month so I'm ok with them dominating (although shame about Modern Romance flopping despite the hype as that grew to be one of my favourites of them </3). Great to see FARC, Persephonia and Klum Rep in the top 10 from my own votes, Persephonia had the biggest grower for me of the contest and I'm here for a subtle French ballad overperforming <3 Wonderful to see Sovarasma and Suedeonia do so well, both massively standout entries. Would've liked Fljo and Jadakissnia a little higher but can't complain much overall x Wow at the semi-results difference, but luck of the draw is a massive thing these days, still annoys me as I'm sure I'd have been through in Semi 1 where all the dance/instrumental crowd were :( But hey, onwards and upwards (fourth time lucky this time surely? :lol:) Thank you for the excellent hosting Rob, a fantastic amount of effort and BJSC FM was a stroke of genius. I'm hoping there may be some way for us to keep it going using money earned from the site like we do for Music Week, but it's something I'd need to look into! Glad that my song was a big grower for you! I do think you're right that you'd have qualified from semi 1 though and then who knows how well it could have done in the final given some of the wild swings from projections this month :'( think it would likely have got 15 points from me. That would be great if we could find a way to keep BJSC FM going so fingers crossed!
October 12, 20222 yr Congratulations Lookylion!! It’s a great wee track So nice to end on 200+ points as well. Not too bad for a Finnish language track
October 12, 20222 yr Congrats Lookylion!! Amazing to see 'What Now' winning after being one of the last songs stuck on 0 points at the beginning, very fun to watch it gradually climb to 1st. I'm not even that much of a fan of ABBA (or songs that sound like ABBA) but that didn't stop it from being my fave this month. And I couldn't believe how close the results were all along, I wish I'd kept track of how many different songs were on top of the leaderboard. I actually at the last minute switched 'What Now' from my 15 to my 18, otherwise it would've had 3 fewer points and we'd have had a tie at the top :o Yay for my 15 (Kingdom of Horanius) staying top 15 and getting so many 18s, deserved. Actually most of my faves did great, except Botanikka shouldn't have been last, and I would've liked to see TARO Bellamia top 30 at least. I'm happy with 28th even though that's around where most of my finalists seem to end up, and not quite beating Turnstile's previous entry which got to 23rd. Still not bad for a heavy rock song that has less than 1:30 of vocals. Thanks for the handful of medal positions, especially Wholune for the 18! Wish I could've followed this live but it turned out to be a busy afternoon at work. Thanks Rob for hosting, honestly your lack of prep didn't make it any less enjoyable!
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