January 18, 20232 yr Author FINAL RESULTS: 134 Jessie Ware - Free Yourself [Klaus] 127 Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein [Tafty³³³] 124 The Weeknd - Less Than Zero [Lunar]* [6] 103 Griff and Sigrid - Head On Fire [Cameron] 88 Charli XCX - Used To Know Me [awardinary] 83 Highasakite - Can I Come Home [Chez Wombat]* [4] 82 Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking To Yourself [Yobnedor] [12] 75 Chanel - SloMo (Eurovision Dancebreak Edit) [RobBot] 70 Rose Gray - Promise Me [Ansel] 58 Dagny - Brightsider [ultraMidnights] 56 Tove Styrke - YouYouYou [JackTheeStallion] 42 Grace Davies - Already Gone [One_For_Sorrow] 41 Train - AM Gold [WhoOdyssey] 38 Maisie Peters - Cate's Brother [conorw] 38 Sabrina Claudio - Better Version [Jade] 36 Lizzo - About Damn Time (Purple Disco Machine Remix) [vibe] 35 Anna Bergendahl - Demons and Dreams [Qween] 35 Bianca & Clara Fable - Mad Man [Addy!] 32 Confidence Man - Toy Boy [RabbitFurCoat] 29 Sam Gellaitry - NEW WAVE [brer] 28.14 Ellie Goulding - Easy Lover [roughedges_] [42 Points | Non-Voter - 33% Deduction] 25 Katerine Duska & Leon of Athens - BABEL [uhsting] 25 Psy (feat. SUGA) - That That [All★bySmashMouth] 24 Benjamin Ingrosso - Don't Leave Me Hanging [Aaron.] 18 Sandro Cavazza - The Days [Cow Cow] Congratulations Klaus.
January 18, 20232 yr omg my first Song Contest win :cheeseblock: It does feel like slightly cheating as it isn’t exactly unknown (and my first pick was Head on Fire) but I’m taking it given it was Best Pop of last year!! Well done to all, some of my favourite songs of last year and some great new discoveries as well. Can I Come Home really snuck up on me!
January 18, 20232 yr Oh I flopped hard, I expected way better for Benjamin. I was one of the other Rina attempts, Hold The Girl. :nocheer:
January 18, 20232 yr Free Yourself is definitely one that has grown on me since i listened for the voting so not mad at that winner at all. Congrats Klaus! :cheer: Frankenstein is a very worthy runner up, I tried to enter it too lmao :kink: Very glad to see so much love for Less Than Zero though, and it was a really strong selection overall! <3
January 18, 20232 yr Yay I'm very happy with 9th! My aim was to show another side of Rose Gray as for the most part I don't think she's been well-represented by her BJSC tracks (bar Cupid which is a banger) - she's at her best on the more 90s-y ravey tracks like this one. I'm glad enough people liked it! Generally that top ten is almost perfect :cheeseblock: I wasn't big on the Highasakite or Dagny tracks but the rest are brilliant, a Jessie win is so deserved. Absolute tune! Thanks for hosting Tafty, this was a great idea ^_^
January 18, 20232 yr Was undecided between Beach House and Talking To Yourself so glad I went with the latter!
January 18, 20232 yr The top 3 finished in the opposite order that I ranked them in but all are wonderful. Congrats Klaus :cheer: I'll happily take top 15! I wish I had sent something that was more heavily pop-leaning in retrospect but never mind, happy that some people enjoyed this pick. Thanks for a great hosting job, Jonjo!
January 18, 20232 yr Came argue with that winner - overall an amazing set of songs (perhaps not unexpected given the nature of the contest). Thank you to everyone who voted for Anna, I deliberately didn’t go cheap (first time for everything!), but it was my top non-BJSC song of the year so had to share it.
January 18, 20232 yr Was undecided between Beach House and Talking To Yourself so glad I went with the latter! My other choice beside Grace Davies was Call Me by Gabrielle Aplin. Not sure if I made the right call.
January 18, 20232 yr Oh well DONE Klers :cheer: Would have been very happy with any of the top 3 winning, yass for this being your first song contest win though x Happy with Highasakite and Rose Gray being top 10 too! And Jafet really tried to still deny me bottom 5 with those points to Ellie ddd but maintaining top 20 by less than a point, that's all I was hoping for so I will take it, knew it was an uphill struggle sending a less well-known song by a male vocalist but still happy it found a few voters. (I did actually finish in the top half of the male vocal entries despite only barely avoiding the bottom 5 overall ddd) Thanks for hosting Jonjo!
January 18, 20232 yr Hmmm, I don't mind Free Yourself and I did vote for it but I did find it quite underwhelming, definitely amongst the quickest I've ever got bored of a Jessie single. It's quite difficult to mark songs you've listened to loads vs ones which you give a couple of listens to, but both Head on Fire and Frankenstein were both pretty high in my end of year list so couldn't give top points to anything else. Had no real idea what to expect from Confidence Man - it was just about my favourite album of the year so wanted to send something from it and I do love Toy Boy, just wanted something that'd definitely be accepted in this forum. The Four Tet remix of Easy Lover was the most I've enjoyed anything Ellie related in years, hadn't heard the original and was suitable underwhelmed by it. Edited January 18, 20232 yr by RabbitFurCoat
January 18, 20232 yr Author Thank you all for participating and voting. I'm thinking of making this an annual thing. I just wanted to celebrate the pop of the year and not have much restrictions. Like, I get why things like that are vetoed in other forum contests and things, but when it's a celebration of the year in music, I wanted as few restrictions as possible. Loved it!
January 18, 20232 yr Congrats Klaus! I didn't even know you entered, but a great song to do it with *. This wasn't quite as good as her other recent releases, but does feel like a real anthem. Delighted to be top 10 in amongst all those huge Buzzjack favourites, those who liked this, I really would recommend their album as hearing it in context really made it as special as it was <3 Thanks for hosting, Jonjo, this would be really cool as an annual thing (not the least as it will catch me up with music :kink:)
January 18, 20232 yr Excellent job hosting Tafty! Congratulations Klaus. I’ll need to give this song more time clearly. :)
January 18, 20232 yr Thank you all for participating and voting. I'm thinking of making this an annual thing. I just wanted to celebrate the pop of the year and not have much restrictions. Like, I get why things like that are vetoed in other forum contests and things, but when it's a celebration of the year in music, I wanted as few restrictions as possible. Loved it! Here for you doing this every year!
January 18, 20232 yr Would be down for this being an annual thing - maybe next time I'll sell out and send something more obvious now I've done my bit with a more inspired choice this time :basil:
January 18, 20232 yr Thank you all for participating and voting. I'm thinking of making this an annual thing. I just wanted to celebrate the pop of the year and not have much restrictions. Like, I get why things like that are vetoed in other forum contests and things, but when it's a celebration of the year in music, I wanted as few restrictions as possible. Loved it! Here for you doing this every year! Would be down for this being an annual thing - maybe next time I'll sell out and send something more obvious now I've done my bit with a more inspired choice this time :basil: Me too!
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