Thanks to the 47 people who participated in last week's poll :jump:

 

Official results from week 3:

 

[ 37 ] Miley Cyrus - Flowers (#1)

[ 23 ] Bizarrap and Shakira - Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 (#31)

[ 15 ] Mimi Webb - Red Flags (#23)

[ 12 ] Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings (#82)

[ 9 ] Sabrina Carpenter - Nonsense (#69)

[ 4 ] Fredo - Dave Flow (#30)

[ 3 ] Sam Smith - Gimme (feat. Koffee and Jessie Reyez) (#60)

[ 2 ] TAEYANG - VIBE (feat. Jimin) (#96)

[ 0 ] Clavish - No Difference (#57)

 

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2023 week 3 and auto-qualifying for the January monthly round is Miley Cyrus - Flowers.

 

 

No surprises here as the big comeback from Hannah Montana herself, American superstar Miley Cyrus, waltzes to victory with all but 10 voters giving their stamp of approval to her disco-infused self love anthem / subtle Liam Hemsworth diss which also debuted atop the UK chart with ease, becoming her third #1 and first since 'Wrecking Ball' in 2013.

 

A much less subtle diss track from Bizarrap and Shakira, a surprise UK top 40 hit, finishes in a distant but still respectable second place also attracting votes from just shy of half of participants. Double figure votes are also won by the latest track from the marmite Mimi Webb (though I've not seen as much hate for this one as her usual output, not that it deserves it) and the rising viral hit from folk singer Lizzy McAlpine, while Sabrina Carpenter's Ariana-alike track rounds out the top 5. Among this week's also-rans we have our first song in this poll series to attract zero voters as poor brave Clavish couldn't even win over the 3 people who voted for his entry from the previous week (including me). He has yet another song this week so we'll see if that's any redemption...

 

Weekly winners to date:

01 // 12/01/23 // Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly

02 // 19/01/23 // Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan - Rumble

03 // 26/01/23 // Miley Cyrus - Flowers

 

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10 songs this week - the joint most of the year so far and the longest runtime so far, clocking in at 37 minutes 41 seconds courtesy of some longer than average (by chart hit standards) tracks from the likes of Fall Out Boy, Clavish & friends and, er, DOMINIC BYRNE (his capitals not mine) from the Chris Moyles show. His song has a whopping 22,941 streams on Spotify to date so if anyone listens through this playlist this week you're making a real difference!

 

 

Vote for as many or as few songs as you want and would be ideal if you can make sure you've heard all the songs before voting if possible!

 

Voting open until next Saturday evening when a new poll will go up (along with the January monthly round) :jump:

Looking at what's on offer this week I feel like right now would be a good time to say that if you don't like any of the songs but still want to have your voice heard, please click the 'view results (null vote)' option rather than just not voting! There's a (small) chance that could still end up affecting what songs qualify for the monthly round.

 

Not expecting massive turnout this week unless a number of people utilise the above option :kink:

 

The first three weeks' polls were all won by the highest new entry of the week - I have a feeling that streak is about to be broken (and quite possibly we could have the lowest new entry of the week winning instead).

Luude

I've heard them all so I'll give them a ranking.

 

1. Ayra Starr - Rush

2. Krept & Konan - Dat Way (feat. Abra Cadabra)

3. Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

4. D-Block Europe - Tears In My Amiri's

5. Headie One - Martin's Sofa

6. DOMINIC BYRNE - Holy Water (feat. Abigail DB)

7. Cat Burns - people pleaser

8. Clavish - 4 Of Us (feat. Youngs Teflon, Rimzee and Tiny Boost)

9. Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby)

10. Ed Sheeran - F64

 

Love the Ayra Starr track so much. Easily my favourite of the Nigerian songs that have entered the chart over the past couple of years. It's inspired me enough to go and check her album out. The Krept & Konan track is a pretty decent comeback too.

 

I only voted for the top 2 but the rest of are mostly ok. The Clavish, Luude & Ed Sheeran tracks are all a bit rubbish but everything from Fall Out Boy to Cat Burns is fine. The track by Chris Moyles' mate was not as awful as I was expecting.

Cat Burns

Cat Burns and Luude.

Cat Burns, but even that is like a 7/10. Luude probably 2nd but not worthy of a vote.

Voted for Love From The Other Side and Oh My

I'm pleasantly shook to see Fall Out Boy currently (jointly) leading this :o

Edited January 30, 20232 yr by Mangø

Luude is my favourite, but I also voted for Headie One, Fall Out Boy and Dominic Byrne (surprisingly decent).

Not the best of weeks… Voted for Fall Out Boy and Cat Burns. Luude, Ed, Dominic and Arya were Ok. Wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to any of them though.

Edited January 31, 20232 yr by GTH

Cat Burns - people pleaser (#78)

Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby) (#99)

Headie One - Martin's Sofa (#9)

Ayra Starr - Rush (#92)

Krept & Konan - Dat Way (feat. Abra Cadabra) (#80)

DOMINIC BYRNE - Holy Water (feat. Abigail DB) (#97)

Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side (#68)

Clavish - 4 Of Us (feat. Youngs Teflon, Rimzee and Tiny Boost) (#89)

Ed Sheeran - F64 (#50)

D-Block Europe - Tears In My Amiri's (#58)

 

Not the best of weeks oops, but still the top 3 get my votes again ~

I won't be voting in this myself until ~probably tomorrow so I can't see the results yet but I am seeing a disturbingly high number of votes for Cat Burns

1. Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby) (#99) [9/10]
2. Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side (#68) [7/10]
3. Headie One - Martin's Sofa (#9) [6/10]
4. Cat Burns - people pleaser (#78) [6/10]
5. DOMINIC BYRNE - Holy Water (feat. Abigail DB) (#97) [5/10]
6. Krept & Konan - Dat Way (feat. Abra Cadabra) (#80) [5/10]
7. Ayra Starr - Rush (#92) [5/10]
8. Ed Sheeran - F64 (#50) [4/10]
9. Clavish - 4 Of Us (feat. Youngs Teflon, Rimzee and Tiny Boost) (#89) [4/10]
10. D-Block Europe - Tears In My Amiri's (#58) [3/10]

I've given votes to Luude and Fall Out Boy (their song was surprisingly good!)

 

Voted these:

Martin's Sofa - for the production more than anything, dats some good drill

F64 - weird hearing such an expletive track from Ed, penny for that pre-x taxi guy's thoughts now?

Love From The Other Side

Rush - love this one!

Oh My

For once I'm doing this before a Saturday afternoon rush x

 

I've voted for the top 3 as those are the only ones I really 'enjoyed'. And even at that, the Luude track is the only one I like enough to listen to through choice - the Fall Out Boy song was better than anything I'd expect from them in 2023 tbf, and Martin's Sofa was pretty good too.

 

1. Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby)

2. Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

3. Headie One - Martin's Sofa

4. Ayra Starr - Rush

5. Krept & Konan - Dat Way (feat. Abra Cadabra)

6. Clavish - 4 Of Us (feat. Youngs Teflon, Rimzee and Tiny Boost)

7. DOMINIC BYRNE - Holy Water (feat. Abigail DB)

8. Cat Burns - people pleaser

9. Ed Sheeran - F64

10. D-Block Europe - Tears In My Amiri's

1 'Love From The Other Side' - I did like 'My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)' but they mostly lost me with their other post-comeback releases, this however is a banger, proper return to form and their best song since their original run. That may or may not be because it sounds like a retread of their original sound which is very nostalgic for me but it's a well executed one so I'm not going to complain. The video is fun as well 9/10

2 'Martin's Sofa' - I'm not really sure why this is so much bigger than all of Headie's other recent releases, you pretty much know what you're getting with a Headie One drill song and this is nothing new from him. I guess the power of months of anticipation (and tbf I see people commenting on it being a pretty inspiring story lyrically which I can see). Again though that's not really a complaint because 'typical Headie One song' is really good for me, he's the most consistent artist in drill and this is another good addition to his discog, not tired of his flow yet 8.5/10

3 'Oh My' - it's obviously not as good as 'Porcelain' but I'm pleasantly surprised that this wasn't totally sacrilege and in fact is actually pretty good imo, pretty tasteful use of the sample and flips it enough that it doesn't just feel completely pointless like a lot of dance remakes. Definitely the most instant Luude song to date for me and probably also his best 7.5/10

4 'F64' - #edsheerandefenceforce hat comes out for this, idk if it's necessarily something I'd want to rush to relisten to but it's a really heartfelt tribute and although Ed is not exactly the best rapper you can tell he put his heart into this, the second verse gets pretty intense. Liking the interpolation of the melody of JAE5/Dave/BNXN 'Propeller' in the hook and ending it with singing the SBTV jingle was a nice touch 7.5/10

5 '4 Of Us' - this starts out on a really strong note as I like Youngs Teflon's verse a lot but then it goes downhill after that, Rimzee's verse is ok but a bit of an awkward flow at points, Tiny Boost I've not heard before this and I'm not rushing to hear anything else from him now as I'm not really a fan of his voice, then Clavish finally comes in on his own song and delivers... a Clavish verse. I do like the instrumental so I think if this was just a Youngs Teflon song I'd be quite a fan of it but as it is 6.5/10

6 'Rush' - nice to see another female fronted afrobeats song breaking through but this one isn't nearly as compelling as 'People' for me, decent but not particularly memorable 6/10

7 'Dat Way' - not really convinced that Krept & Konan suit drill instrumentals very well, although Krept does have the best of the 3 verses (lol at the line "bro still in the trap tryna get rid of brown like Katie Hopkins") as Abra definitely sounded like he was phoning in his verse a bit with a lot of empty space. His hook starts pretty strong but also kind of runs out of steam and fizzles out. Could have been better but it's alright 5.5/10

8 'Holy Water' - surprisingly competent I guess but this is not something I would ever want to listen to, it's a bit too churchy. I guess it makes sense that Dominic is just the songwriter here and spares us him actually singing it 4/10

9 'Tears In My Amiri's' - typical wallpaper D-Block Europe song, avoids any particularly awful sounding moments so it's not one of their worst but definitely one of their most tedious, maybe they aren't improving after all 3/10

10 'people pleaser' - an even beiger variety of wallpaper (the 'Radio 2 filler' variety which is usually reserved for ageing popstars but Cat proving that hyped new young artists can be just as bland x), I guess it's better than 'go' which is not hard but why are these the two songs that have charted by her? I heard 'ghosting' as well when they were attempting to push that and while I didn't love that either it was miles better than these two at least 2.5/10

 

Voted for the top 4 which is one more than last week.

 

Happy to see that the song that was tied in the lead with Fall Out Boy was Luude rather than Cat Burns :kink: although Fall Out Boy now actually taking the lead by one vote, I am pretty surprised by that as I've not seen much fanfare for it on here but love to see it!

 

:clap: to Clavish managing to get at least 1 vote again this week too lol, everything off the mark this week ~ (and the turnout in this poll has been better than I expected, was kind of anticipating <40 votes but with mine we've just hit that mark already! Of course still several days left for further votes which could very easily swing the winner)

Voted for Fall Out Boy and Dominic Byrne. Pleased to see the former doing very well; the latter not so much oops!

I don't love anything this week tbh but voted for 'Martin's Sofa' as it's been stuck in my head a lot

 

would rank all the songs as follows:

 

01. Headie One - Martin's Sofa

02. Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side (wanted to like this more from the hype I've seen, it's a step in the right direction again for them but I didn't find it massively special)

03. Ayra Starr - Rush

 

04. Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby) (not the massacre I feared but the source material is too perfect for me to get into this properly)

05. Ed Sheeran - F64

06. DOMINIC BYRNE - Holy Water (feat. Abigail DB) (better than I was expecting *_*)

07. Cat Burns - people pleaser (familiarity bias as R2 spam it when I tune in for Scott Mills but still not exciting me enough for an artist with Cat in their name)

08. Clavish - 4 Of Us (feat. Youngs Teflon, Rimzee and Tiny Boost)

09. Krept & Konan - Dat Way (feat. Abra Cadabra)

10. D-Block Europe - Tears In My Amiri's ('Make You Smile' is still the only thing they've recorded that is slightly listenable, clearly not my thing at all)

voted Fall Out Boy (good comeback for them so far) and Ayra Starr (one of the better afrobeat hits lately)

 

hmm I wonder if the shit dance song with the lazy sample will win the poll? :thinking: :thinking:

 

didn't post last week but Lizzy McAlpine was my sole vote in that one, wonderful track <3