Fred Again.. my clear favourite. MK, Zara and j-hope all decent enough too so voted them also.

Due to my poor time management as per I'm gonna leave this & the monthly round open for another day again so time for any more late votes (including my own oop) but will defo get the new thread + results up tomorrow, probably after the #1 albums session x

1 'Right Hand' - I knew I'd probably be alone in ranking this 1st but oof at it being in dead last in the poll </3 ah well, I was excited for this collab and it mostly delivered for me, Unknown T's flow always sounds great and he fits well over the production which sounds more like a Knucks song than an Unknown T one. Which makes up a bit for the fact Knucks is barely on the song, but his short verse is still pretty good. The chorus is repeated a little too much but still really liked this overall 8.5/10

2 'Mike (desert island duvet)' - lovely to have The Streets back in the charts! Not necessarily his most standout performance ever but still some cool sounding turns of phrase in there and he was an inspired pick to add to the original of this song, he fits this production style really well (a bit 'Blinded By The Lights' esque) and definitely makes the song sound a bit more complete, the original is a bit empty in comparison. The Dermot hook sounds nice as well 8/10

3 'Die 4 Me' - good to see this song finally charting in some form although not as good as the original, the best parts of this are just the parts that were in the original anyway, that one verse from her feels like it hits a bit less hard without the contrast to Posty and Future (although I do like how she changed the lyric from '15 million copies' to '40 million'), still a strong song at the core though 7.5/10

4 'on the street' - hook is a bit weak but I like the instrumental, Cole puts in a great verse and j-hope's verse sounds fine too although he had more fiery delivery on a couple of the songs off his last album so I had higher hopes for this, decent though 6.5/10

5 'Trance' - not sure why this has become one of the most popular songs from this album really, I don't find it particularly memorable. Travis and Thug both kind of in autopilot mode here which is fine but not remarkable and even the production isn't as mindblowing as a lot of the rest of the album (I do like the strings near the end though) 6/10

6 'Private Landing' - good production, quite a sticky hook from Don, his verse is ok, Future's verse is good. What drags this down is Bieber spouting some absolute nonsense and completely wasting space. Much like 'Honest' so I guess this is just what he's like when collaborating with Don 6/10

7 'Rhyme Dust' - fine as background dance music but pretty forgettable, not really seeing the hype around this one 6/10

8 'Can't Tame Her' - about the most generic and derivative take on this sound that we've had in the chart to date but I guess I'll take a generic derivative version of this over the likes of Becky Hill et al. This did grow on me a bit but I think it's growing off me again now oops 5.5/10

9 'Red Ruby Da Sleeze' - has a bit of an awkward flow, just sounds like a mid Nicki rap song and a decent Nicki dancehall song stitched together with some kind of cringe lyrics and a pointless Lumidee sample to tie it together, not really feeling it but at least better than 'Super Freaky Girl' 5/10

10 'Freezing' - not as bad as her earlier hits but a step down back into firmly mid territory after the last couple being surprisingly decent, there are a few grating vocal moments on this (those extended 'e' sounds, no x) and the chorus feels like it has no payoff, otherwise just sounds basically the same as 'House On Fire' with slightly better lyrics 4/10

11 'Last Night' - it's far from his worst, the chorus really is irritatingly catchy and some of the instrumentation is actually quite nice. Shame it's a Morgan Wallen song so it has unbearable vocals by default. Country Adam Levine it is x 3/10

 

Voted for the top 3, a mostly ok week but not much that stands out massively.

1 Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her (#59)

2 j-hope and J. Cole - on the street (#37)

3 Metro Boomin, Travis Scott and Young Thug - Trance (#96)

4 Fred again.., The Streets and Dermot Kennedy - Mike (desert island duvet) (#78)

5 Unknown T and Knucks - Right Hand (#70)

6 MK and Dom Dolla - Rhyme Dust (#63)

7 Nicki Minaj - Red Ruby Da Sleeze (#30)

8 Don Toliver - Private Landing (feat. Justin Bieber and Future) (#74)

9 Halsey - Die 4 Me (#85)

10 Mimi Webb - Freezing (#73)

11 Morgan Wallen - Last Night (#92)