Oh I forgot this was happening tonight... Congrats to the winner and other medalists! And thanks for the votes for Dusty. She deserved a lot more points than she got, to be honest, oh well.... B-)

Right sorry for the hold up, here's the verified final scoreboard!

 

1 383 Kathaldazia // Snow Strippers - Under Your Spell

2 282 Hendinia // Dani Sylvia - She Swam Higher

3 265 St. Burbia // Samira - Like This, Like That

4 258 Fljótavík // George Clanton - I Been Young

5 257 Terra Avium // Mono - Life In Mono

6 256 FARC // Zoe Wees - Don't Give Up

7 232 Singerpurear // Jungle - Candle Flame (feat. Erick The Architect) (28 votes)

8 232 Bøtanikkä // Alena - Turn It Around (Space Brothers Rethink) (27 votes)

9 232 Tartford // Bimini - Rodeo (25 votes)

10 225 Rolloland // Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In

11 217 FSR Rontvia // Powerwolf - Sainted By The Storm

12 210 Aeroche // Interplanetary Criminal and Porij - Don't Hurt Me

13 209 Altyr Muunilinst // The Aces - Always Get This Way

14 203 Wholune // The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

15 199 N-Lazone // Cannons - Loving You

16 198 Lotunia // Filip Baloš - Novi Plan Drugi San

17 197 Thelonia // Sophie And The Giants - DNA (feat. MEARSY)

18 195 République d'Áskorza // Sasha Lopez and Ester Peony - Tatoué (26 votes)

19 195 Dobago // B-complex - Early Bird (20 votes)

20 188 Ojnoj // Chappell Roan - Naked In Manhattan

21 182 Cor Lupus // Charley - Worst Taste In Girls

22 171 Persephonia // Baseck - TIME TO PARTY

23 170 Eastovka // Ayra Starr - Sability (21 votes)

24 170 Sovarasma // MANON - gabber gabber hey!! (20 votes)

25 169 Summericia // Golin - Rowdy

26 164 Cadelicia // Tobtok - Dreamer (feat. Betty Bloom) (22 votes)

27 164 Pupok // Madelline - dopamine (French Version) (19 votes)

28 163 Cumulonimbia // Vanbot - I Will Never Not Have Had You

29 161 Kluminican Republic // Surusinghe - Likshot

30 158 Aesthetica // Frost Children - FLATLINE

31 153 Ingermanlandia // FILLY - Spinning

32 152 Bronzil // Sølv - Past Life

33 151 The Spodic Empire // Voice Of The Beehive - I Say Nothing

34 150 Quintessa // LEXXE - Afterlife (24 votes)

35 150 Aelandor // Owl City - Vitamin Sea (20 votes)

36 137 D'yermak'er // Miya Folick - So Clear

37 135 Lookylion // Dusty Springfield - That's The Kind Of Love I've Got For You (A Tom Moulton Mix)

38 131 Utopia // Slow Crush - Hush

39 125 POPHub // Vetta Borne - if u see kate

40 112 Jadakissnia // TÉTRICA - Brujería

41 111 East Rukahavian // Depeche Mode - Puppets

383 points! Love that!

Congrats Kath! :heart:

 

man those last 6 votes SAVED MY ASS *.* Only just about a hit, but after the entirety of the results it could have been a LOT WORSE :lol: thanks to everyone who voted!

My first ever bottom 5/3 result in a final...

 

 

...but not quite a wooden spoon, so still time to achieve that :magic: wtf though when did Depeche Mode get right down there :'(

 

CONGRATS KATH!!!! :cheer: your legendary first hosting job was before my time so looking forward to round 2 if you're up for it of course. From the top 10 I voted for that, Fljótavík, Terra Avium, Bøtanikkä + Rolloland, very pleased with those results, especially George Clanton as he even got DNQ predictions early on!

 

Here's hoping to up my Q streak to a round 10 next month and finish a little better than 40th :kink: better get looking soon.

 

Thanks Jamesy for the very fun hosting job!

Puppets should not have been last x

Oh wow, what a great top five! Amazing that Fljótavík is 4th after it had a few DNQ predictions! I didn't understand that at all as it's so good. Amazing victory for Kath, over 100 points clear, and here I was thinking it would be a close month - although it did feel like the most likely winner to me. Nice smash for Hendinia there too, and Terra top five with a beauty <3

 

Great to see all of Singerpurear, Rolloland and Tartford top 10, even though I didn't vote for the former, it was very different and I appreciated it in the mix. The Bimini song definitely sounded like a top ten when I first heard it, so I'm glad that happened.

 

11th! Wow, well even though it had a load of top ten predictions today, before I saw those I thought I'd be lucky to get top 25 but there are obviously more metal fans here than I anticipated. And very happy to get six top 20s in a row. Intrigued to see the current YTD standings!

 

Cumulonimbia seems to be the big shock down there in 28th, seems there's always a pop song like that now that is vastly overpredicted. To me it felt a little too much like 'classic early 2010s BJSC' to contend, but I didn't expect to see it that far down, shame.

 

Owl City bottom ten :( Jade's deserved far better too!

 

Thanks so much for hosting James, I really enjoyed the theme and presentation! And Bré for the scoreboards of course! So looking forward for the return to Kathaldazia, far too overdue.

Jeez, 100 point lead! Many congrats Kath, been long, long overdue since your comeback. I do wish it could've been last month's entry getting this treatment, but I gave this one points too so can't really complain!

 

Oops I slipped back just a tad in the end, but that's all good as that's the first time I've finished 5th *.* Thank you all very much, I didn't expect this to do so well at all even though I did know a few liked it. It seemed a little more well-known than expected, but I hope a few of you made a good discovery out of it (and I learned Emma Bunton covered it this contest...!!).

 

Pleased to see Hendinia still put in a very good performance as that was the biggest grower of the contest for me, I loved the storytelling in the lyrics. Fljotavik, Rolloland and Botanikka in the top 10 too is wonderful to see.

 

Only thing not so great is seeing both of my top 2 in the 30s :'( I guess seeing them here at all is good though. The bottom 2 are both very undeserved as well.

 

Thanks for hosting, Yobnedor, really enjoyed all the cute animals and education on the game (:ph34r:), need to get looking for a song for next contest as I don't really have much oops x

>all scoreboards here <

 

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Congrats Kath for fiiiiinally getting a second winner :wub: definitely immediately up there with your best ever entries for me (if not the best?) and was a pretty easy 18 for me! Just realised this is the 4th time in a row that my 18 has finished in the top 2 overall :cheeseblock: (Levellers and Billx coming 2nd, Nyteout and Snow Strippers winning). This win is way overdue with how many top 10s you've had since your comeback, many of which were more than worthy of the win, but doing it with style when it eventually happened with that absolute landslide :cheeseblock: hope you have your Nokia ready if you will be up for hosting again ~

 

I did see the spoilers for the semi-finals when helping to set up the results and from that I was about 90% sure we were coming for a Hendinia landslide - as you can see above they absolutely dominated semi 2 and there were a lot of pop countries in semi 1! Meanwhile Kathaldazia only came 4th in semi 1 :o but just goes to show you can never trust the semi results even when they appear this clear cut. Still, glad to see Dani coming 2nd as it is a great pop song, though a small part of me is kind of glad it didn't win purely because it was a little cheeky of Rob to snoop in with it after me posting in the mod forum that I expect someone to send it after its recent PJSC win ddd. On that note, anyone who tries to confirm Moyka again next month, you are going straight to the gulag.

 

FLJ and Terra Avium were very close for my 1 pointer and turns out that they would have finished the other way round if I'd ranked them the other way round myself :drama: but nice to see them both in the top 5, I'm not surprised at FLJ doing so well but Terra Avium's really doesn't sound like such a big hit to me! Excellent to see Singerpurear, Bøtanikkä and Rolloland all in the top 10 as well :heart: though justice for The Comet Is Coming, I am very curious about the gulf between that DNQing last month and Melt Yourself Down being top 10 this time when they seem to me like they should have near identical appeal!

 

Decent result for Aeroche (deserved top 10 but it outperformed its semi-final result which I thought was shockingly low!) + Dobago in the top 20 is also nice. A few too many of my votes in the lower half for my liking though, Aesthetica, Bronzil, Utopia and Jadakissnia in particular all deserved a lot better :'( argh at the latter almost being last - shielded from the wooden spoon by East Rukahavian who qualified on a tiebreak and because of Republic of Adonia's deduction gah. (Glad that they had that stroke of luck for their anniversary entry, even though I didn't vote for it it would have been a shame for it to not make the final at all). Meanwhile it was Utopia who won that cruel 3 way tiebreak with TARO Bellamia and Ultraviolenceland - that was my 15 so I'm not gonna complain but still hurts a bit to have lost one of TARO Bellamia's best entries on that margin.

 

Me going 39-35-27-22 so far this year, gradually increasing but still 4 straight entries qualifying and finishing bottom half - I'm glad this has ended up as my biggest hit of the year to date (that's what I was going for!) but I did kind of hope it might be by a bigger margin, 6 more attempts to keep up my streak of getting at least one top 10 per year :magic: Got a pretty good number of voters anyway, thanks all once again :3

 

And thanks Yobnedor for hosting, apols you didn't have the fun of having your own song in the final :ph34r:

A gold medal swap with Utopia in semi 1 :wub: I was so close to losing both my 12 and 10 in the semi oops, glad that didn't quite happen.

I think this final has been the strongest one since Yobnedorica debuted to be honest so I know I would have had the wooden spoon even if I had have scraped through the semis!

 

I don’t put commiserations in my votes but there were definitely a few countries who only just missed out for me. Often times, I struggle to get 15 favourites :kink:

 

I voted for six of the top ten which is unusual for me! I don’t usually like the favourites! <_<

There was me thinking the past week that I must have scrapped through the semi, and I was 3rd...oops

 

 

So so so close to that elusive 19th place.

Thanks to everyone who voted for Rolloland. That's our 7th top 10 placing and best finishing position since 2021.

 

Congratulations to Kathaldazia and thanks to Yobnedorica for a fabulous hosting job.

Well I'll take 25th considering I was lucky to get through looking at those semi results.

 

Great to see some really strong songs finish inside the top 10. Hendinia was my 10 in the semi but the strength of the final pushed it down a bit but I still really loved it and great to see them top 3 as well as St Burbia which was a bop.

 

I echo the Depeche Mode deserve better than last comments even if it wasn't better than 'Never Let Me Down' personally.

 

Sovarasma and Summericia next to each other *.*

I'll take finishing 24th! Glad to see me do better with more polarising sounds. I wasn't particularly sure how well it would be received but gabber gabber hey!! is such a rare catchy banger, and given my poor track record with arguably "safer" pop songs, I opted for this rather than HYRA's song (posted on my national thread)... I was pretty sure I'd flop again with something a bit too "appeasing". Thanks for 6 medal votes!

 

Great to see Kath finally winning after so long! I wasn't particularly fond of the top 5 though St. Burbia was a great discovery. This final was not really up there for me, compared to the previous editions, and there was a terribly high number of entries robbed in the semis. I'd love to see Lotunia and RdA higher, and certainly both Eastovka and Pupok were robbed. :(

 

I'm doubting my next entry a lot of times but I think I'll give this one a go. I'm pretty sure I'll DNQ with this one because it's a ballad in a foreign language, but I really love this as it's one of the best from that region and the composition and instrumentation are amazing. If I were to finish dead last with this, then so be it! ^_^

 

Thanks James for hosting! I enjoyed the Animal Crossing theme and I couldn't wait to see a Kath-hosted contest!

Well that's a very clear winner, could have made it in my votes on another run through, so very well done Kath!

 

i wrote two versions of my vote, I was on a bit of a gnarly 'comedic' (let's just say allegedly satirical) writing tone, so in my appreciation of your hosting Yobnedor (which was very well done!) I must also include thanking you for dealing with my whims.

 

anyway here's the other version for completeness, intended if we got a jury vote. But I see, BJSC has chosen that #SEYETANADECIDES revolution. paging Beaverdonia to start our proletariat internationalism.

 

no one sees jury votes so it's a completely safe space here for me to rant about how unfair it is my voice is getting shut out. look, screw your 'exciting voting system', 'it's easier for the host' and 'juries decide the winner', I don't get a post where my votes are presented at the point where I am briefly the most important nation on the page and why do I even read these threads if not for that?!

 

you all agree, yes? excellent

 

it's voter suppression! let our voices be heard! well, perhaps not in the actual sense but in the feelings sense.

 

but also

 

#SEYETANADECIDES to gift a victory to for agreeing with my whims. Long live democracy!

 

you know, it would be funny if these votes are one in a long line of quoted posts that everyone skims past very quickly yes I see you doing that right now, yes you. Stop and admire my taste damnit x

 

most of my high votes managed to make it into the top 10, yay, and Powerwolf just outside, I do love it when a really great metal track knocks it out of the park here for what you might expect.

 

 

Congratulations Kath for the long-awaited BJSC win! :cheer:

 

Happy for my another near-Top 20 this time. Thanks to all voters: Addy (2nd +18 after Orihime yay), Conor, Cody, Dan, Dobbo, Klaus, Harry, Freeze, Ingermanlandia, Nocheluna, LexC, Pete, Brer, POPHub, Leonardo, Silas, Harve, uhsting, Botchia & Joseph (unexpected medal voters ^_^), and Wardy!

 

Thanks for the great hosting, Yobnedorica! It's definitely a tough year to vote the Hardest Working Song Contest Host. :D

Congratulations Kath,

 

Many thanks to everyone who voted for Depeche Mode, we collect the golden wooden spoon for our anniversary entry,

 

 

Golden wooden spoon :cheeseblock: a treasure tbh

 

(111 is quite a high score for last place tbh, so a bit unlucky there really)

that Snow Strippers song goes HARD, no denying this was Kathaldazia's time to win - the last few winners have been really good, kinda freaking me out tbh....

 

would never have expected George Clanton to go down that well with the BJSC masses, what a result :o same for Melt Yourself Down, another of our former artists getting a shot at glory