Thanks to the 38 people who participated in last week's poll :jump:

 

Official results from week 18:

 

[ 19 ] The National - The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift) (#90)

[ 16 ] Niall Horan - Meltdown (#62)

[ 7 ] Nines - Calendar (#19)

[ 7 ] Jack Harlow - They Don't Love It (#76)

[ 6 ] Nines - Favela (feat. J Styles) (#34)

[ 2 ] Clavish - Day Date (#73)

 

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2023 week 18 and auto-qualifying for the May monthly round is The National - The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift).

 

 

As expected it's a fairly clear top 2 here for the two non-rap songs which are the only songs to get to double figure votes. American indie rock band The National take the win with 'The Alcott', an album track from their 9th studio album 'First Two Pages Of Frankenstein', which nonetheless outperformed all but one of the singles in their over 20 year long career, providing them only their second top 100 hit following the 2005 #83 hit 'Abel' (though they have had more success in the albums chart with their new release being their 5th top 10 including a #1 in 2017). The success of this track may have just a smidge to do with the featured artist, fellow American and slightly hotter topic Taylor Swift, who repays the favour after The National (and particularly member Aaron Dessner)'s contributions to her 'folklore' and 'evermore' albums. It's Taylor's second poll win in quick succession after 'Karma' two weeks earlier, although it's her first monthly round auto-qualifier due to 'Karma' missing out on a tiebreak with it being a joint poll winner. The song picks up votes from 19 people, exactly half of the voters, and finishes 3 votes ahead of Niall Horan, who also finished second in the poll with his previous single.

 

The also-rans mostly perform relatively ok (I am surprised that 'Calendar' got more votes than 'Favela' from the Nines tracks but hey x), 3 of the 4 getting to either 6 or 7 votes. Poor brave Clavish though continues to be the black sheep of this poll as he once again finishes last and with only 2 votes this time.

 

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

04 // 02/02/23 // Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

05 // 09/02/23 // P!nk - TRUSTFALL

06 // 16/02/23 // RAYE - Ice Cream Man.

07 // 23/02/23 // Linkin Park - Lost

08 // 02/03/23 // Lana Del Rey - A&W

09 // 09/03/23 // Gorillaz - Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)

10 // 16/03/23 // Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her

11 // 23/03/23 // Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle

12 // 30/03/23 // Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC

13 // 06/04/23 // Lana Del Rey - Paris, Texas (feat. SYML)

14 // 13/04/23 // Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH

15 // 20/04/23 // David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me

16 // 27/04/23 // Post Malone - Chemical / Taylor Swift - Karma

17 // 04/05/23 // The Weeknd - Double Fantasy (feat. Future) / Florence + The Machine - Mermaids

18 // 11/05/23 // The National - The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)

 

Qualified for the yearly round:

January // Bizarrap and Shakira - Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 / Miley Cyrus - Flowers / Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly

February // Freya Ridings - Weekends / Lana Del Rey - A&W / P!nk - TRUSTFALL

March // Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle / Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC / Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her

 

Qualified for the playoff for the yearly round:

January // Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

February // Linkin Park - Lost

March // Miley Cyrus - River

 

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A slightly longer and more diverse list of entries to pick from this week (albeit still a bit short on obvious BuzzJack favourites - Harry Styles for the win? wouldn't be mad, it is one of the best songs on his album), back up to 11 songs totalling 32 minutes and 10 seconds. The Victony track is a remix (the original was just Victony and Tempoe) but I've only included the Don Toliver/Rema version on the playlist as that seems to be the main driver of its chart success and has been credited by the OCC, as ever if anyone particularly strongly cares for the original over the remix feel free to vote based on that.

 

 

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!

 

You have until Sunday evening :jump: The April monthly round will also remain open until then if anyone is yet to vote in that, with the results dropping alongside those for this week's poll.

Went for the top 3 The Kunts, Bring and The Horizon and Ed Sheeran!

Strong week, voted for all of them except Harry Styles, Toosii & Luude.

01. Harry Styles - Satellite (#79)

02. The Krown Jewelz - Scrap The Monarchy (#9)

03. Ed Sheeran - Curtains (#16)

04. Tion Wayne - Healing (#35)

05. Victony, Don Toliver, Rema and Tempoe - Soweto (#67)

06. Bring Me The Horizon - LosT (#29)

07. Tom Grennan - How Does It Feel (#95)

08. Tunde - Back 2 Back (feat. Potter Payper) (#51)

09. Luude and Bru-C - TMO (Turn Me On) (feat. Kevin Lyttle) (#88)

10. Toosii - Favorite Song (#87)

11. Lil Mabu - MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT (#63)

 

Just voted for Harry Styles this week

BMTH & The Kunts x

Went for:

 

Ed (the best I’ve heard from this campaign)

BMTH

Harry

Luude

Just voted for Ed this week

1. Victony, Don Toliver, Rema and Tempoe - Soweto

2. Tunde - Back 2 Back (feat. Potter Payper)

3. Toosii - Favorite Song

4. The Krown Jewelz - Scrap The Monarchy

5. Tom Grennan - How Does It Feel

6. Ed Sheeran - Curtains

7. Tion Wayne - Healing

8. Harry Styles - Satellite

9. Lil Mabu - MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT

10. Luude and Bru-C - TMO (Turn Me On) (feat. Kevin Lyttle)

11. Bring Me The Horizon - LosT

 

Nothing to massively shout about this but there's a few alright songs.

 

'Soweto' is one of the more interesting afrobeats tracks to chart recently and 'Back 2 Back' is better than I was expecting. Tunde is a better Manchester MC than Aitch. 'Favorite Part' had some annoying elements but also some decent ones.

 

On a purely musical level, 'Scrap The Monarch' is their best sounding song (at least, since 'Use My A******* as a C***') and 'How Does It Feel was a massive shock. The first thing Tom has released that isn''t a complete snoozefest since 'Found What I've Been Looking For'. 'Curtains' is Ed Sheeran's best for quite a while too!

 

'Healing' and 'Satellite' are both incredibly forgettable and while it's interesting for an American rapper to make a 'Russ & Tion Wayne' reference, 'MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT' is pretty rubbish.

 

We really didn't need Luude recruiting Bru-C to try and ruin Kevin Lyttle's classic and Bring Me The Horizon might be my least favourite artist that has gained multiple top 40 hits over the past few years; their music is just not for me at all.

 

I'm feeling generous so I voted for my top 4.

Definitely feels like a man’s world this week.

 

I went for Tom, Harry, BMTH and Ed. Suspect Victony will be a grower though.

 

Krown Jewelz (good)

Luude (quite good)

Tion Wayne (decent)

Bring Me The Horizon (decent)

Victony (okay)

Ed Sheeran (okay)

Harry Styles (okay)

Tunde (okay)

Tom Grennan (meh)

Lil Mabu (crap)

Toosii (crap and boring)

Went for ‘LosT’, ‘Satellites’ and ‘TMO’

Bumping this as it fell to page 2, a couple of days left to vote. The next poll is going to be pretty loaded, looking forward to seeing how dominated its results will be by the Eurovision songs.

The Krown Jewelz, Bring Me The Horizon and Lil Mabu for me this time.

I have some other stuff to do tonight oop so going to leave this open one more day :jump:

 

Harry Styles - Satellite (#79)

Bring Me The Horizon - LosT (#29)

Victony, Don Toliver, Rema and Tempoe - Soweto (#67)

 

Tion Wayne - Healing (#35)

Tunde - Back 2 Back (feat. Potter Payper) (#51)

Tom Grennan - How Does It Feel (#95)

Toosii - Favorite Song (#87)

Luude and Bru-C - TMO (Turn Me On) (feat. Kevin Lyttle) (#88)

Ed Sheeran - Curtains (#16)

Lil Mabu - MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT (#63)

The Krown Jewelz - Scrap The Monarchy (#9)