All 12 monthly rounds for the year are done and dusted so 36 qualifiers are confirmed for the final vote, it's now time to fill the last 4 slots.

 

As exclusively revealed live on SyncTube to a few of you earlier, here are the results for the December monthly round:

 

12 35 Ryder and Skepta - #skeptacore pt.3

11 43 Sabrina Carpenter - A Nonsense Christmas

10 50 Cher and Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me

9 70 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Girls

8 74 Juice WRLD, Eminem and benny blanco - Lace It

7 75 Jack Harlow and Dave - Stop Giving Me Advice

6 76 Noah Kahan - Everywhere, Everything (w/ Gracie Abrams / solo)

5 77 Donny Hathaway - This Christmas

 

Still in with a chance of making the final for the year is...

 

4 78 Tate McRae - run for the hills

 

 

Which means our last 3 guaranteed spots in the yearly round go to Cher, Fred again../Baby Keem and Taylor Swift :cheer: The top 2 were quite comfortable with Taylor being the only one to reach triple figures from the smaller than usual voter base, 13 points ahead of Fred again.. while Cher managed to have the only Christmas offering to make the cut a further 18 points behind. It was a very close scrap for the 3rd and 4th place slots though, Cher was only 3 points ahead and then 4th to 8th were all separated by only 1 point each - Tate McRae has revenge after missing out on getting the 4th place slot by 1 point in November. The bottom 3 finished a way behind the pack with the default auto-qualifier from Ryder and Skepta unsurprisingly taking the wooden spoon. Interestingly only one song out of the 12 managed to get points from everyone and that was 'leavemealone' despite it not winning overall! Taylor secures a third song in the final (with an opportunity to get a fourth via this playoff round) and Fred again.. gets his second finalist, with Tate McRae also lining up to hope for a second slot in the final too.

 

3 81 Cher - DJ Play A Christmas Song

2 99 Fred again.. and Baby Keem - leavemealone

1 112 Taylor Swift - You're Losing Me

 

 

 

 

Click here for the full voting breakdown of the month if that interests you.

 

So the following 36 songs are confirmed for the grand final:

 

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

April // Florence + The Machine - Mermaids / Post Malone - Chemical / Taylor Swift - Karma

May // Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha / Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam / Loreen - Tattoo

June // Dua Lipa - Dance The Night / Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry and Ella Henderson - 0800 HEAVEN / Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana

July // Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? / Olivia Rodrigo - vampire / Taylor Swift - Enchanted (Taylor's Version)

August // Chase And Status and Bou - Baddadan (feat. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga and Takura) / Fred again.. and Obongjayar - adore u / Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right?

September // Kenya Grace - Strangers / Olivia Rodrigo - get him back! / Tate McRae - greedy

October // Drake - Rich Baby Daddy (feat. Sexyy Red and SZA) / Noah Kahan - Stick Season / Troye Sivan - One Of Your Girls

November // The Beatles - Now And Then / Dua Lipa - Houdini / Olivia Rodrigo - Can't Catch Me Now

December // Cher - DJ Play A Christmas Song / Fred again.. and Baby Keem - leavemealone / Taylor Swift - You're Losing Me

 

Check the next post for the list of songs that have qualified for the playoff round and instructions on how to vote B-)

So here are the songs in the playoff round (which finished in 4th place in their respective monthly rounds):

 

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

Chase And Status and Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

JENNIE - You & Me

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

Linkin Park - Lost

Miley Cyrus - River

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Tate McRae - run for the hills

Taylor Swift - I Can See You

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

 

To vote please post in this thread with exactly four (4) songs from this list that you want to see make the final. The 4 songs that receive the most total votes will progress. In the event of a tie I will refer back to how the songs performed in their original weekly polls (so preference will be given to the songs which had the highest percentage support initially).

 

I would just do this as a poll if BuzzJack had an option to enforce voting for an exact number of options but alas it does not :kink:

 

Here's a Spotify playlist for the playoff songs, clocking in at 38 minutes and 52 seconds:

 

 

I will aim to get the 2023 final up next Sunday night so leaving this open for about a week B-)

 

Miley Cyrus - River

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Tate McRae - run for the hills

Taylor Swift - I Can See You

 

River

All American B*tch

I Can See You

Liquor & Cigarettes

Liquor & Cigarettes

I Can See You

Popular

Love From The Other Side

 

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

Linkin Park - Lost

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

Linkin Park - Lost

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Linkin Park - Lost

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

Chase And Status and Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

JENNIE - You & Me

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

 

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

Chase And Status and Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

JENNIE - You & Me

Linkin Park - Lost

Jonas Brothers - waffle house

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Tate McRae - run for the hills

Taylor Swift - I Can See You

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

Chase And Status and Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

Chase And Status and Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

Linkin Park - Lost

Miley Cyrus - River

 

 

Chase And Status and Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (feat. ArrDee)

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

Taylor Swift - I Can See You

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

JENNIE - You & Me

Linkin Park - Lost

Miley Cyrus - River

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

Miley Cyrus - River

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Miley Cyrus - River

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Miley Cyrus - River

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Linkin Park - Lost

The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna - Popular

Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

JENNIE - You & Me

Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch