Thanks to the 40 people who participated in last week's poll :jump:

 

Official results from week 2:

 

[ 17 ] The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters (#71)

[ 16 ] Lost Frequencies and Bastille - Head Down (#78)

[ 13 ] The Lumineers - Ophelia (#52)

[ 11 ] Liam Gallagher and John Squire - Just Another Rainbow (#16)

[ 11 ] Bring Me The Horizon - Kool-Aid (#21)

[ 7 ] Nathan Evans - Heather On The Hill (#87)

[ 6 ] Lewis Capaldi - Strangers (#37)

[ 4 ] Lewis Capaldi - A Cure For Minds Unwell (#59)

[ 4 ] D-Block Europe - Skims (#72)

[ 3 ] Drake - Practice (#27)

 

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2024 week 2 and auto-qualifying for the January monthly round is The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters.

 

 

For a second week in a row the poll winner is an artist with their first ever chart appearance, this time it's British band The Last Dinner Party with the lead single from their forthcoming debut album 'Prelude To Ecstasy', this song was first released in April of last year but has only finally sprung into chart action after they were crowned the winners of the BBC's Sound of 2024 poll (and the BRITs Rising Star award a bit before that), so far spending a couple of weeks in the high 70s but looking like it may yet climb higher. It was a slightly stronger winner than last week with 43% support but we're still yet to get a song over 50% this year so far. Four other songs got to double figures, with their closest challenger Lost Frequencies and Bastille ending up just 1 vote behind, while an oldie finally charting after virality and an SCR reset from The Lumineers came 3rd a further three votes behind and two votes behind them in joint 4th are the two highest new entries of the week, unusually both rock songs, from Liam Gallagher/John Squire and Bring Me The Horizon. 3 songs fell short of the 5 vote mark with the wooden spoon going to the other old song charting with a reset from Drake picking up 3 votes, just beaten by Lewis Capaldi's lesser (but better imo) new hit of the week and D-Block Europe's latest shite (or I should say second latest since they have another newie in this week's poll). 'None of the above' also got to the 5 vote threshold. I do wonder if we ever had weeks before where as many as 5 people clicked null vote.

 

Weekly winners for 2024:

01 // 11/01/24 // The Cast Of Wonka - You've Never Had Chocolate Like This

02 // 18/01/24 // The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

 

Weekly winners for previous years: 2023

 

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A couple of slightly more obviously BuzzJack friendly options on the poll this week, although also a fair allotment of hip-hop tracks (although 'redrum' seems to be getting a fairly good reception on here by the genre's standards so interested to see how many votes that manages to pick up), and even a very rare reggae entry. Another 10 songs in all this week, totalling 34 minutes and 8 seconds. So far we're yet to have a poll winner this year that I rated 5/10+ :kink: but I'm sure that will be changing this week x

 

 

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!

 

A day late to posting this one but that's fine, shall still aim again to get the next one up on Sunday night so 6 days ish to vote in this x

Ariana Grande - yes, and?

Voted for Ariana, YG Marley and Michael Marcagi

Ari, Ella & Marshmello/Venbee!

Ari, Ella & Marshmello/Venbee!

This for me too.

1. Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start

2. YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight

3. Marshmello and venbee - No Man's Land

4. Ariana Grande - yes, and?

 

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5. 21 Savage and Doja Cat - n.h.i.e.

6. 21 Savage - redrum

7. 21 Savage, Travis Scott and Metro Boomin - née-nah

8. Ella Henderson - Alibi (feat. Rudimental)

9. Lil Nas X - J CHRIST

This for me too.

The taste!

That Alibi thing is :puke2: for me! Went for redrum and No Man’s Land.

Ari, all three 21 Savage songs and Lil Nas X for me this week!

Just voted for the one. Ella.

1. Ariana Grande - yes, and?

2. 21 Savage - redrum

3. 21 Savage and Doja Cat - n.h.i.e.

4. 21 Savage, Travis Scott and Metro Boomin - née-nah

5. Lil Nas X - J CHRIST

6. Marshmello and venbee - No Man's Land

7. YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight

8. D-Block Europe and Noizy - Eagle

9. Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start

10. Ella Henderson - Alibi (feat. Rudimental)

 

 

Voting for my top 4 this week. I think it's obvious what I think of Ariana but I've also had the 21 Savage album on repeat since release. The Doja Cat and Travis Scott verses have grown on my since I initially thought they were awful but I still wouldn't put any of these 3 tracks near my favourites from 'american dream'.

 

I don't think 'J CHRIST' is that bad but it certainly doesn't sound like a big hit. Not surprised that it missed the top 40. I'm surprised that 'No Man's Land' actually sounded ok. venbee sounds much better than she did on 'Messy In Heaven'.

 

'Praise Jah In The Moonlight' doesn't do much for me and NOIZY sounds crap on 'Eagle'. Dirtbike LB's verse sounds surprisngly solid though.

 

We already have Noah Kahan so there's no need fir 'Scarted To Start' and 'Alibi' is awful. Someone needs to keep Ella away from these samples. I just heard another song use the sample sample this month (I think it was Busta Rhymes) and it was much better.

Ariana Grande - yes, and? (#2) - pretty good, appreciate the switch up in sound

21 Savage - redrum (#11) - the best song about the greatest race horse of all time i've ever heard. + bonus pints for using an obscure sample

D-Block Europe and Noizy - Eagle (#19) - well that law of diminishing returns comment i made in last week's thread is over lol. but i didn't expect dbe to engage in balkan politics! this is one of their best tracks

21 Savage, Travis Scott and Metro Boomin - née-nah (#23) - not great, the repeated pussy ad-libs are extremely juvenile

21 Savage and Doja Cat - n.h.i.e. (#27) - nothing interesting about this one

Ella Henderson - Alibi (feat. Rudimental) (#46) - BOLD sample choice which is unusual for rudimental. but this wobbly liquid drum & bass is really tight

Lil Nas X - J CHRIST (#59) - the piano is very anne-marie/aitch - psycho. very much a style over substance song

Marshmello and venbee - No Man's Land (#61) - paperthin production and nothing vocals make this a big marshmello misfire

YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight (#63) - well, a grandson sampling their grandfather isn't something you see every week! not a particularly interesting song though

Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start (#73) - oh great, now we are gonna see an influx of noah kahan wannabes :puke:

 

Ari, 21S, DBE & Ella this week.

Ariana and the 3 21 Savage tracks for me!

also bumping this back to page 1, the rest of today + tomorrow left to vote :jump: (will probably do my own votes tomorrow x)

01. Ariana Grande - yes, and? (#2)

02. 21 Savage - redrum (#11)

03. Lil Nas X - J CHRIST (#59)

04. 21 Savage, Travis Scott and Metro Boomin - née-nah (#23)

05. Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start (#73)

06. YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight (#63)

07. 21 Savage and Doja Cat - n.h.i.e. (#27)

08. Marshmello and venbee - No Man's Land (#61)

09. Ella Henderson - Alibi (feat. Rudimental) (#46)

10. D-Block Europe and Noizy - Eagle (#19)

 

just Ariana for me this week!

 

Oop am a day late again (yesterday evening was busy with BJSC results and whatnot x) but new poll will be up not too long from now along with the 2023 final!

 

My votes for this week:

 

1 'redrum' 9.5/10

2 'yes, and?' 8.5/10

3 'née-nah' 7.5/10

4 'Alibi' 6.5/10

5 'Eagle' 6/10

6 'n.h.i.e.' 6/10

7 'No Man's Land' 6/10

8 'J CHRIST' 5.5/10

9 'Scared To Start' 5/10

10 'Praise Jah In The Moonlight' 4/10

 

Voted for the top 3. Mixed bag from the 21 Savage tracks, 'redrum' is an instant banger so happy that's the song he's pushing and giving him his biggest solo hit to date, great use of the vocal sample and a really sticky hook. 'née-nah' is also a moderate banger with a good Travis Scott feature but I don't think the hook is nearly as strong (I already don't remember how it goes oops), can see it being a grower but I think it's just about worthy of a vote here on first listen. 'n.h.i.e.' is not bad but I'm never really as much of a fan of 21 on slower beats like this and Doja's feature could really have used more time in the oven (I know the song is apparently a reject from 'Scarlet' and yeah maybe should have stayed on the cutting room floor, but 21 still does ok enough on it). Am going to check out the album this evening so hopefully 'n.h.i.e.' will turn out to be one of the weaker songs on it. Ariana serving a very good house pop tune, an interesting decision to keep the vocals so subdued but I think it works nicely anyway and the hook has been firmly embedded in my earworm receptor plenty since I first heard it. 'Alibi' seems like something I definitely should hate but I don't mind it at all, I think enough effort has been put in to make it not feel like it's wholly relying on the sample nostalgia, a better production from Rudimental than their last couple of chart appearances too and I mean that Stevie Wonder sample sounded great when Coolio used it and it still sounds good here. 'Eagle' is definitely one of the better charting DBE songs to date, after hearing it a few times I'm prepared to say it's genuinely quite a good Young Adz hook (aside from some of the usual eye roll worthy DBE-isms in the lyrics), the heavy breathing sounds kind of cool and I've got more used to Noizy's vocals after finding them a little offputting on first listen, it is cool to have an Albanian language verse in the charts. Main thing holding it back from being in contention for a vote here is that Dirtbike LB's verse is as comatose as ever (and Adz' is nothing special either). 'No Man's Land' is just generic drum n bass but it sounds better than the last couple of venbee hits because she put less of her personality into it ddd. I get a bit of second hand embarrassment listening to 'J CHRIST' because you can tell Lil Nas X was expecting it to be a much bigger hit than it actually is meaning the lyrics have already aged poorly (also please don't hit us with the high note, it doesn't sound great) but otherwise it's an ok 'HUMBLE.' ripoff, he's definitely capable of so much better though. 'Scared To Start' might grow on me but at the moment I'm finding it to be possibly the least interesting hit so far of the recent folk-adjacent chart renaissance. And I appreciate the YG Marley song as being something different for the charts but unfortunately it's mostly pretty boring (although it gets a bit better near the end).