Thanks to the 43 people who participated in last week's poll :jump:

 

Official results from week 4:

 

[ 23 ] Noah Kahan - Homesick (w/ Sam Fender / solo) (#5)

[ 23 ] Becky Hill and Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone (#34)

[ 16 ] Kygo and Ava Max - Whatever (#39)

[ 15 ] Benson Boone - Beautiful Things (#18)

[ 13 ] Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion - Not My Fault (#96)

[ 9 ] Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiësto, Dido and W&W - Thank You (Not So Bad) (#97)

[ 5 ] David Kushner - Skin And Bones (#36)

 

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hits for 2024 week 4 are Noah Kahan - Homesick (w/ Sam Fender / solo) and Becky Hill and Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone.

 

Using the debut chart position as a tiebreaker, 'Homesick' will also auto-qualify for the January monthly round.

 

 

We have our first tied winner of the year, and also the first time a song that I've listed multiple versions of in the playlist has won a round. American singer Noah Kahan's latest in his rapidly growing catalogue of hits, this time boosted by a big remix from the UK's Sam Fender to jump straight in as his second top 10 and top 5 hit, follows 'Stick Season' in being a joint poll winner with the support of 53% of voters. It's Sam's first new top 100 hit since I started these polls so a good start for him, and they even bothered to get him credited on the OCC website too. Joining Noah on the winners list this time is British singer Becky Hill with her latest dance collab, this time teaming up with Australian DJ Sonny Fodera and landing a low top 40 debut though time will tell if it grows to be one of her bigger hits or not. It's the first poll win for both artists but denied official auto-qualifier status. Three more songs got to double figure votes - 7 votes behind in third place I am happy that Kygo and Ava Max's evisceration of Shakira didn't end up winning but that's still 16 votes too many, then the biggest hit to date from Benson Boone (taking on a surprisingly heavy shift into rock) is one further vote behind in 4th and 2 votes behind in 5th is the teamup of first time charter Reneé Rapp with Megan Thee Stallion for the new Mean Girls movie. Every song got to the 5 vote threshold this time although David Kushner only barely as he takes the week's wooden spoon. We had only one 'none of the above' vote this week and it was me, so I can't complain this week about the winner being a song I didn't vote for.

 

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

03 // 25/01/24 // Ariana Grande - yes, and?

04 // 01/02/24 // Noah Kahan - Homesick (w/ Sam Fender / solo) / Becky Hill and Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone

 

Weekly winners for previous years: 2023

 

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Another 10 new entries on offer this week totalling 29 minutes and 20 seconds, although a whole 3 of them come from this Hazbin Hotel thing that I know nothing about. Otherwise a week quite dominated by female rappers (for better or for worse).

 

 

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!

 

Posting this to schedule so you have a full week to vote this time hooray, next poll aiming to be up on Sunday night again. That'll also be roughly the deadline for the 2023 final if you've not voted in it yet, and I'll get up the first monthly round of 2024 tonight too which will be open for 2 weeks.

Good Neighbours for me only

Best of the week: Megan

 

Dishonourable mention: Ice Spice

Worst of the week; Nicki Minaj

I went for Skepta, Justin, Good Neighbours and the Loser, Baby song. That Nicki track is such a mess, although got to admire a spoken word outro. :lol:

Megan!

1. Good Neighbours - Home

2. Justin Timberlake - Selfish

3. Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart)

4. Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David and Blake Roman - Loser, Baby

5. Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Jeremy Jordan, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen and Kimiko Glenn - Hell's Greatest Dad

6. Blake Roman, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg - Poison

 

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7. Megan Thee Stallion - HISS

8. Skepta - Gas Me Up (Diligent)

9. Yung Filly - Grey

10. Nicki Minaj - Big Foot

Went for Home and Poison - the latter is rather a bop!

Justin Timberlake (best), Ice Spice (I unironically like this), and Good Neighbours for me this week.

Went for Justin, Good Neighbours and Skepta this week!

Megan, Skepta & Justin for me this week!

This week's contenders: Timberlake - not great, Good Neighbours - don't get the hype, gave all the rap ones a listen but not for me, thought I was hurtling towards a null vote until I found 'Poison' to be actually decent (as Julian also found above), yet another derivative of 'Blinding Lights' perhaps but good enough for a vote, the other two Hazbin Hotel songs were awful though.

Good Neighbours - Home

Loser Baby, HISS and Poison

Only Justin for me this week. The Megan and Nicki tracks are atrocious!

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Megan Thee Stallion - HISS (#31) - the beat and bars are decent but this minimalist piano production in hip hop is totally overdone and boring now

Skepta - Gas Me Up (Diligent) (#32) - continuing to bring the bangers after all these years

Justin Timberlake - Selfish (#37) - very strong comeback track blending a modern production with the signature JT sound

Yung Filly - Grey (#49) - very pedestrian and unexciting

Nicki Minaj - Big Foot (#56) - sounds more like a freestyle than an actual record? certainly an interesting listen which turns into full on ASMR but not one i'd replay

Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart) (#75) - errrrrr... no

Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David and Blake Roman - Loser, Baby (#77) - these tv/film chart takeovers are getting weirder by the week. but i quite like the sound of whatever this song is on about

Good Neighbours - Home (#81) - pretty good this, no idea who or what they are but a promising debut

Blake Roman, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg - Poison (#96) - annoying-sounding vocal on this one

Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Jeremy Jordan, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen and Kimiko Glenn - Hell's Greatest Dad (#98) - this is a catchy one

 

Voted Skepta, JT, Andrew et al x2 & GN.

1. Skepta - Gas Me Up (Diligent)

2. Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David and Blake Roman - Loser, Baby

3. Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Jeremy Jordan, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen and Kimiko Glenn - Hell's Greatest Dad

4. Megan Thee Stallion - HISS

5. Yung Filly - Grey

6. Justin Timberlake - Selfish

7. Blake Roman, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg - Poison

8. Good Neighbours - Home

9. Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart)

10. Nicki Minaj - Big Foot

 

 

Just voting for Skepta this week. It's nowhere near his best but it's catchy enough.

 

The Hazbin Hotel songs are certainly erratic in style and certainly stand out in this list. 'Loser, Baby' was my clear favourite, Keith David has an iconic voice and it sounds so smooth on this. The other vocalist not so much. I'm sure they sound better when they're not portraying a TV character. 'Hell's Greatest Dad' is probably the best electro-swing song since Electro Velvet :lol: 'Poison' was definitely the weakest of the three. The voice spoils it completely. I have no idea what this show is about from them 3 tracks though!

 

Megan is definitely the victor in the HISS/Big Foot battle. Both could do with getting rid of the spoken parts. They really break up the rhythm of the songs. Aside from the beef, 'HISS' just sounds like any other Megan track. Some of the flows on 'Big Foot' are ok and some are horrible. Pretty much every 'diss' falls completely flat (aside from the one saying that Megan has only one flow, that hits HARD) and the recording quality is awful, it's like she recorded it on her phone.

 

I was heavily cringing at 'Grey' at the start but it did win me over a bit by the end. The sound certainly suits him more than rap did. 'Selfish' is the most MOR Timberlake has ever sounded. It's not bad but it's just so boring. 'Home' is one of the most non-descript tracks of the year, I've already forgotten everything about it.

 

'Think U The Shit (Fart)' is probably Ice Spice's worst yet. The chorus is terrible. If Nicki didn't have the spoken outro that feels like it goes on forever, this would have easily ranked last for me.

Bumping this back to the front page also :jump: new poll up tomorrow night x

01. Good Neighbours - Home (#81)

02. Blake Roman, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg - Poison (#96)

03. Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Jeremy Jordan, Amir Talai, Erika Henningsen and Kimiko Glenn - Hell's Greatest Dad (#98)

04. Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David and Blake Roman - Loser, Baby (#77)

05. Skepta - Gas Me Up (Diligent) (#32)

06. Megan Thee Stallion - HISS (#31)

07. Yung Filly - Grey (#49)

08. Justin Timberlake - Selfish (#37)

09. Nicki Minaj - Big Foot (#56)

10. Ice Spice - Think U The Shit (Fart) (#75)

 

Just voted for Good Neighbours this week

1 'HISS' 9/10

2 'Poison' 6.5/10

3 'Gas Me Up (Diligent)' 6/10

4 'Home' 6/10

5 'Hell's Greatest Dad' ?/10

6 'Grey' 5/10

7 'Think U The Shit (Fart)' 3.5/10

8 'Loser, Baby' ?/10

9 'Selfish' 3/10

10 'Big Foot' pitiful/10

 

In a bit of a rough patch these last couple of weeks but at least I have one song to vote for this time, Megan carrying this week with a second great single in a row, can definitely see this going down as one of the most iconic diss tracks of all time. Especially in contrast to the complete mess that Nicki thought she did something with in response which I won't dignify any further. I definitely feel like without watching Hazbin Hotel I'm not really qualified to comment on how well the songs work but 'Poison' at least sounds like the kind of thing that makes some sense to listen to outside of the context of the show, a fairly decent 80s synthpop song. The last part of 'Hell's Greatest Dad' did give me a slight chuckle and it's kind of cool to have an electro swing style song in the chart I suppose. 'Loser, Baby' feels too reliant on the context and is just a little too theatrical and cringe without that, similar to the Wonka song. Otherwise... Skepta's song is a bit underwhelming but not bad, could have been better with a more energetic beat (he had a much better song out the previous week with ODUMODUBLVCK and Idris Elba so it's a shame that one didn't chart instead), the Good Neighbours song is an alright if anonymous indie pop track, Yung Filly's is just a bog standard middle of the road afropop song. The other two songs had the potential to maybe be interesting but they wasted that on just being boring. I'm convinced Ice Spice just thought she could sell her song based on the eyebrow raising title alone because the actual song has probably the weakest beat she's ever rapped on and so many reused lyrics, it's low effort even by her standards. And I had low expectations for Justin's comeback but I think this still underwhelmed me even then, it sounds like him emulating Nick Jonas emulating himself, zzzz.

 

Will get the new poll up tomorrow night so this is open for a lil bit longer if anyone else still wants to vote x

Just Megan for me too x