Thanks to the 41 people who participated in each of the last pair of polls :jump:

 

Official results from week 7:

 

[ 22 ] Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM (#9)

[ 19 ] Djo - End Of Beginning (#100)

[ 16 ] Madison Beer - Make You Mine (#50)

[ 10 ] ¥$ - CARNIVAL (feat. Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti) (#12)

[ 10 ] Beyoncé - 16 CARRIAGES (#44)

[ 9 ] Sia and Kylie Minogue - Dance Alone (#60)

[ 8 ] ¥$ - BURN (#17)

[ 8 ] ¥$ - BACK TO ME (#18)

[ 7 ] Noah Kahan - Forever (#31)

[ 7 ] Wes Nelson - Abracadabra (feat. Craig David) (#37)

[ 4 ] Muni Long - Made For Me (#62)

[ 3 ] Shy Smith - Soaked (#77)

[ 3 ] Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Christian Borle, Amir Talai and Joel Perez - Stayed Gone (#92)

[ 2 ] K-Trap - Heaven Or Hell (#47)

 

Official results from week 8:

 

[ 36 ] Dua Lipa - Training Season (#4)

[ 17 ] Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man - Lovers In A Past Life (#19)

[ 12 ] Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé - Spicy Margarita (#80)

[ 4 ] Bryson Tiller - Whatever She Wants (#53)

 

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2024 week 7 and auto-qualifying for the February monthly round is Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM.

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2024 week 8 and auto-qualifying for the February monthly round is Dua Lipa - Training Season.

 

 

From week 7 it's a first poll win for American superstar Beyoncé with the more popular (though weaker imo x) of the two joint lead singles from her forthcoming 8th solo studio album which may or may not be called 'RENAISSANCE ACT II' or some variant on that, her foray into country proving surprisingly dominant as it debuted in the top 10 on a partial week of tracking before zooming to #1 for 3 weeks and counting despite collapsing. 'TEXAS HOLD 'EM' got the support of 54% of voters, winning by 3 votes over the lowest new entry of the week (albeit one that would also go on to become a big hit) from Djo. A further 3 votes back in 3rd place was a midtable hit from Madison Beer, while 2 others just about made it to double figure votes in joint 4th, Beyoncé's second song of the week and the most popular song both in the chart and in this poll from the ever controversial ¥$ with assistance from Rich The Kid and Playboi Carti. The Kylie forum must have forgotten to mobilise votes to the poll as the Sia/Kylie Minogue song only finishes 6th with 9 votes. 4 songs fell short of the 5 vote margin (perhaps surprisingly not including any of the ¥$ songs), the wooden spoon with 2 votes went to the week's blink and you'll miss it UK rap hit of the week from K-Trap, while there were 3 votes each for the TikTok hit from Shy Smith and the 5th and perhaps last hit from Hazbin Hotel, and 4 votes for Muni Long (actually very surprised she got so few votes).

 

Week 8 is also won by the week's highest new entry, no surprise at all that it's British-Albanian kwen Dua Lipa's 3rd win out of 3 since these polls began with the second single from her yet to be named third studio album, following the wins for 'Dance The Night' and 'Houdini' last year. 'Training Season' won this poll nearly unanimously in fact - it did lack credible BuzzJack friendly opposition to be fair but I'm still rather stunned to see her get a vote from 88% of all voters, I'm sure that's the largest percentage to date by some margin! Only 5 people didn't throw a vote Dua's way. 2 of the 3 other songs on the list also passed double figure votes, with Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man coming in as the distant runner up, 19 votes behind (so slightly less than half of Dua's votes) while 12 people for some reason saw fit to vote for Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé. The final also-ran unfortunately fell just short of the 5 vote threshold, poor brave Bryson Tiller, I wouldn't normally be surprised at that outcome in a vacuum but really only a third of the votes of 'Spicy Margarita'? Smh x

 

Surprisingly enough there were no votes at all for 'none of the above' in either of these polls!

 

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

05 // 08/02/24 // Justin Timberlake - Selfish

06 // 15/02/24 // goddard. and Cat Burns - Wasted Youth / Jazzy - Shooting Star / Cat Janice - Dance You Outta My Head

07 // 22/02/24 // Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM

08 // 29/02/24 // Dua Lipa - Training Season

 

Weekly winners for previous years: 2023

 

Qualified for the 2024 yearly round:

January // Ariana Grande - yes, and? / Becky Hill and Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone / The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

 

Qualified for the playoff for the 2024 yearly round:

January // Noah Kahan - Homesick (w/ Sam Fender / solo)

 

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It's another 2 in 1 poll this week whoops, covering the first 2 weeks of March (which will have 5 weeks counting to it for these polls). Week 9 has 11 songs totalling 33 minutes and 5 seconds while week 10 has 9 songs totalling 31 minutes and 29 seconds, for a total playlist length of 1 hour and 4 minutes. I've had to be crafty to get the Pozer song title to appear unmangled in the poll since I can't shove in formatting tags like I do in a normal post - brownie points who figures out what I did xo

 

 

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!

 

Tentatively aiming to get the next (single week) poll up on Sunday evening as ever, along with results from the February monthly round which I'll get up soon x

(oops I accidentally posted the thread before I was done writing up the OP but at least the poll was complete - will edit in the rest of the spiel now if anyone cares to read it xo)

 

edit: all done now x will put up the February monthly round in a bit or more likely tomorrow

Just sza for the first one, Charli & RAYE in week 2 for me!

SZA & Selena / Raye & Charli

Week 9

SZA - Saturn (#15) - sounds like 99% of all the songs she's ever done before - dull and insipid

Central Cee - I Will (#18) - pretty pedestrian and monotonous

Pozer - Kitϲhen Stove (#29) - nothing we haven't seen before

Catfish And The Bottlemen - Showime (#49) - can see what they're trying to do here but it doesn't quite work for me

Selena Gomez - Love On (#61) - the song sounds decent but for some reason she is singing like a 10 year old

Rudimental and Skepsis - Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank and Riko Dan) (#77) - sounds good, usually enjoy their heavier stuff

The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas) (#80) - a little bit on the duller side this one

Dasha - Austin (#81) - FLUSH

mgk - dont let me go (#91) - is this what he goes by now lol? pretentious snob... and the song is dreadful

Alex Warren - Before You Leave Me (#93) - another noah kahan clone, yay

Yeat - Breathe (#100) - liking the sound of this one aside from the OTT expletive usage

 

Pretty poor. Just Rudi and Yeat.

 

 

Week 10

Charli XCX - Von dutch (#26) - I like how this is not a complete steal re the sample and it's been pitched down and bass-inflated, a return to form for charli

twenty one pilots - Overcompensate (#34) - well this certainly doesn't sound like a 21p song! this is a fantastic listen

RAYE - Worth It. (#38) - a bit of misfire song this one

Olly Alexander - Dizzy (#42) - a hell of a lot better than the dreck we sent last year, very smooth vibe to it

Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out) (#46) - wow this is really terrible

Skrapz - Cuban Links (feat. Nines and D-Block Europe) (#51) - heard it all before, next

Fred again.., Lil Yachty and Overmono - stayinit (#53) - brill to see overmono have a hit to their name, this is predictably excellent

Myles Smith - Solo (#92) - another david kushner clone, yay (and yawn at another solo / so low "trying to be clever" cringy lyric

¥$ - FUK SUMN (#100) - ooh this is on the cusp of getting a vote from me, i'm feeling generous

 

Much better. Voted Charli, 21p, Olly, Fred et al and Y$.

Week 9:

 

1. Catfish and the Bottlemen - Showtime

2. mgk - dont let me go

3. Alex Warren - Before You Leave Me

4. Dasha - Austin

5. Selena Gomez - Love On

6. Yeat - Breathe

 

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7. SZA - Saturn

8. The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas)

9. Rudimental and Skepsis - Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank and Riko Dan)

10. Central Cee - I Will

11. Pozer - Kitϲhen Stove

 

Week 10:

 

1. twenty one pilots - Overcompensate

2. Fred again.., Lil Yachty and Overmono - stayinit

3. Myles Smith - Solo

4. Olly Alexander - Dizzy

5. Charli XCX - Von dutch

6. RAYE - Worth It

 

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7. Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out)

8. ¥$ - FUK SUMN

9. Skrapz - Cuban Links (feat. Nines and D-Block Europe)

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7. Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus - Doctor

 

Week 9

mgk - dont let me go (#91) - is this what he goes by now lol? pretentious snob... and the song is dreadful

 

I'm not a fan of the name change tbh but it's what he went by for his first few EPs/debut album, so he's bought it back now he's returned to rap.

Week 9: 'Saturn', week 10: 'stayinit'

Week 9

 

1. Selena Gomez - Love On

2. Dasha - Austin

3. Pozer - Kitϲhen Stove

4. Central Cee - I Will

5. SZA - Saturn

6. Catfish And The Bottlemen - Showtime

7. The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas)

8. Alex Warren - Before You Leave Me

9. Yeat - Breathe

10. mgk - dont let me go

11. Rudimental and Skepsis - Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank and Riko Dan)

 

 

Voting for my top 3 this week. 'Love On' is really fun. I don't think it deserves the muted reception it's received. 'Austin' is great! It's not too-country and is very catchy. I really like the instrumentation on 'Kitchen Stove' but the vocals are mixed so quietly that it stops it from being great. It feels very 'SL'.

 

It's nice to hear a different sound from Central Cee on 'I Will'. Even if the lyrics are the same as always. 'Saturn' isn't hitting me on the first few listens. It sounds pretty dull.

 

I've liked a couple of their previous songs but 'Showtime' hasn't left an impression. 'Happier' is definitely the better dance hit of the week and I quite liked the vocals in the first verse on 'Before You Leave Me' but it drops off a cliff with the chorus.

 

'Breathe' is not very interesting. Surprised it's picked up as many votes in this poll as it already has. It’s hard to really rank a song like 'dont let me go' but on a purely musical level, I don’t like it. 'Green & Gold' sounds like something we've heard 100x before.

Week 10

 

1. Charli XCX - Von dutch

2. Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - FUK SUMN (feat. Playboi Carti & Travis Scott)

3. RAYE - Worth It.

4. Skrapz - Cuban Links (feat. Nines and D-Block Europe)

5. Olly Alexander - Dizzy

6. twenty one pilots - Overcompensate

7. Myles Smith - Solo

8. Fred again.., Lil Yachty and Overmono - stayinit

9. Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out)

 

 

Voting for my top 2 here. I'm on board for near enough everything Charli releases at the moment and 'FUK SMN' has a proper earworm of a chorus that makes up for Playboi Carti' Carti-ness.

 

'Worth It' is probably my favourite thing I've heard from RAYE's album. Very smooth. Nines completely saves 'Cuban Links'. He's sounding solid but Skrapz isn't up to much.

 

'Dizzy' sounds like a classic near-the-bottom Eurovision entry. I like some parts of 'Overcompensate' but other parts sounds rubbish. Especially the rapping. 'Solo' sounds very David Kushner-y.

 

'stayinit' is a mess. Yachty sounds rubbish and the beat is all over the place. 'Doctor (Work It Out)' is particularly awful though. Sounds at least 10 years old.

‘Doctor (Work It Out)' is particularly awful though. Sounds at least 10 years old.

I have some news for you :P

Voted for Catfish in poll one and 21 Pilots and Charli XCX in poll 2!

Week 9:

 

SZA - Saturn | 10.0/10

Yeat - Breathe | 8.5/10

The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas) | 8.0/10

Catfish And The Bottlemen - Showtime | 6.5/10

Rudimental and Skepsis - Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank and Riko Dan) | 6.5/10

Pozer - Kitϲhen Stove | 6.0/10

Dasha - Austin | 5.0/10

Central Cee - I Will | 3.5/10

Alex Warren - Before You Leave Me | 3.0/10

Selena Gomez - Love On | 3.0/10

mgk - dont let me go | 0.5/10

 

 

 

 

 

Saturn is an absolute stunner from SZA, one of my favourite songs from 2023 for sure. The melody is so catchy and SZA is on another level vocally for this track. I wonder if we'll ever get 'LANA' anytime soon (it did take 5 years for the CTRL deluxe to be released so I'm not getting my hopes up x). 'I Will' is cringy af imo :lol: It is still better than 'LET GO' and 'Doja' but still one of the worst Cench songs that I've heard, at least the production really good (and the cover art is unique). Always lovely to see some Jersey Club in the charts but 'iamspamspamamiStove' doesn't bring anything new to the genre. The verses are decent but the production (especially the percussion) feels just like a slowed down version of many Jersey Club hits (mainly 'Just Wanna Rock), apart from that the song is decent. Idk what it is that I don't like about 'Showtime' but I feel like it's missing something to make it more exciting, it does sounds like a grower tho. 'Love On' sounds like a really trashy and cringy remake of Fifty Fifty's 'Cupid' imo (that 'mathematical equation' line, seriously :kink:). I'm really not hyped for this upcoming Selena album at all (but I only like a few Selena songs anyway, mostly from her last album). I prefer 'Green & Gold' to 'Dancing Is Healing' in terms of Rudimental X Charlotte Plank collabs. The Riko Dan verse is solid but the production feels a little bit predictable at this stage for Rudimental. Thrilled to see The Blessed Madonna get her first UK chart hit as a lead artist! 'Marea' is the better of her UK hits but 'Happier' is a banger, finally a credited hit for Clementine Douglas where her vocals sound good in the chorus :lol: If only 'Mercy' had been a hit for The Blessed Madonna :( 'Austin' is by no means a bad song but It's just not my thing really, it is kinda fun so I'll give it that as least. Hearing 'don't let me go' makes me want mgk to go back to pop-punk (and I hate most of his pop-punk material oop). Potentially the worst single I've ever heard from him, he doesn't fit the beat at all (which is a pretty lazy and bland production). 'Before You Leave Me' is simply another forgettable, disposable song from an influencer. 'Breathe' may not be my favourite from Yeat's latest album but is still a huge banger, I'm hoping for more hits for Yeat in the future over here.

 

 

 

 

Week 10:

 

twenty one pilots - Overcompensate | 11.0/10

Fred again.., Lil Yachty and Overmono - stayinit | 10.5/10

Charli XCX - Von dutch | 9.5/10

RAYE - Worth It. | 7.0/10

Skrapz - Cuban Links (feat. Nines and D-Block Europe) | 7.0/10

Olly Alexander - Dizzy | 6.5/10

¥$ - FUK SUMN (feat. Playboi Carti & Travis Scott) | 5.0/10

Myles Smith - Solo | 3.0/10

Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out) | 3.0/10

 

 

I was intrigued by 'Von dutch' on my first listen but I wasn't totally enamoured by it... Until my 2nd listen :lol: A mega-bop I fear :cheeseblock: Overcompensate making the top 40 was a massive yet overwhelmingly euphoric surprise :cheer: (quite a clever move to drop an edited version to help push it into the top 40). It's probably my favourite song of the year so far, The Prodigy-esque drums at the start are incredible and Tyler really has some fantastic flows in him. Much better than anything from their last album (which was pretty bad oop). Hyped for 'Clancy', I feel another 'Trench' is coming.... 'Worth It.' is another goodun from Raye's album, perhaps one of the weaker tracks tho (only because the rest of the album is of an incredibly high standard). I heard a lot about how good the production was on 'Dizzy', I don't think it's bad but it does sound a bit cheap imo (perhaps Steps might fit well on it x). I get the Pet Shop Boys vibes as well. The song defo picks up the pace quality-wise towards the end for me, solid Eurovision entry (will be very annoyed if this doesn't outperform 'I Wrote A Song' by quite a bit). When a song usually gets left off of an album, there is always a reason. Idk why Pharrell wanted to release this now, it has majorly flopped after all (as it should, what a cringefest). 'Cuban Links' does have a beat that I think Nines would probably use on one of his albums so no surprise that he's on this. It is a bit of a banger even with D Block Europe on the track. 'stayinit' is a MASSIVE BANGER. Crazy but much appreciated to see Overmono in the UK charts, please can we see more of them here? The drop is absolutely insane (and obviously majorly influenced by Overmono rather than Fred). Yachty is possibly the most versatile rapper right now, he can basically feature on anything/try his hand at any genre and sound great. Maybe my favourite Fred again song already (although 'Delilah' and 'Jungle' say hello)? The Myles Smith song is yet more easily disposable folk-pop. 'FUK SUMN' was one of my least fav songs from 'VULTURES 1' when I first listened to the album, it has grown a little on me. We didn't need another terrible deep-voice Carti verse + Kanye's verse is pretty bad. However, Travis is good on the song tho and I do quite like the production.

Being strict on myself and only going for one song per week. Happier gets my first vote - been obsessed with that for weeks. :wub:

 

Olly gets my second vote and hope it becomes a decent sized hit after Eurovision.

 

Overall not a bad set of entries. Skrapz being the only one I couldn’t finish. D-Block Europe being the bigger issue for me on that track though. :puke2:

Week9:

Sza

Pozer

Catfish

Yeat

 

Week 10:

Charli

21 Pilots

Fred Again etc.

:whistle:

:jump:

SZA and RAYE for me albeit two months later.

Think that's enough months of radio silence now - I am finally going to be resuming this and putting up the poll for the next 2 weeks tonight so if anyone still hasn't voted in this one you have a few more hours or so x

 

(have finally voted myself, not gonna post a full ranking this time but I voted for 4 songs in each, SZA/Catfish And The Bottlemen/Rudimental/Yeat in the first and Charli xcx/twenty one pilots/Fred again../¥$ in the second).

week 9:

01. SZA - Saturn (#15)

02. Yeat - Breathe (#100)

03. Catfish And The Bottlemen - Showtime (#49)

04. Rudimental and Skepsis - Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank and Riko Dan) (#77)

05. Dasha - Austin (#81)

06. Pozer - Kitϲhen Stove (#29)

07. Central Cee - I Will (#18)

08. The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas) (#80)

09. mgk - dont let me go (#91)

10. Alex Warren - Before You Leave Me (#93)

11. Selena Gomez - Love On (#61)

 

^ just voted for SZA here

 

week 10:

01. Charli XCX - Von dutch (#26)

02. Fred again.., Lil Yachty and Overmono - stayinit (#53)

03. twenty one pilots - Overcompensate (#34)

04. RAYE - Worth It. (#38)

05. Olly Alexander - Dizzy (#42)

06. ¥$ - FUK SUMN (#100)

07. Skrapz - Cuban Links (feat. Nines and D-Block Europe) (#51)

08. Pharrell Williams and Miley Cyrus - Doctor (Work It Out) (#46)

09. Myles Smith - Solo (#92)

 

^ voted for both Charli xcx (my favourite across both weeks!) and Fred again../Lil Yachty/Overmono in this one :wub: I do wish Overmono had got a top 40 hit but will take top 75 x

LMAO I can’t even remember some of the songs I voted for in this that came and went.