In terms of chart success (UK Charts primarily) which entry is your most mainstream one that has gone on to become a major success, or, which entry is your cheapest to date?

 

If I'm basing it on UK charts alone, then these five past entries are the ones that have achieved a chart position within the UK Top 75;

 

#15 | Mint Royale feat. Lauren Laverne – Don't Falter {BJSC 133}

#17 | Bentley Rhythm Ace – Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out! {BJSC 135}

#34 | Amber – Sexual (Li Da Di) {BJSC 89}

#42 | Weekend Players – Into The Sun {BJSC 165}

#50 | Coldcut – Autumn Leaves {BJSC 149}

 

All entries charged before they were sent by Zanmatony.

 

So #15 is the highest chart position that Zanmatony has sent, a 1999 hit by Mint Royale, making it our cheapest entry to date.

 

What about the rest of you?

I've only ever sent one entry which charted in the UK which was UN-CUT - MIDNIGHT (a #26 in 2003) and it flopped here.

Adam F - 'Circles' is the only U.K. top 40 hit that I've sent, it reached #20 back in 1997.

Nathy Peluso's EMERGENCIA peaked at #55 in Spain, and Emilie Nicolas's Easy peaked at #35 in Norway.

 

EDIT: Ivana Wong & SERRINI - Ragnarökr came #1 in one of the Hong Kong's Singles charts

 

Maybe more idk

Yeah, I don't know if it's worth responding considering my early entries were all Top 10 hits :kink: (I think?)

 

Enrique/Ciara, The Cardigans, Jennifer Paige but at that time rules were different.

 

Kungs is probably the biggest hit I've sent but that was couple of months before it got huge everywhere!!!

 

Also lots of my euro dance entries were big hits outside of UK!!!

 

I've sent two UK top 40 hits, both some time after they were hits - Jaimeson's Complete (a UK #4 in 2003 sent in 2014, back before UK top 20s were auto-vetoed, not something I'd even think of these days) and Richard Hawley's Tonight The Streets Are Ours (UK #40 in 2006, sent in 2021, I've debated with forgotten top 40 hits but they're still a little too well known, this was the one gamble I wanted to take as I feel it deserved to be a lot better know than it is).

 

I have sent two further top 75 hits from the 1990s, Mono's Life in Mono that reached #60 and Chapterhouse's Pearl that reached #67, the former being a bit better known than my usual fare by being covered by Emma Bunton *__

 

I did of course also send Bastille and WALK THE MOON, but those songs didn't actually chart despite high stream counts.

Don't think any of mine have charted on the UK charts, though some of the albums they're off have. Japan and possibly some European ones, certainly. E.g. Ado's 'Odo', which is top of my Spotify list, was a Japan #4 hit, following up her #1 'Usseewa' (Billboard Japan).

I've sent two UK top 40 hits, both some time after they were hits - Jaimeson's Complete (a UK #4 in 2003 sent in 2014, back before UK top 20s were auto-vetoed, not something I'd even think of these days) and Richard Hawley's Tonight The Streets Are Ours (UK #40 in 2006, sent in 2021, I've debated with forgotten top 40 hits but they're still a little too well known, this was the one gamble I wanted to take as I feel it deserved to be a lot better know than it is).

 

UK top 20 have never been auto vetoes have they? There's 3 examples in this thread and I remember Alice Deejay The Lonely One being sent before.

It is (just take a look at the framework), though it can be overturned if the song isn't very well known. IIRC It was brought in following the likes of Dolly Parton's Jolene and TLC's Creep being sent.

Going to ignore Hozier and Walk The Moon because the songs were practically unheard when I sent them.

 

So it’s Glorious by Andreas Johnson, but that was the third contest to be fair!

 

In the last decade maybe Sometimes I’m Alone by The Kiffness? It was a pretty well established internet meme.

 

Or Highland by One More Time which anyone European but not British would probably recognise from the 90s.

I don't think any of mine had made the Top 100. I thought an entry from earlier this year Danny Byrd - We Can Have It All had charted but that made #144 which doesn't really count.

UK top 20 have never been auto vetoes have they? There's 3 examples in this thread and I remember Alice Deejay The Lonely One being sent before.

 

They are theoretically auto-vetoes but in practice as long as they're not really well-known old #11-20 hits are usually allowed.

 

My answer to this thread is the same as the Spotify one, 'Ghosts 'N' Stuff' was a UK #12 hit, that and Vampire Weekend's 'Cousins' are the only UK top 40 hits I've sent and a few of my other early entries charted in #41-100 but it's been many years since the last one, it was a different time. I usually avoid sending any artists who have ever appeared in the singles chart (although a recent exception was Fatoumata Diawara who had had a top 100 hit featuring on a Disclosure song, and I suppose even more mainstream would be Kim Gordon who had fairly substantial chart success as a member of Sonic Youth but not so much as a solo artist) and most of them have very low prospects of ever achieving that, although a few of them have done (with different songs) after I've sent them (BROCKHAMPTON, ROSALÍA, J.I.D, 070 Shake).

P-Money 'Everything' was a #1 in New Zealand but only #138 in the UK in 2008. Alas, it DNQ'd when I sent it here in 2014.

Ignoring everything that happened in the first ten contests, for me it would be my second winner Sofia by Alvero Soler. Absolutely massive hit all across Europe but tumbleweed in the UK and US, hence the entry from moi

 

 

 

In the first decade I sent 3 UK #1s, but Lily Allen The Fear was #1 after the fact as I sent the demo version a year earlier.

I tried to send The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds (which is the national anthem of Cumulonimbia) but it was vetoed for being cheap as it (in remixed form) made #10 in November 1993.

 

The only other Top 75 entry was David Bowie's Strangers When We Meet sent as my 50th entry for BJSC 146. The track was Bowie's 50th UK Top 40 hit and made #39 in December 1995, and I finished in 40th place with it, the worst position in a final I think.

My entry for BJSC 169!

Most mainstream would be Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros from that earlier Spotify thread I guess.

 

But cheapest entry is harder to answer, there are subcategories to this:

- Entries that only became cheap in hindsight as they blew up

- Entries that were cheap but I'm not paying attention and I'm not aware of who is actually unknown and who has a decent following/had already been sent before

- Actually cheap

 

 

Bicep - Just

Burial - Space Cadet

Electrovamp - I Don't Like The Vibe In The VIP

Floating Points - Falaise

Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

Jai Paul - He

Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance

Magdalena Bay - Dreamcatching

 

I think I already knew that all the above artists/entries were already pretty acclaimed. Excluding a good few entries that are of disadvantaged genres (let's call it that) here. I think that automatically frees them of the cheap label. And also excluding some like Gang Gang Dance last year where their peak popularity was long gone and they were kinda forgotten about at the time I sent them, as well as obscure songs/versions of otherwise well known artists or tracks (that Live in Australia version of Chime/Crime is so lit).

 

And in there is Electrovamp which is hardly acclaimed but was a minor chart hit just a few years before.

oh loads and loads of ancient hits, but I see it as introducing them to a new audience because theyve been criminally forgotten. Only 3 have been top 10's though, I think. Kyu Sakamoto - which nobody knew it was so old - and the forgotten dance hit from 1978 Supernature from Cerrone, which has undergone a bit of a revival since it made the final. You're welcome World! (see also new tracks that have become global cult monsters we entered them, such as In Hell I'll Be In Good Company (Umbrella Academy), Kishi Bashi (Rick & Morty), or oldies that have also got TV/film spots since like UK top 10 Last Night In Soho (technically it was already in the film closing credits - probably :lol: - but wasnt listed in the advance track-listing which annoyed me, so I entered it to show my displeasure at nicking the song title/clearly inspiring the plot and not featuring the song) and Major Tom popped up on TV later on, Umbrella Academy, as usual very in-tune with my tastes.

 

The least cheap was probably Timothy Bloom, which wasnt even available for download, but as I don't pick tracks to win, (I pick tracks to be varied and interesting and generally something which would fit nicely onto a compilation album of our greatest choices for tip top fabulousness) even ones which I thought would do well (Tove Styrke and Lucia & Best Boys) I waited to see if someone else would enter them, but as they didn't they were too good to let slip by. The monster hit I almost entered was Feel It Still, I was so close to going for it and switched to another at the last minute :lol:

You all lose from this point onwards because...

 

 

Albeit, the live version from Jools Holland was what I sent, before Rolling In The Deep's release where we realised she was going to be HUGE but still... :kink:

 

FOR SHAME.

Most mainstream would be Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros from that earlier Spotify thread I guess.

 

But cheapest entry is harder to answer, there are subcategories to this:

- Entries that only became cheap in hindsight as they blew up

- Entries that were cheap but I'm not paying attention and I'm not aware of who is actually unknown and who has a decent following/had already been sent before

- Actually cheap

Bicep - Just

Burial - Space Cadet

Electrovamp - I Don't Like The Vibe In The VIP

Floating Points - Falaise

Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

Jai Paul - He

Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance

Magdalena Bay - Dreamcatching

 

I think I already knew that all the above artists/entries were already pretty acclaimed. Excluding a good few entries that are of disadvantaged genres (let's call it that) here. I think that automatically frees them of the cheap label. And also excluding some like Gang Gang Dance last year where their peak popularity was long gone and they were kinda forgotten about at the time I sent them, as well as obscure songs/versions of otherwise well known artists or tracks (that Live in Australia version of Chime/Crime is so lit).

 

And in there is Electrovamp which is hardly acclaimed but was a minor chart hit just a few years before.

 

You might be interested to know that one of your old entries has just entered the UK top 100 this week, sorta x