2 minutes ago, Freeze said:

Congratulations to Ajanaeda for their debut win! 🥳 300 points is a nice round number. Listening to “Twist The Knife” as I write this, and I think it’s a pretty catchy tune. I gave it 6 points, while “Stranded” got my 13, so even though I would’ve preferred Sumner and FARC to win, I still liked it and I think it’s cool to see pop winning again. I can’t complain at all with that top 10, me being in 8th place and my 18 directly above me.

Two top tens in a row for me is pretty rare, so I’m quite pleased with that as well, naturally, even though I had fewer voters than most in the top 20. It’s worth mentioning that I received four 18s (!), which is the second highest anyone got in this final (only by the winner got me beat), and I did notice that Stela Cole popped up in a lot of commiseration lists. “Stereoqueen” had some big fans, which is sweet, but it seems to have been liked by many, so I consider this entry a huge success in more ways than one. Yay! 😁

I also think it’s funny how I ended up at 19th and almost DNQed in my semi. That disparity is funny, and I’ve noticed how that’s happened to me several times in the past, just the other way around with huge success in the semi and then plummeting in the final.I remember for instance being shocked to see how I won a semi final last year but having unimpressive results in the final. What was the record for that again? And there must be other kinds of records to be had here, right? Most number of huge swings/defying projections or something.

In any case, thank you to everyone who voted for me, thank you to the host and graphic designer and thank you to most of you for sending songs I enjoyed 😊

The differences between SF & Final are interesting

Of my 3 finals I've had:

1 where I scraped through the semi and then came 15th in the final

2 where I dropped quite a bit from semi to final (7th to outside top 20 & 13th to 40th)

Guess it depends on what is in the other semi final & also whether your song grows on repeat listens

22 minutes ago, Freeze said:

Congratulations to Ajanaeda for their debut win! 🥳 300 points is a nice round number. Listening to “Twist The Knife” as I write this, and I think it’s a pretty catchy tune. I gave it 6 points, while “Stranded” got my 13, so even though I would’ve preferred Sumner and FARC to win, I still liked it and I think it’s cool to see pop winning again. I can’t complain at all with that top 10, me being in 8th place and my 18 directly above me.

Two top tens in a row for me is pretty rare, so I’m quite pleased with that as well, naturally, even though I had fewer voters than most in the top 20. It’s worth mentioning that I received four 18s (!), which is the second highest anyone got in this final (only by the winner got me beat), and I did notice that Stela Cole popped up in a lot of commiseration lists. “Stereoqueen” had some big fans, which is sweet, but it seems to have been liked by many, so I consider this entry a huge success in more ways than one. Yay! 😁

I also think it’s funny how I ended up at 19th and almost DNQed in my semi. That disparity is funny, and I’ve noticed how that’s happened to me several times in the past, just the other way around with huge success in the semi and then plummeting in the final.I remember for instance being shocked to see how I won a semi final last year but having unimpressive results in the final. What was the record for that again? And there must be other kinds of records to be had here, right? Most number of huge swings/defying projections or something.

In any case, thank you to everyone who voted for me, thank you to the host and graphic designer and thank you to most of you for sending songs I enjoyed 😊

I think the biggest drop is FSR Rontvia winning the semi with Salsa Me then coming 36th or something? Then the biggest gain I can think of is Jupiterdonia just scraping through a semi with Inna then coming 6th but I'm pretty sure someone beat that more recently.

Thanks everyone for the kind words regarding the theming and graphic design this contest, I had a lot of fun coming up with it and I think it's probs one of the better concepts I've had, glad it could be for a Patrick contest! You did a fab job with the hosting my love <3 x

Well done to Ajanaeda, first-time winner!!! Fabulous winner. Love FARC in 2nd and I'm so glad you're back on form, hoping this can start another streak of greatness. Great to see Nelionoir in the Top 3, absolutely loved that and became my far-away fave - so catchy! Well done to Jade and Pav in the Top 5 with riskier entries, Patrick at a second hit in a row at 6th and Dandy* taking a great ballad into the Top 10 (LOVED).

Regarding my own position - oops!!!! Definitely wanted better than 26th considering it's in my Top 5 most played songs of the last 5/10 years or so, I wonder if it would've done better when it was originally vetoed? Definitely got some great songs to get me back up the top hopefully next month onwards so lessssssgo x

3 hours ago, Dobbo said:

I think the biggest drop is FSR Rontvia winning the semi with Salsa Me then coming 36th or something? Then the biggest gain I can think of is Jupiterdonia just scraping through a semi with Inna then coming 6th but I'm pretty sure someone beat that more recently.

Honey's What Now came like 15th in its semi final and then won the whole thing - but that's probably not a bigger jump. Still a gag though.

4 hours ago, Dobbo said:

I think the biggest drop is FSR Rontvia winning the semi with Salsa Me then coming 36th or something? Then the biggest gain I can think of is Jupiterdonia just scraping through a semi with Inna then coming 6th but I'm pretty sure someone beat that more recently.

My spreadsheet is only updated to BJSC 169 so may be missing something if either of these records were beaten very recently but as of then 'Yalla' (the Jupiterdonia INNA entry) still had the record for biggest improvement from projected position (projected 39th to final 6th) while the record regression is actually held by you (MEZZ and Nakamura Minami - ROYAL MILK TEA going from projected 7th (5th in its semi) to final 40th).

'Salsa Me' did indeed come 36th in the final after winning its semi, but it was also 'only' projected 7th, it was a low scoring semi winner.

(and I see 'Stereoqueen' was also projected 39th so it was very close to matching INNA)

1 hour ago, RobBot said:

Honey's What Now came like 15th in its semi final and then won the whole thing - but that's probably not a bigger jump. Still a gag though.

16th in fact!

On 12/12/2024 at 08:09, jimwatts said:

Here are the 45 nations who had top 10 hits this year:

 

[snip]

 

Nine of the EOY top 50 had none:

 

Bronzil (19th)

Skall (26th)

FARC (33rd)

Harmonica (36th)

Scotland 2 (41st)

The Spodic Empire (44th)

Ojnoj (47th)

Aelandor (49th)

Ingermanlandia (50th)

The first three of those nine nations have now had top 10 hits already in 2025 - and all in 2nd place!

Big congrats to Ajanaeda! 👏🥳

This was a strong contest, and while I didn't vote for Twist the Knife I understand why a lot of people did. I'm very happy for you, and excited to see what's in store for the upcoming contest! ⭐

I'm also super stoked about reaching 7th place! New record, huzzah! 🤩

Glad to see that people enjoyed the sound of Volta 🫶

yay great news to be top 10 in such a strong contest!

tyvm KlumRep x Aeroche for the show, very pleasing to see the host nation also place top 10 too - 'Anywhere' was a big fave for me since its release and narrowly missed out on being a Danævii entry itself.

I did prefer 'Trust' as an entry although 'Twist the Knife' was only a few spots out from my votes anyway, congrats on a belated first time victory both her and Ajanaeda! FARC, Jadakissnia, Elëdan, Macromia are my other big takeaways of this contest's top 10 - FARC a fairly obvious hit and pleasing to see them close to victory at least, and the other three yay for them exceeding expectations.

can't win them all though, poor Dobago and Zanmatony were never going to be in contention but surprised Jupiterdonia couldn't go top 20 :( John Summit will get his big BJSC hit eventually surely.

14 hours ago, Brer said:

My spreadsheet is only updated to BJSC 169 so may be missing something if either of these records were beaten very recently but as of then 'Yalla' (the Jupiterdonia INNA entry) still had the record for biggest improvement from projected position (projected 39th to final 6th) while the record regression is actually held by you (MEZZ and Nakamura Minami - ROYAL MILK TEA going from projected 7th (5th in its semi) to final 40th).

ha no way! I also remember that entry leading the final scoreboard after the first batch of votes courtesy of two 18s, clearly a misleading indication of how things would end. Looking back I see that it only got 20 more points in the final than its semi despite twice the number of potential voters and more points to dish out. That might be the biggest ever example of 'right semi syndrome' then since it would have DNQ'd in the other semi.

Already found a new sawng the very evening of the results, slayage confirmed (means I’m DNQing probably oops). Back to Germany this month. 💃🏼

Congrats on the debut win Ajanaeda!!!

Should we be checking Skyscanner for tickets to Ajanaeda? 🌚

Think I'm set on my next track.

I was planning to send a sweet folk song (actually have been debating to send it for months) but chances of it qualifying are next to none I think. So changing to a different direction

Elëdan flying to Ajanaeda in business class as extra budget was given to BJSC this month due to the recent success of Ohota 👠

6 minutes ago, pavi said:

Elëdan flying to Ajanaeda in business class as extra budget was given to BJSC this month due to the recent success of Ohota 👠

There is space on the environmentally friendly Nelly jet this month 🌚

I have my next entry ready — rarely happens, but it feels very correct and one of my favourite songs of the year so far — which means someone else will enter it before me

2 hours ago, blacksquare said:

Should we be checking Skyscanner for tickets to Ajanaeda? 🌚

I’ve reached out to Bre about help with adding because I am good at many things but Google Sheets isn’t one of those things. To be announced 😆

4 minutes ago, Josh! said:

I’ve reached out to Bre about help with adding because I am good at many things but Google Sheets isn’t one of those things. To be announced 😆

Let me know if you need any help. I can forward the Google Sheets template that Bre/leww made for me last year, although they might have come up with something snazzier since

One of my favourite things about hosting is doing the excel 😅 I have an unhealthy fixation with pretty numbers

there were 3 songs from last years’ contest that i just think were incredible and still listen to today… illusion, baby dragon and TRUST!

stranded and i can tell will be one of those songs this year, i’m obsessed