September 8Sep 8 Author 2015 ResultsLes Flops95 ** 15 Lady Lamb - Dear Arkansas Daughter94 ** 55 Big Moon - Sucker93 63 56 TheFatRat (feat. Laura Brehm) - Monody92 ** 58 Jamie Lawson - Wasn't Expecting That91 72 58 Lost Frequencies (feat. Janieck Devy) - Reality90 ** 59 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Downtown89 48 69 Lana Del Rey - High By The Beach88 84 71 Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me87 102 71 Loïc Nottet - Rhythm Inside86 77 72 Philip George & Anton Powers - Alone No More85 ** 77 Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin84 ** 77 Mumford & Sons - Believe83 ** 81 Imagine Dragons - Shots82 62 81 David Zowie - House Every Weekend81 ** 87 Taylor Swift - Wonderland80 93 90 Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo - Rhymes79 68 91 Sigala - Easy Love78 67 94 Wiz Khalifa (feat. Charlie Puth) - See You Again77 ** 101 Fall Out Boy - Uma Thurman76 76 104 Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July75 70 106 Jess Glynne - Hold My Hand74 ** 108 Jessie J - Flashlight73 58 110 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Ballad of the Mighty I72 ** 111 Blonde (feat. Alex Newell) - All Cried Out71 65 112 Florence & The Machine - What Kind of Man70 92 114 Maccabees - Spit It Out69 38 118 Everything Everything - No Reptiles68 ** 119 Taylor Swift - New Romantics67 ** 122 David Bowie - Lazarus66 33 122 Sia - Elastic Heart65 41 127 Everything Everything - Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread64 46 128 Jess Glynne - Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself63 51 130 Sigala (feat. Bryn Christopher) - Sweet Lovin 62 54 134 99 Souls (feat. Destiny's Child & Brandy) - The Girl Is Mine61 74 137 Avicii (feat. Nick Furlong) - The Nights60 40 139 Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers59 50 139 Pia Mia (feat. Chris Brown & Tyga) - Do It Again 58 ** 139 Muse - Psycho57 94 140 Declan McKenna - Brazil 56 44 141 Hailee Steinfeld - Love Myself55 ** 141 Fetty Wap - Trap Queen54 18 141 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood53 64 145 One Direction - Drag Me Down52 ** 145 Disclosure - Magnets (feat. Lorde)51 57 148 Omi - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)50 56 158 James Bay - Hold Back the River49 ** 161 Kendrick Lamar - Alright48 31 163 Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me47 37 164 Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You46 ** 166 Jamie xx (feat. Popcaan & Young Thug) - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)45 27 166 David Bowie - Blackstar44 47 166 CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace43 35 168 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta42 52 173 Avicii (feat. Simon Aldred) - Waiting For Love41 23 175 Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face(Would-Have-Been) Next year's auto-qualifiers:40 ** 175 Little Mix - Black Magic39 ** 176 Snakehips, Tinashe & Chance The Rapper - All My Friends38 39 176 CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue37 80 178 Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry36 34 180 Everything Everything - Distant Past35 42 181 Wolf Alice - Silk34 55 185 Carly Rae Jepsen - Your Type33 22 186 Disturbed - Sound of Silence32 24 192 Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive31 59 192 Skrillex & Diplo (with Justin Bieber) - Where Are Ü Now30 78 195 Jamie xx (feat. Romy) - Loud Places29 17 197 Demi Lovato - Cool For The Summer28 32 200 Coldplay - Adventure of a Lifetime27 30 200 MNEK & Zara Larsson - Never Forget You26 16 204 Years & Years - Shine25 25 219 Little Mix - Love Me Like You24 13 219 Weeknd - The Hills23 ** 221 Fleur East - Sax22 12 223 Galantis - Runaway (U & I)21 ** 240 Taylor Swift - Out Of The WoodsSemi-Finalists:20 08 242 Calvin Harris (feat. HAIM) - Pray To God19 21 245 Kygo (feat. Conrad Sewell) - Firestone18 28 250 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance17 20 255 Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love16 26 256 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?15 06 257 Hozier - Take Me To Church14 36 257 Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better13 05 262 Major Lazer (feat. DJ Snake & MØ) - Lean On12 29 266 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do11 10 268 Grimes - Kill V. Maim10 09 279 Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams09 19 292 Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go08 15 295 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk07 07 307 Justin Bieber - Sorry06 14 316 Adele - HelloDirect to Final:05 11 336 Tame Impala - Let It Happen04 02 379 Taylor Swift - Style03 04 393 Years & Years - King02 01 409 Ariana Grande - One Last Time01 03 456 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With MeIt is thus condragulations to Carly Rae Jepsen who runs away with the yearly voting. She had previously won the entire contest with this song, had fell out of favour a little in the middle of its decade but has crept back up the rankings in recent years so we cannot rule out this being sent off with a second victory. Meanwhile it is one last time for Ariana joining in the final with other familiar favourites from Years & Years and Taylor Swift. More popular than ever though we let happen Tame Impala placing as the 5th direct finalist, a song that started its decade in relative obscurity but now a firm Buzzjack favourite. His other big hit from the year is also for the first time a semi-finalist. It means we lose Major Lazer as an direct finalist but they still have a shot in the semi-finals.A good year for Justin Bieber helped by his comeback album Swag, Sorry is joined by What Do You Mean in the semi-finals. The Chemical Brothers made it to the final round for the first time last year and they may well go for it again as they jump into the top 10. Grimes oddly sees a sudden drop in support for Flesh Without Blood but her other song Kill V. Maim remains steady. Huge hits from Ellie Goulding, Walk The Moon and Kygo (yay!) re-join the semi-finalists. Sadly dropping out in their place are Galantis and The Weeknd whilst we also lose the other Y&Y hit and Demi Lovato. After a worrying first set of votes, support for the two Calvin Harris songs eventually picked up and both remain in contention. Taylor's Out of the Woods shows as the "highest entry", just missing a semi-finalist placement, though was actually just placed in 2014 previously (it was given a single push in 2015, so I've allowed it). Not far behind as the actual biggest returner we have X Factor one hit wonder Fleur East (who knew this was still so highly regarded?). Sadly not much of a support pickup for Avicii in the final year his 'Stories' era can shine with Waiting For Love just outside the top 40 and The Nights a little further down.
September 8Sep 8 YAY for Run Away With Me. I think it's a tall shout for it to score a win again, but if it could squeeze in another year in the top 10, that'd be such a deserved goodbye for one of my favourite songs of all time. 🥰Love seeing Your Type finish top 40 too, and a "would've been" qualifier position.
September 8Sep 8 Oh dear it’s a shame Big Moon came second to last, I think it’s a lovely slice of Pixies/Elastica influenced female fronted indie rock.I didn’t realise that Let It Happen was relatively obscure at first, it’s always been my favourite from that year even from its initial release.
September 8Sep 8 Taylor's Out of the Woods shows as the "highest entry", just missing a semi-finalist placement, though was actually just placed in 2014 previously (it was given a single push in 2015, so I've allowed it).Technically it could belong to 2016 too! Arguably more so than 2015 honestly. It was sent to US radio in January 2016, making its release date 19th January 2016 - despite starting out as a promotional single on 14th October 2014. Its music video premiered on TV on 31st December 2015 and was released to YouTube on 1st January 2016. A three year spanning bop! Of the 30 songs I voted for, the worst performing here is Blonde - All Cried Out. Happy that Run Away with Me is highly regarded after a decade. A classic.Interesting to see Sigala - Easy Love rather low down here considering that it's a BJSC winner.
September 8Sep 8 Author 1 minute ago, Jaz13music said:I didn’t realise that Let It Happen was relatively obscure at first, it’s always been my favourite from that year even from its initial release.It didn't even receive a nomination in its first three years but clearly picked up some popularity somewhere along the wayIts chart run so far has beenxx-xx-xx-108-58-83-202-49-37-(top 200 = semi-finals, top 100 = finals)
September 8Sep 8 Tame Impala being top 5 is one of the worst results of these yearly decade events. What on earth has caused the boost in popularity with them here? Shocking stuff.
September 8Sep 8 13 hours ago, danG said:you've got The Hills on there twice so I've bumped up the rest of your votes up one positionSorry Dan I thought I sent this at work but forgot I got busy and didn’t get chance so had to rush it in mobile and it takes a lot more effort ahah.Thank you! ❤️
September 9Sep 9 Ugh most of my favourites (well the ones that had a realistic chance of qualifying) fell out in the no-use-to-anyone AQ zone! Happy at the small climbs for Maccabees and Wolf Alice, sad at the drops for Everything Everything. Does this mean a better or worse year for indie...?
September 9Sep 9 19 minutes ago, rio309 said:Ugh most of my favourites (well the ones that had a realistic chance of qualifying) fell out in the no-use-to-anyone AQ zone! Happy at the small climbs for Maccabees and Wolf Alice, sad at the drops for Everything Everything. Does this mean a better or worse year for indie...?We're losing one core alt/indie voter this year, at least for this batch. Let's hope the aforementioned voter returns for the remaining batches.
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