September 22Sep 22 Author 2017 ResultsLes Flops101 ** 26 RAYE - The Line100 ** 27 Jesca Hoop - Pegasi99 89 30 DJ Khaled (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne) - I'm The One98 ** 31 Sir Sly - High97 88 42 Enrique Iglesias (feat. Sean Paul & Matt Terry) - Súbeme La Radio96 ** 42 Logic (feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid) – 1-800-273-825595 84 44 Ayesha Erotica - Literal Legend94 ** 44 Clark - Peak Magnetic93 82 49 Robin Schulz & David Guetta (feat. Cheat Codes) - Shed A Light92 92 50 Big Thief - Mary91 69 51 Louis Tomlinson (feat. Bebe Rexha & Digital Farm Animals) - Back to You90 ** 55 St. Vincent - Masseduction89 70 56 SOPHIE - Ponyboy88 ** 61 Coldplay - Hypnotised87 71 62 Martin Jensen - Solo Dance86 ** 63 Charli XCX (feat. MØ) - 3AM (Pull Up)85 81 63 alt-J - Adeline84 77 66 Mabel (feat. Kojo Funds) - Finders Keepers83 ** 66 Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif382 ** 68 Charli XCX - Track 1081 ** 69 Marshmello (feat. Khalid) - Silence80 ** 74 Chainsmokers - Paris79 73 75 London Grammar - Big Picture78 60 75 J Balvin & Willy William - Mi Gente77 ** 77 Creeper - Hiding With Boys76 ** 78 St. Vincent - Los Ageless75 ** 81 Liam Payne (feat. Quavo) - Strip That Down74 ** 84 Cardi B - Bodak Yellow73 58 90 BROCKHAMPTON - JUNKY72 59 94 Avicii (feat. Sandro Cavazzo) - Without You71 56 97 Tove Lo - Disco Tits70 54 97 Lana Del Rey (feat. The Weeknd) - Lust For Life69 21 98 Lana Del Rey - Love68 61 101 Axwell /\ Ingrosso (feat. Bonn) - More Than You Know67 ** 105 Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes66 ** 106 N.E.R.D. & Rihanna - Lemon65 ** 107 Imagine Dragons – Thunder64 43 108 Gareth Emery & STANDERWICK (feat. HALIENE) - Saving Light63 ** 108 London Grammar - Rooting For You62 ** 109 Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life61 32 110 Drake - Passionfruit60 ** 112 Future - Mask Off59 ** 112 Louisa Johnson - Best Behaviour58 65 114 Camila Cabello - Crying In The Club57 ** 117 War On Drugs - Strangest Thing56 39 118 Kesha - Praying55 ** 121 Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios54 76 121 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You53 48 121 Sigala & Ella Eyre - Came Here For Love52 40 122 Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared To Be Lonely51 ** 124 Stormzy - Big For Your Boots50 36 126 Bicep - Glue49 74 130 Big Shaq - Man's Not Hot48 29 131 Justin Bieber & BloodPop® - Friends47 25 136 CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola46 66 138 Martin Solveig (feat. Ina Wroldsen) - Places45 35 142 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee - Despacito (Original / Justin Bieber Remix)44 ** 144 Imagine Dragons – Believer43 67 145 Lorde - Homemade Dynamite42 33 149 Katy Perry (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Swish Swish41 55 150 Tyler, the Creator (feat. Kali Uchis) - See You AgainNext year's auto-qualifiers:40 ** 155 Sam Fender - Play God39 ** 158 Jamiroquai - Automaton38 38 160 Katy Perry (feat. Migos) - Bon Appétit37 31 164 Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love36 37 164 Post Malone (feat. 21 Savage) - Rockstar35 17 176 alt-J - 3WW34 41 177 Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me33 24 178 CNCO - Reggaetón Lento (Original / Little Mix Remix)32 23 184 Katy Perry (feat. Skip Marley) - Chained To The Rhythm31 42 190 Miley Cyrus - Malibu30 19 193 Adele – Water Under The Bridge29 44 198 LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby28 08 198 Calvin Harris (feat. Frank Ocean & Migos) - Slide27 18 205 Jax Jones (feat. RAYE) - You Don't Know Me26 14 206 Arcade Fire - Everything Now25 34 209 Disciples - On My Mind24 15 213 French Montana (feat. Swae Lee) - Unforgettable23 13 216 Lorde - Perfect Places22 47 220 Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill21 20 221 Calvin Harris (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean) - FeelsSemi-Finalists:20 50 224 Little Mix - Power19 ** 228 Steps - Scared of the Dark18 22 229 ZAYN (feat. Sia) - Dusk Till Dawn17 63 230 Killers - The Man16 12 237 MGMT - Little Dark Age15 30 240 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still14 10 249 Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling13 27 257 Avicii (feat. Rita Ora) - Lonely Together12 26 268 Camila Cabello (feat. Young Thug) - Havana11 11 292 Paramore - Hard Times10 09 292 Harry Styles - Sign of the Times09 07 299 Little Mix - Touch08 16 302 Kendrick Lamar - Humble.07 28 304 P!nk - What About Us06 05 362 Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - SymphonyDirect to Final:05 04 383 Dua Lipa - New Rules04 06 394 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses03 01 410 Lorde - Green Light02 03 416 Dua Lipa - Be The One01 02 422 Rita Ora - AnywhereIn a close race Lorde has vacated the top spot for the year with the new victor being Rita Ora. Also overtaking her into 2nd is Dua Lipa, who remains directly in the final with both her big hitters of the year. In good news for indie fans Wolf Alice leapfrog over Clean Bandit to place direct-to-final.Little Mix continue to gain support in the contest this year, with 'Power' now joining 'Touch' in the semi-finals. The then-long-awaited comeback release from Steps is the highest returning entry, also passing to the semis. The Killers take a big jump to qualify with 'The Man' (possibly their best hit this side of the 2010s). Rising from modest top 40 positions to now have a second chance at making the final are entries from P!nk, Camila Cabello, Zayn, Portugal the Man and most importantly Avicii!! Superbowl impact also assists Kendrick to rise into the top 10 with 'Humble'.Meanwhile it's a sad goodbye to both of Calvin Harris' hits, with 'Slide' taking a big slide down from last year's top 10 position and 'Feels' narrowly losing out. We also unfortunately lose Jax Jones and French Montana from the top 20. Lorde, Arcade Fire, alt-J and Adele also take hits.
September 22Sep 22 Didn't expect one of my noms to make it into the semis! Good to see Steps going strong - sure it made the semis before but then seemed to go out of contention and wasn't even nommed last year!If only some of other noms were as successful Edited September 22Sep 22 by ElectroBoy
September 22Sep 22 'Oh Baby' and 'Play God' are great additions to the AQ zone. The latter was the first Sam Fender song I ever heard and probably still my favourite.
September 22Sep 22 Fantastic to see 'oh baby' get an AQ. Discovered that song thanks to an US TV miniseries called 'A Teacher'Probably the only one on here who appreciated 'another one' by DJ Khaled. Yes I know my taste in 'music' is very questionable on here.
September 22Sep 22 Pleased at Oh Baby and Don't Delete The Kisses, in what otherwise seems a slightly less good year for indie (my type of indie at least) based on the first 3 rates. I'm always curious in rates like this - is Don't Delete The Kisses getting 4x the points of Visions... because most people haven't heard the album so only know the main song? Or because most people genuinely think Don't Delete... is much better?For me Visions is the outstanding song on the album!(See also 3WW vs Adeline and various others)
September 22Sep 22 18 minutes ago, Mack said:What was the resurgence of Man's Not Hot?@gasman449 can take the mic for this one
September 22Sep 22 Didn't look at last year's results so didn't know "Man's Not Hot" was a nominee last year, thought I was ahead of the curve but obviously not. 😂 One of the rare "joke" songs that are actually funny AND stand up on their own as a song. Shame it's not progressing but I can't be upset with a top 50 finish 19 minutes ago, Mack said:What was the resurgence of Man's Not Hot?Beautiful is what it is!
September 23Sep 23 Oh dear, my nominations bombed again😆! This is my first year participating in this rate, so maybe I’ve been a bit naive nominating some relatively obscure stuff I like rather than things I think others might like/vote for?
September 23Sep 23 34 minutes ago, Jaz13music said:Oh dear, my nominations bombed again😆! This is my first year participating in this rate, so maybe I’ve been a bit naive nominating some relatively obscure stuff I like rather than things I think others might like/vote for?From several years of participating in RotD, I get the impression that most people only vote for what they already know. However I always try to listen to the songs I don't know, although it takes time to find them all (especially without a playlist), and I was a bit pushed this time, but I did like 'Strangest Thing' from your nonimations and it could have made my votes on another day. From 2016, 'Nobody's Baby' was one of my favourite discoveries and I gave it some points. So I appreciate the new finds, even if they don't end up qualifying!
September 23Sep 23 18 hours ago, rio309 said:Pleased at Oh Baby and Don't Delete The Kisses, in what otherwise seems a slightly less good year for indie (my type of indie at least) based on the first 3 rates.I'm always curious in rates like this - is Don't Delete The Kisses getting 4x the points of Visions... because most people haven't heard the album so only know the main song? Or because most people genuinely think Don't Delete... is much better?For me Visions is the outstanding song on the album!(See also 3WW vs Adeline and various others)love the album, but couldn't quite fit the title track into my votes in what is a pretty strong year imo, so I'm massively contributing to that skew (personally "Planet Hunter" is my favourite on it)
September 23Sep 23 1 hour ago, Jaz13music said:Oh dear, my nominations bombed again😆! This is my first year participating in this rate, so maybe I’ve been a bit naive nominating some relatively obscure stuff I like rather than things I think others might like/vote for?I think it’s always good to nominate and increase the variety and not worry too much how well it does. I do try and listen to what I don’t know but only get time to do it once so I can’t promise I always give it fair consideration if it doesn’t stand out immediately. Again no playlist does make it more effort, otherwise I might be able to listen more, but that’s certainly not a criticism of Dan as I know it’s a lot of work for him (and I think he tried to find a co-host but couldn’t this time).
September 23Sep 23 Thanks guys, I’ll keep doing what I’m doing then!To be honest I did reign my nominations in a bit, otherwise you might have got this masterpiece from Peter Cat Recording Co. for 2018. Maybe next year?!
September 23Sep 23 Please keep nominating your favourite tracks, even if obscure! I don't always get time to listen to unknown songs in this rate, but when I do they can often become favourites of my own. Examples from the last few years include Shum, Oh Baby, Wait (M83), Out Of The Woods, Saint Claude and of course Doomscroller which not only got me into that song but into the whole wonderful band that are Metric!
September 24Sep 24 12 hours ago, rio309 said:Please keep nominating your favourite tracks, even if obscure! I don't always get time to listen to unknown songs in this rate, but when I do they can often become favourites of my own. Examples from the last few years include Shum, Oh Baby, Wait (M83), Out Of The Woods, Saint Claude and of course Doomscroller which not only got me into that song but into the whole wonderful band that are Metric!Oh I have to admit I haven’t heard much Metric, so on your recommendation I’m going in for a deep dive! Where do you suggest starting?
September 24Sep 24 I always mean to listen to some of the songs I'm unfamiliar with for ROTD but then don't get around to it whoops - maybe I should make a playlist of the songs I don't know from this year and aim to familiarise myself with some of them in time for next year (With regards to the specific examples, I only really got into Wolf Alice during the 'Blue Weekend' era so I only know a handful of songs from the first two albums, I haven't heard 'Visions Of A Life', but re alt-J I do know the whole of that album and do just think '3WW' is by far the best song on it! Although 'Adeline' wasn't far off my votes and I would have voted for 'Deadcrush' if it was nominated x)
September 24Sep 24 10 hours ago, Jaz13music said:Oh I have to admit I haven’t heard much Metric, so on your recommendation I’m going in for a deep dive! Where do you suggest starting?Ooh tricky question. I started with whatever YouTube was recommending to me, which was generally the most popular songs.I'd say...DoomscrollerRiskGimme SympathyI Will Never SettleNow Or Never NowOther SideLost Kitten...is a good mix of songs to get started.Or, if you'd rather a complete album, either Fantasies or Formentera
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