Congrats blacksquare, a great top 3 actually! I wish Utopia could've snuck top 10 and Herbilore deserved better. Happy to take my 2nd 28th of the year and I'm glad Jae Stephens did better for Aesthetica than she did for me xx Great hosting dandy! ☺️

22 hours ago, Jade said:

Hype!

My electronic entries seem to be difficult to predict, so no idea what to expect, but would love another top 20 scrape if possible

17 hours ago, dandy* said:

20

Jadakissnia

S1RENA - DNA 1NTERLUDE / DNA

152

Well I got that wish with a literal 20th place, oh my thanks to everyone who supported S1RENA - 5 top 20s this year so far is great!

A huge congrats to blacksquare 🖤 knew and loved 'storm' pre-contest as you know, so unsurprisingly that is now my new favourite winner of the year! Actually I have to extend that praise to both of the top two, as ARGO received my gold medal on top of Night Tapes getting my silver, so hands down my favourite top 2 of 2025. Delighted with how well FSR Rontvia performed, what an inspired pick with a sound that is catnip to Jadakissnian ears.

Elsewhere in the top 10 I also voted for Joon Gloom and MERCY, so 4/10 feels like less than usual, but quite a few other favourites landed in the 11-20 section at least. Such a shame that my bronze, courtesy of none other than Bronzil, ended up outside of the top 30 - justice for Fazerdaze!

Thank you Dandy for a fabulous hosting job

I know what I’m sending next month already so open the schools confirmations!!!!!!

We also demand immediate Green Room!

50 minutes ago, Ansel said:

Congrats blacksquare, a great top 3 actually! I wish Utopia could've snuck top 10 and Herbilore deserved better. Happy to take my 2nd 28th of the year and I'm glad Jae Stephens did better for Aesthetica than she did for me xx Great hosting dandy! ☺️

I've had her on my potentials playlsit for about a year now and I just kept talking myself out of sending her until I heard Afterbody. It's a special track!

11 minutes ago, Travis said:

I've had her on my potentials playlsit for about a year now and I just kept talking myself out of sending her until I heard Afterbody. It's a special track!

I'm glad you did, her singles from the last year-ish have been so good!

I have a few ideas for next month also, leaning towards something typically taahino (00s sounding pop punk, female vocals, high energy) but we'll see 😌 I have another potential that's both Marina and Chappell vibes (think oh no meets naked in Manhattan but a bit more low-key)

8 minutes ago, Lindsey. said:

I have a few ideas for next month also, leaning towards something typically taahino (00s sounding pop punk, female vocals, high energy) but we'll see 😌 I have another potential that's both Marina and Chappell vibes (think oh no meets naked in Manhattan but a bit more low-key)

well the latter sounds AMAZING

9 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Yes, I have a folder saved of just over 20 countries' NMF playlists that I check each week and skim through them (it ends up being about 1,000 tracks weekly so I can't listen to even half of them in full even if I wanted to). Occasionally as I'm skimming through something really catches my ear (like Korku) and I'll save it to another playlist to properly listen, and this particular song ended up staying with me and getting repeat plays.

I don't find all my BJSC entries this way, but since I don't really keep an eye on blogs anymore I would say that maybe 50% come from this method. Other times I have found my entries through YouTube recommendations - I think Voryva was for example. NADA and f*** IT were from Popjustice NMF, Loss Is Not Infinite was on NMF UK, Indian Spirits was from an old 90s German compilation CD, so a bit of a mix.

Jeez, I am envious of both your attention span and time to be able to do this. My New Music Friday playlist still has stuff from January on it because I’ll start listening to new stuff and then after like 5 songs, I’ll get distracted and think “well… I feel like listening to Midnight Sun again”

I usually go into rabbit holes of checking similar artist suggestions that lead to more and more obscure artists. It’s actually not that time consuming. As long you follow all of the new artists you discover, Spotify just recommends you stuff based on that so in a few weeks your algorithms gets tailored to your taste entirely.

24 minutes ago, RobBot said:

Jeez, I am envious of both your attention span and time to be able to do this. My New Music Friday playlist still has stuff from January on it because I’ll start listening to new stuff and then after like 5 songs, I’ll get distracted and think “well… I feel like listening to Midnight Sun again”

Fortunately I'm able to listen to music at work which helps (and is where I do 80% of my music listening each week as on my commute I tend to watch the soaps 😂), so really this playlist is just background noise until something stops me in my tracks and I make a mental note to add it to my playlist of songs to check again. Tbf, Midnight Sun was one such song when I first heard it!

Edited Wednesday at 19:534 days by gooddelta

Afterbody is winning Rejects this year if it happens! Or it's gonna win whatever second chance contest! #JUSTICE4JAE

You tell 'em Travis!!

Apols for the delay due to my carelessness in not saving Excel but finally got all votes inputted again so here's this month's YTD update (I've even put in the previous positions this time after Rob's update made me think that's probably a good idea x).

After the top 3 were separated by only 26 points in the last update, it spaces out considerably now with Neliönoir's win powering them out to a 151 point lead over Danæviia who hold in 2nd and now themselves have a 119 point lead over 3rd. But the gaps could tighten just as quickly as they widened with 3 contests still to go so stay tuned x Bøtanikkä's DNQ pushes them down 3 places to 6th with Kluminican Republic and Jadakissnia rising a place each to 3rd and 4th while Cor Lupus tumble -1 places down to 5th. Aeroche jump 2 places to 7th ahead of Hendinia and Fljótavík while Ajanaeda climb to 10th, knocking out Greenfroze (with FSR Rontvia also rallying to just outside the top 10 following their silver medal).

My DNQ hasn't punished me as much as I expected, I'm only down 8 places and still solidly in the top 30 for now although it's a setback to my hopes of a return to the EOY top 20 which I am now just over 100 points off the pace for.

1 1 1562 Neliönoir

2 2 1411 Danæviia

3 4 1292 Kluminican Republic

4 5 1242 Jadakissnia

5 6 1235 Cor Lupus

6 3 1211 Bøtanikkä

7 9 1210 Aeroche

8 7 1172 Hendinia

9 8 1171 Fljótavík

10 11 1168 Ajanaeda

11 17 1134 FSR Rontvia

12 10 1108 Greenfroze

13 14 1072 Skall

14 16 1066 Kathaldazia

15 13 1034 Altyr Muunilinst

16 22 1030 Cumulonimbia

17 19 1026 Aesthetica

18 12 1026 FARC

19 21 993 République d'Áskorza

20 18 982 Why So Sirius

21 20 976 Land of DW

22 23 919 Bronzil

23 15 881 Persephonia

24 27 881 Trifoski

25 33 864 POPHub

26 28 856 Lotunia

27 30 856 Terra Avium

28 31 840 Pestolia

29 24 806 Séyetana

30 25 763 Baleghde

31 26 759 Macromia

32 34 755 Zanmatony

33 35 742 New Lexico

34 32 742 Mothertopia

35 29 732 Lookylion

36 37 664 Elëdan

37 36 654 Taahino

38 39 536 Thelonia

39 40 531 Aelandor

40 38 478 Scotland 2

41 49 462 Cheiron

42 46 438 Herbilore

43 47 436 A-Konohagakure

44 41 434 Dobago

45 42 418 Hinterlandia

46 43 399 Jupiterdonia

47 44 395 The Spodic Empire

48 45 387 Ben's Sanctuary

49 48 351 Yehesi

50 60 331 Summericia

51 50 288 Hushkanukia

52 57 260 Flynnonda

53 51 229 Singerpurear

54 ** 190 Utopia

55 52 164 Beaverdonia

56 53 157 Kylienips

57 54 141 Oslol

58 55 121 Ojnoj

59 ** 120 Sandénia

60 56 114 Niceland

61 58 106 Ultraviolenceland

62 59 97 Palmyra

63 61 93 East Rukahavian

64 62 83 Conoria

65 ** 63 Suedeonia

On 17/09/2025 at 07:51, Addy! said:

And omg, not me giving points to the whole Top 11...the taste ...I don't think I ever remember it happened before but then those stats only @Brer would know

Concocted the Excel wizardry required to check this and it has happened twice before - Bignia-Zaragovina voted for all of the top 11 in BJSC 30 and Kluminican Republic voted for all of the top 11 in BJSC 82. #extremelyobscurestats

(in fact for the former it was the entire top 13 they voted for - although worth noting that was a contest with only 30 songs in it but still using the 18 point voting system).

Baring in mind, I’ve not had a single finish better than 8th all year, to still be sitting pretty in the top 10 of the YTD feels like an achievement to me! 😂

Thanks for the update, Bré!

I wasn't expecting to have climbed 😮 I haven't been in the top 10 since 173 but the further top 20s / consistent Qs are still helping for now. Yay!

can we get an all time scoreboard pls

Not if it's just you fishing for something to ragebait at x (do you have no thoughts on this update? xx)

((Will do one later x))

Not me finishing in 6th place and still falling! 😆

Although admittedly it's because it is all incredibly tight from 4th down to Rontvia in 11th