Each week, new releases from the world of pop are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner. The winners will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2025.

Week 42 results:

Melanie C - Sweat 7

Kim Petras - I Like Ur Look 4

5 Seconds of Summer - Boyband 3

Leigh-Anne - Dead and Gone 3

Carly Rae Jepsen - Lost in Devotion 2

Chloe Qisha - So Sad So Hot 2

Lexie Liu - X 2

Alec Benjamin - Pretending 1

Lauren Jauregui - Ego 1

Charlie Puth - Changes 0

jxdn - Reputation 0

Thomas Rhett feat. Niall Horan - Old Tricks 0

Total votes: 25

Sporty Spice returns and tops the poll this week with her new single Sweat, taken from her upcoming album. Surprisingly - after waves of support for Jade and Perrie in the polls here - when Leigh-Anne releases a pop-leaning single she only picks up 3 votes.

Week 43:

Choose one song that is your favourite from the selection of new releases this week. Feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread.

Here are this week's contenders:

5 Seconds of Summer - Telephone Busy

Elevator Boys - Fever Dream

Lewis Capaldi - Almost

MARINA - SEX IS POWER

Rose Gray & JADE - Angel of Satisfaction

Selena Gomez - In the Dark

Slayyyter - CRANK

Sophie and the Giants - Loser

Westlife - Chariot

Results of this week's poll will be revealed in next week's thread. The poll will remain open until 04:59 on Friday!

Pop Track of the Week 2025: Winners

Week 1: Celeste - Everyday

Week 2: JADE - IT girl

Week 3: Kylie Minogue & YouNotUs - Someone For Me

Week 4: Tate McRae - Sports car

Week 5: Tom Grennan - Shadowboxing

Week 6: Lady Gaga - Abracadabra

Week 7: Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman

Week 8: Tate McRae - Revolving door

Week 9: Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else

Week 10: Remember Monday - What The Hell Just Happened?

Week 11: JADE - FUFN (F**k You For Now)

Week 12: Jonas Brothers - Love Me to Heaven

Week 13: Ariana Grande - twilight zone

Week 14: Ed Sheeran - Azizam

Week 15: MARINA - CUNTISSIMO

Week 16: Addison Rae - Headphones On

Week 17: Zara Larsson - Pretty Ugly

Week 18: MØ - Lose Yourself

Week 19: PinkPantheress - Illegal

Week 20: Jessie J - Living My Best Life

Week 21: Reneé Rapp - Leave Me Alone

Week 22: Addison Rae - Fame is a Gun

Week 23: Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

Week 24: Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

Week 25: JADE - Plastic Box

Week 26: Lewis Capaldi - Survive

Week 27: Agnes - MILK

Week 28: BLACKPINK - JUMP

Week 29: Mae Muller - Hello Kitty

Week 30: Olly Murs - Save Me

Week 31: Chappell Roan - The Subway

Week 32: Rita Ora - Joy

Week 33: Girls Aloud - Singapore (Definitive Version)

Week 34: Perrie - If He Wanted to He Would

Week 35: Sabrina Carpenter - Tears

Week 36: Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance

Week 37: JADE - Unconditional

Week 38: Madison Beer - yes baby

Week 39: Zara Larsson - Blue Moon

Week 40: Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia

Week 41: Demi Lovato - Kiss

Week 42: Melanie C - Sweat

Is there no Lily Allen due there not being an official single?

Chariot. It's probably my favourite Westlife song since they reformed.

Shane Filan et al.

Pussy Palace truly ROBD

Went with Selena

Edited Monday at 10:544 days by Lee_J11

Westlife winning, really? Maybe I'll have to give it another listen because it didn't sound like anything special to me on first listen!

My personal rankings for Week 43;

1. Westlife – Chariot

2. Rose Gray & JADE – Angel Of Satisfaction

3. Slayyyter – CRANK

4. Selena Gomez – In The Dark

5. Sophie and the Giants – Loser

6. Elevator Boys – Fever Dream

7. MARINA – SEX IS POWER

8. 5 Seconds of Summer – Telephone Busy

9. Lewis Capaldi – Almost

Would never give a Westlife song a vote, but "Chariot" sounds like one of their best. Selena Gomez' song the stand out one here for me. The Marina song is a disappointment.

The original 'Angel Of Satisfaction' is my favourite thing Rose Gray has done in this era, but the remix doesn't improve it, so I've taken Lewis off zero instead.

I was thinking the same, what did JADE add to it, a backing/co-vocal? It didn't sound very different to the original to me.

The list above is all average to poor for me, so I will add another vote to Westlife. I don't love it but the Avicii if he was Irish sound is an interesting swerve (that sounds like it's from 2015, but still).

Decided not to include Lily as, true, there's no official single but then also means going down the road of a song included based on playlist support for all the other pop albums released.

Of this list, I am Sophie & The Giants sole supporter! I thought the Westlife song was really bad and cringy lyrically and I like to defend Westlife where I can

Would’ve easily gone for any of the push tracks from Demi, Lily, Marina OR Sigrid but I understand why that’s muddy waters of what to pick sometimes.