Hello! It's wonderful to have 60 of you with us for BJSC 180, a great number of participants for this celebratory contest that marks 18 years since BJSC began. We have been there since the very start alongside Republique d'Askorza and it's a pleasure to be able to host for the first time since 2014 after Luukered by SADU became our ninth win in BJSC 179, expertly hosted by Jadakissnia.

Let's get underway with this month's semi-finals, including the two auto-qualifiers from FSR Rontvia and FARC that you will have the opportunity to vote for in the final, should you wish to!

AQ:

FSR Rontvia: Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Only Girl

FARC: Snow Wife - YoYo

1. Taahino: 3Quency - Once I Was A Good Girl

2. Séyetana: VIOLENT VIRA - Saccharine

3. Lentyll: bbno$ - 1-800 (feat. ironmouse)

4. Herbilore: Francesca Michielin - FRANCESCA

5. Mothertopia: JT - Girls Gone Wild

6. Jadakissnia: Death Hags - Oublie Moi

7. Harmonica: ARY - Running In A Dream

8. Dalisska: Flora Fishbach - La Machiavela

9. Zephyra Continuum: hannah bahng - MISUNDERSTOOD

10. Land of DW: Euromasters - Amsterdam... Waar Lech Dat Dan? (Maastunnel Mix)

11. The Spodic Empire: Marc Moon - Dubai

12. Aeroche: DOVE & Kehina - CHROMA 009 KR36

13. Ojnoj: Absolutely - No Audience

14. Aesthetica: f5ve - I Choose You STROBE WARNING

15. East Rukahavian: LUNÈS - Hold on the moment

16. Jupiterdonia: Marian Hill & Steve Davit - remember me

17. Deandria: Blacky - Ööö

18. Greenfroze: LEE CHANHYUK - Vivid LaLa Love

19. A-Konohagakure: Sukatani - Tumbal Proyek

20. Macromia: Ea Othilde - I'm Ready For Love

21. Sandénia: notyourwife - Pretend We're Fine

22. Pestolia: Sassy 009 - Enemy

23. Scotland 2: bassvictim - 27a Pitfield St

24. POPHub: Goodnight Louisa - Actor

25. Pagasa: Danny Brown & underscores - Copycats

26. Freidland: Dayglow - Close To You

27. Thelonia: Mojave Grey - Mayday

28. Flynnonda: KNIFE BRIDE - alone at the altar

29. Republique d'Askorza: Say Now - Can't Keep A Beat

1. Bøtanikkä: AY YOLA - Homay

2. Ajanaeda: Alessi Rose - Get Around

3. Danæviia: Austra - Fallen Cloud

4. Neliönoir: Rakky Ripper - Las Cosas De Antes STROBE WARNING

5. Kathaldazia: XRUSTALIC - 892SICK

6. N DNTN: XG - GALA

7. Elëdan: Amaia - Aralar

8. Zanmatony: Steven Wilson - Drive Home

9. Fljótavík: Tori Amos - Spark

10. Kluminican Republic: Mall Grab & Real Lies - Ripples In The Timeline

11. Altyr Muunilinst: Metteson - Hunger

12. Skall: Oneohtrix Point Never - Rodl Glide

13. Terra Avium: ANOTHER; COUNTRY $$$$ - TETHER STROBE WARNING

14. Summericia: Markus Schulz - Destiny (feat. Delacey)

15. Utopia: Daniel Avery & Ellie - Haze

16. Yehesi: Evangelía - Vále

17. Persephonia: Boko Yout - DEMOLITION MAN STROBE WARNING

18. Aelandor: Saltillo - A Hair On The Head Of John The Baptist

19. New Lexico: Eli - Like A Girl

20. Lookylion: Chandler Leighton - Say Less

21. Dobago: Clara Cuvé - 4 am

22. Baleghde: Bob Moses - Time Of Your Life

23. Cheiron: INJI - TEEN ANGST

24. Trifoski: Valgur - Máscara De Niña

25. Sovarasma: paco te quiero - qué más da

26. Bronzil: The Hellp - Live Forever

27. Cumulonimbia: Narciss - Ludmilla

28. Hendinia: Iris Caltwait - Alchemy (Living Is Not For The Heart)

29. Cor Lupus: Jerry Heil - Earth (Dradada)

Please rank your 10 favourite songs from your semi using the Eurovison 12 point scoring system (12 points for your favourite, then 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 for your 10th favourite). FSR Rontvia and FARC are required as AQs to vote in both semis.

Please send your votes to me (gooddelta) via PM. Do not share your votes with other participants.

Votes must be submitted before 11.59pm GMT on Friday 5th December with semi-final results hopefully set to follow on the evening of Saturday 6th December, where 20 songs from each semi-final will progress to a 42-song final with FSR Rontvia and FARC. We will let you know ASAP if any deadline for voting or hosting changes.

Late votes will be accepted until 2pm GMT on Saturday 6th December, albeit with a 15% deduction. No further votes will be accepted past this point. Nations who fail to vote will have their score deducted by 33%.

Listenthroughs will be held during the week - if somebody is able to volunteer to host these then I would be very appreciative as am busy on quite a few evenings this week due to travelling for work.

Votes received:

Semi-Final 1:

Thelonia

Pestolia

(2/31)

Semi-Final 2:

Cheiron

Lookylion

(2/31)

Spotify playlists:

Semi-Final 1:

Semi-Final 2:

YouTube Playlists

Semi-Final 1:

Semi-Final 2:

Edited 13 hours ago13 hr by gooddelta

not bbno$ passing the veto

Ooh Rich I've literally just charted your AQ, excellent choice 😍

I'm also a fan of Ansel, Dandy, Leww and RabbitFurCoat's songs off the top of my head, so hype to those.

Not sure if this is the best semi for my pick oops but we'll see. Excited to make my way through all of the songs as there's still plenty I don't know!

Not having to follow mother Austra

rip

SF2 looking strong at first glance, I knew ‘Alchemy’ would make an appearance. It’s on all the BJSC putty playlists — just noticed Absolutely in SF1 too

5 minutes ago, Jade said:

Ooh Rich I've literally just charted your AQ, excellent choice 😍

I'm also a fan of Ansel, Dandy, Leww and RabbitFurCoat's songs off the top of my head, so hype to those.

Not sure if this is the best semi for my pick oops but we'll see. Excited to make my way through all of the songs as there's still plenty I don't know!

Ooh amazing! I heard it last week and felt it was the kind of song I have been crying out for - a catchy indie/rock/pop song but with a prominent violin line ❤️

Not Nelly and I entering Spanish language songs and being in one semi.

I'm completely fcked in semi 1, pretty much everyone who might like my entry is in semi 2.

Love 'Only Girl', great choice!

There is an artist called Death Hags and they’re not in my semi?!

A crime x

1 minute ago, blacksquare said:

There is an artist called Death Hags and they’re not in my semi?!

A crime x

I'm fuming x

3Quency making their debut! *.*

Anyway defo know and enjoy that bbno$ x ironmouse collab

3 minutes ago, Jade said:

I'm fuming x

I’m serving Spanish Oklou and you’re not there 💔

Interesting batch, but I have to make this one observation... one song in Semi 1 was my personal entry in Unknown Pleasures a few years back;

https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/250925-up-xxx-the-lucid-dream-edition-results-era/page/6/#findComment-7010210

Glad I made it with one of my favourite guitar solos ever. ❤️

The semis have come out fairly mixed, each seems to have a good mix of pop, alt, dance and other, and with a few big contenders in both, although Semi 2 on first glance has more depth of quality based on my first listens.

Btw, if I have the wrong version of anybody's song on Spotify, please shout. I'm happy that all the entries are on there but haven't cross checked all of the versions with the YouTube links provided yet as just wanted to get the semis up to maximise voting time.

33 minutes ago, uhsting said:

not bbno$ passing the veto

Literally got 0 veto points.

11 minutes ago, awardinary said:

Interesting batch, but I have to make this one observation... one song in Semi 1 was my personal entry in Unknown Pleasures a few years back;

https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/250925-up-xxx-the-lucid-dream-edition-results-era/page/6/#findComment-7010210

Glad I made it with one of my favourite guitar solos ever. ❤️

This was why I made this post the other day x

22 hours ago, Brer said:

BTW yes if songs were sent to song contests elsewhere on the site it will be picked up in research but it's not an auto-veto (that's only for songs that were previously in BJSC or BJSC spinoffs), just something that'll be considered.

(these are... not the songs I expected people to take issue with here )

I was going to go for f5ve - I Choose You originally but then I saw that they finished 2nd fairly recently so decided against it...

I expected bbno$ to be killed by the veto which is why even tho I’ve been obsessed with 1-800 for absolute months on end I haven’t even tried it 🫠

Tori Amos shock winner 😃

who's gonna take the bullet and confirm tommy cash/oliver tree