Each week, 8 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026.

 

This week's results:

• Alan Walker x Sorana - Void 3

• Dusky - Manticore 2

• Grum - Mind Over Matter 2

• John Summit - Lights Go Out 2

• Lane 8 x Sultan + Shepard x sadHAPPY - Disappear 0

• LSR/CITY - Bones 1

• MJ Cole x PinkPantheress - Still Sincere 4

• Wilkinson x Mougleta - Eternity 3

Tiebreak:

• George Reid - True Desire 11

• Grum - Primal 6

Another week without a runaway winner however we narrowly avoid a tiebreak situation as it is congrats to MJ Cole & PinkPantheress with 'Still Sincere', a re-working of Cole's 1998 UK garage hit. Pink having not yet been born at the time obviously was not on the original version! Meanwhile Alan Walker and Wilkinson both finish as runners-up. In the tiebreak poll, George Reid takes a convincing victory - his first here and beating former bandmate Aluna to it.

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Each week, choose one song only that you feel is your favourite from the selection of releases that week. If you wish to post a rate of the selection of songs in the thread, please feel free to do so.

Here are this week's contenders

Results of this week's poll will be revealed in next week's thread. The poll will remain open until the following Friday.

 

2026 Dance Track of the Week Winners:

Week 1+2: DJ Seinfeld - Plush

Week 3: Danny L Harle x Julia Michaels - Raft In The Sea

Week 4: George Reid - True Desire

Week 5: MJ Cole x PinkPantheress - Still Sincere

link to 2025 winners

link to 2024 winners

link to 2023 winners

calvin

Lots of goodies this week but my vote goes to Calvin & Kasabian

My Ranking

Best:

FADE

Don't Want Your Love

Good:

Taking Over

Rain

Meh:

Never Let You Go

Cycles

The Not So Good:

Confession

Release The Pressure

Gone for FISHER, with Calvin only marginally behind but still some way below par

1. Alesso x Pendulum - Fade

2. Illenium x Ellie Goulding - Don't Want Your Love

3. Calvin Harris x Kasabian - Release the Pressure

4. LF System x Obi Franky - Taking Over

5. CamelPhat x Arodes - Cycles

6. Fisher - Rain

7. MK x Illyus Barrientos - Never Let You Go

8. D.O.D x Poppy Baskcomb - Confession

My personal rankings for Week 6;

1. Alesso x Pendulum – Fade

2. Illenium x Ellie Goulding – Don't Want Your Love

3. MK x Illyus Barrientos – Never Let You Go

4. D.O.D x Poppy Baskcomb – Confession

5. Calvin Harris x Kasabian – Release the Pressure

6. LF System x Obi Franky – Taking Over

7. CamelPhat x Arodes – Cycles

8. Fisher – Rain

any more votes? we do have a close call between former collaborators Alesso and Calvin

1 Calvin Harris

2 FISHER

3 Alesso

4 CamelPhat

5 MK

6 LF SYSTEM

7 ILLENIUM

8 D.O.D

Most of the picks this week fall into the bucket of 'competent but forgettable' (although the D.O.D song is disappointingly bland after enjoying 'Think About Us'), 4-7 could really be in any order, I did expect better from CamelPhat at least. The Calvin song is catchy enough and has enough interesting production elements going on to make it a keeper if not an instant Calvin classic - it was already sounding better on listen 2 having caught it on the radio for a first listen the other day - and the FISHER song did stand out as having a bit more of a unique vibe to it as well.