Time is running out.

Live Show Three unfortunately saw us say goodbye to Chappell Roan and ROSALÍA, but now as Pop Fleet 26 continues on to find Lady BuzzJack, the only way to guarantee safety and make it to the Semi Final is by confronting a dangerous species of fish that have demanded to feed on the energy radiated by powerful flop singles. Please the floppy fishes and you could be through to the Semi Final of The Pop Factor. Fail to please them, and it could be the end of the road. So the question remains, who is going to make it, find Lady BuzzJack, and win?

How it works:

Once again, voting will be strictly private. When you've listened to all of the artists perform in Live Show Four, you should cast your votes by completing THIS form, ranking the performances from favourite to least favourite.

For those voting that are competing in the Live Show, you must vote. Failure to vote by a competing artist will result in an 18 point deduction from your final score.

And as always, if you are not competing in The Pop Factor you are more than welcome to vote too by completing the form.

And, you guessed, that's not all...

When voting closes, we'll cross over to the results show where TWO artists will be eliminated from the competition. The first - the artist with the least points - will be eliminated from the competition automatically. The remaining bottom two artists with the least points will then come face to face with our four judges once again: Commander Eye Sack, Le Jé d’Eleven, The Rogue Trader and Jimmy-Jam Watts. They will decide the artist that remains in the competition.

With the judges on thin ice, will they break the habit of a lifetime and reach a majority, or will they take us to deadlock for the fourth consecutive time this season?

Voting closes on Monday 13 April 2026, 17:59 BST

Reminder: voting is private. To vote, click the link to the form above.

So now, one more time before the Semi Final...

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Standard list of entries:

Delta Goodrem - Back to Your Heart

Conan Gray - Lonely Dancers

Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light

David Bowie - ★ (Blackstar)

Lily Allen - Lost My Mind

ABBA - Eagle (Long Version)

Florence + the Machine - Hunger

Atomic Kitten - You Are

Kelly Clarkson - People Like Us

Everyone was speedy with their flops!

Love that Lily song

Edited Thursday at 07:285 days by ElectroBoy

Wow another round where I’ll be making a fair few discoveries!

That Kelly song was one of my fav songs ever as a teenager, so I’m so glad it’ll get its chance to shine here as I never expected to see it show up in this competition!

First Kelly song that I’m not particularly in love with - started to get bored of Kelly and Pink and the likes continuing into the mid 10s with the “we’re outcasts but you’re special and you can do this” theme that got big in the late 00s/early 10s. That said, she’s been like top 3 for me in every vote so far and I still think she’ll be fine here (I hope so anyway, kinda rooting for her to win!)

LOVE that ABBA choice. Had no idea it was a single though. Can’t even begin to predict who’s going in a round where nobody’s able to play their strongest hand, I think it could be really close.

I have to say, the “top 40 in your home country” thing definitely makes things a lot harder than I’d expected.

It’s causing havoc for my “what if I was Zara Larsson?” notes app.

Ahhhh I really hope 'Blackstar' and 'Invisible Light' go down well for Bowie and Scissor Sisters, discography highlights of both acts for me

"Floppy fish"

OMG yessss finally my absolute favourite Conan Gray song makes its appearance, I've been waiting for it the whole competition, thank you to whoever is behind him Some bangers in this round though, so whether it will be top of my votes remains to be seen!

Edited Thursday at 09:045 days by Mangø

Initial thoughts....

Bringing the Bops - Lily, Conan, Kittens and Kelly

I hadn't heard the SS song before and enjoyed it too!

Eagle is the one I spotted earlier on that fit the brief, great selection, such a moment for me in the Voyage show.

Delta going full on Tina Turner/Starship in this one in one of her random dalliances with genres she doesn't usually go for between albums.

Blackstar is a good choice (that final album was great) and Atomic Kitten's mentor continues to play every round so well. Every time you think the band has run out of tricks there's another banger or beauty waiting in the wings – love the Jenny middle eight on this one 'I'd say that I'm emphatic'.

A couple I don't know and a couple I need to remind myself of.

That Bowie choice is not my cup of tea I'm afraid, would have preferred a flop from his classic era.

Yeah that Tina Turner Delta Goodrem song is great, I really enjoyed her brief foray into 80s pop.

I've always loved that Lily Allen song too so I'm glad that got given an airing.

My votes have been submitted!

There’s something very ironic about the old man dying two days after releasing Blackstar, as I felt like dying myself whilst having to endure 10 minutes of that absolute guff

Edited Thursday at 10:535 days by Lee_J11

Only familiar with about half of these songs, so I’ll make a few discoveries I’m sure.

Loving the selections from Delta and Lily. Not a bad song from Kelly either.

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

Eagle is the one I spotted earlier on that fit the brief, great selection, such a moment for me in the Voyage show.

Delta going full on Tina Turner/Starship in this one in one of her random dalliances with genres she doesn't usually go for between albums.

Blackstar is a good choice (that final album was great) and Atomic Kitten's mentor continues to play every round so well. Every time you think the band has run out of tricks there's another banger or beauty waiting in the wings – love the Jenny middle eight on this one 'I'd say that I'm emphatic'.

A couple I don't know and a couple I need to remind myself of.

I agree re: ABBA/Voyage. Such a pleasant discovery when I saw it in London in December 2024.

10 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:

There’s something very ironic about the old man dying two days after releasing Blackstar, as I felt like dying myself whilst having to endure 10 minutes of that absolute guff

Remember this is literally your fault, you could have been enjoying some tasteful flamenco balladry instead xox

(But 'Blackstar' is of course glorious <3 good pick from Scissor Sisters too, I suppose the pick from Florence makes sense though it would not have been my first choice, I'd have gone with 'King' myself! Do not know the rest so hopefully some good discoveries to be made ~)

save the old man!!!!

Just now, danG said:

save the old man!!!!

I’m sure Benny and Bjorn will be fine

Was hoping to see 'Invisible Light' at some point, the Scissors Sisters mentor has been doing very well with them and ideally this keeps them in this round.

Couldn't call this round though. In the slightest.

Oh there’s something about that Conan Gray song, I’m quite enjoying it.

He may be in line for his highest placing from me.

12 minutes ago, Bror said:

Remember this is literally your fault, you could have been enjoying some tasteful flamenco balladry instead xox

Oh it’d be like choosing between my favourite STIs dorlen