I don’t think we should have contests like Bop Idol/Pop Forum Song Contest etc.. themed specifically to lengths of how long a song should be.

I’d like to continue taking part in contests like this and not have to worry about listening to 20+ songs of over 5 minutes (for arguments sake) for example.

A couple of entries isn’t so bad, but when it’s restricted to being a theme, I think it should be down to the individuals to choose whether they want to send a 20 minute song or a 1:30 minute song… it’s largely why I don’t bother with Buzzfestivalen anymore - the pressure of trying to find a song specifically under 3 minutes got too much tbh lol. I like being able to send whatever song I want and I don’t think it’s as easy trying to find a song I’m happy with based on it’s length compared to finding a song from 2006 for example.

Just my two cents x

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Congrats King Rollo. It was a fab discovery for myself! So thank you!

I don’t think Keisha scored a single point in the last sets of votes since yesterday lmao! But I appreciate the love it did get and it out did my expectations… MASSIVELY! I never thought it’d contend for top 5 at any point so to finish 8th is great new for me! An underrated beaut and yes, one of my favourite vocalists of the 00’s… really under appreciated. Her cover of ‘The Weakness In Me’… GORGEOUS. Ahead of it’s time and would have been a huge top 5 smash in 2010…

‘Don’t Mistake Me’ though… that key change! Just glorious. Her whole catalogue is great tbh. Not sure if people know this but she also sings the Tracy Beaker theme song *.*

Congratulations Rollo

Didn’t quite made my votes, but I can see the appeal and it shows how much it resonated with majority!

Thanks Julian for an amazing contest <3

And I’m chuffed with #11 for Infernal. I literally thought it was going to flop considering I didn’t have anything else planned to submit that wasn’t a huge hit in 2006 lol, but happy nonetheless with that result.

<3

Well done Rollo.

Thanks to everyone who got The Knife onto the podium!

The Eurovision style scoreboard.

2nd and 3rd and 10th and 11th swapped, @Bror up to 20th and @CowTzy no longer at the bottom. Oops at Basement Jaxx taking a tumble - I had noticed they got very consistent low to middling scores but were in nobody’s top 3.

Overall the differences aren’t large though and I think it was nice for people to be able to vote for 15.

	Artist	Title	Sender	Points	Tiebreak
1	Camera Obscura	Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken	King Rollo	118
2	The Knife	Silent Shout	Dobbo	105
3	Snow Patrol	Hands Open	jimwatts	104
4	Sneaky Sound System	Pictures	awardinary	98
5	LCD Soundsystem	Someone Great	Julian_	94
6	Nelly Furtado	Do It	Scene	90
7	Keisha White	Don't Mistake Me	Tafty	86
8	Dannii Minogue	Love Fight	WoW73	85
9	Evanescence	Sweet Sacrifice	Lukuzz	82
10	Infernal	Ten Miles	Addy!	75
11	Cardigans	Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds)	gooddelta	71
12	Oxia	Domino	danG	69
13	Daughtry	Feels Like Tonight	Viper*	68
14	Junior Boys	In The Morning	Jade	67
15	Regina Spektor	On The Radio	Herbs	67
16	Moony	For Your Love	Roba.	63
17	Soul Avengers featuring Javine	Don't Let The Morning Come	vibe	62
18	The Pipettes	Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling)	Lee_J11	60
19	Yelle	Je Veux Te Voir	Josh!	58
20	Anathallo	Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)	Bror	57
21	Freestylers featuring Pendulum	Painkiller	lewistgreen	55
22	Puracane	Warzone	mattias	53	11 votes
23	Panda Bear	Bros	Chez Wombat	53	10 votes
24	Delta Goodrem	Flawed	Paddington James	50
25	Basement Jaxx	Take Me Back To Your House	Doug	49
26	Cassius	Toop Toop	dandy*	46
27	All Saints	Fundamental	Mangø	45
28	Hot Chip	Colours	dhwe	42
29	Poets Of The Fall	Carnival Of Rust	nine3/4	37
30	Deichkind	Remmidemmi	DaTilt	26
31	Emma Bunton	Perfect Strangers	Spiceboy	24
32	The Hush Sound	Wine Red	Cody Rozanov	19	6 votes
33	Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, Yuko Goto	Hare Hare Yukai	CowTzy	19	5 votes
34	Saosin	You're Not Alone	AllStarBySmashMouth	17
35	Beirut	After The Curtain	Jaz13music	16	7 votes
36	Islands	Rough Gem	RabbitFurCoat	16	6 votes

Agreed, it was nice to have the breathing space to have 15 to vote for. Certainly my 5 and 4 pointers I'd have been disappointed to have no space for.

Interesting result for Basement Jaxx on that system. I guess that's why I thought it could have been a contender, because it's a fun song that's hard to dislike and clearly accordingly had a large spread of voters across different voting bases. However, what I didn't anticipate is that nobody would rank it as a top favourite.

Indie-pop, electronic and alt seems to be the lane to do well here? I'm not sure we've had a pure pop winner yet in seven editions. Black Box Recorder is basically a pop song, but by an indie band, Dido and Agnes the others closest to it.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by gooddelta

2 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Interesting result for Basement Jaxx on that system. I guess that's why I thought it could have been a contender, because it's a fun song that's hard to dislike and clearly accordigly had a large spread of voters across different voting bases. However, what I didn't anticipate is that nobody would rank it as a top favourite.

I had considered doing the reveal that Dan did for the 20th century foreign language contest, where everyone’s 1-12 are revealed as the “jury score” and the top 3 held back and revealed later as the “televote”. Basement Jaxx would have won the jury vote by miles and scored a televote 0, with Camera Obscura jumping to the top on the televote from outside the top 10.

Claiming the moral top 20

(I may or may not have been partially motivated to ask about this because I suspected Anathallo would be a decent bit higher - but good to know the winner wasn't affected)

Just realised that Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken is a response record to this from 1984, I did wonder upon hearing it so looked it up.

Yes, I would have explained that at the end but Julian mentioned it when he revealed my vote. Sandie Shaw got to number 68 in 1986 with a cover version.

14 minutes ago, King Rollo said:

Yes, I would have explained that at the end but Julian mentioned it when he revealed my vote. Sandie Shaw got to number 68 in 1986 with a cover version.

I missed that, must have been too excited about seeing that the song won!

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

Just realised that Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken is a response record to this from 1984, I did wonder upon hearing it so looked it up.

Fantastic song, one of my favourites of the whole 80s. Album’s great too!

Congratulations to the Winner 👏

i would have predicted Nelly to win that songs remix with Missy was huge and therefore very well known!!

@awardinary you seem to always give the tunes i select massive love, you have tremendous taste!!

On 02/06/2026 at 16:31, Julian_ said:

We did get a zero pointer in the 2nd edition of the TBSCITW…E which only had 18 entrants, meaning everyone had it in their bottom 7 which was quite impressive. I then very nearly managed it in the 3rd edition, getting just 3 points from Suedehead despite having the coveted last spot on the song list and entering a track by The Eurythmics who you’d think would be a safe choice.

10 hours ago, Jaz13music said:

Oh no, so if last spot is coveted that means my second to last is the worst position to finish in?! 😢🤣

Oh I’m sorry Julian, I’ve just realised I completely misunderstood you. I thought you meant last place in the voting was coveted!🤣! Like in the Tour De France!

So going last in the playlist is advantageous, is that right? Are there any other places (maybe first) that are also statistically better?

I think I need any advantage I can get!

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Jaz13music

4 hours ago, vibe said:

@awardinary you seem to always give the tunes i select massive love, you have tremendous taste!!

Absolutely! Now you see why I asked you to join BJSC long ago, and you know, Jandre are always welcome to rejoin and send some more sensational pop!

34th... Oh, well. 😆

Happy for 'Hare Hare Yukai' not being last, but now unhappy for 'Rough Gem' being last. 😔

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by AllStarBySmashMouth