On 11/08/2026 at 20:50, Bror said:

I sort of submitted a song but the artist was taken already (as I half expected they would be). Nevermind, I'll look for something else at some point x The song I kind of wanted to send would have been very well known compared to the typical Bror song contest entry anyway so maybe it's for the best, curious to hear the song that has been sent by them (assuming it's not one of their couple of even more well known songs lol).

Quite remarkably, this remains the only act to be double confirmed.

(Although a few people have sent songs that were on my shortlist)

There has been an injection of mod drama

it turns out this edition has such a wide scope that virtually everyone has found songs that didn’t chart. The mods have decided to ask that charting songs are avoided altogether, unless the Spotify count is really low (let’s say 7 figures)

Sorry to the few of you affected by this. I feel bad because I didn’t foresee an issue and know my OP will have steered some of you down that path - but this contest there were just a couple of tracks in particular that stood out like a sore thumb compared to the others.

Submitted something wonderful. Here's hoping this artist isn't already taken!

13 hours ago, dandy* said:

There has been an injection of mod drama

it turns out this edition has such a wide scope that virtually everyone has found songs that didn’t chart. The mods have decided to ask that charting songs are avoided altogether, unless the Spotify count is really low (let’s say 7 figures)

Sorry to the few of you affected by this. I feel bad because I didn’t foresee an issue and know my OP will have steered some of you down that path - but this contest there were just a couple of tracks in particular that stood out like a sore thumb compared to the others.

Would have been denied the song I half-confirmed anyway then even if the artist hadn't already been taken!

(probably better start looking for another song x)

6 minutes ago, Bror said:

Would have been denied the song I half-confirmed anyway then even if the artist hadn't already been taken!

(probably better start looking for another song x)

The song you were thinking of did end up as being one of the choices... and was one of the songs that ended up feeling a lot more well known than the rest of the list.

We do definitely have a few artists that people will already know but generally the chosen tracks are pretty inspired choices rather than just the singles.

Oh I assumed from your PM that it was a different song sent by them!

It was at first, but that choice was the song Rollo referred to that had well in excess of 100,000,000 plays on Spotify... your one was their second choice.

(I do really like the song as well so I'm a bit sad to see it gone)

I might still chance sending it to BJSC at some point then hehe

(unless they have been reconfirmed with a third song here)

Last day to get your entries in folks! ☺️

Looking forward to the list - hope my replacement has been accepted?

I’ll be sharing the final list with the other mods at the end of today so it’s not too obvious to them who has sent what - although I don’t believe anything since my message should cause an issue (famous last words etc)

Confirmed for real now. Now just two other song contests to find songs for which have popped up since this one started!

We've got 28 people who've submitted something so that's a decent enough turnout for the contest, thank you all <3

(sadly two of the people who we vetoed decided not to enter anything else due to other pressures </3 but that's absolutely fair enough - you're both more than welcome to vote should you wish to, and I'm sorry again that we couldn't allow the songs in)

We're just waiting on one switch (the person knows so don't worry that it might be you!) and everything else currently on the list seems fine to us. If there are any late stragglers out there, you've got until I wake up to submit!