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I realise the answer might be zero, but I thought it would be interesting to have a thread about this encompassing all the contests. Not using this just to show off my five winners lmao, but I will say I find it hard to believe I have that many. These are across three different contests - BJSC, Unknown Pleasures and Club Bizarre.

Allie X - Sanctuary (BJSC, 2016)

Tiger Baby - Landscapes (UP, 2016)

Worakls - Elea (CB, 2018)

Naibu - Gloom (CB, 2018)

Halou - I'll Carry You (UP, 2026)

Now talk about / list your winners, so I feel less self-aggrandizing.

6 Club Bizarres and 2 The Best Song Contest In The World... Evers so 8 in total:

CB 1: Farhad Mahdavi - Warsaw

CB 2: Blümchen - Boomerang

CB 6: Driftmoon - Lights Will Guide You Home

CB 18: Sully - Swandive

CB 21: Faux Tales - Soar

CB 23: RMB - Redemption

TBSCITWE VI: Rialto - Monday Morning 5:19

TBSCITWE XI: Omega - Gyöngyhajú lány

Also gasp at that stickman image, that was the song cover of my most recent Unknown Pleasures entry!

I count 16 unless I've forgotten something...

The Best Song Contest In The World.....Ever!

Vol. I (80s Synths): Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix)

BuzzJack Song Contest:

main contests

BJSC 117: Rompasso - Ignis

BJSC 138: X-Perience - A Neverending Dream

BJSC 178: Erin LeCount - 808 HYMN

spin-offs

Dance Anthems [2000-2009]: Lasgo - Something

Worldvision I: SOLDOUT - To The Ocean

BJ10 Anniversary Edition: Agnes - Release Me

Your Best Of II: ONUKA - Time

Worldvision VI: Robert Georgescu & White - Daca Il Vedeti (feat. Gabriela Marin)

Pride III: Måneskin - CORALINE

Collaboration: Isabella Lovestory - Fuetazo (feat. Villano Antillano)

Club Bizarre:

Vol. 10: Crescendo - Are You Out There

Vol. 20: L Ʌ V Σ N - I Thought You Were Real

Nuggets:

Vol. 9: Men I Trust - Lauren

Vol. 11: Brutus - War (Live at Rain City)

Pop Forum Song Contest:

XV (It's Crazy It's Party): Meth Math - Cyberia

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Did not expect to have cracked the code for Pop Forum Song Contest before Unknown Pleasures

It's six for me now, boosted by two winners this year.

Club Bizarre 15 : Mike Foyle vs Signalrunners - Love Theme Dusk (Mike's Broken Record Mix)

Club Bizarre 24 : Adam Dixon - Flight

The Best Of Club Bizarre (winners from the first 25 contests) : Mike Foyle vs Signalrunners - Love Theme Dusk (Mike's Broken Record Mix)

Unknown Pleasures 30 : Mikko Joensuu - There Used To Be A Darkness

BJSC Spinoff (Lottery) : Archive - Collapse / Collide

Bop Idol 7 : Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken

Just this beauty in Bop Idol III so far.

5 times in BJSC: Tatu, Lenka, Cut Copy, Rupaul, Ronya

Twice (??) in Unknown Pleasures but can’t recall with whomst

Zero x

Not many, and never BJSC, but a couple at least;

Nuggets 15: Slow Drive - Star Roving

Movie Forum Song Contest 1: Danny Elfman - Ice Dance

BJSC 4 times (Cathedrals, Madison Rose, Nabihah Iqbal and Lucia and The Best Boys)!

BJSC184 Charlotte MacInnes - Struck

BJSC:

The Naked & Famous - Higher [BJSC 87]

Daniella Mason - Cruel Summer [BJSC 108]

EVERGLOW - La Di Da [BJSC 129]

Third Party/Kathy Brown - Joy [BJSC 146]

ALT BLK ERA - Hunt You Down [BJSC 171]

Unknown Pleasures:

Vandal Moon - Hurt [UP 29]

C Z A R I N A - Wonderland [UP 31]

Surren Tweak - Fallen Angel [UP 33]

Spin-offs:

Faouzia - Puppet [Masquerade III]

not the most illustrious but it’s something

the way my first win was 10 years ago 🤯

BJSC

XLI: Foxes - Youth

XLIX: Fibes, Oh Fibes! feat. Icona Pop - Cerahtonia

LVIII: VAULTS - Cry No More

CVI: Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF - Hypocrite

CLIX: Argy and Omnya - Aria

CLXXVI: Ninajirachi - Infohazard

CLXXXIII: Joshua Idehen - Mum Does the Washing

BJSC Spin offs

Instrumentals: Underworld - And I Will Kiss (feat. Evelyn Glennie and The Pandemonium Drummers)

Unknown Pleasures

IV: Strange Talk - Climbing Walls

X: SOHN - Oscillate

XIII: Joywaves feat. KOPPS - Tongues

XXVI: HAARM - In the Wild

(These are the ones I can remember and I'm not checking any others as the archives for this contest are riddled with Photobucket chaos and difficult to follow)

The Best Song Contest in the World Ever

V (Experimental): Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind the Mask

XIII (Retro Lottery): The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of

Club Bizarre

XII (Vocals): UNKLE - In a State

I've listed all my song contest entries and results on Buzzjack to date here - from which I've won twice:

Bop Idol 1 (2024)

Phoenix - 1901

BJSC Spin Off: Worldvision VIII, World Cup Edition (2026)

Dana Al Fardan - Indigo

I've got 6 wins, one of which was a contest entirely comprised of failed entries from previous contests so that one doesn't really feel like it should count so maybe I should say 5 and a half x

BJSC The Best of Rejects 41-50: Angel Haze - New York

BJSC 67: Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom

BJSC 74: A-WA - Habib Galbi

Pop Forum Song Contest 4 (Ballads): HANA - Underwater

Nuggets 12: Moaning - Fall In Love

The Best Song Contest In The World... Ever! 9 (Covers): Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah

Have been entering BJSC nearly continuously since mid 2009 but my two wins were both within a period of 9 months (August 2014 and April 2015). Never won a BJSC spinoff and also never won Unknown Pleasures which I've entered since the 10th edition or Club Bizarre/Bop Idol which I've entered every edition of. (Also entered all 3 editions of the short lived Movie Forum Song Contest and never came close to winning that one lol)

Me and Buzzjack Mountain:

Edited Monday at 23:161 day by TheSnake

I have a 1st place in Nuggets (Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - The Lion The Beast The Beat) and another in BJSC (Misterwives - Where Do We Go From Here?). Think the former was 2014/15 and the latter was 2023.

The Nuggets win was noteworthy for being the first time I'd ever entered that contest!

Unless I'm forgetting something I think I have two:

UP XXV with Inouwee - Danger in 2017

BJSC Worldvision V with Fat Frumos - Chip Chip in 2020

6 hours ago, Riser said:

The Nuggets win was noteworthy for being the first time I'd ever entered that contest!

This happened to me as well in Nuggets *.* same with the retro contest.

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Decided to turn this into a playlist so thanks for the inspiration, Mattias <3 has been fun to hear some of these songs for the first time in years

BJSC (9)

Sara Bareilles - Love Song

Uh Hu Her - Not A Love Song

Beautiful Small Machines - Robots In Love

Sheelah - Psycho

Sheelah - The Last Time

Chart Music - All My Life

Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing

RAM - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)

Sadu - Luukered

BJSC Spin-offs (1)

PHELLY - Elefanter (Éléphants)

Club Bizarre (2)

Anjo - Tears In The Rain

Brutalismus 3000 - Romantika

Bop Idol (1)

Black Box Recorder - These Are The Things

Pop Forum Song Contest (1)

Camp Claude - Swimming Lessons

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I think this is all of them. Not managed to win Unknown Pleasures, Nuggets or the Retro Contest but have come second twice in the former, including a close shave earlier this year.

It took me a very long time to finally win a BJSC spin-off, that was last year which happened along with PFSC, Bop Idol and a BJSC win but it has been dry since then. I think my proudest wins are RAMelia (an epic), Luukered (after such a long drought in BJSC of 12 years and the first Estonian language entry) and that Anjo song, which was a dusted off old favourite from a free Daily Star newspaper CD from 2002 and not available to stream etc. It's quite satisfying to win with a song you are 100% sure nobody else will ever have heard before. This may also have been the case with PHELLY, Camp Claude and maybe Beautiful Small Machines and Uh Hu Her too I guess.

Edited yesterday at 09:171 day by gooddelta

1 hour ago, Jade said:

Decided to turn this into a playlist so thanks for the inspiration, Mattias <3 has been fun to hear some of these songs for the first time in years

Oh very nice! I was going to make a playlist too and put it in the opening post but it would be incomplete as 'Gloom' is not available there. A playlist with only four songs might feel a bit lackluster haha