Good morning. See your qualifiers and autoqualifiers below, all of which this time are presumed to be made by real musicians!

Please rank your 15 faves and allocate them votes in this format: 18, 15, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Please send me your votes by 23:59 BST on Thursday 20th August, and I'll most likely have to be less flexible than I was yesterday with any tacit or explicit deadline extensions. Failing to vote will result in a ban next month and, if you are a finalist, a 33% deduction, yikes.

Including your country name and including the country names in your votes (rather than just song name/artist) would be helpful for PM-searching purposes but I'll cope if not.

YouTube playlist

1. Séyetana // Portraits Of Tracy - Caught In A Jam

2. Bronzil // Isabel LaRosa - Her Face

3. East Rukahavian // Chayla Hope - Love In Lo-Fi

4. FARC // Lee Jung Hyun - Wa

5. Bøtanikkä // Natalie Jane - dance til i die

6. Taahino // Stand Atlantic - LUCID

7. République d'Áskorza // Ambre Vallet - Ambre

8. FSR Rontvia // HENGE - Mushroom One

9. Neliönoir // Sophia Stel - Molly In The Club

10. Terra Avium // The Haunted Youth - falling to pieces

11. Elëdan // Roly Porter - An Open Door

12. Kluminican Republic // Alewya - Maktoub

13. Danæviia // Liminal - The Crop

14. The Spodic Empire // waist - bravado

15. Greenfroze // ANRI - I CAN'T STOP THE LONELINESS

16. Zanmatony // Black Mighty Orchestra - Ocean Beach (Cybophonia Cinematic Remix)

17. Deandria // Collide - Freak Like Me

18. POPHub // EVAN GIIA - AS WE DANCE

19. Cor Lupus // Wolf Cutt & Muki - STARSEED

20. Aesthetica // Kyra Machida - Control

21. Altyr Muunilinst // Mae Muller - Wheels Come Off

22. Kathaldazia // Dev Lemons - eat the pavement

23. N DNTN // YENA - Catch Catch

24. Sovarasma // Shye - Smoke

25. Fljótavík // Cain Culto - a plague, a pestilence

26. Aeroche // EV - Thierry Henry (Modeā Remix)

27. Freidland // Lena Leon - Chemical

28. New Helvetica // Serafina Steer - Night Before Mutiny

29. Hendinia // La Beba - SANTUARIO CLUB

30. Land of DW // RMB - Experience (Follow Me)

31. Jadakissnia // tlen - patnik

32. New Lexico // Chloe Qisha - Baby Girl

33. Yehesi // Mollie Elizabeth - Run Rabbit

34. Lookylion // Ellee Duke - Adrenaline

35. Harmonica // Badflower - Detroit

36. Ojnoj // Tash Blake - cologne

37. Herbilore // Boys Go To Jupiter - Lovers Always Lose

38. Jupiterdonia // Diana Vickers - Pretty Boys

39. Skall // Domenique Dumont - Visages Visages

40. Pagasa // Great Grandpa - Split Up The Kids

41. Lentyll // RAY - MOD

42. Trifoski // MEMORIALS - Dropped Down The Well

Votes received from fallen nations:

Ennea

Mothertopia

Wholune

Persephonia

A-Konohagakure

Aelandor

Vaskla

Scotland 2

Kylienips

Numayania

Cheiron

Juranabaijan

Ben's Sanctuary

Dobago

Pestolia

Baleghde

Ajanaeda

Zephyra Continuum

Lotunia

Flynnonda

Apple Music – Webplayer

„BJSC 187 Final“ von Pavel Iarygin bei Apple Music

Playlist · 42 Titel

Edited Tuesday at 22:211 day by Harve

This might be the shortest final ever, only 4:18 long, so kind of Séyetana to let us all go home early x

Two long songs next to each other at 16 & 17 oh my xo

(Not actually sure if they're the two longest now that Dobago and Persephonia aren't in it... I think Zanmatony is but not sure if there's another one that's longer than mine)

Zanmatory is the longest. That's just a stat, not a competition x

Edited Saturday at 10:424 days by Harve

Sorry for giving everyone a long recess break to stick their kettles on and find a snack.

I liked how 'MOD' was preceded by a different Ray (Danny Ray) and followed by 'An Open Door' (symbolic because the 'MOD' MV features lots of door opening).

But I also like having 'Split Up The Kids' and 'Dropped Down The Well' (a different kind of symbolism) sandwiching my entry and among the last three songs. 😄

Edited Saturday at 11:214 days by AllStarBySmashMouth

46 minutes ago, Harve said:

Zanmatory is the longest. That's just a stat, not a competition x

Didn't mean to suggest that

Dear me there’s more to life than length! 😉

The mushroom to molly transition is also tried and true x

2 minutes ago, pavi said:

The mushroom to molly transition is also tried and true x

I was hoping for a morning magic mushroom.

Where are the pickles with my mushrooms tho :'(

1 minute ago, Bror said:

Where are the pickles with my mushrooms tho :'(

Here you go Bré

Persephonia does acid next month.

20 minutes ago, pavi said:

The mushroom to molly transition is also tried and true x

Use sensibly everyone, we don't want anyone ending up in the fish-tanks x

don’t do drugs kidz

don't smoke

1 minute ago, uhsting said:

don't smoke

2 minutes ago, pavi said:

don’t do drugs kidz

Final YouTube playlist

2 hours 53 minutes, so only 17 minutes longer than the Semi-Final 2 playlist despite having 10 additional songs. x

Listenthrough on Monday? (I guess we can maybe also have a listenthrough for The Best Song Contest In The World... Ever! this week).

Apple Music – Webplayer

„BJSC 187 Final“ von Pavel Iarygin bei Apple Music

Playlist · 42 Titel

Sorry, the app I use for this only converts to Apple Music, not Spotify or other similarly garbage streaming services x

Edited Saturday at 19:534 days by pavi

1 hour ago, Bror said:

2 hours 53 minutes, so only 17 minutes longer than the Semi-Final 2 playlist despite having 10 additional songs. x

god bless 🙏