3 hours ago, nine¾ said:

Yes, your other answer is included under a different letter <3

Will continue soon

Yay, ps I am only teasing about John T, totally respect your decisions of course! ❤️

"I couldn't find any connection between this song and the Vatican or an excommunication"

Me neither tbh...

2 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Yay, ps I am only teasing about John T, totally respect your decisions of course! ❤️

You correctly changed your answer for N, but then you still had John Travolta for the same clue under J, so you should have changed J to a different answer or clue as well. I didn’t notice it at the time either, otherwise I would’ve pointed it out :/

The maximum possible score from A to N is 40 points, and the highest score so far is 36.

The current results from A to N look like this:

gasman449	36
chrissmith276	36
gooddelta	36
Jade	36
dandy*	35
Bror	35
Mangø	32
danG	30
Julian_	29
Spiceboy	27
paulgilb	26
maggotsforbrains	26
Riser	26
jimwatts	23
Scene	21
Dobbo	20
Dan17F1	18
Chez Wombat	18
Roba.	16
Jordanlee1402	15
1^∞	14
PeteFromLeeds	14
rio309	10
Jay79x	10
Iz様	10

I know Nate Reuss doesn’t really fit but I thought it was still quite a neat answer as his #1 hit with Fun is basically a duet with Janelle Monae, and then his second highest charting hit is the duet with Pink.

I’ve just gone to check this, and the problem is that Official Charts, which I’ve been using as the source for all of these, doesn’t credit it as Nate Ruess ft Janelle Monáe, but as fun. ft Janelle Monáe. I actually didn’t know about fun. 🙈 (I mean I know that song, just not the band), or that he was their lead singer, so Official Charts doesn’t count it as one of Nate Ruess’s own chart entries either, but as a chart entry for fun

The M and N questions were frying my brain. 😂

Yeah I knew I'd matched the clue about the male artist whose biggest hits were female duets to the wrong letter (as I left it to last and could not find anything that even remotely matched) but I wasn't going to spend more time figuring out which one - I'll take the 2 points there. x

I guess the album named after the number of albums must be a Roman numeral then unless I've made more than one mistake

37 minutes ago, nine¾ said:

I’ve just gone to check this, and the problem is that Official Charts, which I’ve been using as the source for all of these, doesn’t credit it as Nate Ruess ft Janelle Monáe, but as fun. ft Janelle Monáe. I actually didn’t know about fun. 🙈 (I mean I know that song, just not the band), or that he was their lead singer, so Official Charts doesn’t count it as one of Nate Ruess’s own chart entries either, but as a chart entry for fun

No “We Are Young” definitely isn’t a solo hit so it’s fine to score it wrong. I was just pleased I found something that sort of fit with the right letter!

14 minutes ago, Bror said:

Yeah I knew I'd matched the clue about the male artist whose biggest hits were female duets to the wrong letter (as I left it to last and could not find anything that even remotely matched) but I wasn't going to spend more time figuring out which one - I'll take the 2 points there. x

I guess the album named after the number of albums must be a Roman numeral then unless I've made more than one mistake

Yes I now realise how I messed up, I didn’t consider Roman numerals at all and the main one I knew I had wrong is indeed a Roman numeral (and presumably Kylie)

O = At 18, this artist held two UK No. 1s at the same time.

In May 2021, at just 18 years old, Olivia Rodrigo became the youngest solo artist in UK chart history to achieve the Official Chart Double. Her debut album SOUR topped the Official Albums Chart in the same week that Good 4 U reached No. 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

Otis Redding

He did achieve a posthumous UK No. 1 with the album Dock of the Bay in 1968, so that part fits. However, he had already appeared on the UK charts during his lifetime, making his UK Singles Chart debut with “My Girl” in 1965. So unfortunately, he doesn’t meet the first part of the clue.

One - Tesseract

The clue was matched to the wrong letter, so no points for the connection. However, One is indeed TesseracT's first studio album, so the answer itself fits the wording of the clue.

3 hours ago, nine¾ said:

You correctly changed your answer for N, but then you still had John Travolta for the same clue under J, so you should have changed J to a different answer or clue as well. I didn’t notice it at the time either, otherwise I would’ve pointed it out :/

All good I totally missed it too 🙈🤭

I think I also guessed Nine for the N one! Happy to get a consolation point for Kula Shaker as it was a lucky guess, they just felt like the sort of act who might have the founder of a spiritual movement on their album.

I’m kicking myself now. I just worked out now what the answer to something yet to come what I’d skipped is ☠️

I originally guessed Nine for N then something else came to me and I switched answers which then led me to Nick Cave!!

6 hours ago, PeteFromLeeds said:

I think I also guessed Nine for the N one! Happy to get a consolation point for Kula Shaker as it was a lucky guess, they just felt like the sort of act who might have the founder of a spiritual movement on their album.

Yes, I accidentally forgot to enter it in the table because your message with the answers isn’t in chronological order but the last one, since in the meantime I had messaged you asking you to clarify the clues.

A song by a group whose break-up was reportedly triggered by an argument over a jacket.

Pure Shores was written specifically for the soundtrack of the 2000 film The Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The song debuted at Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, spent two weeks at the top and became the second best-selling single of the year.

The jacket was more the final straw than the sole reason for the break-up. Shaznay Lewis and Natalie Appleton reportedly both wanted to wear the same combat jacket for a photoshoot, and the resulting argument became the catalyst for the group’s split. Shaznay later said she never would have expected All Saints to end over a jacket incident, but tensions within the group had already become so bad that when the argument happened, it simply pushed everything over the edge. The members have since clarified that the underlying problems were exhaustion and a complete breakdown in communication.

PERFECT

I don’t know if Dobbo just randomly guessed Perfect for the song, but that’s actually a correct answer too! 😂
Perfect is indeed an All Saints song. It was released after the break-up referred to in the clue, but since I never specified that the song had to be from before the break-up, it technically fits just as well as my intended answer, Pure Shores. So I’m accepting it as a correct alternative.

Patience and Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is

All Saints don’t have songs with either of those titles.

The phrase 'Que Sera, Sera' sounds as though it comes from a Romance language, particularly Spanish or Italian, but its history is rather different. Variations such as 'Che sera, sera' can be traced back to England centuries ago, where the phrase appeared as a heraldic motto. Despite its Romance appearance, the wording is not idiomatic Spanish or Italian.

The phrase was later used by songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for Doris Day’s 'Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)', written for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). The song helped turn the phrase into the internationally familiar expression it is today.

Quando, Quando, Quando

The title isn’t merely a phrase that sounds foreign, quando is an actual Italian word meaning 'when', and the song itself was originally written and released in Italian. There is also no connection between the phrase quando, quando, quando and medieval England. The clue specifically refers to a phrase that only appears to be foreign but whose documented history can actually be traced back to medieval England, so this answer doesn’t fit.

Quasimodo

Quasimodo has an interesting historical connection, but it doesn't quite fit this clue. The name comes from the Latin phrase quasi modo, used in Christian liturgy, so its seemingly foreign origin is actually genuine. Que Sera, Sera, on the other hand, only looks like a Romance-language phrase: its earliest known use can be traced to 15th-century England, and the wording follows English rather than Spanish grammar. That's the distinction the clue was referring to.

Quarantine

Quarantine comes from the Italian quarantena, referring to a forty-day period of isolation, so its origins are genuinely foreign rather than a phrase that only appears to be foreign but can be traced back to medieval England.

My knowledge of petty popstar jacket lore was on point but I wasn't confident at all about 'Que Sera, Sera', so yay!

Ah I didn't even think of that, in my head that was just a Spanish phrase!