Tove Lo not having the best time on the forum lately with her Pop Factor boot and my nom 'True Disaster' bombing x

So many brutal drops this year but especially that one for The xx, oh dear... 😭

That's a pretty good top 5 though and I'm glad 'Charlemagne' and 'Somebody Else' are still advancing to the semis despite the falls.

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2016 Results

Les Flops

102 ** Burak Yeter (feat. Danelle Sandoval) - Tuesday 0

101 114 Tinashe - Ghetto Boy 26

100 ** Ladyhawke - A Love Song 26

99 ** Shakira - Try Everything 27

98 ** Weeknd - Secrets 30

97 ** Bebe Rexha - I Got You 31

96 83 Black Honey - All My Pride 40

95 ** Mac Miller (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Cinderella 41

94 ** Lady Gaga - John Wayne 43

93 ** Jeff Rosenstock - Wave Goodnight to Me 43

92 78 Lemon Demon - Touch-Tone Telephone 45

91 106 Demi Lovato - Body Say 46

90 ** Carly Rae Jepsen - The One 46

89 ** Robin Schulz x David Guetta x Cheat Codes - Shed A Light 48

88 ** Cheat Codes & Dante Klein - Let Me Hold You (Turn Me On) 48

87 ** Tove Lo - True Disaster 56

86 ** DNCE - Toothbrush 57

85 77 Alan Walker (feat. Iselin) - Sing Me To Sleep 57

84 64 Danny L Harle (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen) - Supernatural 58

83 ** Weeknd - False Alarm 59

82 ** Beyoncé - All Night 63

81 ** Anne-Marie - Alarm 63

80 94 Mollie King - Back To You 64

79 ** Solange - Cranes In The Sky 69

78 70 Paradis - Toi Et Moi 71

77 ** Lee Walker & DJ Deeon (feat. Katy B and MNEK) - Freak Like Me 71

76 ** Lady Gaga - Million Reasons 72

75 87 Two Door Cinema Club - Bad Decisions 76

74 105 Sigala (feat. Imani Williams & DJ Fresh) – Say You Do 81

73 ** Louisa Johnson - So Good 85

72 ** Anna Meredith - Nautilus 85

71 ** Tinie Tempah (feat. Zara Larsson) - Girls Like 90

70 49 Glass Animals - Life Itself 95

69 61 Bon Iver - 8 Circle 96

68 72 Mystery Jets - Bubblegum 100

67 40 Rae Sremmurd (feat. Gucci Mane) - Black Beatles 102

66 55 Calvin Harris - My Way 102

65 ** Beyonce - Formation 102

64 31 Christine And The Queens - Saint Claude 104

63 101 Sia - Unstoppable 108

62 60 MK & Becky Hill - Piece Of Me 109

61 85 Kings of Leon - Over 109

60 81 Ariana Grande - Touch It 110

59 62 Vamps & Matoma - All Night 111

58 ** Frank Ocean - Nights 113

57 76 Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better 114

56 32 Drake (feat. WizKid & Kyla) - One Dance 117

55 25 Childish Gambino - Redbone 120

54 48 Imany – Don't Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix) 123

53 ** Little Mix (feat. Sean Paul) - Hair 125

52 ** Galantis - No Money 127

51 34 Twenty One Pilots - Ride 136

50 53 LP - Lost On You 139

49 23 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Never Ever 140

48 27 Jorja Smith – Blue Lights 142

47 41 Ariana Grande - Greedy 143

46 50 DJ Snake (feat. Justin Bieber) – Let Me Love You 154

45 ** Jonas Blue x RAYE - By Your Side 155

44 ** Rihanna - Same Ol' Mistakes 157

43 46 Shawn Mendes - Stitches 158

42 59 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 161

41 44 Chainsmokers (feat. ROZES) - Roses 163

Some big drops here and songs which slip out of last years Top 40/ Auto-Qualifying zone. ‘Saint Claude’ drops a massive 33 places this year from 31-64, whilst ‘Redbone’ also has a big drop as it falls 30 places from 25-55. ‘One Dance; drops from 32-56 and ‘Ride’ dips 34 to 51. There’s also big drops for ‘Never Enough’ which drops 23-49 and ‘Blue Lights’ which slides 27-48. There are some good climbs though for a few songs; ‘Say You Do’ climbs from 105 to 74 and ‘Unstoppable’ climbs from 101 to 63, ‘Treat You Better’ also has a strong finish as it climbs 76 to 57.

Should also be noted that we do have 1 song which gained a nomination, but no points in the actual vote. Poor, brave ‘Tuesday’.

Would be Auto-Qualifyers

40 54 Porter Robinson & Madeon – Shelter 165

39 43 Chainsmokers (feat. Daya) - Don't Let Me Down 165

38 17 Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom 169

37 56 Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover) 170

36 33 Fifth Harmony - That's My Girl 175

35 24 Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex 178

34 51 Dua Lipa - Blow Your Mind (Mwah) 179

33 45 Frank Ocean - Pink + White 190

32 38 Selena Gomez - Hands To Myself 192

31 96 Zara Larsson - Ain’t My Fault 195

30 06 xx – On Hold 197

29 37 DNCE - Cake By The Ocean 197

28 21 Ariana Grande (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Side To Side 199

27 18 Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out 205

26 36 Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell 206

25 30 Elle King - Ex's And Oh's 212

24 15 1975 - The Sound 213

23 35 ZAYN – Pillowtalk 215

22 22 Rihanna (feat. Drake) - Work 216

21 ** Twenty One Pilots - Heathens 216

These are the would-be Auto-qualifyers for next year, however ever song from 2016 will be out of the running next year. There are some big drops from last years Semi-Finalisrs though, the biggest being ‘On Hold’ which drops from last years 6th place to 30 this year! There’s also drops for ‘Vroom Vroom’, ‘Stressed Out’ and ‘The Sound’ – all of which lose their semi-finalist positions.

Some good climbs though for sounds outside last years top 40, most notably ‘Aint My Fault’ which is currently polarising opinions on the Pop Factor climbs from 96 to 31, there are also climbs for ‘Shelter’ which rises from 54-40, ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ climbs from 43-39 and ‘Send My Love’ climbs from 56-37. ‘Blow Your Mind’ has a strong showing as it rises from 51-36 and ‘Pink + White’ rises from 45 to 33. ‘Heathens’ is the highest new entry this year and stall in 21st place, finishing 7pts away from a semi-finalist position.

Semi-Finalists

20 11 Bruno Mars - 24k Magic 223

19 19 Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) 234

18 14 1975 - Somebody Else 241

17 39 Rihanna - Love On The Brain 243

16 07 Blossoms - Charlemagne 253

15 03 Kungs vs. Cookin On 3 Burners – This Girl 254

14 08 Sia - Cheap Thrills 260

13 13 Clean Bandit (feat. Anne-Marie & Sean Paul) - Rockabye 262

12 20 Rihanna - Kiss It Better 267

11 29 Fifth Harmony (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Work from Home 272

10 28 Clean Bandit (feat. Louisa Johnson) - Tears 278

09 09 Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna) - This Is What You Came For 282

08 10 Adele - When We Were Young 305

07 26 Little Mix (feat. Jason Derulo) - Secret Love Song 308

06 16 Alan Walker (feat. Iselin) - Faded 333

So what did make it? There are a couple of new/ returning faces to the semi-final line-up as ‘Love On The Brain’ climbs from 39 to 17 to make it 2 Rihanna songs in the semis. There’s also clumbs from ‘Work From Home’ which rises from 29 to 11 and ‘Tears’ which climbs from 28 to 10 – managing to slip in front of Rockabye for Clean Bandit this year. There’s also a big climb for ‘Secret Love Song’ which rises from 26 to 7 and also ‘Faded’ which rises from 16 to 6 and finishes 25pts behind the top 5.

There are some songs which slide out of the top 10, ‘Charlemagne drops from 7 to 16 and ‘Cheap Thrills’ slides from 8 to 14. There is a big fall for ‘This Girl’ which finished 3rd in this heat last year and was an automatic finalist, this year it slides 12 places to 15 as a certain song which went viral this year takes a big, big climb…

Finalists

05 12 Zara Larsson - Lush Life 358

04 05 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - I Feel It Coming 359

03 02 Christine And The Queens - Tilted / Christine 384

02 04 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - Starboy 396

01 01 Ariana Grande - Into You 483

‘Lush Life’ takes a massive 7 place climb this year as it rises from 12th place to 5th place and goes directly through to the final round. I guess not too much of a surprise given its had a massive resurgence this year. The Weeknd still has 2 songs in the top 5 and both climb; I Feel it Coming rises from 5 to 4 and ‘Starboy’ rises from 4 to 2. ‘Tilted’ drops a place from 2 to 3, but its ‘Into You’ which remains dominant for 2016. In fact it finishes 87pts ahead of 2nd place and gained votes from all bar 10 voters.

That’s a shame…. Let’s hope the other rounds change this

not my Tinashe nom getting the second least votes... (tbf I knew it probably wouldn't do that well unfortunately)

surprised that Cinderella finished that low given its revival this year and that Saint Claude drop is shameful, I might even prefer it to Tilted / Christine!

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not the Twenty One Pilots trinity all missing out

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Nice to see Shelter get a decent end, that's always either flopped or done surprisingly well depending on the voterbase x

Oh no at that xx fall though </3

Won't be sorry to lose this year overall as with many of these late teen years, it was a very poor time for mainstream music.

Early signs are this might be an even more disappointing year for indie / alternative than last year was 🙈 come on the voter base from 2 years ago, get involved!

Ariana having the best song of 2016 ❤️

also that fall for Vroom Vroom is cooked should've been #1 SOTY 2016 tbh

not mad at my highest being #31 (Ain't My Fault)! Top 50 for another one of mine too! (By Your Side)

I know me forgetting to vote (sorreee oops I will engage with this soon x) didn't help but oh hell naur at 'On Hold' going out in such an undignified manner