1 MARINA - Froot one of my absolute favourites from Marina - also one of two clear standouts from the album for me. Hopefully the other one gets played at some point.
2 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination one of my favourites from Sophie and should've been a top 10 for her. The melodies throughout never leave my brain.

3 Adele - Rolling in the Deep now we're talking! While I found Hello to be a bit contrived, this is a storm of a song. Those vocals!

4 Agnes - EGO another bop from Agnes here. One of the standout tracks from her recent album.

5 Robyn - Hang With Me great production on this one. A solid choice for round 2.

6 Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M) liking this one more than her last choice. Very catchy and fun.

7 Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes another solid choice from Kate.

8 Leona Lewis - Come Alive oops didn't expect to rank this so low (testament to the quality of this category!) - totally get the logic here in sending this though.

9 Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault oops again: I thought I'd be ranking this higher but here we are. Really love the chorus though.

10 Dido - Take My Hand enjoyed the instrumentation on this one but doesn't leave as much of an impression on me compared to the others.

11 Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move the only one in this category that I didn't enjoy. Sorry!

Why are people ranking Zara anywhere but top 1???

It’s quite literally top 3 Zara songs… y’all are MADDDDD!!!!

Also, what a choice for Leona omg!

1 Zara Larsson

2 Adele

3 Agnes

4 Jessie Ware

5 Marina

6 Dido

7 Milica Pavlovic

8 Leona Lewis

9 Sophie Ellis-Bexter

10 Kate Bush

11 Robyn

27 minutes ago, Tafty said:

Why are people ranking Jessie anywhere but top 1???

It’s quite literally top 3 Jessie songs… y’all are MADDDDD!!!!

Omg this

1 Adele - Rolling in the Deep

2 Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes

3 MARINA - Froot

4 Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

5 Dido - Take My Hand

6 Robyn - Hang With Me

7 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination

8 Leona Lewis - Come Alive

9 Agnes - EGO

10 Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M)

11 Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

Adele going big early on - her mentor does realise how this game works, right? Zara starting slowly, this was a disappointing follow-up to 'Lush Life' for me, but I think she'll be fine this round.

Bring on the Spotify playlists haha

I went old school and copied and pasted from the list into Spotify 🤣

Edited Wednesday at 21:463 days by ElectroBoy

3 hours ago, Bror said:

Omg this

I actually agree with it being Jessie's best song!!

1 The Man with the Child In His Eyes – Kate Bush

2 Rolling In the Deep – Adele

3 Me And My Imagination – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

4 If You're Never Gonna Move – Jessie Ware

5 Ain't My Fault – Zara Larsson

6 Froot – Marina and The Diamonds

7 EGO – Agnes

8 Crna Jutra (Balkan S&M) – Milica Pavlović

9 Hang With Me – Robyn

10 Take My Hand – Dido

11 Come Alive – Leona Lewis

1 Dido - Take My Hand · Have always loved this, one of the many highlights of No Angel! The production is exquisite, especially towards the end.

2 Leona Lewis - Come Alive · I love the whole Glassheart album and this is one of the best songs on it, Leona going dubstep was an unexpected aural pleasure!

3 Adele - Rolling in the Deep · An undeniable classique, Adele's mentor really is NOT messing around!

4 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination · As camp catchy bops go, this is up there with the best! Love the production and the strings.

5 Agnes - EGO · One of my favourites from her, I listened to this a lot last year!

6 MARINA - Froot · This is top tier Marina!

7 Robyn - Hang With Me · There's better on the album but this is still pretty good.

8 Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault · Not quite in her top 5 but I've always thought this was fun for what it was.

9 Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move · I think this song was my introduction to Jessie, it's alright but she's done much better since.

10 Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes · Not a bad song by any means but sadly it just can't compete with these bangers!

11 Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M) · Again this isn't bad but the others are tried and tested songs which I really enjoy, sorry!

This was really difficult to order, I enjoy the top 6 a lot!

Should we start the Gettin’ Rid of Robyn campaign now or wait until her mentor sends a weaker song? There’s no way any of us are winning against Dancing on My Own in the final so we might as well do it soon xxo

Zara Larsson (favourite)

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Adele

MARINA

Jessie Ware

Leona Lewis

Robyn

Milica Pavlović

Agnes

Dido

Kate Bush (least favourite)

another great round from the girls! Amazing top 5 and not a single song I didn’t like! Milica is really bringing it too - kinda need her to go all the way lmao

Love the Glassheart pick for Leona… my dream pick for her for an album track would be “Shake you up”!

1 Adele - Rolling in the Deep

2 MARINA - Froot

3 Dido - Take My Hand

4 Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

5 Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes

6 Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M)

7 Robyn - Hang With Me

8 Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

9 Agnes - EGO

10 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination

11 Leona Lewis - Come Alive

A really strong round. Only Leona's is slightly let down by the chorus for me but I like the rest of it!

1st Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes (she was only 13 years old when she wrote this song, incredible)

2nd Dido - Take My Hand

3rd Adele - Rolling in the Deep

4th Marina - Froot

5th Robyn - Hang With Me

6th Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

7th Leona Lewis - Come Alive

8th Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination

9th Agnes - Ego

10th Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M)

11th Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

On 22/09/2026 at 17:45, Calum said:

This week, awardinary will be hosting a listen-through session for The Arena Auditions in Amsterdam on Thursday 24 September at 19:00 BST. More information will be shared before the session begins, but if you'd like the opportunity to listen to all of the performances with others, this is it.

For those wanting to come along and experience the reactions to your own entries, we invite all mentors and voting members to come online at 7pm to hear this week's songs.

https://sync-tube.de/room/Uy2urZ2Z

The session will begin with the male vocalists, followed by the females, followed by the groups.

1. Adele - Rolling In The Deep

2. Leona Lewis - Come Alive

3. Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

4. Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes

5. MARINA - Froot

6. Robyn - Hang With Me

7. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination

8. Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

9. Agnes - EGO

10. Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M)

11. Dido - Take My Hand

No other song I could put at number 1 there. Adele kills it. Love this Leona track one of her best wish she’d done more like this. Great Zara track! Brilliant Kate song I really need to listen to more of her. Marina, Robyn and Sophie all solid. Jessie and Agnes really great too. Milica and Didos good too but just such strong competition

What a strong set of songs !

Edited Thursday at 17:402 days by Lukuzz

01. Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault [FAVOURITE]

02. Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

03. Leona Lewis - Come Alive

04. Robyn - Hang With Me

05. Agnes - EGO

06. Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M)

07. Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes

08. Adele - Rolling in the Deep

09. MARINA - Froot

10. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination

11. Dido - Take My Hand

Decent round. That top 3 is incredible. LOOOOOVE them all. Banger Robyn song. Great Agnes song. Milica serving another surprise cute bop. Nice Kate song. Never been a big fan of the Adele and MARINA tracks unfortunately (but I absolutely know I'm in the minority for that opinion on both - so I completely understand why they were chosen). Don't care for either Sophie or Dido's tracks </3

01. Adele - Rolling in the Deep (fave)

02. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination

03. Agnes – EGO

04. MARINA - Froot

05. Leona Lewis - Come Alive

06. Robyn - Hang With Me

07. Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move

08. Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes

09. Dido - Take My Hand

10. Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault

11. Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M)

A Very strong top 4:

• It's tough to beat that Adele song in my view.

• I forgot what an underrated bop that Sophie song was.

• Brilliant song choices from Agnes and Marina, Leona's is good too.

• Robyn, Jessie and Kate all had nice songs.

• The bottom three just weren't for me sadly.

wow at these low scores for a recent bop idol winner - although I’m not totally surprised as a lot of ‘pop’ voters have voted so far and Take My Hand is more alt than a lot of her stuff

Zara continuing to flipflop is the shock of this round for me, thought she was a Buzzjack fave so I'm really surprised to see her struggling!

Edited Friday at 08:161 day by Mangø