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Fantastic to see Charli sweep ❤️ Long live the 'BRAT' era and here's to what she has for us next!

"This is gonna be great television" Utterly sickening and unbelievable.

Best British Artist: Charli xcx Best British Group: The Cure Best British Album: Charli xcx - Brat Best British Song: Charli xcx (feat. Billie Eilish) - Guess Best New British Act: English Teacher Best International Artist: Tyler, The Creator Best International Group: Fontaines D.C. Best International Song: Tommy Richman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY Best British Alt/Rock Act: The Cure Best British Hip-Hop/Grime/Rap Act: Little Simz Best British Dance Act: Charli xcx Best British Pop Act: Charli xcx Best British R&B Act: Michael Kiwanuka

Justin Trudeau has resigned as Canadian PM https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/can...6-25/index.html

My optimistic predictions for 2025: By the end of 2025, Starmer has recovered a healthy polling lead over his closest competition, the Tories. Reform begin to lose support due to inner conflict and some major controversy I suppose... In Canada, the Conservatives win the election with a large majority of +60 seats. Additionally, the Liberals are humiliated to a greater extent as the New Democratic party secure a higher percentage of the popular vote than the Liberal Party (although the latter party still wins more seats overall). In Germany, the CDU come out as victors in the February election, winning about 240 seats. The SPD also over-perform their polling figures, exceeding expectations to hold a significantly higher proportion of seats in comparison to AFD. As expected, a coalition is formed between CDU and SFD to control a majority in German government. In Australia, Labor exceed the polls and only stray a few seats behind the Liberal/National Coalition who are just short of a majority. The Green Party may have a key part to play in forming a majority for either government. In the USA, Trump's support begins to expire almost instantly due to unpopular decisions, controversy, his usual breaches of Democracy etc. Trump's application of MAGAnomics also sends inflation on the rise once again due to high tariffs on foreign goods. The razor thin majority in the HOR makes it hard for Trump to pass his agenda and hence makes him look incredibly weak. By June, Mike Johnson has been ousted as speaker of the HOR. This begins to set the stage nicely for 2026 where (yes, I'm optimistically calling it now) the Dems will win back a majority of over 230 seats in the HOR, make a senate gain of two seats (Maine and North Carolina, additionally Ohio, Iowa and Florida could be in play but its quite unlikely that they would shift left considering that those states haven't elected a Democrat senator since the Obama era, excluding Sherrod Brown in 2018) and a gubernatorial gain of Nevada and Georgia. After some speculation, Kamala Harris does not decide to run for governor of California and instead prepares to launch a 2028 presidential bid in 2026. Throughout 2026, Harris becomes the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2028 with Pete Buttigieg acting as her closest competition in the polls. Vance also leads the polls for the Republican nomination. Lastly, the two 2025 gubernatorial elections (New Jersey and Virginia) are dare I say, landslides for Democracts? + a former UK Prime Minister dies :o

'Feel Good Inc' being sampled on a Aitch x Bou song? hell nah

All of those scenarios are probably quite likely, the first two more than the last I would say. There is a slight chance that he may step aside and let Vance take over as President so he doesn't have to partake in all the typical Presidential activities etc. In that scenario he would still be President (by whispering his commands into Vance's gullible ear and him executing them) but Vance would hold the official title. Still, it is hard to see a dictator leaving office without death being a factor.

'Crusin' really is lush! The way that the production builds throughout the song is incredible :heart: This album has been on constant repeat ever since release, it's one of the finest albums to drop this year for sure. My major highlights were mainly 'Crusin', 'Lithonia', 'Survive', 'Real Love' & 'Yoshinoya'. A very apt ending to the Childish Gambino saga.

Awww :cry: What a truly incredible life that he lived, 100 years of dedication to serve his homeland, and the sheer amount of people that he assisted after leaving office is really heartwarming :wub: There will likely never be any post-presidency that matches to Jimmy Carter's, period. He may not have been the most effective President that the US has ever seen but at least he tried to put his morals first, something that this cold-hearted political environment that we live in could do with. We've lost possibly the most genuine and kind-hearted US President that there will ever be (considering the way things are shifting atm). I think its fair to say that Jimmy embodied what I believe America strives (or strived) to be. It's also worth noting that this man was a warrior, he survived both metastatic cancer and a form of liver cancer. All that I know is that Jimmy will at least be able to finally rest at peace alongside his wife :heart: RIP

Alright, here we go.... - Oasis drop a new single, landing straight in at #1 for quite a few weeks. - Oasis also drop an album which sells 300K+ first week - A song by Madness reappears in the top 40 thanks to being featured in a film/tv show - The Weeknd and Central Cee get into a massive albums chart battle with The Weeknd pitting Cench to the top (I can hope x) - 'Wake Me Up' by The Weeknd becomes his first solo top five hit since 'Save Your Tears - Doechii scores a top 40 hit - KSI returns with a hilariously bad UK #1 album - Mac Miller posthumously scores his first top five album with 'Balloonerism' - #1 albums for: Robbie Williams, Franz Ferdinand, Manic Street Preachers, Inhaler, Doves, Sam Fender, Lady Gaga, James Arthur & The Lathums in Q1 - Lana Del Rey will delay her upcoming studio album - Ed Sheeran will return with his "big pop album" but thankfully it will only be as commercially successful as '-' - Sam Fender sells 70K+ with 'People Watching + he scores the Christmas #1 with an Amazon Original - Miley Cyrus returns but without a smash hit a la 'Flowers' - We finally receive 'Don't Be Dumb' and 'I AM MUSIC' by A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti respectively. - Lady Gaga x The Weeknd on Gesaffelstein production is single #3 from LG7 and becomes a top 3 hit - First #1 albums for J. Cole & Playboi Carti - Gracie Abrams gets the first #1 of the year - Bruno Mars returns with a multi-week #1 solo single - Dave finally returns with a HUGE album in Q3 - 'Reputation (TV) drops and underperforms by Taylor's usual standards. She also surprise drops an album of fresh material in November - Chappell Roan scores the chart double with a new album - A Kenny Mason song charts in the top 100 - Pulp return with new music which subsequently charts in the top 40 - The highly-anticipated comeback album from My Chemical Romance is released in Q4 - A legendary musician dies sending one of their songs back into the top 3 - Noah Kahan returns with a new album and a top 5 hit single

Seems like I need to improve my prediction skills :lol:

The HOR are about to vote on the bill once again with the bill unlikely to pass thanks to nearly no changes whatsoever from Johnson. Rosa DeLauro delivered an incredible speech as well a few minutes ago which reiterated how the GOP are utter scumbags - removing funds for research and treatment for childhood cancer in the new, partisan revised spending plan etc. Edit: Plot twist.... It seems as though the bill is about to pass amazingly :o Democrats seem to have come together to save the government from shutdown even though the spending plan is not bi-partisan whatsoever lol Edit 2: The house has passed it, truly astonishing considering the circumstances

The Republicans seem to have to have masterfully created a political crisis for America yet again. The US government is heading for a shutdown again thanks to a GOP spending plan that even the GOP is split on :lol: With even a slimmer GOP majority come January, this is probably not the last time that this'll happen over Trump's upcoming term. On the brighter side, Mike Johnson's foreseeable future as speaker seems doomed due to this + more GOP-induced crises such as this bodes well for Dems in 2026 in the House elections (Senate looks truly impossible tho). https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/...9-24/index.html

Top Artists: 1. Charli xcx Top Songs: 8. Von dutch 12. Guess featuring Billie Eilish 16. 360 30. Apple 34. Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde 43. Sympathy is a knife 48. 365 56. 365 featuring Shygirl 78. Talk talk featuring Troye Sivan 99. Everything is romantic

What a Lana Del Rey-esque start to a Lana Del Rey album rollout :kink: I'm hyped either way, new Lana material is ALWAYS appreciated. As for the tour, I'd love to go. I was blessed to witness her greatness on stage in 2023, just a few days after the Glastonbury thing oop. Her live vocals really are something else tho, I would highly, highly recommend seeing her x. Aiming for Wembley or Hampden...