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Oop. Well hopefully it should function as intended for anyone who confirms from now on x I'll just delete the first Cheiron submission from the response form. Anyway, hooray for finally having another edition of this after a 4 year gap! And after that whole time I still don't have an entry in mind particularly ddd so will have to brainstorm x (16 out of 18 entries so far being recycled artists lel)

Whoops I forgot to turn on the settings to allow response editing / limit to 1 response. Now fixed, what does it show when you click on the form now? Curious if it retroactively picks up one of your previous submissions and if so which one x

I'd expect Sabrina to hang on this week but glad it's at least not looking like she'll be squatting at #1 for too long this time. 'Dior' would be a decent #1 (would be good for MK to finally get one as a named / primary artist, 12 years after 'Look Right Through' and as mentioned already 30 years into his chart career!) but I am really rooting for 'Love Me Not' to somehow still eventually get there, I notice the Rex Orange County version has re-entered the top 200 on Spotify today and it's actually ahead of 'Manchild' combined, although obviously MK has overtaken since First Look so it's not trending in the right direction. I did figure it was probably wishful thinking from me overrating the chances of HAIM beating YUNGBLUD for the #1 album but really thought it'd at least be closer than it is oops - HAIM should still get similar if not slightly higher opening sales to their last album though so could be worse, I just thought the Taylor Swift stimulus package since the release of 'Women In Music Pt. III' could put them in contention to be pushing some slightly higher numbers now. YUNGBLUD has actually just barely already beaten the opening sales of his last album (by 60 units!) - would need to do another 16k to match the opening of his 2020 album though. Good to see Loyle Carner keeping up well with his previous sales too and even Aitch is doing a bit better than I expected. I think Benson Boone is much more of a 'general public' artist than one with a particularly sizeable fanbase, his album will hang around longer than the other debuts but not too surprised that he isn't contending for #1.

Afraid you're not allowed to do this - Louise to be disqualified immediately x

Louise actually got through? Rigged, I demand to see the results xxx I did wonder what would happen if there was a tie for the win, yay for CHVRCHES getting to make it through as well, 'How Not To Drown' was easily my fave from the Golden Wagner round and it's another good pick for them in this round, hopefully more to come <3 gave my other two coins to Elton John and Damiano David ('Mars' was way better than all his previous songs from this for me, good to know his solo album produced at least one song that's somewhat on par with Måneskin's discog), SASAMI just missing out, also want to acknowledge that the WALK THE MOON and ENHYPEN songs were pretty good discoveries as well. I was thinking 'Beg For You' was another pretty curious choice for Rina oops, I do quite like it but like... it's not even her song and I don't think it's that highly regarded on BuzzJack as far as Charli songs go! I think 'XS' would have walked a spot in the final but alas x

Here's my playlist which I am going to try and keep updated with all my faves per week (going to playlist anything that I'd rate 7.5/10 or higher, which is a nice round 20 songs for this first week, including both sides of the Amii Stewart double A). My top 5: Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird Azymuth - Jazz Carnival The Buggles - The Plastic Age John Foxx - Underpass Michael Jackson - Rock With You

Interesting theme choice! I've sent a song from an Italian X Factor act to BJSC before (In The Loop), so would have had that in the back pocket if I'd just left it as a potential after discovering it x

The previous albums by HAIM, YUNGBLUD and Loyle Carner all had similar-ish opening weeks - YUNGBLUD a little higher than the other two (22.8k vs. 17.8k for HAIM and 16.1k for Loyle) but I feel like his stock has fallen and HAIM's has risen a bit since their respective previous albums? Maybe that's wishful thinking though x Loyle probably most likely to be going for a third consecutive #3 album at best, Benson could definitely be up there as well. Should be a pretty decent sales week all around. (Aitch's last album also did 15.7k first week but I think it's probably safe to assume he'll drop off a bit this time - I notice 'Raving In The Studio' isn't even on this album for some reason, neither is 'A Guy Called?' although that makes more sense).

If 'Victory Lap' goes top 10 that'll be the second top 10 hit for Skepta nearly 13 years after his first! (I think we've had a thread about such long gaps before but not sure how to go about finding it x). Feels wrong that he's only had one before, and of all things it was just a feature on a long forgotten Wiley song.

I'll be storming onto the stage for the live shows with a pineapple on my head x

Sovarasma is not a different country x

At least a couple dozen people on this website (including me) definitely did know it in 2020 because it was sent to the BuzzJack Song Contest shortly after its original release x

I'll try and remember to vote in the later round(s) but I'm not going to have time to vote in this now (I didn't even notice this had started ngl oops), I always find these first rounds of 'vote for 30 songs out of a list of hundreds' quite intimidating anyway lol

Oops I did not realise the deadline for this was as soon as today, I assumed it was Tuesday again I don't have time to listen to all the songs as I have to go out at 5pm but I will quickly listen to the ones I don't already know, I guess the full ranking isn't so important if we're only voting for 3 songs x

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