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^ in case you didn't know, Victoria Bergsman was also behind Taken By Trees who hit the top 40 with a cover of 'Sweet Child O' Mine' from the John Lewis Christmas advert in 2009!

+5 Die On This Hill +4 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! +3 So Easy (To Fall In Love) +2 Man I Need +1 Lush Life -1 Raindance -2 End Of Beginning -3 The Fate Of Ophelia -4 I Just Might -5 Rein Me In Good swaps in the top 10 this week - the Bruno song is not exactly one of his best but still a good one, down to 'Rein Me In' being the only song I don't really care for in the top 10. Very happy to have 'Die On This Hill' back in the top 10 as it's blossomed into quite a favourite for me.

1 Danny L Harle 2 Groove Armada 3 Fcukers 4 Claptone 5 Matt Sassari 6 Josh Baker 7 Wilfy D 8 Alan Walker Julia Michaels did not seem nearly as exciting a feature as those on the other Danny singles so far but the song I think is possibly on par with the first couple of singles, another very good one from him <3 Groove Armada coming through with a solid chill tune as well and the Fcukers song is not quite as interesting as 'Bon Bon' and 'I Like It Like That' but still can see it being a bit of an earworm. Next 3 songs are decent if a bit generic, Wilfy D song was meh, Alan Walker needs to stop making music. x

1 A$AP Rocky 2 Wizkid 3 Leigh-Anne 4 Labrinth 5 DESTIN CONRAD 6 Ella Mai 7 Souly 8 Elmiene 9 Tiana Major9 10 NSG Rocky easily my fave this week (banger), Asake is pretty consistently enjoyable for me and that Wizkid track is no exception, nothing particularly new but still sounding quite fresh to me. The Leigh-Anne track is a lite bop but a little on the generic side. The Labrinth song just sounds like I tuned into Songs of Praise for a minute - it's very nice sounding but not exactly one I'm rushing to come back to. Not much going on with the rest of these, mostly just listenable but forgettable R&B (lol at the Akon references in that Souly track though). Didn't know NSG were still going, disappointingly cheap sounding song here though.

I don't really think Tems' voice sounds particularly masculine but fair enough! (070 Shake is more understandable x although the queen of 'is that really a woman singing?' from recent charts is clearly Gigi Perez)

1 Gorillaz 2 Arlo Parks 3 Mitski 4 Master Peace 5 Charli xcx 6 Ghost 7 Flea 8 CHVRCHES Gorillaz a very easy fave for me this week, love the blend of production styles and the melancholy vocals, beautiful track. I think both the Arlo and Mitski songs will grow on me more, a surprising direction for the former to go in but I think it works well, and I was taking a while to get into the latter but the crescendo of fuzzy guitars at the end was selling me enough to add it to my playlist. The Master Peace song was cool, him and Declan bounce off each other well enough but it did feel quite underwritten and repetitive (and I was just listening to the music video version which cuts out about a minute of the song lol). Charli song sounds like an album track/interlude, it's good for atmosphere but will forget about it very quickly. The Flea song had an interesting vibe but just didn't feel like it was going anywhere for the runtime of the song. The two covers are both pretty much what they say on the tin, I'd never choose to listen to them over the originals, the CHVRCHES one in particular just kind of sounded like advert slop, listenable enough but I'll wait for some actual new material from them x

1 Tove Styrke 2 Slayyyter 3 ENHYPEN 4 googly eyes 5 Sydney Rose 6 Nessa Barrett 7 Lily Moore 8 Sofia And The Antoinettes 9 Megan Moroney 10 Charlie Puth 11 LØLØ 12 Hilary Duff Not sure I've ever cared for a Tove Styrke song before but found this one very captivating! Also one of Slayyyter's best songs here, another banger serving late 00s deadmau5. The ENHYPEN song is probably kind of basic but it slaps as well. googly eyes' song has some interesting ideas but I think the execution is a liiittle jarring. Sydney/Tom song v nice. Nessa, Lily and Sofia all fairly good, Megan and Charlie decent (certainly better than some of their other material), LØLØ's sadly quite mid, and sorry but why are we paying attention to Hilary Duff again? x (also lol that the short edit of 'Prayer' on streaming services is tagged as 'edit for the impatient' x)

The letter F is just in 90% font size x (have to make do with that following the death of BBCode unfortunately </3 unless I bust out the Cyrillic letter с x)

Literally the post just above you that you read and reacted to...

you still didn't fix this btw xo

People really yet again assuming a new song is going to be #1 for ages when we have not yet heard even a second of it x Really hope 'HELICOPTER' can stick in the top 40 but seems like it'll be close either way. Have listened to the Rocky album today and it is a highlight from it. Shame the album doesn't look like giving him a first top 5 as I thought it would - its first day impact on Spotify was quite similar to if not better than Zach Bryan's last week but it looks set to have smaller opening numbers. I guess at least he is consistent, his previous albums peaked at #7, #10 and #11 and looks like this one will be landing around that same region once again.

Oops I did mean to vote in this but I forgor (I don't think the thread got bumped towards the end of the deadline tbf 👀) - 'Abracadabra' would certainly have ranked very near the top for me as well anyway so a good if predictable winner x Pleasantly surprised that 'Fame Is A Gun' finished higher than 'Headphones On' even without my votes! 'FUFN (Fuck You For Now)' and especially 'The Subway' are good to have in the top 5 too (think the latter would have got my top points). Also the correct Sabby Carpz song to be her highest. Lily and Robyn should definitely be higher though. x

...have you not listened to the song?

Not really any major surprises in the nominations this year (apart from perhaps Alex Warren being snubbed for international artist, not that I necessarily expected him to win as I don't think he's exactly a critic bait artist but not even making the shortlist is a little surprising) - love to see Bad Bunny and ROSALÍA both getting nominations though ❤️ (looks like that is the first time either have been nominated, I thought Bad Bunny might have got one once before but appears not) and I guess I wouldn't have called Wolf Alice being on the Album of the Year list either, not mad about it though even if it's not their best work. Yay for the nominations for Dave, EsDeeKid and PinkPantheress as well among others ~ I did think the dance act nominations list was a mistake on the BBC website at first, that is really strange to list those collaborations as a single entity. At least when they've done that before it's been for collaborations that recorded an entire album together (e.g. Drake & Future getting an international group nomination once), there's really no sensible reason to be nominating 'Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas' rather than just Calvin. Also I guess they must have dropped the requirement for an artist to have had a top 40 single or album to get a nomination? A couple of the acts on the R&B act list have never had either. I guess it's quite difficult to fill out that category with British names.

If it means we can segregate them into that contest and ban them from the main one then I'm in favour x