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My first thought when the theme came up was that ABBA might make their debut in these contests with “Soldiers”.

20 BLACKPINK - JUMP 19 Addison Rae - Fame Is a Gun 18 Chappell Roan - The Subway 17 Robyn - Dopamine 16 Tate McRae - Sports car 15 JADE - Plastic Box 14 Addison Rae - Headphones On 13 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 12 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia 11 Ed Sheeran - Azizam 10 Sabrina Carpenter - Tears 9 Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else 8 JADE - FUFN 7 Lily Allen - Madeline 6 JADE - Church 5 Tate McRae - NOBODY'S GIRL 4 Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman 3 Girls Aloud - Singapore 2 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild 1 Perrie - If He Wanted to He Would

Went for Fleetwood Mac, Lil Uzi Vert and She & Him

Went for Liberty X

Not a huge deal but is anyone finding that embedded Spotify links aren’t working for them? For example if I click on the above from Juan Carlos it just turns into a white box and doesn’t take me there.

Close actually as both are very good - went for Ultrabeat narrowly.

Ooh a whitewash

And so we’re down to our 3 of our favourite ever December hits. None of them are strangers to winning rates. “Bad Romance” has won Buzzjack’s flagship Record Of the Decade contest, twice I believe. “Fairytale Of New York” won the Christmas #2 poll here last year and was also voted Buzzjack’s favourite Christmas song in a previous poll. And “Stan” won the ultimate ultimate 2000s hit survivor from a field of nearly 1,000 songs. But in which order will they line up here?

4th: 345 points One More Sleep - Leona Lewis Voters: Scene (20), chartjack2 (19), Steve201 (19), gooddelta (19), December Dong (18), Paddington James (18), AaronTM (18), Dancember (17), Jason (17), Chez Wombat (17), dandy* (16), 777666jason (15), detonate (14), Mack. (13), Jester (11), musicfan97 (11), DarrenJ77 (10), Electroboy (10), Mangø (10), Dobbo (10), jimwatts (9), GreyAsh (8), …ready for it (8), rio309 (7), Julian_ (6), Jaz13music (5) 14/12/2013 34-{3}-3-15-70R(156)-75R(50)-36-36-19-42R(49)-28-19-8-43R(49)-29-25-15-72R(48)-33-25-27-18-21-47R(48)-31-28-21-20-57R(48)-34-31-32-25-58R(48)-35-34-32-29-45R(49)-39-36-34-58R(49)-44-38-32->46 Christmas number one: Skyscraper - Sam Bailey Christmas number two: Happy - Pharrell Williams Leona recorded “Christmas, With Love” as her 4th album in 2013, and released this alongside it. It was her 8th Top 5 hit. the most for any solo female at the time, but also her last Top 40 hit as it stands, with her next single only reaching #51. However, it has re-entered the Top 40 in each of the last 9 consecutive years.

Going for Emma now - I prefer all the follow up singles.

It’s been an ugly week for the Sugababes as they receive the boot from 2 survivors in quick succession. A #3 in December 2005, this was the follow up to the #1 “Push The Button” from their “Taller In More Ways” album. The subject matter drew comparisons with TLC’s “Unpretty”. 4th: Sugababes - Ugly 13/32 votes (41%) 5th: Flobots - Handlebars 14/32 votes (44%) 6th: Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock 10/25 votes (40%) 7th: Omarion - Ice Box 10/26 votes (38%) 8th: Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Cash 11/28 votes (39%) 9th: City High - Caramel 11/29 votes (38%) 10th: Blue - Bubblin’ 15/31 votes (48%)

30 Noel Harrison - The Windmills Of Your Mind 29 The Beloved - Sweet Harmony 28 Linkin Park - In The End 27 Muse - Time Is Running Out 26 The Divine Comedy - National Express 25 Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) 24 Ash - Shining Light 23 Mary J Blige - Family Affair 22 Depeche Mode - In Your Room 21 Beach Boys - Heroes & Villians 20 The Smiths - This Charming Man 19 The Lovin’ Spoonful - Summer In The City 18 Cerrone - Supernature 17 Herbie Hancock - Rockit 16 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 15 Kanye West - Love Lockdown 14 Hazel O’Connor - Will You 13 Sammy Davis Jr - Love Me Or Leave Me 12 Blue Boy - Remember Me 11 Grandmaster Flash - The Message 10 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay 9 Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home 8 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit 7 Chordettes - Born To Be With You 6 Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal 5 Foo Fighters - The Pretender 4 Eagles - Hotel California 3 Love Inc. - Broken Bones 2 Electronic - Get The Message 1 Arctic Monkeys - Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?

5th: 343 points I Believe In You - Kylie Minogue Voters: Jester (18), MusicFan97 (18), rio309 (17), dandy* (17), Scene (17), JackJones (17), Electroboy (16), GreyAsh (16), Mack. (16), gooddelta (16), dancember (14), Jason (14), Chez Wombat (14), Jade (13), Mangø (13), Last Dreamer (12), AaronTM (12), December Dong (11), Roba. (9), detonate (9), …ready for it (9), Julian_ (8), DarrenJ77 (7), 777666jason (7), chartjack2 (7), Michael Bubré (6), Paddington James (4), DaTilt (4), Dobbo (2) 18/12/2004 {2}-3-4-3-11-23-30-35-41-45-52-56->12 Christmas number one: Do They Know It’s Christmas? - Band Aid 20 Christmas number two: Father And Son - Ronan Keating featuring Yusuf This was the lead single from the “Ultimate Kylie” compilations, and Jake Shears from the Scissorsisters was involved in the production. The single has a strong ‘80s new wave and disco flavour, and entered at #2 behind Band Aid 20 before falling a place in Christmas week. 2 weeks later it would return to #3 with the lowest ever sales for the #3 position, around 7k.

Of course the week before “XMAS” Wham! also increased in sales and were knocked off. That sort of thing must have happened plenty of times around Christmas in recent years. “Changes” by Ozzy and Kelly nearly doubled when moving 1-3 in Christmas week I believe.

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