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Hi, it's Mattias (Deandria in BJSC), I'd like to enter a few song contests after a very long break if that's okay? I'm nervous and also not used to this new layout so bear with me haha

Also THIS was the look I got from Mr D* earlier when I explained we couldn't watch the final of Sewing Bee live because I was going to be presenting the results of a pretend song contest

Damn, thought she'd have fallen to #2 by now

Imagine the sales Taylor could have had if she'd released an actually good album...!

Buzzjack's nightmare of a collab lol

Bracing myself for the Buzzjack circle of a big popstar release. 1) A huge day 1 that's branded an underperformance regardless of whether it's good or bad 2) A day 2 drop off followed by cries of flop, no matter how the album holds 3) Certain users who complain that they're so bored of the stagnant charts then complaining when Taylor gets 3 songs in the official Top 10. It's an exciting time!

There’s this new artist called Perrie. Idk might be worth checking out🤷‍♂️

Welcome back to the stage ... N DNTN

For Club Bizarre 32 we have a record-breaking 32 entries!!! (How appropriate 😍) Just waiting for signoff x

Plot twist... That IS the signature Lindsey wanted!

The Spodic Empire is set to return to the 178th edition of the contest after a short break. Their entry will be internally selected and will be a return to their favoured genre which represented the Empire during its initial 5 appearances.

Surely they’d be all too busy talking about how Alex Warren isn’t still no1 in the pub

Oh wow. Love that 'storm' resonated so much, their soundscape this era (don't forget to pre-save the new album) is just it to me. Thank you to the 35 voters who got Nelly our second win. Insane 🖤 Reading the results this morning, and I knew Night Tapes had won the moment @Brer seemed disappointed by the prospect of it — it's Persephonia tradition I thought 'Korku' had it in the bag at first — and it would have been amazing to see FSR Rontvia back on top after such an eclectic, standout year. 'Loss Is Not Infinite' fully turned me into a Little Ront 🖤 So thrilled to see Aeroche, Fljótavík, Kathaldazia, Cumulonimbia (still not over that clash), Elëdan, and Jadakissnia all deservedly smashing the top twenty. Utopia nearly sneaking into the top ten is probably my biggest surprise (obsessed), and I love that something so quirky and alternative can smash too. Cor Lupus finally getting another hit — tough year for them. Altyr Muunilinst sounded like a huge hit to me, not sure what happened there, and I hoped Herbilore X Julia Fox could reach a new peak together. Bronzil far too low, amongst some of my other indie faves 🖤 I cannot forget to thank @dandy* for taking those calls and managing those filing cabinets. Also the most iconic points reveal, along with @uhsting I need to collect my thoughts today and decide if I actually want to host because spreadsheets are not hot, cute, or sexy. I would rather be on the Waitrose podcast x

Best of Week 7 poll results 8 Adam And The Ants - Antmusic 8 Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry 6 Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short 5 Abba - Super Trouper 3 Blondie - The Tide Is High 3 Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again 3 Queen - Flash 3 Roxy Music - The Same Old Scene 2 Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out 2 Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Walk Away 2 Kool And The Gang - Celebration 2 The Clash - The Call Up 1 Dr Hook - Girls Can Get It 1 Gary Numan - This Wreckage 1 Iron Maiden - Women In Uniform 1 John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over 1 The Rah Band - Falcon 1 The Specials - Do Nothing Wall of fame Week 1: John Foxx - Underpass Week 2: Blondie - Atomic Week 3: The Cure - A Forest Week 4: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Week 5: David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Week 6: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay Week 7: tbc The three-way tie has become a two-way tie, but still needs breaking! As has become the new norm, please react to this post as your vote for the winner of Week 7: 👍 (like) for: Adam And The Ants - Antmusic ❤️ (love) for: Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

So that's it for Week 1. We have done what we can. We now await the chart outcome. Fingers crossed that she has managed to overtake 21P at LEAST (I think we're definitely heading for an Ed & Sabrina 1/2). This is going to sound insane, cringe, loony etc.. But what an exciting week it's been. I've loved taking part in the "battle" to try and secure her the best position possible. No matter the outcome, it's been a HUGE success I'd say. Whether she lands at #3 or #4... it's in such a competitive week that has allowed her to secure numbers that would have given her a number 1 in 13 other weeks of the year! Incredibly proud of her and so pleased with the album that she has created. It's a legit pop masterpiece to me. Such a special album. On a separate note, I have listened to this album non-stop back to front (even listening in a few of the orders you guys have arranged in the "Rearrange" thread but always finished it). It's been scrobbled on my last.fm a total of 30 times (and that's ignoring the video play through and my listen throughs on CD/Vinyl). It's had a HOLD on me and THEN some (all whilst working a full time job too ) She is the only artist I have "scrobbled" this week (420 times). Consider my flabber ghasted. I am floored. Stunned. It's just been such a fun ride this week and it's been a blast celebrating and fighting with you all by my side! I hope we can help this album have some stability. She is by FAR the best "new" artist for me in a long, long, LONG time. <3

Tis mine thank you! 29 today 🥳

Just a friendly word - please do spare a thought this week for those of us who don’t have a strong opinion either way on Ed or whether he’s doing well or flopping. Please consider the quiet majority who just want to read about the streaming charts before you post. That isn’t aimed at anyone who’s commented so far - just before we end up with pages and pages of more or less the same comments over and over about one artist!

I’m meeting Jade today 😭😭😭

"All The Lovers" is FINALLY certified Platinum! @___∆___ @Padamic_Tension @aeroco @Delicate @SmileyKylie @Liam.k. @BREAKTHETENSION @Jessie Where @Spiceboy

David Guetta probably doesn't know he has anything to do with it, if we're honest.

If you look over the last 10 years only Ed Sheeran, Abba, Adele and Taylor Swift have been capable of selling in the quantity needed to make the list. Abba was pretty much a one off as their first studio album in 40 years and Ed Sheeran is no longer capable of hitting the mark leaving only Adele and Taylor as possibles. A lot of acts are releasing in multiple variants but yet they aren't making this list so it is still an achievement I think, after all no one is making people buy all the variants, she simply has the fans to do it, in that respect all the acts on the list simply had the fans to do it. I do understand your point but ultimately she's still the only one making this list these days.

GUYS! I've been invited to Perrie's intimate La La Room event on Tuesday WITH PERRIE!!! I never win these things, i'm so excited! She'll be playing the album and performing for us. Also, i've finally had the chance to listen to Miss You and I absolutely love it.

This isn’t album-related but I’m not really sure where to put it haha. Jade’s reading a picture book as a CBeebies bedtime story tonight and it’s a book I worked on 🤯 I’m a children’s book designer, and I’m this author’s designer – typically I started working on his books the book after this one haha, but I was still involved with this one. It’s mad to see her reading it, especially this week when she’s been here, there and everywhere 🤩 Can’t wait to see where the album lands, really hope the big last minute push will push her ahead of Twenty One Pilots. Still, a top 5 album is such an achievement wherever it ends up 🙌🏼

KPop Demons Hunters x LadBaby - Golden Sausage Rolls?

Y’all can’t let me DNQ with my German language track on the day I officially became a German national

I'm pretty sure Taylor's sales even without extra variants would be well over 300,000 this week anyway so it's neither here nor there. I personally think the way the same Greatest Hits and pseudo-Greatest Hits titles endlessly clog up the album chart is a bigger problem than a few extra sales from variants in one week.

Spotify YTD at the end of Q3: "Ordinary" continues to stretch its lead with the only question now being how high it will rank compared to the other highest year end totals. "Messy" should finally surpass "That's So True" in the next couple of weeks, many months after it surpassed it on the OCC list. "back to friends" is the higher of the two sombr songs on this list at #12, with both doing much better than the OCC list. The two old Coldplay favourites and "Nice to Each Other" are also performing a lot better on Spotify. On the other hand, "Golden" is slightly lagging behind its OCC position at only #36. Other hits underperforming on Spotify are "Dior" (#62) and "Blessings" (#87). As with the OCC list, "Iris" should dethrone "Mr. Brightside" as top oldie here, however, it may take a couple more weeks. "Dreams" is also on for a record year, as well as "Naive" sneaking into the top 50 for the first time. The White Noise track, now combining totals from both the Loopable and the Loopable No Fade versions would be #19 if I placed it properly (or #27 counting only the Loopable version's streams). Top 3 highest non-OCC list songs are "Feel Good Inc." (#58), "Teenage Dirtbag (#68) and "505" (#69). The only 2025 hit not on the OCC YTD currently in the top 100 are "Just Keep Watching" (#95) and "Juno" (#97), although the latter will drop out next week. "Burning Down" and "Tell Me" both fail to make the top 200 here despite being in the top 100 on the OCC list. Any questions, as always, please ask.

Comparing the two eras is always difficult - but Taylor definitely deserves to be making this list. I don't think anyone else could achieve it in the current climate and that is really impressive regardless of the number of formats etc. She has some hardcore fans but she also has a huge amount of more casual fans who are also clearly listening and buying it. She is by far the biggest act on the planet at the moment and she's at the peak of popularity, she's comparable to how big acts like Oasis were in the 90s and Adele was at her peak so she deserves to be listed among them in terms of high sellers. For every argument that she has multiple format purchases, she has to also combat people who will love the album but only stream it - which will generate way less sales now that the casual supermarket purchases that would have boosted a lot of the others on this list. If anything she'll be unfairly underrepresented on most lists because her most recent albums are hugely popular but won't be mentioned among the all time biggest sellers - and I'd probably listen to an argument that if she'd been releasing in the physical era that she'd potentially be higher up this list than she currently is.

I think after observing a decade of their posts, it's safe to say missed the point and with no hope of ever finding it.

Being the only person left in the world to give a damn about the compilation chart each week.

Wow, over 300k sales. Sabrina's impact is insane! Good on her for helping a small artist like this

No Taylor songs charting on Apple yet, what a flop

As this has been somewhat of a frequent topic of discussion lately (mainly because of my own pet peeves x), I thought it'd be interesting to compile a list of all the BJSC winning artists' previous entry positions (if any). I definitely felt that the current run of recycled former top 10 artists felt unusual and the stats do support that - we've currently had 5 of them in a row, when it had never previously happened more than 3 times in a row (BJSCs 135-137 and 164-166). Including Amelie Lens as well we're on a run of 6 recycled artists winning in a row which is the second longest such run ever, only beaten by a run of 8 in a row in BJSCs 118-125 (although worth noting that 2 of those 8 also included a non-recycled artist which cannot be said about the current run). It's not all bad news lately though - before this run of recycled winners, 4 of the last 5 winners had been first time entrants. So perhaps we are not doomed to recycled winners forever. x In the list below I've bolded recycled artists and highlighted in red those who had a previous top 10 hit. To avoid getting too much into the weeds I've not counted as a recycle when artists were sent as solo acts after previously being sent as part of a group or vice versa (if I had done BJSCs 77-79 would be another three in a row of recycled top 10 artists as Malin had previously come top 10 as a member of Niki & The Dove). 1 Britney Spears/Junkie XL - first entry 2 Katharine McPhee - first entry 3 The Chicks - first entry 4 Sara Bareilles - first entry 5 t.A.T.u. - first entry 6 Beverley Knight - first entry 7 Katy Perry - first entry 8 Lily Allen - 2nd in BJSC 6 9 Margaret Berger - first entry 10 Brandy - first entry 11 Lenka - first entry 12 La Roux - first entry 13 Agnes - 9th in BJSC 11 14 Uh Huh Her - first entry 15 Röyksopp - 21st in BJSC 8, 18th in BJSC 14 16 V V Brown - 7th in BJSC 10, 8th in BJSC 14 17 Beautiful Small Machines - first entry 18 Kesha - DNQ in BJSC 14 19 Eva Simons - first entry 20 Alphabeat - 8th in BJSC 8 21 The Dolly Rockers - 6th in BJSC 19 22 Ellie Goulding - 15th in BJSC 13, DNQ in BJSC 20 23 MARINA - 18th in BJSC 12, 13th in BJSC 14, 6th in BJSC 16 24 Delphic - first entry 25 Roll Deep/Jodie Connor - first entry 26 Sheelah - first entry 27 Eric Saade - 20th in BJSC 23 28 Molly Sandén - first entry 29 Zoë Badwi - first entry 30 Adele - 12th in BJSC 6 31 Sheelah - 1st in BJSC 26 32 Lykke Li - DNQ in BJSC 7, 26th in BJSC 13, DNQ in BJSC 21, 14th in BJSC 30 33 Agnes Obel - DNQ in BJSC 15 34 Charice - 28th in BJSC 25 35 Chart Music - first entry 36 Lana Del Rey - first entry 37 Jessica Mauboy - 22nd in BJSC 11, DNQ in BJSC 22, 4th in BJSC 30 38 Loreen - first entry 39 Ricki-Lee - DNQ in BJSC 11, DNQ in BJSC 23 40 Rachel Platten - first entry 41 Foxes - first entry 42 Emma Hewitt - first entry 43 Dragonette - 14th in BJSC 2, 9th in BJSC 4, DNQ in BJSC 20, DNQ in BJSC 21, 34th in BJSC 26 44 Ronya - first entry 45 Woodkid - first entry 46 Trentemøller/Ane Trolle - first entry 47 TR/ST - first entry 48 Unicorn Kid - 11th in BJSC 40 49 Fibes, Oh Fibes! - 27th in BJSC 21 50 Frida Sundemo - first entry 51 Kate Boy - first entry 52 Zara Larsson - first entry 53 Carli - first entry 54 Postiljonen - first entry 55 Marcel Woods/Vanbot - Vanbot 3rd in BJSC 33, 15th in BJSC 43 (first entry for Marcel Woods) 56 Ghost Loft - first entry 57 Belanger - first entry 58 Vaults - first entry 59 The Kite String Tangle - first entry 60 Cut Copy - first entry 61 Indila - first entry 62 SOHN - 19th in BJSC 50 63 RuPaul - first entry 64 RAM/Susana - first entry 65 Hervé/Zebra Katz - Hervé DNQ in BJSC 62 (first entry for Zebra Katz) 66 A. G. Cook - 16th in BJSC 59 67 Jay Dabhi/Moises Modesto - first entry 68 Michael Woods/Lauren Dyson - Michael Woods 24th in BJSC 49, 4th in BJSC 53, 29th in BJSC 65 (as Out Of Office) (first entry for Lauren Dyson) 69 Blonde/Melissa Steel - Blonde DNQ in BJSC 67 (first entry for Melissa Steel) 70 Josef Salvat - 11th in BJSC 54 71 LINES/Adele Kosman - first entry 72 PVRIS - first entry 73 SNBRN/Kerli - Kerli 16th in BJSC 18, 11th in BJSC 25, 4th in BJSC 57, 19th in BJSC 66 (first entry for SNBRN) 74 A-WA - first entry 75 MEG MYERS - DNQ in BJSC 41, 28th in BJSC 63 76 Sigala - first entry 77 Alex Metric/Jacques Lu Cont/Malin - Alex Metric 23rd in BJSC 18, 21st in BJSC 59 (first entry for Jacques Lu Cont and Malin) 78 Rationale - 2nd in BJSC 24 (as Tinashé) 79 Shaun Frank/KSHMR/Delaney Jane - KSHMR 10th in BJSC 77 (first entry for Shaun Frank and Delaney Jane) 80 Delta Heavy - first entry 81 Allie X - 7th in BJSC 75 82 Hilight Tribe/Vini Vici - first entry 83 K3 - first entry 84 Salt Ashes - 15th in BJSC 68, 38th in BJSC 81 85 Bang La Decks - first entry 86 Aelyn - first entry 87 The Naked And Famous - 39th in BJSC 77 88 RAYE - 35th in BJSC 77 89 Crystal Waters - first entry 90 Fraunhofer Diffraction - first entry 91 Finn Keane/Noonie Bao - Finn Keane DNQ in BJSC 73 / Noonie Bao DNQ in BJSC 50, 35th in BJSC 78 92 Gareth Emery/Standerwick/HALIENE - Gareth Emery 20th in BJSC 45, 4th in BJSC 78 / HALIENE 8th in BJSC 53, 18th in BJSC 64, 8th in BJSC 84, 35th in BJSC 85 (all as Kelly Sweet) (first entry for Standerwick) 93 Jaded - first entry 94 Drones Club - first entry 95 Bleachers - DNQ in BJSC 72 96 Helena Paparizou - 10th in BJSC 5, 8th in BJSC 9, DNQ in BJSC 34 97 Norda/Mike De Ville/Joanna Jones - first entry 98 Clare Maguire - 19th in BJSC 87 99 Francesca Michielin - first entry 100 TR/ST - 1st in BJSC 47 101 Alvaro Soler - DNQ in BJSC 77 102 Kim Petras - 26th in BJSC 100 103 Metroplane/Bree Runway - Bree Runway 7th in BJSC 100 (first entry for Metroplane) 104 Built By Titan/Starxs - Built By Titan DNQ in BJSC 85 (first entry for Starxs) 105 grandson - first entry 106 Jean-Michel Blais/CFCF - first entry 107 Cathedrals - 26th in BJSC 68 108 Daniella Mason - 12th in BJSC 75, DNQ in BJSC 100 109 Colleen D'Agostino - 4th in BJSC 74 110 Gryffin/ZOHARA - Gryffin 11th in BJSC 98 (first entry for ZOHARA) 111 White Lies - DNQ in BJSC 63 112 Skeler/Juche - first entry 113 Two Steps From Hell/Chris Bleth/Merethe Soltvedt - Two Steps From Hell 12th in BJSC 76, 18th in BJSC 95 / Merethe Soltvedt 4th in BJSC 82, 32nd in BJSC 98 (first entry for Chris Bleth) 114 Eden xo/F9 - Eden xo 10th in BJSC 12, 29th in BJSC 16, 16th in BJSC 23 (all as Jessie Malakouti), 16th in BJSC 28, 15th in BJSC 31, 25th in BJSC 40 (all as Jessie And The Toy Boys), 22nd in BJSC 66 (first entry for F9) 115 SOFI TUKKER/Bomba Estéreo - SOFI TUKKER 20th in BJSC 81, 16th in BJSC 94 / Bomba Estéreo 26th in BJSC 82, 31st in BJSC 111 116 Drab Majesty - first entry 117 Rompasso - first entry 118 Charlotte Lawrence - DNQ in BJSC 74 119 Franky Wah/Robinson - Robinson 40th in BJSC 96, 18th in BJSC 103 (first entry for Franky Wah) 120 Sabrina Carpenter - 18th in BJSC 88, 39th in BJSC 94 121 NINA/LAU - NINA DNQ in BJSC 69, 16th in BJSC 92 (first entry for LAU) 122 Smith & Thell - 26th in BJSC 42, 7th in BJSC 58, DNQ in BJSC 70, 12th in BJSC 90 123 Betty Who - DNQ in BJSC 51, 16th in BJSC 62, 34th in BJSC 97 124 Rebecca & Fiona - 21st in BJSC 37, 22nd in BJSC 40, 27th in BJSC 56, 31st in BJSC 94 125 Nova Miller - 17th in BJSC 98, 20th in BJSC 107 126 Klangkarussell/GIVVEN - first entry 127 Sheppard - DNQ in BJSC 67 128 Tei Shi - 19th in BJSC 70 129 EVERGLOW - 11th in BJSC 118, 18th in BJSC 126 130 Nora En Pure - 18th in BJSC 102 131 Worakls/Rusanda Panfili - Worakls 7th in BJSC 111 (first entry for Rusanda Panfili) 132 LOVA - first entry 133 Doss - 29th in BJSC 64 134 Ane Brun - DNQ in BJSC 35 135 Stockholm Noir/Ofelia - Stockholm Noir 2nd in BJSC 95 / Ofelia DNQ in BJSC 77 136 Faouzia - 6th in BJSC 121 137 Violet Chachki/Allie X/Lecomte De Brégeot - Violet Chachki 13th in BJSC 96 / Allie X 7th in BJSC 75, 1st in BJSC 81 (first entry for Lecomte De Brégeot) 138 X-Perience - first entry 139 Anabel Englund - 18th in BJSC 119, 14th in BJSC 131 140 Confidence Man - 28th in BJSC 94, 5th in BJSC 99 141 aamourocean - first entry 142 Leony - 25th in BJSC 108, 8th in BJSC 133 143 Nessa Barrett - first entry 144 M83/Susanne Sundfør - M83 20th in BJSC 14, DNQ in BJSC 37, 6th in BJSC 61 / Susanne Sundfør 9th in BJSC 43, 5th in BJSC 122 145 Stevie Nicks - first entry 146 Third ≡ Party/Kathy Brown - first entry 147 Rose Gray - 13th in BJSC 133, 2nd in BJSC 145 148 Honey. - first entry 149 220 KID/ÁSDÍS - first entry 150 Madison Rose - 24th in BJSC 144, DNQ in BJSC 146 151 Nabihah Iqbal - first entry 152 Nyteout - first entry 153 Blusher - first entry 154 Snow Strippers - first entry 155 hemlocke springs - 32nd in BJSC 151 156 Geo22 - first entry 157 Jai Wolf/BANKS - Jai Wolf 10th in BJSC 76, 4th in BJSC 130 / BANKS 18th in BJSC 53, 35th in BJSC 115 158 Lucia & The Best Boys - DNQ in BJSC 122, 9th in BJSC 129 159 Argy/Omnya - first entry 160 MisterWives - DNQ in BJSC 61, 30th in BJSC 78, 4th in BJSC 95 161 Fat Dog - first entry 162 Grossstadtgeflüster - first entry 163 RONDÉ - 33rd in BJSC 147, 14th in BJSC 153 164 Margaret Berger - 1st in BJSC 9, 24th in BJSC 13, 12th in BJSC 32 165 METTE - 6th in BJSC 153 166 ascendant vierge/TDJ - ascendant vierge 4th in BJSC 142 / TDJ 10th in BJSC 134 167 Nicolina - first entry 168 Active Child - 22nd in BJSC 42, 24th in BJSC 59, 3rd in BJSC 118 169 Father John Misty - first entry 170 Mona Yim - first entry 171 ALT BLK ERA - first entry 172 Amelie Lens - 36th in BJSC 112 173 Rebecca Black - 38th in BJSC 135, 21st in BJSC 151, 2nd in BJSC 169 174 Debbii Dawson - 9th in BJSC 166, 7th in BJSC 172 175 Annalisa - 15th in BJSC 85, 10th in BJSC 151, 2nd in BJSC 155 176 Ninajirachi - 14th in BJSC 140, 3rd in BJSC 173 177 Night Tapes - 8th in BJSC 165

I am thrilled with this forum, no kidding!! It’s truly a treasure trove of music. From what I’ve seen so far, your contests and rules are very thoughtfully organized, and each one seems to have its own purpose, while everything aims for fairness and balance among the songs, which I really like.

I don't get this - LM5 and Confetti were both platinum albums so were definitely big eras, albeit not as huge as Glory Days (which benefits from having five big hits on its tracklist). Jade didn't write either of the LM5 singles, which is what the casual audience will recognise from the era. She co-wrote two of the four Confetti singles (both with Leigh-Anne, and Break Up Song also with Perrie). I don't get why Jade is to blame for the "end of Little Mix" (which sounded like a mutual decision between the three of them, but if they wanted to continue I don't see why they couldn't have given they were coming off a huge arena tour (despite Jade's "creative direction" it appears) and their final studio album had produced three top 10 hits including #1 single. Their music certainly progressed, I think their brand of pop music became more sophisticated as time went on, and less bubblegum. There's nothing wrong with that and I don't think it was related to a change in audience focus. This really doesn't have to be a competition between Jade and Perrie, who we know are very close friends and will undoubtedly be celebrating each other's success. I don't get how Perrie's sales here prove anything about the audience Little Mix ultimately aimed at (which was always very much females + gays, even from before Glory Days, which isn't unusual for a girl group, Girls Aloud/Sugababes/The Saturdays/etc are much the same).

That weird moment where you think that Last Dreamer is a huge Oasis fan. I swear my mind just imploded a bit.

Lol if a person had the power to single-handedly get a song to #1, I'd be streaming and downloading the hell out of FUFN, aka the best song of the year!

I am shocked! A rock song that I found on New Music Friday Türkiye which has under 100 YouTube views and under 4,000 Spotify streams is not what I would exactly call a recipe for a hit, so I'm astonished it came 2nd, even despite odds as high as 4th, I thought they were a bit generous. Thank you SO much for all the votes (including Scotland 2 at the end there) and especially all the 18s, that's amazing. I don't mind the way it was revealed @dandy*, I expected to fall further and delighted that I hung on for an 11th silver medal; our sixth since we last won and our fifth in just over three years. I'm not sure niche foreign lanugage songs like this are ever going to be the key to a win but that really wasn't the aim with a song like this, so it makes the result even more amazing. Quite a progression up from 6th in the semi too, thank you to the voters from the other semi for the bump! Neliönoir is a great winner, brilliant song and high up my vote and just continuing a spectacular year they are having. Great to see my two favourites in fourth and third, I'd heard Space Cadet before but didn't really think about it for BJSC, great ravey entry though and a deserved top three return for Aeroche! And Roba pulling another inspired pop discovery out for Summericia, I'd never heard that track or artist before. Ajanaeda and Fljótavík 5th and 6th means that my predicted clear top five in the odds all came in the top six, although not the right order, and the only song I vastly underpredicted was my own. Glad Skall did well in the end as that was a clear third favourite of mine but I wasn't sure how it would do. Thanks so much dandy* for very slick hosting and a really enjoyable contest with lots of great entries!

18 | FSR Rontvia • ARGO • Korku 15 | Pestolia • ivri • tower of memories 13 | Land of DW • Lord Of The Lost & Within Temptation • Light Can Only Shine In The Darkness 12 | Ajanaeda • Nuovo Testamento • Dream On 11 | Neliönoir • Night Tapes • storm 10 | Cumulonimbia • Deki Alem • House Fire 09 | POPHub • Magdalene • Lucky Girl 08 | Aeroche • sim0ne • space cadet 07 | Trifoski • acloudyskye • Shoots 06 | Why So Sirius • Yu • Geld 05 | Cor Lupus • Tsatsamis • Sweet Praise 04 | Taahino • Ashnikko • Trinkets 03 | Lotunia • Luca Vasta • Santa Maria 02 | A-Konohagakure • Phuture Noize • Hyperspace 01 | Skall • Bubble Love • Double Caper

People aren't out there streaming new music on a Saturday, or if they are, it's music that's not new to those who are more likely to do it on a Friday. There were 8 new entries the day before, it'll be okay.

That's another £1 in the Alexa "swear" jar!

His views being: black people were better off under slavery, gay people being stoned to death is justifiable, trans people should be removed from public life, palestinians are responsible for their own suffering. he may have fallen short of calling for public executions (that i am aware of) but to say that he played no part in his demise by espousing viewpoints that are definitionally “violent” is laughable. he was one of the top figures responsible for sowing the culture of political violence in this country, and the problem with political violence is… it isn’t just your side holding the gun. and i think one of the biggest tragedies is actually what you mention as “agreeing to disagree” and “playing with ideas”. his ideas were ones that any sensible person disagreed with by 2008. he lent credibility to them by opening them up for debate, and now in 2025 the Overton window has fallen so far to the right it’s practically falling off the face of the earth. he was the embodiment of regression. an absolute cretin, and its only a shame there’s like 200 more like him with huge platforms still walking around

Lmao at the OCC reporting Tyga's 'Taste' at #15 instead of Sabrina and Travis Scott's 'Stargazing' instead of Myles Smith at #20 💀

Choosing between Boris and Reform would be like choosing what knife to stab yourself with.

911,015 for 'Man I Need' exceeds the 904,972 opening for 'Tears' as the most Spotify streams in a day in 2025 so far.

A bit gagged at how often you’ve mentioned you wanted to send Nuovo but then only gave it two points in the final, Cody ☠️🤣