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So, in an interesting turn of events I only just returned to the contest the other day and I'm already hosting. Dalisska is very happy to welcome you all to Lyndra (our beautiful coastal capital city) for the upcoming 182nd Buzzjack Song Contest! Last edition, Cheiron won for the first time with their song "Out of My Head" by First Aid Kid. Will we get another first time winner for BJSC 182 or will someone add another 1st place trophy to their collection? Only time will tell! Confirmations will be opening on the 11th of February. Use this thread to....tbh I'm not fully sure what happens in a green room thread! Be green and discuss things! 👽 (While I was figuring out what banner I'd make, I discovered a Japanese artist called Mizuki Heitaro, who has many pieces of artwork from the 1930s that are in the public domain. So I'm hoping to make a few more banners similar to the above one for the contest using their work)

Surely we don’t really think the charts should be dictated by a few gays aged 30-50 having a bit of fun instead of by what the country is listening to… I know many of us are in that demographic but really.

That is episode one of Masked Singer levels of clue difficulty 😂 Jonathan Ross: What was the clue about the aubergine about? Natalie Cassidy: Oh that referenced episode 1346 of Eastenders when I walked past the market stall that sold vegetables Jonathan Ross: Oh of course! Can't believe we didn't spot that!

No she turned 49 earlier in the week x

(Inspired by Sabrewulf)

Inspired by comments in the certifications thread this week, I've compiled a list of albums with all tracks on their standard tracklist certified by the BPI. If you are wondering why I have only listed deluxe tracklists for some albums, that is because all of the deluxe tracks have also been certified. I believe interludes/skits that are over 30 seconds count for the charts but those that are under 30 seconds do not! If there's any I've missed please let me know, thanks! Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys 1. The View From The Afternoon (Gold) 2. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (5x Platinum) 3. Fake Tales Of San Francisco (Gold) 4. Dancing Shoes (Gold) 5. You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights But You Were Staring Straight At Me (Silver) 6. Still Take You Home (Silver) 7. Riot Van (Silver) 8. Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured (Silver) 9. Mardy Bum (3x Platinum) 10. Perhaps Vampires Is A Bit Strong But (Silver) 11. When the Sun Goes Down (3x Platinum) 12. From The Ritz To The Rubble (Platinum) 13. A Certain Romance (Platinum) 21 - Adele 1. Rolling In The Deep (5x Platinum) 2. Rumour Has It (Platinum) 3. Turning Tables (Platinum) 4. Don't You Remember (Gold) 5. Set Fire To The Rain (4x Platinum) 6. He Won't Go (Silver) 7. Take It All (Silver) 8. I'll Be Waiting (Silver) 9. One And Only (Gold) 10. Lovesong (Silver) 11. Someone Like You (8x Platinum) + - Ed Sheeran 1. The A Team (6x Platinum) 2. Drunk (Platinum) 3. U.N.I. (Silver) 4. Grade 8 (Silver) 5. Wake Me Up (Silver) 6. Small Bump (Platinum) 7. This (Silver) 8. The City (Silver) 9. Lego House (3x Platinum) 10. You Need Me I Don't Need You (Platinum) 11. Kiss Me (Platinum) 12. Give Me Love (Platinum) Christmas - Michael Buble 1. It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (4x Platinum) 2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Platinum) 3. Jingle Bells (Gold) 4. White Christmas (Gold) 5. All I Want For Christmas Is You (Gold) 6. Holly Jolly Christmas (2x Platinum) 7. Santa Baby (Silver) 8. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Gold) 9. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (Gold) 10. Silent Night (Silver) 11. Blue Christmas (Silver) 12. Cold December Night (Silver) 13. I'll Be Home For Christmas (Silver) 14. Ave Maria (Silver) 15. Mis Desos / Feliz Navidad (Silver) 16. Michael's Christmas Greeting (not eligible) AM - Arctic Monkeys 1. Do I Wanna Know (6x Platinum) 2. R U Mine (4x Platinum) 3. One For The Road (Gold) 4. Arabella (2x Platinum) 5. I Want It All (Silver) 6. No. 1 Party Anthem (Platinum) 7. Mad Sounds (Silver) 8. Fireside (Silver) 9. Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High (4x Platinum) 10. Snap Out Of It (2x Platinum) 11. Knee Socks (Platinum) 12. I Wanna Be Yours (3x Platinum) Multiply - Ed Sheeran 1. One (Platinum) 2. I'm A Mess (Platinum) 3. Sing (3x Platinum) 4. Don't (3x Platinum) 5. Nina (Gold) 6. Photograph (5x Platinum) 7. Bloodstream (3x Platinum) 8. Tenerife Sea (Platinum) 9. Runaway (Gold) 10. The Man (Silver) 11. Thinking Out Loud (8x Platinum) 12. Afire Love (Gold) bonus tracks: 13. Take It Back (Silver) 14. Shirtsleeves (Silver) 15. Even My Dad Does Sometimes (Silver) 16. I See Fire (2x Platinum) 17. All Of The Stars (Silver) The Balcony - Catfish & The Bottlemen 1. Homesick (Platinum) 2. Kathleen (2x Platinum) 3. Cocoon (2x Platinum) 4. Fallout (Gold) 5. Pacifier (Platinum) 6. Hourglass (Gold) 7. Business (Silver) 8. 26 (Silver) 9. Rango (Silver) 10. Sidewinder (Silver) 11. Tyrants (Silver) Purpose - Justin Bieber 1. Mark My Words (Silver) 2. I'll Show You (Gold) 3. What Do You Mean (4x Platinum) 4. Sorry (6x Platinum) 5. Love Yourself (6x Platinum) 6. Company (Platinum) 7. No Pressure (Silver) 8. No Sense (Silver) 9. The Feeling (Silver) 10. Life Is Worth Living (Silver) 11. Where Are U Now (3x Platinum) 12. Children (Silver) 13. Purpose (Silver) Divide - Ed Sheeran 1. Eraser (Platinum) 2. Castle On The Hill (7x Platinum) 3. Dive (2x Platinum) 4. Shape Of You (11x Platinum) 5. Perfect (10x Platinum) 6. Galway Girl (5x Platinum) 7. Happier (3x Platinum) 8. New Man (Platinum) 9. Hearts Don't Break Around Here (Platinum) 10. What Do I Know (Platinum) 11. How Would You Feel (Paean) (Platinum) 12. Supermarket Flowers (3x Platinum) bonus tracks: 13. Barcelona (Platinum) 14. Bibia Be Ye Ye (Platinum) 15. Nancy Mulligan (Platinum) 16. Save Myself (Gold) Harry Styles - Harry Styles 1. Meet Me In The Hallway (Silver) 2. Sign Of The Times (3x Platinum) 3. Carolina (Silver) 4. Two Ghosts (Gold) 5. Sweet Creature (Platinum) 6. Only Angel (Silver) 7. Kiwi (Platinum) 8. Ever Since New York (Silver) 9. Woman (Silver) 10. From The Dining Table (Silver) Reputation - Taylor Swift 1. Ready For It (2x Platinum) 2. End Game (Gold) 3. I Did Something Bad (Gold) 4. Don't Blame Me (2x Platinum) 5. Delicate (Platinum) 6. Look What You Made Me Do (2x Platinum) 7. So It Goes (Silver) 8. Gorgeous (Platinum) 9. Getaway Car (Platinum) 10. King Of My Heart (Silver) 11. Dancing With Our Hands Tied (Silver) 12. Dress (Silver) 13. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things (Silver) 14. Call It What You Want (Gold) 15. New Years Day (Silver) Staying At Tamara's - George Ezra 1. Pretty Shining People (Platinum) 2. Don't Matter Now (Gold) 3. Get Away (Silver) 4. Shotgun (8x Platinum) 5. Paradise (4x Platinum) 6. All My Love (Silver) 7. Sugarcoat (Silver) 8. Hold My Girl (3x Platinum) 9. Saviour (Silver) 10. Only A Human (Silver) 11. The Beautiful Dream (Silver) When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go - Billie Eilish 1. !!!!!!! (not eligible) 2. Bad Guy (5x Platinum) 3. Xanny (Gold) 4. You Should See Me In A Crown (Platinum) 5. All The Good Girls Go To Hell (Platinum) 6. Wish You Were Gay (Platinum) 7. When The Party's Over (3x Platinum) 8. 8 (Silver) 9. My Strange Addiction (Gold) 10. Bury A Friend (2x Platinum) 11. Ilomilo (Gold) 12. Listen Before I Go (Gold) 13. I Love You (Platinum) 14. Goodbye (Silver) Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - Lewis Capaldi 1. Grace (3x Platinum) 2. Bruises (5x Platinum) 3. Hold Me While You Wait (4x Platinum) 4. Someone You Loved (10x Platinum) 5. Maybe (Gold) 6. Forever (Platinum) 7. One (Platinum) 8. Don't Get Me Wrong (Silver) 9. Hollywood (Gold) 10. Lost On You (Platinum) 11. Fade (Gold) 12. Headspace (Silver) Fine Line - Harry Styles 1. Golden (Platinum) 2. Watermelon Sugar (4x Platinum) 3. Adore You (3x Platinum) 4. Lights Up (Platinum) 5. Cherry (Gold) 6. Falling (2x Platinum) 7. To Be So Lonely (Silver) 8. She (Silver) 9. Sunflower Vol. 6 (Silver) 10. Canyon Moon (Silver) 11. Treat People With Kindness (Silver) 12. Fine Line (Platinum) Folklore - Taylor Swift 1. The 1 (Platinum) 2. Cardigan (2x Platinum) 3. The Last Great American Dynasty (Gold) 4. Exile (Platinum) 5. My Tears Ricochet (Platinum) 6. Mirrorball (Gold) 7. Seven (Silver) 8. August (Platinum) 9. This Is Me Trying (Gold) 10. Illicit Affairs (Gold) 11. Invisible String (Gold) 12. Mad Woman (Silver) 13. Epiphany (Silver) 14. Betty (Gold) 15. Peace (Silver) 16. Hoax (Silver) Bonus tracks: 17. The Lakes (silver) Sour - Olivia Rodrigo 1. Brutal (Platinum) 2. Traitor (2x Platinum) 3. Drivers License (4x Platinum) 4. 1 Step Forward 3 Steps Back (Platinum) 5. Deja Vu (2x Platinum) 6. Good 4 U (4x Platinum) 7. Enough For You (Gold) 8. Happier (Platinum) 9. Jealousy Jealousy (Platinum) 10. Favorite Crime (Platinum) 11. Hope Ur OK (Silver) Harry's House - Harry Styles 1. Music For A Sushi Restaurant (Platinum) 2. Late Night Talking (2x Platinum) 3. Grapejuice (Silver) 4. As It Was (5x Platinum) 5. Daylight (Gold) 6. Little Freak (Gold) 7. Matilda (Platinum) 8. Cinema (Silver) 9. Daydreaming (Silver) 10. Keep Driving (Gold) 11. Satellite (Platinum) 12. Boyfriends (Silver) 13. Love Of My Life (Silver) Midnights - Taylor Swift 1. Lavender Haze (Platinum) 2. Maroon (Gold) 3. Anti-Hero (4x Platinum) 4. Snow On The Beach (Gold) 5. You're On Your Own Kid (Platinum) 6. Midnight Rain (Gold) 7. Question (Silver) 8. Vigilante Shit (Gold) 9. Bejeweled (Platinum) 10. Labyrinth (Silver) 11. Karma (Platinum) 12. Sweet Nothing (Silver) 13. Mastermind (Silver) Guts - Olivia Rodrigo 1. All-American Bitch (Gold) 2. Bad Idea Right (Platinum) 3. Vampire (2x Platinum) 4. Lacy (Gold) 5. Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl (Silver) 6. Making The Bed (Silver) 7. Logical (Silver) 8. Get Him Back (Platinum) 9. Love Is Embarrassing (Silver) 10. The Grudge (Gold) 11. Pretty Isn't Pretty (Silver) 12. Teenage Dream (Silver) Hit Me Hard And Soft - Billie Eilish 1. Skinny (Silver) 2. Lunch (Platinum) 3. Chihiro (Platinum) 4. Birds Of A Feather (3x Platinum) 5. Wildflower (Platinum) 6. The Greatest (Gold) 7. L'Amour De Ma Vie (Gold) 8. The Diner (Silver) 9. Bittersuite (Silver) 10. Blue (Silver)

WINNER: Cheiron :: First Aid Kit – Out Of My Head A massive congratulations to Cheiron who are first-time winners tonight, securing a whopping 359 points - a 53 point lead! Your nation has therefore been SPARED from the robot uprising and may act as a sanctuary country for the next Buzzjack Song Contest.

Made recap videos using a recap generating tool that a friend from another song contest made. (He said it was free to use for anyone) It works by trying to find a chorus in each song and then choosing a snippet based on that. So hopefully every song got a good snippet. (it seems like it made good choices overall to me) Seven songs I had to enter timestamps manually as it couldn't detect a chorus: Mothertopia, Baleghde, Cumulonimbia, Aeroche, Jadakissnia, Neliönoir and Trifoski. (I'm not really sure why it couldn't pick up the Jennifer Aniston one but oh well) I'll put them in the OP as well. Semi Final One Semi Final Two

You clearly haven’t been frequenting the pubs I have in recent weeks!

That's nice and all but this is what Gemini told me, so...

Before the listenthrough I hadn't really conisdered DJ Suzy to be at risk at all, but the semi was super strong and competitive and it got lost in a quiet section, which is a shame because it's quite a beauty. But I'm at peace with the DNQ because it didn't get any 12s or 10s in the semi so wasn't exactly robbing anyone of their main favourite (in that semi anyway, I think it could have got 70-80 points in Semi 1). Altyr, Kathaldazia and FARC are bigger shocks to me though, as well as the double from Persephonia, and just shows, you can never predict BJSC. And also you can't assume somebody is always definitely safely in due to their past results, if the semis stay this big then even those countries that always manage to qualify will either send a song that doesn't quite connect enough or land in the wrong semi. The benefit of 'big' countries going out is that others get their well deserved spots in the final. It's a song contest and no country should be judged on anything other than the song they have sent that month.

Ace of Base getting eliminated in round 3? There's something not addying up for me there!

I'm hoping to post the semi final thread around 8pm tonight. (still have some things to put together but I'm making good time) I'll post the odds and predictions thread tomorrow.

Those 'take it off' posts read like the lead up to a Masked Singer reveal

Although I’d rather not share future plans for the game to try and keep it as exciting as possible for everyone involved, feels like it’s unavoidable at this point in the interest of total transparency. Preface: it is a shame that - as I’ve been informed a so-called large number of people were unamused with the top 3 females progressing to Round 4 - people didn’t feel they could air this sooner, and only now after conversations appear to have been had behind closed doors is it being brought up to court opinion and change things at this late stage. I’d hope if there are any niggles people can feel comfortable bringing them up in the thread; it’s not a bulletproof concept that can’t be adapted as we go, but I’m less willing to listen to complaints when there’s an air of indirectness in their approach. With that said, if there’s any concerns about the game moving forward I encourage everybody to feel they can bring them up in here. I always try to respond (and if I haven’t it’s not unnoticed), however there are some things that I don’t respond to when things are happening behind the scenes and things that might not make sense would end up making sense down the line (ie twists). As I mentioned earlier in the game, the categories will not merge until after Judges’ Houses this season due to the increased number of participants. In Season 1 all of the categories came together for Boot Camp however with 33 artists still in the competition right now it’s just not feasible to expect people to commit to that large a number of songs and ranking them in 6 days. This also means that Chappell, Kelly and Nelly receiving a bye to Round 4 only serves them an advantage within their own category, so I’m not understanding the concerns being raised about the Solo Male and Groups categories being slighted by this because they are not unless anybody feels particularly strongly about the chances of the top 3 solo females having a serious lapse in judgement. I’m not going to pretend it’s the perfect outcome, but I had to make a quick decision (had a mini-meltdown and ran through a LOT of different scenarios that Joseph can attest to ) to keep things on schedule and with as little disruption to the game as possible that also didn’t mean the voting periods for Rounds 1 and 2 for the Solo Female category were completely pointless, both for those competing and anybody else voting and taking time out of their day to join in. I appreciate the withdrawal effectively acts as an elimination, but I also weighed up how people would feel about two rounds effectively meaning nothing for the competition considering some artists did use big hits. With all of that said: Boot Camp: Part One has 33 artists remaining, with 3 Solo Female artists not participating and is separated by category, 3 artists eliminated (1 from each category) Boot Camp: Part Two has 30 artists remaining, with every artist competing and is separated by category, 3 artists eliminated (1 from each category) The rest of the competition continues as planned with all three categories at the same number of artists If there’s anything else anybody wants to bring up or if there are any more questions please feel free, but I hope that provides some explanation and thought behind what’s happened and that we can all go into Round 3 ready to slay with the bangers after everybody’s had an opportunity to provide feedback

People don't need to understand a song to enjoy it. (It was already a top 40 hit on its original release long before he had anything to do with the Super Bowl btw...)

I only care about who has sent Markus Riva. And why.

Fun chart stat. Went into research mode with the talk of Olivia Dean potentially being no.1 this week and potentially soon after as well, with combination of “So Easy”/“Rein Me In”. This would be one of the quickest accumulation of three No.1’s for a British woman (or women led group) ever. If Olivia Dean's two more number one’s occur by the charted dated Friday March 27th (which does seem likely), she would be the quickest British female solo artist to amass three No.1 singles as a lead artist (it would be 189 days [27 weeks] since “Man I Need” went number one). The current quickest is currently Geri Halliwell, whom amassed her first three number ones in 30 weeks. If you include her feature on “Hot Right Now”, Rita Ora is the quickest at 27 weeks. The Spice Girls are the quickest overall female act with 23 weeks. Every British woman with at least three number ones below (and how long it took for it to occur). Spice Girls (161 days, or 23 weeks) • Wannabe (July 21, 1996) • Say You’ll Be There (Oct 20, 1996) • 2 Become 1 (Dec 22, 1996) Rita Ora (overall) (189 days, or 27 weeks) • Hot Right Now (Feb 19, 2012) • R.I.P. (May 14, 2012) • How We Do (Party) (August 19, 2012) Geri Halliwell (210 days, or 30 weeks) • Mi Chico Latino (Aug 22, 1999) • Lift Me Up (Nov 7, 1999) • Bag It Up (March 19, 2000) All Saints (231 days, or 33 weeks) • Never Ever (Jan 11, 1998) • Under the Bridge/Lady Marmalade (May 3, 1998) • Bootie Call (Sept 6, 1998) Jess Glynn (overall) (427 days, or 1 year and 9 weeks) • Rather Be (Jan 26, 2014) • My Love (Mar 7, 2014) • Hold My Hand (Mar 29, 2015) Sugababes (539 days, or 1 year and 25 weeks) • Freak Like Me (April 28, 2002) • Round Round (Aug 18, 2002) • Hole in the Head (Oct 19, 2003) Alexandra Burke (630 days, or 1 year and 38 weeks) • Hallelujah (Dec 21, 2008) • Bad Boys (Oct 18, 2009) • Start Without You (Sept 12, 2010) Billie Piper (686 days, or 1 year and 46 weeks) • Because We Want To (July 5, 1998) • Girlfriend (Oct 11, 1998) • Day & Night (May 21, 2000) Leona Lewis (714 days, or 1 year and 50 weeks) • A Moment Like This (Dec 24, 2006) • Bleeding Love (Oct 27, 2007) • Run (Dec 7, 2008) Olivia Newton-John (770 days, or 2 years and 6 weeks) • You’re the One That I Want (June 11, 1978) • Summer Nights (Sept 24, 1978) • Xandau (July 20, 1980) Pixie Lott (819 days, or 2 years and 13 weeks) • Mama Do (June 14, 2009) • Boys & Girls (Sept 13, 2009) • All About Tonight (Sept 11, 2011) Rita Ora (lead only) (819 days, or 2 years and 13 weeks) • R.I.P. (May 14, 2012) • How We Do (Party) (August 19, 2012) • I Will Never Let You Down (May 17, 2014) Sandie Shaw (917 days, or 2 years and 27 weeks) • (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me (Oct 16, 1964) • Long Live Love (May 21, 1965) • Puppet on a String (Apr 21, 1967) Cheryl (Cole) (966 days, or 2 years and 34 weeks) • Fight For This Love (Oct 25, 2009) • Promise This (Oct 31, 2010) • Call My Name (June 17, 2012) Jess Glynn (lead only) (1,175 days, or 3 years and 11 weeks) • Hold My Hand (Mar 29, 2015) • Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself (Mar 29, 2015) • I’ll Be There (June 16, 2018) Little Mix (1,316 days, or 3 years and 32 weeks) • Cannonball (Dec 11, 2011) • Wings (Sept 2, 2011) • Shout Out to My Ex (July 19, 2015) Jessie J (1,330 days, or 3 years and 34 weeks) • Price Tag (Feb 6, 2011) • Domino (Jan 15, 2012) • Bang Bang (Sept 27, 2014) Dua Lipa (1,519 days, or 4 years and 9 weeks) • New Rules (Aug 18, 2017) • One Kiss (Apr 30, 2018) • Cold Heart (Oct 15, 2021) Girls Aloud (1,547 days, or 4 years and 13 weeks) • Sound of the Underground (Dec 22, 2002) • I’ll Stand By You (Nov 21, 2004) • Walk This Way (Mar 18, 2007) Ellie Goulding (2,322 days, or 6 years and 13 weeks) • Burn (Aug 18, 2013) • One Kiss (Feb 8, 2018) • Cold Heart (Dec 27, 2019) Lily Allen (2,695 days, or 7 years and 19 weeks) • Smile (July 9, 2006) • The Fear (Feb 1, 2009) • Somewhere Only We Know (Nov 24, 2013) Adele (3,897 days, or 10 years and 33 weeks) • Someone Like You (Feb 20, 2011) • Hello (Oct 30, 2015) • Easy On Me (Oct 22, 2021) Alternatively, the next two women likely to join this group (Charli XCX and Raye). XCX would overtake Adele’s current record (10 years, 33 weeks) to amass three number ones whenever she gets her 3rd (currently on 13 years since “I Love It”), whilst Raye would fall between Jess Glynn and Dua Lipa at 3 years however many weeks, if another song from her sophomore album goes number 1 by the end of 2026.

You've literally already said that babe x

How dare people in the UK pay attention to things happening in other countries.

I'm looking forward to Big Band Week

The Wubble U Rollercoaster

Bring back the pop bloc! They have not been center of attention for 5 consecutive hours, it’s a pop emergency!!

The cut off point has been reached! It's the same points score as last year. 101 singles had a points total greater than 61 points. There were two on 62 points so I've allowed them both through rather than applying a tie-break. We also have nine wild cards, these are the songs that were given 30 points by one voter but didn't receive enough points from others to go through. So there will be 55 songs in each semi-final with the top 25 going through to the final. These are the wild cards, with the person who gave them 30 points in brackets: 30pts Moby - James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version) (gasman449) 30pts Maxx - No More (I Can't Stand It) (TheSnake) 33pts Bus Stop featuring Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting (CowTzy) 44pts Belinda Carlisle - Always Breaking My Heart (Mango) 44pts Everything But The Girl - Wrong (jszmiles) 46pts Electric Light Orchestra - Confusion / Last Train To London (King Rollo) 47pts Mariah Carey - Through The Rain (AaronTM) 52pts M-Beat featuring General Levy - Incredible (remix) (Brer) 59pts Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (777666jason) The first semi-final will start on Monday.

And then had a 9th only last week

How I started reading this post:

With about 5 months to go until I hit this demographic, I’ve decided this is infact a great idea x

There was me thinking it was all luck... or something.

On the listenthrough people demanded to see the two cats 'Agon' has here (I used to live here with them too) xo They look very similar but Licorice is the bigger one, Oreo is the smaller one. (They're not related) From this morning: Some older pics from when I lived here:

Screaming at this drag us

Since when did needing to understand a song determine if it could do well… how many Spanish tracks were hits, despacito spent ages at number 1 and no one understood that either. And pinning his success onto “trump being mad” is quite a shit take tbh, his Super Bowl performance was great and many people enjoyed that and that’s causing it to do well on his own merit. Don’t diminish his success based on your personal feelings

Well it is the most listened to station in the country 🤭

Again this has zero relevance to actual listenership figures which show the opposite. Being able to admit you’re wrong is totally ok.

Chill; let Joseph do his job

People heard it.

Not the AI slop making me flip flop to team Brer

It’s almost as if everything that was just explained to you has went over your head. If you are constantly seeking conversation and information on the big top 40 I think you are on the wrong site 😂

I'm hoping to post the confirmation thread at around 8pm GMT tonight.

It originated from a Reform group and was then posted by 'Britain Today' — it has still not been reported anywhere reputable, not even by The Sun. The first post I could find also wrote 'sauces' instead of 'sources'...

Exactly. It keeps being spoken about as if it's some kind of L for Harry to have not held up, when he made a conscious decision to release a fairly commercially inaccessible track that's 5 minutes long. I admire him so much for taking that kind of risk, rather than a simple 3-minute pop song.

all of BJSC 181 in one playlist in leaderboard order below

I can't speak for anyone else but today is really convenient for me and I plan to vote in all three rounds, taking almost 3 hours out of my day, on top of finding time for other contests on the forum and my personal chart. So I'd like to think that's still valid rather than not voting at all! Sure, if I feel indecisive then I'll go back and re-listen to some songs to reassess, but ultimately I feel quite comfortable with my ranking and am trying to be fair to each artist. For example, in the female round, I'd say in general I'm a big fan of FKA twigs while I'm not familiar with LiSA at all, but I ranked the latter higher than the former! (not having a go at all btw, just sharing my perspective as an early voter )

Scenes if Atomic Kitten and Blondie both send ‘The Tide Is High’ in the same round

Reading some of these AI 'creations' reminds me why "humour" has the same origin as "human".

Clearly no other artist in the world could take a track like this to the top or anywhere near it because it isn't mainstream commercial. Even if it ends up being a one week No.1 I don't think it means anything in the context of the era or the success of future singles or the album. I still respect him for releasing a brave lead and not letting the label force him into something more radio friendly (which they surely would have done when they heard it). I think any artist that is destined to remain a superstar for a long time and across different generations needs to musically evolve and some things will be less successful than others commercially but they are all important. Sign Of The Times, Lights Up, As It Was and Aperture is a remarkably diverse set of lead singles. When you're too big to fail, like Harry is currently, is exactly the right time to gamble on a lead single, because you can always release the big radio hit later. The album will sell in huge quantities regardless and you need more commercial stuff for future singles to stabilise it. Clearly if Aperture was a second or third single it would never perform as well as being a lead. It's a good tactic to get multiple big hits from an album.