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My favourite part of that article is when one of them says, "even though I don’t understand Estonian, I feel there is depth to this"... about a song that is entirely sung in English x

Just Aelandor gone from my votes although N-Lazone and Sovarasma we're just outside :(

:cheer: Ooh I hadn't noticed that before but I can see the similarity! Chiquetere came out before the Macarena so if anything it'd be the other way round.

May 1706 scrobbles Songs 1. Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha (34 plays) 2. Luke Black - Samo mi se spava (26 plays) 3. Loreen - Tattoo (25 plays) 4. Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam 5. Teya & Salena - Who The Hell Is Edgar? 6. Alessandra - Queen Of Kings 7. Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song 8. Pasha Parfeni - Soarele si luna 9. Filip Baloš - Novi plan drugi san 10. Harmonija disonance - Nevera (Lei, lei) 11. KAYTRAMINÉ (KAYTRANADA & Animé) ft. Pharrell Williams - 4EVA 12. Blanca Paloma - EAEA 13. Danna Paola - 1Trago 14. Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper - Burning Daylight 15. Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH 16. Aitana - Los Ángeles 17. Madonna - Beautiful Stranger 18. Marc Seguí - Al menos ahora 19. Conan Gray - Never Ending Song 20. Jorja Smith - Little Things 21. Christine and the Queens - Tears can be so soft 22. felicita ft. Caroline Polachek - Spalarkle (Alys) 23. Bad Bunny - WHERE SHE GOES 24. Kesha - Fine Line 25. Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven 26. Mura Masa - Whenever I Want 27. Beyoncé ft. Kendrick Lamar - AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM 28. Caroline Polachek ft. Charli XCX & George Daniel - Welcome To My Island 29. George Clanton - I Been Young 30. Kesha - Only Love Can Save Us Now 31. V V Brown - Black British 32. My PFSC entry 🤫 33. Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter 34. FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid 35. Kesha - All I Need Is You 36. Lana Del Rey - Radio 37. MUNA - One That Got Away 38. Arlo Parks - Blades 39. Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) 40. Dua Lipa - Dance The Night Artists 1. Madonna (80 plays) 2. Kesha (63 plays) 3. Kylie Minogue (49 plays) 4. Käärijä 5. Lana Del Rey 6. Jessie Ware 7. Luke Black 8. Arlo Parks 9. Loreen 10. Caroline Polachek Albums 1. Kesha - Gag Order (55 plays) 2. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! (35 plays) 3. Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: THE ESTATE SALE (23 plays) 4. Madonna - Ray Of Light 5. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 6. Charli XCX - CRASH 7. Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine 8. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time 9. Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess 10. Lana Del Rey - Norman F*cking Rockwell! 2023 to-date - extended to a top 30 now we're 1/3 through the year (7048 scrobbles) 1. (=) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (solo + remixes combined) 2. (+2) Madonna - Beautiful Stranger (I will concede that this is a slightly random song to be my #2 of the year but I don't care, it's a banger x) 3. (-1) Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter 4. (+111) Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha 5. (=) Arcángel ft. Bad Bunny - La Jumpa 6. (-3) Rose Gray - Ecstasy 7. (-1) Sugababes - No Regrets 8. (+3) RAYE - Black Mascara. 9. (+68) Blanca Paloma - EAEA 10. (-3) Caroline Polachek - Sunset 11. (+290) Loreen - Tattoo 12. (+1) Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 To 6000 13. (+75) Danna Paola - 1Trago 14. (+537, yes I scrolled all the way through my last.fm to work this out just because I knew it'd be an impressive number x) Luke Black - Samo mi se spava 15. (-5) Ñengo Flow ft. Bad Bunny - Gato de Noche 16. (-8) RAYE ft. 070 Shake - Escapism. 17. (+116) Harmonija disonance - Nevera (Lei, lei) 18. (-6) Yves Tumor - Echolalia 19. (+118) KAYTRAMINÉ (KAYTRANADA & Animé) ft. Pharrell Williams - 4EVA 20. (-11) Miley Cyrus - Flowers 21. (+24) Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) 22. (-8) Joesef - Last Orders 23. (+128) Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH 24. (+19) Vicco - Nochentera 25. (+102) Aitana - Los Ángeles 26. (+63) felicita ft. Caroline Polachek - Spalarkle (Alys) 27. (+8) Madonna - Drowned World / Substitute For Love 28. (+205) Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song 29. (+46) V V Brown - Black British 30. (+396) Alessandra - Queen of Kings

Voting for the bolded tracks - Eurovision absolutely stomping :cheeseblock: I really wanted to like Sam Ryder's song but couldn't get into it, only Space Man has done anything for me. 1. Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha 2. Loreen - Tattoo 3. Alessandra - Queen Of Kings 4. TEYA and SALENA - Who The Hell Is Edgar? 5. Blanka - Solo 6. La Zarra - Évidemment 7. Voyager - Promise 8. Noa Kirel - Unicorn 9. TVORCHI - Heart Of Steel 10. Gustaph - Because Of You 11. Andrew Lambrou - Break A Broken Heart 12. Becky Hill and Lewis Thompson - Side Effects 13. Billie Eilish - hotline 14. Kali - Area Codes 15. Lil Durk - All My Life (feat. J. Cole) 16. Joel Corry and Caity Baser - Dance About It 17. Nines - Different League (feat. Nafe Smallz and Clavish) 18. Ed Sheeran - Life Goes On (solo / feat. Luke Combs) 19. Potter Payper - Real Back In Style 20. Potter Payper - White Ash 21. Sam Ryder - Mountain 22. James Arthur - A Year Ago 1. Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam 2. Beyoncé - AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM (feat. Kendrick Lamar / solo) 3. Jorja Smith - Little Things 4. Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven 5. Beyoncé - HEATED 6. Gorgon City - Voodoo 7. Anne-Marie - UNHEALTHY (feat. Shania Twain) 8. Blur - The Narcissist 9. Post Malone - Mourning 10. Kodak Black and NLE Choppa - Angel Pt. 1 (feat. Jimin, JVKE and Muni Long) 11. Lewis Capaldi - Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before?

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I honestly don't even find Karma's lyrics cringey at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe I'm just scarred by ME! / YNTCD but I just think it's a fun bop x Ice Spice's rap is growing on me after watching the video - I think the speed of it is fine but the instrumental should've stayed big and energetic rather than being toned down during it. I saw an edit where someone added back the drums and everything and it sounded way better.

Serious taste with some of your past #1s - Anti-Hero, I'm Good, Bloody Mary, the list goes on! Also loving the climbs for the Eurovision songs (Loreen and Käärijä especially!) and Karma on the rise :cheer:

Hey Sergej! Pleased to see the Eurovision songs still holding on well, plus the re-entry for Satellite which is one of my faves from Harry's House ^_^

Loreen serving longevity and Kesha debuting :cheer: have you listened to Kesha's album? I think it's my favourite from her to date, Eat The Acid is still my favourite song from it.

Hey James! Loving the new peaks for Mae and Loreen, a great top 2! As much of a Käärijä stan as I am, I can't deny Loreen's performance was absolutely stunning. Also great to see new peaks for Karma (have you heard the Ice Spice remix yet? I think I'll stick with the original) and Spalarkle, plus what a run for No One Dies From Love :cheeseblock:

Hey Sergej! Glad you're a fan of all those, cannot get Padam Padam out of my head at the moment! Thanks ^_^ No worries! Ahh it's so exciting watching Kylie have another hit - I'm hoping for big things from it but not getting too ahead of myself :lol: for it not to be freefalling though is a great sign. I think Say Yes To Heaven was an Ultraviolence reject but it's apparently almost made the cut on a few albums since then! So I'm glad it's finally escaped the vault, hopefully it smashing convinces Lana to release a few others (Queen Of Disaster when??). And yes I feel a bit late to the Cupid hype train but it's really grown on me, I'm loving the Korean version with the rap even more! Thanks for commenting ^_^ :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: taste!! I'm absolutely refusing to let the post-Eurovision depression hit by playing them non-stop :lol: Kesha smasha :cheer: I'm so glad I discovered Nevera from the Rejects contest, one of my favourite ESC songs this year and I think it could've been the next Shum. Ah well :(

The Spanish results are really disappointing but unfortunately match the predictions - Madrid in particular is somehow even more blue than before (it already was surprisingly conservative for a big city), my neighbourhood voted 61% Conservative and there's areas that were nearly at 80% 🙃! Potentially good news is that some of the younger-skewing areas of the centre have flipped to Más Madrid which is a local left party - and as they don't compete in national elections, those votes that will hopefully shift to PSOE or Podemos. The Spanish left suffers from the same sort of vote split problem as the UK with Labour/Lib Dems - the main left party PSOE has to compete with Podemos (further left) and a couple of other minor parties, which do a pretty good job at splitting the votes. Near me there's a few places with the conservatives on ~40% while PSOE and Podemos/Más Madrid have ~20% each, so there definitely needs to be more tactical voting going on. On the right, Vox is powerful but doesn't suck up the conservative vote from the PP in the same way. I'll be back in the UK before the general election but I'm concerned if the PP gets into power, the Madrid branch has been very vocal about challenging (or attempting to) the more progressive laws brought in from above, especially with regards to trans rights.

I think Run Away With Me would've been huge if Tiktok had existed at the time - obviously it was massively viral on Vine but that didn't have the same chart impact as Tiktok today. Used To Know Me by Charli XCX had everything to make it a UK smash except the promo - I think if it came out pre-album as the follow-up to Beg For You it could've done really well. Some others off the top of my head: - anything Rose Gray's put out recently (Ecstasy, Prettier Than You, Promise Me, etc) - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings - Caroline Polachek - Experience - Victoria Monét ft. Khalid & SG Lewis - Skyline - Khalid - Weapons - Ava Max - if the UK wasn't so foreign language averse, then Nochentera - Vicco, Bruxelles je t'aime - Angèle, DESPECHÁ - ROSALÍA

1. Confide In Me 2. Some Kind of Bliss 3. Better The Devil You Know 4. Can't Get You Out Of My Head 5. All The Lovers 6. Say Something 7. Spinning Around 8. I Believe In You 9. Padam Padam 10. Slow 11. I Should Be So Lucky 12. 2 Hearts 13. Into The Blue 14. Dancing 15. Word Is Out 16. Hand On Your Heart 17. What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)

This just keeps getting better :music: really catchy and I love how much she's ramped up the disco-iness. Whatever happens it's a smash hit on my Spotify account!

Husavik, Welcome To My Iceland Island, SOPHIE, After Midnight :wub: definitely looking forward to listening!

Little update since I've just had back-to-back surprise smash #1s! UK #1s: 07 abcdefu - GAYLE 07 We Don’t Talk About Bruno - Carolina Gaitán - La Gaita, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and Encanto - Cast XX Starlight - Dave 02 As It Was - Harry Styles XX Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush XX Afraid To Feel - LF SYSTEM XX B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) - Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal XX Forget Me - Lewis Capaldi 02 I’m Good (Blue) - David Guetta ft. Bebe Rexha XX Unholy - Sam Smith & Kim Petras 01 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift XX All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey 02 Last Christmas - Wham XX Food Aid - Ladbaby 01 Escapism. - RAYE ft. 070 Shake XX Pointless - Lewis Capaldi 01 Flowers - Miley Cyrus XX Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran XX Miracle - Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding XX Wish You The Best - Lewis Capaldi My #1s: XX Stepped On A Bee - MisterWives 60 30/90 - Andrew Garfield, Joshua Henry, Vanessa Hudgens, Robin de Jesus, Alexandra Shipp and MJ Rodriguez 24 Beg For You - Charli XCX ft. Rina Sawayama XX Billions - Caroline Polachek XX Pretenders - Stars XX Baby - Charli XCX XX Every Rule - Charli XCX XX Anything But Me - MUNA XX Patterns - Stars XX No One Dies From Love - Tove Lo 38 Stefania - Kalush Orchestra XX This Hell - Rina Sawayama XX Firefly - Shygirl XX Home By Now - MUNA XX Free Yourself - Jessie Ware XX DESPECHÁ - ROSALÍA XX Hold The Girl - Rina Sawayama XX Wrongside - MisterWives XX Catch Me In The Air - Rina Sawayama 61 This Is Why - Paramore XX THE LONELIEST - Maneskin XX The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen ft. Rufus Wainwright 01 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift XX Sunset - Caroline Polachek 01 Escapism. - RAYE ft. 070 Shake XX Welcome To My Island - Caroline Polachek XX La Jumpa - Arcángel ft. Bad Bunny 01 Flowers - Miley Cyrus XX No Regrets - Sugababes XX Ecstasy - Rose Gray XX Moonlight - Kali Uchis XX Spalarkle (Alys) - felicita ft. Caroline Polachek XX 1Trago - Danna Paola XX Nochentera - Vicco 06 Cha Cha Cha - Käärijä 26 Padam Padam - Kylie Minogue

1. Kesha - Gag Order 2. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 3. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! 4. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 5. Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: THE ESTATE SALE 6. Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus 7. Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation 8. RAYE - My 21st Century Blues 9. Madonna - Ray Of Light 10. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time

1. Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam 2. Kaarija - Cha Cha Cha 3. Loreen - Tattoo 4. Luke Black - Samo mi se spava 5. Harmonija disonance - Nevera (Lei, lei) 6. Conan Gray - Never Ending Song 7. Marc Seguí - Al menos ahora 8. Vicco - Nochentera 9. Danna Paola - 1Trago 10. Filip Baloš - Novi plan drugi san 11. Alessandra Mele - Queen Of Kings 12. Kesha - Eat The Acid 13. Pasha Parfeni - Soarele si luna 14. Teya & Salena - Who The Hell Is Edgar? 15. MUNA - One That Got Away 16. Kesha - Only Love Can Save Us Now 17. Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song 18. Jorja Smith - Little Things 19. felicita ft. Caroline Polachek - Spalarkle (Alys) 20. Jessie Ware - Freak Me Now 21. Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper - Burning Daylight 22. Blanca Paloma - EAEA 23. Mura Masa - Whenever I Want 24. Kesha - All I Need Is You 25. Florence + The Machine - Mermaids 26. Christine and the Queens - Tears can be so soft 27. Aitana - Los Ángeles 28. Yaeji - Passed Me By 29. Kali Uchis - Moonlight 30. George Clanton - I Been Young 31. Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH 32. Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven 33. Kesha - Fine Line 34. KAYTRAMINÉ (KAYTRANADA & Aminé) ft. Pharrell Williams - 4EVA 35. FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid 36. Kesha - Living In My Head 37. V V Brown - Black British 38. Bad Bunny - WHERE SHE GOES 39. Blu DeTiger - Lipstick 40. Jessie Ware - Begin Again

Thanks as always for your comments last week x Hey Sergej! Yay, absolute taste :cheer: really enjoying Jorja's new stuff, great to have her back! Hey Jade! I'm doing great thanks, hope you are too :) Glad you're on the Cha Cha Cha hype train too, it really did bring the energy we needed. Serving taste with those other faves too! Justice for EAEA :( And yess loving the trip-hop vibes from Chris recently! Hey James! Absolutely loving Tattoo, I'll always be a Kaarija stan first but Loreen really made a Moment with her performance. And yeah, I Wrote A Song is a fun bop in its studio form, shame it didn't quite translate on stage! For me I think Chris peaked with La vita nuova but I'm still really into what he's putting out now (and just so you know he uses he/him pronouns now :) )

p6Cnazi_Fi0 Chart summary: Käärijä has been toppled from the top spot by Australian anthem Padam Padam - Kylie's 3rd #1 after Say Something and Real Groove! Meanwhile there are new peaks for Eurovision rejects Harmonija disonance and Filip Baloš (the latter of which was also my BJSC 18-pointer last month - my 9-pointer from George Clanton also enters this week), while Conan Gray earns his 9th top ten. Lower down are new entries for Kesha, Lana Del Rey, FIFTY FIFTY, and Bad Bunny. 01 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam 02 Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha [1 - 1 - 2] 03 Loreen - Tattoo [13 - 3 - 2 - 3] 04 Luke Black - Samo mi se spava [7 - 3 - 4] 05 Harmonija disonance - Nevera (Lei, lei) [31 - 19 - 10 - 14 - 18 - 5] 06 Conan Gray - Never Ending Song 07 Marc Seguí - Al menos ahora [38 - RE - 2 - 4 - 7] 08 Vicco - Nochentera [37 - RE - 1 - 2 - 4 - 5 - 8] 09 Danna Paola - 1Trago [1 - 2 - 4 - 6 - 6 - 9] 10 Filip Baloš - Novi plan drugi san [39 - 10] 11 Alessandra Mele - Queen Of Kings [16 - 7 - 11] 12 Kesha - Eat The Acid [3 - 5 - 8 - 12] 13 Pasha Parfeni - Soarele şi luna [22 - 10 - 13] 14 Teya & Salena - Who The Hell Is Edgar? [31 - 9 - 14] 15 MUNA - One That Got Away [37 - 3 - 5 - 8 - 11 - 15] 16 Kesha - Only Love Can Save Us Now 17 Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song [18 - 12 - 17] 18 Jorja Smith - Little Things [14 - 18] 19 felicita ft. Caroline Polachek - Spalarkle (Alys) [1 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 10 - 15 - 19] 20 Jessie Ware - Freak Me Now [6 - 9 - 13 - 20] 21 Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper - Burning Daylight [11 - 16 - 21] 22 Blanca Paloma - EAEA [36 - RE - 17 - 22] 23 Mura Masa - Whenever I Want [2 - 4 - 6 - 8 - 12 - 19 - 23] 24 Kesha - All I Need Is You 25 Florence + The Machine - Mermaids [8 - 9 - 13 - 20 - 25] 26 Christine and the Queens - Tears can be so soft [21 - 26] 27 Aitana - Los Ángeles [33 - RE - 5 - 11 - 15 - 22 - 27] 28 Yaeji - Passed Me By [7 - 3 - 7 - 12 - 17 - 23 - 28] 29 Kali Uchis - Moonlight [30 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 3 - 5 - 7 - 11 - 18 - 20 - 25 - 29] 30 George Clanton - I Been Young 31 Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH [8 - 12 - 20 - 22 - 27 - 31] 32 Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven 33 Kesha - Fine Line 34 KAYTRAMINÉ (KAYTRANADA & Aminé) ft. Pharrell Williams - 4EVA [6 - 9 - 15 - 25 - 29 - 28 - 34] 35 FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid 36 Kesha - Living In My Head 37 V V Brown - Black British [10 - 13 - 11 - 18 - 28 - 32 - 33 - 37] 38 Bad Bunny - WHERE SHE GOES 39 Blu DeTiger - Lipstick [2 - 4 - 6 - 10 - 17 - 27 - 34 - 39] 40 Jessie Ware - Begin Again [10 - 16 - 27 - 33 - 35 - 40] 2023 #1s: 30/12/22 Arcángel ft. Bad Bunny - La Jumpa [2nd & 3rd week] 13/01/23 Miley Cyrus - Flowers 20/01/23 Caroline Polachek ft. George Daniel & Charli XCX - Welcome To My Island (Remix) [3rd week] 27/01/23 Sugababes - No Regrets [2 weeks] 10/02/23 Rose Gray - Ecstasy [3 weeks] 03/03/23 Kali Uchis - Moonlight [4 weeks] 31/03/23 felicita ft. Caroline Polachek - Spalarkle (Alys) [2 weeks] 14/04/23 Danna Paola - 1Trago 21/04/23 Vicco - Nochentera 28/04/23 Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha [3 weeks] 19/05/23 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam ALBUMS: Congrats to Kesha on her first #1 album! 01 Kesha - Gag Order 02 Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You [2 - 1 - 7 - RE - 4 - 6 - 5 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 3 - 1 - 2] 03 Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! [1 - 1 - 2 - 3] 04 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd [1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 4] 05 Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: THE ESTATE SALE [1 - 3 - 4 - RE - 7 - 9 - 8 - 4 - 4 - 5] 06 Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus [1 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 5 - 4 - 5 - 5 - 5 - 6] 07 Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation [1 - 1 - 3 - 4 - 2 - 4 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 7] 08 RAYE - My 21st Century Blues [1 - 4 - 3 - 10 - RE - 7 - 10 - 10 - 10 - 8 - 8 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 8] 09 Madonna - Ray Of Light [8 - RE - 2 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 4 - 6 - 7 - RE - 9] 10 Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time [2 - 4 - 3 - 1 - 5 - 9 - 3 - 8 - 5 - 7 - 8 - RE - 10]

Loving Hits Different, I've realised I already know it way better than I thought :lol: it feels like such a classic Taylor song that could easily fit on Fearless/Red. The new version of SOTB is way more emotional than the original, glad they've turned it into a proper Lana feature! The Karma remix is a bit disappointing though, I love Ice Spice but her parts really bring down the energy.

BJSC155: Rafa Villalba - Chiquetere 6awxkIqg4T0 Rafa Villalba is a Valencian artist who first recorded Chiquetere in 1984 (new mixes came in '86 and '94, I think the one we're hearing is the 94 mix but idk). At the weekend his parents would leave the city, leaving Rafa home alone (ok he was 20 so not a big deal) where he recorded the song's rap verse in just 2 minutes. The lyrics talk about how he spent the weekend making dinner, going out with friends, and smoking on the beach. This article in El País is quite interesting about the song's background and rediscovery. It's a 90s dance anthem which has now soundtracked around a million TikToks!

No that one shows the same server error for me. If it's working for you guys maybe it's just down outside the UK?