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Pleased Greedy has finally gone, but will only be really pleased once Cruel Summer joins it. Also slightly annoying that Lose Control is back to 0 DCL

I was underwhelmed with the songs in this year's rate from the start and am suitably underwhelmed with the result, but thanks for running it Dan, always fun!

Perhaps fewer in this semi that I absolutely love, but so so many that I like... hard to cut down to 25 +25.Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha +24 Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance +23 Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer +22 Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere +21 Little Boots - Remedy +20 Tove Lo featuring Hippie Sabotage - Stay High +19 Prince - Purple Rain +18 Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor +17 Billie Eilish - Bury A Friend +16 Little Mix featuring Jason Derulo - Secret Love Song +15 Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall +14 Madonna - The Power Of Goodbye / Little Star +13 Laura Branigan - Gloria +12 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine +11 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky +10 R.E.M. - Daysleeper +9 Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory +8 Abba - SOS +7 Taylor Swift - Cardigan +6 Duran Duran - Ordinary World +5.Sugababes - Overload +4 Safri Duo - Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song) +3 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song +2 Destiny's Child - Bills, Bills, Bills +1 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

My fave (Blink) and, excluding Mother, my least faves (Jungle, Doja Cat) all gone there. Black Friday is the only song of the top 10 that I particularly enjoy, so hope that wins.

33, 32 and 31 are all songs I'd like to have seen in the final

It's impressive but surely it is paralleled (and exceeded) by quite a few other artists?

How some of these were voted through the qualifier ahead of Never Felt So Alone is incomprehensible to me 😅 Mother definitely finishing in its deserved position. Peaches way too low though, robbed!

That's a real mixed bag between 43 and 39! Imitation Of Life the only major loss for me, though Jump is a lot of fun too.

I thought Oh Yeah might have been a fair bit higher up but looks like it didn't get many votes other than those of us who ranked it very highly. In my top 3 Ash songs, though A Life Less Ordinary is probably #1.

+25 U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For +24 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence +23 Chicane featuring Máire Brennan - Saltwater +22 Ash - Oh Yeah +21 Sia - Chandelier +20 John Farnham - You're The Voice +19 Doves - Black And White Town +18 The Cure - Friday I'm In Love +17 REM - Imitation Of Life +16 Linkin Park - What I've Done +15 Grace - Not Over Yet +14 Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone +13 Prince and The Revolution - Kiss +12 Robin S. - Show Me Love +11 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants +10 Armin van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie - This Is What It Feels Like +9 The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition +8 Metallica - Nothing Else Matters +7 Joan Osborne - One Of Us +6 N-Trance - Forever +5 The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love) +4 Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms +3 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles +2 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This +1 Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

It's so good, completely lives up to the hype. The segue into Sinner is my highlight, couldn't stop smiling when the intro to Sinner kicked in. I'd love to see them get up towards 30k, no idea if that's remotely possible

#761 (weak top 10 this is!) +5 Stick Season +4 Houdini +3 Prada +2 Lose Control +1 Lovin On Me -1 Cruel Summer -2 Yes And -3 Murder On The Dancefloor -4 Greedy -5 Water #762 +5 Homesick +4 Stick Season +3 Houdini +2 Prada +1 Lose Control -1 Lovin On Me -2 Cruel Summer -3 Yes And -4 Murder On The Dancefloor -5 Greedy

Also quite liking that JT song on first listen, not as good as Mirrors but giving me similar vibes

I'd hoped for a bit more for Last Dinner Party. Sure the album will sell very well but a top 10 single off the back of it would have been dreamy. Glad Sinner appears to be one of the main picks off the album, brilliant song.

I thought my wildcard pick was needed, but looks like it's just sneaked enough points through normal means. In which case I'm sad I didn't give it to Bon Jovi or Bowie (not that they'd have done much in the semi)

+18 Blink-182 - One More Time +15 Bring Me The Horizon - Lost +13 Tom Odell - Black Friday +12 The Rolling Stones - Angry +11 Jack Black - Peaches +10 Suicidal-Idol - Ecstacy +9 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready To Fly +8 Freya Ridings - Weekends +7 Jonas Brothers - Waffle House -2 Meghan Trainor - Mother

That was tough, some good stuff out this year! +18 The Beatles - Now And Then +15 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? +13 Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha +12 P!nk - TRUSTFALL +11 Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right? +10 Olivia Rodrigo - all-american bitch +9 Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle +8 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam +7 Loreen - Tattoo +6 Olivia Rodrigo - vampire +5 Florence + The Machine - Mermaids +4 Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC +3 Alessandra - Queen Of Kings +2 Fred again.. and Baby Keem - leavemealone +1 Olivia Rodrigo - Can't Catch Me Now -2 Tate McRae - greedy

Voted for Homesick and Benson Boone

If that painful Shakira cover wins this just because some forum users love Ava Max I'll despair!

Aw, glancing at everyone's vote lists as they were coming in, I thought One Step Too Far was doing pretty well. Sad to see it fall short, great song.

+18 Labrinth - Never Felt So Alone (Will do my proper vote soon. But honestly, some of the utter dross that's made the cut in place of this little work of art, Buzzjack what's going on?!)

My least favourites left exited at #9 and #8 so I'm pretty happy with the top 7. Would rather have seen JVKE or Olivia in the top 5 instead of Troye Sivan. Trustfall for the win, hopefully by a big distance!

On the face of it, quite a stacked week of releases... In the '00s this would have been a "4 or 5 new entries in the Top 10" type of week. Wonder if we'll get any now in this slow-burn chart era?

The 25-40 section has been brutal for a lot of my faves. U2 and St Elmo's Fire being the latest to fall. Not many of top picks left in, even at this early stage

This forum underrates I'm Just Ken! The fact it finished behind Whistle is a travesty