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Just noticed that I denied Harry Styles the 1st & 10th double. Sorry! Feels like I've spoiled a little bit of history! +5 Calm Down +4 People +3 Flowers +2 Ceilings +1 Kill Bill -1 As It Was -2 Sure Thing -3 Die For You -4 Players -5 Boys A Liar

My second favourite songs by The Saturdays (after Ego) and Will Young (after Leave Right Now) - particularly like Up, disappointed it's gone early. But fully agree with the comment above that this looks likely to be a very tight and unpredictable countdown.

+5 Calm Down +4 Flowers +3 10.35 +2 Ceilings +1 Kill Bill -1 As It Was -2 Sure Thing -3 Die For You -4 Players -5 Boys A Liar

Sorry I've just seen this. Would probably have put Ceilings in the same position as Messy In Heaven as it happens.

+12 P!nk - TRUSTFALL +10 Linkin Park - Lost +8 Niall Horan - Heaven +7 Lana Del Rey - A&W +6 Paramore - Running Out Of Time +5 RAYE - Ice Cream Man. +4 Freya Ridings - Weekends +3 Rita Ora - You Only Love Me +2 beabadoobee - Glue Song +1 Sam Smith, Calvin Harris and Jessie Reyez - I'm Not Here To Make Friends

+50 Blur – The Universal +49 Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) +48 Madonna - You'll See +47 The Prodigy - Out Of Space +46 The Saturdays - Up +45 David Gray - Babylon +44 Kelis - Acapella +43 Snow Patrol - Run +42 Metallica - Enter Sandman +41 Blur - Girls & Boys +40 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf +39 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) +38 Moby - Porcelain +37 Nelly Furtado – I'm Like a Bird +36 Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone +35 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +34 Aaliyah – Try Again +33 Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box +32 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You +31 Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent +30 The Monkees - Daydream Believer +29 Tina Turner - The Best +28 Daft Punk - Around The World +27 Will Young - Jealousy +26 Avril Lavigne – My Happy Ending +25 Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams +24 Lily Allen - Not Fair +23 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky +22 Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love +21 Laura Branigan - Self Control +20 Katy B - Katy On A Mission +19 Pink - Who Knew +18 Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate +17 Kate Bush - Babooshka +16 Cher - Strong Enough +15 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke +14 Chase and Status featuring Liam Bailey - Blind Faith +13 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies +12 Blondie - Rapture +11 Whitney Houston - How Will I Know +10 Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight +9 Texas - Summer Son +8 September - Cry For You +7 The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) +6 Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy +5 New Radicals - You Get What You Give +4 The Kooks - Naive +3 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No... +2 Kylie Minogue - Wow +1 Dua Lipa - Levitating

Very happy with that top 10 overall. The right song won, and MCR, Kalush, double Billie and Arctics in the Top 10 is a great effort Buzzjack!

+5 Calm Down +4 Anti Hero +3 Escapism +2 Flowers +1 As It Was -1 messy in heaven -2 Sure Thing -3 Kill Bill -4 Creepin -5 Boys A Liar +5 Calm Down +4 Escapism +3 Flowers +2 10.35 +1 messy in heaven -1 As It Was -2 Sure Thing -3 Kill Bill -4 Boys A Liar -5 Players

My least favourite (Latto) and almost but not quite favourite (Metallica) finishing level on points. Glad I gave Latto the -2 so Metallica finished ahead!

Boo at Crash and Intergalactic going out at the last moment. Still, a far better set of qualifying songs from this semi than the other one

Didn't expect Thank U would make it but as we got closer my hopes were growing. Sad to see it fall. On the other hand, delighted Heat Waves hasn't made it. Painful to listen to after so much overplay.

OK so I gave this 22 points thinking it was Maid Of Orleans 🤦‍♂️🤣 I'd never heard this song until now! Luckily I quite like it...!

Love loads of these but gave +3 to Radio Gaga as if I could pick one song to do really well it would be that. Bo Rhap, I Want To Break Free and Hammer To Fall would have been in the mix for +1s had I spread things out.

+25 Blur - The Universal +24 Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) +23 Alanis Morissette - Thank U +22 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Joan Of Arc +21 Madonna - You'll See +20 Beastie Boys - Intergalactic +19 Ash - Goldfinger +18 The Primitives - Crash +17 The Prodigy - Out Of Space +16 Blur - Girls & Boys +15 Snow Patrol - Run +14 Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone +13 David Gray - Babylon +12 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +11 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) +10 Moby - Porcelain +9 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams +8 Tina Turner - The Best +7 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky +6 The KLF - What Time Is Love? +5 Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss +4 Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon +3 Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box +2 Madness - Our House +1 The Cure - Lullaby

+5 Calm Down +4 Anti Hero +3 Escapism +2 Flowers +1 10.35 -1 messy in heaven -2 Sure Thing -3 Kill Bill -4 Creepin -5 Boys A Liar

+12 Ghost - Mary On A Cross +10 Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint +8 Billie Eilish - TV +7 Metallica - Master of Puppets +6 My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay +5 Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball +4 The 1975 - I'm In Love With You +3 Lady Gaga - Hold My Hand +2 Billie Eilish - The 30th +1 Kalush - Stefania -2 Latto & Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled - Big Energy

Pretty good list this. Stokes, ATB, Katy B, Busted

Carnage. While quite a few of my top votes went out very early, it looked like my remaining faves might make it... until they almost all got wiped out in the 34-26 section. Not too fussed about most of what's left, hope the second semi is more successful!

+5 Calm Down +4 Anti Hero +3 Escapism +2 Miss You +1 Flowers -1 Messy In Heaven -2 Kill Bill -3 Sure Thing -4 Let Go -5 Creepin

I lost a lot of my high scorers before we even got much into the 40s - haven't been fussed about many of these most recent losses though. I gave In My Mind a few points but in reality was voting for the Gino D'Agostino original, which I love

My would-have-been +12 (YOYOK) was the first to miss the cut! +12 Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan - Rumble +10 Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly +8 Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side +7 Miley Cyrus - Flowers +6 Taylor Swift - Bejeweled +5 Cat Burns - people pleaser +4 Bizarrap and Shakira - Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 +3 NewJeans - Ditto +2 FLO - Cardboard Box +1 Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby) 0 Mimi Webb - Red Flags

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot more people voted for Charmless Man than on On Your Own. I'm intrigued whether that's mostly because people have only heard Charmless Man, or mostly because people know both and genuinely prefer Charmless Man. For me they should clearly be the other way round, but Blur were less mainstream come the back end of the 90s so I suspect On Your Own is less well known. I'm clearly one of the few who would put that Taylor song in my top 10 of favourite Taylor songs!

Thank you for running this!

RUTH should (and I think will) win by a long way. Disappointed As It Was has finished ahead of both LF System and Anti Hero, I don't mind it but will remember the other two for longer.

+5 Calm Down +4 Anti Hero +3 Escapism +2 Flowers +1 Messy In Heaven -1 Kill Bill -2 Martins Sofa -3 Sure Thing -4 Let Go -5 Creepin