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+50 Radiohead – No Surprises +49 William Orbit – Barber's Adagio for Strings +48 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever +47 Erasure - A Little Respect +46 Coldplay - Fix You +45 Robbie Williams - Feel +44 U2 - With Or Without You +43 Coldplay - Yellow +42 Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love +41 New Order - True Faith +40 U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name +39 Madonna - Don't Tell Me +38 The Beatles - Something / Come Together +37 Elbow - One Day Like This +36 Christina Perri – Jar of Hearts +35 Taylor Swift - Blank Space +34 Garbage - Stupid Girl +33 The Prodigy – No Good (Start the Dance) +32 Utah Saints - Something Good +31 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday +30 Prince - When Doves Cry +29 Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko – Stay +28 Lady Gaga - Paparazzi +27 Robbie Williams - Angels +26 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer +25 Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms +24 Keane - Everybody's Changing +23 Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer +22 Tears For Fears - Shout +21 Seal – Kiss from a Rose / I'm Alive +20 The Ronettes - Be My Baby +19 Nelly Furtado – All Good Things (Come to an End) +18 TLC - Waterfalls +17 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car +16 Muse – Supermassive Black Hole +15 Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On +14 Madonna - Open Your Heart +13 Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply +12 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood +11 Janet Jackson - Together Again +10 Katy Perry - Hot n Cold +9 Girls Aloud - Biology +8 Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana +7 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark +6 Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You +5 Aerosmith – I Don't Want To Miss a Thing +4 Lana Del Rey featuring Cedric Gervais – Summertime Sadness +3 Gwen Stefani – What You Waiting For? +2 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music +1 Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me

Sad to see Bellissima go near the end but overall a lot of my favourites from this semi final have survived

+5 Seventeen Going Under +4 Surface Pressure +3 We Don't Talk About Bruno +2 Make Me Feel Good +1 House On Fire -1 Down Under -2 Peru -3 Family Madrigal -4 Overseas -5 Where Are You Now

Didn't know much about Antidote or Cornflake Girl but have enjoyed listening to them both here

I'm probably one of the few people whose favourite song with Beyoncé on it is Runnin' so am sad to see it go!

Not sad about any of the departures so far

+5 Seventeen Going Under +4 Surface Pressure +3 Make Me Feel Good +2 We Don't Talk About Bruno +1 Down Under -1 Peru -2 Family Madrigal -3 Overseas -4 The Joker And The Queen -5 Where Are You Now

+25 Radiohead - No Surprises +24 DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima +23 Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love +22 Coldplay - Yellow +21 Robbie Williams - Feel +20 Madonna - Don't Tell Me +19 U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name +18 Naughty Boy featuring Beyonce and Arrow Benjamin - Runnin' (Lose It All) +17 Garbage - Stupid Girl +16 Nickelback - How You Remind Me +15 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone +14 Taylor Swift - Blank Space +13 Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko - Stay +12 Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain +11 The Prodigy - No Good (Start The Dance) +10 Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson +9 Utah Saints - Something Good +8 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer +7 Seal - Kiss From A Rose / I'm Alive +6 The Ronettes - Be My Baby +5 TLC - Waterfalls +4 Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do +3 Galantis - Runaway (U & I) +2 Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U +1 Rita Ora - Let You Love Me Muse are one of my favourite bands of all time but Supermassive BH is by far my least favourite single they've ever released 🤦‍♂️ Also Kiss Me must be my least favourite #4 ever, it annoys me to an irrational extent!

I blame him for using his own name in multiple song titles

Cancel all of the above, I'm thinking of Forgot About Dre aren't I 🤦‍♂️

Was Still DRE not pretty big here, Top 5 I thought? I remember it being released as part of a double act - Guilty Conscience by Eminem feat. Dre and Still DRE by Dre feat. Eminem. Could have sworn they both charted well inside the Top 10. Or am I having a total memory fail?😅

Plenty good stuff still standing in the final 25, but also plenty I'd exchange in a heartbeat for some of the songs that landed between 35 and 26

Nancy Boy and, to a lesser extent, The Bad Touch are big losses. Pleasantly surprised Nancy Boy made it this high though

Will Ed get a reset and/or will this be counted as a "new" single with BMTH credited? If the latter, it'll be as incongruous as Yungblud getting by far his biggest hit by piggybacking on KSI, and Bon Iver on Taylor Swift 😅

Really strong top 5 (except for below-par Dua Lipa effort), well done BJ voters! Would rather Billie had won, shame to see her miss on a tie break. Which I think might also answer my above question... Thanks for running it!

What are the tie-break criteria? Looks like Best Friend is equal on points with Runaway but Runaway has a +12 vote so maybe should be above it into 17th?

+5 Seventeen Going Under +4 Surface Pressure +3 We Don't Talk About Bruno +2 Make Me Feel Good +1 abcdefu -1 Peru -2 War -3 Family Madrigal -4 Overseas -5 Where Are You Now

Probably my favourite Erasure song falling out there. But I did sing (the Wheatus version of) A Little Respect at a school gig once so have got a lot of affection for that too!

Alt-J, by a distance!

Apart from Overpass Grafitti, not sure I even know any of the ones to have fallen so far. Looking at everyone's votes coming in, I'm worried that Nancy Boy was well on track for the final but then votes for it dried up in the last few days - only time will tell!

Is alt-j song on NMF The Actor? Or something (even) newer? The Actor is great, my fave from the new album so far

+5 Seventeen Going Under +4 Surface Pressure +3 We Don't Talk About Bruno +2 Make Me Feel Good +1 Down Under -1 abcdefu -2 Peru -3 Family Madrigal -4 Overseas -5 Where Are You Now

😮 mind blown after 26 years of being wrong! Did Liam do Let Forever Be?

Also a #1 as vocalist on Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun, though don't think he was credited officially

Absolutely chuffed for Wolf Alice winning Group of the Year. Thought the Brits generally stuck to the big names these days