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+5 Pogues +4 Ed & Elton +3 Firebabe +2 Mariah +1 Wham -1 Lizzo -2 Brenda Lee -3 Bobby Helms -4 Andy Williams -5 Buble

My shortlist, after much agonising, was still about 65! Eventually got it down to just 30 +30 Blur – On Your Own +29 Blur – The Universal +28 Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) +27 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Joan Of Arc +26 Hanson – I Will Come to You +25 Madonna – You'll See +24 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now +23 Bloc Party – So Here We Are / Positive Tension +22 Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go +21 Kelis – Acapella +20 U2 – Walk On +19 Taylor Swift – You Need to Calm Down +18 The Prodigy – Out of Space / Ruff in the Jungle Bizness +17 Primal Scream – Country Girl +16 Blur – Girls & Boys +15 The Saturdays – Up +14 Adam Rickitt – I Breathe Again +13 Ocean Colour Scene – Traveller's Tune +12 Donna Lewis – I Love You Always Forever +11 En Vogue – Don't Let Go (Love) +10 Beastie Boys – Intergalactic +9 Darius – Rushes +8 Terrorvision – Perseverance +7 Feeder – Buck Rogers +6 Alanis Morissette – Thank U +5 Electric Six – Gay Bar +4 Frank Sinatra - My Way +3 Celine Dion with The Bee Gees – Immortality +2 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf +1 Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

+5 Anti Hero +4 Merry Christmas +3 Firebabe +2 Messy In Heaven +1 All I Want For... -1 Last Christmas -2 Escapism -3 Made You Look -4 Rocking Around... -5 It's Beginning...

Thank you for running the rate! Loved it as ever, and Wolf Alice finishing 17th(!!) is my highlight of any rate I've taken part in so far

Great to see We Are Young finish so high too - another of my very favourite "big hit" songs if the decade. Loving 20-11 so far, probably more than I'll love 10-1!

Last Man On Earth is arguably my favourite song of the decade full stop, and most certainly my favourite to appear in this final, so I'm absolutely ecstatic and amazed to see it voted into the top 20! Happier Than Ever is also my absolute favourite "big hit" from last year and probably of the decade. Possibly hoped it might sneak into the top 10 but can't argue with top 20. What a pairing!

If those sales are correct, great news (though I'd have preferred them the other way round). Can't say I'm overly surprised though. In the prediction poll, I put both over 90k, the thinking being that if a completely bland turd of an album by Coldplay last year (their worst by a mile imo) could pass 100k with little hype and sh*t reviews then both of these two must stand a good chance

Suspect we might see a Taylor song or two make the top 20 next year... The rate seems a bit more stable this year? If memory serves by this point last year, songs from the previous year's Top 5 had been falling out. Wolf Alice top 20 🤯. Safe to say I'll never have a more successful nomination ever again!

Firstly, mind blown at some of these songs that BJ has ranked Wolf Alice higher than! Secondly, sad to see Exile out a little lower than I thought it might be, seemed to be having a very strong year. Pleased with a new peak for Habits. Less so with a new peak for Levitating, which I think is Dua's worst hit by a distance.

I won't have time to vote in this (going on holiday tomorrow sans phone til after the 30th) but my +40 would have been JLS (just atrocious) and my +2 would have been Teletubbies (nostalgic) and +1 Come On You Reds (guilty pleasure from childhood)

Crazy to see Last Man In Earth outperform even Seventeen Going Under from the 2021 intake! I like all 5 of the songs that have just fallen, though since this rate introduced me to Saint Claude by CATQ, that's now become my favourite song by her instead of Tilted.

Some gooduns out in that 60-56 stretch, particularly Try. I'm one of those people (seemingly not alone) who really rates 212 despite not generally being a fan of the genre(s) it comes from. Another Love certainly deserves to be in the Top 100.

Blink and 1975 both over 200k - I'll take that

+5 BOTA +4 Celestial +3 Unholy +2 Forget Me +1 Cuff It -1 I'm Good -2 Under The Influence -3 Bad Habit -4 I Ain't Worried -5 Super Freaky Girl

Hope blink can make an impact tomorrow. Just noticed that on YouTube the Queen video has 17k views so far but 23k likes...? An error in counting the views?

"New" Queen song with Freddie has been released according to the news... is that likely to show up anywhere?

If ever in the whole of history I'd have wished something to happen the opposite way round from what it actually did... 🤦‍♂️

Out Of The Woods and Shum are both songs I'd never listened to until this year's rate... I ended up giving both solid points. Discovering new songs is one of the reasons this is always such a good thread!

Always a little surprised to see how mediocre-ly Royals has done on here, given how popular Lorde is and that this remains her signature song. Other than that, not too sad about any 80-71 departures, most of my faves are still alive.

Love Wolf Alice making the top 90 and still having another, even better, song to come. A few in this section that I'm not fussed about, but Never Really Over is my favourite Katy Perry song so pleased to see that do quite well.

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+5 BOTA +4 Forget Me +3 Big City Life +2 Unholy +1 Ferrari -1 I'm Good -2 Under The Influence -3 I Ain't Worried -4 Bad Habit -5 Super Freaky Girl The fact that the genuinely offensive Under The Influence is only my -2 says it all! Major top 10 refresh needed soon please!

Happy enough with that being the bottom 10, would have liked Perfect Places and particularly Bury A Friend to be higher, but none of main faves have fallen yet. Hadn't heard Doing Time til I checked it out for this year's rate, but not one of Lana's best in my opinion.

Quite a good top 40 but the upper end of it, from about 15 upwards, is by far the worst / most boring imo

What time was Body Paint released yesterday? Interesting to know how many hours it had, to know if #69 is good, bad or meh