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+30 Mystery Jets - Bubblegum +29 Black Honey - All My Pride +28 Kings of Leon - Over +27 Christine And The Queens - Saint Claude +26 Alan Walker – Faded +25 Christine And The Queens – Tilted / Christine +24 Adele – When We Were Young +23 Bon Iver - 33 God +22 ZAYN – Pillowtalk +21 Little Mix (feat. Jason Derulo) – Secret Love Song +20 Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) +19 1975 – Somebody Else +18 Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna) – This Is What You Came For +17 Elle King – Ex's And Oh's +16 Alan Walker (feat. Iselin Solheim) - Sing Me To Sleep +15 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Never Ever +14 xx – On Hold +13 Blossoms - Charlemagne +12 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) – Starboy

I think there's a missing score for Maccabees - Spit It Out by the way. I gave it 28 and RabbitFurCoat gave it 24.

Ugh almost all my favourites making big climbs but narrowly missing AQ, and then Disturbed and Kygo both a point short of deserved SF places.

I'd definitely have given Florence a few points but always think of her/them as a solo artist not a group so never crossed my mind for this rate

Wow at Saint Etienne. I love He's On The Phone (a cruel #11 peak) but don't know much else by them and wouldn't have guessed in a million years their name would come up this high. Will have to check their other stuff out. REM have some great songs but aren't a particular favourite of mine overall. Unlike the Chemical Brothers who are my favourite dance group. Echo what the earlier posters have said.

Perhaps unsurprisingly for someone with mainly indie & alternative taste, a lot of my favourites have fallen before the top 50. Arcade Fire the latest biggie to go, consistently strong with every album having at least a couple of absolute worldies on it and Funeral in particular being an all time classic. I went to their tour the week after the allegations about Win Butler broke and it was a weird vibe, so can understand why they might have been swerved by a few folk in this rate.

Same! This stat has slightly blown my mind.

Strong year this +30 Wolf Alice - Silk +29 Everything Everything - No Reptiles +28 Maccabees - Spit It Out +27 Disturbed - Sound of Silence +26 Everything Everything - Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread +25 Jamie xx - Gosh +24 Grimes - Kill V. Maim +23 Luke Friend - Hole in My Heart +22 Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go +21 Naughty Boy (feat. Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin) - Runnin' (Lose It All) +20 Declan McKenna - Brazil +19 Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta +18 CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue +17 Adele - Hello +16 Taylor Swift - Style +15 Everything Everything - Distant Past +14 Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face +13 CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace +12 Kygo (feat. Conrad Sewell) - Firestone +11 Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me +10 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do +9 Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams +8 Galantis - Runaway (U & I) +7 David Bowie - Blackstar +6 Coldplay - Adventure of a Lifetime +5 Ariana Grande - One Last Time +4 Florence & The Machine - Delilah +3 Tame Impala - Let It Happen +2 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk +1 Beach House - Space Song

Of all the acts I could have seen live but haven't/didn't, The Prodigy are the one I regret the most. Must have been incredible.

Charlie XCX beating Marvin Gaye or The Beatles (or even Harry Styles) would be Exhibit A in the definition of recency bias!

Ooh I've used up all my nominations but if someone could save Wide Open by the Chemical Brothers that would demonstrate excellent taste...

Yikes, apologies if it's in the wrong year. I associate it with 2014 but if this was corrected last year, I didn't update my notes for noms so just copied and pasted the same incorrect nom in again this year! It won't qualify anyway so no real harm done...

+5 Good Luck Babe +4 Angel Of My Dreams +3 Guess +2 Austin +1 Birds Of A Feather -1 Backbone -2 Kehlani -3 Apple -4 Kisses -5 Stargazing

Forgot how much of a tune Room On The Third Floor was! Good to see it done live too, sounding like something straight out of mid 90s Britpop

Pulp 😍😍 I'd say probably the best band of the Britpop era in hindsight. Finsbury Park last year was certainly the most fun gig I've been to in ages. And Different Class is in my top 10 albums of all time.

I felt guilty not giving Pink Floyd points, they're clearly absolute genius and as influential as it gets, I just don't find myself going back to their music very often. Interesting that The Smiths only had 4 voters but were very high scores from all 4 of them.

+12 Radiohead - Paranoid Android +10 David Bowie - Life On Mars +8 New Order - Blue Monday [1988] +7 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out +6 Dua Lipa - Physical +5 Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay +4 ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight) +3 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy +2 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots +1 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Food* would probably have been in my 31-40 bracket due to weight of solid songs. Not many I absolutely love though. Favourite is actually Walk from one of their more recent albums, absolute banger. *Foos, even. Thanks autocorrect

Everything Everything are consistently excellent, even if very underappreciated in terms of Top 40 success!

+30 Bombay Bicycle Club - Come To +29 Lorde - 400 Lux +28 Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument +27 Taylor Swift - Out of The Woods +26 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks +25 Sia - Chandelier +24 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat +23 alt-J - Every Other Freckle +22 5 Seconds of Summer - She Looks So Perfect +21 Faul & Wad vs. Pnau - Changes +20 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants +19 First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining +18 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +17 Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High) (Original / Hippie Sabotage Remix) +16 Kiesza - Hideaway +15 Klingande - Jubel +14 Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) +13 Veronicas - You Ruin Me +12 Watermat - Bullit +11 Kasabian - Eez-Eh +10 Taylor Swift - Blank Space +9 Zhu – Faded +8 Lorde - Team +7 5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia +6 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This +5 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off +4 Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna +3 Ariana Grande (feat. Zedd) - Break Free +2 Avicii (feat. Dan Tyminski) - Hey Brother +1 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive)

+5 Good Luck Babe +4 Austin +3 Guess +2 Houdini +1 Please Please Please -1 Birds Of A Feather -2 Apple -3 Kisses -4 Kehlani -5 Stargazing

The lack of The Verve is pretty surprising but in mitigation does everyone just see them as a one-album band? I don't know how many other albums if any they've got beyond Urban Hymns

Thought Westlife might be a fair bit higher... haven't looked at the results from last time so didn't realise they finished so low then. The Vamps finishing ahead of [insert almost every other band in the list so far] is a very Buzzjack type of bonkers.

When you realise your two favourite BeeGees songs were #1 20 years apart from each other 😮

Sigur Ros 😍 truly unique and magnificent live. Some classic albums from years back but their new one ATTA is good too. The track Klettur (which is in my record of the decade noms for 2023) is one of the most atmospheric pieces of music I've ever heard. Pleased they've held up well, but I didn't take part in this last time, so if whoever voted for them last time had voted the same way again, they could have been a lot higher with my extra 28 points! Like what I know from Royksopp too.