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Bop Idol 4: Voting (Deadline 23:59 Wednesday 16 July)
Not me sending Liberty X and Diana. Greedy.
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Bop Idol 4: Voting (Deadline 23:59 Wednesday 16 July)
Predictions (this is definitely harder than the last two): Julian_ Equador (Bo Bruce) Scene Diana Vickers Roba. Fleur East gooddelta ? Addy Danity Kane CowTzy Dami Im jimwatts Clara Van Wel Herbs Aiden Grimshaw uhsting Tokio Myers AllStarBySmashMouth Cher Lloyd, Mic Righteous, Zeph Ellis & Ghette Tafty Christina Grimmie Dobbo Reggie 'n' Bollie Mangø Liberty X vibe Dannii Minogue awardinary Amelia Lily King Rollo Nolwenn Leroy Chez Wombat Daithi featuring Raye Cody Piastri Lauren Alaina Calum Only The Young Brer Ruti dandy* Tove Styrke ChrisJK Escala Jade Agnes
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Grace Davies - The Wrong Side of 25
Grace has got 10 BJSC confirmations already in the bag I fear. I loved this album and ordered the CD from her site. Super Love Me, MDE and Another Night are all quality singles but there are some great album tracks too. Hotel Delilah is quite something.
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Song Covers SoundClash #92
Going with Melanie!
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Pop Track of the Year 2025: Quarter Two
Azizam Headphones On Illegal
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Wimbledon 2025
Yet Alcaraz won the last five of their meetings before yesterday, including the French final five weeks ago. So how is that first statement true? Sinner was great on serve for sure but I have seen Alcaraz serve better, definitely, before. Serve wasn't the only way in which Sinner outclassed Alcaraz for most of the match, the end of set stats showed that he was better on almost every metric in sets 2 to 4.
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Song Covers SoundClash #91
Definitely Santana. I didn't enjoy the Dolly cover at all.
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Round 5: Year End Survivor #121
Has to be poor Pixie. I loved the other singles from the album and did like this one but radio overplayed it at the expense of the other bigger hits.
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Round 8: Year End Survivor #120
Sticking with Run.
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Round 2: Year End Survivor #122
Stuntmasterz - for me a quite clunky mash-up in a time when mash-up culture was fresh and exciting. Friday Hill is far better. The two non-Kenzie members of Friday Hill went on to form Mojam, a Grammy award-winning songwriting and production duo who worked with Naughty Boy, Professor Green and Emeli Sandé. So Blazin' Squad's existence wasn't all bad.
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The Pop Factor: Season 1 • The Grand Final: Part One
I was never really into Dirrty despite Stripped being one of my all-time top 10 albums oops. I didn't get round to buying it until I heard Beautiful. Love all of the other choices, that's a great pick for Mary J (again).
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Wimbledon 2025
Amazing form from Sinner today, stunning quality, as Alcaraz wasn't playing badly for most of it at all. Some of the shots both managed to get in at times were incredible. A deserved win though for Sinner. I can't understand how Dimitrov played so well against someone that has looked so dominant in every other game he's played in this tournament. I guess Sinner just found his game hard to read and/or was having a slight off day.
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Sales W/E 17/07/2025
I remember in 2006 Oasis released Acquiesce as the lead track on the 'Stop The Clocks EP' https://www.discogs.com/master/52318-Oasis-Stop-The-Clocks-EP I guess it would have charted back then but as I understand it, they made it ineligible to chart by including four tracks on the single. At that point singles were only able to have three separate songs and be under 20 minutes long (or 40 minutes for a remix CD, which is why many dance singles were longer). As an aside, the highest new entry being at No.25 seems highly unusual at this time of year? I didn't realise the release schedule had got so barren.
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The Pop Factor: Season 1 • The Semi Final RESULTS
Shame to see Louise out, she was on a good run, but it's hard to see what song could have been picked next. The only realistic alternatives were a track from a recent album or Lil' Lou (which I love but doubt it would have got much traction either). CHVRCHES did pretty well but not sad to see them out 6th. Great to see PSB through and hope they are dark horses for the winner. You could basically pick almost anything from 1985-1993 from them and it would get through, they were that good. I'm less sure about their chances with post-1993 material although I love so much of it personally.
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Wimbledon 2025
That was a very sad final to watch, felt very bad for Anisimova - I guess the body crumbles under pressure sometimes. But never thought I’d witness a double bagel in a Wimbledon final ever. I only had one hour free to watch yesterday between 4 and 5 and I didn’t expect to be able to see the entire match. She had been so strong on the run up to the final. Swiatek was so ruthless though, class player, at her best she is way better than Sabalenka for me so I hope she gets back to No.1.