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Yassss! Congrats to @Silas, finally my 18 wins one of these! Although clearly Aesthetica would have made an interesting winner too, nice to see a foreign language top two! Memories is lovely, but third seems about right, and an equal best for Cow I believe? Well done! I'm absolutely delighted with 8th place and first top ten of the year. Thanks to the final votes from Jacob and Addy! I had no real expectations and Turkish has failed for me the last couple of times so to get a Turksih darkwave song into the top ten really feels like a victory to me as it had to properly appeal to its niche audience, which it did! Delighted with the trio of golds. Thank you to all the voters. A couple of surprises in the bottom ten for me. Kluminican Republic was my second favourite and deserved a lot better, and Aeroche's was better than third to last, nice commercial dance entry. Persephonia and Séyetana I enjoyed a lot too but the big rock votes seemed concentrated to just a couple in the end. Thank you so much @Addy! for an amazing show! I really enjoyed the theme, presentation and entries this month.

Thank you Kath!

And another yasssss - amazing, thank you so much Persephonia, my initial thoughts on this entry were 'Brer and Jade might enjoy this', but I didn't expect the full 36/36 there <3

Another gold medal! Thank you so much to The Spodic Empire!

Thanks Harve!

Thanks Martin!

Honoured to get onto the Bronzil podium ❤️ Thanks Jim!

Thanks to Trifoski and FARC!

Another medal ❤️ Thanks Dan, and Harry for the points earlier too. Edit: and Dr B!

Thanks blacksquare <3 Nice to see Hushkanukia doing well, besides République d'Áskorza which was a mile ahead of everything for me, this was the standout pop discovery. Thanks to Iz also!

Thanks Dobbo, interesting to see Nora En Pure getting up there again now.

An 18 <333 thank you so much Jade, fair to say I expected you to be the main target audience so I’m glad I wasn’t miles off with that.

Thank you Pestolia and Cheiron! A convincing start for Annalisa here.

Looks like a clean sweep for Annalisa apart from the prediction for Crème Brulée from Scene, we haven't had a consensus odds favourite for quite a while? I wonder if it might win by some margin that being the case.

Sophie for sure. Adam's is nice enough but I prefer Ella Henderson's ballad take on Believe.

Close for me actually, going for S Club 7. I always liked both of their Children in Need ballads.

Also Jay Sean this time.

Sticking with Akon again.

Very ready, it must be over a decade since her last (which I didn't actually love that much). Hoping for a return to piano-based beauty like Surfacing and Afterglow.

Pretty catchy, much better than Old Phone for me (which I’ve never listened to a second time out of choice) with some interesting Eastern influences in the production.

I was starting to worry they were about to neglect the 80s for a minute, thank goodness.

Saturdays! Tori's is quite nice though.

Voted! Fantastic final, I liked 90% of it and it was so hard to leave about 10 songs out of my vote. My top three are all great discoveries in particular. Some really strong songs from loads of different genres this month so very difficult to order.

Yay, was looking forward to hearing your reaction - so glad you're a fan ❤️

Agreed, I think it's probably République d'Áskorza's to lose. It's as catchy as Mon Amour which came close. I'd say Kathaldazia, Kluminican Republic and Bøtanikkä are in with a shot too. Other outside contenders maybe Danæviia, Why So Sirius, Flynnonda, Neliönoir, A-Konohagakure, Hushkanukia, FARC, Mothertopia. Some niche success for Trifoski and (hopefully) FSR Rontvia. And I suspect Terra Avium and Zanmatony's retro dance entries should both go down well, and Aeroche's should hopefully find its way into the top 15.