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This definitely gives off Emmelie De Forest doing Keeping Your Head Up. Violin bit is nice though. She's has a bit too much of a forced grin to connect with her imo!

Was just thinking, what happened to the great Azeri wealth and elaborate staging of 2009-2014. That staging looked like a hospital ward privacy screen.

I thought it wasn't a single in the UK at all at the time hence it not charting at the time? They must be going by the US release/peak date.

I would be for it personally if it goes over 30. It always feels like such a brutal cull. In a BJSC final we are able to vote for well over a third of the entries, but in a semi it is often just a third, or lower in a semi of the size you mention. So I think it would be ok for all site contests to be a bit more fluid dependent on numbers.

Yes please. Imo all site contests should have that voting system applied above 30 entries.

Yes they will be holding some well known hits back for that, presumably other T-Rex stuff too.

It's ok, the intro is the best thing about it for me. Not a favourite of mine from J.Lo and Dannii and Ashlee are much stronger for me.

Looks pretty strong for an Extra, lots of classics on there. A timely triple MJ appearance (counting the Jackson 5 song).

Yeah it's a good track, and a nice Robbie moment with strong vocals and a charming performance from him. A very catchy chorus too.

Friday's Child, a beauty. Pink's is decent though.

The Saturdays marginally over Ms Dynamite. The other two I really love.

Glad Delta has shortened. Just saw a clip from the jury performance and she sung a note near the end that I haven't heard her pull off live in a very long time, good to see she can still reach the really high notes.

I don't care much about In My Head, but I liked all the other singles from that era (What If actually did the best in my chart, pretty sure it went top five) so I did buy the album.

1. Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 2. Four Jacks And a Jill - Master Jack 3. Frances - Don't Worry About Me (Live At Union Chapel) 4. Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love 5. Sanna Nielsen - Waste Your Love 6. Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead 7. Sanna Nielsen - Vågar du, vågar jag 8. Dolcenera - My Love 9. FELICIA - My System 10. DR. GABBA - BBYLUV 11. Loren Kramar - Gay Angels 12. Bleach Lab - My Favourite Game 13. Little Sister - Dear Abbie (One Night of Passion) 14. Sarah McLachlan - All This Disaster 15. Naomi Scott - Cherry 16. Wet - Swinub 17. Leléka - Ridnym 18. LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 19. Sanna Nielsen - Till En Fågel 20. Winding Stairs - Don't Stay Up Too Late

Always one I like. Songs I've chosen for contests in the past that I think others would like don't often do as well as I think. And vice versa, sometimes (although not always, sadly 🤣). I thought nobody would vote for Master Jack in the Retro contest and it came 4th, I stuck with it because I enjoyed it so much. I get a lot more joy out of seeing a personal favourite do well, and if it doesn't then at least I'm satisfied with myself for sharing it. However, of course there is a consideration to what others might think. I probably wouldn't bother with acts or songs that are clearly already provably unpopular on the forum, even if I liked them.

I guess his whole aesthetic is DIY, so the budget kind of look will hopefully come across as organic and homemade rather than budget and tacky. But the BBC have form unfortunately, give them a couple of props and they tend to use them in the worst looking way possible. The clip I've seen doesn't look very promising.

There isn't much, I fear. I expect they're probably lucky to break even now, hence the tracklists getting worse and slimmer with each new release. They'd have to up the prices to £20 to improve them at this point I think. Within the realms of what they can probably do with the budget they have, I'm not sure what I'd change, but I'd ditch spin-offs unless at least 50% of songs hadn't been used before. The new 80s summer is a complete waste of money for any collector and clearly aimed at the casual market.

You do wonder if the OCC might have to consider taking the Australian approach of shifting catalogue songs to another chart. It has really got completely ridiculous of late, like you say, there have barely been any hits actually released this year. How will we come to define 2026 exactly? And how does new music ever break through? Chart success breeds further success through being more visible to the public and awards committees etc, labels and artists feel more positive when they are having hits and invest more into new talent and music, but so few artists and songs are actually managing to make big waves. But then again, you don't want to be blocking old songs getting a genuine organic second wind like Go and Beauty and A Beat from getting their new peaks, so I don't have a solution exactly.

Not heard either of those songs yet but on artist name alone and recent form in BJSC and other contests (I won Club Bizarre with Brutalismus 3000 not so long ago too so they are popular on the forum already) they're not surprising vetoes. Edit: just checked them both. How does Slut manage to rip off both Scheiße by Lady Gaga and Bodies by Drowning Pool, with a touch of LAMB era Gwen in the verses too. Impressive

Agree with the general sentiment on Beautiful Monster, quite a good track but below his 2008 hits for me. I liked the way he had a solo No.1 every other even year: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012.

It's terrible but at least has Delta. This staging is bad, why does it look like they're hosting in a restaurant.

Love both of those dropouts. You Won't Forget About Me was in my personal top 10 of that year, I thought it would peak much higher than No.7. I thought Dannii did a really good vocal on top of that instrumental track and it was a great follow on from the Neon Nights era. Pieces Of Me I loved at the time and thought it would wear on my over time but it really hasn't, I still like it a lot, the chorus sounds like it could be a TV show theme. I still enjoy the parent album a lot too, Ashlee's music was far more my thing than Jessica's.

He delivered his filler line with as much enthusiasm as I have boarding the train to work every morning. -- Thought the semi was ok, some songs did come across better live and Greece and Finland won on the staging front, although I really don't think Ferto is that great a song personally. My System was great, a copy and paste from Melodifestivalen with slightly less impact as is always the way with Sweden but my favourite in the semi. Agree that Georgia is the only one that feels like an absolute no hoper. Not convinced Montenegro really stand much of a chance either.

I keep thinking about this wonderful week, maybe my favourite week of the decade </3 Fast forward three years and I couldn't give a toss, and that is with my all-time favourite singer participating in the contest, which is proof that nothing could have made me care about it this year like I used to. Although obviously I hope Delta does well and is rewarded for her talent by the juries, the televote is a complete farce of late and I couldn't really care how she ranks on it, it means nothing currently. I don't see a way Israel doesn't storm the televote again. I'll watch it, like Iz due to my curiosity, but haven't booked holiday like I usually do, won't vote for the first time ever, haven't put any bets on for the first time since 2004 and don't really care about the results. They've ruined it for me, for this year anyway. I don't know if there is a way back - I hope there is because Eurovision was my favourite thing to follow and it feels like a big loss.

You need to get'cha head in the game.