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I put leaning left, but not on every issue. Definitely more left than Centrist though.

Akon. Breaking Free was actually my favourite here. Despite its Disney teen-aimed background, it's a very solid pop song, well sung.

Sticking with Emma, I don't hate it though, I just have no reason to listen to it instead of the original.

Hoosiers, I never liked that Marilyn cover even at the time.

Wow, Come Undone is great, one of Robbie's best. Shame to see it out. Dance Dance extremely easily here.

I enjoyed Len more myself.

Thanks Julian, I will get listening!

Nice selection! I only know Paula Cole, who is stretching the definition of one-hit wonder with this song that has four times more streams than her 'hit' 😂 Obviously a Dawson's Creek classique. Ann Lee! I thought about using one of hers but most of the stuff I know from her is very samey, this sounds completely different so good pick. Very intrigued by some of the names - artists I've never thought to look up further music by, really nice theme idea.

Nice countdown Colm, I like the three winners in the top 10 most - Arcade, 1944 and Rise Like A Phoenix, although all were about 5-8th for me in their respective years. That Conchita story of yours is great. Not too fond of Let 3 musically, but the performance was very fun to watch. The Luke Black song is one of my partner's favourite Eurovision songs ever! So it's always on at home.

Amazed that Leww hadn't won Club Bizarre before, congrats! I think that could have gone big in BJSC too. I'd have either guessed that or Rose Rouge would have won so that's a strong top two, congrats Dandy. Well done to Uhsting on the podium too. Thanks to the bump from the final two voters, I thought mine stuck out like a sore thumb and that I'd be near the bottom but it seems the people who liked it mostly loved it, which is great <3 It's one of those incredibly fun tacky dance remakes that I just love so I'm glad it got some support! Big love and thanks to the voters. Surprised Dan's didn't go top ten, that was my very clear favourite. Thanks though for the welcome to your house party though Dan, a nice bunch of songs and great hosting of course!

Thanks Herbs, I didn't expect to get any top score! It's quite funny how often we swap high scores in anonymous contests.

I thought I'd send a novelty-ish entry because Club is a very serious business usually! Lasse Holm represented Sweden in Eurovision 1986 and wrote loads of 80s schlager classics, including the original of this which Nause (who I mistakenly thought had a small hit here with Made Of) recently remixed. It's obviously cheesy but to me it was too charming not to share! Thank you to the two voters so far. And to our esteemed host for the wonderful discovery, by far my favourite of this edition as I already knew my 10, 8 and 7 pointers.

Afraid to Feel was robbed! But then also think as far back as Now 59 with that forgettable Blue song opening over Call On Me which was a few spots lower.

We shall see. I do agree that the Now 116 opener from Calvin was a very bad pick and made me wonder if Disc 1, Track 1 was a licensing stipulation from Calvin in that case, which is what makes me think Blessings could also open this. In Germany, Calvin has kicked off Bravo Hits multiple times with very dubious choices that weren't even big hits there, including all of Smoke The Pain Away, Free and Lovers In A Past Life. I don't think they would be there unless there was some call for it from Calvin/the label. If it's not Calvin then if there's a radio and chart smash/big name artist with a long-running hit to kick off with (like Azizam) then I believe they will take that option, like with George Ezra's Green Green Grass opening Now 112 over e.g. the huge summer No.1 from LF System further down. Rayvn Lenae feels more like something they'd place a little lower than an opener to me, but if she does open the album then I will happily eat my words as I love the song.

Now 121 will be very weak indeed, nothing has really happened since the last edition, which still carries the UK top two singles. Absurd nearly two months after it was released. It might be time to think about reducing the volumes from three to two a year to strengthen them. Azizam feels more like the kind of song they will open with to me than Love Me Not, or maybe Calvin Harris' Blessings? As they opened a couple of albums in 2023 with Calvin. I really hope another No.1 single emerges in time for the tracklist release but it does look unlikely. I hope Baller by Abor & Tynna makes it, as it's been more popular than JJ here and it would be cool to have a German language song on there.

Together is a lovely song and performance and it deserved to be in the top ten for Ireland, it actually sounds like it could easily fit into the charts too at any point in the last 30 years, quite timeless. Unfortunately Firefighter is not a favourite of mine, I get nothing from that, but at least Firefighter we got a new meme out of it this year.

This album is way better than I expected after reading the reviews. I didn't see the feature credits beforehand and thought it was Sarah Cracknell from Saint Etienne on Every Girl You've Ever Loved, Naomi Campbell did a nice job on it. More To Lose, Easy Lover, Walk Of Fame and Reborn are also really good, shame Miley has fallen under the radar a bit this time as I like it more than Endless Summer Vacation.

The fact that no current music video was played on the music channels more than 15 times last week is pretty sad. No wonder a lot of artists don’t put as much effort into videos anymore or just chuck out lyric videos, it’s basically you watch it yourself online or you don’t see it. It’s such a shame that so few channels remain and none are dedicated to new music. I would definitely abolish the chart, what’s the point of it. 21 plays represents nothing apart from what looks like a 90s number one singles countdown on loop.

Akon for me, quite an annoying hook and I at least like everything else in the list to some extent.

Fall Out Boy for me too.

Not a bad set overall, going for Emma. I don’t care for that cover much either.

Meat Loaf is even more strange than Gina G last week. At least Eurovision explained that away. And what is Three Lions doing there, did I miss a football tournament? 😄

Much better: Rave.djIf Video Til You Get Even - RaveDJMashup featuring Michael Jackson & Andyabraham made at rave.dj

Many thanks Addy, and have a great time with the family!

Oh that is a real shame for Summericia and Spodic Empire, I voted for both as well as Kylienips, which was way better than last but it was a good semi. Congrats to Jim and Jonjo - both deserved!