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Voted (for the first time on nu-BuzzJack). Really loving my top four, and a good selection all round, very strong choices for this theme.

Why is the one story that sticks in my head her job at a department store? I guess because it was funny to see someone actually working outside of the square where they all conveniently have picked up jobs within two minutes of where they live.

Baller wasn’t among the ten songs I listened to yesterday and that is my new fave after the NF. Banger, and was great live! Cloudy June going straight out was not it.

Klara has climbed to No.1 in Sweden which is nice for her - she’d have never had the chance if all of the finalists were released simultaneously as they always have been before. Dolly Style new at No.5 and Meira at No.6, above all of the other finalists so far… and Greczula at No.9. I’d expect Måns and Kaj to enter in the top two in the next chart.

Really strong entry! I promised Leww I'd post this. The chorus lyric melody of this reminds me of the instrumental hook in Moving On Up by M People so I asked Rave DJ to do its thing and wasn't disappointed! https://rave.dj/OJFXPxhEnyBFOA

Very tricky now. Will go with Mya although it’s a great track and I’m glad she had one big solo hit.

Avril to win, one of my favourites from her for sure. Not fussed on the Justin track particularly.

Barry Islands…I agree with Dandy that give or take a couple this list is almost already in order of best to worst, so I’m just chipping away at the later years now.

By far the best / most competitive they had. I’m still not sure it’s much of a hit but at least they gave themselves a fighting chance.

It's an ok track with a good performance. Probably midtable in my ranking but there were far better Eurovision options in Sanremo. It's fair to give him first refusal though I guess, and I'm intrigued to see how it does, doesn't seem as obvious a hit as usual for Italy.

They won't. BJSC next month sorted though :lol: I'm in Switzerland atm and able to pick up this national final on RTL on TV. It's a damn sight better than the likes of Norway/Iceland/Denmark, so Raab has clearly had an impact. Still more than a few songs that would get a sub 5 points televote, but I guess they're hoping for the jury love again this year with a lot of these.

Portugal's odds have massively shortened, I guess in anticipation of Tristeza winning - it definitely could do extremely well. On Spotify Deslocado by NAPA has six times more streams than JOSH...I hope that's not indicative as I didn't really get that.

Yeah I wasn't really sold on the song without the performance but of course he sold the hell out of it, and the final 45 seconds is more winnery than anything else I've seen this year, including Erika as I'm not sure how big her jury potential is. I'm not convinced it will be able to command a televote score much above 150-170, so does depend if it's a full on jury love in like with Tattoo and The Code, as to whether this can reach as high as 500. As for Melodifestivalen, it's completely over, everyone else can go home.

Feuerschwanz and Cloudy June are easily the two best songs released so far for me. The former is great fun metal, the latter is strong pop and would be another risqué Eurovision entry lyrically for 2025. Think both could do reasonably for Germany. From Fall To Spring could also do well tbf, very Linkin Park, but not really as much my thing as those other two. Not sold on the others released so far yet.

Thanks Joseph. Taking about 45 seconds to load a page for me.

I think this week's heat is my favourite so far in that I like all six songs to some extent. Revolution is not really that, but I like Måns and his music, I have always loved Heroes, and as generic as this track is, I know I'll have it on repeat. I don't think it's a Eurovision winner as I couldn't see it getting a particularly huge televote at Eurovision, but no doubt it will ease to victory here. And I do think it's a well produced, instant Scandipop song with an anthemic sound. KAJ's song I really like, very infectious and super catchy, I hope this goes to the final! It's the big party track the final is currently missing. Vicious is way better than I expected from Andreas - I love Alcazar but don't often go for his solo stuff, but this is very Dua Lipa, some really slick and sharp production with a great chorus. Tennessee Tears have brought a really quite strong country song, I wouldn't rule this out going to the final, or at least going to the second chance round. I like AmenA and Ella's tracks too - although they sound way less competitive than the other four, but are fine for my playlist. Predictions: DTF: Måns, KAJ Second chance: Tennessee Tears Out: Andreas (I think Måns probably eats up the male pop vote sadly, and the older audiences might be more likely to go for him or Tennessee Tears), AmenA, Ella

Presumably Abs is rejoning them then? I saw them as a trio a few years back and they were fine, the lack of a natural rapper hurts them a bit.

^ March 28th it is. This is wayyy more interesting than I expected, with some interesting picks and lots of remixes I don't have anywhere, so for sure I'll buy it. Weird crediting for Love Inc and Alice Deejay these days, but I guess those are new label stipulations. Liz McClarnon getting her spot on a Now spinoff *.* Euphoria remix *.* Double Kelly Llorenna *.* I like the way it's a good mix of classic Eurodance and Clubland stuff, and not just the main album stuff but a bit of the hardcore stuff too. Good job Now!

We'll consider that, although may need to call on a 60s expert. We have a dance release coming next!

Btw, Niceland's song on the Spotify playlist is a different song called Misodzi to the one linked in the opening thread. Think it's this one: https://open.spotify.com/track/6C5Cjad1lSb1...260058dd2ec406c

Rontvian votes are IN! It's a mixed semi for me but the second half was strong, there are some great dance and foreign language entries this time.

<3 Love that line too. It's such a quotable song.

Really looking forward to this, the live version was so good.

I guess it will be an unmixed album, hopefully some interesting track choices on there. It makes me a bit sad in some ways that the compilation market is so dead that every themed release (Clubland/Disney/Eurovision) has to be released under Now branding and can't just be pushed in its own right. I wish the Clubland numbered series was still a thing, although it did lose its way quite a bit by the later volumes and became just another commercial dance hits and remixes of pop songs album really. The volumes from 2002-2006 were pretty much all fantastic, I made so many great discoveries on them.