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I’ll be interested to see if Mum Does The Washing gets to the 10 18s I predicted, it could even exceed that. A song that striking, unique and hugely discussed, that has generated its own forum memes from the lyrics it’s so popular, doesn’t need any pop votes at all and can still win (and in fact it’s popping up in a lot of pop votes too anyway!).

The race for second is on! Thanks Colm 🎉

Sovarasma ❤️ Thanks Dalisska too!

A gold medal Thank you Freeze! And thanks also to Wow for the points.

Yeah. I put it top of the odds because I think the pop bloc would have had to gather behind something universally to stop the 18 shower for FLJ. And they so far are not showing signs of doing that.

Thanks Mack, looking like a bit of a flop so far oops. Nice top five currently!

Thanks Lentyll, Botanikka and Ajanaeda, nice to open with points from a few countries.

The ability to tag people made issuing reminders in 180 infinitely easier than the old system of PM'ing, however it was still a faff and took me a lot of time as I can't remember the ins and outs of everyone's username styling at that moment in time (and with 24 hours to go I still had about 35 odd people to find the exact usernames for, cross reference their countries, and tag). I do on this occasion feel bad if the reason some people missed out was due to the site outage and they therefore ran out of time or forgot to check back, but it was mostly ok yesterday at least.

Utterly ridiculous that he was ever booked in the first place. I can't understand how the organisers didn't see the government's decision coming. I've been to Wireless once, in 2017, and it was a good vibe and I saw some great artists that year (Travis Scott, Skepta, Sean Paul, pre-fame Dave) but I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole with Kanye there.

Thanks for putting this together Till, a comprehensive look at what was a very varied year to start the decade.

Finally got into this thread after being kept out of the forum every time I tried to sit down and look at it! I agree with the bottom three, and the order. I really disliked all of the X Factor ensemble No.1s, and The Climb was barely any better. And Barry Islands just wasn't funny to me at all. However, I did buy Never Leave You on single and still like that, more for the melody and Amelle's contribution than Tinchy's verses admittedly which I agree are a bit clunky, although I did buy the parent album of his that this came from too as liked all the singles from it. Strange of all the Sugababes members that she should get a 'solo' No.1, Mutya was completely robbed with Song 4 Mutya, which came nowhere near of course in the end.

I did have an artist in mind for next time however am happy to have a rule that we have to switch categories to make it fair for those that didn't get their first choice this time.

Rontvian votes are in! One song in particular jumped from a low score in the semi into my top three, I can't get it out of my head! Solid final I think, some great discoveries and I had a big bunch of commiserations.

Going for Have A Nice Day, which brings back some good memories of the time but the chorus is also slightly grating (nice verses though). Two of the other three topped my personal chart while I like the third one a lot too.

White Stripes but I like all six of these.

Compilations on occasion can still get songs that don't appear on streaming services. I was very surprised to see Now get it for the 1987 Yearbook at the time as it definitely wasn't available to stream at the time. Likewise, when they released Forgotten 90s in 2019 they managed to get a few songs that were not available at the time and were made available by that compilation but have since disappeared again, like I'll Be Back by Arnee and the Terminaters and Slam Jam by WWF Superstars (maybe they only had a limited license for them).

Voted! It is a strong round, and nice contrast to the ballad round as many songs were fun, uplifting or rousing in some way. Nice that there are still a few discoveries to be had at this stage too as I thought we'd be well into the territory of only UK hits by now.

Not a massive fan of Kerry but she did sparkle on the original Right Now as it was the right kind of fun uptempo song for her voice. One of the only Kerry versions I regularly go back to. Jenny did a nice job too though on it and I did like the 2004 remix, it was a bit more disco-y and dancy. It's weird they ended up re-releasing it at all as a single though, but then 2004-2008 Atomic Kitten was certainly an era, with Cradle in 2005, which was an album track from 2000 (given a new mix sure). Then in 2006 a cover of The Farm's All Together Now with a cartoon mascot for Germany's World Cup and then in 2008 a cover of CIlla Black's Anyone Who Had A Heart for a Liverpool project. I will start listening to the playlist now I've got back on the site!

Wow, brutal round, it looks like most artists are playing to survive each round now because many of these could have been good final/penultimate round songs.

Fair, just thinking aloud about the sheer volume of classics at Bowie’s disposal. Forgive my ignorance though as I don’t know a huge amount about Troye’s catalogue outside the big hits so will definitely check any you mention that you would have sent. One Of Your Girls is my favourite Troye song and I also adore Papercut with Zedd ❤️

Ooh wow ok super surprised at Jonjo not being Kelly but at the same time not funnily enough as I think he’d have showcased stuff from her most recent albums by now.

Bowie could go further than Troye I suspect as has so many solid gold classics.

Again shows how crucial song choice is from first to last in one week, but I feel for Haim’s mentor because ballads really wasn’t a theme they could excel in 😭

Finally, great news. I actually prefer it to Honey myself but it doesn't really touch Body Talk or Robyn. Still I enjoy it a lot though.

What on earth is this recent trend of 'alternate cover' all about. Will labels ever run out of finding new ways to fleece fans? I suppose the only surprise that it's taken so many years to come up with this ploy.