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I took this from it too. Indeed, I have New Music Friday on shuffle today so wasn't aware it was the new Madonna single until the vocal started. The intro gives me Clubland 7 vibes, or like Shapeshifters had decided to unearth a lost house gem they made in 2005. It fits that kind of era perfectly sonically, so it's very me <3 The vocal production is the weak link unfortunately, it sounds a little buried in the mix at parts. But still, I'm enjoying it. The first three songs are more up my street than anything Madonna has done in a long time. Sure it's not going to come close to Confessions on a Dancefloor based on these songs, but feels like a step in the right direction and I like that it's dance music inspired by the 90s and 00s that doesn't directly try to copy the dance sounds of the original album.

Agreed, not overly enthused by this. I've never been wild on the Roxette song it takes the chorus from, which doesn't help.

Another song that reminds me of my time living in Wales, I moved there in September and this song was already everywhere, and then got to No.1 a few weeks later. Probably my least favourite Tinie release of 2010, but still decent and anthemic. It sounds pretty dated to me now though in a way that his others from 2010 don't and still feel fresh. It didn't take Blue long to completely rip it off for their 2011 Eurovision entry I Can, which has almost the same chords and production. I'm very fond of Once, and that Diana album, it was a lovely song to get to No.1, of the type that would probably get to No.101 these days. Ah the combination of the held back era and X Factor at its peak. Her voice is a really acquired taste but I was backing her on X Factor in her year.

I don't think there's a lot of evidence on Buzzjack that running order makes much of a difference, although I sent a Turkish rock track to BJSC last summer that came 2nd in the final, which was a notable improvement on its semi-final placing of 6th (so it was projected to finish outside the top ten in the final), where it had closed the show. I didn't think it worked as a closing track particularly, some songs work better halfway through where they have breathing space to make their presence felt in the general mix and add more to the ebbs and flows. But then the most recent BJSC had the semi-final winner as the final song in the running order, Go by Public Service Broadcasting, which absolutely did work in that position as it has such a triumphant feel to it. So really it depends on the song, other songs around it, the people voting, and various other factors.

Skyfall. I actually like them all although Billie is weirdly the one I'm least likely to listen to.

Thriller, and only because it doesn't belong to the 00s for me. I do really like the other three songs and would find it hard to vote any out at this stage when they all bring back different 00s memories.

Will switch to Kaisers then as Supermode looks safe, and not overmad on Never Miss A Beat either. Love Story (vs Finally) </3

Can I just send poor robbed Bul Bul Bul by Kit Sebastian again? It deserved more I fear.

Interesting, I missed the earlier post made about this - thank you. I think this explains that, it's rightfully been disowned: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57984070

Welcome New Helvetica from FSR Rontvia! We hope you do so well in Worldvision that you can be tempted into some of the other contests or spin-offs.

Must dust my Turkish rock playlist off once more then.

27 please

Dua’s live album climbing during the week? Unusual for a physical driven release? Makes me wonder if streams have been added to it from studio tracks. I am still yet to find a link to purchase it before this coming Friday.

Beautiful Corrs was a great sketch too. I loved the niche instrumental tracks from Forgiven, Not Forgotten always playing in the background. And the fact that The Corrs sent themselves up in the final part of this sketch. Loved CD:UK, I wouldn't go out on Saturdays with my friends until after 12.30 so I could watch SM:TV and then CD:UK and hear the Saturday chart.

The studio is far better from Marta Roure, the live version is off I agree and the sound levels are all over the place, I hadn't recalled it sounded this poor. Maybe that was an issue with the 2004 contest as a whole, I'll have to compare to other performances. I don't really care for Sense Tu, I did like Casanova at the time but it's super basic and sounded dated by 2008. I think 2007 had a touch of Blink-182 with the lower register vocal in the chorus that reminded me of Mark Hoppus. It rode the mid 00s emo trend well and it probably did deserve a slot in the final. Taking only 10 songs through in a semi of 28 was grossly unfair, especially when you hear some of 2007's autoqualifers (2006 was even worse for that, the first third of the final was almost wholly awful).

I missed that, must have been too excited about seeing that the song won!

Just realised that Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken is a response record to this from 1984, I did wonder upon hearing it so looked it up.

Agreed, it was nice to have the breathing space to have 15 to vote for. Certainly my 5 and 4 pointers I'd have been disappointed to have no space for. Interesting result for Basement Jaxx on that system. I guess that's why I thought it could have been a contender, because it's a fun song that's hard to dislike and clearly accordingly had a large spread of voters across different voting bases. However, what I didn't anticipate is that nobody would rank it as a top favourite. Indie-pop, electronic and alt seems to be the lane to do well here? I'm not sure we've had a pure pop winner yet in seven editions. Black Box Recorder is basically a pop song, but by an indie band, Dido and Agnes the others closest to it.

Omg I won a tie for once for an important position! Delighted to scrape into the top ten with The Cardigans, it was such a crazy strong contest, many thanks to all the voters. Congrats Rollo, my favourite discovery from Bop Idol so far, just an absolutely glorious track. Glad you didn’t foot shoot in the end there. Well done Jim and Dobbo too on podium finishes and commiserations to Wardy who was almost there. Thanks Julian for the great theme and amazing hosting!

Leaving the top ten on the final votes after being there all night, classic 😂

Rooting for Camera Obscura, I in no way thought my favourite would be contending for the win this time as the competition was so strong.

Regina Spektor's lack of a major commercial hit is one of life's great mysteries to me. Fidelity at the very least should have been a huge hit and there's no reason it couldn't have been when the likes of Feist and Sara Bareilles went top ten. And Samson is maybe one of the most affecting ballads of the 00s? Maybe she was too pop for alt tastes and too alt for pop tastes. Lyrically her albums are amazing, she has such a standout voice and a great ear for melody, so the failure to connect doesn't make sense to me.

Agree, it's extremey difficult to score zero. In BJSC it happened twice in 20 years in the semis, and never in a final. In a forum with such diverse tastes, somebody is always likely to enjoy a song enough to have it in their top 10/15.

Surely you'd need to find the most boring song to score the fewest points. So it could end up being quite a dull listen if everyone was doing that. I've never purposefully tried to come last in any contest, but if I did I'd probably look for a dull b-side by some D-tier 90s boyband or something, rather than something actually 'bad', because something that sparks any kind of emotion in someone will often score points.

T-Rex - 20th Cenutry Boy was the intended pun there!