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Love this one! Some more: 20th Century Joy Now That's What I Call Retro ... BuzzJack One More Time Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and Friends

Petition to change it to this.

Seeing as it's nowhere near the best song contest on this forum, 'Retro Forum Song Contest' definitely works better for me! Bop Idol is quickly racing up there to become a contender for best contest for me. My top few discoveries in this Bop Idol edition are better than my favourite discoveries in the last few BJSC editions.

Only a 14-month contract! And no salary posted either. In my experience, 'executive' is often code for 'low paid'.

Oops, not Wolfgang Lohr derailing the whole genre, I remember I sent an electro swing song remixed by him to BJSC that did pretty well, We Are What We Are by Bart & Baker. I love We No Speak Americano, it was quite a breath of fresh air that summer. Quite a lot of good dance and good vibes that summer, and the Inbetweeners dance was very memorable too.

I was on there too, and Regina was on my shortlist to send. But I've always had in mind to send this specific song by The Cardigans to something or other and it felt a perfect fit. Aside, ahem from the fact, that it very much is not a 'bop'. But then a few other songs in the lineup aren't either.

I went down a rabbit hole checking streams of recent winners and Addy tbf also had one of the lowest with Margaret Berger's Karma Is A (118k streams). The biggest seemed to be Oblivion by M83 (85m streams), which I think was an anniversary (e.g. add 100m streams if you like) entry! Snow Strippers' Under Your Spell has interestingly gone mega viral since it won, and is now over 300m streams (was nothing of the sort when sent).

Wow, 37m streams! Just noticed To France is on 43m too (accrued over a much longer period lol) but feels unusual to have a top two so popular on Spotify.

Yes, although I did download it on iTunes at the time funnily enough, so I expect it was just outside my votes in BJSC 9, when remember we could only vote for 10 songs. And here it was indeed 10th in my vote ha, so a marginal improvement I expect, but I recall the song well.

Yeah it was more or less one great single and some other songs. But this one has some lovely ballads similar to the quality of her debut. -- I can't find a link to that Dua live album being out this week, everywhere I look says 5th June. I'd like to buy it! myself

Revealed! I'm so chuffed with how The Cardigans have done. I couldn't believe this song didn't even make the top 75 at the time, it definitely had a UK release as I have the single. One of their late era beautiful singles, the ending crescendo I've always found so beautiful with the strings, and the lyrical subject is interesting too. Hat tip to whoever sent Camera Obscura (presuming Julian/Jim?). This is the best song I've heard so far through Bop Idol, and I'm just sad I didn't hear it in 2006, would have fit right into my indie-pop love affair that year.

Nice to see the Keisha White song doing so well, the backing track is very late 90s Des'ree to me (not a bad thing).

The Pipettes <3 If there's any album from 2006 I still have on repeat regularly from start to finish, then it's that (and Lily Allen's Alright Still). What an uplifting album, I need to try and get it on vinyl <3

Great choice Herbs! Regina was on my shortlist but I wouldn't have been able to choose between On The Radio and Better. Fidelity already did well in BJSC a long time ago, and Samson also has over 100m streams. Those four songs were basically the soundtrack to my spring term of second year of uni.

Wine Red was a bit of a throwback. I haven't thought about it in 20 years but my sister definitely used to listen to that in her emo days. Going to assume it was a Fueled By Ramen release.

Baddelta I think I rather exhausted my Delta quota in the Pop Factor. But always happy to see her anywhere, and I do love Flawed!

That's a great No.1, brilliant 90s dance song indeed. It's a shame so few of the 90s dance classics actually made it all the way to the top. I've never been quite as enthused by The Real Thing but it's nice that such an unlikely artist got to No.1 (and that this happened quite fairly regularly in the 90s). Going with this as my rank: Whigfield - Saturday Night East 17 - Stay Another Day Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy Take That - Everything Changes Wet Wet Wet - Love is All Around Doop - Doop Prince - The Most Beautiful Girl In the World Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing Pato Banton & Reggae Revolution - Baby Come Back D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better Mariah Carey - Without You Chaka Demus & Pliers, Jack Radics - Twist And Shout Stiltskin - Inside Take That - Sure Manchester United Football Squad - Come On You Reds It's only the top three I really love though, the record buying public got it wrong this year! The No.2s list deserved everything the No.1s list got. Thanks for doing this @DaTilt - a fun countdown with great reviews, and lots of remix suggestions for me to check!

Nothing too surprising in terms of who sent what here. Infernal makes sense for Addy. Loved that All Saints album, what a complete robbery of a chart peak it had.

I still listen to Jugarem a estimar-nos all the time, great pop imo, with a lovely bridge and middle eight melody. Anonymous were pretty robbed - not my cup of tea but clearly popular and nearly made it out of that ludicrous semi.

Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - Live from Mexico How is this here, I thought the physicals were out on Friday? I can't imagine it is doing this well on streaming, maybe physical copies have been sent out early. Freya's album is beautiful, that definitely deserves better, much better than the second album.

I really thought the Basement Jaxx song was a hit, can't believe it missed the top 40. Maybe there's a chance for it to have a Go style second wind in the future. I would also peg that as a potential winner, as seems to cover all voter bases. I would love to see my 18 do well, I'm just gutted I didn't hear it back in 2006 as feels like it would have been one of my songs of the year if I had. It shall be one of my songs of 2026 instead.

Love Forget You, a great track delivered with such an effortless and fun performance by CeeLo and he gets into character so well especially on the middle eight: "Uh, why? Uh, why? Uh, why, lady?". I heard a Bossa Nova cover of it in a restaurant a few weeks back which had a lady very sweetly singing the F*ck You version in a beach bar breezy style, which the restaurant must have not noticed and removed from the playlist. It was extremely jarring to hear lyrics like this song has sung in such a nonchalant kind of way. It only works with passion.

Supermode again.

Nasty Girl again.

I think someone else should maybe run Worldvision first in June as it makes sense to tie in with the World Cup, and do something in the main contest break. I’ll do BJSC Live as a separate thing in late summer once we’ve worked out a way to do a very quick scoreboard.