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BJSC (9) Sara Bareilles - Love Song Uh Hu Her - Not A Love Song Beautiful Small Machines - Robots In Love Sheelah - Psycho Sheelah - The Last Time Chart Music - All My Life Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing RAM - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) Sadu - Luukered BJSC Spin-offs (1) PHELLY - Elefanter (Éléphants) Club Bizarre (2) Anjo - Tears In The Rain Brutalismus 3000 - Romantika Bop Idol (1) Black Box Recorder - These Are The Things Pop Forum Song Contest (1) Camp Claude - Swimming Lessons -- I think this is all of them. Not managed to win Unknown Pleasures, Nuggets or the Retro Contest but have come second twice in the former, including a close shave earlier this year. It took me a very long time to finally win a BJSC spin-off, that was last year which happened along with PFSC, Bop Idol and a BJSC win but it has been dry since then. I think my proudest wins are RAMelia (an epic), Luukered (after such a long drought in BJSC of 12 years and the first Estonian language entry) and that Anjo song, which was a dusted off old favourite from a free Daily Star newspaper CD from 2002 and not available to stream etc. It's quite satisfying to win with a song you are 100% sure nobody else will ever have heard before. This may also have been the case with PHELLY, Camp Claude and maybe Beautiful Small Machines and Uh Hu Her too I guess.

Flo Rida again.

I used to. My ‘new’ single came out this week! But I made it with the help of Dance eJay in the early 00s so can’t help with modern production. I’ve tried GarageBand but not spent enough hours of practice to get very far beyond basic beats and keyboard input. One day I’d like I make some more new music but GarageBand I would suggest is a good start.

Oh I really love DJ Take Me Away, completely robbed. Agreed the production was a bold choice for the time and clearly too bold. Tears Getting Sober is my favourite that has already gone otherwise my three overall favourites are still left. A kind of poppier Billie Eilish adjacent number that I was intrigued to see in the contest, which then never happened. I didn’t care much for the 2021 sequel unfortunately.

The vocal production could do with a remaster, they are too buried in the mix. But they actually sound nice on it, interesting country twang on it and I like the string elements.

Great sequencing work. Let's hope a lot of these turn up across the Final Chapter albums! In the meantime I'll enjoy this companion playlist, thanks.

The debut is honestly in my top 40 of all-time. The singles, Wild Horses, Silent Movie, If You're Gonna, the hidden track Sojourn, Stumble from the US re-release. I really loved it all. There was a definite strong album in N.B./Pocketful Of Sunshine too but the rollout and strategy was confused to say the least.

Passed. It soundtracked the tail end of my shopping, plus the entirety of a 15-mile car journey home yesterday, and I still had plenty of minutes left to spare when I got back!

Oh I have one for this that is maybe a slightly leftfield choice but that still fits the theme. Confirmed.

I Wanna Have Your Babies just killed the whole campaign from the off, one of those all-time terrible lead single choices. Soulmate almost pulled it back but didn't shift the album despite doing well itself. A bit of a damage control single in that it could have done better if it wasn't following that song but a lot of momentum was lost. I really liked that album, not as much as the debut but there was a good song called (No More) What If's which had a version with Eve and a version without iirc. Say It Again, co-written by Adam Levine, also had some hit potential and was catchy. And then the US album obviously had the brilliant Pocketful Of Sunshine (which is long overdue a moment here, I've been waiting for so long for it to get that) and some other good new songs. It all could have been so different.

I only bought one single that week, and it was Mariah Carey. One of my favourite songs of the year and from her, two remixes are great, the Stargate mix pushed in the UK and the Make It Last remix on the CD single which was basically a completely different song (like a J.Lo remix in that regard). The version performed on TOTP was for some reason the album version/US pushed mix, which has much more plodding production than the Stargate mix. I don't love or hate American Pie, it's fine, nice production but a pretty pointless cover for me, although my sister bought it that week along with Pure Shores (obviously a William Orbit fan at 9 years old) to listen to on the plane (when Gatwick had a mini HMV in the airport...) as we went to Tenerife this week, my first ever time on a plane (we had previously gone to France by ferry). I also bought a CD that day called The Best Pepsi Chart Album In The World...Ever! 2000 which featured a fair few from this chart. Bye Bye Bye, Won't Take It Lying Down (Naima lol) and Sitting Down Here all great pop songs, a brilliant week for the genre. Shalala Lala is also fun for me, very different to their other singles so I'm surprised it even did as well as it did, quite a schlager really, you could well imagine it playing in bars in the alps, with the accordian and video with the lederhosens. I shall refrain from commenting on the other debut in the top ten, I always disliked it anyway. Some more pop debuts outside the top 10 in Northern Line (so cheesy) and Madasun (this is strong and was in the end of year top 40 in Australia, where it peaked at No.6, deserved a little better here really). Also Everything by Dum Dums, a pre-Busted boyband with guitars a few years too early, all of their singles were strong and catchy and deserved more but the market wasn't ready for that sound yet. A nice garage song entered lower down too, Colour Girl's Can't Get Used To Losing You.

Many thanks Julian, here's hoping!

Dance the mushroom For the first time since summer 2013, we have failed to qualify three times in a row and poor lovely Esther broke Rontvian records by becoming our first ever last placer in the semis, finishing with only 12 points. In an attempt to avoid a record-breaking run of non qualification we have turned to Manchester band HENGE with an eccentric track called Mushroom One. From their 2018 debut album Attention Earth!, Mushroom One has wide-ranging genre classifications online (sci-fi rock, funk, synth, psychedlic, rave) and in truth it is all of those things and more. The band perform in character as alien ambassadors sent to save humanity, and the lead singer is some sort of cosmic cross between Sam Ryder and Wizzard, if they were stranded on another planet. The impressive partly animated music video produced in 2020, titled The Illustrated History of Mushroom One, features a mix of live-action and illustration, and a roll call of credits. It famously features dancing mushrooms, and the aim of the video is to act as a history lesson behind how the band came to be and its lore. While the song is eight years old and has only racked up just over 1 million streams on Spotify, a live version has gone viral on TikTok this week, with the eccentric performance (posted beneath the video) racking up 2.2m views and 216k likes on TikTok since it was posted a week ago. Ricardo Delta explains the entry choice: "We saw this on RontTok earlier in the week and were so immediately captivated by it that we knew we had to send it and share it with the BuzzJack World. It has been on repeat since at RTVN HQ. HENGE are an absolute riot and the song is such an indie groove with a wide range of influences from the last 60 years, which goes in places you don't always expect. So we won't spoil the surprise, but check this one out - in full!" Mushroom One has yet to debut in the Rontvian charts as it is such a fresh discovery, but is sure for a high debut when the next chart is published.

Keep your ai’s peeled

One of the songs in semi 1 has been AI generated just like that semis graphic… In other news Semi 2 is top quality and all created by humans, going to have a struggle voting in that!

Decided to get X and Aphrodite as I could only afford two currently. Not overly fussed on Kiss Me Once anyway but will try and get Light Years asap. So good to have X on vinyl! And always loved Aphrodite a lot.

I prefer Shania personally, although definitely not my preferred top two.

Close between Daniel Bedingfield and Craig David. Gone with Daniel as it was such a poor lead single, so was Craig's but at least had some meme quality to it.

It feels like they put far more effort into the Extra than the main release for '99, with all the wrong versions that had. This is well worth the money, almost all the correct edits and mixes that were hits at the time. Must admit, that is not the version of the Blondie song I remember, but looks like that was the lead mix on the cassette single? So many songs I haven't heard for such a long time and remember so fondly. And it's just wonderful to see the likes of Say It Again, In Our Lifetime and Back In My Life on a Now release and Friends Forever for the first time. The Charlotte/A*Teens sequence <3 I had to start with Disc 3 as these are some of my favourite ever songs, but I will go through the other two properly at the weekend. One change I would make is probably open Disc 1 with Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! or save it for a prominent place on Final Chapter, it was way bigger than any other song on here and feels marooned halfway through disc three but maybe they wanted to stick the three ABBA rip-offs all next to each other.

Doubt I would ever check Elevator again, I forgot it existed to start with.

Thanks so much, I would say it was the most/only commercial sounding one I ever made.

Poor Colm’s national final, two thirds of his intended entries sent or tried by others!! I don’t know if there is a good semi for my song but hoping there is a chance to Q this time! And yes, that was the 37 minute song I was expecting to see. On the crappy site formatting issues, I must confess I did use ChatGPT to save time on that when I hosted (I don’t use AI for creative stuff but to save time on automating admin stuff I sometimes do). Basically I just had the list of confirmations pasted in a word document, each entry across one line with the hyperlink at the end of each, and then used the prompt ‘add each hyperlink to the other text in the same line in a format that can be posted on BuzzJack.com’ or something like that, and that seemed to do the job.

Just managed to get mine in HMV, who were only stocking one copy… or at least only had one left. They did also appear to be playing it though as that PSB song was on in there.

Love those two, Bom Bom was one of my summer 2012 anthems. Delightfully wacky one-off British one-hit wonder, not something that happens a lot! Gangnam Style I was addicted to for quite a while, such a unique No.1 single too, and the iconic dance! Part Of Me is a pass for me, the other single from that project Wide Awake I loved, but not this, which was very Katy on autopilot. Good Feeling ditto, I'll just stick on Levels instead as others have mentioned. Call My Name is really good, great production on that and Cheryl sounds good on it too (apart from here, oops!).

I would say it is noticeable, but ok. I initially thought it was a small CD skip a couple of times. But it's for sure the only place it is available as a digital file on an official CD. Atmopshere by Russ Abbot has yet to ever appear on CD.