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Confirmed finally. Was hesitating between three potentials, so took the week to see which I actively listened to the most.

Voted as well before I forget, some nice discoveries in here!

Happy for Olivia Dean, it felt like she was slogging away for years getting not very far commercially (apart from that Amazon-assisted Christmas hit) and now suddenly she's finally breaking through in a big way. Good news for British music too after such a dry year last year, it does feel slightly more positive this year. Man I Need is definitely my favourite from her so far, I'd thought Golden would reign for quite a few weeks so it's good to see it have a challenger already potentially. The Subway really deserves such daily numbers too imo.

Not that I know of. BBC showed it as part of their Glastonbury coverage this year apparently if you saw any of that.

(Throws out my planned 10 minute instrumental idea). I think 55 is good for me, semis of 30-32 can get a bit brutal and also possibly make for cheaper entries from some countries as everybody is desperately in a fight for life for qualification. Whereas if there are only 5 or 6 DNQs they can probably take a more calculated risk.

Yes! Guest votes are welcome!

A listenthrough will hopefully be organised for early next week btw...details to come, but @awardinary has kindly offered to help me with that as I'm away for a bit, but will hope to make it to the session!

Yeah I must admit there are a few here that I would maybe have expected to see in BJSC as this theme leant itself to new releases quite well. That said, only about a third were released in the last few weeks, there are a good few recent past songs and a couple of oldies too.

A big thank you to all THIRTY of you that submitted entries for the 17th edition of PFSC! Are you ready for some huge pop choruses? I know I am. And so are these two, whose hits Call Me Maybe and Since U Been Gone were voted the two best pop choruses of the 21st Century by Billboard, beating out the likes of Mr Brightside and Hey Ya. Can we find any bigger choruses here, and would any of us even be able to cope if we managed to? Here are the songs for you to listen to in this edition: EARTH TO EMILY - GAGATRON Margaret - Cool Me Down Porter Robinson - Cheerleader Miriana Conte - Għajjejt (i8) Heidi Montag - Body Language Jessica Winter - Aftersun The Midnight - Change Your Heart or Die Uhl - Opera Disco Angelica - Scared (Of Falling) Fitz and The Tantrums - I Just Wanna Shine Louise - Get Into It Claire George - Pink Elephants Kep1er - Yum Milica Pavlovic feat. Albino - Seceru Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet Lexie Liu - FFFFF Dylan - Bad Katie Gavin - Aftertaste Chrissy Costanza - But, What If I Fly? P.Y.T. - We're Dancing Tommi Aura - Blush Toto - Endless Minami - Kawaki o Ameku [Crying For Rain] The Jezabels - Rosebud Kenzie Cait - someday, someone LALA HAYDEN - beast Valencia Grace - Super Elastic Walk Off The Earth - Rule The World G Flip - Disco Cowgirl Marina Kaye - Homeless Please PM me (gooddelta) with your 10 favourite songs using the Eurovision voting system. So as follows: 12 Points Your favourite song 10 Points 08 Points 07 Points 06 Points 05 Points 04 Points 03 Points 02 Points 01 Point Your 10th favourite song Please do not vote for yourself. As is usual with PFSC, the contest is anonymous so please do not hint at or reveal the identity of your entry to anyone, I will be revealing who sent what during the results show. Feel free to guess and speculate though who might be behind each song, because that is always fun. I will be accepting guest votes from anybody who didn't submit a song. For those that have an entry in the contest, a deduction will be applied for any late or non-voters, costing you up to 33% of your points, so do vote! The deadline is Friday 5th September at 23:59 BST and I intend to host the results on the evening of Saturday 6th September (with the hope that we don't clash with another contest's results or we will be having an afternoon reveal!) Spotify playlist: Votes received (member name will go bold when voted, and any guest voters will be added at the bottom): Addy AllStarBySmashMouth Ansel Awardinary Brer Calum Cameron Chez Wombat Cody Piastri CowTzy Dobbo Doctor Blind gooddelta Herbs J00prstar Jade jimwatts Jonjo Julian_ Leww Lindsey Mango Riser Roba Scene Travis uhsting Vibe WhoOddysey WoW73 (19/30)

Hopefully a short goodbye for Ronan and another of his beige plods.

The Saturdays, comfortably my least favourite single from them, the chorus is fairly unpleasant.

Britney again

Enfrente ❤️ Singapore is such a banger, I loved it in 2006 but haven’t heard it in so long as have mislaid my Sound Of Girls Aloud deluxe CD is in a box somewhere, the new version is great. The Subway is definitely one of my songs of the year, stunning.

And that’s confirmations closed, thanks everyone, 30 entries which is brilliant! Hope you all enjoy what we have on offer - should be up tomorrow evening hopefully, with about 11 days to vote.

Spotify playlist (I haven't cross checked the versions with the Youtube links so please shout if any edits/mixes need switching):

Yeah it's a great turnout <3 Just been listening to the entries and there is some great stuff. Not much here that I would consider a DNQ if it were in BJSC.

Yeah I just checked and it only peaked at No.8 in my personal chart too at the time and they pretty much always made No.1 or No.2! I liked it - don't get me wrong - but something didn't fully click. I think you're right - it wasn't a long hot summer, it was a meandering and depressing gloomy summer, and the song didn't fit what was happening! Maybe it was the right song at the wrong time? Also if you look at what else was charting then, it was up against a sad summer soundtrack of James Blunt, Daniel Powter, Mariah Carey etc, pop-rock from Kelly Clarkson and lots of indie stuff. Was the appetite there at the time for a song that - to me at the time - felt like b-tier Girls Aloud? Obviously it had a reappraisal on its own merits outside of the context of summer 2005, and it deserved that, but at the time it really didn't feel like it fit somehow, and I can't put my finger on why that is. Whereas Biology a few months later felt so fresh and like it had a real vision, and a great video in comparison. Pop really came back with force anyway that autumn so it was in good company - there was loads of great British pop stuff around from Sugababes, Liberty X, Simon Webbe, Friday Hill, Charlotte Church, Rachel Stevens etc!

I wasn't massively enamoured by Chemistry on the whole, although the Christmas bonus disc was a great treat that I have listened to a lot over the years. Biology (amazing)/Whole Lotta History (my favourite GA ballad)/Wild Horses and Models I still play a lot, See The Day I liked at the time but less so now and Long Hot Summer I have grown to enjoy a lot more over time after only quite liking it when it came out. Watch Me Go is also decent but there are a few I don't listen to, whereas Tangled Up has a lot fewer skips for me, I think that's their magnum opus for me personally, I love it and it brings back so many good memories. I agree with Jay that despite the high sales, the No.11 peak accompanied by a No.9 single at the time wasn't exactly positive news for them. I remember thinking they were in trouble too until Something Kinda Ooooh turned things around (I was so ecstatic and surprised when that had such a high debut on downloads alone). And Biology of course did a lot of legwork in getting critics on side, enabling a critical reappraisal of their worth just in time for the Sound Of a year later. So Chemistry definitely did play its part in their legacy but there were still a few fillers. Whose idea was it to leave Crazy Fool off the album? They are indeed a crazy fool because that was my third favourite song of the entire era.

Madonna, I don't really like the Avril track.

One final reminder for this before we close for entries in a shade over six hours. If you'd like to participate then please send me your entry asap, and then we will hope to get going tomorrow evening!

Liking it too, gives me Lungs vibes <3

Viva Forever 2 Become 1 Say You'll Be There Stop Goodbye Too Much Wannabe Spice Up Your Life Mama Who Do You Think You Are Holler Let Love Lead The Way Headlines Sorry Holler, I didn't like the post 90s-material much sadly. The top five are all-time favourite songs.

A shade under 28 hours to go, get any last minute entries in!

What happened to It's Tricky in the end, was it cancelled? I don't understand why on earth they would do that, it could have been massive. It didn't chart at all in 1998 outside of that import.

I know, alas I only just recalled this album title today!!