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First entry - BJSC 033 - Adam Tyler - I Won’t Let Go [26] First top 20 - BJSC 034 - Jenni Vartiainen- Nettiin [12] First top 10 - BJSC 035 - Florrie - I Took A Little Something [08] First top 5 - BJSC 045 - Florrie - To The End [05] First YTD top 10 - 2013 - BJSC 041 - 050 [10] First YTD top 5 - 2014 - BJSC 051 - 060 [05] First top 3 - BJSC 065 - Rae Morris - Cold (Feat. Fryars) [02] First win - BJSC 069 - Blonde - I Loved You (Feat. Melissa Steel) [01] First YTD top 3 - 2015 - BJSC 061 - 070 [02] Second win - BJSC 071 - ||||| - People (Feat. Adele Kosman) [01] Third win - BJSC 125 - Nova Miller - Mi Amor [01] First YTD win - 2020 - BJSC 121 - 130 [01] Fourth win - BJSC 132 - LOVA - Dance For The Hell Of It [01] Fifth win - BJSC 142 - Leony - Remedy [01] Sixth win/first back to back win - BJSC 143 - Nessa Barrett - dying on the inside [01]

Land of Make Believe by a country mile. Their best song, however, is Rules of The Game.

I’m happy with 13th, especially after 2 DNQ’s early in the year. Still my 3rd lowest finish ever, so there’s WORK TO DO in 2025.

Update after 170 Total Entries: 137 (118Q - 19DNQ - 86.2%) 01 - 6 - Blonde – I Loved You (Feat. Melissa Steel), LINES - People (Feat. Adele Kosman), Nova Miller - Mi Amor, LOVA - Dance For The Hell Of It, Leony - Remedy, Nessa Barrett - Dying on the Inside 02 - 3 - Rae Morris – Cold (Feat. Fryars), Willa – Hey, ALMA - Summer Really Hurt Us 03 - 4 - Koven - Get This Right, Kamferdrops - Jag Trodde Änglarna Fanns, Chlöe Howl - In The Middle (Sad Banger), Cornelia Jakobs - Rise 04 - 8 - The Storm – Raver, Galantis – You, Gareth Emery and Alastor - Hands (feat. London Thor), Gareth Emery and NASH - Yesterday (feat. Linney), Twinnie – Type of Girl, LÉON - And It Breaks My Heart, Bianca & Clara - Mad Man, LEXXE - Disco Witch 05 - 6 - Florrie - To The End, Arlissa - You're Not Alone, Atella and Frøder - Closer To Life, GRANT - Hell Yes, I'm Betting On You, The Brides of the Black Room - Sirens, Angele - Bruxelle Je T'aime 06 - 10 - Charlotte Qvale - The Beginning Of The End, Quadron - Hey Love, Kat Graham – Power, Jerome Price - Me Minus You, Kamferdrops - f*** You, Jag Älskar Dig, Anna Bergendahl - Thelma & Louise, Majid Jordan - Summer Rain, Parade of Planets - Avec Toi, Maude Latour - Cursed Romantics, Metteson - Waves 07 - 4 - Porter Robinson - Sea Of Voices, Sam Feldt - Show Me Love (feat. Kimberly Anne), The Knocks - Classic (feat. POWERS), CXLOE - Show You 08 - 5 - Florrie - I Took A Little Something, Laleh – Colors, Rhys - Too Good To Be True, Alba August - Isabelle, Mia Wray - The Way She Moves 09 - 1 - Essy - All In It 10 - 3 - Voltaire Twins – Animalia, NONONO – Masterpiece, W O L F C L U B - Freefall (Feat. Jaki Nelson) 11 - 5 - Frida Hyvönen - Terribly Dark, Awa – Obvious, Kasper Bjørke - Apart (feat. Sísý Ey), Nathan Dawe - Repeat After Me (feat. Melissa Steel), Just Kiddin' - When You Say It 12 - 6 - Jenni Vartiainen – Nettiin, Miriam Bryant – Push Play, MARLENE - Bon Voyage, SHAED - Running Through The Fields, SAARA - I Do, Winona Oak - Let Me Know, 13 - 5 - Monarchy - We Were Young, Youngr - Out Of My System, Rose Gray - Save Your Tears, The Aces - Always Get This Way, Donna Missal - Flicker 14 - 3 - Alice Chater – Thief, Kideko - What Is It, Revenge Wife - Fantasy Girl 15 - 2 - Redlight - Threshold (feat. Melisa Whiskey), EHLE - Finders Keepers 16 - 1 - Betty Who - Heartbreak Dream 17 - 5 - Queen Of Hearts - Shoot The Bullet, Patrizia - Bag Of Bricks, Majestee Of Sweden – Governor, Austra – Anywayz, SKAAR - Get Him Away From Me 18 - 6 - Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing, Pair Of Arrows – Vestige, SOAK – Maybe, Miss Li - The Manual, BEKA - Don't Call Me A Friend, WARGASM - Modern Love 19 - 5 - Lovers Electric – Whenever, MDNGHT - I Will Lead You On (feat. Lana), Shamir - Call It Off, High Contrast and Clare Maguire - Who's Loving You Part One, Mari Bella - LOVE ME / HATE ME 20 - 2 - MARLENE - Indian Summer, Hannah Diamond - Make Believe 21 - 2 - Naomi Pilgrim - No Gun, Alan Walker - Lovesick (Feat. Sophie Simmons) 22 - 1 - San Zhi - Static Hearts 23 - 0 24 - 5 - Catey Shaw - Human Contact, Man Without Country - Laws Of Motion (feat. White Sea), OMFG - Ice Cream, NAVVY - Till You're Ready, Cassette - Over It 25 - 0 26 - 2 - Adam Tyler - I Won't Let You Go, Hayden James - Just Friends (feat. Boy Matthews) 27 - 4 - PNAU - The Truth, Le Kid - Human Behaviour, Ramin Djawadi - Light Of The Seven, Alice Merton - Runaway Girl 28 - 1 - Maoni - Love Song (feat. Raphaella) 29 - 1 - Boston Bun - Don't Wanna Dance 30 - 1 - Vök - Erase You, Frida Sundemo – Anything 31 - 3 - BEN & TAN - Hallelujah (Christmas On My Lips), La Rappresentante Di Lista - Ciao Ciao, Gavin Turek - IOU 32 - 2 - John De Sohn - Standing When It All Falls Down (feat. Roshi), Erika Vikman - Hapea 33 - 1 - KATÉA – Louder 34 - 1 - Nause - Head Over Heels 35 - 2 - You In Mind – Behave, Samira - Envy Me 36 - 2 - Simone – Neon, Dylan - Girl of Your Dreams 37 - 0 38 - 0 39 - 1 - TRXD - Wherever You Go (feat. Hilde) 40 - 0 41 - 0 42 - 0 Metteson ends up being my 50th top 10, in addition to being my highest point scorer of 2024 (245). LEXXE was my highest finisher, though only scored 244. Slight shame Cassette couldn't have got me a unique position of either 23 or 25 as well.

I can’t believe we’re here again. I’m not trying to catastrophise, but I genuinely fear for the future of humanity with Trump as president. The world is in a precarious enough position as it is, without a loose cannon at the helm of the most powerful nation on earth. All the more chilling is the not insignificant chance J D Vance becomes president before 2028 and enacts the full horror of Project 2025.

There was a twitter post a few days ago suggesting 8PM was the ''ideal'' call time, but I'll take 8.45...

I know it's early and I shouldn't; but Virginia is giving me 2016 flashbacks

What my head says - i just can’t see enough ticket splitters in NC for Trump to win, if polling is right and Robinson is down double digits What my heart says

Kamala winning is: A) an important reminder that fascism is not welcome and is not a path to election victory. B) an opportunity to start the process of moving beyond the horrendously divisive and dangerous rhetoric of the Trump decade C) a clear message that the US recognises that the situation in Palestine is wrong and Israel/Netanyahu are guilty of very serious crimes, BUT the solution is not Trumps approach of “let them do whatever they want as long as I’m not involved” or Jill Stein’s fantasy scenarios. I fully understand potential frustration with Biden/Democrats more generally - he/they haven’t handled the war as I would have liked, however it should be abundantly clear to anyone who hasn’t had their mind warped by right wing social media that what Trump is offering is orders of magnitude worse for both Palestine and global security.

Is Kamala funding the Trump campaign? That’s the only way any of this makes any sense.

I’ll do what I did for the General Election. Go to bed and get up around 3/4am. I think we’ll have a very strong idea by then of the direction of travel, even if an official call won’t come until much later in the day.

I think the best shot of them holding the senate is Florida, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell seems to be running Rick Scott close, however he has a nasty habit of winning tight races by ~1% which is probably the result again. Dan Osborn is probably a very outside chance, but given the relative weakness of the Trump vote in other deep red states like Kansas (based on polling), then who knows. The other one I’m watching is Missouri - Lucas Kunce v Josh Hawley. Alas I don’t think it’s that competitive but that slimy git losing would be a very nice outcome. Re. The House, it’s definitely going Democratic, they only need to flip a handful of seats and they’re leading in about 15 of their target list. It won’t be a thumping majority, but enough to effectively legislate unlike the current House, although the lack of legislating is as much by choice as by gift.

In other news, Ann Selzer has released her final poll of Iowa and Kamala is up 3. Of course that could be entirely wrong, but she has an excellent track record. It certainly tracks with several of the other pollsters who have chosen not to here to a tie (Ohio Trump +3 today too, for example) and aligns with my overall view of where the results will land - something between the 2 Obama victories.

I don’t think the Republican showing in early voting in Nevada is truly reflective of the outcome, for a number of reasons. Chief among them the majority of registered voters are now NPA. Yes they need to break decisively for Kamala for her to win, but all polling suggests they will.

He’s already planning for it - rallies in New York and California, states he won’t even come close to winning are designed to rouse as many people as possible in advance of next week. Every legal case they’ve brought in the last 3/6 months is also part of the plan. With the nakedly partisan Supreme Court in play, who knows what could happen. My hope is Kamala wins a convincing enough victory in enough states that it’s impossible to concoct any kind of realistic argument election interference “stole it”.