DANKENSTEIN

Condragulations Godele

poor Gary Old Man but Cars could do very well in the Gamu round…

not when Tom Grennan is still here

it would be the perfect opportunity for Calvin’s mentor to send a song from the Love Regenerator alias

I predict Zara Larsson, Sade and Gary Numan are most in danger tonight

CHRISTMAS RUSH KLAXON Tate McGee stopping Babydoll would be pleasing even if I’d have much preferred Ashe to get the momentum to do so instead

it would’ve been on the cusp of top 40 last week on SCR so it seems it hasn’t been reset yet but hopefully OCC will correct by Friday.

If Judges House part 1 is limited to songs in the Spotify Top 10, perhaps part 2 is limited to the Spotify Bottom 10

coincidental I did discover it on spotify through their algorithmic generated ‘radio’ for another song (forget which one) I use often to try and discover similar songs to what I’m currently enjoying

Here is how your finals are shaping up: Grand Final 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood Ariana Grande - Into You Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry Billie Eilish - Bad Guy Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss Christine And The Queens - Tilted / Christine Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - Symphony Dua Lipa - Be The One Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now Dua Lipa - New Rules Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow Lorde - Green Light Mabel - Don't Call Me Up Mark Ronson (feat. Miley Cyrus) - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart Rita Ora - Anywhere Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - I Feel It Coming Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - Starboy Zara Larsson - Lush Life Semi-Final One 1975 - Somebody Else A$AP Rocky (feat. Skepta) - Praise The Lord (Da Shine) Adele - When We Were Young Alan Walker (feat. Iselin) - Faded Ariana Grande - Breathin Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted Billie Eilish - When the Party's Over Blossoms - Charlemagne Bruno Mars - 24k Magic Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato) - Solo Clean Bandit (feat. Louisa Johnson) - Tears Ghost - Mary On A Cross Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel Jax Jones (feat. RAYE) - You Don't Know Me Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with Madison Beer - All Day and Night Kendrick Lamar - Humble. Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All The Stars Lil Nas X - Old Town Road Little Mix - Touch Meduza & Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart MGMT - Little Dark Age Paramore - Hard Times Post Malone - Better Now Post Malone - Circles Rihanna - Kiss It Better Sia - Cheap Thrills Steps - Scared of the Dark Tones and I - Dance Monkey Troye Sivan - My My My! ZAYN (feat. Sia) - Dusk Till Dawn Semi-Final Two Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman Au/Ra & CamelPhat - Panic Room Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho Avicii (feat. Rita Ora) - Lonely Together Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend Calvin Harris (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean) - Feels Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna) - This Is What You Came For Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man - Giant Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999 Childish Gambino - This Is America Clean Bandit (feat. Anne-Marie & Sean Paul) - Rockabye CNCO - Reggaetón Lento (Original / Little Mix Remix) Fifth Harmony (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Work from Home Harry Styles - Adore You Harry Styles - Sign of the Times Katy Perry - Never Really Over Kungs vs. Cookin On 3 Burners – This Girl Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved Little Mix (feat. Jason Derulo) - Secret Love Song Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) Miley Cyrus - Malibu Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes Rihanna - Love On The Brain Rita Ora - Let You Love Me Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses

2019 Results Les Flops 104 ** 24 Cate Le Bon - Daylight Matters 103 ** 27 Jai Paul - Str8 Outta Mumbai 102 ** 29 Joji - Sanctuary 101 ** 33 ecco2K - Peroxide 100 ** 34 Tove Lo (feat. ALMA) - Bad As The Boys 99 ** 34 Elle Fanning - Wildflowers 98 ** 39 Ashley O - On A Roll 97 ** 42 Marshmello (feat. A Day To Remember) - Rescue Me 96 ** 45 Ariana Grande & Social House - Boyfriend 95 ** 50 Yves V (feat. Afrojack & Icona Pop) - We Got That Cool 94 105 51 nelward - Ghost 93 ** 53 NSG & Tion Wayne - Options 92 ** 60 Drab Majesty - Ellipsis 91 ** 61 Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity 90 83 64 Burial - Claustro 89 ** 65 Blanck Mass - House vs. House 88 ** 65 Jonas Brothers - Cool 87 96 67 Coldplay - Champion Of The World 86 ** 67 Avril Lavigne - Tell Me It's Over 85 ** 68 Duncan Laurence - Arcade 84 ** 70 Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered 83 ** 71 Kehlani (feat. Ty Dolla Sign) - Nights Like This 82 ** 72 Richard Dawson - Jogging 81 ** 75 Alan Walker, Sabrina Carpenter & Farruko - On My Way 80 ** 78 Tyler, The Creator - New Magic Wand 79 ** 81 MIST & Fredo - So High 78 35 90 Lana Del Rey - F**k It I Love You 77 76 92 Blossoms - Your Girlfriend 76 72 94 Foals - The Runner 75 ** 95 Weyes Blood - Movies 74 87 96 Declan McKenna - British Bombs 73 54 97 Stormzy - Vossi Bop 72 79 98 Vampire Weekend - This Life 71 104 100 Zara Larsson - WOW 70 81 102 Joel Corry (feat. Hayley May) - Sorry 69 ** 102 Sigrid - Sucker Punch 68 37 107 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall 67 ** 107 Ariana Grande - Bad Idea 66 50 109 Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying 65 95 110 Post Malone - Wow 64 ** 112 Gerry Cinnamon - Canter 63 98 118 Agnes - I Trance 62 ** 119 Avril Lavigne - Head Above Water 61 ** 120 Ava Max - So Am I 60 29 126 FKA Twigs - Cellophane 59 58 126 Freya Ridings - Castles 58 ** 126 Mabel - Mad Love 57 30 128 Lana Del Rey - The Greatest 56 78 129 Avicii (feat. Chris Martin) - Heaven 55 ** 129 Lizzo - Truth Hurts 54 46 131 Bring Me The Horizon (feat. Grimes) - Nihilist Blues 53 52 139 Fontaines D.C. - Boys in the Better Land 52 74 142 Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly 51 57 142 Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter 50 14 144 Taylor Swift - Lover 49 ** 148 Zara Larsson - All The Time 48 33 149 Miley Cyrus - Slide Away 47 28 151 Lana Del Rey - Doin' Time 46 42 153 Harry Styles - Lights Up 45 85 156 BLACKPINK - Kill This Love 44 32 161 Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down 43 ** 161 Tame Impala - Borderline 42 25 163 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings 41 43 166 Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep? As ever let's start with the indie losses as the tide continues to turn away. Lana Del Rey loses all three of her auto qualifiers, 'F**k It I Love You' catapults 35-78, 'The Greatest' bombs 30-57 and 'Doin Time' slides 28-47. Fellow alt ladies FKA Twigs (29-60) and Caroline Polachek (25-42) also lose out alongside Vampire Weekend tanking 37-68. The pop girlies aren't entirely safe either though. Taylor Swift fatigue may be somewhat kicking in as former semi-finalist 'Lover' takes a dive 14-50 with 'You Need To Calm Down' a smaller descent 32-44. Though of course she has one song left in contention. Miley's new record-breaking album (albeit the unwanted record of biggest bomb from #1 in the US for a debuting album) doesn't help her much here with 'Slide Away' doing exactly that from the AQ zone (33-48) and 'Mother's Daughter' not far behind it (up 57-51). Two of 2026's biggest pop girlies Zara Larsson and Tame Impala both see renewed interest in their 2019 efforts entering in the top 50, 'All the Time' (#49) and 'Borderline' (#43). Blackpink gain quite a few new fans with 'Kill This Love' up 40 places to #45 with last year's near-misses from Harry Styles and Sam Smith still bobbing around. Auto-qualifiers 40 23 167 Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens - Gone 39 39 167 Jax Jones (feat. Ella Henderson) - This Is Real 38 47 174 Marshmello (feat. CHVRCHES) - Here With Me 37 ** 175 Keiino - Spirit In The Sky 36 40 180 Fisher - Losing It 35 66 180 Avicii (feat. Aloe Blacc) - SOS 34 38 181 Lauv & Troye Sivan – I’m So Tired… 33 61 184 Regard - Ride It 32 24 185 Lizzo - Juice 31 68 186 Haim - Now I'm In It 30 16 191 Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles 29 53 194 CamelPhat & Cristoph (feat. Jem Cooke) - Breathe 28 18 196 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights 27 22 199 Ariana Grande - 7 Rings 26 ** 203 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – Señorita 25 15 203 Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored 24 34 204 Ava Max - Torn 23 17 205 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual 22 67 213 Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys - Lose Control 21 21 214 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove Two new album releases from Charli don't assist 'Gone' which narrowly escapes an AQ exit at #40. Jax Jones keeps it real at a stable #39 and we have a handful of other dance tracks joining him. Marshmello ascends 47-38 with 'Here With Me'. Avicii's posthumous 'SOS' breaks 66-35 (yay but could we not have had 'Heaven' too). Regard rides on up 61-33 with his breakthrough hit. The final of CamelPhat's trio of UK hits 'Breathe' shoots 53-29. It's a particularly good year for Meduza whose 'Lose Control' takes a huge leap 67-22 and with their breakthrough yet to appear. Also pleasing to see Fisher continue to rise with 'Losing It' though it had narrowly AQed last year. The two biggest re-appearances this year are both safe for the next contest. Firstly it's the Eurovision fan favourite of the year from Norway's Keiino at #37. The huge #1 hit duet 'Señorita' joins it at #26. Haim take the sole indie gainer slot here with 'Now I'm In It' up 68-31. Alongside the loss of 'Lover' from the semis four other entries make their departure from the top 20. Sam Fender loses support despite (or perhaps because of) his unprecedented chart domination this year with 'Hypersonic Missiles' down 16-30. Likewise the chart revival for Dominic Fike cannot assist his breakthrough '3 Nights', down 18-28. Ariana's 'Break Up' departs 15-25 to join her other #1 '7 Rings' at #27. Tiësto and friends go against the tide of dance hits gaining sliding 17-23. Finally it's another near-miss for AJ Tracey who stabilises at #21 one point away from the semis. Semi-finalists 20 60 215 Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man - Giant 19 41 219 Meduza & Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart 18 27 233 Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me 17 31 237 Tones and I - Dance Monkey 16 20 238 Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved 15 19 262 Ghost - Mary On A Cross 14 11 264 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend 13 13 274 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road 12 10 294 Harry Styles - Adore You 11 03 294 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted 10 06 307 Katy Perry - Never Really Over 09 04 315 Post Malone - Circles 08 05 321 Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho 07 26 339 Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with Madison Beer - All Day and Night 06 12 350 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well We start with the two biggest nominations of the year and both are amongst the year's biggest dance hits. Calvin Harris' 'Giant' explodes 60-20 and a place above we have Meduza who reverse their misfortune from last year ascending 41-19 (both Meduza songs were in similar positions two years prior to where they return to now). Tones And I also makes a grand return to the semis with 'Dance Monkey' up 31-17 with one of Selena's biggest hits 'Lose You To Love Me' also joining from 27-18. Rising from the bottom end of last year's top 20 we have the massive Lewis Capaldi hit 'Someone You Loved' up 20-16 and a rare rock hit from Ghost 'Mary On A Cross' up 19-15. The dance explosion continues in the top 10 with Jax Jones' 'All Day and Night' getting a huge 26-7 boost and Sigala's 'Wish You Well' also rising 12-6 so a rather good set of results here. A bit of shakeup in the top section means we lose three songs as direct finalists. Billie Eilish departs the top 10 altogether with 'Everything I Wanted' as the favour shifts towards 'Bad Guy'. Also having to fight for a final placement are Post Malone with 'Circles' down 4-9 and Ava Max's breakthrough 'Sweet But Psycho' down 5-8. So what has replaced them? Finalists 05 07 357 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love 04 02 371 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer 03 09 378 Mabel - Don't Call Me Up 02 08 386 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy 01 01 502 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now A good handful of replacements here, and we do have one DJ-led song here in the Kygo rendition of 'Higher Love' rising 7-5. Taking six place climbs each Mabel has a revival for 'Don't Call Me Up' in third place and Billie Eilish gets the silver medal with 'Bad Guy' swapping over from 'Everything'. At least one Taylor Swift song remains popular as ever in 'Cruel Summer' taking 4th spot. There is once again zero contest for the year's winner for a second year running as Dua Lipa clears the competition by over 100 points for 'Don't Start Now', albeit slightly down on last year's 159 points margin we can never rule this out of being her second song to win the Record of the Decade title.

VOTING CLOSED

+5 Ashe - Stop The Wedding +4 Sienna Spiro - Great Expectation +3 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure +2 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In +1 Sombr - My Body Isn’t Ready -1 Ella Langley - Choosin’ Texas -2 Adela - Nicole Kidman -3 Jamie Miller - Babydoll -4 Taylor Swift - Patient Zero -5 Stella Lefty - Boston

Music Week confirmed that it had a sales decline but evidentially it was less than the market decline

oh boo at the market decline rule giving Adéla another three weeks for free

Nominations: Jax Jones & Martin Solveig presents Europa (with RAYE) - Tequila Rain Radio & DJ Craig Gorman - Talk About Shouse - Love Tonight (Original / David Guetta Remix) Suggestions: Acraze (feat. Cherish) - Do It To It ATB, Topic & A7S - Your Love (9PM) Burns - Talamanca Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth to a Flame Tiësto - The Business

Anymore votes? Closes this evening!

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) Paul Hardcastle - 19 The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down! Duran Duran - A View To A Kill Propaganda - Duel

DANBETPestolia | Perfume Genius ‘Natural High’ Bøtanikkä | Temples ‘Vendetta’ East Rukahavian | Sarah Kinsley ‘Truth Of Pursuit’ N DNTN | IVE ‘BANG BANG’ Séyetana | Junior Mesa ‘the cops are coming’ FARC | Indra ‘Jokes On Me’ Bronzil | The Drums & Mareux ‘It Didn’t Matter’ Neliönoir | Antony Szmierek ‘Flight Simulator (feat. Imogen and the Knife)’ Danæviia | The Algorithm ‘Graceful Degradation’ Ajanaeda | FKA twigs ‘Lights On’ Mothertopia | MISSU ‘OUTTASIGHT’ Ennea | Kalandra ‘Let Me Be Open’ Altyr Muunilinst | LEXXE ‘The Box’ Lookylion | Frankie Rose ‘Manifest’ Flynnonda | Ellie Goulding ‘Animal’ Ojnoj | Tara Macri ‘Grace’ Herbilore | Levante ‘SONO BLU’ POPHub | Cockhouse & NATHALIA ‘Doink’ Freidland | Sofia Camara ‘Hallucinating’ Deandria | Thoom ‘I’m Going Back To Lebanon’ Cor Lupus | Earth Tongue ‘Dimly Lit Cadaver’ The Spodic Empire | Squarepusher ‘Welcome To Europe’ Lotunia | ENHYPEN ‘Brought The Heat Back’ FSR Rontvia | Modern English ‘I Melt With You’ Thelonia | My First Time ‘Every Version Of You’ Persephonia | manifest ‘Snap’ Terra Avium | Adult DVD ‘Rolling Face’ Greenfroze | SKYND ‘Johnny Kitagawa’ Elëdan | Photay ‘Bombogenesis’ New Helvetica | Grouper ‘Alien Observer’ Land of DW | Jippu ‘GAY’ Daehun | KiiiKiii ‘Pop Off Pop Off’ Skall | O’Flynn ‘Kelsier’ Jupiterdonia | Arlissa ‘Memory Of You’ Sovarasma | Wednesday ‘Fine’ Juranabaijan | Elliot Minor ‘Parallel Worlds’ Scotland 2 | 300SkullsAndCounting & Jenny Sparks ‘The Ballad Of St Nick’s Park’ Dobago | Augalas ‘All You Do Is Talk About Me’ Taahino | Anyma & Adam Sellouk ‘Girls MIA (feat. Carly Gibert)’ Yehesi | UNIS ‘Sky Land, Star Land’ Pagasa | Bleary Eyed ‘Heaven Year’

Prepare to be disappointed then, it's basically a Prospa song.

Fontaines DC #8 Six Shot Morning #9 Marianne #10 Mimesis #11 Demolition #14 Happy For You #15 Japan #17 Where Is Gone? #19 Tongue #21 One Man #23 You Miss Me #31 Intimate -- #91 I Love You #129 Starburster #192 Roman Holiday Zach Bryan #12 Lies #27 Lodi When #39 Robot Killed The Working Man #56 Dog Days #58 You'll Get By #64 Backwards #72 Plainsman #87 Is The Blue Tangled In You? Other new entries #1 Tate McGee [441,935] #5 O-Rod & Chappell [369,685] {591,016 combined} #20 Kettama & Prospa #49 Justice & Friends

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again New Order - Regret Sade - Kiss of Life Texas - Summer Son Fontaines D.C. - Favourite Bananarama - I Want You Back

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Adele - Skyfall Zara Larsson & MNEK - Never Forget You MARINA - Oh No!

Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith - La La La Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Down in the Park Sam Fender - Will We Talk? Darin - En apa som liknar dig Tom Grennan - Little Bit of Love

30 Avicii (feat. Chris Martin) - Heaven 29 CamelPhat & Cristoph (feat. Jem Cooke) - Breathe 28 Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man - Giant 27 Fisher - Losing It 26 Tones and I - Dance Monkey 25 Meduza & Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart 24 Jax Jones (feat. Ella Henderson) - This Is Real 23 Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys - Lose Control 22 Ghost - Mary On A Cross 21 Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with Madison Beer - All Day and Night 20 Avicii (feat. Aloe Blacc) - SOS 19 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well 18 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now 17 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love 16 Regard - Ride It 15 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual 14 Yves V (feat. Afrojack & Icona Pop) - We Got That Cool 13 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove 12 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings 11 Katy Perry - Never Really Over 10 Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens - Gone 9 Stormzy - Vossi Bop 8 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted 7 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights 6 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend 5 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy 4 Mabel - Don't Call Me Up 3 Freya Ridings - Castles 2 Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me 1 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall