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Nik Kershaw - Gone to Pieces Conan Gray - Killing Me David Bowie - Young Americans Eric Saade - Every Minute Fred again.. - Berwyn (all that i got is you) The Weeknd - A Lesser Man Guitarricadelafuente & Troye Sivan - midsummer pipe dream Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan (Zedd Remix) Troye Sivan - Strawberries & Cigarettes George Michael - Freeek! Ruel - Not What’s Going On Markus Riva - Forever

Hell yeah go big or go home LiSA. What a banger. If that comes last too I will despair. I only know a couple of the others actually lol

I only managed to figure out the first one was something to do with trains or roads up the East Coast so how I didn't twig A1 from that I am annoyed.

I love those clues btw even if I have zero clue how this is actually playing out yet, I shouldn't have skipped season 1!!

Good luck! I know the pressure, as I did host while also having to go through a semi in 136, but fortunately I made it through in the end and that in itself is very relieving - you may well be scanning the semi votes and praying like I did x (the incident that Dobbo refers to is another time, I was barely a host for that contest in 78, just got handed the semi results on short notice, but I do like the accolade) I do quite enjoy that aesthetic actually, Japanese and retro is a good combination, I approve. I have had a few good options jump out at me, I am encouraged after a good result last time even if the cruelness of the Bré audit scuppered me out of a position. Maybe I'll win. Or more likely not, but time for something cool regardless (I have not chosen at all yet lol)

Bumper election day as Japan and Thailand both have national elections (and Portugal's 2nd president round too) Japan have reelected the LDP (shocker) because of Takaichi's personal popularity and ability to sell herself as an agent of change. Not good. Biggest reswing back towards the LDP in a long while, I fear many Japanese people expecting solutions and change from Takaichi will be disappointed but she has her mandate and is definitely cementing herself as a Thatcher, not a May. Sad. Looks close in Thailand where the progressives were blocked from taking power last time because of traditional institutions, which has led to some political instability in the interim.

Good riddance, a solid centre for much of the rot at the heart of the Labour Party. It might, might, quell this scandal now there's a significant scalp, but as much as I'd like to see the government's direction move away from the anti-Labour McSweeney-led direction he pioneered, there's too many who share his views right at the top. if the government manage to get the messaging right, they can pile a lot of Labour unpopularity at his feet now, but that's also optimistic tbh

Lindsay Vonn down on the course during her comeback, sad :/ Had fun watching the downhill so far, it's a great event, in part because of those insane speeds

Conan Gray - Actor David Bowie - Life on Mars? The Weeknd - Blinding Lights Nik Kershaw - The Riddle Shawn Mendes - Teach Me How to Love Luke Black - VOMIT Troye Sivan - Got Me Started George Michael - Faith Eric Saade - Made of Pop Ruel & DMA’S - What a Life Fred again.. & The Blessed Madonna - Marea (we’ve lost dancing) Guitarricadelafuente - BABIECA! Markus Riva - You Make Me So Crazy did not think I'd enjoy this lot as much as I did, good start for the male pop.

The Corrs - Breathless Blondie - Maria ABBA - As Good As New Erasure - Drama! Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ The 1975 - It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You) Florence + the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) HAIM - Forever Ace of Base - All That She Wants Girlicious - Like Me The Chicks - Goodbye Earl A1 - Same Old Brand New You Atomic Kitten - The Tide is High very high quality round here, all are decent - wonderful Corrs choice, Blondie is excellent, quite an inspired ABBA choice actually, the Erasure song was a great discovery as well.

LiSA - QUEEN (fave) ROSALÍA - MALAMENTE (Cap.1: Augurio) FKA twigs - ride the dragon Kesha - Praying Michelle Branch - Everywhere Cher Lloyd - Sirens Nadia Oh - Hot Like Wow Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! Nelly Furtado - I’m Like a Bird Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away Toni Braxton - You Mean the World to Me Lily Allen - URL Badman god LiSA songs always slap so hard and this is no exception, in fact may be one of the most energetic I can think of (Oath Sign and Ash maybe close, I need to do a deep dive of her albums one of these days so it's not just the basic bitch anime themes I stan). Glad to know she's still got it. Wasn't the most familiar with the FKA Twigs or Rosalia ones but they are also excellent. One of my favourite Kesha songs, the Michelle Branch song was a cool little pop-rock discovery, I was impressed by the Cher Lloyd and Nadia Oh choices (I knew Sirens but it's probably her best? now I think about it there's not much else I remember from her). Innocent Eyes and Good Luck Babe are fine songs in the middle, I'm Like A Bird and Walk Away are not my favourite songs from those artists at all but I know there's much better out there, I wasn't a big fan of the Toni Braxton track and uh, I enjoy Lily Allen normally. That's my least favourite Lily Allen song lol but good list on the whole

I checked to see if discovery+ did the same thing as last Olympics where they had everything for a month's sub of £3.99 and got that, I'll surely spend a bit of time looking at obscure winter sports over the next week x opening ceremony yay

Is that from Sky News? Searching that phrase verbatim leads me only to Facebook pages of dubious provenance (anti-Labour "patriotic" Reform weirdos). I see nothing credible supporting it. Currently reputable news sites are still focusing on the police investigation into Mandelson and what the PM will release about them, though they're certainly giving off the impression of getting rather giddy being able to talk about potential successors.

oh and yeah, how did I get 12th with 200 points; I am so so happy to achieve that with a J-Pop song, that's an incredible result. Instantly better than all of my results last year for one thing and I've gotten so into my entry over the contest, a song I just keep wanting to replay so thank you to all the voters again, great little surprise hit to start the year off with. Greenfroze and Nelionoir ended up far too low but Sovarasma and Botanikka in the top 5 is a great little antidote to that. Thank you for the hosting Dan as well; very pleased that Maruja ended up in the top 20 after it was looking unexpectedly dicey for them earlier.

Congrats Scene, great to see you winning with a very good song - one I was slightly familiar with but I do love First Aid Kit, I'll happily take them as a winner.

2 15s in the late half of the votes, I thought I might have been done - thank you Lex and Cow! 200 points is genuinely brilliant, it's been so long.

Very, uh, febrile mood in the Commons tonight over Mandelson. Starmer did not look comfortable at PMQs, journalists and MPs are briefing against him. Definitely needs a sacking (McSweeney) at the very least.

I am still doing a lot better than I had expected to, yay! thank you for all the votes especially the 18 from Freeze and the 15s from Miri and Jacob <3

Yeah, Ajanaeda look far too low at the moment. Quite a few surprises in that top half at the moment, even among most of the contenders we ended up predicting. Good stuff (go David Boring)

hang on mack, calum, nine, allstar, noche, rich, dandy, frank, this feels like the highest I've been in forever thank you! we're not holding that

Oh wow I was putting on a bit of bravado in preparation for a flop, I really didn't expect to be getting this many points from people and so many towards the top, thank you all so far that is actually brilliant!

Hoping to do well tonight, I think I've got a cracker of a pop song, thank you very much for starting it off Ajanaeda <3 also hoping for a winner I'm on board with, crossing fingers at least

I was aware of this last year but never really took part, even with some of my favourite artists getting bad results. This time I've been drawn in by LiSA taking part, she has some incredible songs in her catalogue and I hope she gets a chance to show them off - this seems like a decent one of hers on first listen (it's a relatively new one so I'm less familiar with it than some of her classics). Rosalía and FKA Twigs are also very interesting participants. Will give everything a good fair listen though before voting.

Unsurprised to see a topic for this here, this is a very rare song of its type to make me pay real attention; very fun pop and it sounds like something that will get at least a little bit of rotation (in gay clubs if literally nothing else)

I don't think Alexandra's Hallelujah is that awful. It probably ranks as the best X Factor winner's single (though I've always had a soft spot for Cannonball), but of course none of them are particularly great. In part that's because it's such a great complex song that it's covering. That said, it's a pretty boring and safe version of Hallelujah in comparison to the more well regarded versions, and the only thing of note about it in that list is that it's one of the most prominent female-sung versions. Which is nice sometimes, but attached to the sanding down that X Factor did of the song, definitely well down the list. (I also really like the Pentatonix one)