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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)

Unless you make a specific agent, which to my understanding focuses its training data, then no, because there's so much other noise from every other site in existence. Humans could make a big BJSC prediction matrix from the 180+ contests data, sure. If you had a big database of the contest, Bré's spreadsheet is the closest to my mind here, then assigned some values to every participant based on all of their past votes to ascertain what kind of songs they are likely to vote for, and assigned some values to the songs in the contest, then run a simulation on those a few hundred times, you'd probably create something somewhat akin to a future contest's outcome, though there'd have to be some account for 'strength' of song which is hard to match up without seeing something like say, third-party outside reviews of the songs on blogs/review sites and for many entered songs there isn't enough good available data. But you could make something reasonable from that, though it'd take a lot of work and it's just a slightly computerised version of what we do every contest in this very thread, so why bother. But that'd be a lot more accurate than AI. AI isn't magic, it's just a lot of code and it's an autocomplete machine above anything else, it lacks human intent. To get something similar and even close to meaningful, to make an AI prediction like the above paragraph, you'd have to put pretty much as much work as the prediction matrix one could make with real skill, just to tell it to focus on what's been written here in the past. And it still would likely be worse at predicting the average contest.

If only it were that logical. Assuming you ask it to predict the results of this contest, it'll start by asserting that you want a prediction. It'll then consult its training data on how to structure a prediction, and see if anything associated with the data (the songs, even BJSC countries) appears in its training data to inform it. If this were a widely known competition, it'd probably find real predictions with the same data and present something kind of akin to widely predicted odds. Here, the Buzzjack & BJSC-related bits of data will be so small in comparison to the data about the songs that its predictions are nothing less than random. You can see this in how most of its predictions are describing the song, not forum posts about it, and more importantly, how they're all contradictory, baseless nonsense. It's just the average of prediction posts. It brings in very basic information that it can scrape from the web about the forum into the insights, but that's not impressive. anyway I'm with Bré

well that's a bit of a rollercoaster of emotions over just 2 posts! I'll take the non-AI one, everyone on board with my perfect pop song 😍

Agreed, this is a good bottom 3, though I'd possibly have them the other way around just because I despise the dead-eyed cast single covers (and its cousin, the large celebrity group charity single featuring everyone flatly singing a different line) the worst of all. Putting that sort of stuff on the airwaves is insidious and it is good that this sort of thing is no longer a cultural force. 'All Summer Long' is a somewhat interesting #1 in that we really don't often do country and it's odd how it made it over here, I suppose being an unholy amalgamation of more famous songs helped. No objections to it being last in part because of who he is though, it's also terrible. found this on Genius while writing this comment:

I have put the numbers into Excel but I think I'll wait until voting has closed before posting them publicly in case anyone else wants to add more data points. Real nice to see a good picture of the contenders though, I'm sure there will be parts of these results we are all collectively (or mostly) wrong on and it'll be super interesting looking at that after the fact. Nearly everyone has a top 10 or two they've predicted out of leftfield too so great bragging points available if one of those comes through.

I'm happy to give an alternative top 41: 1. Bøtanikkä :: LA NIÑA – FIGLIA D' 'A TEMPESTA 2. Hushkanukia :: Valencia Grace – Lucky You're A Star 3. Ajanaeda :: Florence Road – Storm Warnings 4. Sovarasma :: DAVID BORING – Jenny Rotten 5. Fljótavík :: Faouzia – DON'T EVER LEAVE ME 6. Baleghde :: BANKS – Contaminated 7. Neliönoir :: FAUST – Dies Irae 8. Scotland 2 :: underscores – Do It 9. Cheiron :: First Aid Kit – Out Of My Head 10. Hendinia :: Klavdia & ARCADE – Anemos 11. Kluminican Republic :: KAS:ST – Sound Of The Soul 12. Danæviia :: Maruja – Look Down On Us 13. Jadakissnia – TRAITRS – The Lovely Wounded 14. Zanmatony – Hot Chip – Devotion 15. Aeroche :: KING BOOO! – Tunes Since ’89 16. Greenfroze :: ZETAK – ARALARKO DAMA 17. Terra Avium – yeule – Veil Of Darkness 18. Deandria :: Merina Gris – Mejor 19. Elëdan :: Ö – Garden Extra wet 20. Dobago – Jamie Duffy – Solas 21. Trifoski – LustSickPuppy – RIDE IT 22. Yehesi – Suzane – Champagne 23. Cumulonimbia – umiña – spiral 24. Séyetana – Myuk – yukiuta 25. Ben’s Sanctuary – Kai Tracid – 4 Just 1 Day 26. Juranabaijan – Angie – Poco Poco 27. POPHub – Le Manou – Fille À Papa 28. Dalisska – Storefront Church – The High Room 29. Taahino – mi.a – Ophelia 30. Pestolia – frutiger dillon – Windows98 31. Jupiterdonia – Ancient Umbra – Iron Will 32. Thelonia – LÖNA – I Never Wanna Be In Love 33. Mothertopia :: Kelly Lee Owens – Higher 34. Skall – Octo Octa – Spin Girl, Let's Activate! 35. Zephyra Continuum – Electrotête – I Love You (Cubic 22 Remix) 36. Summericia – Denis Dekay – Don't Leave 37. The Spodic Empire – Wubble-U – Petal (English Rose Pruned) 38. Lotunia – Army Of Lovers – Love Is Blue 39. Land of DW – Csaknekedkislány – Minden Mozog 40. Herbilore – Mia Wray – Only Love 41. Cor Lupus – Kyra Machida – Blonde

Agreed, and in contrast the campaign against student loan repayments is finally getting itself together, both more disorganised in that there hasn't been up to now consistent opposition to the unfair terms nearly every graduate in the country since 2012 has been subjected to, and in regards to them being in the right with being against a graduate tax that the rich had the opportunity to opt out of.

Starmer's visit to China has borne fruit, visa-free travel for UK citizens! I am actually really excited about this, I wasn't expecting anything near this good to come out of the trip and it positively affects me, I'm thinking about holidays to the Far East in the future and this'll be great to do say a week in China and a week in Japan or something of the sort. Not sure when it gets implemented but still, excellent job on the foreign policy.

Been reading about Gorton/Denton, you have people really convinced it'll be a real battle, I'm not so sure. Even Denton, the white, working-class area of the seat, doesn't have a history of voting much for Reform or antecedent parties, they didn't stand a candidate here at the last locals. Certainly Greens and WPB going full throttle to dislodge Labour could see Reform come through without a split vote, but if Runcorn was only narrowly lost, this might be an easier Labour hold? Of course if they do lose it to Reform it's an apocalyptic sign, which might make them fight harder.

Matt Goodwin is the Reform candidate. I have never wanted a person or politician to lose more.

yes, but also closing with peak

Nooo, I think Ennea was my favourite semi 1 entry from the listen I had earlier in the week, thought that'd be easily in :( Great first entry from you Nine!