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1 Bananarama - Bad For Me · I grew up to Bananarama and Wow is one of my favourite albums of the 80s so there was never any doubt that this was gonna top my votes, thank you to whoever sent them!! 2 Years & Years - Ties · This is decent, even if Gold would have been my pick from Communion. 3 iamamiwhoami - shadowshow · Definitely the best of the three songs they've sent so far. 4 New Order - Love Vigilantes · Nice production again, very typical of their sound, but not quite up there with the quality of their hit singles that I'm more familiar with. 5 Texas - Like Lovers (Holding On) · Awww I wanted something from Red Book! I see this was the B-side to 'In Demand', so kudos to whoever sent it for actually going with a B-side rather than an album track. Not a bad track but unfortunately, I wanted to like it more than I did. 6 Depeche Mode - Photographic · They've always been a big singles band for me so I'm looking forward to their big hitters in the coming rounds. 7 Sade - Pearls · I've always loved her voice but this song kinda went nowhere. 8 Fontaines D.C. - Sundowner · Turns out I didn't like this quite as much as I remembered liking it, if that makes sense. Hoping my favourites from them are coming up though! 9 Ultravox - Accent on Youth · This was OK but not especially memorable. 10 M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun · Yeah I'm one of these people who just doesn't have the attention/patience span for a 10 minute song, though even in a shorter edit this wouldn't have done much for me, sorry!

Oh don't worry she knows

You're not wrong. I do love The Runner

Unlikely - there will be a different song battling Adéla for #1! Hi Seltin! It took ages but I've finally warmed to Sienna's song, let's see how high it can climb! Miley is gonna smash. Bored of Carly now. I think you'll get a nice surprise when you see Ashe's position next week Thanks! Sup Jordan! 1 - No this is her first entry. I hadn't even heard of her until a few weeks ago when I heard this song! 6 - It really is, isn't it? It sounds like a breath of fresh air compared to everything else in the chart! 14 - Awww, hopefully it's just a slow burner for you and you'll grow to like it more? 22 - Completely agree! 29 - Yeah it was pretty instant for me too, but I don't think anything Rosé does will ever come close to 'Toxic Till The End' for me, easily one of my songs of the decade 33 - Oh you'd be surprised because I'm really enjoying it at the moment, it has a good chance of doing very well here 34 - I agree, his uptempos are generally much better than his ballads!! Thanks

Their last three albums all hit #1 so I'd be surprised if this one didn't. I don't see much competition anyway - I don't know if there's more hype than usual for Kodaline given that it's their final album? Although even then I think they'll manage top ten at best.

This post is arguably amusing

I believe @Lee_J11 and @Spiceboy are handling that particular contest as I've heard they're the experts

Guessing this EP has gone the same way as his album then

Have sent some answers. Tbh I had no idea what to put for most of them, it was all very random!

P could also have been Peru (Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran) Other top 40 hits not mentioned: Barbados (Typically Tropical) Congo (Genesis) El Salvador (Athlete) Cuba (Gibson Brothers) Greece (DJ Khaled feat. Drake) Argentina (Jeremy Healy & Amos) America (Razorlight) - if you can count it Others which missed the top 40: Panama (Van Halen) Madagascar (Art of Trance) I had these all in a list for a quiz I once hosted, before anyone thinks I need to get out more

Yeah, I agree with this. The word "pop" may have originally been a shortened version of "popular" but its meaning has evolved over the years. Oasis are certainly popular but I don't think anybody would call them pop! On the other hand, HRVY makes pop music but he's arguably not very popular

Really? I had you down as Dido...

Has no one told them Halloween isn't until the end of the month?

How about the BJ Factor then? Oh wait, that sounds like something completely different

Yeah this is probably the hardest round to call!

The Sam Smith track appeared on Now 115 (not that that means it was an official single but possibly a promo single of some sort). The Sam Fender track was playlisted by Radio 1 which almost always means it was an official single, even though Wikipedia doesn't list it as one. So definitely just bending the rules rather than breaking them!

Nearly midday and they still haven't updated the website 🙄 so we don't know what the BBC Introducing or Future Artist is yet. I'm off out for lunch soon so hopefully they'll have updated it by the time I'm back!

Well according to Now 115, it was

Oh I didn't realise that - I'd only ever known of and played the one called New Music Friday, but a few weeks ago I noticed the UK/Ireland one for the first time so I thought it was something that was newly launched, but I guess Spotify just decided to push it on me then for some reason.

Radio X Playlist | as at 02/10/26 Beabadoobee - Sun Has Set [14] Blossoms - Meet Me In Love [15] Cage The Elephant - Beaches In Tennessee [9] Editors - Seriously [3] Fontaines D.C. - Marianne [7] Jamie T - 3310 [7] Johnny Marr - It's Time [4] Kasabian - Nothing Better Than This [7] Kings Of Leon - My Whole World [4] Nothing But Thieves - Baby Kool (Evelyn) [8] Royal Blood - Ten Over Ten [8] The Strokes - Lonely In The Future [9] OUT: NONE Static for the third week!

Radio X Playlist | as at 02/10/26 Beabadoobee - Sun Has Set [14] Blossoms - Meet Me In Love [15] Cage The Elephant - Beaches In Tennessee [9] Editors - Seriously [3] Fontaines D.C. - Marianne [7] Jamie T - 3310 [7] Johnny Marr - It's Time [4] Kasabian - Nothing Better Than This [7] Kings Of Leon - My Whole World [4] Nothing But Thieves - Baby Kool (Evelyn) [8] Royal Blood - Ten Over Ten [8] The Strokes - Lonely In The Future [9] OUT: NONE Static for the third week!

I was wondering why it wasn't on the New Music Friday playlist! Incidentally, I was wondering why there are now two playlists, NMF and NMF UK & Ireland, with similar songs on both but not quite the same?!

Yeah I was wondering if it was just a promo single, but either way it's only just been released so they could easily add it next week instead

Actually I'm going to correct myself here. There's plenty they could add if they chose to: new stuff from CHVRCHES, Rose Gray, Teddy Swims, Jamie T, Becky Hill, Rex Orange County... to name a few. The playlist is starting to feel really stale and needs a shake up!

'Don't Think Of Me' is sublime and absolutely what would have saved her this round!