Calum

HRVY - 1 Day 2 Nights Sam Fender - Saturday Tom Grennan - Before You Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me Darin feat. Kat DeLuna - Breathing Your Love Damien Rice - Woman Like a Man Calvin Harris - Summer Roosevelt - Take Me Back (Midnight Version) Mackenzy Mackay - London Gary Numan - I Die: You Die

Years & Years - All For You Texas - I Don't Want a Lover iamamiwhoami - chasing kites Sade - Your Love is King New Order - Age of Consent Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down the Line Vengaboys - 1999 (I Wanna Go Back) Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again Bananarama - Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango) Ultravox - The Voice M83 - Kim & Jessie

Single-handedly keeping the category alive and spoken about

Petition for people to start referring to Roosevelt as Marius if it’s so difficult to be able to refer to HRVY by… that xx

Cold in California (demo from 2016 that leaked back in 2019) has now been released on the 10th Anniversary edition of Illuminate

Kate seems to have a bit of an issue with her on The Group Chat too. Turned it off now, but seems her and GK are pushing the 'yas mother queen' agenda for Rochelle a fair bit.

YOU 80 YEAR OLD HAG

She's definitely done her homework before she came on, trying to make herself an 'iconic' housemate. Especially when she was sitting whispering to Philip about people knowing what would make good TV etc.

Cannot wait to see the eruption of boos for Chelsey tomorrow make that group squirm. Chelsey genuinely gives me Roxanne Pallett kinda vibes too. Totally manipulative. I have zero time for Lynx, but why is she so concerned with closing him off to just this group of four? Insane. Rhianna's just as bad. I also hate when housemates nominate because they think someone's 'playing the game'. It just proves that adopting the US format here could never truly work because if the housemates themselves can't come to terms with someone playing a game (and appreciate them playing it well) we'd be doomed.

Playlists are now live in the OPs of each thread Reminder too that Wardy is hosting a listen-through for the Arena Auditions tonight too if people are still interested in that.

Don’t know why this was locked, but reopened for anyone yet to vote x

Will be added to the threads when I’m home from work x

Chelsey’s face at Johanne being immune

Need everyone to chant for that group of four out on Friday no matter who's up for eviction. Absolutely rotten.

Pauline - 1-1- Johanne - 8-2- Philip - 2-3- Frankie - 4-4- Yasmin - 10-5- Rob - 7-6- Samuel - 6-7- Rochelle - 16-8- Charlotte - 12-9- Harry - 15-10- Omar - 14-11- Lynx - 11-12- Rhianna - 13-13- Chelsey - 9-14- OUT Millie - 5-x Tays - 3-x That bottom four are vile. Harry and Charlotte only really climbing by default because the former has barely said a word since launch night and Charlotte just doesn't do very much lol.

Just caught up on the last two episodes, and my god Jedward coming in and reading that group of vile cretins to absolute FILTH was everything Need Chelsey gone asap. Proper disgusting little mean girl. Trying to isolate people and make their experience lesser because she thinks if you have a disagreement with someone those you're friendly with should have nothing to do with them either... come back down to reality please. Says a lot when that whole group somehow manage to make themselves look 1000x worse than Rochelle did all of last week. Johanne and Pauline must be protected at all costs

Tabby Stoecker (currently on Strictly) joining for series 4 too, unsure if it’s as a guest gladiator or permanent!

Misplaced banger quotes x IT'S BEEN ONE DAY AND TWO NIGHTS

GROUPS Hallo, welkom in Amsterdam! The second stop on The Pop Factor's European Adventure brings us to the liberal, progressive, cannabis-selling city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Home to the house of Anne Frank, the Red Light District, many a bicycle route, and the Van Gogh Museum, this will be the last stop for some groups. Eleven have landed safely, but only ten will continue on the adventure to the next location and venue. Singing for their place in the competition, let's welcome the groups to the Ziggo Dome stage to audition again for the voting BuzzJack public! How it works: Once you have listened to all of the groups perform you should post a ranking of each of the performances. You can rank them from best to worst (making clear which is your favourite down to least favourite), or use the template below: 01 (favourite) 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 (least favourite) For those voting who have entered one of the groups into the competition, you should rank all eleven performances in your own category (however it's encouraged that you vote in all categories), and when scores are totalled your entry will be removed from your list to retain anonymity in the competition. As always, even if you are not competing in The Pop Factor you can vote too! When voting closes, the ten groups with the highest scores will proceed to the next round while ONE group will be eliminated from the competition and will not be going through. However, the competition doesn't end there. Any artists eliminated from the competition - until stated - will be eligible to compete for the chance to return and claim The Gamu Nhengu Gold Card. Voting will close on Monday 28 September 2026, 17:59 BST So give a round of applause for our groups and let's find out what they're performing for their ARENA AUDITION... 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Standard list of entries: Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down the Line iamamiwhoami - chasing kites Sade - Your Love is King New Order - Age of Consent Years & Years - All For You Ultravox - The Voice Texas - I Don't Want a Lover M83 - Kim & Jessie Vengaboys - 1999 (I Wanna Go Back) Bananarama - Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango) Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again This week, awardinary will be hosting a listen-through session for The Arena Auditions in Amsterdam on Thursday 24 September at 19:00 BST. More information will be shared before the session begins, but if you'd like the opportunity to listen to all of the performances with others, this is it.

SOLO MALE Hallo, welkom in Amsterdam! The second stop on The Pop Factor's European Adventure brings us to the liberal, progressive, cannabis-selling city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Home to the house of Anne Frank, the Red Light District, many a bicycle route, and the Van Gogh Museum, this will be the last stop for some artists. Eleven have landed safely, but only ten will continue on the adventure to the next location and venue. Singing for their place in the competition, let's welcome the solo male artists to the Ziggo Dome stage to audition again for the voting BuzzJack public! How it works: Once you have listened to all of the artists perform you should post a ranking of each of the performances. You can rank them from best to worst (making clear which is your favourite down to least favourite), or use the template below: 01 (favourite) 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 (least favourite) For those voting who have entered one of the artists into the competition, you should rank all eleven performances in your own category (however it's encouraged that you vote in all categories), and when scores are totalled your entry will be removed from your list to retain anonymity in the competition. As always, even if you are not competing in The Pop Factor you can vote too! When voting closes, the ten male solo artists with the highest scores will proceed to the next round while ONE artist will be eliminated from the competition and will not be going through. However, the competition doesn't end there. Any artists eliminated from the competition - until stated - will be eligible to compete for the chance to return and claim The Gamu Nhengu Gold Card. Voting will close on Monday 28 September 2026, 17:59 BST So give a round of applause for our solo male artists and let's find out what they're performing for their ARENA AUDITION... 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Standard list of entries: HRVY - 1 Day 2 Nights Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me Calvin Harris - Summer Damien Rice - Woman Like a Man Darin feat. Kat DeLuna - Breathing Your Love Sam Fender - Saturday Gary Numan - I Die: You Die Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises Tom Grennan - Before You Mackenzy Mackay - London Roosevelt - Take Me Back (Midnight Version) This week, awardinary will be hosting a listen-through session for The Arena Auditions in Amsterdam on Thursday 24 September at 19:00 BST. More information will be shared before the session begins, but if you'd like the opportunity to listen to all of the performances with others, this is it.

SOLO FEMALE Hallo, welkom in Amsterdam! The second stop on The Pop Factor's European Adventure brings us to the liberal, progressive, cannabis-selling city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Home to the house of Anne Frank, the Red Light District, many a bicycle route, and the Van Gogh Museum, this will be the last stop for some artists. Eleven have landed safely, but only ten will continue on the adventure to the next location and venue. Singing for their place in the competition, let's welcome the solo female artists to the Ziggo Dome stage to audition again for the voting BuzzJack public! How it works: Once you have listened to all of the artists perform you should post a ranking of each of the performances. You can rank them from best to worst (making clear which is your favourite down to least favourite), or use the template below: 01 (favourite) 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 (least favourite) For those voting who have entered one of the artists into the competition, you should rank all eleven performances in your own category (however it's encouraged that you vote in all categories), and when scores are totalled your entry will be removed from your list to retain anonymity in the competition. As always, even if you are not competing in The Pop Factor you can vote too! When voting closes, the ten female solo artists with the highest scores will proceed to the next round while ONE artist will be eliminated from the competition and will not be going through. However, the competition doesn't end there. Any artists eliminated from the competition - until stated - will be eligible to compete for the chance to return and claim The Gamu Nhengu Gold Card. Voting will close on Monday 28 September 2026, 17:59 BST So give a round of applause for our solo female artists and let's find out what they're performing for their ARENA AUDITION... 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Standard list of entries: Milica Pavlović - Crna jutra (Balkan S&M) Leona Lewis - Come Alive Zara Larsson - Ain't My Fault Jessie Ware - If You're Never Gonna Move Adele - Rolling in the Deep Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me and My Imagination Dido - Take My Hand Kate Bush - The Man With the Child in His Eyes Robyn - Hang With Me Agnes - EGO MARINA - Froot This week, awardinary will be hosting a listen-through session for The Arena Auditions in Amsterdam on Thursday 24 September at 19:00 BST. More information will be shared before the session begins, but if you'd like the opportunity to listen to all of the performances with others, this is it.

No lobster to save you this time ... unless you can successfully name all of the remaining locations on the European Adventure (and yes there is a pattern) xx

4 hour warning for the remaining two artists yet to submit a song, do so HERE!

Peppa Pig coming to win

Conveniently I have the MP3s of Can Anybody Hear Me? if HRVY’s mentor needs an album track