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OP now fully updated including stats and results from PFSC XIX: Art Pop: The Weird and Wonderful! uhsting matches Addy's record for three PFSC wins, there are several new bests recorded this contest, and three first-time entrants to the main contest record a top 10 result (Nine ¾, Lee_J11 and Jaz13music)!

lie to me was delayed too so I’m not really surprised. Here’s hoping it actually comes though and isn’t CAHM? 2.0

Pop Track of the Week 2026 Each week, new releases from the worlds of pop and country are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner. The winners will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year - at the end of each quarter and again at the end of the year - to determine the ultimate winner of 2026. WEEK 35: The Results Total votes : 29 Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy 10 Angèle - Une seule vie 7 Alex Warren - EMERALD EYES 2 Delta Goodrem - Warrior 2 HRVY - bed you made 2 Haute & Freddy - Touch Touch 2 Cherry Bomb - Myriad Reflector 1 JENNIE - HEAVEN 1 OneRepublic - Pay That Toll 1 Perrie - Heartbeat 1 Florrie - Catch You If You Fall 0 flowerovlove feat. WILLOW - girls will be girls 0 Jonas Brothers - Listen When Sad 0 Max McNown - Comets 0 First of all, thanks very much to Rob for stepping in last week, and hopefully we'll be seeing more choices from Rob for the polls as we alternate weeks moving forward. Olivia Rodrigo tops the poll this week with a standalone release where she struggled with singles from her third album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love earlier this year. Angèle, Alex Warren, Delta Goodrem, HRVY and Haute & Freddy are the other main vote recipients this week. WEEK 36 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. AJ Mitchell - Easier Alfie Jukes - Lighthouse Arthur Hill - Orange Wine Ashe - Funeral EARTH TO EMILY - BIBLE TEXTS James Blunt - Weight of It All JISOO - CLICK Johnny Orlando - NOVICE LISA - SaWaDiKa Miley Cyrus - Bass Persuades Mollie Elizabeth - Petty Crimes Natalie Imbruglia - Beautiful Love Pedro Santos - Should Have Known Better Take That & Michael Patrick Kelly - Feel My Love Pop Track of the Week 2026: Winners Week 1: Sabrina Carpenter - Such a Funny Way Week 2: Robyn - Talk to Me Week 3: Slayyyter - DANCE... Week 4: Harry Styles - Aperture Week 5: MEEK - Fabulous Week 6: Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe Week 7: Meghan Trainor - Get In Girl Week 8: Jessie Ware - Ride Week 9: Slayyyter - OLD TECHNOLOGY Week 10: Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta - Save Me Tonight Week 11: Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell Week 12: Ruel - Don't Say That Week 13: Slayyyter - BRITTANY MURPHY. Week 14: METTE - COMING OF AGE Week 15: Hilary Duff - Come Clean (Mine) Week 16: Demi Lovato - Low Rise Jeans Week 17: Madonna - I Feel So Free Week 18: Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love Week 19: Kesha - ORIGAMI! Week 20: Tove Lo - I'm your girl right? Week 21: Kylie Minogue - Light Up Week 22: Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me Week 23: Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You Week 24: Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song Week 25: Angèle - Dis-le Week 26: Carly Rae Jepsen - On Wires Week 27: Madonna - Danceteria Week 28: Rebecca Black - Hot Wet Delirious Week 29: Kim Petras - Pop Sound Week 30: ADÉLA - Ain't in LA Week 31: Slayyyter - brand new chanel$ Week 32: Carly Rae Jepsen - Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor Week 33: Wasia Project - Vogue Week 34: Carly Rae Jepsen - Motivation Week 35: Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 36

WEEK 29: The Results Total votes : 27 Kim Petras - Pop Sound 7 Jessie Ware - Sauna 6 Nessa Barrett - Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die 3 Gracie Abrams - Good Reason 2 Kelly Clarkson - I'd Be Lyin' 2 Wasia Project - Whale Call 2 BTS - NORMAL 1 Carly Rae Jepsen - After All 1 flowerovlove - In My Victoria's Secret 1 GIRLSET - CHAT 1 Joshua Bassett - Clouds 1 Baby Queen - The Protagonist 0 Greyson Chance - SUGAR RUSH 0 Joel Adams - Hell No! 0 WEEK 30: The Results Total votes : 27 ADÉLA - Ain't in LA 10 Charli xcx - Camera 7 JENNIE - Less Than a Lover 2 Natalie Imbruglia - Just Drive 2 Will Linley - Head First 2 Ella Bright & Niall Horan - Baby Now That I Found You 1 KATSEYE - Animal 1 Sam Smith & The TwoCity Chorus - Oh Mother 1 Shaboozey feat. Leon Bridges - Burn It Down 1 ADONXS - Cherry on Your Cake 0 Chloe Qisha - Baby Girl 0 Joshua Bassett - Hold Me 0 Oscar Stembridge - See You in the Summer 0 Tiger La Flor - FOREVERMORE 0 WEEK 31: The Results Total votes : 27 Slayyyter - brand new chanel$ 10 Ariana Grande - petal 9 no na - honk! 3 dearALICE - Home With You 1 MEEK - Expensive Taste 1 Robyn & Zara Larsson - Talk to Me, Zara 1 Tove Lo - DNH 1 Tucker Wetmore - Crazy to Yourself 1 Alfie Jukes - Island 0 Boy In Space - Timepiece 0 Dasha - Memo 0 Ellie Goulding - 4 Seasons 0 flowerovlove - KISS KISS KISS 0 Joshua Bassett - Easier 0 WEEK 32: The Results Total votes : 27 Carly Rae Jepsen - Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor 9 Ashe - Stop the Wedding! 8 Ellie Goulding - Ravers 4 Alex Warren - RESCUER 2 Knox - 4.3 Forty 2 5G feat. Elevator Boys - 1995 1 Zolita - VOODOO DOLL 1 Abbie Gordon - Let It Die 0 Eric Nam - Someday 0 Joshua Bassett - Dancing on the Edge 0 Rebecca Black - Michael. 0 Sam Smith - When He's Gone 0 Stray Kids - This & That 0 TOMORROW X TOGETHER - Nice to Meet Ya 0 WEEK 33: The Results Total votes : 27 Wasia Project - Vogue 7 KATSEYE - Hootie Frutti 6 Troye Sivan - She's the Best 4 The Script - Grow Old With Grace 3 5 Seconds of Summer - Evolve (CLUBSOS VOL. 1) 2 Natasha Bedingfield - Dot Dot Dot 2 Harvey Brittain - CAROUSEL TEARS 1 La Roux - Lose Myself 1 Remember Monday - Attention 1 Bella Poarch - Stay Gone 0 Ben Rodrigues - A Girl Like You 0 EARTH TO EMILY - PINK CIGARETTE 0 Henry Morris - One Night Stand 0 LØLØ - pretty little wreck 0 WEEK 34: The Results Total votes : 27 Carly Rae Jepsen - Motivation 13 Nessa Barrett - Bad Girls Never Die 4 Greyson Chance - DIRTY LAUNDRY 3 METTE - SMALL WORLD 3 The Aces - Wet Cement 2 Cara Delevingne - Crazy, Baby 1 Isaac Dunbar - Man Overboard 1 Ari Abdul - SEDUCTIVE 0 Thomas Day - will you be coming around? 0 Tiger La Flor - HOLLYWOODLAND 0 Congratulations to Kim Petras, ADÉLA, Slayyyter and Wasia Project who all manage to top the poll in their respective weeks, while Carly Rae Jepsen manages two wins with Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor and Motivation. After All on the other hand, her third entry in the polls, didn't manage to win many people over. Perhaps most surprisingly, Slayyyter's win comes at the expense of Ariana Grande's petal, the lead single from her eighth studio album of the same name. And despite a warm reception from many, Troye Sivan's new single She's the Best fails to top the poll, beaten by both Wasia Project and KATSEYE.

Calum ranks 100 Kylie Minogue singles (1987 - 2026) 1 Red Blooded Woman 2 On a Night Like This 3 Spinning Around 4 Better the Devil You Know 5 Get Outta My Way 6 All the Lovers 7 Love at First Sight 8 In Your Eyes 9 Your Disco Needs You 10 Put Yourself in My Place 11 Giving You Up 12 Confide in Me 13 I Believe in You 14 In My Arms 15 Please Stay 16 What Do I Have to Do? 17 Can't Get You Out of My Head 18 Dancing 19 Wow 20 The One 21 Breathe 22 Come Into My World 23 Stop Me From Falling 24 Into the Blue 25 Hand on Your Heart 26 Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) 27 Never Too Late 28 Shocked 29 Timebomb 30 Padam Padam 31 Flower 32 Say Something 33 I Should Be So Lucky 34 Finer Feelings 35 Step Back in Time 36 What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before) 37 Did It Again 38 Slow 39 Tension 40 Especially For You (with Jason Donovan) 41 Right Here, Right Now (Giorgio Moroder feat. Kylie Minogue) 42 Higher (Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue) 43 Where the Wild Roses Grow (with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) 44 If You Were With Me Now (with Keith Washington) 45 Hold On to Now 46 A Lifetime to Repair 47 The Loco-Motion 48 Turn It Into Love 49 Cowboy Style 50 Chocolate 51 Sincerely Yours 52 New York City 53 Light Up 54 2 Hearts 55 Keep on Pumpin' It (Visionmasters & Tony King feat. Kylie Minogue) 56 Je ne sais pas pourquoi 57 Golden 58 Some Kind of Bliss 59 Dance Floor Darling 60 Wouldn't Change a Thing 61 Where Is the Feeling? 62 Got to Be Certain 63 Real Groove 64 Kids (with Robbie Williams) 65 At Christmas 66 Crystallize 67 It's No Secret 68 A Second to Midnight (with Years & Years) 69 All I See 70 Word Is Out 71 XMAS 72 Magic 73 Midnight Ride (with Orville Peck & Diplo) 74 On oublie le reste (Jenifer feat. Kylie Minogue) 75 Lights Camera Action 76 Better Than Today 77 GBI (German Bold Italic) [TOWA TEI feat. Kylie Minogue & Haruomi Hosono] 78 Give Me Just a Little More Time 79 Edge of Saturday Night (with The Blessed Madonna) 80 Music's Too Sad Without You (with Jack Savoretti) 81 Kiss of Life (with Jessie Ware) 82 100 Degrees (with Dannii Minogue) 83 last night i dreamt i fell in love (with Alok) 84 10 Out of 10 (with Oliver Heldens) 85 Dance Alone (with Sia) 86 Someone For Me (YouNotUs Remix) 87 Limpido (with Laura Pausini) 88 Every Day's Like Christmas 89 Really don't like u (Tove Lo feat. Kylie Minogue) 90 Tears on My Pillow 91 Celebration 92 Can't Stop Writing Songs About You (with Gloria Gaynor) 93 The Other Boys (NERVO feat. Kylie Minogue, Jake Shears & Nile Rodgers) 94 Lhuna (Coldplay feat. Kylie Minogue) 95 Only You (with James Corden) 96 My Oh My (with Bebe Rexha & Tove Lo) 97 I Was Gonna Cancel 98 We Are One (with VERBAL) 99 Wonderful Christmastime (with MIKA) 100 Monkey Man (with The Wiggles)

2 On a Night Like This UK chart peak: #2 From: Light Years 1 Red Blooded Woman UK chart peak: #5 From: Body Language And so we reach the end of the countdown with, shock horror, Red Blooded Woman as my winner and On a Night Like This in second place. It's always surprised me just how much I love Red Blooded Woman and the adoration I have for it considering I don't really think too much of the likes of Slow, Chocolate, or much of the rest of Body Language. But alas, Red Blooded Woman truly is Kylie at her absolute best for me. The music video I grew up with, the Showgirl performance and the homo-erotic nature of the intro with scantily clad smooth, muscly men dripping wet in showers before she rises up onto the stage and dominates... it's all just chef's kiss. It's one single that very much feels like it's been locked in a cupboard and left behind with that era where the likes of Slow have gone on to live beyond it, which is a shame. But I'll never not bang on about just how much this song is, to me, quintessentially Kylie and something I wish she'd lean into more. At least it gave her another top 10 single. And then what to say about On a Night Like This? Serving as the second single from Light Years, coming after Spinning Around was going to require something amazing, and while I find it baffling that critics at the time thought this didn't stand out too much among everything else on Light Years, I have to say On a Night Like This was the perfect way to follow up such a strong comeback and lead single, serving another iconic pop song that was originally recorded by Swedish singer Pandora. Again, the music video for this is something I grew up with. All of the visuals from Ultimate Kylie are ones that have stuck with me throughout my childhood and are instantly recognisable. From the shady underworld intro scene, to her throwing those die at the poker table. On a Night Like This was another #2 hit for Kylie; something this countdown's made me realise is just how many iconic singles of hers should be #1s but were just pipped. And with that, the countdown is complete. Thanks to everybody for commenting along and getting involved. I'll post the full 1-100 list imminently

Week 1 Naya Thorn - 1- Mocha - 2- Flesh - 3- KY Kelly - 4- Alik - 5- Coral-Hole Mandi - 6- The Delta Quadrant - 7- Tequila Thirst - 8- Anita Piss - 9- Lucky Roy Singh - 10- ma_danni_x - 11- Paris Baby - 12-

This definitely does feel like a much stronger cast overall than season 7. Naya, Flesh, Mocha, Alik and KY Kelly initial favourites. Paris Baby however, yeah no. Was living for the instant shakedown from KY Kelly

Alik Anita Piss Coral-Hole Mandi The Delta Quadrant Flesh KY Kelly Lucky Roy Singh ma_danni_x Mocha Naya Thorn Paris Baby Tequila Thirst Post your weekly rankings for the season 8 queens here ~

3 Spinning Around UK chart peak: #1 From: Light Years So we enter the top three now, and with two singles from Light Years and one from Body Language remaining it's Spinning Around that falls first in third place. Released in June 2000 as the lead single from Light Years, Spinning Around became a #1 for Kylie, and is undoubtedly one of the songs that has defined her modern career. Her first #1 single in the UK since Tears on My Pillow in 1990, this was lauded as such a brilliant comeback after the commercial low point of Impossible Princess. The visuals for this single are probably one of the most iconic things about it as well as the song itself being pop perfection; the gold hot pants being embedded in pop culture. Heck, although I grew up having gay awakenings all over the place thanks to Kylie, it's music videos like this one (and Please Stay) that had me questioning whether it was Kylie herself I was actually attracted to or not lmao. What's great in recent times is that thanks to her recent Netflix documentary, too, we've had a chance to see more of the creative process behind this song too at the turn of the millennium. That transition into the iconic opening moments preparing us for a party on the dance floor had me buzzing. Interesting that this was originally intended to be included on an album by Paula Abdul that failed to come to fruition (being written by her), and ultimately ended up being passed to Kylie.

It’s blatantly obvious now she literally just wanted to create a replica version without Daniel and Emma lol.

Feels so unnecessary for them to have gone down this route with Jimmy. It’s been enough just seeing the devastating impact it’s had on Nicola and everyone else moving forward.

I thought she was going to end up being Zoe’s daughter back with a random vendetta against Kim, but this certainly does make things more interesting. Will be good to see Kim given more to do when it all comes out.

I think we could do without any novelty/bad acts whatsoever. It’s not necessary (ignoring how icky it even is), especially when you have shows like Building the Band, etc that show how a talent show can work today. They need to put some real effort into filling air time with showing off that talent and spark, giving constructive feedback, more creative freedom to the acts, getting them in the studio, songwriting, working on their craft building up to live shows.

It's kind of telling that Katie Waissel is being lynched by people on Twitter for speaking out against the idea of this coming back given all the darkness and controversies surrounding it. I get the feeling ITV probably think they'd have enough of an audience ignorant to it or willing to look past it all and embrace a comeback. It needs to be left dead and buried in the past.

4 Better the Devil You Know UK chart peak: #2 From: Rhythm of Love At #4 we have the only song in the top 10 that pre-dates the 2000s. Released in April 1990, Better the Devil You Know was the lead single from Kylie's third studio album Rhythm of Love. Another of the dastardly #2 hits for her just missing the top spot in the UK, this was a turning point where Kylie started to exercise more creative control after being involved quite minimally on the first two albums. She rejected some of the early mixes of this song before it became what we know now. Undoubtedly this has cemented its place as one of the biggest of the classic early Kylie singles, and quite rightly so. It's simple, yet such an effective brilliant pop song. It's had re-workings too, most notably its 2012 version from The Abbey Road Sessions, which is very different, and Kylie does sometimes play around with the style of the song when performing it live. Without doubt though, in my personal opinion, the most iconic thing about this song is it being the opening number of the Showgirl tour. Incredible in every way, makes me love the song even more, and I've included the video of the performance of it from the Showgirl tour here too just because everybody needs reminding of the statement it was opening your Greatest Hits tour like that.

Got jumpscared and thought when Joe randomly collapsed they were gonna off him instead of Dawn I’m guessing there’ll be more to come for him though and he’ll have some lasting injury given he seems to be all okay despite the state he was in at the marquee. This has been a great week of episodes though. Really sad ending for Dawn, and my heart breaks for Nicola 💔 Gabby being the root of it all will be interesting to see what happens between Nicola and Laurel if anything I guess.

Looks like the upcoming series will focus heavily on: Spoiler Knife crime, with one of the students (Ben or Ashton seem to be rumoured) potentially being stabbed/killed

Pop Track of the Week 2026 Each week, new releases from the worlds of pop and country are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner. The winners will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year - at the end of each quarter and again at the end of the year - to determine the ultimate winner of 2026. Thanks to @RobBot for getting us back on track with Week 35, and moving forward we'll either alternate or swap around and share this however, great to have someone else so passionate about new pop releases on board! Now time for the mammoth ask of having everybody vote retrospectively for weeks 29 to 34. All of the stats will be fully up to date by the time Week 36's thread goes live. WEEK 29 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. Baby Queen - The Protagonist BTS - NORMAL Carly Rae Jepsen - After All flowerovlove - In My Victoria's Secret GIRLSET - CHAT Gracie Abrams - Good Reason Greyson Chance - SUGAR RUSH Jessie Ware - Sauna Joel Adams - Hell No! Joshua Bassett - Clouds Kelly Clarkson - I'd Be Lyin' Kim Petras - Pop Sound Nessa Barrett - Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die Wasia Project - Whale Call WEEK 30 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. ADÉLA - Ain't in LA ADONXS - Cherry on Your Cake Charli xcx - Camera Chloe Qisha - Baby Girl Ella Bright & Niall Horan - Baby Now That I Found You JENNIE - Less Than a Lover Joshua Bassett - Hold Me KATSEYE - Animal Natalie Imbruglia - Just Drive Oscar Stembridge - See You in the Summer Sam Smith & The TwoCity Chorus - Oh Mother Shaboozey feat. Leon Bridges - Burn It Down Tiger La Flor - FOREVERMORE Will Linley - Head First WEEK 31 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. Alfie Jukes - Island Ariana Grande - petal Boy In Space - Timepiece Dasha - Memo dearALICE - Home With You Ellie Goulding - 4 Seasons flowerovlove - KISS KISS KISS Joshua Bassett - Easier MEEK - Expensive Taste no na - honk! Robyn & Zara Larsson - Talk to Me, Zara Slayyyter - brand new chanel$ Tove Lo - DNH Tucker Wetmore - Crazy to Yourself WEEK 32 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. 5G feat. Elevator Boys - 1995 Abbie Gordon - Let It Die Alex Warren - RESCUER Ashe - Stop the Wedding! Carly Rae Jepsen - Don't Leave Me on the Dance Floor Ellie Goulding - Ravers Eric Nam - Someday Joshua Bassett - Dancing on the Edge Knox - 4.3 Forty Rebecca Black - Michael. Sam Smith - When He's Gone Stray Kids - This & That TOMORROW X TOGETHER - Nice to Meet Ya Zolita - VOODOO DOLL WEEK 33 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. 5 Seconds of Summer - Evolve (CLUBSOS VOL. 1) Bella Poarch - Stay Gone Ben Rodrigues - A Girl Like You EARTH TO EMILY - PINK CIGARETTE Harvey Brittain - CAROUSEL TEARS Henry Morris - One Night Stand KATSEYE - Hootie Frutti La Roux - Lose Myself LØLØ - pretty little wreck Natasha Bedingfield - Dot Dot Dot Remember Monday - Attention The Script - Grow Old With Grace Troye Sivan - She's the Best Wasia Project - Vogue WEEK 34 Choose one song in the poll - your favourite - from this week's new releases listed below and feel free to post a rate of the songs in the thread. Ari Abdul - SEDUCTIVE Cara Delevingne - Crazy, Baby Carly Rae Jepsen - Motivation Greyson Chance - DIRTY LAUNDRY Isaac Dunbar - Man Overboard METTE - SMALL WORLD Nessa Barrett - Bad Girls Never Die The Aces - Wet Cement Thomas Day - will you be coming around? Tiger La Flor - HOLLYWOODLAND Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 29 Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 30 Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 31 Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 32 Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 33 Listen to Pop Track of the Week 2026: Week 34

The way the cast for the Halloween special is 100x better than the series 3 cast x Katherine Parkinson and Richard Ayoade (again) in one series 🤢

I’ll change mine so you can have Flesh 😘

I'm gonna be brave and punt on Flesh winning, even though I really don't think Ru will follow through with her winning immediately after Bones

It's time for another sweepstake! Season 8 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK starts on 3rd September, so with just days to go place your bets before the first queen is eliminated (will we have another lucky cow? x). Place your bets on who you think will join the winners' circle and become the UK's next Drag Race Superstar and who will be eliminated first... for the chance to win a Drag Race AF widget! To take part, simply state which queen you'd like to take a punt on to WIN and be FIRST OUT. Once all the queens have been claimed, it's time to sit back and enjoy the season until we find out who's first out, and then until we crown ourselves a winner! Start your engines ~ TO WIN Alik leww Anita Piss Coral-Hole Mandi Addy! The Delta Quadrant Envoirment Flesh Lee_J11 KY Kelly 152chris Lucky Roy Singh Calum Ma_Danni_X Mocha RobBot Naya Thorn DanielCarey Paris Baby Tequila Thirst FIRST OUT Alik Anita Piss Calum Coral-Hole Mandi RobBot The Delta Quadrant Envoirment Flesh KY Kelly Lucky Roy Singh leww Ma_Danni_X Lee_J11 Mocha 152chris Naya Thorn Paris Baby Addy! Tequila Thirst DanielCarey

They are on FIRE this week 🔥 (quite literally too lol x) Jimmy 😔 ignoring it being very convenient for him to just happen to swerve and crash through the marquee, his exit was done so beautifully. And I just need Joe to be okay to slap Billy and Caleb down now please and thank you ❤️