Calum

All good @Viper* thanks for voting!

In Live Show One we said goodbye to the last solo male standing, Charlie Puth. After coming up against Christina Aguilera in the bottom two, it wasn't meant to be as three of our guest judges - Dandelion Star, Julie Ann Underscore and Susan - opted to save Christina, while Joshua Exclamation saved Charlie. But now, we soldier on and here we are for Live Show Two. The artists have arrived in the arena once again and are ready to leave it all on the stage in an attempt to make it through to the semi final! How it works: All nine remaining artists will perform for you, the voting BuzzJack public, once again and once you've listened to all of the artists perform you should post your votes in this thread, ranking the performances from favourite to least favourite. Please post a list stating clearly which is your favourite down to least favourite, or use the following format: 01 (favourite) 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 (least favourite) For those voting that are competing in the Live Show, you must vote. You can include your own song in your votes if you still at this point haven't revealed your identity, but it will be removed when votes are counted. Failure to vote by a competing artist will result in an 18 point deduction from your final score. As always, if you aren't participating as a contestant in The Pop Factor you are more than welcome to cast your vote too! But that's not all... When voting closes, we'll cross over to the results show. ONE artist - the artist with the least total points overall - will automatically be eliminated from the competition. The two other artists with the least total points overall will then come face to face with four brand new special guest judges - Daniel 'Honey' Gee, Rich Goodrem, Trademark Aaron and Escándalo Elgornio - and they will decide the ONE act that remains in the competition, rounding out Live Show Two's double elimination. To clarify, TWO acts in total will be eliminated from the competition. Voting will close on Saturday 5 July 2025, 18:59 BST Without further ado, once again... IT'S TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC! 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Standard list of entries: CHVRCHES - Bitter End Mary J. Blige & U2 - One Louise - Arms Around the World A-ha - You Are the One Lady Gaga feat. Christina Aguilera - Do What U Want Ellie Goulding - Army Pet Shop Boys - Go West Avril Lavigne - Don’t Tell Me The Saturdays - Disco Love

Gonna take a miracle for Draper to have any chance here I think sadly, but C’MON 💪

Benson Boone - American Heart Calum Hood - ORDER chaos ORDER Damiano David - FUNNY little FEARS YUNGBLUD - Idols Addison Rae - Addison iann dior - CYCLES MARINA - PRINCESS OF POWER Louise - Confessions Benson Boone - Fireworks & Rollerblades Daniel Seavey - Second Wind JC Stewart - Space Hurts almost monday - DIVE Daniel Seavey - Dancing in the Dark - EP Zach Hood - Whispering Pines Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful

Benson Boone - Wanted Man Benson Boone - Mr Electric Blue JADE - Plastic Box Benson Boone - Young American Heart Henry Moodie - comedown Benson Boone - Man in Me sombr - we never dated Benson Boone - Mystical Magical sombr - back to friends Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild Benson Boone - Take Me Home Conan Gray - This Song Benson Boone - Reminds Me of You YUNGBLUD - Zombie Benson Boone - Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else Calum Hood - Sweetdreams sombr - undressed Benson Boone - Momma Song Benjamin - Lokki Adam Woods - Okay The Kid LAROI - HOW DOES IT FEEL? Benson Boone - I Wanna Be the One You Call dearALICE - Sweet Calum Hood - Call Me When You Know Better iann dior - TATTOOS & U Jonas Brothers - No Time to Talk Cil - hot shit Haiden Henderson - lovesucker Damiano David - Mars Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun Tommy Lyon - Ruins Arwin - Do You Love Me Calum Hood - Don’t Forget You Love Me Daniel Seavey - Lose Me Like You Mean It Ryan Woods - Gun in the Glovebox David Lee - BODY Addison Rae - Fame is a Gun Damiano David - The First Time Daniel Seavey - Sleeping With the Lights On Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

01 Benson Boone - Wanted Man - 1- 02 Benson Boone - Mr Electric Blue - 2- 03 JADE - Plastic Box - 3- 04 Benson Boone - Young American Heart - 4- 05 Henry Moodie - comedown - 1-5- 06 Benson Boone - Man in Me - 6- 07 sombr - we never dated - 7- 08 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical - 1-1-2-3-7-9-14-16-8- 09 sombr - back to friends - 3-2-9- 10 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild - 5-3-10- 11 Benson Boone - Take Me Home - 11- 12 Conan Gray - This Song - 2-1-4-12- 13 Benson Boone - Reminds Me of You - 13- 14 YUNGBLUD - Zombie - 1-2-5-14- 15 Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else - 1-1-2-2-3-4-6-4-7-8-11-18-26-36-37-38-15- 16 Calum Hood - Sweetdreams - 6-16- 17 sombr - undressed - 9-20-28-31-7-11-17- 18 Benson Boone - Momma Song - 1-3-4-8-18- 19 Benjamin - Lokki - 7-19- 20 Adam Woods - Okay - 9-20- 21 The Kid LAROI - HOW DOES IT FEEL? - 21- 22 Benson Boone - I Wanna Be the One You Call - 22- 23 dearALICE - Sweet - 3-4-6-10-23- 24 Calum Hood - Call Me When You Know Better - 1-5-10-13-19-12-24- 25 iann dior - TATTOOS & U - 13-25- 26 Jonas Brothers - No Time to Talk - 26- 27 Cil - hot shit - 14-27- 28 Haiden Henderson - lovesucker - 8-9-17-28- 29 Damiano David - Mars - 1-4-6-12-18-29- 30 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun - 15-30- 31 Tommy Lyon - Ruins - 2-5-11-19-31- 32 Arwin - Do You Love Me - 22-32- 33 Calum Hood - Don't Forget You Love Me - 1-1-2-3-4-8-16-24-29-21-33- 34 Daniel Seavey - Lose Me Like You Mean It - 34- 35 Ryan Woods - Gun in the Glovebox - 35- 36 David Lee - BODY - 36- 37 Addison Rae - Fame is a Gun - 7-13-23-37- 38 Damiano David - The First Time - 2-6-11-16-24-38- 39 Daniel Seavey - Sleeping With the Lights On - 2-1-1-2-2-3-5-6-7-8-15-21-28-33-37-39- 40 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In - 40- OUT Alexander Stewart - Here Again - 8-20-x Damiano David - Solitude (No One Understands Me) - 4-8-14-21-25-x Calum Hood - Sunsetter - 26-x Rita Ora - Heat - 10-27-x almost monday - this is growing up - 17-28-x Calum Bowie - The World Outside - 12-16-22-29-x Harvey Brittain - tangerine - 5-12-20-30-x Cameron Whitcomb - Gasoline & Matches - 24-31-x Jordan Suaste - WHAT IM HERE FOR - 10-18-32-x Thomas Day - Beg - 9-15-23-33-x Kyle Alessandro - Lighter - 7-11-18-27-32-34-x Jake Cornell - If You Have to Lie - 35-x Grant Knoche - MOVIE STAR - 15-36-x Ruben - Girlfriend - 39-x Shawn Mendes - Heavy - 1-2-2-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-4-4-5-6-7-11-12-13-17-19-22-25-26-32-38-24-32-34-37-39-40-x 01 Benson Boone - American Heart - 1- 02 Calum Hood - ORDER chaos ORDER - 1-2- 03 Damiano David - FUNNY little FEARS - 1-1-1-2-2-3- 04 YUNGBLUD - Idols - 4- 05 Addison Rae - Addison - 1-3-5- 06 iann dior - CYCLES - 4-6- 07 MARINA - PRINCESS OF POWER - 3-5-7- 08 Louise - Confessions - 5-2-4-7-8- 09 Benson Boone - Fireworks & Rollerblades - 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-4-1-2-2-2-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-6-6-4-3-3-3-1-1-2-3-3-4-5-6-6-7-8-8-9-9-9-9-11-11-11-13-11-12-9- 10 Daniel Seavey - Second Wind - 2-1-2-1-1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10- 11 JC Stewart - Space Hurts - 11- 12 almost monday - DIVE - 7-6-12- 13 Daniel Seavey - Dancing in the Dark - EP - 1-1-2-4-4-6-9-11-13- 14 Zach Hood - Whispering Pines - 2-2-3-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-4-4-6-7-9-9-10-8-11-13-14-13-13-13-10-8-10-12-9-13-13-14- 15 Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful - 3-6-10-15- OUT Picture This - Let the Light In - EP - 5-8-x PinkPantheress - Fancy That - 1-2-3-5-10-14-x Lady Gaga - MAYHEM - 1-2-3-4-4-5-4-6-6-6-7-9-11-14-15-x SINGLES 04/01/2025, 1 week: Daniel Seavey - Gateway Drug 11/01/2025, 1 week: Shawn Mendes - Heavy 18/01/2025, 1 week: Tommy Lyon - Live to Die 25/01/2025, 1 week: Sam Fender - People Watching 01/02/2025, 2 weeks: Tommy Lyon - Live to Die 15/02/2025, 3 weeks: Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 08/03/2025, 2 weeks: Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else 22/03/2025, 2 weeks: Daniel Seavey - Sleeping With the Lights On 05/04/2025, 2 weeks: Henry Moodie - indigo 19/04/2025, 2 weeks: Calum Hood - Don't Forget You Love Me 03/05/2025, 2 weeks: Benson Boone - Mystical Magical 17/05/2025, 1 week: Calum Hood - Call Me When You Know Better 24/05/2025, 1 week: Damiano David - Mars 31/05/2025, 1 week: Benson Boone - Momma Song 07/06/2025, 1 week: YUNGBLUD - Zombie 14/06/2025, 1 week: Conan Gray - This Song 21/06/2025, 1 week: Henry Moodie - comedown 28/06/2025, ? weeks: Benson Boone - Wanted Man ALBUMS 04/01/2025, 2 weeks: Zach Hood - Whispering Pines 18/01/2025, 1 week: Shawn Mendes - Shawn 25/01/2025, 2 weeks: Benson Boone - Fireworks & Rollerblades 08/02/2025, 1 week: Benson Boone - PULSE - EP 15/02/2025, 1 week: Benson Boone - Walk Me Home... - EP 22/02/2025, 1 week: Ben Rodrigues - Red - EP 01/03/2025, 1 week: Sam Fender - People Watching 08/03/2025, 1 week: Bradley Simpson - The Panic Years 15/03/2025, 1 week: Lady Gaga - MAYHEM 22/03/2025, 1 week: Daniel Seavey - Second Wind 29/03/2025, 1 week: Calum Bowie - Through the Window - EP 05/04/2025, 4 weeks: Daniel Seavey - Second Wind 03/05/2025, 2 weeks: Daniel Seavey - Dancing in the Dark - EP 17/05/2025, 1 week: PinkPantheress - Fancy That 24/05/2025, 3 weeks: Damiano David - FUNNY little FEARS 14/06/2025, 1 week: Addison Rae - Addison 21/06/2025, 1 week: Calum Hood - ORDER chaos ORDER 28/06/2025, ? weeks: Benson Boone - American Heart

01 Benson Boone - Wanted Man - 1- 02 Benson Boone - Mr Electric Blue - 2- 03 JADE - Plastic Box - 3- 04 Benson Boone - Young American Heart - 4- 05 Henry Moodie - comedown - 1-5- 06 Benson Boone - Man in Me - 6- 07 sombr - we never dated - 7- 08 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical - 1-1-2-3-7-9-14-16-8- 09 sombr - back to friends - 3-2-9- 10 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild - 5-3-10- 11 Benson Boone - Take Me Home - 11- 12 Conan Gray - This Song - 2-1-4-12- 13 Benson Boone - Reminds Me of You - 13- 14 YUNGBLUD - Zombie - 1-2-5-14- 15 Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else - 1-1-2-2-3-4-6-4-7-8-11-18-26-36-37-38-15- 16 Calum Hood - Sweetdreams - 6-16- 17 sombr - undressed - 9-20-28-31-7-11-17- 18 Benson Boone - Momma Song - 1-3-4-8-18- 19 Benjamin - Lokki - 7-19- 20 Adam Woods - Okay - 9-20- 21 The Kid LAROI - HOW DOES IT FEEL? - 21- 22 Benson Boone - I Wanna Be the One You Call - 22- 23 dearALICE - Sweet - 3-4-6-10-23- 24 Calum Hood - Call Me When You Know Better - 1-5-10-13-19-12-24- 25 iann dior - TATTOOS & U - 13-25- 26 Jonas Brothers - No Time to Talk - 26- 27 Cil - hot shit - 14-27- 28 Haiden Henderson - lovesucker - 8-9-17-28- 29 Damiano David - Mars - 1-4-6-12-18-29- 30 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun - 15-30- 31 Tommy Lyon - Ruins - 2-5-11-19-31- 32 Arwin - Do You Love Me - 22-32- 33 Calum Hood - Don't Forget You Love Me - 1-1-2-3-4-8-16-24-29-21-33- 34 Daniel Seavey - Lose Me Like You Mean It - 34- 35 Ryan Woods - Gun in the Glovebox - 35- 36 David Lee - BODY - 36- 37 Addison Rae - Fame is a Gun - 7-13-23-37- 38 Damiano David - The First Time - 2-6-11-16-24-38- 39 Daniel Seavey - Sleeping With the Lights On - 2-1-1-2-2-3-5-6-7-8-15-21-28-33-37-39- 40 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In - 40- OUT Alexander Stewart - Here Again - 8-20-x Damiano David - Solitude (No One Understands Me) - 4-8-14-21-25-x Calum Hood - Sunsetter - 26-x Rita Ora - Heat - 10-27-x almost monday - this is growing up - 17-28-x Calum Bowie - The World Outside - 12-16-22-29-x Harvey Brittain - tangerine - 5-12-20-30-x Cameron Whitcomb - Gasoline & Matches - 24-31-x Jordan Suaste - WHAT IM HERE FOR - 10-18-32-x Thomas Day - Beg - 9-15-23-33-x Kyle Alessandro - Lighter - 7-11-18-27-32-34-x Jake Cornell - If You Have to Lie - 35-x Grant Knoche - MOVIE STAR - 15-36-x Ruben - Girlfriend - 39-x Shawn Mendes - Heavy - 1-2-2-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-4-4-5-6-7-11-12-13-17-19-22-25-26-32-38-24-32-34-37-39-40-x 01 Benson Boone - American Heart - 1- 02 Calum Hood - ORDER chaos ORDER - 1-2- 03 Damiano David - FUNNY little FEARS - 1-1-1-2-2-3- 04 YUNGBLUD - Idols - 4- 05 Addison Rae - Addison - 1-3-5- 06 iann dior - CYCLES - 4-6- 07 MARINA - PRINCESS OF POWER - 3-5-7- 08 Louise - Confessions - 5-2-4-7-8- 09 Benson Boone - Fireworks & Rollerblades - 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-4-1-2-2-2-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-6-6-4-3-3-3-1-1-2-3-3-4-5-6-6-7-8-8-9-9-9-9-11-11-11-13-11-12-9- 10 Daniel Seavey - Second Wind - 2-1-2-1-1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10- 11 JC Stewart - Space Hurts - 11- 12 almost monday - DIVE - 7-6-12- 13 Daniel Seavey - Dancing in the Dark - EP - 1-1-2-4-4-6-9-11-13- 14 Zach Hood - Whispering Pines - 2-2-3-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-4-4-6-7-9-9-10-8-11-13-14-13-13-13-10-8-10-12-9-13-13-14- 15 Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful - 3-6-10-15- OUT Picture This - Let the Light In - EP - 5-8-x PinkPantheress - Fancy That - 1-2-3-5-10-14-x Lady Gaga - MAYHEM - 1-2-3-4-4-5-4-6-6-6-7-9-11-14-15-x SINGLES 04/01/2025, 1 week: Daniel Seavey - Gateway Drug 11/01/2025, 1 week: Shawn Mendes - Heavy 18/01/2025, 1 week: Tommy Lyon - Live to Die 25/01/2025, 1 week: Sam Fender - People Watching 01/02/2025, 2 weeks: Tommy Lyon - Live to Die 15/02/2025, 3 weeks: Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 08/03/2025, 2 weeks: Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else 22/03/2025, 2 weeks: Daniel Seavey - Sleeping With the Lights On 05/04/2025, 2 weeks: Henry Moodie - indigo 19/04/2025, 2 weeks: Calum Hood - Don't Forget You Love Me 03/05/2025, 2 weeks: Benson Boone - Mystical Magical 17/05/2025, 1 week: Calum Hood - Call Me When You Know Better 24/05/2025, 1 week: Damiano David - Mars 31/05/2025, 1 week: Benson Boone - Momma Song 07/06/2025, 1 week: YUNGBLUD - Zombie 14/06/2025, 1 week: Conan Gray - This Song 21/06/2025, 1 week: Henry Moodie - comedown 28/06/2025, ? weeks: Benson Boone - Wanted Man ALBUMS 04/01/2025, 2 weeks: Zach Hood - Whispering Pines 18/01/2025, 1 week: Shawn Mendes - Shawn 25/01/2025, 2 weeks: Benson Boone - Fireworks & Rollerblades 08/02/2025, 1 week: Benson Boone - PULSE - EP 15/02/2025, 1 week: Benson Boone - Walk Me Home... - EP 22/02/2025, 1 week: Ben Rodrigues - Red - EP 01/03/2025, 1 week: Sam Fender - People Watching 08/03/2025, 1 week: Bradley Simpson - The Panic Years 15/03/2025, 1 week: Lady Gaga - MAYHEM 22/03/2025, 1 week: Daniel Seavey - Second Wind 29/03/2025, 1 week: Calum Bowie - Through the Window - EP 05/04/2025, 4 weeks: Daniel Seavey - Second Wind 03/05/2025, 2 weeks: Daniel Seavey - Dancing in the Dark - EP 17/05/2025, 1 week: PinkPantheress - Fancy That 24/05/2025, 3 weeks: Damiano David - FUNNY little FEARS 14/06/2025, 1 week: Addison Rae - Addison 21/06/2025, 1 week: Calum Hood - ORDER chaos ORDER 28/06/2025, ? weeks: Benson Boone - American Heart

Sad to see Charlie out - and thus the males completely obliterated x - but Oops definitely wasn't the best choice here I wonder if a couple of album tracks from CHARLIE! would have kept him a little bit longer (Tears on My Piano ) assuming the big singles were being saved for the end? The men are going to have to really bring it next season! 5/8 women still standing and 4/8 groups argh

lol tried to make a different results table for the Live Shows and it looked fine when making it but seeing it on here has me like but deal with it xx

Live Show One Results TOP 9 ARTISTS... @awardinary @JosephBoone @Addy! @King Rollo @Bjork @Scene @vibe @-Jay- @Ansel It's time to submit your song choice for Live Show Two - do so HERE by 18:59 tomorrow!

Susan... if you choose to save Charlie Puth we'll go to deadlock and revert to the earlier public vote. If you choose to save Christina Aguilera she will be through and Charlie Puth will be eliminated. Please give me the name of the artist you'd like to SAVE and keep in the competition. "Welllllllll reeet thees is a big decisiony. BIG SUE didn't come to play!!! The artist e want to save is......... XTINA ALBUFEIRA!!!!!" Which means that Charlie Puth, you have been eliminated from The Pop Factor. Christina Aguilera, you are through to the second Live Show.

Julie Ann Underscore, please give me the name of the artist that you'd like to SAVE and keep in the competition. "CHRISTINA AGUILERA No thought required."

Joshua Exclamation, please give me the name of the artist that you'd like to SAVE and keep in the competition. "Christina, you are beautiful and everything lol, and you did good... but the artist I'm choosing to save tonight is... CHARLIE PUTH"

Dandelion Star, please give me the name of the artist that you'd like to SAVE and keep in the competition. "Well, you know, it's... actually not that difficult. The artist I'm choosing to save tonight is... CHRISTINA AGUILERA"

Welcome back... Our guest judges for the first Live Show - Dandelion Star, Josh Exclamation, Julie Ann Underscore and Susan - have all decided which of the bottom two artists they want to SAVE and keep in the competition. In the event of a tie, we'll go to DEADLOCK where we revert to the public vote.

The final artist safely through to the second Live Show, avoiding the bottom two, is... After the break, we'll see who the guest judges have decided to save! Charlie Puth or Christina Aguilera?

Which means... A-HA CHARLIE PUTH CHRISTINA AGUILERA Only one of you is safely through to the second Live Show, while the bottom two will face the guest judges who will ultimately decide who stays and who goes.

Lucky number seven (but not for seven. as Lemon Demon is no longer with us ), the next artist through is...

And the sixth artist guaranteed a spot in the second Live Show is...

Five down! The next artist safely through to the next Live Show is...

The fourth artist through to the second Live Show is...

The third artist, joining Avril Lavigne and CHVRCHES, safely through to the next Live Show is...

The second artist - a reminder, in no particular order - through to the next Live Show is...