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    RESULT

     

     

    UK Chart Run: 2-2-2-4-5-9-8-8-8-9-10-12-19-21-29-33-55-X-70-X-71 (19 weeks)

     

    So it's congrats to Australian singer & actress Natalie Imbruglia for winning the 1997 survivor after a very tense battle. One of a handful of Neighbours actors to move into music, she released her debut album Left Of The Middle in late 1997. From that album was a cover version of a song by a relatively little-known American rock band called Ednaswap. Imbruglia's version highlighted the hit potential of the track and it set up her for a successful start to her singing career. It wasn't able to top the UK charts as a result of running into Barbie Girl but it nonetheless sold over a million copies and today sits in the top 100 best-selling singles of all time.

     

     

     

    UK Chart Run: 1-1-1-2-4-3-3-3-6-11-16-23-32-40-48-63-68-71-X-56 (19 weeks)

     

    With every winner there must a runner-up. This time it comes in the form of Californian pop rock band No Doubt. Similar to Chumbawamba, the band's origins date back many years before their commercial breakthrough. Their first 2 albums didn't chart anywhere however that would all change in 1997 with the release of Tragic Kingdom. Lead single Just A Girl scraped the UK top 40 in 1996 but Don't Speak would become arguably their magnum opus, debuting at #1 where it would stay for 3 consecutive weeks. More success would follow for the band stretching into the new millennium where lead singer Gwen Stefani would fly solo and carve out a very successful career of her own.

    +5: Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle

    +4: Harry Styles - As It Was

    +3: Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down

    +2: PinkPantheress & Ice Spice - Boy's a liar Pt. 2

    +1: The Weeknd & Ariana Grande - Die For You

     

    -1: Miley Cyrus - Flowers

    -2: Strandz - Us Against The World

    -3: Coi Leray - Players

    -4: Libianca - People

    -5: Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings

    BJSC 153

     

    Location: Valkyrie Castle, Terra Avium

     

    Our entry: Shona Laing - America

     

     

    About:

    New Zealand singer-songwriter active since 1972

    Released in 1985, America becomes our oldest entry sent to the main contest

    That's a really good win, but there's got to be either a severere tactical or mentality problem. I get 2-0 is a dangerous scoreline, but to revert to playing so badly in the second half vs the first half proposal, it does reek a lot of protecting what you have rather than delivering the killer blow. Often happens with England. A different night and we draw that game, when Italy should have been buried in the first half.

     

    Completely agree with all this. Mind you had the Villa version of Grealish arrived at the scene rather than the City version, we'd be 3-0 and game over at HT.

    Or destroying Massa in 2012.

     

    Hamilton's best season in terms of destroying a teammate was 2018 imo. 161 points clear of Bottas who finished fifth in the standings.

     

    Vettel's 2013 season he also had zero bad luck and it all went to Webber.

    Yeah I'm not a huge fan of time-based achievement comparisons either, better to compare using races (but even that has limitations of course, as you an rack up impressive stats if you have an amazing car for one season whereas back in the 50s you'd need 3+ seasons to match it).