Josh!

1 TROYE SIVAN (fave) 2 CONAN GRAY 3 NIK KERSHAW 4 THE WEEKND 5 SHAWN MENDES 6 FRED AGAIN 7 DAVID BOWIE 8 ERIC SAADE 9 RUEL 10 LUKE BLACK 11 MARKUS RIVA 12 GUITARRICADELAFUENTE 13 GEORGE MICHAEL (least fave) I’ve been doing a bit of an 80s deep dive this year so I already knew ‘The Riddle’ but I’m excited to see what else comes from Nik Kershaw as I’ve liked everything I’ve heard. I expect I’ll know all the Weeknd/Troye/Conan/Shawn songs, but all have made good choices with this first entry. You could just end anything from that Troye era and I’d probably rank it first. The others will hopefully give me some good discoveries as that’s usually a great thing about this contest, and why I was still keen to vote last time despite not entering.

I think this is the most competitive of the three auditions which I wouldn’t have expected!

04.0 I Got the Wherewithal 04.0 If You Can't Do It When You're Young: When Can You Do It 05.5 A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed 05.0 I Know Enough (I Don't Get Enough) 09.0 Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) (ft Spiller) 10.0 Take Me Home 10.0 Murder On The Dancefloor 11.0 Get Over You 06.0 Move This Mountain 08.0 Music Gets The Best of Me 10.0 Mixed Up World 10.0 I Won't Change You 09.5 Catch You 08.0 Me and My Imagination 09.5 Today The Sun's On Us 09.5 If I Can't Dance 09.0 Heartbreak (Made Me A Dancer) (ft Freemasons) 08.0 Can't Fight This Feeling (Junior Caldera) 09.5 Bittersweet 07.5 Not Giving Up On Love (vs Armin Van Buuren) 09.0 Off & On 08.0 Starlight 10.0 Young Blood 05.5 Runaway Daydreamer 06.0 Love Is a Camera 05.5 The Deer & the Wolf 09.0 Come With Us 07.0 Crystallise 09.5 Wild Forever 07.5 Death of Love 06.0 Love Is You 09.0 Crying At The Discoteque 09.5 Hypnotized (ft Wuh Oh) 08.0 Breaking The Circle 09.5 Everything Is Sweet 09.5 Lost In The Sunshine 08.0 Freedom of the Night 08.0 Relentless Love 07.5 Vertigo 08.0 Taste 09.5 Dolce Vita 09.5 Stay On Me 06.5 Circles (Just My Good Time) (ft busface) 07.5 f*** With You (ft Bob Sinclair & Gilberte Forte) 05.0 Immortal (Ft Lufthaus)

Gateshead is on the day I go on holiday! I've missed all three solo Little Mix signings in the North East bc I've been busy on that day but free most other days of release week ☹️ so unlucky lol

i cried and cried and cried watching this. essential viewing!

These are great recommendations. My two faves of hers are 'The Walls Are Way Too Thin' and 'Sleep Tight'.

Didn’t really take much notice of the Semi 2 songs but just noticed that the First Aid Kit song is actually “Out of My Head”, a song which I adore !!! In fact, that whole era racked up 100s of plays for me. So yay for that!

Crazy how strong this month is because th at Bronzil song is the sort of thing that’d usually qualify easy! Thanks for the discovery anyway

Yay 100% qualifiers in our household this evening!! We can sleep easy now

Deep sigh of relief after getting through a tough semi!!! Happy for Herbilore too 🤩

They are accounted for in a film’s lifetime gross, but box office charts often focus on just the weekends. If you look at an overall 2026 box office list the it will include the weekday takings in their totals.

Yes love the method that makes our entry more successful use that one!!

2025 was defo the year of Twigs for me! She was my 3rd most played artist of the year and also my favourite gig that I went to this year. Liam & I couldn’t resist tickets for the O2 show next year for that reason! You’re so right when you say justice for ‘Girls Feels Good’ though. That or Striptease are probably the two best tracks on the album so why get rid?!? At least we have both versions still on streaming, lol. I’m glad you enjoyed Glass & Patron as much as I do!

Trying to fit all these in the next seven days 😭 .... ‘Fackham Hall’, ‘Ella McCay’, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’, ‘Eleanor The Great’, ‘Lurker’

Happy household again this month as Ajanaeda and Mothertopia both qualify, yay! I'm otherwise quite happy with those SF2 results. I had voted Botanikka before it was taken out of competition so I feel like I only lost one country from my votes. Trifoski deserved better though! It would've got more points for me in most months I think but the quality was super high here.

so annoying that the UK feels like the one country that doesn't have this yet

They did release a Christmas mix at the time which is still on Spotify with added bells 🥲

5.5

3Quency hype!!

Also a bop!! Now you see me, now you don’t ! 👀

I love that Chloe song at the moment, it’s my fave of hers so far!

Yay happy with that result for Twigs! Especially nice to hear Bre made a discovery of it as I know they’re fond of some other Twigs stuff. I’m glad nobody guessed it to be me as that adds to the fun too I liked the winner so Rich is giving me plenty of discoveries this month! Bravo! I had no idea LeToya of DC had a brief solo career either so I enjoyed discovering that. Thanks for hosting Addy! It was a very fun theme! My alternative choice was Kacey Musgraves. I’m surprised she didn’t turn up elsewhere!

huuuuuuge banger

Not familiar with much this month so I’m excited to make discoveries. Mothertopia’s entry is AMAZING pop music, and so is the Maggie Lindemann song. I think the flowerovlove one is a bit disappointing by her standards but I’ll have to give it a second listen.

I'd be there!!! Dannii's team, are you reading this?!