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Time for the next section! 151: Strings And Heart - kerosene 152: Tonio Geugelin - Your Ways 153: Tom Speight - Higher 154: Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear - you're gonna be ok 155: Rend Collective - Burn 156: bodie - smile 157: Barbara Pravi - La Pieva (Chez moi) 158: Jacob Smith - Set Our Sights 159: CalledOut Music - Adore You 160: Lukas Graham - You You You 161: Son Mieux - Have A Little Faith 162: Biffy Clyro - A Little Love 163: Elle Limebear - Bloodline 164: Louane - maman 165: John Allan - On & On 166: bodie - SETTLE 167: Twenty One Pilots - Tally 168: Of Monsters and Men - Television Love 169: Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi 170: Warehouse Worship - Love Song 171: Good Neighbours - Ripple 172: The Lottery Winners - Turn Around 173: Tom Odell - Don't Cry, Put Your Head on My Shoulder 174: Unheilig - Wunderschon 175: Quiet Man - Treading Water Again, quite a few great Christian songs in this section, but also the likes of The Lottery Winners, Of Monsters and Men, Tom Odell and a couple of Eurovision entries make it in. Also Lukas Graham's only charting song lands here - quite the world away from their numerous #1s back in the day!

I've not listened to many (if any) albums this year so I'll probably comment more on the singles, but I know Tom Odell had a few good songs out this year, and Sombr has certainly made a splash in the charts!

Glad you're a fan of these! Hallucination was a great BJSC entry and Sapphire was my favourite of Ed's songs this year, loving the Indian theme. Thanks Sergej! Ah nice! I found this one on the Radio 6 playlist and thought it sounded quite nice so decided to add it to my own. Thanks Jade!

3 Saint Etienne - Glad 1,609,300 - love this song, a great comeback from Saint Etienne! 10 Sam Fender - People Watching 1,093,100 - another great song from Sam, my favourite from this new album and really glad it gave him a second big chart hit 52 Kaj - Bara Bada Bastu 505,900 - one of the best Eurovision tracks this year - super catchy! 78 Kylie Minogue - Xmas 369,000 - a fairly standard Christmas song but it's cheery enough and really glad it stopped Wham from hogging the Christmas #1 for the third year in a row 138 Sam Fender - Little Bit Closer 221.400 - another one of the better Sam Fender songs from the new album, including Owen Cooper in the music video was a nice touch as well. 149 Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas 204,600 - will always be a brilliant song Some names here I didn't realise had released this year and should probably give a listen to - Georgia, Cerrone and Petite Meller in particular!

I've been out of BJSC this year so missed o(type), so just giving it a listen given you provided the link - not surprised that this is something coming from uhsting, seems very much the sort of thing that would be up their street! The vocals are really nice amidst everything else going on with the instrumentation in the song.

Right I'm not daft enough to think you're allgoing to gush over my choice there so here's my first set of songs! 176: JT Suavé & Sam0 - By The Grace 177: Faith Child & Marizu - Oluwa is Involved 178: Toby Lee - House On Fire 179: Jack Robson - Run Miles 180: Sissal - Hallucination 181: The Head & The Heart - After The Setting Sun 182: Elis Floreen - Avalanches 183: Johnossi - Gemini 184: Caamp - Mistakes 185: Praise Lubangu - fair weather! 186: Muyiwa & Riversongz - Dancing Around The Manger 187: Moses Brothers - Sailing 188: JERUB - Kumbaya 189: Lucy Grimble & Jonny Riggs - Thanks And Praise 190: Michael Kiwanuka - The Rest of Me 191: MEAU - Een Nacht Als Deze 192: Tom Speight & The Mayries - Kind To You 193: Eugy Official - Pray 194: Michael Kiwanuka - One and Only 195: Rend Collective - The Reason 196: White Lies - Juice 197: HAAi, Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, ILA & Trans Voices - Satellite 198: Sam Hibbard - Oasis 199: Ten Fé - All Night 200: Ed Sheeran - Sapphire Very little commentary here as we've got 200 of them to get through! But hopefully at least a few of the names look familiar (Ed Sheeran certainly should ) and doing my chart a little later than usual has meant a couple of Christmas songs have snuck in as well.

Mainstream Song of the Year: Alex Warren - Carry You Home 2025 wasn't the most stellar for mainstream music - only two Top 40 entries make my Top 100 this time round! So I've decided to go for the song that was #3 in my EOY last year but has made much more of an impact in the charts this year. Whilst this song maybe has been played a little too much this year, it's still a beautiful love song that shines as a beacon amongst all the less pleasant topics that often get brought up in chart songs. His best song by a mile, and more than happy to give it another shout-out here! Mainstream Song of the Year: Hall of Fame 1999: Fatboy Slim - Praise You 2000: Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby 2001: Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 2002: DJ Sammy & Yanou ft. Do - Heaven 2003: Room 5 - Make Luv 2004: Eric Prydz - Call On Me 2005: Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor 2006: Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' 2007: MIKA - Grace Kelly 2008: Basshunter ft. DJ Mental Theo's Bassheadz - Now You're Gone 2009: Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 2010: Taio Cruz - Dynamite 2011: LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock) 2012: PSY - Gangnam Style 2013: Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) 2014: DJ Fresh & Jay Fay ft. Ms. Dynamite - Dibby Dibby Sound 2015: Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself 2016: Lukas Graham - 7 Years 2017: JP Cooper - September Song 2018: Dean Lewis - Be Alright 2019: Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc - SOS 2020: Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver - exile 2021: Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under 2022: Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN 2023: Peggy Gou - It Goes Like (Nanana) 2024: Djo - End of Beginning 2025: Alex Warren - Carry You Home

Just given God Help Me a listen - beautiful song, love the lyrics. An interesting one to turn into a trance song but it works quite well! Oro is sounding quite nice as well, the piano integrates into the rest of the song really well.

Nice to see Nice to Meet You pop up here - I preferred Stargazing but this one is pretty nice as well! Never heard of Bleu Soleil but guess it makes sense for them to do a song called Soleil Bleu I'll need to brush up on my French to get my head around the lyrics of this one!

Just giving Look At You a listen now - the lyrics are certainly cryptic and need a bit of mulling over I think! Seems to go quite well with the backing track though.

Should be interesting to follow this!

From the ones I know, Bara Bada Bastu and Espresso Macchiato are both great songs - incredibly catchy and both will be making an appearance in my EOY! 12 to 12 is probably my favourite of your higher-up ones, Sombr has certainly made a splash this year and that one is probably the catchiest of the lot.

Here are the #1s from this year if you want to do any speculating! Maverick City Music, Jordin Sparks & Anthony Garigula - Constant (ft. Chandler Moore) The Head And The Heart - Arrow DI-RECT - Wastelands Jonathan Ogden - Blue Feathers Mumford & Sons - Rushmere The Red Clay Strays - I'm Still Fine Sons of Sunday - I Looked Up Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu Klemen - How Much Time Do We Have Left Together? Josh Gauton - Sanctuary half.alive & The Walters - R.I.P Bon Iver - From WE ARE ONE - Nazarene Slums New Wine Worship & Sharyn - Anointing Jonathan Ogden - Set Me Free Dan Stirling & Gareth James - Morning Joshu - holding on Kinnship - Zeal Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team John Allan - Resurrection Power Together For Palestine - Lullaby (ft. Nai Barghouti, Neneh Cherry & Leigh-Anne)

Hi all! I'm a bit later with this this year and it'll definitely be a pared down version of what I usually do as I don't have as much time, and also the fact we've lost BBCode so all my auto-formatting doesn't work But we will have an End of Year! As always, all comments more than welcome.

2016 Friends of Jo Cox - You Can't Always Get What You Want (ft. MP4, Ricky Wilson, David Gray & KT Tunstall) 2017 Casting Crowns - Make Room (ft. Matt Maher) 2018 John Gibbons & Franklin - A Spaceman Came Travelling (ft. Nina Nesbitt) 2019 Lukas Graham - HERE (For Christmas) 2020 Luz - the author 2021 Callum Beattie - It's Christmas 2022 We Are Messengers - Saviour 2023 TobyMac & Tasha Layton - Christmas Hits Different 2024 Annatoria - Go Tell It On The Mountain 2025 Together For Palestine - Lullaby (ft. Nai Barghouti, Neneh Cherry & Leigh-Anne)