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Three out of three so far for GB in the curling - going well!

Can't say I'm liking the look of the bottom end of the scoreboard!

Glad I was able to move a few people up the rankings there! Looking like a fairly well-anticipated Top 3 at the moment.

Enjoying Funeral a lot! The lyrics are certainly a lot more positive than the title and the style of the song would suggest.

Exciting times!

Off to a good start for us then with an 8-6 win

Just discovered three new songs to add to my playlist from skimming through these (Road to Nowhere, Sad Song and We Will Always Be The Way We Were) so thanks for putting together! Voted for those, alongside Happy Place (I think there are much better songs on the album, but maybe that's just because I was already familiar with the original version of Happy Place)

And so it begins! GB versus Norway in the Curling Miuxed Doubles is live on ITV.

Fair enough - I hadn't seen the runs today, just going off your descriptions and what I'd seen in recent years!

Ah I hadn't seen that - hopefully they can get something sorted out as it's one of the few events that we have a chance of medalling in!

That is concerning, but feels like a bit of a trend unfortunately with everything warming up - remembering in particular the women's slalom at last year's World Championships where almost two thirds of the field didn't finish the first run. And yeah not great for Lindsey Vonn when she was just coming back into form - hopefully it is only a minor injury.

My Lounge Mod Timeline is now nicely up to date

You might have to enjoy the Curling for a bit as that's the only thing that gets going tomorrow!

Congrats both! I think it's welcome back in both cases - Jack was a Lounge mod back in 2019-20!

GB are targeting between 4 and 8 medals apparently. I always feel it's a bit unfair to set targets with that number because youre basically pinpointing individuals and saying that you expect them to win a medal, which with things like Olympic sports can never be guaranteed.

I'll go for Austria please (although the temptation to pick a country like Guinea-Bissau was almost too much!)

I noticed that Team GB aren't sending any female alpine skiers to the Olympics - seems a little strange given that we managed to get two in the Top 30 at last year's World Championships!

Excited for this to get going! Always good to get so much live coverage of winter sports on TV.

The playoff draw has been made - Real Madrid and Benfica get each other again which is slightly hilarious!

1 [3] Seafret - Signal Fire 2 [1] Indochine - No Name 3 [2] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - The Wedding 4 [5] Matoma & Nico & Vinz - Love To The Universe 5 [6] LUNA & Russo - Voorbestemd 6 [4] Tom Speight & Lydia Clowes - Perfect Strangers 7 [9] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay 8 [8] Gen Zeal - Your Way Yahweh 9 [10] Walk Off The Earth & Ryan Mack - Where Would I Be 10 [7] Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger - Belong To You 11 [11] Pat Barrett - All This In A Name 12 [13] Sheppard - Beautiful Nothing 13 [16] Alok & Zeeba - Dive Into The Ocean (ft. Portugal. The Man) 14 [38] Theresa Phondo, Esther Chungu & Tio Nason - Daily II 15 [14] Tom Speight - Buzzing 16 [54] John Michael Howell - Missing Piece 17 [15] John Allan - Resurrection Power 18 [21] Jonathan Ogden - Stay With You 19 [20] John Allan - On & On 20 [19] White Lies - Juice 21 [23] Ibibio Sound Machine & Village Cuts - Anyone Like You 22 [18] The Head And The Heart - Beg, Steal, Borrow 23 [22] Strings And Heart - oasis for my soul 24 [12] Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team 25 [29] ESKE - Dancing In The Sky 26 [25] Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear - you're gonna be ok 27 [28] Mgzavrebi - Chveni Ambavi 28 [24] Tom Speight - Higher 29 [17] Together For Palestine - Lullaby (ft. Nai Barghouti, Neneh Cherry & Leigh-Anne) 30 [32] Josh Gauton - Quiet Joy 31 [27] Kensington - Stay 32 [26] fieldlily - Grow 33 [40] Darren Kiely - Two Roads 34 [36] Josh Gauton - Fly Back Quickly, My Love 35 [46] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 36 [37] TAEYEON - Panorama 37 [NEW] Limoblaze - God Did It 38 [31] Chinese American Bear - Forever Lover 39 [35] Jonathan Ogden - Be My Peace 40 [47] The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers

31 January 2026 1 [3] Seafret - Signal Fire 2 [1] Indochine - No Name 3 [2] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - The Wedding 4 [5] Matoma & Nico & Vinz - Love To The Universe 5 [6] LUNA & Russo - Voorbestemd 6 [4] Tom Speight & Lydia Clowes - Perfect Strangers 7 [9] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay 8 [8] Gen Zeal - Your Way Yahweh 9 [10] Walk Off The Earth & Ryan Mack - Where Would I Be 10 [7] Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger - Belong To You 11 [11] Pat Barrett - All This In A Name 12 [13] Sheppard - Beautiful Nothing 13 [16] Alok & Zeeba - Dive Into The Ocean (ft. Portugal. The Man) 14 [38] Theresa Phondo, Esther Chungu & Tio Nason - Daily II 15 [14] Tom Speight - Buzzing 16 [54] John Michael Howell - Missing Piece 17 [15] John Allan - Resurrection Power 18 [21] Jonathan Ogden - Stay With You 19 [20] John Allan - On & On 20 [19] White Lies - Juice 21 [23] Ibibio Sound Machine & Village Cuts - Anyone Like You 22 [18] The Head And The Heart - Beg, Steal, Borrow 23 [22] Strings And Heart - oasis for my soul 24 [12] Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team 25 [29] ESKE - Dancing In The Sky 26 [25] Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear - you're gonna be ok 27 [28] Mgzavrebi - Chveni Ambavi 28 [24] Tom Speight - Higher 29 [17] Together For Palestine - Lullaby (ft. Nai Barghouti, Neneh Cherry & Leigh-Anne) 30 [32] Josh Gauton - Quiet Joy 31 [27] Kensington - Stay 32 [26] fieldlily - Grow 33 [40] Darren Kiely - Two Roads 34 [36] Josh Gauton - Fly Back Quickly, My Love 35 [46] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 36 [37] TAEYEON - Panorama 37 [NEW] Limoblaze - God Did It 38 [31] Chinese American Bear - Forever Lover 39 [35] Jonathan Ogden - Be My Peace 40 [47] The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers 41 [70] Grace Graber - RUN 42 [34] St. Lundi - Mercury 43 [48] The Kooks - Sunny Baby 44 [39] Megi Gogitidze - Sulis Saxli 45 [30] The Maccabees - Koya 46 [53] James Marriott - California Rain 47 [61] Teenage Dads - Stay Between Us 48 [33] SERA - Firestone 49 [42] Caleb Hearn & Jenna Raine - BITE THE BULLET 50 [60] Within Temptation - Somebody Like You 51 [64] Munn - i got peace 52 [41] Quiet Man - Treading Water 53 [NEW] KAS:ST - Sound Of The Soul 54 [49] Sigrid - Jellyfish 55 [52] Chance Pena - Collapse 56 [NEW] Wubble-U - Petal (English Rose Pruned) 57 [56] The Color - A Thousand Words 58 [43] Kinnship - Zeal 59 [59] Praise Lubangu - fair weather! 60 [44] Caamp - Mistakes 61 [45] Nation of Language - I'm Not Ready For The Change 62 [65] Elle Limebear & Zo Ross-Waddell - Every Good Thing 63 [67] Sigrid - Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly 64 [58] Rhufo & dei - Open Hands 65 [51] Colony House - OK OK OK OK 66 [NEW] Electrotete - I Love You (Cubic 22 Remix) 67 [55] Ryan Stevenson - All Falls Away 68 [57] ILLENIUM & Norma Jean Martine - Refuge 69 [NEW] Hot Chip - Devotion 70 [50] Limoblaze & Joe L Barnes - Do It Now (Agbanilagbatan) 71 [NEW] KING BOOO! - Tunes Since 89 72 [63] Son Mieux - Morning 73 [69] Seafret - Wait 74 [62] Cut Copy - Solid 75 [66] Steve Queralt & Emma Anderson - Lonely Town

10: MercyMe - Oh DeathI don't really listen to too much music by MercyMe, so this was just one that came up on my Spotify shuffle when listening to some new music, and I really got into it! It's a very 'cheery' (if you can call it that) song making fun of death from a Christian standpoint, showing that whilst it's something that used to scare and control the band, they can now 'dance on [its] grave' as death won't have the final victory! 9: The Head And The Heart - ArrowA #1 from early in the year now, I always love a song which has a piano riff and Arrow really hits the mark on that count. It's a song about always being on the move, and always feeling 'called' to new places instead of settling down - hence the chorus line of 'I am my own arrow, I am my own home'. 8: Sigrid - JellyfishThe highest female-vocalled song in my countdown this year, Jellyfish is just a fun song to listen to and to have around, particularly with lines like 'if you're a loser then I'm just like you'. She seems to be having a lot of fun in the music video as well! The song was a real grower for me, entering my chart at Number 64 in August and slowly climbing to its peak of #2 in November, making it her highest-peaking song in my chart to date. 7: WE ARE ONE - Nazarene SlumsAnother song which is in the Top 10 thanks to its extended chart run prior to topping my chart, Nazarene Slums is the second #1 in my chart for WE ARE ONE and is simply a song talking about different views of Jesus at the time he was around, and whether anything good can come 'from Nazarene slums' - an interpretation of Nathaniel's initial reaction to Jesus in the book of John. And as mentioned, this entered my chart in May, and spent 11 weeks in the 21-40 section of my chart before rocketing up into the Top 10. 6: Jonathan Ogden - Set Me FreeAnd at #6 we have the highest Christian song in my chart this year, from British guitar-strummer Jonathan Ogden. Set Me Free is a very sweet song about him finding freedom in God (even if the song itself doesn't explicitly mention it), it's also got an interesting song structure as the backing guitar suddenly changes after what you might call the 'chorus' (even though said chorus is only sung once in the song). It topped my chart for a week in September and stuck around until Christmas.

Niceland have voted! Quite a bit of moving and shaking in my final listen-through, including my +18 which wasn't at the top of either of my semi rankings after the first listen-through.

Listening to your #1 now - an interesting track, can see some of the K-Pop influences in there (especially the dancing!) but equally it's quite clearly not a copy-paste of the music being made in Korea. Thanks for posting this Joseph, always interesting to see what sort of music pops up here!

Nice to see Wunderschön pop up in this section after you mentioned it appearing in my chart! Great to see Bara Bada Bastu here as well - who knew songs about saunas could be so catchy?