King Rollo

Well done both of you on the 39s. Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 King Of Pain, So Lonely, Roxanne

I found the 2000s much more difficult to narrow down to four, the 2010s doesn't have as many great albums from my point of view. 2000s: Air - 10000 Hz Legend Arcade Fire - Funeral Peter Gabriel - Up Guillemots - Through The Windowpane 2010s: Anathema - Weather Systems Marillion - F E A R Karnataka - Secrets Of Angels Nero - Welcome Reality

That's a great top 4 there. Beyond that, I would pick out Tom Hark and All Over The World. The latter has Shard End as one of the places mentioned in the lyrics which is the part of Birmingham that Jeff Lynne was born and raised in.

+50 Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb +49 The Beach Boys- Wouldn't It Be Nice +48 Queen- We Will Rock You +47 The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping +46 Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here +45 Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound Of Silence +44 The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun +43 Fleetwood Mac- The Chain +42 The Beatles- In My Life +41 The Who- Baba O'Riley +40 Empire Of The Sun- Walking On A Dream +39 Woodkid- Run Boy Run +38 The Beatles- Blackbird +37 Bryan Adams- Summer Of '69 +36 Daryl Hall & John Oates- You Make My Dreams +35 Lou Reed- Perfect Day +34 David Bowie- Changes +33 Blondie- One Way Or Another +32 John Denver- Take Me Home, Country Roads +31 Tame Impala- Let It Happen (Oasis- Half The World Away) +30 Dolly Parton- 9 To 5 +29 Alphaville- Forever Young +28 The Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter (Aerosmith- Dream On) +27 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell- Ain't No Mountain High Enough +26 Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl +25 Elton John- Tiny Dancer +24 Talking Heads- Psycho Killer +23 Stevie Nicks- Edge Of Seventeen +22 Kiss- I Was Made For Lovin' You +21 Pixies- Where Is My Mind +20 Gorillaz- On Melancholy Hill +19 Lykke Li- I Follow Rivers +18 Oasis- Champagne Supernova +17 Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll +16 Arctic Monkeys- I Wanna Be Yours +15 Lily Allen- F**k You +14 Adele- Rumour Has It +13 Tina Turner- Proud Mary +12 Oasis- Morning Glory +11 Arctic Monkeys- Mardy Bum +10 Blossoms- Charlemagne +9 Two Door Cinema Club- What You Know +8 Oasis- She's Electric +7 The 1975- Somebody Else +6 Vampire Weekend- A-Punk +5 Rihanna- Love On The Brain +4 Duke Dumont- Ocean Drive +3 Imagine Dragons- Believer +2 Frank Ocean- Lost +1 Kendrick Lamar- Swimming Pools (Drank)

Well done Jade on today's 39. Round 1: 36 Mariah Carey Round 2: 21 Des'ree, Braxton, High Life, Give Me Just A Little More Time 3 in 10: 2 Duke Of Earl, It's Raining

Round 1: 27 Discotheque, Alisha Rules The World, Heatwave Round 2: 30 Billy Joel, the year, Leo Sayer 3 in 10: 3 Girls And Boys, Song 2, Country House

Sleepwalk is a great debut for Ultravox and the best song there, followed by Private Life and The Winner Takes It All.

Well done John on the double 39. Round 1: 33 Randy Edelman, Denis Round 2: 30 The Music, Year Of Decision 3 in 10: 1 Harvest For The World

I only have the Best Of Pink Floyd double CD and The Division Bell but I've listened to some of their other albums on Spotify a few times including Animals. I've just had another listen now and would put 'Sheep' forward as being the best track with 'Dogs' in second place and 'Pigs' third. Overall, it's a good album with the guitar playing standing out. For 70s prog rock, I've always much preferred Genesis and Yes and have never really fully embraced the music of Pink Floyd. Maybe it's because the other two groups use keyboard sounds to a much greater extent rather than relying mainly on guitars for the instrumentation and also their lead singers are better vocalists.

Round 1: 27 Whitney Houston, Change Of Heart, Got To Have Your Love Round 2: 21 Redbone, Brilliant, Echo and the Bunnymen, Don Henley 3 in 10: 2 Is This Love, Fool For Your Loving

22nd - 28th July 1965 37. This World Is Not My Home - Jim Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ndMZqT6i4I Quite a religious song about wanting to be in Heaven so I hope for his sake it turned out to be what he was expecting. 38. In Thoughts Of You - Billy Fury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUbw1CxsRiQ Billy's last top 10 hit is OK with good use of the piano and orchestra. 40. This Strange Effect - Dave Berry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7kFT8BNj8 Written by Ray Davies, this is a sparsely produced love song that I think would sound better if someone else was singing it. I don't like his tuneless sounding vocal. Hooverphonic, The Undertones and Squeeze have all covered it so there is potential in the song and maybe I might prefer one of the other versions if I check them out. Record of the week : 17. We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place - The Animals I like how this builds up steadily over the first minute and a quarter before we get to the first chorus. It's another fantastic vocal from Eric Burdon who I'd certainly put down as one of my favourite singers from the 60s. The single will peak at number 2 and end up in the Grammy Hall Of Fame.

Round 1: 36 The year (one year out) Round 2: 24 Tonight I'm Yours (I said Tonight You're Mine), the year, When The Heartache Is Over 3 in 10: 3 I Feel Love, Dinner With Gershwin, This Time I Know It's For Real

Ultravox - Sleepwalk Electric Light Orchestra - All Over The World David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Peter Gabriel - Biko Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day No room for Split Enz, Piranhas or Bow Wow Wow

Thanks Calum for putting so much effort into this and getting every round started so promptly. I don't often look at the pop forum so it was great taking part in the event and getting as far as the final.

Congratulations Avril La Scene. I'm really pleased to get the Pet Shop Boys as far as second place.

I think the points for both songs are added together so if Avril was in the lead after the first one, she could still win even if her second song is outscored by Christina's.

From the last batch, my favourites are Xanadu, Play The Game, Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please and To Be Or Not To Be.

Congratulations Addy and bad luck Dandy on just missing out. 12th place is a respectable finish for my entry. Thanks Julian for doing a fantastic job hosting a contest for the first time.

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 36 Change Your Mind 3 in 10: 2 When A Child Is Born, Too Much Too Little Too Late

I didn't know the song before the contest. I didn't think I'd like anything by an artist from one of the well known talent shows so I went hunting for something else. Thanks to all those who have given points to 'Chameleon Life' so far, especially Chris for the 12.

Round 1: 18 Life, Disco Stomp, This Town, Hello, Status Quo Round 2: 36 White 3 in 10: 1 Jenny From The Block

Thanks. 39 on round 2 for both of us again today. Round 1: 30 Circus Games, Lobo Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 Talk Of The Town, I Go To Sleep, 2000 Miles

Thanks to all those who voted for The Idle Race and well done to all the qualifiers.

It was difficult to choose between Left To My Own Devices and What Have I Done To Deserve This. Left To My Own Devices is my favourite Pet Shop Boys song and it does have recent form, finishing 2nd in the Trevor Horn Rate, so I decided to go with it. Going into the semi-finals, I thought I would need both songs as we were told we needed ten in total but it turned out that only applied to those who went into the Golden Wagner round. I wish I hadn't used Always On My Mind in the first round but I didn't know then which acts had been sent by everyone else so I wanted to play it safe at the start. Anyway, I'm glad that the Pet Shop Boys still have a chance.

Thanks RobBot for saving the Pet Shop Boys. 😃