King Rollo

Yes, I can do that unless I also forget.

Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 3 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Karma Chameleon, Victims Yesterday's was Maxi Priest, by the way, not Cat Stevens, in case you are wondering which one my one answer of Wild World referred to.

I did like Eye Level at the time as a seven year old and retain a fondness for it. I wasn't so keen on the bagpipes of Amazing Grace. Mouldy Old Dough is lovingly eccentric and YMCA still sounds good.

Fade To Grey is a wonderful song to pick as your favourite. I'd forgotten about it so I thought your top 2 might be Don't You Want Me and something by The Cure, maybe A Forest. I see you mentioned both in your honourable mentions. Love Will Tear Us Apart is also an enduring classic from the same year.

Oh, I forgot about that Worldvision so you're 3-2 ahead of me now.

Congratulations Jim, it's always good to see a long song win a contest and it was 2nd in my vote, you join me on two contest wins in 2026. 9th place was higher than I expected for my own song, thanks to all who gave it points, especially WhoOdyssey for the 12. Lonely Robot is the solo project of John Mitchell who was the lead singer of It Bites who I sent to Bop Idol. I started listening to some Lonely Robot after liking the two It Bites albums from the 2000s. Thanks to uhsting for doing a great job with the hosting.

1st Kate Bush - Hounds of Love She's in a different league to everyone else in this category so I think she'll always be likely to top my vote 2nd Dido - White Flag I've always liked her vocals on Faithless albums, a lovely tone to her voice, and this song is co-written and produced with the other Rollo 3rd Agnes - Selfmade Never heard of her but I enjoyed the vocal effects and outro 4th Milica Pavlović - Ona nosi Pradu A good rhythm to this 5th Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Music Gets the Best of Me 6th Tove Lo featuring Wiz Khalifa - Influence 7th Leona Lewis - Better in Time (Single Mix) 8th Adele - Hello 9th Marina - Bubblegum Bitch 10th Jessie Ware - Sauna 11th Robyn - Talk To Me 12th Zara Larsson - Love Me Land

I'm not expecting to do too well in this one.

Vienna and Blue Monday are certainly two of my favourite songs from the 80s and both groups are in the Pop Factor now. I'm much less certain of what your top 2 are compared to the 70s but I do have two songs in mind so I'll see if I'm right tomorrow.

I'm more familiar with the groups than the solo artists so I know a lot of these songs.

Everybody's entry has now been seen by the mods and there are no vetoes!

Round 1: 36 Bon Jovi Round 2: 39 💥 3 in 10: 1 Wild World

I don't think covers or collaborations could ever be a theme as many acts don't do either.

Round 1: 30 The year, Robin Sarstedt Round 2: 30 Tracks Of My Tears, Garrett 3 in 10: 3 What's The Frequency, Kenneth?, Everybody Hurts, Orange Crush

Your act has not been taken. There's only been one artist clash so far, with the same song, and that person has reconfirmed.

Are you counting Sade as a female? They are a group.

I agree that 80s Abba are better as my two favourites by them are The Day Before You Came and One Of Us. West End Girls and Two Tribes are the best two songs so far. I would also put Two Tribes above The Power Of Love and Relax in order of Frankie's best number 1 singles and agree with Jaz that the full 13 minute album version of Welcome To The Pleasuredome is just as good as any of them. I did laugh at you doing a school project on banned songs when some of them aren't considered as suitable for children to listen to.

Some wonderful choices so far along with several I've never heard of.

Spiceboy is on the list of entrants, Julian.

We're up to 20 entrants so far. Still five days left for everyone else.

Round 1: 33 The year, Lynsey De Paul Round 2: 27 The Free Electric Band, Move Over Darling, the year 3 in 10: 3 Dirrty, Beautiful, Genie In A Bottle

After this starts, I hope that Calum will post a list of the second and third choices that were not needed.

I only did it once but it says "your response has been recorded" so that's good enough for me.

Finished at 19.03.

I will be typing at my normal speed with one finger and will have a quick look at the rules before going to the form. I refuse to be a part of the undignified scramble that is about to take place.