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Amazing as always, insta saving this for later. Lots of great inclusions and a few songs I don’t remember by name but I’m sure I will know them once I play it Especially loving that Disc 2 starts at Shakira, gets to High School Musical, and then ends up at Sandi Thom :lol.

Here to say again how much I’m vibing my entry this month and I hope at least some of you do as well :lol:

Much better than the other two, though it’s definitely gonna bug me when we find out nothing this season has actually happened and it’s all been in some sort of twisted reality / fake dimension

Sent!

Actually insane that never went Top 40. I guess (Everything I Do) I Do It for You made up for Summer of 69 flopping at the time but Summer has definitely overtaken it

Going by Steam i’m on 1900~ hours in Team Fortress 2 lol. The next highest is GMod 300~ hours. Beyond Steam I know I sunk a looot of hours in Minecraft back in the day no doubt more than my TF2. But weighing up actually playing versus messing around chatting with people probably lowers that quite a bit. Also sunk a lot of time into Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Zoo Tycoon 2, and later The Sims 3 in the 2000s. 2006-2009 JP / ZT2 / Club Penguin :lol: 2009-2013 TS3 2010-2017 Minecraft / TF2 2018-onwards not so much gaming I’ve played a lot of CIV6 and Rimworld but not to the scale of games when I was younger. I go back to TF2 every now and again but not for long. Pokémon is up there too but obviously spread over many different games, I’m pretty sure the only one I’ve spent over 100 hours in is Sword because I finished a living dex and it took forever after deciding not to catch every new mon I saw on my playthrough. I learned from that error with Scarlet and finishing living dex by 45h

Are there many #41 peaks that were actually decent sized hits despite the peak / songs that have grown popular over the years?

I actually really love my song this month so if we DNQ again there will be war crimes

+5 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us +4 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things +3 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) +2 Taylor Swift - Fortnight +1 Hozier - Too Sweet -1 Tommy Richman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY -2 Dasha - Austin -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -4 Artemas - i like the way you kiss me -5 Teddy Swims - Lose Control

Wow her dad is JJ Abrams

This was just f***ing weird The Beatles not really passing for any of the Beatles put me off a little before I watched but I understand casting for iconic faces is an issue everywhere. I was happily ready to suspend belief and go with the flow for that. They weren’t even a main role in the episode anyway aside from the corny deus ex machina The whole “from another dimension” thing is getting old already and yet I just know it’s gonna be a recurring theme this season. Twisting reality is cool and all but it’s been done multiple times before and also very very recently, so recent that the stakes just didn’t seem to matter as we know it’s all gonna work out anyway not much different from NPH. And these beings breaking the fourth wall works as a scare tactic as we saw last year, but now that both Maestro and Doctor have done it (did Ruby too? I can’t remember) it makes me feel like the neighbour from the Xmas episode was just a gimmick with no actual plot reasoning That was my major gripe until the musical number at the end. What? It wasn’t a “I am a being with so much power you must use music to beat me!” sort of thing like before, it was literally just a random dance number? And the crossing playing music? After Maestro has gone? I don’t understand what these guys are playing at lol

This was kinda cool, the babies were cute and actually had me laughing out loud a little. It’s a strange concept but it worked. I would’ve liked to actually see an ending though… the last we see is the Doctor using gas to push the space station towards a planet? Even though it’s even mentioned that the station can’t do anything to coordinate so like is the station relying on a refuge planet to rescue it? I like Ruby she is very confident and comfortable around the Doctor, which is historically a bad thing for companions :lol: I’m not digging how the Doctor speaks or dresses yet… call me old fashioned but it doesn’t quite hit the mark yet

People complaining that there’s only a 20 minute break between Paramore and Taylor which isn’t enough time to go to the toilet, so you either have to skip the end of one set or miss the start of another :lol: Hoping we get a live Castles Crumbling at some point whilst Hayley is opening and on site anyway

Weird, Disney+ advertising is as a “Three Episode Premiere” with the Xmas Special as Episode 1. But then that same episode is listed separately as 2023 Special 4 elsewhere on the app

Scream & Shout may not be either of will.i.am or Britney’s most fondly remembered hits but it was massive in 2012/2013 Paint The Town Red is maybe yet to prove whether it’ll hold up years from now but it’s Doja’s most streamed song on Spotify and was #26 UK EOY 2023 MLWSWY feels bigger to me than maybe it was? :lol: Quick research is telling me not so much, although it’s funny to discover that Taylor spent an extra two weeks in the Top 10 than Kelly did despite the lower peak for Love Story

Weird reading the LP tracklists and on 2007 Side B is How To Save A Life with (2005) written below lol

She does have quite the history of “unlucky” peaks at times when other insanely huge songs were at #1. Love Story behind My Life Would Suck Without You, I Knew You Were Trouble behind Scream & Shout, Shake It Off behind All About That Base, Cruel Summer behind Paint The Town Red, and willow behind Mariah & Wham at Christmas (technically a non-xmas #1?). Even beyond that her other Top 10s have mostly just had crazy competition at time of release. All Too Well (10 Minute TV) was behind Adele and Ed, Bad Blood was behind the likes of Cheerleader and See You Again (plus Bills), ME! was behind Stormzy and Lil Nas X, and as mentioned before Blank Space was forever stuck behind Ed and Mark Ronson/Bruno

Drake collab is as good as dead after the last week. I wouldn’t be shocked if this is the same song and Lil Nas is a last minute sub

01 Kita Alexander - Between You & I [11/38, 117] 02 Thelma Plum - Clumsy Love [22/38, 120] 03 Ball Park Music - Day & Age [DNQ, 127] 04 Petit Biscuit - Suffer (feat. SKOTT) [19/38, 110] 05 G Flip - Drink Too Much [18/29, 122] 06 BENEE - Find An Island [16/38, 119] 07 The Jungle Giants - Sending Me Ur Loving [DNQ, 123] 08 Tones And I - Johnny Run Away [DNQ, 115] 09 Chet Faker - Gold [DNQ, 106] 10 Elk Road & JES - Ghost [15/37, 111] 11 The Knocks - R U HIGH (feat. Mallrat) [DNQ, 134] 12 Kinder - Bus Stop [08/41, 135] 13 The Aston Shuffle - Tear It Down [36/42, 107] 14 Wafia - Good Things [25/41, 130] 15 Mallrat - Groceries [DNQ, 112] 16 KIAN - Sunbeam [DNQ, 131] 17 Morgan Saint - YOU [DNQ, 101] 18 JXN - paranoia [DNQ, 126] 19 Love Fame Tragedy- Don’t You Want To Sleep With Someone Normal [DNQ, 164] 20 Vera Blue - Regular Touch [28/37, 102] 21 DVBBS - West Coast (feat. Quinn XCII) [38/42, 129] 22 The Rubens - Heavy Weather [DNQ, 124] 23 CXLOE - Monster [41/41, 103] 24 Luke Million - Hypnotised (feat. Last Dinosaurs) [DNQ, 104] 25 Client Liaison - World Of Our Love [28/38, 105] 26 REZZ & Grabbitz – Someone Else [DNQ, 125] 27 Young Franco - Talkin' Bout It (feat. KLP) [35/38, 108] 28 Alex The Astronaut – I Think You're Great [DNQ, 132] 29 GLADES - Not About You [34/39, 109] 30 Ok Moon - Loved You Right [DNQ, 113] 31 Eves Karydas - Complicated [DNQ, 128] 32 Jordie Ireland feat. Riley Biederer - Throw Away My Number [42/42, 118] A 50% qualification rate, is that common? :lol: I remember a few times where my non-qualifiers seemed more popular to the other semi which comes down to bad luck on the roll. Likewise a couple of these *cough* Jordie *cough* probably shouldn’t have qualified but happened to scrape votes by demographic luck Funny to think I sent Tones and I about a month or two before Dance Monkey blew up internationally, even though I believe it had already been released at that point. Would Dance Monkey have been vetoed even though by then it was only a minor hit in Australia? All up to #19 I return to quite a lot, especially the Top 10. After that it gets a bit less thrilling as they were just songs I liked at the time and definitely wouldn’t be chosen to enter again if given the chance. I fully think Ball Park Music could do great with maybe a different song choice that’s more appealing to a wider audience, same for Luke Million further down who has much better songs out there.

Rival at 145 is being a real bitch today I had no idea the DNA Splicer was a thing until you mentioned it! A quick google and it sounds like it could be OP but very dependent on what your team is looking like in the moment. I just got an IV Scanner on my current run which lets you see the two best IVs on wild Pokémon before you battle which is kinda cool, helpful for future-starter building maybe

Thanks for hosting this! Even though it gave us the wrong results imo :P For what it’s worth this is what my personal Top 10 would be for 1989 TV (right now lol, the Top 3 are often interchangeable as are the next 6) 1 Blank Space 2 Wildest Dreams 3 Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) 4 Is It Over Now? 5 New Romantics 6 Shake It Off 7 Style 8 Say Don’t Go 9 Out Of The Woods 10 Welcome To New York

Managed a fortnight at #1 in Australia at least! Unlikely to last another week though as I expect Espresso to takeover.

I kinda prefer this version now tbh. I listened to the original earlier and I’ve grown used to the speed off Badger’s version I just can’t hear the original the same anymore :lol:

Honestly Drake is vile and while I like some of his music (at least up to Scorpion) he deserves every bit of this lol. He’s bitten off way more than he can chew by starting beef with Kendrick and rightfully so almost everyone else in the game will back K over D I’m sure Kendrick isn’t perfect but he’s sure as hell better than Drake who has been asking to be buried for years