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Well done @Paddington James and @danG! I appreciated The Corrs and Nelly Furtado involvement, because both are artists I really liked back in the day, but I haven't played them too often in recent years - so it was nice to be reminded. Both of you sent my favourite song by each artist - What Can I Do and Maneater.

Geri went with Victoria and David to Cruz's gig:

Thanks for posting, that's a nice interview! “Nothing’s happening,” she confirms flatly. - not sure if Mel B has ever been that despondent about it. You could be right that personal circumstances could play into it and that it's not the right moment. I had no idea Mel B knew Rory since "long before" the Spice Girls, which could suggest since he was born and she was a teenager!

Ooh 2 recent updates for The Wanted! Most Wanted went Silver on 19th May 2023, so its weekly average sales is 268 or 269 sales (if we were to just assume 60,000 exactly on 19th May 2023 and 100,000 exactly on 27th March 2026). At this rate, it would take it until 2040 to go Platinum I’ll get around to updating these threads soon, thank you for continuing to share what has been certified

This is lovely!

Although Melanie C obviously has her own mind, I found it annoying to hear recently that a certain fan apparently told her during a meet that the Spice Girls should never make new music again. Why would you say that? As some kind of pseudo spokesperson for the fan community (ugh), that’s frustrating. It might have backed up her stance that no one wants that. What’s interesting about the endless cycle of reunion rumours over the years is that the articles are mainly about tours. Maybe that perpetuates the idea to the Spice Girls that people only want a tour, nothing new. I feel like they’re one of very few nostalgia artists who don’t get hit with new music expectations. Even recently reunited bands such as S Club get asked about doing new music even though they’ve not released an album since 2002.

It would be very unwise to!

No one asked, but these are my top scrobbled songs from the 15 remaining artists! - https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/277780-your-most-played/page/2/#findComment-7922808

My most scrobbled songs from the 15 artists who made it to the live shows of The Pop Factor in the Pop forum: (Scrobbles since January 2012) ABBA 1 - 10 - Dancing Queen 2 - 9 - Lay All Your Love on Me 3 - 8 - Knowing Me, Knowing You Atomic Kitten 1 - 29 - It's OK! 2 - 27 - If You Come to Me 3 - 25 - The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling) Chappell Roan 1 - 121 - Good Luck, Babe! 2 - 78 - HOT TO GO! 3 - 68 - Pink Pony Club Conan Gray =1 - 70 - Maniac / Vodka Cranberry 3 - 62 - Overdrive The Corrs 1 - 18 - What Can I Do [Tin Tin Out Remix] 2 - 13 - Breathless 3 - 12 - Dreams [Tee's Radio] David Bowie 1 - 2 - Young Americans =2 - 1 - "Heroes" / Ashes to Ashes / Lazarus / Life on Mars? Delta Goodrem 1 - 78 - Sitting on Top of the World 2 - 63 - Think About You 3 - 54 - Wings Florence + The Machine 1 - 63 - Spectrum (Say My Name) [Calvin Harris Remix] 2 - 15 - Shake It Out 3 - 9 - Never Let Me Go HAIM 1 - 34 - Want You Back 2 - 26 - Little of Your Love [BloodPop® Remix] 3 - 19 - Relationships Kelly Clarkson 1 - 147 - Underneath the Tree 2 - 72 - Catch My Breath 3 - 60 - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) Lily Allen 1 - 51 - Hard Out Here 2 - 21 - Pussy Palace 3 - 17 - Trigger Bang Nelly Furtado 1 - 18 - Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) [Radio Edit] 2 - 15 - Maneater [Video Version] 3 - 10 - MARRIAGE ROSALÍA 1 - 5 - TKN =2 - 2 - DIABLO / MALAMENTE - Cap.1: Augurio Scissor Sisters 1 - 7 - Only the Horses 2 - 6 - Fire with Fire 3 - 4 - Take Your Mama Troye Sivan 1 - 220 - My My My! 2 - 169 - Rush 3 - 162 - HEAVEN

Lucas

01 Troye Sivan - Bloom [Fave] 02 Conan Gray - Maniac 03 Atomic Kitten - Be With You 04 ABBA - Super Trouper 05 Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova 06 Lily Allen - Madeline 07 Delta Goodrem - Believe Again 08 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind 09 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes 10 The Corrs - Irresistible 11 Kelly Clarkson - Never Again 12 ROSALÍA - PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ - Cap.3: Celos 13 Nelly Furtado - Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) 14 Scissor Sisters - She’s My Man 15 Florence + the Machine - Hurricane Drunk Is it the case that Kelly Clarkson has so far only sent songs from Breakaway and My December?😲

Samantha Mumba for Pop Factor 3

I knew that Maniac has over a billion streams on Spotify, and suspected that this makes it the top streamed song of this round, so I had a look into it: Stats 🤓 1,012,820,391 Conan Gray Maniac 616,582,610 Chappell Roan Red Wine Supernova 438,307,150 ABBA Super Trouper 181,423,683 ROSALÍA PIENSO EN TU MIRÁ - Cap.3: Celos 141,321,153 David Bowie Ashes to Ashes 137,506,345 Troye Sivan Bloom 60,109,285 HAIM If I Could Change Your Mind 31,825,208 Florence + The Machine - Hurricane Drunk 22,837,993 Lily Allen Madeline 18,576,631 Kelly Clarkson Never Again 12,856,278 The Corrs Irresistible 12,022,325 Nelly Furtado - Big Hoops (Bigger the Better) 7,437,921 Atomic Kitten Be With You 6,514,943 Scissor Sisters She’s My Man 1,817,945 Delta Goodrem Believe Again When this season of the Pop Factor is over, I might look at every round and their Spotify stream counts #nerd x

I’m feeling rather meh towards them at the moment, like I just can’t really be bothered anymore! I don’t feel like discussing them, which is unusual for me Maybe just one too many let downs…

Love the advert! Come Into My World's video really stood the test of time. Speaking of Come Into My World, it's currently 9th in Kylie's Popular Top 10 list on Spotify.

Missed it again oooops

The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina Carpenter) has more than outstayed its welcome for me!

Shawn One of my favourite artists. I think you did a good job with those selections Harry, I'm particularly glad that In My Blood had its moment in the most recent round seeing as it's my favourite song by him! Toni Braxton is wonderful, great choices from her throughout and there was still a lot left in the tank! I do like The 1975, particularly their poppier side and that was well represented here!

Calum's asked me to say for him that his food has just arrived, so there will be a brief pause before the results continue!

I am gagged! Never would have guessed

Conan! 😲 *Dannii Minogue voice* I wasn't expecting that at all. That feels like a bit of a David vs Goliath moment, considering some of the other artists vying to return. It's really cool that 'Alley Rose' was connected with - hats off to his host for choosing this song (speaking of This Song - another fab one x)! At this rate, I hope some BuzzJack members might consider purchasing 'Found Heaven' on CD or vinyl 😆 'Berghain' was definitely the stand out performance from the Brits, so I had a feeling the song would go down well in this round too. Rosalía is not an artist I'd heard much from before this, so I welcome hearing even more from her, now that she's going further in the competition. I know that a particular someone here is quite keen for me to hear Lux - maybe someday soon 😇 'The Fear' was a very sensible choice for Lily in this moment, I would have been incredibly shocked if it didn't bring her back. One of my personal favourites! Lily has plenty more brilliant songs to see her go even further into this competition, so well-played from her host! (I will catch up on the most recent posts now!)

Well done Lily, welcome back Edit: and well done Rosalía too!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWKborFDbV1/ Delta performing Eclipse at Rockefeller Oslo!

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWJzttXgXNQ/ Preview, sounds great

So hyped Hope it's a significant number of new songs!