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Never Gonna Let You Go is a truly DULL song. It doesn't go anywhere and there's no dramatic moments for Misha to KILL. I'd LOVE to see Ride On Time (WITH pre-verse SCREAMING)

Bizarrely, last Saturday I randomly saw SAMI on stage singing some ACTUAL club classics (Rhythm Is A Dancer, Dreamer and Castles In The Sky all got outings) - and they were VERY GOOD. Much as she had no hope of winning, it's kind of a shame she's missed this week as it was clear she was much more comfortable with club bangers than she was the housewife ballads Louis kept trying to toss her. Someone to perform The Tamperer & Maya please, WITH the obligatory distorted final chorus.

I would imagine after this stint, we'll only see her again if Steve McFadden ever leaves during Babs' lifetime.

I cannot BELIEVE nobody has yet namechecked the POP MAJESTY of VANILLA (no way, no way, manamana.) Also SOLID HARMONIE Classics right there.

I'm LOVING all this chaos. The X Factor has come a long way from the days of VERITY and CASSIE COMPTON

Oh I can tolerate No Surprises, as I also can High And Dry and Karma Police. I could also put up with Creep although I prefer the Scala version. But nevertheless, I would never class them as all-time favourites, as pretty much every music critic or alternative-kid in the country seems to.

:D MYSTIC MOGG IS MY NAME

I think the fact that I QUITE ENJOY Dark Side Of The Moon rather proves Dandy's point, alas :( I remain, years on, thoroughly INDIFFERENT to all things Radiohead. Absolutely bleak.

Of that list I can't see the Saturdays, the Wanted or Lemar making it. Lemar's time in the sun in the UK has pretty much passed, and he'd be competing in a pretty full market in the USA. I'm not sure he'd offer anything the USA aren't already getting from Ne-Yo or Chris Brown. The USA are also fairly picky about which of our acts they take to their hearts - and generally it tends to be the credible acts who write/perform their own hits. I just don't see them being so big on our own rather faceless manufactured acts, which rules the Wanted and the Saturdays out.

These are WONDERFUL. I want cartoons drawn for EVERY series going forward please. I think the Dannii one might JUST be my favourite. Also Craig's sneer is PERFECTION

I wouldn't be surprised if the spoilers turned out to be misleading. Remember the fire last year - spoilers and clips were "leaked" which showed Amy dying, only for it turn out to be a deliberate red herring. I'm still thinking

I simply DON'T BELIEVE that Talk On Corners and Spice don't take pride of place on Dandy's shelves.

So I'm about to make myself a liar. The results will be TOMORROW instead (in the Lounge), so you still have time to submit answers. There are also some clues in the corresponding Lounge thread...

Hopefully. I am aiming to start around 9-ish.

Just a reminder, the deadline for the latest round is 20.00 TONIGHT

It sounds very much like it was

So more info on a returnee -

As with all MOR, I love this, but it's just downright BIZARRE that a single that never even made the sales top 20 is so high in this countdown, and particularly ahead of modern-day "classics" like Bleeding Love, Patience, Toxic or You're Beautiful. I'm going to assume some of these positions may be slightly inflated because of the methodology. I would expect that tracks like some tracks that seem a little low to our eyes are probably racking up a fair amount of "lost" airplay; spread over a longer period of time and "bubbling under" the weekly top 100s.

Well apparently a shortlist of Silas' next victim has been released. DS have clips showing

So the usual weekly bump for this. A new round is up!

It's embarrassing enough that we only voted 3 male-fronted tracks into the top 40, without us then voting those 3 out within the first 6 rounds (and come on, do you people REALLY consider Whole Again to be a better song than Crazy?) Buzzjack really does go out of it's way to pander to it's stereotype.

That is utterly LUDICROUS.

So I'm going to throw in my own tedious and unnecessary ranking as ever 01. Kitty Louis may be an utterly out of touch old fart, but against all odds he has managed to pull one utterly GENIUS song choice put of his arse here. It couldn't have fitted Kitty any more perfectly. Bonkers, loud and utterly out of place on the X Factor. Very natural and fitting for her, and it was almost FLAWLESS. None of the shakiness that showed up last week. I really can't decide if I'm on board with her or not right now, but a couple more performances like this and I certainly WILL BE. 02. Misha B Wonderful arrangement, and scoring himself another ON-THE-BALL SHOCKER MOMENT, I was completely on board with Louis when he said this could work as a hit in it's own right. I will repeat my sentiment from last week; she is providing EVERYTHING the show demanded (and failed to get) from Cher Lloyd last year. By far the most interesting prospect this year, and I am definitely on TEAM MISHA at the moment. 03. Craig The I'M-A-SURVIVOR mannerisms that plagued his performance tonight were a little TOO queen-like to really work, but vocally he remains pretty much flawless. Despite appearances, there is an odd charisma to this guy. 04. Sami I don't think this was as solid as Free last week; there were a few little tics and shakes throughout, and I agree it was perhaps TOO big a song for someone to try and tackle in that it REALLY exposes the slightest weakness or tremble in the singer's voice. I think she may suffer vote-wise for the fact that she was given SUCH a predictable and old standard to perform at a time when most of the other acts are at pains to make themselves contemporary. I can't see how they're going to successfully market her if she WERE to win (1% of that happening) with Louis so intent on turning her into a 50 year old woman. Both this week and last I forgot she's only a few years older than me. 05. The Risk Everything Nu Vibe aren't. Vocally adept, able to at least put on the appearance of being a tight-knit group even if they aren't, and actually quite CLASSY. Less of a boyband and more of a manband; more Take That, less The Wanted. 06. Rhythmix The surprise of the night. The harmonies were SO much improved on last week's ropey effort, the new arrangement of I'm Like A Bird felt very natural, and there's a certain joy/energy to them. There's a likeability to them that I think every other girlband in X Factor history have lacked (*watches as they're voted out tomorrow*) 07. Marcus I had to agree that this really wasn't the best choice for him. It's always good to try and step out of your comfort zone, but this really DIDN'T reflect Marcus as a personality or an artist at all. The fact that he had to be specifically ORDERED to stop smiling, and indeed barely made it to the end of the performance without doing so, told me that SLIT-YOUR-WRISTS Rihanna tracks just DON'T fit in with him. Capable singer as he is, I think he also struggled to identify the tune in that track, the middle eight/final chorus verging just a little too close to shouty. 08. Janet Her enunciation isn't QUITE as jarring as Vickers, but jarring it is nonetheless. I still think she's a simpering slop who will have her shortcomings and lack of variety brutally exposed as the series progresses. 09. Sophie I'm with Tirren on this; quite disappointing really and I think she's in trouble this weekend (Sophie / Nu Vibe are my predictions for the sing-off tomorrow). It's not so much the fact that she's had no headlines that will harm her, but more so that I can't really see WHO is going to vote for her. Even if she doesn't share Janet's vocal tics, I think Sophie's preference for floaty/acoustic performances steps a little too close to Janet's territory for Sophie to really form a significant fanbase of her own, and even if we disregard that and look at her as a straight-up female diva, nor is she as vocally solid as Sami. I thought she was very shaky and at times came very close to falling off-key tonight. Pleased as I was about it last week, I'm thinking now that Kelly may well have been better off going with Amelia who would have stood a much better chance of progressing here. There's nothing yet to suggest to me that Sophie will be anything other than this year's Lucie Jones. 10. Nu Vibe There's just NO charisma, energy or any sign that they actually WANT to be here. Sapping the life out of whatever song's given to them, they're simply NOT as vocally capable as The Risk, and the harmonies are non-existant. Poor. 11. Frankie Dreadful. Deathly dull during the verses, audibly strained during the chorus. I'm under no illusion that he'll be in the bottom two tomorrow (we are stuck with him for a while), but I'm glad the judges have finally dropped their unconditional support for him. JOHNNY I'm incapable of ranking this. It was at the same time the BEST and the WORST thing to ever appear on an X Factor show. I genuinely don't know which side I fall on; I half agree that it's a shame he's being turned into an absolute gimmick when it's evident there is SOME sort of a voice there. But at the same time, he simply wouldn't be HALF as entertaining as he is if he were to go serious (note that Wagner left the series last year during the one week he submitted a SERIOUS "real music" performance). Absolutely barmy, and I genuinely spent the whole three minutes in hysterical laughter. I LOVE the banter with the judges as well. He manoeuvered Gary Barlow into dropping the stern headmaster act one shining brief moment, and for that I can only applaud the guy. As an aside, I realised tonight that I really do prefer this new judging panel. Much as the gays all loved Dannii, and the Heat readers loved Cherly, I'm not missing them at all. The new lot haven't yet got themselves waist-deep in behind-the-scenes politics, and without Simon there, there's no top dog that the others all feel the need to defer to. The interactions feel FREE and much more genuine. Gary fills Simon's bad-cop act perfectly, but WITHOUT openly playing puppet-master or feeling the need to dominate proceedings. Tulisa is Cherly with the ability to offer actual useful criticism, and Kelly is Dannii with human warmth.

I'm no major Kitty fan, but THAT could go either one of two ways; car crash of absolutely THE BEST THING THAT SHOW HAS EVER SEEN

Highest selling single of the decade, and it's behind a #24 Natalie Imbruglia hit? LOVE