jimwatts

Yesss very happy to see 14 minutes of Burial through from Skall, and Aelandor despite the late votes!

Nice one Baleghde! Kyriatine haven't made my final votes yet (and technically still can't) but the newly renamed might be onto something.

Kylienips were another nearish miss from my votes in 16th, although I possibly prefer it to the Kim & Scarlett Wilde entry of theirs which got my 2 SF points two contests ago.

Great to see those two in. 3 of the songs I'd previously charted through with 1 remaining!

Two more gooduns there, tipped for big things in the final!

Terra Avium through The song went down so well at the listenthrough, it felt like the points were almost there from the SF2 voters alone! Happy to see Aesthetica through too.

Thank you MØ voters! hope you keep vøting in the final! Jade through too!

Dobago I had at 14th, another out-of-the-points casualty of a crazily strong semi.

Two good ones there from the other semi!

Singerpurear last is a shame although the deduction made it probable. I really like the original (perhaps more than 'Sunchyme') and ranked this 13th here though normally it would have been in the points.

Happy with those two Qs as well! (Edit: turns out this was my 14,000th post!)

Yay, justice after Debby's previous DNQ!

Glad to see those first two through!

'Ordinary' back to doing over 500k and more than 250k above everything else. New peaks again for sombr x2 now both top 10 and Ravyn at #11. 'Azizam' is showing as a 're-entry' for the original only - I think the two versions have now been split, hence the drop in streams.

It's all gone Pete Tong for me!

Starting with Steps, neither of those songs are particularly memorable

This is great, thanks Rollo. I'm also a big fan of Disc 2 especially - I had all but four of those songs on my iPod, and it's great to have 'Temptation' included as this was a key track for New Order prior to 'Blue Monday'.

This is tough, I like both in different ways. 'Reach' just edges it for me I think.

Unless you count J Hus feat. Drake - Who Told You (as the featured artist is of course Canadian) which opened with 3 weeks at #2 starting the week after 'Sprinter'.

The new entry at #69 isn't the song I was referring to above but great taste for whoever else was charting it! Its appearance means I almost footshot myself into a BJSC veto though oops while as it happens, the song I was referring to is also now in BJSC, and should make it into Multichart #994 if the threshold is 80 points or less!

It was indeed (although 'APT.' came close).

Amazon is indeed looking fresher than Spotify at the top ends right now.

Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me was #1 on the Queen's funeral Bank Holiday (19 Sep 2022). And I completely overlooked the King's Coronation Bank Holiday on 8 May 2023 - 'Miracle' was #1 for that too, so also five within a year! Albeit its time at #1 was interrupted between the second and third of those.

As one who's had a few entries with many votes of relatively low average scores (e.g. Echoberyl had the joint 4th most votes in its final but finished 16th; ACRAZE finished with 35 votes, the most in its final and 5th most of all of 2023 but finished 4th), I think I'd like this idea. Wonder if Fat Dog would have still won though!

I've not done semi final predictions before, and I certainly wouldn't start now - anything in SF1 that would normally be a safe Q has to be a little less certain than usual here. The only way I could predict anything DNQing would be to guess how everyone will vote, then add up the scores... and still be completely out, probably. It would be nice if everything made it to at least 30 points - probably won't happen, but then the points won't tell the full story if there are songs that were just outside many people's votes.