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Olivia is surely about to outpeak her Amazon exclusive Christmas song from 2021 finally!

Sent a song, but will it be her other BJSC entry, or something else...

Commiserations Rina, WTM and Bob - I had a feeling the last of those would be close, 2 points!! If only it had been 'Like A Rolling Stone' maybe... After being 7th up until now, SASAMI top 5 for the women *.* it won't be easy but we'll see if she can keep that up!

This time last week I didn't think SASAMI stood a chance of getting through another round!

Did it involve thermostats...

Oh, pretty good bunch here! Truesteppers can go though.

Wonder if the top 10 here will be the same as the official one in a week or two...

Voted for: Aldonna “Art of Knot” Pangaea “Manía” TDJ & Clara Kimera “On and On (You Lie)” and in the tiebreak: akiaura, LONOWN & Baby Jane “Deathwish”

'Let Down' almost certainly would have done the 25% for a reset last week, but surely has done so again and must get one this week!

A change of #1 looks almost certain now, with Bryan Adams keeping his record intact. 'Diet Pepsi' could still get an automatic reset - these only take effect on the Friday and don't show up in the mids.

Oof, both songs so far at the top of the 2025 YTD ('That's So True' and 'Messy') were #1 officially at the time they first got there - has 'Ordinary' narrowly missed its chance to make it an unlikely (in this day and age) hat-trick? 😱

Voted Lucie, I have that album and it's a sweet cover. Lemmy died in 2015 and it sounds like the Motörhead cover was from about 10 years earlier - they are legends of course as is the original song, but the vocals aren't the best here.

BJSC 175 Cult Of Venus - Algorithm Result: 32nd Points received: 115 | voters: 17 18 | Cheiron 15 | Taahino 12 | Aelandor 11 | Hendinia 11 | Land of DW 11 | Skall 8 | Hushkanukia 6 | A-Konohagakure 6 | Jupiterdonia 4 | Ajanaeda 3 | Kathaldazia 3 | Neliönoir 2 | Macromia 2 | Scotland 2 1 | Mothertopia 1 | Ojnoj 1 | Trifoski (SF2: 20th, 37) OK, it wasn't quite the smash I was hoping for - instead it produced the lowest semi final score of all my 25 contests to date, including the 3 DNQs! A qualifier it was though and it did better than projected in the final, but still missing the top 30 as the year's flip-flopping fortunes continue between each contest. There was no consolation of a unique position this time - the previous entry to finish 32nd (Sølv) also did so with 17 voters, but from a bigger pool of voters in the final (63 then compared to 50 now), so a respectable reach across the available nations this time was offset by, yep, a low average score per voter (8.9 for Sølv compared to 6.8 for Cult Of Venus). Still, there were some surprise votes and high scores. Bronzil participation now comprises one seventh of the contest's history, look forward to making it one sixth in 5 contests' time, and one quarter 20 contests later! Points given 18 | Terra Avium | Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall 15 | Kathaldazia | TDJ & Clara Kimera - On And On (You Lie) 13 | FSR Rontvia | She Past Away - İnziva 12 | Greenfroze | Yōko Oginome - Dancing Hero (Eat You Up) (Dear Pop Singer Version) 11 | Mothertopia | SASAMI - Slugger 10 | Danæviia | Ummet Ozcan - Ocean's Voice 9 | Hushkanukia | Sorana - DON'T SEND ME FLOWERS 8 | Neliönoir | yeule - Evangelic Girl Is A Gun 7 | Aesthetica | f5ve - Underground 6 | Altyr Muunilinst | PUNCHBAG - You Used To Be So Sexy 5 | Scotland 2 | caroline - Total euphoria 4 | Macromia | Nao Toyama - Tomoshibi No Manimani 3 | Skall | Avalon Emerson - Don't Be Seen With Me 2 | Lookylion | Beks - Melodrama 1 | Trifoski | Kumo 99 - Dopamine Chaser

Medal table update up to BJSC 175 (changes since BJSC 172) Ajanaeda and Pestolia join the table, while Bøtanikkä climbed into the top 10 in 174, only to be replaced by Rd'Á in 175: 15-9-13 Aeroche 8-10-9 FSR Rontvia 6-9-2 FARC 6-7-13 Hendinia 6-3-4 Altyr Muunilinst 6-2-4 Mdiče 5-5-2 Eledan 5-3-3 Fljótavík 5-2-2 Cor Lupus 4-4-3 République d'Áskorza 4-2-3 Bøtanikkä 4-1-4 Kathaldazia 4-1-2 Summericia 3-4-4 Qärenfanghoney 3-4-3 N DNTN 3-2-3 #00274E 3-2-2 Danaeviia 3-2-0 Ultraviolenceland 3-1-2 Daehun 3-1-2 Trifoski 3-1-1 Numayania 3-0-2 Lookylion 3-0-1 Oslol 2-4-5 Persephonia 2-4-4 Jadakissnia 2-3-3 Terra Avium 2-2-0 Quotosibb 2-1-1 Mulgracia 2-1-0 B.a.N.G 2-1-0 Greenfroze 2-1-0 Land of DW 2-0-4 Unovia 2-0-3 St. Burbia 2-0-1 Aquafina 2-0-1 Herzebania 2-0-1 Jupiterdonia 2-0-0 Batidas 2-0-0 Bhangra 2-0-0 Lotunia 2-0-0 Why So Sirius 1-6-2 Kluminican Republic 1-5-0 Skall 1-4-3 United States of Jack 1-3-2 Ojnoj 1-2-3 Quintessa 1-2-2 Yehesi 1-2-1 New Lexico 1-2-0 Cadelicia 1-2-0 Medhelnia 1-1-2 Nonsuch 1-1-1 Isconia 1-1-1 Neliönoir 1-1-0 Aesthetica 1-1-0 Beaverdonia 1-1-0 Kingdom of Shadow 1-1-0 Pupok 1-1-0 Suedeonia 1-0-2 Hushkanukia 1-0-2 Kylienips 1-0-2 Syndare 1-0-2 Taahino 1-0-1 Deandria 1-0-1 Ethanola 1-0-1 Farahtyn 1-0-1 Lorikeet 1-0-1 Republic of Adonia 1-0-0 Ajanaeda 1-0-0 Bokia 1-0-0 Caerfyrddia 1-0-0 Harmonica 1-0-0 Ingermanlandia 1-0-0 Niceland 1-0-0 Yuxhaaq 0-4-3 Ramrynia 0-4-2 D'yermak'er 0-4-0 Utopia 0-3-0 Espen 0-2-2 Séyetana 0-2-0 The Actual Republic of Bellamia 0-2-0 M.K.L. 0-2-0 Torchwood 0-1-3 Tinnmark 0-1-2 Dobago 0-1-2 Vülkyria 0-1-1 Bronzil 0-1-1 Cowtermont 0-1-1 Cumulonimbia 0-1-0 Aelandor 0-1-0 Alteria 0-1-0 Brechtoria 0-1-0 Cascadia 0-1-0 Desbuanda 0-1-0 Faztickle 0-1-0 Florina 0-1-0 Flynnonda 0-1-0 Joedonia 0-1-0 Lotopialand 0-1-0 Mothertopia 0-1-0 POPHub 0-1-0 Romeria 0-1-0 Sandebörg 0-1-0 Scherzland 0-1-0 Simondly 0-1-0 Tyronosaurusland 0-1-0 UnoShake 0-0-3 Xanaga 0-0-2 A-Konohagakure 0-0-2 Angelicland 0-0-2 Thelonia 0-0-1 Ben's Sanctuary 0-0-1 FNT Nickodonia 0-0-1 Freedonia 0-0-1 Liechenstaan 0-0-1 Lievant 0-0-1 Pestolia 0-0-1 Rivandia 0-0-1 Sangria 0-0-1 Singerpurear 0-0-1 Tartford 0-0-1 Umiiruka 0-0-1 Zanmatony

1 Avril Lavigne - When You’re Gone [favourite] 2 Mary J. Blige - I’m Goin’ Down 3 Addison Rae - Fame is a Gun 4 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do 5 Christina Aguilera feat. Lil’ Kim - Can’t Hold Us Down 6 Rina Sawayama - Send My Love to John that was tough x

1 CHVRCHES - Final Girl [favourite] 2 Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing 3 A-ha - Hunting High and Low 4 WALK THE MOON - Tightrope 5 Fifth Harmony - The Life 6 The Saturdays - Work (Phil Tan Radio Mix)

1 Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street [favourite] 2 James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream 3 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) 4 Damiano David - The First Time 5 Charlie Puth feat. Kehlani - Done For Me 6 Enrique Iglesias feat. Ludacris & DJ Frank E - Tonight (I’m f***in’ You)

MARINA gets my vote out of these songs

Isn't this list just a catch-all of male artists who have made pop-flavoured music that's primarily adult-oriented over the last 5-10 years or so? (and also more of a Music Lounge thing, perhaps)

Yeah I know what I'll be sending whenever this starts!

Congrats Phil on your win! We really are in the business of retiring artists from appearing in BJSC again. Commiserations Travis but a deserved second BJSC medal! The top 12 is looking pretty great with NINE songs I voted for, including my entire top 6, plus a commiseration in third place. As for my own performance, I'm pretty deflated - I found the song on an indie playlist and loved it straight away, yet for the 'alt bloc' especially it seems either it went over a lot of people's heads or they just weren't interested, but that's the game - still at least I improved on my projection after just scraping through the semi. Guess the easyJet 2 deduction will lift me a place so depending on the tiebreak with Macromia (also too low), I'm either 33rd (new) or 32nd (done before), will hold off any more rambling about yoyoing between top 5 and missing the top 30 this year until that's resolved. Thank you Addy for your hosting and enjoyable theme!

Thanks Jacob for the 12!

Thanks Cow and !!! Glad to have made it to triple figures.

Thanks Kath and J00p

Thanks for the 11 Harve!