jimwatts

Only 19 Qs?

+30 Rose Gray - Ecstasy +29 Loreen - Tattoo +28 Hannah Laing & RoRo - Good Love +27 Killers - Your Side Of Town +26 Chelsea Wolfe - Dusk +25 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana +24 Billy Gillies (feat. Hannah Boleyn) - DNA (Loving You) +23 SZA - Kill Bill +22 Joy Formidable - Share My Heat +21 Temples - Cicada +20 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle +19 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready To Fly +18 Beatles - Now And Then +17 Noah Kahan - Stick Season +16 Adrianne Lenker - Ruined +15 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine +14 Dua Lipa - Houdini +13 Ava Max - Dancing’s Done +12 Beaches - Blame Brett +11 Lana Del Rey - A&W +10 cassö, RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada +9 Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire +8 Beaches - What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Paranoid +7 Olivia Rodrigo - Bad Idea Right? +6 Chappell Roan - Hot To Go! +5 Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk +4 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Desire +3 Everything Everything - Cold Reactor +2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers +1 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam 20 other songs from the list made my personal chart so I could have done a top 50

I was hoping Kiesza might be #1 out of your top 3 - 'Hideaway' is great, but they're all good dance songs. 'Rather Be' survived its long chart run - although my favourite of their chart toppers will come in 2016. Tropical house would oversaturate somewhat a few years later, but the steel drums sounded good on 'I Got U' and it holds up as a whole. My own top 10 would be quite different, but with half the songs in common including the same #7, and two more of yours just outside: 1. Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 2. Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz - Prayer in C (Remix) 3. Mr Probz - Waves (Robin Schulz Remix) 4. Pharrell Williams - Happy 5. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass 6. Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk 7. Sigma - Nobody to Love 8. Kiesza - Hideaway 9. Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down 10. Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne - Rather Be (11. Route 94 ft. Jess Glynne - My Love) (12. Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones - I Got U) Great countdown through so many songs, thanks Jester!

50 barrier passed The Neales to appear by #100?

I see what you did there, Texas

I said a hip, a hop... I was in Spain for 2 weeks that summer before it was released in the UK, and must have heard it played several times each day there.

Six pages down and no mention of the L-word, so... My preference for SF1 is a listenthrough tomorrow, if Bré is happy to host. However I'm aware there aren't many days for the other semi as the usual Monday option is out, so I'm open to other days as well - just not Friday and preferably not Saturday either. (Sunday afternoon in the 4-7pm slot while the 80s listenthroughs which were at that time are on pause could be a last resort, though almost certainly too late.)

For what it's worth, the 1987 version is the one I'm more familiar with, and I think probably the right choice to use in this contest. An interesting selection of songs this round, but some really good ones from those I already know!

This was while submissions for the last round were open - I very nearly replied to it then to say: "surely the original 'Danceteria' and 'Stateside' would have been fine for this theme too?", and I wish I had now. I just got anxious about perceived impartiality as a judge when it comes to people's selections. However, I would say to the remaining mentors or for future series, that when there's a theme such as this, I would treat it as a template rather than a rigid structure. This is a pop forum competition after all - not every artist will have something tailor made for every theme, but if you can showcase a side to your artist that leans into that direction I think most people will respect that. In this case I'd say something like 'In Our Lifetime' for Texas or 'Eurosummer' for Zara as Rob has acknowledged would have been fine and in keeping with that. However I know some people's mileage may vary and it's down to the mentors on how they want to play the game. At the same time, the broader themes mean a definition like this also allows a place for something like the Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix of 'Confusion', and while I'm well aware it's not to everyone's taste, the fact this is taking place in a pop forum doesn't negate something like this being used when the mentor feels it's right.

BJSC 190 Helena Gao - lao shi My 40th BJSC entry is also, if counted after my concurrent entry in Club Bizarre, my 100th entry to any song contest on Buzzjack! 💯🥳 Danish-Chinese artist Helena Gao has songwriting and production credits on 'Midnight Sun' (the Zara song, no less), although this song I've entered is where I discovered her back in May, and it's been on my potentials list from then until now! It's also my shortest entry to date, although still one second too long to appear in the 'Longest and shortest BJSC entries' thread, but packs a lot into its runtime - electronica, softly unabashed verses, and a Mandarin chorus that's as catchy as anything!

Oh we are a rebellious judging panel once again, going against what the people voted for! I was checking every few minutes for an emergency late addition of New Order to the 'who would you save' pairings!

These were my votes: 1 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under 2 Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Wuh Oh - Hypnotized 3 Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (Schizo Mix) 4 New Order - Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix) 5 Kate Bush - The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix) 6 Adele - Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix) 7 Fontaines D.C. - In ár gCroíthe go deo (Orbital Remix) 8 MARINA - Radioactive 9 Disclosure feat. Sam Smith - Omen 10 Darin - Give Me Tonight 11 Texas - Mr Haze (GBX & Paul Keenan Remix) 12 Bananarama - Now or Never 13 Zara Larsson & Robyn - Puss Puss (Girls Trip) Hawey Sam with his club banger supreme, more importantly my favourite song in the versions presented here - the original 'Just Can't Get Enough' might have pipped it and would certainly be above Sophie, albeit that's still my favourite of hers, great choice. Here is the original 'Confusion', but this 1987 remake is the version I first came to know and love - I'd have scored both of those above Sophie, though I did warm to the remix sent after initially thinking they'd blown it. The original 'Hometown Glory' is my favourite Adele song that isn't on 21, but clearly their mentor's hand was a little more forced here, as with Kate Bush - glad to see both through. I didn't take part in that edition of Club Bizarre, but Orbital rarely put a foot wrong, so Fontaines were always likely to get my vote in a tiebreak situation and so it proved. I am sorry for Texas though as they were also hampered by the theme, and this song isn't bad, albeit the Donna Summer hit's production does the heavy lifting on this version, and the Zara choice was a bit of a head scratcher, also have to wonder if 'Lush Life' was being saved for later or Rob was reluctant to use it due to recent overplay - commiserations to both mentors anyhow.

I'm glad people liked the New Order remix, but I think their mentor was living dangerously there - they have all manner of originals they could have used!

Going to have to switch to Ida Maria this time

Switching to Atomic Kitten (no thank you, baby)