Aled.

A much better set than 2008, even if it does tend to feel that stuff like 'Shark In The Water' and 'New York' always go through but then never qualify for the top 35.

Probably the least impressive set of qualifiers so far. Poor old 'Pocketful Of Sunshine'. I know it wasn't a UK hit, but I always get optimistic that it's well known enough (and you know, amazing enough) to get through anyway.

Ashleigh's 'Aye. Good' in reaction to Helen getting chants was GLORIOUS. I was starting to completely give up on her developing a personality, but I'm excited to see how she develops now. I also enjoyed Danielle looking like a stone cold mess when trying to comfort Jale.

01 Jale 02 Kimberly 03 Matthew 04 Mark 05 Chris 06 Christopher 07 Danielle 08 Winston 09 Ashleigh 10 Ash 11 Marlon 12 Steven 13 Toya 14 Helen

Very happy to see the back of Pauline. I was beginning to wonder if her being quite quiet for the past few days meant she was settling down and becoming more bearable, but the interview Emma really did just prove otherwise. Not that pleased with Toya having the power, she's just getting worse and worse, and people's reasons for choosing her seemed quite hilarious considering she's probably the least rational person in there. Would happily see her go this week. Mark and Matthew are quickly becoming my favourites. They're just so funny together. I've had some doubts about Kimberley this week, but the way she handled that stupid thing with Helen about showering with Winston has brought me back around. Going off Ashleigh a bit though. Edit: Posted this in the wrong thread. Oh well.

08.5 I Know Where It's At 10.0 Never Ever 07.0 Under The Bridge 07.0 Lady Marmalade 08.0 Bootie Call 07.5 War Of Nerves 11.0 Pure Shores 09.5 Black Coffee 08.0 All Hooked Up 10.0 Rock Steady 07.5 Chick Fit 09.0 Wannabe 10.0 Say You'll Be There 08.5 2 Become 1 06.0 Mama 07.5 Who Do You Think You Are 09.5 Spice Up Your Life 07.5 Too Much 08.0 Stop 11.0 Viva Forever 10.0 Goodbye 06.5 Holler 05.0 Let Love Lead The Way -1 Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) 08.0 Overload 07.0 New Year 08.5 Run For Cover 06.0 Soul Sound 11.0 Freak Like Me 09.0 Round Round 08.5 Stronger 05.0 Angels With Dirty Faces 07.0 Shape 10.0 Hole In The Head 10.0 Too Lost In You 08.5 In The Middle 08.0 Caught In A Moment 09.5 Push The Button 07.0 Ugly 07.5 Red Dress 06.0 Follow Me Home 08.0 Easy 10.0 About You Now 07.5 Change 09.0 Denial 00.0 Girls 05.0 No Can Do 03.0 Get Sexy 05.0 About A Girl 05.5 Wear My Kiss 04.0 Freedom 10.0 Sound Of The Underground 10.0 No Good Advice 07.5 Life Got Cold 08.0 Jump 09.0 The Show 08.5 Love Machine 06.5 I'll Stand By You 09.0 Wake Me Up 07.0 Long Hot Summer 11.0 Biology 05.0 See The Day 08.0 Whole Lotta History 10.0 Something Kinda Ooooh 05.5 I Think We're Alone Now 00.0 Walk This Way (vs. Sugababes) 10.0 Sexy! No No No… 10.0 Call The Shots 08.5 Can't Speak French 08.0 The Promise 09.5 The Loving Kind 09.0 Untouchable 10.0 Something New -1 Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me 07.0 If This Is Love 10.0 Up 08.0 Issues 06.5 Just Can't Get Enough 09.0 Work 08.0 Forever Is Over 09.5 Ego 05.0 Missing You 09.5 Higher (ft. Flo Rida) 08.0 Notorious 08.5 All Fired Up 06.0 My Heart Takes Over 06.5 30 Days 08.0 What About Us (ft. Sean Paul) 08.5 Gentleman 09.0 Disco Love 08.5 Not Giving Up 02.0 Cannonball 06.0 Wings 09.0 DNA 07.5 Change Your Life 08.0 How Ya Doin'? (ft. Missy Elliott) 10.0 Move 08.0 Little Me 04.0 Word Up! 09.0 Salute

Grace as a person was quite horrific, but as a housemate was brilliant. Really BB7 could have done with keeping her for a few more weeks. I'd name people like Carole, Ziggy and Billi from BB8 my most hated. What an awful series that was. Special mentions to Jason from BB5, Charlie and Bea from BB10, Dave and John-James from BB11, Lesely from BB6, and Spiral and Sezer from BB7.

As with 2006, not a bad selection but most of the best songs are far too low. Especially disappointed for 'The Magic Position' which I remember was quite close to qualifying last year.

Steven really is just utterly pathetic. That clip of him crying while Jale when in hysterics in the diary room is probably the highlight of the series so far. I'm so confused as to why so many of them seem to hate her. We've seen literally nothing to justify it. I'm genuinely impressed she's handling herself so well though, in her position I think I'd have called Helen out for being so bloody stupid by now.

25 VV Brown – Shark In The Water (BEST) 24 Mini Viva – Left My Heart In Tokyo 23 Freemasons/Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) 22 Noisettes – Never Forget You 21 Mini Viva – I Wish 20 Annie – My Love Is Better 19 Beyonce – Sweet Dreams 18 Paloma Faith – New York 17 The Saturdays – Work 16 Miley Cyrus – Party In The USA 15 Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me 14 Paloma Faith – Stone Cold Sober 13 Kelly Clarkson – Already Gone 12 Noisettes – Don’t Upset The Rhythm 11 Ciara – Work 10 Leona Lewis – Happy 09 Little Boots – Earthquake 08 Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool 07 Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream 06 Alesha Dixon – Breathe Slow 05 Bat For Lashes – Daniel 04 Lily Allen – f*** You 03 Enrique Iglesias – Takin Back My Love 02 Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas 01 Madonna – Celebration

25 Natasha Bedingfield – Pocketful Of Sunshine (BEST) 24 Alphabeat – Boyfriend 23 Kylie Minogue – The One 22 Duffy – Warwick Avenue 21 Girls Aloud – Can’t Speak French 20 Alesha Dixon – The Boy Does Nothing 19 Solange – I Decided 18 Michelle Williams – We Break The Dawn 17 September – Cry For You 16 PNAU – Embrace 15 Leona Lewis – Better In Time 14 Alphabeat – 10,000 Nights 13 Jennifer Hudson – Spotlight 12 MGMT – Electric Feel 11 Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down 10 David Jordan – Sun Goes Down 09 Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me 08 The Saturdays – If This Is Love 07 Sara Bareilles – Love Song 06 Friendly Fires – Paris 05 Duffy – Mercy 04 Adele – Cold Shoulder 03 Little Jackie – World Should Revolve Around Me 02 Kylie Minogue – Wow 01 Janet Jackson – Feedback

Another mixed bag. I feel a lot of the very best tracks missed out, but it's nice to see 'Deja Vu' through. I'd say it's probably Beyonce's most underrated 'big' single. The Kooks and Razorlight tracks are bloody dreadful though.

01 Jale 02 Kimberley 03 Chris 04 Christopher 05 Toya 06 Mark 07 Marlon 08 Matthew 09 Ashleigh 10 Danielle 11 Ash 12 Winston 13 Steven 14 Helen 15 Pauline

I've spent the past 2 days gradually catching up with the series so far, and I actually don't think I've been this hooked since the show was on Channel 4. Not that keen on the Power Trip twist so far though. I was actually hoping it meant they might take on elements of the US format, but right now I wouldn't be surprised if they quietly dropped the idea in a few weeks. I feel like they've tried to go for more intelligent housemates this year, which is definitely a good thing, and makes it more of a proper gameshow. Favourites at the moment are Jale, Kimberley, Chris and Christopher. Toya was up there, but she really needs to distance herself from Pauline and co because she was initially hilarious. I feel like there's too many of them right now to be honest, especially for just a 10 week run. Ash and Ashleigh feel especially quite pointless. Very happy Tamara went. Type of girl with nothing to her. Pauline will presumably and hopefully go on Friday. I'd be quite happy for Stephen and Helen to stick around for a few weeks because they have potential to be good villains, but I feel Pauline is just ruining the potential dynamics of the show.

09.0 No, No, No (feat. Wyclef Jean) 06.0 With Me (feat. Jermaine Dupri) 10.0 Bills, Bills, Bills 08.5 Bug A Boo 11.0 Say My Name 09.0 Jumpin, Jumpin 10.0 Survivor 10.0 Bootylicious 07.0 Emotion 07.5 Nasty Girl 10.0 Lose My Breath 09.0 Soldier (feat. T.I. & Lil Wayne) 07.5 Girl 05.0 Cater 2 U 06.5 Get On The Bus (feat. Timbaland) 10.0 Independent Women Part 1 05.0 Stand Up For Love 06.5 8 Days of Christmas

Jessie Ware ‘Wildest Moments’ Santigold ‘Disparate Youth’ AlunaGeorge ‘Your Drums Your Love’ Amanda Mair ‘Sense’ Marina & The Diamonds ‘Primadonna’ Their topics are on this forum so I'm assuming they all count?

06.0 I Kissed A Girl 10.0 Hot N' Cold 07.0 Thinking Of You 08.0 Waking Up In Vegas 05.0 If You Can Afford Me (New Zealand release) 06.0 Starstrukk (Ft 30H!3) 10.0 If We Ever Meet Again (Ft Timbaland) 06.0 California Gurls 09.0 Teenage Dream 08.0 Firework 08.0 E.T. 08.5 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) 08.0 The One That Got Away 02.0 Part Of Me 05.0 Wide Awake 05.5 Hummingbird Heartbeat (Australia Release) 08.5 Roar ??.? Who You Love (Ft John Mayer) 04.0 Unconditionally 07.5 Dark Horse 07.0 Birthday 05.5 Legendary Lovers (Upcoming Single)

01 Hot N Cold 02 Teenage Dream 03 Roar 04 Last Friday Night 05 ET 06 Firework 07 Waking Up In Vegas 08 The One That Got Away 09 Dark Horse 10 Birthday 11 Thinking Of You 12 California Gurls 13 I Kissed A Girl 14 Wide Awake 15 Unconditionally 16 Part Of Me

01 What Makes You Beautiful 02 Kiss You 03 Story Of My Life 04 One Thing 05 Best Song Ever 06 Live While We're Young 07 You & I 08 Gotta Be You 09 Midnight Memories 10 One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) 11 Little Things A few misses here and there, but for a boyband they've had a pretty decent run of singles so far.

09.0 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head 00.0 Westlife - Uptown Girl 02.0 DJ Ötzi - Hey Baby! 00.0 Bob The Builder - Mambo No. 5 03.5 Steps - Chain Reaction 03.0 Five - Let's Dance 08.5 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Take Me Home 06.5 Wyclef Jean - Perfect Gentleman 07.0 City High - What Would You Do? 05.0 Blue - If You Come Back 07.0 Nelly Furtado - Turn Off the Light 06.5 OPM - Heaven Is a Halfpipe 07.0 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 00.0 Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal 02.0 Sum 41 - Fat Lip 05.0 Wheatus - A Little Respect 05.5 Travis - Sing 06.5 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny 06.5 Emma Bunton - Take My Breath Away 05.0 Gabrielle - Don't Need the Sun to Shine (To Make Me Smile) 05.0 Lighthouse Family - (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free / One 07.0 Kate Winslet - What If 09.0 iiO - Rapture 08.0 Supermen Lovers - Starlight 05.0 Jamiroquai - Little L 10.0 Destiny's Child - Bootylicious 05.0 D12 - Purple Hills 11.0 Eve featuring Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind 08.5 Britney Spears - I'm a Slave 4 U 10.0 Mis-Teeq - One Night Stand 09.5 Mary J. Blige - Family Affair 06.5 Samantha Mumba - Baby Come On Over 08.5 Liberty - Thinking It Over 04.0 Victoria Beckham - Not Such an Innocent Girl 05.0 Louise - Stuck in the Middle with You 04.5 Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster 06.5 Allstars - Things That Go Bump in the Night 10.0 N-Trance - Set You Free 08.0 The Ones - Flawless 05.5 Daft Punk - Digital Love 06.5 Groove Armada - Superstylin' 07.0 Jean-Jacques Smoothie - 2 People 06.0 So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds 00.0 Afroman - Because I Got High

A surprising winner! It's not a song I really listen to that regularly, but it's perfectly inoffensive enough. A decent top 10 really, the terminally awful 'Unfaithful' aside. If anything I think I'm more disappointed that one of Christina's most forgettable singles has beaten some gems from All Saints and Jamelia.

25 Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position (BEST) 24 Siobhan Donaghy – Don’t Give It Up 23 Amerie – Take Control 22 Dragonette – I Get Around 21 Kelis feat Cee-Lo – Lil Star 20 Roisin Murphy – Let Me Know 19 Aly & AJ – Potential Breakup Song 18 Kate Nash – Foundations 17 Patrick Wolf – Bluebells 16 Jamelia – No More 15 Kelly Clarkson – Never Again 14 Mark Ronson – Stop Me 13 Rihanna – Shut Up & Drive 12 Amerie – Gotta Work 11 Feist – 1234 10 JoJo – Too Little Too Late 09 Ciara – Like A Boy 08 Bloc Party – Flux 07 Christina Aguilera – Candyman 06 LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends 05 Kelly Rowland – Like This 04 Paramore – Misery Buisness 03 Calvin Harris – Acceptable In The 80s 02 Manic Street Preachers – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 01 Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand – Let Me Think About It

25 Jamelia – Something About You (BEST) 24 The Pipettes – Pull Shapes 23 Dixie Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice 22 The Pipettes – Judy 21 Girls Aloud – Whole Lotta History 20 Alesha Dixon – Lipstick 19 Paris Hilton – Stars Are Blind 18 Beyonce feat Jay-Z – Déjà vu 17 The Pipettes – Dirty Mind 16 Christina Milian – Say I 15 Cassie – Long Way 2 Go 14 Madonna – Jump 13 Kanye West – Touch The Sky 12 Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On 11 Nerina Pallot – Everybody’s Gone To War 10 Sugababes – Easy 09 Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats 08 Kelly Clarkson – Walk Away 07 Pink – Stupid Girls 06 David Guetta vs The Egg – Love Don’t Let Me Go 05 Beyonce – Check On It 04 Pussycat Dolls – Buttons 03 Infernal – From Paris To Berlin 02 Fedde Le Grand – Put Your Hands Up For Detroit 01 Christina Aguilera – Ain’t No Other Man

Surprised to see Goldfrapp miss out. I thought it was a really quite noticeably absent from the list of automatically qualified songs! As with 2004, the qualifiers could probably be a bit better, but there's nothing too bad there.

There's nothing horrendous about that set of qualifiers, but it's a shame to see stuff like 'Dumb', 'Not In Love', 'Dip It Low' and 'Afrodisiac' lose out to some fairly mediocre Girls Aloud and Britney covers.