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Happy to have a well known artist when the song you sent is incredible! We all know the Eurovision performance, but I didn't love it musically and I probably wouldn't have pointed Ireland 2024 had it been a BJSC entry and wouldn't have gne out of my way to listen to new Bambie Thug music. It's been great to hear a different offering! Commiserations spoiler, sorry pal. Delighted with a Rontvia return to pole position, especially when I gave it 18. Only real miss for me is Planningtorock languishing down at the bottom. Also so pleased that I snook into the top 10 at the end! Thanks to everyone who sent points my way - it's one of the widest appealing entries I've sent recently in terms of where votes came from.

N DNTN 34th is crazy.

Wow thankyou! I was expecting and indeed receiving consistent but a low-ish trickle of points - delighted to have an 18! Persephonia doing so well is the surprise for me so far I think?

Rontvia heading up a pop-heavy top 10 is VERY exciting.

Prim and proper pop songs = appeals to organised type A minds Weird alt music = for messy and late type B ppl I'm just being silly I know this will have lots of contradictions but it's the best I've got.

Looking forward to (the rest of) this. For myself if I am going to finish top 20 as predicted by others then I'm really not sure where the votes will come from as it's not my usual genre! Despite sending something poppier my favs were very much alt-leaning and I'm rooting for 5 tracks in particular, none of which doing amazingly so far.

Voted not so last minute in the end. I could have given 18 to any of my top 5 - very difficult to order! And then lots of contenders for my lower points in a contest where I felt more than half the field deserved something. Basically only the 5ish-10 point zone got just the right number of points from me.

Will be voting last minute - but looking forward to my listenthrough!

On the first scoreboard, I unknowingly posted all the entries left on 0 points (so all but 10/15 tracks depending on voting format) in the order of their final position. I'm not sure if anyone else has done that but I did this TWICE a decade apart, and I believe (hope) only Bré was clever enough to notice each time. If it had been pointed out more widely then it might have made lore for the shortest ever final results threads.

Votes are in!

Oof my list is pretty long - not quite who I expected for recycling me more often but I'm honoured! Recycled me: 3 Fljótavík (Kölsch x2, Fever Ray) 3 Kluminican Republic (St Lucia, Clara Luciani, Krystal Klear) 3 PRoJ (Passion Pit x2, Phoenix) 2 Aeroche (Merely, Active Child) 2 Elëdan (Active Child, Sufjan Stevens) 1 Cumulonimbia (Yves Tumor) 1 Deandria (Stars) 1 East Rukahavian (1987) 1 Jadakissnia (Active Child) 1 Kathaldazia (DJ Seinfeld) 1 Kylienips (The New Pornographers) 1 Lotunia (Stars) 1 Mothertopia (Priya Ragu) 1 N DNTN (Merely) 1 Palmrya (Todd Terje) 1 Quintessa (Son Lux) 1 Sandebörg (Lo-Fi-Fnk) 1 Séyetana (Christopher Tin) 1 Suedonia (The Very Best) 1 Tartford (Son Lux) 1 Terra Avium (Slowdive) 1 Trifoski (Dive In) 1 UnoShake (OneRepublic) 1 Utopia (Karma Kid) I recycled: 4 Utopia (Animal Collective x2, Los Campesinos! x2) 3 N DNTN (Korallreven x2, Jai Paul) 2 Aeroche (DJ Seinfeld, Orbital) 2 Isconia (Niki and the Dove, Elliphant) 2 Kingdom of Shadow (Florence and the Machine, the Very Best) 2 Kluminican Republic (Burial x2) 2 Rivandia (Stars, Air France) 2 Sovarasma (Floating Points x2) 2 Trifoski (Magdalena Bay, Blanck Mass) 1 Bhangra (Kate Bush) 1 Cadbury (Major Lazer) 1 Dobago (Amber Mark) 1 D'yermak'er (Jai Paul) 1 Fervorosia (Electrovamp) 1 Fljótavík (Gilligan Moss) 1 Florina (Blood Orange) 1 Flynndonia (UNIIQU3) 1 Hendinia (Moistbreezy) 1 Ingermanlandia (Orbital) 1 Kathaldazia (Kiss Facility) 1 FARC (Florence and the Machine) 1 N-Lazone (Krystal Klear) 1 Ojnoj (Magdalena Bay) 1 Pagasa (Kareem Ali) 1 Quotosibb (Kate Bush) 1 Republic of Adonia (Magdalena Bay) 1 Rolloland (Blanck Mass) 1 St. Burbia (Leikeli47) 1 Summericia (Moistbreezy) 1 Usfland (Twin Shadow) 1 Vulcania (OneRepublic) I've also self-recycled: Air France, Animal Collective, Burial, Elkka, Floating Points, Gang Gang Dance, Korallreven, Los Campesinos!, Teengirl Fantasy (9 times), some more justifiably than others.

Yeah and the big question is if 'willing to vote for anything to stop Reform' goes as far as voting Labour which is the obvious button to press in large parts of the country with incumbent Labour MPs. With approval numbers where they are, there's a world in which it's simpler if the party is declared dead before 2029.

Very tempted to recycle someone who has been sent twice before over 10 years ago.... and DNQ'd quite spectacularly both times. AND it's R&B which I feel has a reputation for underperforming. But it's a rly good song so let's go for it.

With Caerphilly being in many ways a suburb of Cardiff, I had assumed that it would not be fertile territory for Reform, with them likely to do better further up the valleys. But it actually had the 4th highest Brexit vote in Wales out of the 22 council areas so the Reform result is indeed a bit of an underperformance. There a parts of the UK where there could be majority or near-majority support for Reform, at which point the whole mess of tactical voting wouldn't be relevant. But perhaps that's not as widespread as I thought.

Congrats Jade! You were just outside my points and the best of the top 3 in my opinion. While it's a shame Harmonica faded somewhar who I was rooting for as I don't often send points their way, I'm glad that Aeroche and N DNTN did eventually climb up to OK spots as they were both unexplainably at the bottom. I was also down there which didn't surpise me - 13th is far better than I expected!

Voted - lots of the mellow from SF1 was very good, in other areas it was disappointing!

12 02 ◾ Q 10 19 ◾ Q 8 05 ◾ Q 7 03 ◾ SUEDEONIA ◾ WORLD NEWS 'RED' 6 20 ◾ Q 5 10 ◾ Q 4 13 ◾ Q 3 18 ◾ Q 2 11 ◾ Q 1 22 ◾ Q I feel that a few of these required my points in order to make it as they felt quite borderline. I'd put my entry in the borderline Q category too - happy on this occasion to have a clearly favourable semi when I feel that the reverse has happened to me more often lately!

Have lined up the last minuteness perfectly to be able to honour James Ferraro in full. Very stacked semi though - let's see what room I have for him!

There's always an attempt to claim that the attacks are against migration but not to do with race. I don't know about Handsworth in particular but Birmingham as a whole is under 50% white but over 70% UK-born, which is a gap will only increase over time. As conservatives run out of road to radicalise anti-migrant discourse, the direction of travel is more frequent and explicit references to race regardless of migration status. I'd be interested to see if he or anybody else who agrees with his statement has a comment on vast swathes of the UK being almost universally White British and whether that suggests anything about integration of those areas. At 96% White British his constituency of Newark is up there.

I do need October music so would like to entrr but can't find an entry whilst multiple substances in me can I décide tomorrow daytimr?

Very, very difficult to make a list for an artist like this, but it's a mixture of her classics and slightly overlooked tracks that make up my top 10: 1) Cloudbusting 2) Rocket's Tail 3) Hounds of Love 4) This Woman's Work 5) Jig of Life 6) Running Up That Hill 7) Leave It Open 8) Wuthering Heights 9) Bertie 10) Baboushka I'm one of the freaks that enjoys the Red Shoes so lots of tracks from there that barely didn't make it: Moments of Pleasure, Rubberband Girl, And So Is Love, Constellation of the Heart, Why Should I Love You? Top of the City. There is also some of her most questionable work on that very incongruous album too though.

Congrats for the second win! I voted for 5/6 of the top 6 and liked the Summericia song too so very happy about that. Also pleased at a solid placing after being very mid/low-table until a last minute surge.

Voted - was very tricky! Did we bring back indie rock???

Gonna do a cringe centrist take here, but it's so easy to profile the perpetrator as being firmly from from the opposite camp to yours (Bella Ciao engraving on the casing vs. white boy from a gun-loving law enforcement/military Mormon family ). There has been so much focus on the motives and the demographics of the perpetrator but there was every chance that we ended up in this situation where there is no manifesto, and no neat political explanation. The overall picture of his online life that has quickly come out is pretty inconclusive, with much of it politically meaningless, and don't suggest much other than his brain perhaps being fried on a diet of memes and video games more than anything coherently ideological. Which figures because as extreme as ideology can get, ideology alone can't ever explain committing a lone wolf public atrocity and the obvious personal consequences for doing it - there has to be some form of mental illness + access to weapons alongside it. Despite it targeting a political figure, I think it'll end up in the school/mass shooting basket of atrocities where there is often no clear motive. Unless something more concrete comes out (and of course the perpetrator is still alive), then the shooting is quite different to attacks that make an overt political statement like Dylann Roof/Christchurch/Islamist terrorism I think. I'd put the Trump assassination attempt in the former category too. The most meaningful thing about the assassination so far is not the esoteric profile of the perpetrator but the immediate calls for dire repercussions (themes ranging from violence or some form of anti-democratic repression) against anybody deemed to be left-wing that were widely shared by conservatives - and that goes from politically engaged randoms to the actual US president. 'This is our Reichstag fire' indeed.

I saw the video first which was obviously horrifying. He's someone who I know existed but had tried not to pay attention to, and it just turns out that there are far too many quotes excusing violence in general, gun violence in particular (specifically 'I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.'), empathy being a 'made-up new age term', raising funds to bail out the attacker of Nancy Pelosi's husband. And the smorgasbord of racist, Islamophobic, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT bigotry as well as the conspiratorialism that aren't necessarily ironic but made him a horrendous person. All that and the irony of his last words being about gang violence before being shot in one of the whitest part of the US. So the secondary reaction is: lmao.