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If there is a big shift overall, or with certain demographics, then we will probably have a good idea just by looking at the margins/turnout in two counties in Indiana: Hamilton County (affluent, white suburban county) and Lake County (white working class with a lot of black/hispanic voters too). Indiana of course isn't competitive but it counts super quickly and is the first state in the US to close polls, alongside Kentucky. It's what told me in 2020 that Biden would win the 3 midwestern swing states. The very first results were Florida which of course were very scary and weren't even close to being repeated anywhere else in the country. If those two counties don't show a clear shift or if they shift in different directions then we'll be waiting for each swing state, which wouldn't be unexpected given how tight the polling is. I'm travelling to the UK on Wednesday so happy to mess up my sleep pattern again and then sleep through the train/bus/plane journeys that will take up the entire day.

Voted - competitive!

I didn't believe the mostly Q predictions for Skall so I'm pleased it did! Expecting 35th or so in the final but we'll take it. 12 Q 10 Q 8 Q 7 Q 6 Q 5 Q 4 Q 3 Q 2 DOSE 06 ☢ Elëdan ☢ Joanna Newsom - Sapokanikan 1 DOSE 09 ☢ Tartford ☢ Gemma Ray - Fire House 11th Suedeonia 17th Jadakissnia 20th Zanmatory 21st East Rukahavian 23rd Conoria 24th Sandénia Pretty pleased with that!!

Second month in a row I nearly ended up with an artist clash with the other track that I was thinking of switching to which would've been this: 98D0zbiJR6o I honestly would've thought a new Caribou track would've been borderline veto but I'm rooting for Cadelicia!

Liam Payne has died after falling from a hotel room in Buenos Aires.

1. Unlock It 2. I Got It 3. Out of My Head 4. Girls Night Out 5. Track 10 6. Club Classics 7. Vroom Vroom 8. Gone 9. Yuck 10. You're The One

Polling odds basically give the election as a tie but the vibes feel off so I sense Trump win.

I am indeed thrilled to learn that! The legacy of that track will never die.

Self-recycling ur favourite Welsh DJ who was criminally underrated last time and surely you guys won't make the same mistake twice (if you do then at least I'm already on a DNQ streak).

Wtf

1 # = 1987 13 A = Active Child, Against All Logic, Air France x2, AlunaGeorge, Amber Mark, Ana Moura, Animal Collective x2, Art Of Tones, Axel Boman, Amber Coffman, Amtrac 5 B = Bandolero, Bicep, Blood Orange, Burial, Boxed In 7 C = Chad Valley, Channel Tres, Chaos in the CBD, Christopher Tin, Cinthie, Clams Casino, Clark 6 D = Dave DK, David Lyme, Deerhunter, Dive In, DJ Seinfeld, D'Angelo Lacy 5 E = Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, Electrik Red, Electrovamp, Elkka, Elliphant 11 F = Fever Ray, The Field, Floating Points, Florence + The Machine, Former Ghosts, Fort Romeau, Four Tet, Franz Ferdinand, Free Love, Fatoumata Diawara, Fritz Kalkbrenner 8 G = Gallant, Gang Gang Dance x2, Gilligan Moss, Girls, God Colony, GoldLink, Gregor Schwellenbach 4 H = Håkan Hellström, High Places, How To Dress Well, Hodge 4 I = Isaac Aesili, I Am Noxious, INSTINCT, IYES 7 J = Jazmine Sullivan, Jai Paul, Japandroids, Jens Lekman, Jesper Ryom, John Maus, John Talabot 13 K = KAYTRANADA, Kareem Ali, Karma Kid, Kate Bush, Kindness, kirilik, Kjartan Lauritzen, Kodak Black, Kollektivet, Kölsch, Korallreven x2, Kyrstal Klear 10 L = Laurel Halo, Laurent Garnier, Legowelt, Leikeli47, Leon Vynehall, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Lorentz, Los Campesinos! x2, Leo Kalyan 11 M = -M-, Magdalena Bay, Major Lazer, Mall Grab, Marci, Mary Lattimore, Masayoshi Takanaka, Merely, Mike Mareen, moistbreezy, Musta Barbaari 3 N = Nadia Rose, The New Pornographers, Niki & The Dove 5 O = of Montreal, O'Flynn, Oliver N'Goma, OneRepublic, Orbital 11 P = Pional, Pandr Eyez, Pantha Du Prince, Park Hye Jin, Part Time, Passion Pit, Paul Kalkbrenner, Phoenix, Phoria, Postiljonen, Priya Ragu Q = 5 R = Roos, The Radio Dept., Requin Chagrin, Rina Sawayama, R3LL 12 S = Soweto Gospel Choir, Sidiki Diabaté, Seb Wildblood, Slowdive, Small Black, Son Lux, Space Dimension Controller, St. Lucia, Stars, Stephen Lopkin, Stupeflip, Sufjan Stevens 9 T = Tinchy Stryder, Toumani Diabaté, Teengirl Fantasy x2, Telephones, Three Trapped Tigers, Todd Terje, Tommy Sparks, Twin Shadow 1 U = UNIIQU3 1 V = The Very Best 2 W = Washed Out x2 1 X = XO 1 Y = Yves Tumor Z = Kinda wild that K is the joint most common letter. I guess I'd better look for Q and Z artists then.

The best and most accessible of Animal Collective's 14 (? I've lost count) albums. It's actually really difficult to filter my music library by album/song release year ugh.

Most mainstream would be Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros from that earlier Spotify thread I guess. But cheapest entry is harder to answer, there are subcategories to this: - Entries that only became cheap in hindsight as they blew up - Entries that were cheap but I'm not paying attention and I'm not aware of who is actually unknown and who has a decent following/had already been sent before - Actually cheap Bicep - Just Burial - Space Cadet Electrovamp - I Don't Like The Vibe In The VIP Floating Points - Falaise Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses Jai Paul - He Krystal Klear - Neutron Dance Magdalena Bay - Dreamcatching I think I already knew that all the above artists/entries were already pretty acclaimed. Excluding a good few entries that are of disadvantaged genres (let's call it that) here. I think that automatically frees them of the cheap label. And also excluding some like Gang Gang Dance last year where their peak popularity was long gone and they were kinda forgotten about at the time I sent them, as well as obscure songs/versions of otherwise well known artists or tracks (that Live in Australia version of Chime/Crime is so lit). And in there is Electrovamp which is hardly acclaimed but was a minor chart hit just a few years before.

I am DISGUSTED at how low Cumulonimbia is

Double bill of last hour voting this contest x

This album is so much joy.

Used that deadline day in the UK, day following the deadline in France 1 hour window to vote again x

I have third and fourth highest I think 956M Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - Home {Skall XXVII; 17} 437M Kodak Black - Transportin' {Skall CII; SF-25} 359M Phoenix - 1901 {Skall XVI; SF-17} 200M Paul Kalkbrenner and Fritz Kalkbrenner - Sky And Sand {Skall LVI; 16} 199M Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love {Skall XVIII; 5} 195M Major Lazer - Get Free (feat. Amber Coffman) {Skall XLV; SF-16} 100M Håkan Hellström - Det Kommer Aldrig Va Över För Mig {Skall LXIII; SF-22} How Kodak Black got that many streams I wouldn't be able to tell you

What an incredible 3am listen

Wisconsin is so scary. It's the state that has had the biggest polling misses and it's also the one that demographically should be more Republican than it actually is - it has only swung modestly rightwards compared to Iowa or Ohio. I believe that it's the whitest state in play for the Dems outside of New England. I can't help but compare to state polls from this time in 2020. I know that a lot of work has gone into correcting that but I've not looked into what exactly or whether it has been successful.

Active Child omg :wub: The way I was literally considering sending him this month (but instead of him I went for a different early 10s artist). Johnny Belinda will get lots of points from me!

The decisionmaking process in choosing my entry will be based entirely around the fact that a P3 class will be listening to it x

You are easily in the top half of this month's entries

36th -> 21st in the last scoreboard is unreal.

Wait how did I climb so much with the last 10 votes Neliönoir, Aeroche, Cheiron, Persephonia should not be bottom 10