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Right I'll be starting soon... this will be very makeshift so please bear with me, commentary will definitely be minimal as I haven't prepared any 😢 but here goes nothing! Here's a reminder of the contenders...

Thank you to everyone who voted... we have a winner and the results shall begin this evening. Feel free to speculate on who will win etc whilst I rather frantically try to get the remaining prep completed! D*

Living Next Door to Alice is a contender for the worst successful song of the 90s, diabolical trash from a time when idiots thought it was big and clever to be able to shout the f word whilst singing a song

Okay that was pretty conclusive then, tonight it is!

Just checking whether this is visible enough when posted as when I last hosted BJSC the site compressed it all and it was kinda tough to read

To be fair, probably not! 😂

Oh I didn’t realise that was happening, sorry. I’ve totalled everything up now so if people are happy with a pretty basic presentation then I could do the tables later and results this evening? Shall we do one of those react things? So 👍 for tonight and ❤️ for tomorrow… I’ll go with whichever gets most

Editing this out to avoid confusion - see post further down to vote for results tonight or tomorrow

As always when you’re hosting, it’s interesting to see the guesses and know if any of them are correct or not. It also is slightly amusing to think that we put a lot of emphasis on Spotify plays in the veto process, only for one entry to suddenly end up in the UK top 10 there 🫣😂

Assuming @Bror is on it from his post, that leaves just @awardinary @NocheLuna @Herbs @CowTzy to come This is your last reminder as I’m off to bed now… you have until I do the prep tomorrow ☺️

That top 4 is excellent, I love all of them.

Everyone hopefully has this already in hand, but just in case here’s a reminder that today is voting deadline day for @Colm @nine¾ @Bror @awardinary @NocheLuna @Herbs @dhwe @Spiceboy @Severin @Julian_ @AH Gold @CowTzy

Heard this out earlier and had no idea who it was... was not expecting it to be Tinashe, I can't say I've ever really paid that much attention to her before but this is amazing

Argh I really like the look of the chalkboard variant at HMV as it really does seem to match well… but I already have a white copy of the album so I definitely don’t need it… must resist! (Although tbh it’s always struck me as a weird design choice that someone decided to make a white version of an album called Back to Black)

I’ll try to find some of his quotes for you when I’m done with work, they were very amusing. But in short he used to congratulate people’s death timing if they died on a Sunday for maximum impact in the chart that week. He viewed anyone who died midweek as a wasted opportunity for death based sales and chart peaks 😂

I wouldn’t usually reveal this but the person behind Dolly is Kobbar; who is of course fuming that it wasn’t the day the contest opened for perfect impact #oldreference

Awwww sad news… a true icon has passed 😢

I feel like we should play Marlene on the Wall, Unforgivable Sinner and As I Lay Me Down as the bonus or warm up plays if such things happen

Ahhh was it! I bought the MTV live album at the time, agree it was good <3

I was always surprised it wasn’t a single at the time tbh

Thanks Rollo - I will hopefully be able to join. Will just listen to the playlist if the videos don’t play

Are you still aiming for a listen through tomorrow @King Rollo ?

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love Tears For Fears - Shout Nik Kershaw - The Riddle Depeche Mode- Blasphemous Rumours Paul McCartney And The Frog Chorus - We All Stand Together Not the best week so throwing a vote to the chorus as I loved it as a child

Indeed doing very well on the YTD is largely about minimising DNQs, unless you have a particularly big hit at some point.

Yes born in the last year of the 70s… it’s quite scary to think of 😭