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The KATSEYE song is ok, probably the best thing they've released since 'Touch' I guess (although I do have a small soft spot for 'Gnarly' and 'PINKY UP' if I'm in the right mood for them lol). 'Man I Need' back in the top 10, phresh

Oh yay Malcolm is still here! At least one more week of staying ahead of his sister x It's pretty wild that Charli went from never even having a top 10 album to her name for the first decade of her career to now having as many #1 albums as Adele in the span of just over 4 years.

First time hearing 'Camera' and I guess it is the most I've enjoyed any of the singles from this era on first listen but still not immediately loving it (I feel like it's a bit of a retread of some of the more introspective tracks on 'BRAT'?) 'Rock Music' and 'Wink Wink' did both grow on me a decent bit after a few listens so hopefully this will too.

Absolutely to get a chart breakthrough to join her sister RAYE as well? x

Bebe Rexha is Calum Scott in this analogy (minus the doing better than the original, thankfully). Would be here for an 'Insomnia' revival any time though x

It is really necessary to post this every week x

'honeybee' is a lovely song but I'm just waiting for 'maggots for brains' to become its rightful smash x

The only song so far that was actually released in 2026 being the only song to be skipped Calum Scott ruined this song so hard that I find myself not even enjoying the original as much as I used to oop. But still way better than the cover anyway obvz so nice to see it return to being the preeminent version I guess.

If the quality of 'new hits' is as low as that thing at #40 (which isn't even that new anyway lol) I'm quite happy to stick with NatBed, JLo and The Killers x

This scourge brought to us by the same person who inflicted 'That's So True' on us x

My post the other day in another thread was not supposed to be a challenge!!

A great top 2 and sad the latter was blocked because it's easily the better of the two. (Eminem should really have been further ahead, he didn't have any video streaming sales because the song was only on YouTube as an auto-generated video at the time which don't count towards the chart for some reason)

But why not before xx

'Rasa' being a backup entry still makes no sense to me x

I think I've only ever had an entry denied twice, one time where I went momentarily mad and tried to reconfirm mid-contest to TĀLĀ's 'Alchemy' which had already been confirmed by Bøtanikkä (and thank God because if I hadn't been blocked I'd never forgive myself for selling out with a self-recycle even though it did do considerably better than my actual entry that contest, which... I think was just me going back to my original pick but not sure, it was a long time ago), and the other time when Run The Jewels got inexplicably (at the time) vetoed and I decided to just commit to tanking myself and took it as a sign to finally send Yung Lean's 'Kyoto' after sitting on it for months, which unsurprisingly DNQed as BuzzJack was still not ready for it. x Obviously since I became a mod I can see all the entries coming in so I'd almost certainly never actually be in a (losing) entry clash now, and I very rarely send anything that is even remotely a veto threat. Could still see that someone already took a song I wanted to send myself and have to change plans but I'm pretty sure that has never happened (there have been a couple of times where I've had to take songs off my potential list because other people sent them but they weren't ones I was actively planning to send to the contest where they were taken).

Yes, she "somehow" defied the completely baseless superstition that you continue to parrot constantly despite having entirely made it up x

Ooh nice, welcome to the moderating team x

Only matches 2 of the 3 criteria I named so you're safe!

I slept through the start of confirmations and missed the drama, why do you not cater your timings to dysfunctional near-nocturnal Brits x (luckily there is not exactly much competition for obscure 90s Japanese ambient producers so I have plenty of time to try and figure out how to upload the song myself somewhere - I could do with some Doctor Blind esque custom visuals for this one tbh but I doubt I have the skills to be able to make such a thing)

Just about to start a relisten of this so my votes are going to be slightly late as well sorry, I don't have a particularly legit excuse, I was just napping again xx (will defo be in tonight tho)

Would personally love if either of the #1 contenders could be a song that's better than a 6/10 but hey ho.

This is still in effect

Manifesting this opening the doors for the public to discover this Slovak masterpiece xx

If anything it's probably more likely to happen again now. At the moment 'Man I Need' is still the year to date #1 (not sure if it's still looking to hold onto that or if 'Rein Me In' will eventually overtake) and that hasn't reached #1 this year, albeit only because of ACR.

Pester me again in the evening because I will probably forget otherwise xx but yes I can send you those stats