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I will miss typing out every month that Hendinia have expanded both of their records </3 speaking of... I am a little behind with updating my spreadsheet again so not sure if I'll get the streak update done tonight but hopefully tomorrow at the latest, as Jim said already though Danæviia are the new leaders they'll have to keep going until August 2030 to top Hendinia's consecutive record (February 2031 for the non-consecutive) - they're almost halfway there (shame they're withdrawing now after the Scotland 2 result etc. etc.) From my votes / rankings in semi 2: 12 Q 10 Q 8 Q 7 Q 6 Jadakissnia 5 Q 4 Q 3 Q 2 Q 1 Q 11th Trifoski 12th Dalisska 19th Lentyll 21st Hendinia 22nd Vaskla 24th A-Konohagakure 25th Cheiron 26th Aeroche Almost a full house, BJSC just not quite ready for doomwop sadly </3 intrigued to see how close they were. From my first impressions ranking of semi 1 I've only lost 2 of my top 10 (Zephyra Continuum and New Lexico), Aelandor the next highest ranked of the DNQs currently in 15th. Will edit in finalised rankings later as ever x edit: 7th Zephyra Continuum 9th New Lexico 13th Aelandor 16th Mulgracia 19th République d'Áskorza 24th Zanmatony 25th Kluminican Republic 26th Harmonica 27th Kylienips Thanks for hosting blacksquare and kudos to everyone who contributed art to a very charming results thread <3 hiipe for the final, will be a good one with so few of my faves missing out.

well I never Hendinia's song was not bad at all (kinda digging the Daft Punk-esque parts in the second half) but there you go, no one is bulletproof after all

Cor Lupus were maybe at slightly more of a risk than usual due to the semi draw but I'd still have said that was bumping up from a 5% chance of DNQing to like 20% at a push - was definitely the most confident they'd still be continuing their run between the top 3. Great song anyway and would have been sacrilege for it to DNQ in spoopy month x I wouldn't say it's entirely impossible Dobago still take the last slot over Hendinia either but leaning towards the 7 year reign continuing. New Lexico are also in my initial top 10 of semi 1 (currently 9th) so am a bit gutted to see them out aw - amazed that their threat to send Mongolian throat singing actually materialised

Ooooops sorry Leww if that was my manifesting I'm sure Klumroche will bounce back with a vengeance next month x New Helvetica though their best entry yet for me, absolutely beautiful song.

Oops did I accidentally pass my DNQ era on to Klum? (I think I liked this one slightly more than Mia's two previous entries but she's not really my thing in general)

I think we are going to be losing one of Aeroche and Hendinia as New Helvetica really doesn't feel like a DNQ to me! (Cor Lupus I think will be fine still x) assuming it is 2 from each semi anyway, might be 3 from semi 2 left lol, not been counting

My entry is basically a K-Pop song too if you just imagine South Korea annexed Türkiye

Pleased Sovarasma are through - not my fave shoegaze entry ever but always here for the genre qualifying anyway x

belated reactions to this post reminded me I didn't check this yet x They did actually have one other 3 Q run in the recent-ish past (166-168) but other than that it's been either 1 or 2 of either Qs or DNQs at a time since BJSC 149 - will see if they surpass that and get 4 in a row for the first time since then next month x

I might just have to Freaky Friday into New Lexico's body next then. (it'll be way less cool than being POPHub was)

Yay for both of those x ALTHub's alt card not declining

Oops some more mixed feelings there - glad that my fellow manifester (and PFSC alumnus) is through but Zephyra Continuum's entry was a lot of fun, ranked 6th in semi 1 for me at the moment.

All 3 of the anniversary entries through, nice - I didn't remember 'Animal' from the title but I knew I was a fan of most of the bonus tracks on 'Bright Lights' and indeed this was a good one to revisit x Oh my at back-to-back K-Pop boyband qualifiers for Lotunia, who knew this was the new meta x

Abstaining from leaving a reaction on that post as Scotland 2 qualifying is highkey iconic but oh nooo at Jadakissnia - ngl I was a bit worried they'd fall short this time but still :'( Was my 6 pointer (I bumped it up a couple of points after my relisten) so that's the first song from either of my top 10s to be out so far. (as per of late my semi 1 ranking isn't finalised yet as I've not done a second listenthrough - planning to do one this evening - but still) Still waiting on news either way from quite a few of my (current) semi 1 top 10 actually ~

And every other week? x

Yehesi with a lite bop x

The Spodic Empire <3 Squarepusher not disappointing for his BJSC debut. Lentyll's song was a grower on second listen for me but also not too surprising of a DNQ sadly. We all did x

They are out though - can kinda see why the image may be unclear but it does say 'DNQ' in plain text at the bottom of the spoiler oop

Yayyyy, very glad that the semi 1 pop hoes will hear my song in the final, I hope I can do y'all proud again!! (and I hope I can be less bullied at the final listenthrough :'( (speaking of which... early listenthrough tomorrow? x)) And because I don't want to let the ~2 minutes of MS Paint work go to waste this was the graphic I knocked up for the event of a DNQ x 😮

Herbibores unite! (was a banger, no way that was gonna go out x) With that Herbilore have now fully overcome their 8 DNQ streak and have 50/50 qualifiers and DNQs

Aw I quite liked Aelandor and thought it was one that could grow on me </3 Taahino was pretty good as well x

Oh my goats are washed. Sadge (Trifoski was the last song I cut from my votes after a last minute switcheroo, was very close between that and my 1 pointer)

Not sure if Land of DW qualifying makes me more or less hopeful for myself...! Shame for Dalisska, might be one that suffered from the alt field being too crowded - it did just miss out on points from me (ranked it 12th, it wasn't quite hitting me as much as songs of that style sometimes do but still a good one that I'd have liked to give a point or two ideally)

Freidland was quite a standout among the pop songs in semi 1 I thought! Willing it to be a first top 20 for them x

Vaskla's song was cute but did seem like one of the least likely to qualify from that semi unforch! twigs song was good as usual from her x