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Ooh are we actually back up to date with these again? Great effort x Pretending the chart is upside down - oh well DONE to Wolf Alice and Lorde with their top 3 debuts!

It's a shame Bow Wow Wow had so few top 40 hits as from the songs I have heard from them they seem like such a fun and wacky band, this and 'Go Wild In The Country' are both great imo, but alas I'd need to be less lazy and seek out more of their songs of my own volition rather than waiting for them to pop up at the weekly SyncTubes haha. Bowie is a great pick for #1 of that batch anyway ofc, poor Kelly Marie deserves more than a 4 though, naff in a fun way for me!

Moving to Sugababes now, I do quite like 'Stronger' but a very clear weak link for me compared to 7 songs that I like a lot!

She has gone off the deep end these days but it's 'Paper Planes' easily. (Actually I think I remember really not liking it when it first came out but I saw the error of my ways later on)

I don't know nearly enough albums from these decades to make a meaningful contribution but just mildly amused that Bjork seems to live in an alternate dimension where there are 5 heads on Mount Rushmore

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Professional wrestling is effectively a soap opera so I think it does actually make sense to consider wrestling personas to be fictional characters.

Troy and Gabriella - Breaking Free (it is billed to 'Cast Of High School Musical' on the OCC website / Polyhex but it's credited to the characters on streaming services)

^ nope, you're fine - we've not had any clashes yet! I have nothing atm once again so will endeavour to look for an entry over the weekend x

Yes this contest gets the BJSC spinoff widget, I'll nudge Joseph x (I think there may be a few other song contest widgets which haven't been added yet but it's more annoying to check in the new site unfortunately! Will need to do some digging x) Just had a vague memory that Mulgracia's Cosmic Gate (BJFest IV winner) went through AC, checked and it did indeed - don't know if that's the only one or not!

We have Greatest Hits Radio on at work most of the time now so I keep hearing bits of this again and playing along in my head when I can - tends to always get interrupted by calls / people talking over it though.

Oooh a very close finish there - the whole top 3 is the same as my own top 3 but in reverse order anyway so we stan the taste, well done @!!! on I believe your first song contest win anywhere on the site! I should perhaps have had a little more insight on that being a contender because it won the semi-final I hosted by a pretty wide margin actually but could always have just been a good draw for it x We love to see Rico Nasty completing her journey from tanking when I sent her to now being a contest winner *.* Yay for Nuovo Testamento managing a great result here, shall still be keeping an eye out for them to eventually make an appearance in the main contest ~ + yasss at Cannelle on the podium and nice at Vendredi Sur Mer making the top 5 as well after both coming through AC, my only real complaint here is ADÉLA really should have done a bit better, must have been a fair few poppier countries who didn't vote I guess x Here are the full results from semi 1 for anyone who may be interested! BEN'S CHEI ELËD FLYN JADA MOTH NEW L PEST SCOT SOVA SUMM 1 SCOT Rico Nasty & Boys Noize - Arintintin 86 12 8 2 10 12 6 12 12 12 2 SOVA JOLIN - Pleasure 56 8 10 10 8 6 4 10 3 PEST Jae Stephens - Body Favors 52 10 8 6 12 6 10 4 JADA Cannelle - WATCH ME FLY 48 6 6 6 8 10 8 4 5 CHEI Chase Icon - SoCal Girl 46 4 4 4 6 2 4 12 2 8 6 MOTH Say She She - Cut & Rewind 44 12 10 10 4 2 6 7 ELËD sineila - X-8 42 8 12 10 8 4 8 SUMM MishCatt - Another Dimension 32 2 4 8 8 4 6 9 FLYN Arthur Hill - Appetite 26 6 12 2 4 2 10 BEN'S Karen Harding & Shift K3Y - Morning 16 2 2 10 2 11 NEW L Dolly Style - POM POM 14 2 12

Oops I might have been a little wrong with my Yehesi spidey sense. Might be one that'd have done better in a main contest but happy it did get to the final here at least x This top 4 so far though *.*

Jive Bunny legend ('Love Shack' and 'Blue Savannah' both entering the top 10 in the same week though *.*)

Fair (Ozzy Osbourne to be a big enough RIP to get multiple songs played when we come back? Could definitely at least have a solo song and a Sabbath song x)

Wouldn't be surprised if 'Champagne Coast' eventually gets a boost into the top 40 from somewhere, it's been hanging around in the top 200 on Spotify for most of the year.

I'd love Neliönoir to win, my spidey sense predicts a Yehesi win (which I'd also be happy with x) but it's really very dependent on who actually voted tbf!

Two singles in a row that have already been performed live a long time before release, has she just not made any new songs this year? x

I went out for a walk during the second half and thought it kept looking increasingly likely that it'd all be over by the time I got home... but then we got the equaliser very shortly after I got back in so I was still able to tune in for extra time (and hooray for it not going to penalties again lol, could do without going through that stress a second time in a week)

It's a pretty confusing release but if I am understanding correctly 'Firecracker' is probably the song you know - it's tagged as if it's a double A-Side but there were 3 tracks on the UK CD release, 'Computer Game (Theme From 'The Invaders')' is a ~1 minute interlude track from the album that effectively just serves as an intro to 'Firecracker' with both being on the same side (and then it has an actual B-Side 'Technopolis').

Will the clash with the women's Euro finals be an issue this week? (I'm probably fine to multitask - of course we were about 2 minutes and one Michelle Agyemang away from me not caring at all about the final x)

+5 Victory Lap +4 Nice To Each Other +3 Sapphire +2 Dior +1 Blessings -1 DAISIES -2 Survive -3 Ordinary -4 Golden -5 Manchild I do think 'DAISIES' might be a grower, only heard it the once so far and it didn't leave too much of an impression but I do generally appreciate the vibe of it. I've heard 'Golden' twice and both times it went directly in one ear and out the other, 'Your Idol' is better. 'Nice To Each Other' is a great addition to the top 10 though, sounded better and better over time and I'm not usually a fan of Olivia. Aside: 8/10 songs in this top 10 having one word titles oh my

Sorry again for not voting (I was going to do so on the final day then realised it wasn't a midnight vote deadline and I didn't have time to), I 100% promise I will vote in the final! So many excellent songs going out at this stage though while Imagine Dragons' 'Believer' gets through? Excuse me? x

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Very close all 3 ways here! Switching to KT Tunstall now.