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I've still not updated the OP for ages oop (#soon, I do still remember I need to update Cor Lupus' x) but all the countries which didn't have flags as of that last update are in the OP tagged with '[NO FLAG YET]', new countries since then are Freidland, Herbilore, Mothertopia, Cheiron, Hinterlandia and Macromia. Herbilore, Cheiron and Mothertopia do have flags already (and maybe Hinterlandia? They have an image which might be a flag in the OP of their national thread but not sure as the aspect ratio isn't typically flaggy, @hinterland could you clarify xx) but I don't think the other two do. @LiamSime @Miri (Liam only entered a couple of times and then has been MIA for nearly a year oop but might as well tag in case he wants to make a flag lmao) I remember uhsting made a flag for Scotland 2 for BJSC 162 but iirc @!!! later made a post denying it was her official flag (and it looks like the graphics for the contest have mostly gone missing due to site migration shenanigans anyway)

We have another clash we oop

Oop we have our first clash. Will let the person know x (on the bright side, I was wrong about the clash I was expecting earlier!)

The record has you beat by about 2 minutes and 10 seconds (the shortest that isn't primarily a novelty entry I guess would be Okay Kaya at 1:34 x)

This has broken pretty much every single old BJSC voting thread but it is what it is, don't know if it'd even be possible to recover it to how it's meant to be now. At least the Wayback Machine still exists x

I think we have too many pinned threads here tbh (now that they take up way more space on the new site oop), have been planning to have a look at consolidating them a bit.

This contest being an in memoriam for hex colours on BuzzJack </3 I was the first to confirm last month (minus Cody) but I don't have an entry for this one yet so will see if I can split the difference or if I go right back to my other usual (of late) extreme of not submitting until the last hour or so of confirmations hiipe anyway x (so far we've not had any artist clashes but I think one is going to be happening when a certain person confirms oop)

https://sync-tube.de/room/G3URuYMG Starting in circa 15 minutes Oh sorry I didn't realise I never posted that - yes I am keeping all the tracklists in a Word doc for this so I'll belatedly dump it here now x Week 21 tracklist: Recap OutKast - Ms. Jackson 882 Ja Rule - Always On Time (feat. Ashanti) 883 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix) (feat. Ja Rule and Caddillac Tah) 884 Ashanti - Foolish 885 Nelly - Hot In Herre 886 Nelly - Dilemma (feat. Kelly Rowland) 887 Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This 888 Eminem - Lose Yourself 889 B2K - Bump, Bump, Bump (feat. P. Diddy) 890 Jennifer Lopez - All I Have (feat. LL Cool J) 891 50 Cent - In Da Club 892 Sean Paul - Get Busy 893 50 Cent - 21 Questions (feat. Nate Dogg) 894 Clay Aiken - This Is The Night 895 Beyoncé - Crazy In Love (feat. JAY-Z) 896 Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather 897 Beyoncé - Baby Boy (feat. Sean Paul) 898 Ludacris - Stand Up (feat. Shawnna) 899 OutKast - Hey Ya! 900 OutKast - The Way You Move (feat. Sleepy Brown) 901 Twista - Slow Jamz (feat. Kanye West and Jamie Foxx) 902 Usher - Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris) 903 Usher - Burn 904 Fantasia - I Believe 905 Usher - Confessions Part II 906 Juvenile - Slow Motion (feat. Soulja Slim) 907 Terror Squad - Lean Back 908 Ciara - Goodies (feat. Petey Pablo) 909 Usher and Alicia Keys - My Boo 910 Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot (feat. Pharrell) 911 Mario - Let Me Love You 912 50 Cent - Candy Shop (feat. Olivia) 913 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl 914 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together 915 Carrie Underwood - Inside Your Heaven 916 Kanye West - Gold Digger (feat. Jamie Foxx) 917 Chris Brown - Run It! (feat. Juelz Santana) 918 Mariah Carey - Don't Forget About Us 919 D4L - Laffy Taffy 920 Nelly - Grillz (feat. Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp) 921 Beyoncé - Check On It (feat. Bun B and Slim Thug) 922 James Blunt - You're Beautiful 923 Ne-Yo - So Sick 924 Sean Paul - Temperature #2 Linkin Park - In The End #2 Avril Lavigne - Complicated #2 Missy Elliott - Work It #2 Hoobastank - The Reason #2 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams #2 Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone #2 The Game - Hate It Or Love It (feat. 50 Cent) #2 Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (feat. Busta Rhymes) UK#3 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club RIP The Jam - Strange Town [for Rick Buckler]

I was kind of hoping we'd be moving onto this contest swiftly considering the last contest overran a bit due to the site downtime so lessgo (even though I don't currently have an entry yet x). Lovely to be jetting back to Kluminican Republic! PM to any or all mods x

Anyhow ended up with an excellent top 5 here! 'Falling For You' was only lower midtable for me in the end but still definitely see why it was a winner and we always love to see a first time winner (and justice for Amelie Lens who deserved way more than 36th for her previous entry which got a bronze medal from me x). I voted for all of the songs in 2nd-4th, Bronzil's was a grower for me throughout the contest getting more and more infectious with each listen so well done on the new peak, now let's hope you don't have to suffer 5 more runner up results before winning like Klum did and as commented before love to see myself finishing in the top 5 alongside Jadakissnia for the first time ever after almost 10 years, Vioflesh got a medal from me so cannot complain at them narrowly beating me x I didn't vote for anything else from the top 10 but Hendinia and Bøtanikkä were both commiserations and will be going onto my shuffle playlist anyway, argh at the former being another one coming surprisingly close to ending Hendinia's epic qualification streak but you wouldn't know it from the final result! Have to say I'm a little surprised Lauren Mayberry did so well, I usually love CHVRCHES but this song didn't do a lot for me, I'll be checking out her solo album some time soon so hoping there'll be songs that appeal to me more on there. Lots more of my faves lining up just outside the top 10, particularly pleased to see that insane Frost Children track getting them another pretty good result, also hooray for some justice for Max Cooper indeed doing quite a bit better this time than when I sent him. Underrated corner this month for me are Terra Avium (I'm not sure why this one did so much worse than Vioflesh, also eek so close to not even qualifying!), Pestolia, Fljótavík, Séyetana (didn't exactly expect this to do super well but could at least have got it to triple figures, this is some good high fructose brain rot here x) and Hinterlandia who we'll be missing next month </3 hope they will be back after that and preferably with a newfound timeliness for voting xx Also really surprised at how poorly Mothertopia did. Aside from Mack and Noche who I already acknowledged, a belated arigatō to Chez, Frank and Jacob for the silver medals, Colm and Iz for the bronzes (a medal from Iz was my vision for this entry so it doing so well with lots of other people too is a bonus xx), Ansel, Dan, Cow, Dobbo and Meekul for further double figure pointage and Jade, Pete, Roba, dandy*, Jim, Savan, uhsting, blacksquare, Kerth, Mikey and Miri for the remainder of my points! First time I've got points from Macromia so hooray for those mealworms especially x + I see I got 6 points each in the semi from Jake and Lindsey too but dropping off to 0 for the final aw, though a commiseration is better than I usually do for the latter so I'll take it. Also lost my 6 points from the semi from hinterland with them not voting in the final oop. Oh my at me having the most votes in semi 2 *.* My best final position since Nur Jaber came 3rd in BJSC 150, although 2 points short of what Agent blå got to come 8th in 164 - in any case, great to have another year with at least one top 10 hit locked in already meaning 2023 remains an anomaly for now, this year is off to a pretty strong start for me in general with 2 for 2 top 20 hits so let's hope I can keep that up! (Unfortunately after being well prepared for these first 2 contests I currently have nothing for the next one and ofc we're moving onto that pretty swiftly oop so I'd better get looking ) Thanks Cody for the hosting efforts, as said already but bears repeating you were in an unenviable position of having to deal with the entire function of the site being flipped on its head halfway through the contest but kept things going smoothly, we love to see it x

Right sorry for taking forever but I've double checked the scoreboard now and there are a few small position changes - @Cody Buckley if you want to update the spreadsheet, as Jim pointed out Skall's votes are a little wonky in there (Bøtanikkä, Lookylion and POPHub need to be bumped up a point each to 9, 8 and 7 respectively and Bronzil have 6 points from them) which doesn't affect any positions, but also Jupiterdonia's 5 should be to Cumulonimbia rather than Pestolia which does cause a few swaps in the lower half of the scoreboard: 27 140 Sovarasma 28 137 Pestolia (boo xx) 34 108 Cumulonimbia 35 108 Aesthetica 36 106 The Spodic Empire (Cumulonimbia win the tiebreak with Aesthetica by 16 votes to 12) I've just sneakily updated the final scoreboard on page 8 so it's all correct there now!

Full results from week 21: Best: Hey Ya! x9 Get Busy x6 Lose Yourself x6 Crazy In Love x4 In Da Club x4 Drop It Like It's Hot x2 Gold Digger x2 Hollaback Girl x2 You're Beautiful x2 Foolish Hot In Herre I Believe Stand Up Temperature This Is The Night The Way You Move We Belong Together Worst: I Believe x4 Laffy Taffy x4 This Is The Night x4 Burn x3 Grillz x2 Shake Ya Tailfeather x2 You're Beautiful x2 Candy Shop Check On It Hollaback Girl Hey Ya! A Moment Like This Slow Motion Yeah! ~ My votes for this week: Best: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Flo Rida - Low (feat. T-Pain) Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... Comes Around Nelly Furtado - Say It Right Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean) Just missing out: 'Promiscuous', 'Umbrella', 'So What', 'Ridin'', 'Irreplaceable', 'Crank That (Soulja Boy)' (I wanted to fit that in as I assume it's unlikely anyone else will but I can't bring myself to sacrifice any of the 5 above x) Worst: Kanye West - Stronger Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls I feel like I can be more vociferous in my dislike of 'Stronger' given what Kanye has become personally, but I never liked it anyway x (though it is the best of the 3 songs here, the other 2 are absolute stinkers)

In lieu of the previous SyncTube sessions' weekly polls cutting each week's songs down to a list of 10 options to vote for because no one volunteered to do the work to make such curated lists, for our Hot 100 #1s marathon I'm just going to post one of these threads each week allowing people to vote for whichever songs they want from the full list x If you don't know what the above sentence is referring to don't worry, this thread is open to participation from anyone (although we're always open to new participants at our weekly listening sessions x), just post in the thread with up to 5 favourites and, if you want, up to 3 least favourites from the below song list. The song with the most favourite nods will get a play at the start of next week's session (and the song with the most least favourite nods will just have a permanent place on a wall of shame for funziez). It was an easy second best poll win in a row for OutKast with 'Hey Ya!' following 'Ms. Jackson' to the top on 9 votes, having a rare clear lead over the field as the joint closest competition of Sean Paul's 'Get Busy' and Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' were both 3 votes behind. OutKast become the second act to have 2 wins on the poll following Simon & Garfunkel's wins in weeks 3 and 5. Over on the worst poll we had our first ever 3 way tie for victory as a late vote bumped Fantasia's 'I Believe' up to 4 votes, matching the tally of the already tied leaders D4L's 'Laffy Taffy' and Clay Aiken's 'This Is The Night'. Wall of Fame Week 1 (Aug 1958-Apr 1962): Percy Faith - Theme From "A Summer Place" [7/9] Week 2 (May 1962-Aug 1964): The Tornados - Telstar [7/9] Week 3 (Aug 1964-Feb 1967): Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence [7/13] Week 4 (Feb 1967-Feb 1970): The Doors - Light My Fire [6/10] Week 5 (Feb 1970-Jun 1971): Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water [6/9] (tied with The Beatles - Let It Be) Week 6 (Jun 1971-Jun 1973): Stevie Wonder - Superstition [8/13] Week 7 (Jul 1973-Nov 1974): Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run [8/13] Week 8 (Nov 1974-Mar 1976): Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle [8/13] (tied with KC And The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It)) Week 9 (Mar 1976-Sep 1977): Fleetwood Mac - Dreams [7/12] Week 10 (Oct 1977-Nov 1979): Blondie - Heart Of Glass [10/13] Week 11 (Nov 1979-Aug 1982): Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) [10/12] Week 12 (Sep 1982-Jan 1985): Michael Jackson - Billie Jean [9/16] (tied with Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)) Week 13 (Feb 1985-Jul 1986): Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [10/15] Week 14 (Jul 1986-Oct 1987): Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms [11/16] Week 15 (Nov 1987-Feb 1989): Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine [10/14] (tied with INXS - Need You Tonight) Week 16 (Feb 1989-Jul 1990): Madonna - Like A Prayer [10/13] Week 17 (Jul 1990-Nov 1991): EMF - Unbelievable [9/15] (tied with P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss) Week 18 (Dec 1991-Sep 1995): Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) [10/12] Week 19 (Sep 1995-Feb 1999): Blackstreet - No Diggity (feat. Dr. Dre and Queen Pen) [6/12] (tied with Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time) Week 20 (Feb 1999-Feb 2002): OutKast - Ms. Jackson [8/12] Week 21 (Feb 2002-Apr 2006): OutKast - Hey Ya! [9/11] Wall of Shame Week 1 (Aug 1958-Apr 1962): Larry Verne - Mr. Custer [8/9] Week 2 (May 1962-Aug 1964): Steve Lawrence - Go Away Little Girl [5/8] Week 3 (Aug 1964-Feb 1967): SSgt Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets [9/11] Week 4 (Feb 1967-Feb 1970): The Rascals - People Got To Be Free [2/6] Week 5 (Feb 1970-Jun 1971): The Osmonds - One Bad Apple [5/7] Week 6 (Jun 1971-Jun 1973): Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl [11/13] Week 7 (Jul 1973-Nov 1974): Ray Stevens - The Streak [8/11] Week 8 (Nov 1974-Mar 1976): Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly [3/8] Week 9 (Mar 1976-Sep 1977): Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) [7/10] Week 10 (Oct 1977-Nov 1979): Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life [9/12] Week 11 (Nov 1979-Aug 1982): Commodores - Still [7/12] Week 12 (Sep 1982-Jan 1985): Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You [9/14] Week 13 (Feb 1985-Jul 1986): Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin - Separate Lives [7/11] Week 14 (Jul 1986-Oct 1987): Atlantic Starr - Always [8/12] Week 15 (Nov 1987-Feb 1989): Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go [5/10] Week 16 (Feb 1989-Jul 1990): New Kids On The Block - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) [12/12] Week 17 (Jul 1990-Nov 1991): Michael Bolton - When A Man Loves A Woman [10/13] Week 18 (Dec 1991-Sep 1995): Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee / Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone [4/12] Week 19 (Sep 1995-Feb 1999): Céline Dion and R. Kelly - I'm Your Angel [9/12] Week 20 (Feb 1999-Feb 2002): Mariah Carey - Thank God I Found You (feat. Joe and 98°) [9/12] Week 21 (Feb 2002-Apr 2006): Fantasia - I Believe / D4L - Laffy Taffy / Clay Aiken - This Is The Night [4/11] 41 songs in the latest poll covering the 925th through 965th #1s, from early April 2006 (Daniel Powter's 'Bad Day') to late October 2008 (the initial one week at the top for T.I.'s 'Live Your Life' (feat. Rihanna)). Again sorry this poll is so late and will likely only be up for the next 13 hours (unless there are not enough votes to declare a winner etc.) - get your votes in before the next SyncTube session at 4pm if you can xx Akon - Don't Matter Akon - I Wanna Love You (feat. Snoop Dogg) Alicia Keys - No One Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend Beyoncé - Irreplaceable Chamillionaire - Ridin' (feat. Krayzie Bone) Chris Brown - Kiss Kiss (feat. T-Pain) Coldplay - Viva La Vida Daniel Powter - Bad Day Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal) Fergie - Glamorous (feat. Ludacris) Fergie - London Bridge Flo Rida - Low (feat. T-Pain) Justin Timberlake - My Love (feat. T.I.) Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (feat. Timbaland) Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... Comes Around Kanye West - Stronger Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love Lil Wayne - Lollipop (feat. Static Major) Ludacris - Money Maker (feat. Pharrell) Mariah Carey - Touch My Body Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous (feat. Timbaland) Nelly Furtado - Say It Right P!nk - So What Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah Rihanna - Disturbia Rihanna - SOS Rihanna - Take A Bow Rihanna - Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z) Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean) Soulja Boy - Crank That (Soulja Boy) T.I. - Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna) T.I. - Whatever You Like Taylor Hicks - Do I Make You Proud Timbaland - Give It To Me (feat. Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake) T-Pain - Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin') (feat. Yung Joc) Usher - Love In This Club (feat. Young Jeezy)

It feels a little bit icky to me that Everything Everything needed to sign with a big label again to return to getting Radio 1 support. Of course not complaining that they are being played again but there were so many great singles from the previous couple of albums that surely should have been well up R1's alley!

This week's #2s: Artists For Haiti - We Are The World 25 For Haiti B.o.B - Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams) Cee Lo Green - Forget You Drake - Best I Ever Had Iyaz - Replay Jamie Foxx - Blame It (feat. T-Pain) JAY-Z - Run This Town (feat. Rihanna and Kanye West) Kanye West - Heartless Lady A - Need You Now Lady Gaga - Bad Romance Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. P!nk - Fuckin' Perfect Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) T.I. - Dead And Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake) Taio Cruz - Dynamite Taylor Swift - Today Was A Fairytale Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me Young Money - BedRock (feat. Lloyd) My nominations: B.o.B - Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams) Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (wonder if anyone will join me on this one ) Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)

Belated poll for last week coming up shortly again along with this week's #2s, soz for being last minute again oop Week 22 tracklist: Recap OutKast - Hey Ya! 925 Daniel Powter - Bad Day 926 Rihanna - SOS 927 Chamillionaire - Ridin' (feat. Krayzie Bone) 928 Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean) 929 Taylor Hicks - Do I Make You Proud 930 Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous (feat. Timbaland) 931 Fergie - London Bridge 932 Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (feat. Timbaland) 933 Ludacris - Money Maker (feat. Pharrell) 934 Justin Timberlake - My Love (feat. T.I.) 935 Akon - I Wanna Love You (feat. Snoop Dogg) 936 Beyoncé - Irreplaceable 937 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right 938 Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around... Comes Around 939 Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot 940 Fergie - Glamorous (feat. Ludacris) 941 Akon - Don't Matter 942 Timbaland - Give It To Me (feat. Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake) 943 Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend 944 Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder 945 T-Pain - Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin') (feat. Yung Joc) 946 Rihanna - Umbrella (feat. JAY-Z) 947 Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah 948 Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls 949 Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal) 950 Soulja Boy - Crank That (Soulja Boy) 951 Kanye West - Stronger 952 Chris Brown - Kiss Kiss (feat. T-Pain) 953 Alicia Keys - No One 954 Flo Rida - Low (feat. T-Pain) 955 Usher - Love In This Club (feat. Young Jeezy) 956 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 957 Mariah Carey - Touch My Body 958 Lil Wayne - Lollipop (feat. Static Major) 959 Rihanna - Take A Bow 960 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 961 Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl 962 Rihanna - Disturbia 963 T.I. - Whatever You Like 964 P!nk - So What 965 T.I. - Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna) #2 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy #2 Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race #2 Timbaland pts. OneRepublic - Apologize #2 Chris Brown - Forever UK#3 Tate McRae - Sports car UK#1A Sam Fender - People Watching [from People Watching] RIP Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway - Where Is The Love RIP Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You RIP Badfinger - Come And Get It [for Joey Molland] Jamelia Chris Moyles - Lunch In This Pub

'Moves Like Jagger' never actually did get playlisted. (although it did start getting the occasional play later on)

Why So Sirius is not a different country x

Klum Rep jumping directly from the highest non-winner to the highest 1-time winner (and indeed would be the highest 2-time, 3-time, 4-time or 5-time winner with that number of 2nd place finishes, as it's only the top 4 that have more, just putting into perspective how bad their bridesmaid curse was!)

'Flash In The Pan' actually came super close to snatching my 18 at the last minute, it's been a huge earworm for me the last few days - deserved better but still just happy to see them in the final at all after 2 previous entries came nowhere near x

Me every time this thread is bumped and I think there's actual news 🤡

I'll be doing my usual double check of the whole scoreboard when I get home (sorry for being tardy, I was far too tired last night) but thanks Jim for saving me some effort identifying that

I'll double check later but I think it's Séyetana inheriting this 'honour' now!

I'll reply to this properly tomorrow, sorry I vanished from the thread fairly early, I am becoming more and more like Math with each passing week and fell asleep for the bulk of results so decided I'd just wait until the end to catch up (minus some low effort reacts to let you know I'm still alive) ddd. But a big well done to Klum for fiiiinally getting that win, I did sense as soon as I heard this song that this might be your realest chance to date (and that was before even knowing it was Rose Gray which you're still banned for xx). Will also need to do my double checking of the scoreboard tomorrow oop so insert the usual health warning about positions potentially changing etc. And wow me getting my first top 5 hit in over two years after being mentioned a grand total of zero times in contender discussions x (I had a quiet confidence / delusion that I'd do better than predicted again honestly, I had hopes this song might strike a similar chord to the likes of BLACKSHAPE and Sadness, which it didn't quite match but not far off - in any case I didn't want to post about it and jinx it lol). Again will go back and thank everyone properly tomorrow but thanks to NocheLuna in particular for providing my only 18 *.* (also... the first time ever that Jadaphonia have both finished in the top 5! only the third time we've ever even both been top 10)

Thanks Mack being reliable as ever in lifting me off 0 x