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We do require people to have had an account for 3 months before entering here but would be happy to have you in January if you still remember we exist then x (although we do have a few other song contests around the site which don't have such a restriction, if retro non English language songs are your bag there's one here that you can send a song to right now if you want!)

Also I bring not one but two first time artists x (I realised after I confirmed that one of them is a little cheap but not in a way BuzzJack will care about lel)

Will try not to sleep through the reveal but I make no guarantees x (I was wondering re the lack of Macromia but fair enough, hope to see them back soon - otherwise it's only Hushkanukia and Utopia we've lost from last month, both of which have only been occasional participants for some time)

82 is still quite possibly my favourite ever contest for the variety and quality of entries (topped off with one of my favourite ever winners, one of relatively few that got a gold medal from me, and still the archetypal psytrance song for me) so it's a shame you had to skip that one!

Was about to say my votes will probably be a bit after midnight so yay I can take my time without guilt now xo (will still vote tonight, I already started my relisten)

Well there's going to be even more of that now (at least for UK members who don't use a VPN... should probably look into that x)

Welcome back Mattias, what a lovely surprise <3 (did you have to harass someone to get your account reactivated? x)

Valid tbf

Well it looks like Imgur has decided to block the UK presumably because of this RIP large swathes of the Internet (I managed to rescue my signature GIF and reupload it to BuzzJack directly x)

WB Colm Up to 50 entries, currently no entry received yet from the following who entered last month: Flynnonda Hushkanukia Macromia Suedeonia Trifoski Utopia (And I still haven't finished veto research oop so apols if there are late vetoes, will hopefully get it done in the next few hours xx)

Caught up with the songs I missed and have playlisted 24 songs in total from this week which I believe is my joint most to date! Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight Spandau Ballet - The Freeze Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime Ultravox - Vienna Visage - Fade To Grey 'The Freeze' was easily my favourite discovery of the week, other shoutouts to The Boomtown Rats, Gillan, Adam And The Ants 'Car Trouble' and a surprisingly good one from The Gap Band (didn't see the SyncTube reaction to that one to know if that's a hot take or not). The other 4 picks here were very clear choices as well but my next fave songs I already knew would be Dire Straits, The Jam, David Bowie and Adam And The Ants 'Kings Of The Wild Frontier'. 'Once In A Lifetime' is an early tip for my fave of the whole of 1981 and my 2nd fave of the 80s to date after 'A Forest' <3 'Fade To Grey' and 'Vienna' likely to also rank very highly among my favourites of the year. (I see the votes so far are unanimous on all 3 of these as they should be x)

Will save you some time and say you're going to need to reconfirm again x (4 entries in the last 30 contests is an auto-veto)

'Man I Need' will be #1 very comfortably this week barring some kind of unforeseen dramatic change between now and Friday. Will be a little annoying if 'Nice To Each Other' ends up missing out on a top 3 peak just because of a video streaming anomaly re 'Golden' but hope it will hold onto #4 at least. Poor 'Lady Lady' also looking like it'll miss out on a good new peak but at least that's only because of her own success!

2019 100 gecs - money machine James Blake - Mile High (feat. Travis Scott and Metro Boomin) Tyler, The Creator - EARFQUAKE

+30 when the party's over +29 MALAMENTE (Cap.1: Augurio) +28 no tears left to cry +27 SICKO MODE +26 Praise The Lord (Da Shine) +25 Nice For What +24 Shallow +23 Sunflower +22 Out Of My Head +21 1999 WILDFIRE +20 Better Now +19 SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK +18 God is a woman +17 Venice Bitch +16 Lucid Dreams +15 DI MI NOMBRE (Cap.8: Éxtasis) +14 Lost Without You +13 Waking Up +12 Youngblood +11 Funky Friday +10 I Like It +9 All The Stars +8 Mariners Apartment Complex +7 Love It If We Made It +6 Dance To This +5 Always Remember Us This Way +4 1999 +3 Sanctify +2 Finesse (Remix) +1 This Is America

We are definitely back this week yes? x (I presume bonus songs will need to be split over a couple of weeks to catch up again)

You've still got 2 more days to sober up xx

I am swayed easily, I reconfirmed. Pophoesephonia staying for another month after all, hope y'all don't do me dirty again x Techno entry next month instead maybe. (the song I'm switching to is a year old so it's not what Cody said lol, just only discovered it from Reddit the other day) Has been ages since I last reconfirmed for a contest, 131 looks to be the last time!

I've only just started working on the vetoes, no one is safe yet x (although I don't anticipate there being many vetoes) You are clearly spoilt for choice for backups anyway though...!

If it was just a loose single I could see an argument for tagging it on but not sure why she'd include a song that she originally had nothing to do with which was recorded for an entirely different artist's album.

I'm not recycling Arca tho

I don't think Lola's music sounds anywhere near as award baiting as Olivia's though. (Also 'Man I Need' may well be on its way to being a bigger US hit than 'Messy', has already outpeaked it on Spotify, and she's charted an album track reasonably highly on US Spotify today too).

I don't see why Olivia couldn't be popular with Grammys voters as well?

Do I stick with techno instrumental or switch to a reggaetón banger (which would be my shortest entry ever) x (probably going to stick but hey I have a good potential for next month now)

That doesn't stop the Grammys giving every award they can to H.E.R. who is musically in a similar lane x