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No worries, as long as I have them by tomorrow evening all is good! @!!! @danG last reminder for you guys to get your votes in as well (tonight if possible as I do want to get some prep done later tonight) x and a general PSA for voting in song contests, please don't just reuse an old PM 'conversation', it won't show up in the relevant inbox if the original message was deleted from there / not saved there in the first place (this was why I didn't receive Jim's votes, I do have them now) (edit: sorry I originally tagged Bjork here as well by mistake, I do have yours x)

I don't have your votes in my inbox yet @!!! @awardinary @Bjork @CowTzy @danG @Julian_ @Suedehead2 also awaiting your votes, you have just under 24 hours until the official deadline (need to send myself my own votes as well + if any non-participants may be lurking and considering sending guest votes (@Popchartfreak ?) also be my guest x)

Oop xx probably should have posted about it with a bit more notice tbf haha.

Edited a YouTube playlist into the OP x https://sync-tube.de/room/ApAM3t-I Listenthrough commencing in about half an hour

Banned

Why are you asking Rollo? x (I'll do the listenthrough tomorrow ) aside, I'm going to extend the deadline for this by a day as I now have some plans with family for Saturday evening so will be better to do results on Sunday x

1 CHVRCHES - Final Girl 2 Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing 3 The Saturdays - Work (Phil Tan Radio Mix) 4 a-ha - Hunting High And Low 5 Fifth Harmony - The Life 6 WALK THE MOON - Tightrope Screen Violence is such a banger album, another great choice there. This was much stronger than either of the solo categories this week for me - the Fifth Harmony and WALK THE MOON songs were both solid discoveries despite my rankings there!

1 Addison Rae - Fame Is A Gun 2 Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone 3 SASAMI - In Love With A Memory (feat. Clairo) 4 Christina Aguilera - Can't Hold Us Down (feat. Lil' Kim) 5 Rina Sawayama - Send My Love To John 6 Mary J. Blige - I'm Goin' Down 7 Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do

For what it's worth I did actually say during the listenthroughs that I didn't think 'Joyride' sounded like one that would do that well so yeah it's not like picking an artist with multiple recent hits is a 100% guarantee of getting another big hit (the same could also be said for TDJ missing the top 10 this time). Still always going to be side-eyeing anyone attempting it though. x

Already posted my piece about this in the results thread but the wait for 30th is over, I now have the top 39 so am one final-flop-but-not-quite-wooden-spoon away from the clean sweep (just realised Addy was 1 position away from his own holy grail 19th place *_* and Jade 1 place off from completing the top 32 as well) Finalists: 01 - 2 (67 Jay Dabhi + 74 A-WA) 02 - 4 (57 Jaymes Young + 61 Kids Of The Apocalypse + 113 Baiuca + 129 Minuit Machine) 03 - 5 (53 Truls + 78 tiny deaths + 79 DANCE WITH THE DEAD + 123 070 Shake + 150 Nur Jaber) 04 - 1 (72 Dawn Richard) 05 - 3 (76 Audrey Napoleon + 99 LUNA + 172 Chikoi The Maid) 06 - 3 (30 Spark + 81 The Shanghai Restoration Project + 148 Hazel English) 07 - 2 (124 Neggy Gemmy + 128 Ela Minus) 08 - 2 (139 Godford + 164 Agent blå) 09 - 1 (142 7CIRCLE) 10 - 2 (100 Life Sim + 105 The Halluci Nation) 11 - 2 (116 Heilung + 155 Fatal Youth) 12 - 2 (86 Aron Can + 145 ill peach) 13 - 3 (31 Beth Ditto + 90 Baby Blood + 98 Dead Husband) 14 - 3 (45 Kidnap + 51 Roses Gabor + 60 Rustie) 15 - 4 (26 Jónsi + 64 TĀLĀ + 75 Audialist + 132 House Of Harm) 16 - 8 (85 Color Guard + 103 Mikael Seifu + 121 BROCKHAMPTON + 135 gupi + 157 Paris Texas + 165 Cowgirl Clue + 171 Speedial + 174 Messa) 17 - 8 (23 Vampire Weekend + 42 Azari & III + 48 Machines Don't Care + 69 Elijah Blake + 101 IC3PEAK + 110 raaginder + 125 Vacant + 149 Da Vosk Docta) 18 - 1 (111 In The Loop) 19 - 5 (49 Deaf Club + 50 SOHN + 82 Digitalism + 94 KNARS + 107 µ-Ziq) 20 - 4 (87 TWRR + 89 Fallgrapp + 160 Maruja + 161 Re-TROS) 21 - 1 (97 Saor) 22 - 7 (33 Savage Skulls + 44 Karin Park + 92 End Of The Dream + 118 Kælan Mikla + 130 Jorge Elbrecht + 144 Yumi Zouma + 154 Baseck) 23 - 2 (63 Surkin + 65 Quirke) 24 - 5 (24 Kid Sister + 40 The Rapture + 52 Spor + 62 Paris XY + 66 Jade Blue) 25 - 4 (58 Gent Mason + 83 BOOTS + 134 Quadeca + 137 Hildegard) 26 - 3 (104 Set And Setting + 127 Fatoumata Diawara + 147 Momma) 27 - 2 (146 SadSvit + 153 Model/Actriz) 28 - 3 (71 San Holo + 138 Deafheaven + 141 Lah Malara) 29 - 6 (25 Frankie & The Heartstrings + 70 Fura + 106 J.I.D + 120 Vegyn + 158 Deadlands + 162 Kim Gordon) 30 - 1 (175 Kikagaku Moyo) 31 - 5 (29 Penguin Prison + 32 The Bullitts + 68 Eagles For Hands + 88 Øfdream + 91 xi) 32 - 2 (119 Amon Tobin + 122 Max Cooper) 33 - 3 (133 Mim Suleiman + 140 ATARASHII GAKKO! + 143 Daughters Of Reykjavík) 34 - 2 (114 Molchat Doma + 166 The Frozen Autumn) 35 - 2 (117 Sampa The Great + 152 Tim Hecker) 36 - 2 (77 WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA + 169 Bohren & Der Club Of Gore) 37 - 2 (108 Skee Mask + 136 Japanese Television) 38 - 2 (27 Dennis Ferrer + 95 David Starfire) 39 - 2 (28 Young Money + 151 Black Belt Eagle Scout) 40 - 0 41 - 1 (167 Smiling) 42 - 1 (173 Ghais Guevara) 43+ - 0 DNQs: (15-) - 0 (16) - 1 (46 Wild Belle) (17) - 1 (47 Angel Haze) (18) - 3 (38 Joe Goddard + 55 MAASAI + 59 The Hics) (19) - 1 (34 Beat Connection) (20) - 4 (43 POLIÇA + 56 Orphic Oxtra + 73 Sogand + 109 Ash Koosha) (21) - 5 (35 SBTRKT + 41 Wonder Villains + 102 ROSALÍA + 163 Crushes Bones + 168 Die Nerven) (22) - 2 (96 BROCKHAMPTON + 156 Paper Lady) (23) - 4 (19 deadmau5 + 21 The Temper Trap + 115 MIRÈLE + 170 Imane El Halouat) (24) - 3 (36 The 2 Bears + 54 Kadie Elder + 126 Ecco2k) (25) - 2 (84 Bachar Mar-Khalifé + 131 Ichiko Aoba) (26) - 1 (20 Envy) (27) - 2 (80 Yung Lean + 112 Rico Nasty) (28) - 1 (93 Achillea) (29) - 1 (159 Slauson Malone 1) (30+) - 0

So in spite of my 'hate campaign' (!) 'Maschio' is actually my 2nd favourite winner of the year so far, it's just that I still haven't voted for any of them which is not great at the halfway mark of the year oops! As I posted the other day I'm just not super thrilled about the meta of so many of this year's winners being artists who had recent and imo better songs making the top 10, I gave a few points to 'Mon Amour' but this one ended up ranked 24th for me. What can ya do though, shall look forward to a new République d'Áskorza hosting! (even if our delegation may have to be acting in exile now after their controversial public statements 😿 ) We were this close to actually having my favourite winner since Fat Dog but alas not quite, still very happy to see the great result for 'Underground', it's slapped more every time I've listened to it and has been stuck in my head a lot for the last couple of weeks - a little relieved that the winning margin was more than 2 points as I'd have kicked myself for not going all the way and giving it my 18 otherwise! Actually it is a really good top 10 overall for me as the winner was the only song that didn't at least get a commiseration from me, voted for 6/10 of them including my 18, I don't think I would have predicted She Past Away coming as high as 8th so yay for that *.* also great and better than I'd have guessed results for yeule and Kumo 99 + fab to see both of the oceanic dance instrumentals making the top 10, Atlantic Ocean pulled ahead as my preferred one of the two over the course of the contest but they're both still great. And 'POP GIRL' was my biggest grower of the contest even though it didn't quite make my votes, nice justice for Lexie after 2 previous undeserved DNQs and cool for Yehesi to get their first top 10 hit in over 8 years (since MUNA in BJSC 92!) A couple more faves just outside the top 10 too, good showings there for Greenfroze and FARC, plus a nice top 20 for Zanmatony and a pretty decent result in the end for Herbilore after floundering at the bottom for way too long during the reveal. Quite disappointing for Why So Sirius though which I thought could be a dark horse for the win, also far too low for Jadakissnia and Cumulonimbia </3 + Scotland 2 deserved better too but their position before deduction is probably about what I'd have predicted. Am genuinely really happy to finally be able to cross 30th off as a unique position - I actually would have had one already from my very early contests if tiebreak rules were always standardised as they are now as Penguin Prison in BJSC 29 would have been 30th instead of 31st using today's tiebreaks so that position being missing for me has long been uniquely frustrating especially as I have a ton of 29th and 31st place finishes. Only 40th to go for me to have the clean sweep of the entire top 42 position geeking aside, another unremarkable result for me but I didn't have particularly high expectations so I'll take it, not bottom 10 yay. (and it appears my singular medal position from Pestolia in the final came after they didn't vote for me at all in the semi? everything else from the semi spreadsheet with regard to my song and their votes seems to make sense so maybe just a big grower there x) Thanks for the hosting Addy

YTD update (see here for previous positions) All change at the top as Kluminican Republic's small but solid lead evaporates following a bottom quarter finish this month, leaving us with an all new top 2 and the first 2 countries to top 1,000 points for the year - and it's a close one with just 2 points separating them right now! At the half year mark it is Neliönoir sitting atop the pile, rising 4-1 after their third top 5 hit in a row (my stat from earlier in the thread once again turning out not to be relevant but still impressive x). Biting at their heels are Danæviia who also ride a top 5 finish to a 6-2 climb in the YTD. Kluminican Republic still just about hang onto a podium place falling 2 spots but remaining just 6 points ahead of Bøtanikkä who are also down 2 to #4. Jadakissnia likewise drop 2 places to round out the top 5. Cor Lupus slip a place to 6th and Greenfroze rise 10-7, pushing each of Aeroche, Hendinia and Bronzil down 1 place as they complete the top 10. FARC, Trifoski and Aesthetica surge to the mid teens as they vie to become top 10 contenders (but all held off by myself holding my own with only a 1 place drop to lucky #13 x). 1 1027 Neliönoir 2 1025 Danæviia 3 986 Kluminican Republic 4 980 Bøtanikkä 5 930 Jadakissnia 6 892 Cor Lupus 7 852 Greenfroze 8 835 Aeroche 9 828 Hendinia 10 821 Bronzil 11 797 Altyr Muunilinst 12 783 Skall 13 770 Persephonia 14 744 FARC 15 740 Trifoski 16 735 Aesthetica 17 732 Lookylion 18 727 Ajanaeda 19 713 Why So Sirius 20 694 FSR Rontvia 21 688 Cumulonimbia 22 669 Séyetana 23 657 Land of DW 24 645 République d'Áskorza 25 643 Kathaldazia 26 607 Macromia 27 595 Baleghde 28 578 Lotunia 29 577 Fljótavík 30 567 Terra Avium 31 533 Pestolia 32 520 Mothertopia 33 513 Zanmatony 34 498 Taahino 35 481 Elëdan 36 478 Scotland 2 37 472 POPHub 38 449 New Lexico 39 418 Hinterlandia 40 395 The Spodic Empire 41 387 Ben's Sanctuary 42 370 Herbilore 43 352 A-Konohagakure 44 351 Yehesi 45 350 Thelonia 46 318 Aelandor 47 307 Dobago 48 306 Cheiron 49 288 Hushkanukia 50 249 Jupiterdonia 51 229 Singerpurear 52 164 Beaverdonia 53 157 Kylienips 54 141 Oslol 55 121 Ojnoj 56 114 Niceland 57 110 Flynnonda 58 106 Ultraviolenceland 59 97 Palmyra 60 95 Summericia 61 93 East Rukahavian 62 83 Conoria

Sorry for a bit of a delay but here's the final scoreboard with tiebreaks and deductions - I have a few points totals slightly different to Addy's but they don't affect positions any further, I had to dig a bit to find the discrepancies as I don't have Addy's spreadsheet to cross reference! For posterity I have Yehesi and Cor Lupus 4 and 1 points higher respectively, and POPHub and Flynnonda 4 and 1 points lower respectively - the Yehesi/POPHub discrepancy looks to definitely be from Kluminican Republic's votes (will just be Addy's spreadsheet mistakenly giving their 4 to POPHub instead of Yehesi), while the Cor Lupus/Flynnonda one could be one of two things as it appeared in the scoreboard after the pair of votes from Kylienips and Why So Sirius, so either Addy's spreadsheet has them swapped over in Kylienips' votes (should be 3 to Cor Lupus and 2 to Flynnonda) or has mistakenly given Why So Sirius' 1 to Flynnonda instead of Cor Lupus. (Cody you'd better be thankful for my investigative journalism to give you 1 extra point xox) 1 237 République d'Áskorza // Annalisa - Maschio 2 230 Aesthetica // f5ve - Underground 3 228 A-Konohagakure // Nora En Pure - Memories 4 221 Danæviia // Ummet Ozcan - Ocean's Voice 5 217 Neliönoir // yeule - Evangelic Girl Is A Gun 6 213 Terra Avium // Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall 7 205 Trifoski // Kumo 99 - Dopamine Chaser 8 198 FSR Rontvia // She Past Away - İnziva 9 191 Yehesi // Lexie Liu - POP GIRL 10 186 Mothertopia // SASAMI - Slugger 11 180 Greenfroze // Yōko Oginome - Dancing Hero (Eat You Up) (Dear Pop Singer Version) 12 178 Kathaldazia // TDJ and Clara Kimera - On And On (You Lie) 13 176 FARC // Ikkimel and Robbensohn - BIKINI GRELL 14 168 POPHub // YEJI - Air (19 votes; 1 18; 2 15s) 15 168 Lotunia // VICTORIA - IN BETWEEN (19 votes; 1 18; 1 15) 16 167 Hushkanukia // Sorana - DON'T SEND ME FLOWERS 17 166 Altyr Muunilinst // PUNCHBAG - You Used To Be So Sexy (20 votes) 18 166 Zanmatony // Solarstone - Seven Cities (Solar Stone's Atlantis Mix) (19 votes) 19 157 Lookylion // Beks - Melodrama 20 149 Bøtanikkä // 2 Eivissa - Oh La La La 21 147 Why So Sirius // M¥SS KETA - SINNER 22 143 Taahino // Sophie Powers - move with me 23 129 Herbilore // Keaton Henson - Even 24 128 Skall // Avalon Emerson - Don't Be Seen With Me (16 votes) 25 128 Land of DW // TIM PLVNK - ANNE KAFFEEKANNE (13 votes) 26 121 Ojnoj // Kylie Cantrall - Denim 27 120 Jadakissnia // EQ - B.S.A.S. (Si Alguna Vez Te Sentís Sola De Noche) 28 119 Hendinia // CATTY - Joyride 29 117 Séyetana // Hot Milk - Insubordinate Ingerland 30 116 Persephonia // Kikagaku Moyo - Cardboard Pile (16 votes) 31 116 Kluminican Republic // HoneyLuv - Dancehall (15 votes) 32 115 Bronzil // Cult Of Venus - Algorithm (17 votes) 33 115 Macromia // Nao Toyama - Tomoshibi No Manimani (14 votes) 34 111 Cumulonimbia // Elphi - clover 35 110 Flynnonda // David Archuleta - Crème Brulée 36 105 Scotland 2 // caroline - Total euphoria {15% deduction; 105.4 before rounding} 37 104 Baleghde // CamelPhat and Massano - Oblivion (feat. Nu-La) 38 98 Ajanaeda // Banshee - I'm a never forgive kinda girl 39 88 Aeroche // PS1 and Adam Griffin - Late Night Lover 40 82 Cor Lupus // Jodie Harsh - Kiss It Better 41 45 New Lexico // DE SOFFER - Waste No Time {33% deduction; 44.89 before rounding}

I believe Scotland 2 have a 15% deduction which isn't accounted for in that table though so I am in fact 30th (as I do win the tiebreak with Klum) *.* it's all I ever wanted (congrats Phil, will comment more in a bit x)

Oh sorry we didn't pass this info on yet but New Lexico have extenuating circumstances so they won't be banned (but they do still get the deduction). I guess the host votes will be favouring Annalisa so hoping Jacob was embracing the chika chika chika x edit: nevermind, it's over (thanks for some more points though Jacob, I've done pretty well with the later voters - although ended up only getting one medal position and it was right at the start!) (and oh at it being a tie in the top 2 so Rd'Á not really being overthrown)

Thanks Cow, bringing me up to triple figures there (ty Noche for the mealworm as well!) edit: and thanks !!! as well <3 I think Aesthetica are now in the lead then? So even if Rd'Á do still snatch it back at the end they won't have been in the lead in literally every scoreboard after all.

Ok I am manifesting a f5ve win hard now

What did I do last month? :'(

Thanks Harve and Colm :3 For this month's stat that I'm looking up too early and may or may not end up being relevant... Neliönoir casually contending for a third top 3 finish in a row which would make them only the 6th country to manage that, following Daehun, Numayania, St. Burbia, Yehesi and of course Aeroche who are built different as ever and have done it 4 separate times.

Thanks Mikey ending a bit of a drought for me as I'm clearly heading for another pretty low finish I find myself rooting for the elusive 30th place result again I guess x (or 40th)

Thanks Savan! f5ve in the top 5 now

Thanks Miri :3 Annalisa still proving tough to shift, must be quite a rarity for a song to be leading from literally the first vote and remain at #1 throughout the entire results but it might well happen at this rate!

Ooh go Trifoski

Thanks Izzle <3 we stan Japan bloc support x edit: ty Chez also!

Thanks blacksquare 🖤 need both of the current bottom 2 to get more fans soon pls x