Brer

'good kid, m.A.A.d city' the smash that you are 'Cops & Robbers' certified we also love to see

and still just as bland each time

Kate Bush for #1 again tbh

Think that sounds about on par x

I think I've only received one message from you? (I am terrible at keeping track of messages though so I might have missed one xx)

No x

As long as it's under 10 weeks on the chart it'll be on SCR regardless (until 3 years after release). Which it obviously still will be next December so it'll have another chance to re-enter on SCR, although given it has only barely done so this time it might not manage it anyway. Laufey's 'Winter Wonderland' had to get the 25% increase to be reset to SCR for 2025 as it had racked up 10 weeks in the chart in 2023-24, but it now won't be eligible to return to SCR in 2026 anyway (unless it for some reason enters the chart before mid November).

Not many - Baleghde and Sandénia both have their 50th coming up just now in 181 (have received an anniversary song request from Calum but not from Jafet to my knowledge so nudge nudge to @diva thin muffin x), but then unless certain inactive nations who are close to their anniversaries come back very soon the next ones won't be until nearly the end of the year! From countries who are currently active, Aelandor & Summericia are on 92 entries, Flynnonda 91, Taahino 90 and Ajanaeda & Pestolia 41 so they would all get anniversary entries in BJSCs 188-190 if they continue to enter every contest in the meantime. IIRC no one bothered making the annual prediction of a Persephonia win last year so the pressure is back on this year (I might try and make some predictions xo)

Thanks once again Rob, this has been a lot of fun this week <3 I'd certainly be up for this being a regular end of year event now if you'd be happy to repeat the effort put into it (and apols to suddenly be a downer but I've needed the distraction today due to some petty family drama so I was more than happy to devote my attention to harvesting BJSC stats for the last ~7 hours x). And speaking of harvesting stats... >> clicky for an extremely excessive all time stats dump Google sheet << When I copied it over from Excel it pasted the % column as plain numbers but I changed it back to the formula calculating it from the raw numbers in case anyone is curious / wants to critique me doing it in probably not the most efficient way xx (I used all countries' current names in the 'country' column so all entries by a country would be grouped together if you sort it by that column, but the names from the time of the contest are there as well, I just put them in a hidden column C x) I do have an idea for an alternative all-time ranking that might smooth out the bias towards certain older contests so I might try and find a moment over the weekend to redo the list and see if that promotes 'Infohazard' to the all-time top 2 but yeah, that is not a job for right now xx

D-d-d-d jump scare

01 380 (45.89%) Fljótavík 176 // Ninajirachi - Infohazard {AT: #3} The percentage jumps up by over 10 points and we jump from all time #58 to all time #3 Sheelah's wig remains safe (as does that of Sigala - Easy Love (Aquafina 76) at #2 as I'm sure dandy* will be thrilled to know x) but if the stars align for another song just a little more some day who knows. Maybe even I could vote for it. FLJ did already have a previous winner quite near the top of the all time list - BJSC 41 winner Foxes - Youth being shunted down to all time #15 by this behemoth which also, as you may recall, absolutely obliterated the record for the largest gap between a winner and a runner-up (to the point where it could have taken a 33% deduction and still won).

02 325 (35.40%) Neliönoir 177 // Night Tapes - storm {AT: #58} Easily Neliönoir's biggest hit, topping their one previous winner from BJSC 166, ascendant vierge and TDJ - Illusion which still ranks as their second biggest entry at #255 all time.

Whoops you're right xx -sneakily edits-

Think 'Luukered' definitely settles as my favourite winner of the year even though I of course infamously didn't vote for any of them. x

03 309 (33.66%) FSR Rontvia 179 // SADU - Luukered {AT: #100} And neatly our podium songs of the year all (just barely) make the all time top 100! FSR Rontvia used to be the country that held almost every BJSC record you could imagine until Aeroche broke a lot of them - but they're still sitting pretty with the #1 ranked song of all time, BJSC 31 winner Sheelah - Psycho The Last Time (oop x) which got a stunning 50.54% of possible points, I'd say it's hard to imagine that ever being broken but we'll see how close our #1 of this year gets to it...

04 300 (32.05%) Kluminican Republic 172 // Amelie Lens - Falling For You {AT: #136} Just ahead of 'Twist The Knife' on a tiebreak on this list and the all time list as both songs got 300 points in contests with the same number of voters (yes all the ties are broken on the all time list, I am thorough xo) This may have been Kluminican Republic's first winner but it fell a bit short of being their top performing song, their BJSC 126 runner-up St. Lucia - China Shop is at #75.

05 300 (32.05%) Ajanaeda 173 // Rebecca Black - Twist The Knife {AT: #137} No surprise that this is by far Ajanaeda's biggest entry ever, and 'Moviestar' and 'Dream On' are their 2nd and 3rd highest! Their highest before 2025 was... right at the end of 2024, their BJSC 170 7th placer Grace Davies - Another Night which ranks at #811.

Anabel is your 5th highest at #186, your top 4 are all from janky early contests (30 and 31 seem to be the most biased but some of the other early contests seem to be over-represented too) - although with it being so far away from Kim-Lian I expect that will still come out as your top song no matter how much I try to de-bias the data

06 290 (30.98%) FARC 173 // Sumner - Stranded {AT: #174} The top 6 all crack the all-time top 200 - but this one is nowhere near FARC's biggest hit, they are actually the only country who place 2 songs in the all-time top 10, the higher of the two being their BJSC 111 winner White Lies - Tokyo at #7.

07 269 (29.89%) Jadakissnia 178 // Erin LeCount - 808 HYMN {AT: #227} I'd noticed a while ago that Jadakissnia's top few performing entries were actually not their winners - but no longer, as this one is in fact their top entry on this metric, ahead of Pharao's 'I Show You Secrets' which came 3rd in BJSC 112 and ranks #271 of all time.

08 285 (29.87%) Bøtanikkä 174 // Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music {AT: #229} Just to highlight the jankiness of the data from BJSC 30 as I already alluded to, Bøtanikkä's top performing song of all time by this metric is their entry and runner-up that contest, Kim-Lian and Future Presidents - How I Like It, which is also the best performing non-winner of all time as high as #12 (!!). The numbers don't lie, though they may be a bit misleading!

09 275 (29.38%) Cor Lupus 171 // ALT BLK ERA - Hunt You Down {AT: #260} Cor Lupus' top song of all time ranks just inside the top 40 - their BJSC 87 winner The Naked And Famous - Higher scraping in at #40. (But how many songs from this year have outperformed that one? )

Top 10 songs can get an individual post each again - and for my latest 'thinking of an additional stat to include on the spot' I'll also post what each of these countries' highest placing song on the all time list is, or what their previous highest was if the song here is a new high x (as it is 10 different countries in the top 10) 10 275 (29.38%) Skall 171 // Blanck Mass - You {AT: #261} This is Skall's top performing entry of all time, topping their one contest winner, Postiljonen - Supreme from BJSC 54 which ranks at #322. (what a banger, and I still stand by my hot take that the vocal part near the start sounds a bit like BTS' 'Boy With Luv' x)

20 237 (26.87%) République d'Áskorza 175 // Annalisa - Maschio {AT: #460} 19 231 (27.90%) Bøtanikkä 176 // Belén Aguilera - Laberinto {AT: #364} 18 232 (28.02%) Kathaldazia 176 // MISS LUXURY - deal {AT: #354} 17 265 (28.31%) Bronzil 172 // GusGus - Breaking Down (feat. Earth and Högni) {AT: #335} 16 261 (28.43%) Aeroche 177 // sim0ne - space cadet {AT: #321} 15 268 (28.63%) Fljótavík 171 // Delaporte - Rendición {AT: #305} 14 265 (28.87%) FARC 179 // ORKID - Steep Hills {AT: #295} 13 260 (28.89%) New Lexico 178 // Maude Latour - XOXO {AT: #292} 12 279 (29.25%) Neliönoir 174 // DEBBY FRIDAY - 1/17 {AT: #270} 11 269 (29.30%) FSR Rontvia 177 // ARGO - Korku {AT: #269} 'Korku' being the other song that I'd rank in my top 3 of the year <3 juuust missing out on the year end top 10 aw.

Getting into the territory of not knowing if this calculation fully makes statistical sense but the average % under the 18 point system is 17.12% vs. under the 12 point system 16.88% so yes the 18 point system seems like it might have a very slight inherent bias (which I suppose would make sense because ranking 11th-15th for a country under the 12 point system counted for nothing whereas it does contribute a small amount under the 18 point system - again I think I could find a clever way to try and account for that to make a slightly less biased all time list).