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Ok that's rude from the guest judges x (I wouldn't have wanted The Saturdays to go but sad at CHVRCHES not making the final. For a second round in a row I'm surprised Mary J. Blige wasn't in the bottom 3... fair play but she sticks out like a sore thumb compared to all the other finalists imo and the last couple of songs from her really haven't been my cup of tea, I know she's capable of a banger as I do love 'Family Affair' so hope there's something special lined up for the final x)

Have to support the BBC Music thing just for Lorde's ikonik cameo x (it was actually not too bad though)

and also just for funziez, a ranking by how much each song has increased since my previous update x (excluding the songs not included on the previous update) Yung Lean 2nd here Pos / Pos in overall list / Artist - Song / Streams gained / Streams gained per day (over 289 days) 1 1 deadmau5 - Ghosts 'N' Stuff (feat. Rob Swire) 12,733,173 44,059 2 6 Yung Lean - Kyoto 11,361,973 39,315 3 3 Young Money - Steady Mobbin (feat. Gucci Mane) 10,686,907 36,979 4 7 The Temper Trap - Fader 9,632,034 33,329 5 2 J.I.D - NEVER 8,843,318 30,600 6 9 Øfdream - Thelema 8,586,032 29,709 7 11 Molchat Doma - Tancevat 8,144,694 28,182 8 8 070 Shake - Guilty Conscience 6,134,908 21,228 9 17 Ecco2k - Peroxide 5,797,783 20,062 10 23 SadSvit - Nebo 4,763,496 16,483 11 10 IC3PEAK - Grustnaya Suka 4,680,222 16,195 12 16 Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey 4,206,270 14,555 13 5 SBTRKT - Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon) 3,809,784 13,183 14 4 BROCKHAMPTON - GOLD 3,266,252 11,302 15 15 ROSALÍA - Catalina 2,900,622 10,037 16 30 Yumi Zouma - Astral Projection 2,642,634 9,144 17 12 Vampire Weekend - Cousins 1,822,100 6,305 18 13 SOHN - The Wheel 1,654,833 5,726 19 38 Momma - Medicine 1,651,906 5,716 20 37 Ichiko Aoba - Porcelain 1,637,663 5,667 21 14 The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love? 1,510,057 5,225 22 44 Deadlands - House Of Cards 1,505,706 5,210 23 18 Wild Belle - Keep You 1,492,856 5,166 24 20 Sampa The Great - Final Form 1,413,764 4,892 25 24 Joe Goddard - Gabriel (feat. Valentina) 1,172,201 4,056 26 26 Vegyn - Debold 1,171,000 4,052 27 34 ATARASHII GAKKO! - Pineapple Kryptonite 871,805 3,017 28 52 Kim Gordon - BYE BYE 832,809 2,882 29 27 Quadeca - Sisyphus 763,890 2,643 30 19 POLIÇA - Lay Your Cards Out (feat. Mike Noyce) 731,307 2,530 31 22 Truls - Out Of Yourself 723,691 2,504 32 35 The Halluci Nation - Sisters (feat. Northern Voice) 677,613 2,345 33 31 Fatoumata Diawara - Nterini 666,025 2,305 34 29 Azari & III - Reckless (With Your Love) 642,916 2,225 35 43 LUNA - Butylochka 568,577 1,967 36 61 Paris Texas - tenTHIRTYseven 552,926 1,913 37 41 Heilung - Othan 530,925 1,837 38 28 DANCE WITH THE DEAD - Waves 464,191 1,606 39 39 A-WA - Habib Galbi 427,452 1,479 40 47 Baiuca - Olvídame (feat. Aliboria) 410,168 1,419 41 21 BROCKHAMPTON - WEIGHT 370,401 1,282 42 25 Digitalism - Blitz 347,086 1,201 43 50 µ-Ziq - Hasty Boom Alert 339,545 1,175 44 54 The Frozen Autumn - Is Everything Real? 332,700 1,151 45 68 Model/Actriz - Mosquito 292,756 1,013 46 81 Maruja - One Hand Behind The Devil 267,377 925 47 36 Beth Ditto - I Wrote The Book 267,077 924 48 60 Kælan Mikla - Draumadís 264,274 914 49 63 House Of Harm - Vicious Pastimes 249,146 862 50 40 Spor - Pacifica (Kito & Reija Lee Remix) 218,574 756 51 59 Deafheaven - The Gnashing 206,180 713 52 64 Achillea - Ragnarok - Twilight Of The Gods 196,891 681 53 46 Godford - Say My Name 189,311 655 54 58 Sogand - The Lom 177,260 613 55 51 WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Shakushain 170,108 589 56 33 Rico Nasty - Roof 158,407 548 57 70 Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie 147,559 511 58 77 Slauson Malone 1 - New Joy 146,692 508 59 49 The Hics - Tangle 145,679 504 60 32 San Holo - Hiding (feat. The Nicholas) 130,530 452 61 53 End Of The Dream - Colder 119,373 413 62 92 Cowgirl Clue - Hometown Hero 110,822 383 63 56 MIRÈLE - Yesli By Lyubov' 105,738 366 64 78 Nur Jaber and Luca Eck - Fall To Pieces 92,048 319 65 57 Amon Tobin - One Shy Morning 88,906 308 66 86 The Shanghai Restoration Project - The Wandering Songstress (feat. Zhang Le) 87,299 302 67 114 Die Nerven - ACHTZEHN 86,205 298 68 48 Jónsi - Animal Arithmetic 80,826 280 69 55 The 2 Bears - Bear Hug 75,885 263 70 83 Hazel English - Hamilton 73,896 256 71 95 Audialist - Burning 72,180 250 72 67 Fallgrapp - Vlasy 69,506 241 73 42 Angel Haze - New York 65,432 226 74 89 xi - Happy End Of The World 54,274 188 75 71 Aron Can - Með Mér 51,833 179 76 80 Life Sim - IDL 50,799 176 77 76 Saor - Hearth 50,349 174 78 107 7CIRCLE - Deconstruction 49,885 173 79 85 Minuit Machine - Don't Run From The Fire 47,358 164 80 93 Tim Hecker - Lotus Light 38,080 132 81 79 tiny deaths - Ocean 37,027 128 82 45 Frankie & The Heartstrings - Hunger 36,220 125 83 62 BOOTS - C.U.R.E. 33,269 115 84 75 Beat Connection - In The Water 30,820 107 85 102 Black Belt Eagle Scout - My Blood Runs Through This Land 26,005 90 86 98 Re-TROS - Hailing Drums 25,877 90 87 104 Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - In Pursuit Of Ghosts 23,063 80 88 69 The Bullitts - Close Your Eyes (feat. Jay Electronica and Lucy Liu) 21,221 73 89 74 Jade Blue and Frequency - Lately (Vox Mix) 21,138 73 90 103 Neggy Gemmy - Rollercoaster 20,086 70 91 90 raaginder - Rise 19,683 68 92 73 Penguin Prison - Golden Train 19,377 67 93 65 Kidnap - Vehl 17,978 62 94 100 Hildegard - Jour 1 17,629 61 95 130 Paper Lady - Starcross 16,656 58 96 96 Vacant - Hidden 15,058 52 97 111 gupi - what's known now 15,038 52 98 112 Bachar Mar-Khalifé - Mirror Moon 13,379 46 99 101 Savage Skulls and Douster - Bad Gal (feat. Robyn) 13,114 45 100 84 Daughters Of Reykjavík - Ógeðsleg 12,533 43 101 125 Agent blå - Discount 12,453 43 102 122 Dead Husband - Healthy Boy 11,439 40 103 120 Jorge Elbrecht - Perish (feat. Geneva Jacuzzi) 9,798 34 104 110 ill peach - COMATOSE 9,339 32 105 109 In The Loop - Tu Sì 'Na Cosa Grande 9,296 32 106 99 Mim Suleiman - Mwaitoma 8,890 31 107 91 Surkin - Oedo 606 7,809 27 108 119 Da Vosk Docta - Aura 6,220 22 109 94 Karin Park - Restless 5,443 19 110 108 Quirke - Break A Mirrored Leg 2,519 9 111 87 TWRR - Water Frozen 2,249 8 112 106 TĀLĀ - Serbia 2,134 7 113 105 Roses Gabor - Stars 2,097 7 114 129 Elijah Blake - Give Me U 2,050 7 115 115 Kadie Elder - Simple Guy 2,024 7 116 113 Rustie - Surph (feat. Nightwave) 1,918 7 117 140 Baseck - TIME TO PARTY 1,740 6 118 118 Wonder Villains - Zola 1,667 6 119 123 Kid Sister - Step (feat. Estelle) 1,358 5 120 135 Orphic Oxtra - Skeletons Having Sex On A Tin Roof 1,219 4 121 126 David Starfire - Big Chillum 1,166 4 122 128 Mikael Seifu - Yarada Lij 1,128 4 123 82 Machines Don't Care - Beat Dun Drop (feat. Meleka) 1,085 4 124 133 Gent Mason - Eden 1,029 4 125 117 Baby Blood - Figurine 912 3 126 146 Fatal Youth - Fragments Of Me, Pt. 2 866 3 127 134 Audrey Napoleon - Dope A La Mode 853 3 128 124 Paris XY - The Return 851 3 129 116 Eagles For Hands - Glass Heart (feat. Holly Partridge) 775 3 130 131 Spark - Revolving 545 2 131 142 Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom 490 2 132 144 Japanese Television - Moon Glider 442 2 133 136 Set And Setting - Coping 430 1 134 145 Fura - Demons 371 1 135 132 Ash Koosha - Aroha 351 1 136 127 MAASAI - Memories 252 1 137 141 Color Guard - In Your Bones 169 1 138 139 KNARS - Bad Trip 155 1 139 138 Envy - Set Yourself On Fire 136 0 140 149 Crushes Bones - I Will Not Vanish 79+ 0+ 141 143 Smiling - Devour 78 0

I did the numbers again, tried to paste it as a fancy table but it just pastes as an uploaded image x The Bohren & Der Club Of Gore and Kikagaku Moyo songs were at least a couple of years old already when I sent them hence their relatively high debuts. 'Tide' and 'Dark Star (Kiely Rich Remix)' make their debuts on here as they weren't on Spotify when I posted my initial list, the latter is still yet to hit 1k streams but the one song that was under 1k on my last update has now passed that mark. Still 4 songs that are not currently on Spotify but all have been there in the past (Deaf Club - Moving Still, Kids Of The Apocalypse - EMPIRE, Lah Malara - MORE and Skee Mask - Via Sub Mids). Current pos / Previous pos / Artist - Song / Streams / Streams gained since last update 1 1 deadmau5 - Ghosts 'N' Stuff (feat. Rob Swire) 190,336,569 12,733,173 2 2 J.I.D - NEVER 127,819,892 8,843,318 3 3 Young Money - Steady Mobbin (feat. Gucci Mane) 123,227,304 10,686,907 4 4 BROCKHAMPTON - GOLD 115,678,391 3,266,252 5 5 SBTRKT - Wildfire (feat. Little Dragon) 103,424,499 3,809,784 6 6 Yung Lean - Kyoto 89,998,443 11,361,973 7 7 The Temper Trap - Fader 84,860,645 9,632,034 8 8 070 Shake - Guilty Conscience 80,223,103 6,134,908 9 10 Øfdream - Thelema 68,187,302 8,586,032 10 9 IC3PEAK - Grustnaya Suka 64,642,355 4,680,222 11 11 Molchat Doma - Tancevat 55,479,849 8,144,694 12 12 Vampire Weekend - Cousins 44,084,112 1,822,100 13 13 SOHN - The Wheel 35,650,767 1,654,833 14 14 The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love? 32,795,912 1,510,057 15 15 ROSALÍA - Catalina 32,228,544 2,900,622 16 16 Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey 31,542,613 4,206,270 17 18 Ecco2k - Peroxide 30,423,038 5,797,783 18 17 Wild Belle - Keep You 27,818,440 1,492,856 19 19 POLIÇA - Lay Your Cards Out (feat. Mike Noyce) 18,479,435 731,307 20 21 Sampa The Great - Final Form 17,958,383 1,413,764 21 20 BROCKHAMPTON - WEIGHT 16,998,558 370,401 22 22 Truls - Out Of Yourself 14,835,234 723,691 23 28 SadSvit - Nebo 14,400,452 4,763,496 24 24 Joe Goddard - Gabriel (feat. Valentina) 13,888,693 1,172,201 25 23 Digitalism - Blitz 13,119,751 347,086 26 25 Vegyn - Debold 12,483,350 1,171,000 27 26 Quadeca - Sisyphus 12,068,699 763,890 28 27 DANCE WITH THE DEAD - Waves 10,781,956 464,191 29 29 Azari & III - Reckless (With Your Love) 9,746,759 642,916 30 39 Yumi Zouma - Astral Projection 7,302,022 2,642,634 31 32 Fatoumata Diawara - Nterini 7,107,325 666,025 32 30 San Holo - Hiding (feat. The Nicholas) 7,019,000 130,530 33 31 Rico Nasty - Roof 6,952,595 158,407 34 33 ATARASHII GAKKO! - Pineapple Kryptonite 6,436,353 871,805 35 36 The Halluci Nation - Sisters (feat. Northern Voice) 5,884,880 677,613 36 34 Beth Ditto - I Wrote The Book 5,815,019 267,077 37 42 Ichiko Aoba - Porcelain 5,763,898 1,637,663 38 43 Momma - Medicine 5,711,398 1,651,906 39 37 A-WA - Habib Galbi 5,551,046 427,452 40 35 Spor - Pacifica (Kito & Reija Lee Remix) 5,548,800 218,574 41 40 Heilung - Othan 5,033,918 530,925 42 38 Angel Haze - New York 5,032,991 65,432 43 41 LUNA - Butylochka 4,963,469 568,577 44 48 Deadlands - House Of Cards 4,414,022 1,505,706 45 44 Frankie & The Heartstrings - Hunger 3,869,718 36,220 46 45 Godford - Say My Name 3,605,034 189,311 47 46 Baiuca - Olvídame (feat. Aliboria) 3,603,090 410,168 48 47 Jónsi - Animal Arithmetic 3,067,313 80,826 49 49 The Hics - Tangle 2,890,858 145,679 50 50 µ-Ziq - Hasty Boom Alert 2,819,370 339,545 51 51 WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Shakushain 2,612,273 170,108 52 59 Kim Gordon - BYE BYE 2,549,026 832,809 53 52 End Of The Dream - Colder 2,490,693 119,373 54 55 The Frozen Autumn - Is Everything Real? 2,398,902 332,700 55 53 The 2 Bears - Bear Hug 2,390,851 75,885 56 54 MIRÈLE - Yesli By Lyubov' 2,218,203 105,738 57 56 Amon Tobin - One Shy Morning 2,056,056 88,906 58 57 Sogand - The Lom 2,004,431 177,260 59 58 Deafheaven - The Gnashing 1,947,368 206,180 60 61 Kælan Mikla - Draumadís 1,897,318 264,274 61 64 Paris Texas - tenTHIRTYseven 1,871,191 552,926 62 60 BOOTS - C.U.R.E. 1,697,345 33,269 63 62 House Of Harm - Vicious Pastimes 1,687,491 249,146 64 65 Achillea - Ragnarok - Twilight Of The Gods 1,480,316 196,891 65 63 Kidnap - Vehl 1,393,079 17,978 66 - Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Ganz Leise Kommt Die Nacht 1,355,931 - 67 66 Fallgrapp - Vlasy 1,352,131 69,506 68 69 Model/Actriz - Mosquito 1,348,990 292,756 69 67 The Bullitts - Close Your Eyes (feat. Jay Electronica and Lucy Liu) 1,241,264 21,221 70 70 Ela Minus - el cielo no es de nadie 1,193,270 147,559 71 68 Aron Can - Með Mér 1,168,350 51,833 72 - Kikagaku Moyo - Cardboard Pile 1,078,998 - 73 71 Penguin Prison - Golden Train 1,049,973 19,377 74 72 Jade Blue and Frequency - Lately (Vox Mix) 1,018,372 21,138 75 73 Beat Connection - In The Water 869,473 30,820 76 74 Saor - Hearth 773,007 50,349 77 75 Slauson Malone 1 - New Joy 735,111 146,692 78 76 Nur Jaber and Luca Eck - Fall To Pieces 633,379 92,048 79 77 tiny deaths - Ocean 571,760 37,027 80 79 Life Sim - IDL 551,160 50,799 81 96 Maruja - One Hand Behind The Devil 528,577 267,377 82 78 Machines Don't Care - Beat Dun Drop (feat. Meleka) 516,342 1,085 83 82 Hazel English - Hamilton 502,197 73,896 84 80 Daughters Of Reykjavík - Ógeðsleg 483,748 12,533 85 81 Minuit Machine - Don't Run From The Fire 483,524 47,358 86 87 The Shanghai Restoration Project - The Wandering Songstress (feat. Zhang Le) 431,172 87,299 87 83 TWRR - Water Frozen 421,868 2,249 88 - Messa - At Races 405,502 - 89 86 xi - Happy End Of The World 399,966 54,274 90 85 raaginder - Rise 374,387 19,683 91 84 Surkin - Oedo 606 371,551 7,809 92 97 Cowgirl Clue - Hometown Hero 370,978 110,822 93 90 Tim Hecker - Lotus Light 351,303 38,080 94 88 Karin Park - Restless 348,092 5,443 95 94 Audialist - Burning 347,228 72,180 96 89 Vacant - Hidden 330,903 15,058 97 - Chikoi The Maid - Misunderstanding 309,479 - 98 92 Re-TROS - Hailing Drums 306,027 25,877 99 91 Mim Suleiman - Mwaitoma 304,069 8,890 100 93 Hildegard - Jour 1 293,217 17,629 101 95 Savage Skulls and Douster - Bad Gal (feat. Robyn) 283,080 13,114 102 98 Black Belt Eagle Scout - My Blood Runs Through This Land 278,144 26,005 103 99 Neggy Gemmy - Rollercoaster 272,017 20,086 104 101 Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - In Pursuit Of Ghosts 265,415 23,063 105 100 Roses Gabor - Stars 249,980 2,097 106 102 TĀLĀ - Serbia 230,726 2,134 107 109 7CIRCLE - Deconstruction 190,411 49,885 108 103 Quirke - Break A Mirrored Leg 180,889 2,519 109 104 In The Loop - Tu Sì 'Na Cosa Grande 170,406 9,296 110 105 ill peach - COMATOSE 168,336 9,339 111 106 gupi - what's known now 165,791 15,038 112 108 Bachar Mar-Khalifé - Mirror Moon 161,678 13,379 113 107 Rustie - Surph (feat. Nightwave) 151,885 1,918 114 117 Die Nerven - ACHTZEHN 151,529 86,205 115 110 Kadie Elder - Simple Guy 107,778 2,024 116 111 Eagles For Hands - Glass Heart (feat. Holly Partridge) 95,328 775 117 112 Baby Blood - Figurine 91,765 912 118 113 Wonder Villains - Zola 82,917 1,667 119 114 Da Vosk Docta - Aura 80,538 6,220 120 115 Jorge Elbrecht - Perish (feat. Geneva Jacuzzi) 80,033 9,798 121 - Ghais Guevara - 4L 78,945 - 122 116 Dead Husband - Healthy Boy 77,304 11,439 123 118 Kid Sister - Step (feat. Estelle) 61,204 1,358 124 119 Paris XY - The Return 51,412 851 125 121 Agent blå - Discount 49,267 12,453 126 120 David Starfire - Big Chillum 40,687 1,166 127 122 MAASAI - Memories 35,620 252 128 123 Mikael Seifu - Yarada Lij 34,841 1,128 129 124 Elijah Blake - Give Me U 34,574 2,050 130 131 Paper Lady - Starcross 33,036 16,656 131 125 Spark - Revolving 30,904 545 132 126 Ash Koosha - Aroha 30,433 351 133 127 Gent Mason - Eden 27,765 1,029 134 128 Audrey Napoleon - Dope A La Mode 26,653 853 135 130 Orphic Oxtra - Skeletons Having Sex On A Tin Roof 18,354 1,219 136 129 Set And Setting - Coping 17,870 430 137 - Speedial - 5,000 Lumens 13,883 - 138 132 Envy - Set Yourself On Fire 11,699 136 139 133 KNARS - Bad Trip 10,751 155 140 137 Baseck - TIME TO PARTY 10,626 1,740 141 134 Color Guard - In Your Bones 10,031 169 142 135 Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom 9,729 490 143 136 Smiling - Devour 9,256 78 144 138 Japanese Television - Moon Glider 8,731 442 145 139 Fura - Demons 7,587 371 146 140 Fatal Youth - Fragments Of Me, Pt. 2 3,101 866 147 - Dawn Richard - Tide 2,182 - 148 - Imane El Halouat - Ally 1,479 - 149 141 Crushes Bones - I Will Not Vanish 1,078 79+ 150 - Jaymes Young - Dark Star (Kiely Rich Remix) <1,000 -

Will join the Ronan dogpile

Nelly is my winner here but felt like a coin toss between the other 3 (I do like all of them), voted for Avril.

Making another attempt to returning to vote in these x Quite a good list here, even the Cascada song is decent. Voting for Pixie Lott.

Been a little while since I last voted in one of these oop, lemme try and get back to it again x -probably lasts about 3 weeks before I start forgetting again- +5 Victory Lap +4 Love Me Not +3 Sapphire +2 Dior +1 Blessings -1 Pink Pony Club -2 Survive -3 Ordinary -4 Rein Me In -5 Manchild Top 10 is not too bad at the moment, that top 2 are both great and I'd rate all of the top 6 at least 7/10. 'Manchild' is the only one I really don't like although I do find 'Rein Me In' pretty tedious as well, beyond his debut Sam Fender seems to only really be connecting with me with one song per era and that song this time was 'Little Bit Closer'.

Pleased to see you rating 'A Forest' so highly, it's definitely my favourite across all the weeks so far and will take some beating x Although starting to diverge a little more on some of your low rated songs as I've playlisted both Saxon and Cockney Rejects! (The latter I get the dislike for but I thought it was fun, I seemed to be on my own in enjoying the Saxon song though and not so sure why on that one, nothing particularly innovative but as far as classic metal hits go I thought it was a pretty good one, certainly better than the recent Iron Maiden and AC/DC offerings). Also I don't think I had heard this Kate Bush song before and unfortunately found it to be going over my head a little on first listen - might have to give it a second chance some time as I do usually like her and I see this seems to be quite a highly regarded song so not sure what wasn't clicking for me.

It was only #13 on NMF, don't think that would boost it that much.

Actually thought the Kendrick collab from the Clipse album might do pretty well as it's been somewhat of a point of discussion online for a few weeks already, but I guess Clipse are just not that big of a draw in the UK even with Kendrick's name power attached. Doing ok on Apple at least. (meanwhile Drake's 'What Did I Miss?' is back up to its peak of #20 today lol - I guess that's the impact of Wireless Festival) Wow at Deftones charting! Will probably only be for one day I guess but they didn't even manage that (in any country, not only the UK) during their last era, according to Kworb their only previous appearance in any Spotify chart was one song charting for a day around #150 in Poland and Portugal in 2016. Further signs of heavier rock music making a very slight comeback to the mainstream I guess.

It's not her, the songwriting credits bill it to a 'Raye Barror', Googling that name is bringing up an Irish singer which would make sense (although she appears to usually go by the name Rachel if that is the same person). I did wonder for a moment if it was just linking to the wrong profile on Spotify but I didn't think it sounded much like all-caps RAYE anyway.

I voted for all 5 of the qualifiers, hooray! Just my 6 pointer Zanmatony being out. My ranking of the rest: 7th Baleghde 8th FSR Rontvia 9th Ajanaeda 10th Herbilore Only 10 points between an AC slot and 11th place is pretty wild though x

The ARTMS song was pretty decent - think this semi has made up for being the weakest one for me by having the best results x

Yass at Neliönoir *.* Nuovo Testamento have yet to disappoint me, surprised they are still yet to show up in a main contest. The DJ Zinc song was a lite bop also x edit: also yay for Bøtanikkä, inclined to agree the other DTF will probably be Cor Lupus

Farewell to Chloe Qisha until she shows up again in BJSC 176 probably x ()

I demand a recount (not last though! we take those from this draw x) Zanmatony didn't deserve to come last though aw, that was my 6 pointer x

Lol well that's 3 out of 4 of my semi-final faves gone, relying on the one I actually had a chance to vote for then Honestly thought 'Delusional' might have made it anyway despite the bad draw but oof I guess that's a definitely not. Need to get on that Erika album. Sad at Séyetana not making it either but happy with Yehesi going DTF and Aesthetica making AC (+ gwan Hendinia doing it for the mods xo). My rankings of the DNQs: 1st Skall 2nd Séyetana 5th Eastovka 7th Lookylion 10th Sandénia 11th Ojnoj

'Dior' is nothing particularly special but it's definitely the best of the songs in with a shout for #1 this week imo and MK is long overdue a credited #1 so I'm rooting for him x (would be the first time since Michael Ball that an artist who made their chart debut before I was born gets a first #1 lol - who knows if that'll ever happen again... I guess Brenda Lee could plausibly eventually get #1)

first time inserting a snazzy table in a BuzzJack post because why not BEN'S CHEI ELËD FLYN JADA MOTH NEW L PEST SCOT SOVA SUMM 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 Ben's Sanctuary apparently the most in tune with this semi's taste despite their own entry's poor performance, as their top 5 were the exact 5 songs that advanced! Oopseee at Flynnonda losing their entire top 3 though

And the last song to make it through to Andra Chansen from this semi-final is... Pestolia: Jae Stephens - Body Favors Pestolia throwing it back to the artist of their first ever main contest entry pays off! But it's an unfortunate near miss for: 6th (44 points) Mothertopia: Say She She - Cut & Rewind 5th place got 46 points (and 2nd place was only on 56 points so tight margins all around these qualifiers). ~ My rankings of the DNQs from this semi: 1st Elëdan 4th Mothertopia 7th Flynnonda 9th Summericia 10th Ben's Sanctuary 11th New Lexico Was a bit of a shame to see Say She She falling just short as I did think they were making it as I was adding up but alas! Still generally pretty good qualifiers anyway although Elëdan robbed x

Also qualifying straight to the final is... Scotland 2: Rico Nasty & Boys Noize - Arintintin score for the Persephonia recycle! (also a Hendinia, Kluminican Republic, Thelonia and 3x Aeroche recycle, but we all know the most important past entry is my Rico Nasty one which completely bombed in its semi-final x) Mothertopia or Pestolia for the last AC position then o:

Unfortunately back to the bad news for a moment, we also say goodbye to... 7th (42 points) Elëdan: sineila - X-8 </3 would have got 12 points from me if I could vote here so I'm 0 for 2 on my faves making it now x (this one did unsurprisingly get almost all of its points from medal positions - a 12, a 10 and 2 8s - but that wasn't quite enough). That leaves Mothertopia vs. Pestolia vs. Scotland 2 - one gets the other Direkt Til Finalen ticket, one gets the last Andra Chansen slot and the other misses out on advancing by an agonising 2 points #spoilers...

Also going to the Andra Chansen round is... Jadakissnia: Cannelle - WATCH ME FLY rejected from Club Bizarre to live its best life in BJFestivalen

Living to fight another day in Andra Chansen is... Cheiron: Chase Icon - SoCal Girl we stan a song that namedrops Reddit (not sure what that 'plandemic' line just after it is about but we'll let it slide)