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02 2054 Danæviia 11-12-09-06-04-07-13-11-10-01 228 votes / 22 18s / 17 15s / 20 13s biggest fans: Séyetana [96 points] / East Rukahavian [93 points] / A-Konohagakure [91 points] songs played: Ummet Ozcan - Ocean's Voice (4th, BJSC 175) + Slinkee Minx - Summer Rain (Alex K Remix) (7th, BJSC 176) A new EOY peak for a second year running for Dan after placing 4th in 2024, following two previous top 10 finishes in 2017 & 2018. Let's see if they can improve upon that next year and go all the way to the top... they could very well do it if they keep up that crazy consistency from month to month and of course start the year with a guaranteed qualifier x 22 18s is also easily the most any country got this year, FSR Rontvia and Skall being runners up with 19 each. Séyetana being the biggest Dan fans of the year feels quite out of leftfield again though! Final stats post coming, oop at me running behind but I think I've done relatively ok with keeping up considering I did absolutely no preparation ahead of time for any of these posts 🥷

no stats post for #3, too much of a flop. 03 1819 Cor Lupus 01-07-13-20-40-26-07-10-20-04 233 votes / 9 18s / 16 15s / 17 13s biggest fans: East Rukahavian [78 points] / Lookylion & Mothertopia [72 points each] songs played: Zanias - Serpentsmile (10th, BJSC 178) / ALT BLK ERA - Hunt You Down * (1st, BJSC 171) *raccoon substituting for what I presume is a song also called 'Hunt You Down' by some hardcore punk band As much hoped for by them throughout the year, Cor Lupus are granted the honour of a new EOY peak, after previously coming 4th in both 2017 and 2018. They've never placed lower than 16th and have been top 10 in 8 of their 11 years of participation. 78 seems quite low for a biggest fan so their strength is clearly in very consistently wide appeal x

I'm not sure what the raccoon is playing in place of ALT BLK ERA!! (it's kind of a banger though x)

04 1774 Fljótavík 03-29-10-(23)-xx-01-06-14-11-03 197 votes / 13 18s / 23 15s / 16 13s biggest fans: FARC [91 points] / Jadakissnia [71 points] / Jupiterdonia [65 points] songs played: Delaporte - Rendición (3rd, BJSC 171) + Tori Amos - Spark (3rd, BJSC 180) FLJ being 4th for the year despite a DNQ and a subsequent one contest ban is some crazy work (Ninajirachi alone getting enough points to basically cover that setback). This is FLJ's 4th EOY top 5 finish, they peaked at #2 in 2012 and last made it when they were also #4 for 2019.

Oh yes I meant to say I was shocked to see someone topping Jadakissnia as your biggest fan of the year (and for it to be Skall of all countries seems very unexpected!) (FLJ stat post coming up, I've thrown myself off a bit trying to figure out the stats error hehe)

06 1741 Hendinia 15-08-14-15-28-09-21-05-14-16 212 votes / 12 18s / 15 15s / 10 13s biggest fans: Baleghde [103 points] / Altyr Muunilinst [84 points] / Ajanaeda [78 points] biggest hater: their own failure to vote on time in BJSC 171 [-30 points] songs played: samxemma - HOT BOYS MAKE HOT MUSIC (5th, BJSC 178) + Jessica Winter - L.O.V.E. (8th, BJSC 172) 05 1746 FSR Rontvia 42-24-19-29-08-13-02-39-01-13 198 votes / 19 18s / 12 15s / 13 13s biggest fans: Skall [101 points] / Jadakissnia [96 points] / East Rukahavian [70 points] songs played: SADU - Luukered (1st, BJSC 179) + She Past Away - İnziva (8th, BJSC 175) Sorry for that cockup, tssk tssk at myself. I just remembered I noticed a small glitch recently with my spreadsheet that was caused by the edge case of Zephyra Continuum being a new last country alphabetically and that was causing the sheet to not capture the deduction numbers so I think the list I sent to Rob was before I fixed that! Hendinia alas not quite making it to a 6th straight year in the EOY top 5 (after an amazingly consistent run of 2-3-3-2-3 in 2020-2024), missing out by just 5 points. Instead FSR Rontvia bounce back to make it 2 of the last 3 years in the top 5, a run of 4-11-5. It's the 11th time in total they've ranked in the EOY top 10, only topped by Hendinia's 13 times and Aeroche's full house of 14 times.

And that someone is... our host himself sorry Rob, haunted by a 15% deduction in 171 (I think this is not the first time such a deduction has knocked you down a bit in an EOY oop)

The spirit of Medhelnia lives on! (for someone)

Oooooops I've just realised why the Aesthetica and New Lexico songs were playing out of order - that is in fact my fault!! The list I sent to Rob to prep from seems to have somehow not accounted for any deductions throughout the year. My bad, not quite sure how that happened. Can I blame the raccoon again x (as such, the country being played in 6th right now is actually 5th! I'll post the stats for 6 and 5 together)

07 1695 Kluminican Republic 23-01-06-08-31-17-23-21-30-31 203 votes / 9 18s / 15 15s / 13 13s biggest fans: Aeroche [111 points] / FARC [87 points] / Danæviia [71 points] songs played: Orbital and Tilda Swinton - Deepest (8th, BJSC 174) + Jude York - Whiplash! (17th, BJSC 176) Same result as last year for the Klum Rep, their peak remaining 5th place in 2022. And there's the AeroKlumFARC bloc again - I hadn't looked at this stat yet but after the figures for Aeroche and FARC I'd have been let down if that wasn't their top 2 x (each of the 3 having a different third wheel at least hehe).

08 1677 FARC 31-42-02-34-13-11-35-22-02-05 190 votes / 15 18s / 15 15s / 17 13s biggest fans: Kluminican Republic [102 points] / Aeroche [98 points] / Altyr Muunilinst [82 points] songs played: Sumner - Stranded (2nd, BJSC 173) + Nova May - TROPICANA BAR (11th, BJSC 176) A bounce back into the top 10 for FARC - they were top 10 5 years in a row (including two EOY #1s) in 2018-2022 but slipped to 23rd in 2023 and further to 33rd in 2024 so a return to form this year. AeroKlumFARC bloc is strong

09 1675 Skall 02-11-(26)-10-24-32-14-13-09-06 185 votes / 19 18s / 12 15s / 12 13s biggest fans: Neliönoir [95 points] / Scotland 2 [94 points] / Kathaldazia [89 points] songs played: Blanck Mass - You (2nd, BJSC 171) + Rochelle Jordan - Doing It Too (9th, BJSC 179) Only the second time Skall have made an EOY top 10, following their randomly super dominant year in 2013 (BJSCs 51-60) where they placed 2nd!

I'll do an individual post for each of the top 10 with some extra stats cos why not x 10 1664 Aeroche 14-03-26-14-39-30-03-20-18-26 219 votes / 11 18s / 8 15s / 15 13s biggest fans: Kluminican Republic [134 points] / FARC [127 points] / POPHub [83 points] songs played: Marie Davidson - Demolition (3rd, BJSC 172) + Minuit Machine - Hold Me * (14th, BJSC 174) *the raccoon is back and we've got a cover of The Cure's 'Lovesong' instead. At least it's a nice cover Crazy that Aeroche coming 10th is their worst ever result in an EOY (including their first year where they missed the first three contests of the year).

15 1405 Cumulonimbia 07-34-15-37-34-20-11-(21)-06-24 songs played: They/Live - For The Pleasure (7th, BJSC 171) + Deki Alem - House Fire * (11th, BJSC 177) *although appears a raccoon broke into the studio and switched the disc for the broadcast out for a different Deki Alem song ('Fun'), tut tut 14 1435 POPHub (22)-20-17-(25)-14-10-08-03-04-36 songs played: Jane Inc. - what if (4th, BJSC 179) + Magdalene - Lucky Girl (8th, BJSC 177) 13 1527 Greenfroze 32-10-08-17-11-36-17-26-24-19 songs played: Ken Hirai - 1995 (17th, BJSC 177) + Snow Wife - What Do Girls Do? (10th, BJSC 172) 12 1590 Kathaldazia 21-14-21-(22)-12-02-09-08-07-32 songs played: Promis3 - Danijehelia (7th, BJSC 179) + MISS LUXURY - deal (2nd, BJSC 176) 11 1623 Jadakissnia 10-04-04-25-27-16-20-01-32-(23) songs played: Erin LeCount - 808 HYMN (1st, BJSC 178) + Vioflesh - Spring Nostalgia (4th, BJSC 172) I was hoping Vioflesh would get the other Jadakissnia play *.* (uvula was my fave Jadakissnia entry of the year but I figured that one was unlikely to come up)

Poor brave Jadakissnia being yeeted from 3rd in the last YTD update to 11th in the EOY </3

20 1320 Sovarasma {n.b. entered as Why So Sirius in BJSCs 173-178} 17-27-32-28-21-21-33-(21)-16-20 songs played: Blond - SB-Kassen Lover (21st, BJSC 176) + zeyne - Asli Ana (17th, BJSC 171) 19 1363 Terra Avium (21)-21-(22)-09-06-15-29-27-08-19 songs played: Årabrot - The Satantango (15th, BJSC 176) + Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall (6th, BJSC 175) 18 1363 Bøtanikkä {n.b. wins tiebreak over Terra Avium by 168 votes to 150} 05-09-29-01-20-03-(21)-(24)-19-WD songs played: Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music (1st, BJSC 174) + 2 Eivissa - Oh La La La (20th, BJSC 175) 17 1379 République d'Áskorza 04-(23)-(21)-18-01-06-24-24-29-35 songs played: CLARA - NERO GOTICO (4th, BJSC 171) + Elodie - Mi Ami Mi Odi (18th, BJSC 174) 16 1380 Land of DW 06-(25)-23-21-25-08-31-17-21-37 songs played: Lindsey Stirling - The Arena (6th, BJSC 171) + Carson Coma - Daddy Said No (21st, BJSC 174) BJSCs 171 & 174 getting a lot of love for this batch x

15th (I'll post an updated spreadsheet of each country's EOY history at the end of this x)

25 1184 Bronzil 40-02-35-05-32-(19)-34-12-(25)-38 songs played: MØ - Keep Møving (5th, BJSC 174) + Cult Of Venus - Algorithm (32nd, BJSC 175) 24 1237 Zanmatony 19-(22)-41-31-18-34-27-06-26-23 songs played: Morgana - I'm Not Going Anywhere (6th, BJSC 178) + Solarstone - Seven Cities (Solar Stone's Atlantis Mix) (18th, BJSC 175) 23 1238 Mothertopia 39-39-18-(21)-10-23-38-37-12-12 songs played: JT - Girls Gone Wild (12th, BJSC 180) + Lexie Liu - X (12th, BJSC 179) 22 1291 Ajanaeda 28-31-01-39-38-05-05-(25)-(21)-34 songs played: Rebecca Black - Twist The Knife (1st, BJSC 173) + Nuovo Testamento - Dream On (5th, BJSC 177) 21 1303 Altyr Muunilinst 08-26-11-33-17-35-25-07-39-(21) songs played: Beks - Dangerous (8th, BJSC 171) + MARIS - Mary + I (7th, BJSC 178)

We seem to be lagging a little again in the past couple of days x

The song choices for Mothertopia (also thought it was cute that Ajanaeda and Mothertopia finished next to each other in the EOY x)

30 1145 Persephonia 16-05-42-16-30-31-(22)-42-15-(23) songs played: Messa - At Races (16th, BJSC 174) + VACUUM MAN - Alimut (15th, BJSC 179) 29 1161 Aesthetica 25-35-36-23-02-28-16-(22)-xx-30 songs played: Jae Stephens - Afterbody (16th, BJSC 177) + f5ve - I Choose You (30th, BJSC 180) 28 1169 Séyetana 22-38-20-22-29-24-(23)-33-38-21 songs played: Patty Gurdy - Peg Leg Silly-Billy (feat. Christopher Bowes) (20th, BJSC 173) + Igorrr - ADHD (22nd, BJSC 174) 27 1174 Elëdan 37-17-05-(28)-(21)-xx-15-36-05-18 songs played: Nicolás Jaar - Aquí (15th, BJSC 177) + Ohota - Everything Is As It Should Be (5th, BJSC 173) 26 1177 Pestolia 24-28-(23)-03-(24)-12-28-25-33-40 songs played: After - Deep Diving (12th, BJSC 176) + Şenay - Honki Ponki (24th, BJSC 171)

The clips have only been before #40 and #30 so far! (and ahh ok Rob, I should have more faith x)

I do fear the country at #29 may have been skipped

Me scraping an EOY top 30 return we love to see (Messa <3)

35 957 Aelandor 26-(23)-xx-11-(26)-25-37-41-35-09 songs played: YOU LOVE HER - This Is A Raid (25th, BJSC 176) + Saltillo - A Hair On The Head Of John The Baptist (9th, BJSC 180) 34 964 Lookylion 18-06-27-40-19-(20)-(21)-(25)-41-28 songs played: Belinda Carlisle - Sanity (18th, BJSC 171) + Lauren Mayberry - Crocodile Tears (6th, BJSC 172) 33 1002 New Lexico 13-33-37-(23)-41-33-10-02-(24)-(27) songs played: Maude Latour - XOXO (2nd, BJSC 178) + Jennifer Aoun - Breaking My Heart (13th, BJSC 171) 32 1006 Lotunia 38-22-(24)-24-15-18-30-18-(25)-xx songs played: GFRIEND - MAGO (24th, BJSC 174) + VICTORIA - IN BETWEEN (15th, BJSC 175) 31 1134 Taahino 33-37-(25)-27-22-(18)-18-15-37-10 songs played: 3Quency - Once I Was A Good Girl (10th, BJSC 180) + Ashnikko - Trinkets (18th, BJSC 177) the Lotunia songs were played before the New Lexico ones but we're all good xx