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Good to see Tracey Thorn through. Actually have got most of my faves from the semi in now but still awaiting the fate of a couple of my biggest faves, with so few slots left I expect at least one of them will be out.

Honestly think I might have preferred a more country oriented song from Avery Anna as I really liked 'Indigo' (but not sure if her other output is in a similar vein) - this song was decent though.

Really liked both of those!

Lucy Camp was also not far off my top 10 of the semi aw (not that I was voting in this semi anyway), not as good as her previous entry for me but interesting to hear quite a different sounding song from her this time.

Yass Planningtorock finally having a qualifier <3 and yay for Pestolia too.

I enjoyed the instrumental more than the vocals on the Sandénia entry but it still definitely deserved better than that (ranked 14th for me).

The discourse continues (Even with full knowledge now of it being AI I still think the copperplate song is one of the better sounding songs in semi 1 so)

Mothertopia's was a big grower and earworm for me after my second listen, think that is my fave of the pop entries this month.

Deandria <3 was surprised to see them getting DNQ predictions, still worried about some of my other faves but I did think that one would be fine.

Yass Aeroche *.* a good tune from Baleghde as well.

In fairness I did just say it sounded better to me on second listen...! I've not done predictions for ages but I'd still probably say it's one of the more likely DNQs (if that helps to lower your hopes again ), hard to definitively rule many songs out though so I wouldn't be shocked if it does have enough of an audience to squeak by.

I definitely don't see this quite being a repeat of me getting 19/20 of my top 10 songs across the semis qualifying as happened last month, a few of my big faves have been getting DNQ predictions! Insert all relevant prayer circles x

Mods please ban this man xx

I know Roba has been known to vote late from time to time in the past anyway so it may be unrelated but I hope the AI discussion/controversy hasn't scared him away from voting oop.

I do think semi 2 is the stronger of the two but there's not that much in it imo at least when comparing my top 10s! (Semi 1 does have a few more quite samey songs but a lot of them have sounded better on second listen)

'LIFETIMES' didn't go top 200 on Spotify at all and still made the official top 100, I'm sure this song will be fine especially given how many songs are currently starred out / on ACR.

Voted now and am now doing a relisten of semi 1 as well. Artists with fruit in their names are popping off this month x

Never unhearing this

Petition to rename the thread this week to 'Streaming Services LUXcussion' xo

Very much looking forward to the Monday mids, confident now that 'LUX' will chart higher than 'MOTOMAMI' as it's doing far better on streaming but hard to tell just how much higher yet. Bad Bunny's last album got to #13 here after a similar profile boost and his couple of albums before that got to #62 and #70 so maybe top 10 can be on the cards but I don't want to get my hopes up too much again as it will come down to physical sales at the end of the day (and Bad Bunny held up really well on streaming). Great to see a new Spotify peak for 'Berghain' again although it's not that much higher than where it started last week - although with so few other notable new releases this week and the Halloween songs vanishing hopefully it has another chance to sneak into the top 40 if the album streams hold up ok...

Ah you're right Great company to be in x

Let me know what stats you want and I should be able to provide them x

'I Love You' and 'Retrograde' going gold *.* I was actually just wondering if 'Spooky, Scary Skeletons' would have been anywhere near platinum - turns out the answer is a clear no but love to see it both making the top 40 and being certified for the first time in the same week x

2 great songs and 1 sneak x

Curious to see a 'tracks from' add on the C-List (I don't recall ever seeing that before but maybe I'm forgetting things) but great to see ROSALÍA still getting support, was wondering if they might add 'Berghain' this week. Maybe they've hedged on adding 'tracks from LUX' instead for now hoping that the album has a more obvious song to be pushed to radio lol x