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You know what you did x

Why the secrecy, I'm curious now xx

I think it's been more or less confirmed that the Playboi Carti vocals in both The Weeknd's 'Timeless' and his own 'Rather Lie' were actually some other guy using an AI Playboi Carti filter so it's been in the charts already. Apparently that Xania Monet thing has been charting in some US radio airplay charts already as well :') I think the usage of AI on things like Headache and that GrimesAI track are a bit different to entirely AI generated songs/artists, those are effectively just the same thing as vocaloid software, the music and lyrics were still made by real people. As I posted in the Summericia thread already it was disappointing to learn that it was an AI artist but I'm not going to hold that against it when it is a good sounding song and especially when Roba didn't know it was AI when he confirmed it, I will just hope against hope that this is a 'trend' that dies out.

This was the song I tried to cheekily change to after the deadline but was denied (fairly, but was worth a try x) There are a handful of songs here that I know already (agreed with Chez that 'Jump In The Pool' feels more like Friendly Fires' big hit than their one actual top 40 which I see isn't even in their top 10 on Spotify - which has more bangers than I remembered them having tbh x) but the majority will still be new to me. I see a couple of names here that came to mind when I was brainstorming (FKA twigs and Imogen Heap - I had a feeling the latter would come up but was less sure about the former as her one hit was a pretty forgettable feature, also the reason why Sampha didn't come to mind for me until too late!) Was hoping we might see Everything Everything here but alas not x

Minor nitpick but why single out 'Sparks' when 3 of the 4 songs in that list are at least 19 years old? I guess 'MUTT' heavily suffers from its streams being split between two versions.

FELICIA arguably sounds more like AI than the actual AI song tbf x

I don't plan to mark it down myself and I get the sense that most people are far less bothered about AI than I am in general so I'm sure it'll probably be fine x (I'd be side eyeing a lot more if people sent AI songs on purpose but I cannot fault you here for not realising it was AI)

Katherine Jayne (Ultraviolenceland entry) is also fully AI I believe. Although not sure to what extent the lyrics to that or indeed this were written by a human. I felt happier not knowing this was AI as it's a little concerning how much this does just sound like a regular (and good!) dream pop song. But ah well. A good song is a good song I guess x (and the person behind copperplate posted on their BandCamp asking people to support real artists lol so at least they're self aware...)

Racism (jk I figured it'd probably be pushing it x)

I can't immediately think of any other Estonian language entries! (I don't have all the stats on that, maybe one day x)

Is it too late to change my entry as well without being vetoed? Just thought of another idea that didn't come to me last night

^ if you're going to count Charlie/FAANGS there are a few of your other artists (that I know of) who have also been entered under different names! REYNA = Vic And Gab HALIENE = Kelly Sweet SERYABKINA (as she seems to now go by) = MOLLY but conversely the IDA that you sent is not the same as the other artist of that name who was sent a few times before x

Right I have confirmed now - not sure it'll do particularly well but what's new. For the first time in one of these contests I'm sending a song that I actually remember from when it originally came out!

I'm brainstorming xx

Looks like quite a good semi draw for me again yay ~ sending a darkwave song worked well for me in the last retro song contest so sticking with the theme for this! (I am laughing a bit at dandy*'s last post though as it describes my entry perfectly even down to the switchup ending x) As per usual of late most of the songs I already know are just because they were already in the PopJustice Song Contest - ORKID and Rochelle Jordan both came top 5 in the edition that just finished (2nd and 5th), I can definitely see the former also doing quite well here, not as confident as I'd like to be on the latter considering it's easily my favourite of the songs I do already know but hopefully it will be at the very least a qualifier after Rochelle's 2 previous entries both DNQed. The other former PJSC entries are Ashley Sienna, Kat Cunning, Maria Sur and TSHA, none of which I particularly remember (they came 6th, 27th, 3rd and 8th respectively if anyone wondered). Those aside I think the only other song I've already heard is Pearly Drops, which I also don't recall that well but I think I do remember liking it. We do love to see the recaps again *.* and thanks Jade for saving me some effort by making the YouTube playlists already and offering to host the listenthroughs x I am forced to stan Scotland 2 swinging around from the longest entry last contest to the shortest this contest. République d'Áskorza's record for shortest qualifying song potentially only standing for one month... (also at worstie Callum being the saviour of the #longsongbloc just as we all expected). Just a quick FYI that the song you tried (which someone else also tried this month!) wouldn't have been allowed as it is the song that came top 3 for her in the Pop Forum Song Contest... and you didn't vote for it there #exposedT Am I missing something here or is it just that she's a member of WagakkiBand? (which was noted in the research, they're not that big of a name x)

Oop I was trying to be careful to look out for any potential clashes as I am being lazy only putting the song titles but I missed this one - yes it is for Harry. (Lowkey the Tia Kofi song is not that bad though, far better than the original by Lena x)

Adam And The Ants - Prince Charming Siouxsie And The Banshees - Arabian Knights Soft Cell - Tainted Love U2 - Fire Ultravox - The Thin Wall 3 I already knew and 2 discoveries (Siouxsie and U2) this week. Although the Ultravox song was also one I only discovered relatively recently. Next fave discoveries were Kim Wilde's 'Water On Glass' and Debbie Harry, next faves I already knew are Duran Duran and The Human League.

Aw you didn't x (but I did kinda want to nominate 'Image' too so glad you did that one) As I had typed out initially then: 2024 The Cure - Alone Everything Everything - The End Of The Contender Tyler, The Creator - Noid I thought I may be able to swap out EE for Kendrick's 'squabble up' but we do have 2 Kendrick songs nominated for the year already so it's fine x

Waiting to see if @seven. will beat me to nominating a certain song for 2024 so I can pick something else instead 👀

+30 Cold Reactor +29 Be On Your Way +28 King Of The Slugs +27 I Remember Everything +26 A&W +25 Baddadan +24 greedy +23 What Was I Made For? +22 Cha Cha Cha +21 Fall Back +20 Satellite +19 Under Your Spell +18 Cicada +17 AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM +16 Ruined +15 vampire +14 MY EYES +13 golden hour +12 (It Goes Like) Nanana +11 Retributions Of An Awful Life +10 Boy's a liar +9 Go Dig My Grave +8 Loveher +7 Houdini +6 Is It Over Now? +5 get him back! +4 ecstacy +3 Chemical +2 My Love Mine All Mine +1 Sprinter

Well... Mariah starting out further ahead of Wham! than she did last year, and that's about as much of a fill of anything interesting happening in the chart as we're going to get for the next 2 months. x I was anticipating it but still aw that the boost for 'Berghain' was just for a day and it's back to lower than it was before now. I guess there's still quite a lot of Halloween stuff ahead that'll probably all be gone tomorrow so hopefully it can still stick to the top 200 then or failing that be back in on Tuesday when newer songs tend to recover.

Ahh I completely missed when researching that this is the same person as Fla.mingo (the weird artist name makes slightly more sense now). I did love 'Die', looks like this song will be quite different sounding but still looks promising!

I will get something in tonight so will be a record number of entrants I guess, hooray x

Mariah and Wham! didn't start charting until the 2nd week of November last year.