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Alphaville - Big In Japan Depeche Mode - Master And Servant George Michael - Careless Whisper Prince - When Doves Cry Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters A great discovery from Depeche Mode this week. Next best ones I already knew are Howard Jones, Thompson Twins and Laura Branigan and next best discoveries were A Flock Of Seagulls and Malcolm McLaren.

Each week (aiming for Sunday evenings) I'll post one two of these polls and ask you all to select your favourites from the week's new entries in the UK Singles Chart top 100 (and the week 10 weeks prior, until I'm caught up again). Unlike the similar polls in the genre forums, this poll is multiple choice - I'll leave it to your discretion how you want to give votes, if you want to just vote for your favourite each week then go for it, if not you can vote for as many songs as you feel deserve a vote (I will encourage people to make sure they've actually listened to all of the songs before voting but I can't enforce that obviously x). There's also a 'none of the above' option if you want to put in a protest vote. And then feel free to post in the thread any rankings/ratings or general thoughts. The song with the most votes at the end of the week will be the winner. Resuming where we left off with the catchup polls, cross-generational American pop girl collab 'Bring Your Love' by Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter - the second song to be released from Madge's 15th studio album 'CONFESSIONS II' - topped the week 19 poll with a comfortable lead of 7 votes over the only song from the poll that's gone on to actually be a sustained hit for more than a handful of weeks from SIENNA SPIRO. Maybe SIENNA wouldn't have even been this close if I'd done the poll on time. When we jump to the more up to date poll there's absolutely no closeness to be found as it's to no one's shock an utter walkover for another American pop girl, Olivia Rodrigo with 'honeybee', currently still an album track from her 3rd album 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' just charting now as it got its turn under the 3 track rule. Lead single 'drop dead' won its poll but it remains to be seen whether the other two singles will manage the same as they're both yet to come in the catchup polls. Only 11 people didn't vote for 'honeybee', and of those 8 plumped for 'none of the above' (assuming no one voted for both of those options which is never something I actually check). Of the other two options Kolter did pick up a few votes but Fat Papi has the ignominy of joining the mikeeysmind 'Papaoutai' AI cover as the second song of the year to register 0 votes. I thought it was a pretty mediocre early Post Malone rip but it wasn't that bad, certainly deserved a vote more than the Chris Brown and D-Block Europe songs which both escaped with a single backer in the first poll. Full week 19 results: 1 20/36 Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love (#29) 2 13/36 SIENNA SPIRO - Material Lover (#67) 3 11/36 Zara Larsson and Shakira - Eurosummer (#83) 4 6/36 Bella Kay - Promise? (#87) 4 6/36 Dexter And The Moonrocks - Freakin' Out (#95) 6 5/36 Alex Warren - FINE PLACE TO DIE (#20) 7 3/36 STELLA LEFTY - I Know I Know (#93) 8 1/36 Chris Brown - Fallin' (feat. Leon Thomas) (#85) 8 1/36 D-Block Europe - Yeah Baby (#91) [1/36 none of the above] Full week 29 results: 1 25/36 Olivia Rodrigo - honeybee (#30) [8/36 none of the above] 2 4/36 Kolter - Trapped (#88) 3 0/36 Fat Papi and prodshushy - FREAKED OUT (#65) Week 20's contenders: Charli xcx - Rock Music (#36) Calvin Harris and Jazzy - Satisfy (#55) Harry Styles - Dance No More (#58) Prospa and Murda Beatz - Baby (#65) MDB - Angels Above Me (#76) PinkPantheress - Girl Like Me (#81) Josh Fawaz - Like A Prayer (#85) Week 30's contenders: Gracie Abrams - Good Reason (#55) Victony - SLICK (#99) It's good timing for me to be doubling up these polls as for a second week in a row the current week's poll has a paltry selection, down from three songs last week to just two this time. A thrilling race between Gracie and 'none of the above' this week? The catchup poll is a little more substantial although sadly infected with AI. I remember being a little confused as to what was going on with that 'Angels Above Me' thing as the version credited with the OCC didn't appear to be charting anywhere whereas a couple of other versions of the song were - but I'll take the OCC at their word here. ""Unfortunately"" I can't include MDB on the Spotify playlist anyway because their version got removed from the platform (appears the only prominent versions left are the original by Stick Figure and a version crediting David Guetta and Alok which I will guess without verifying is modelled closely on one or other of the AI versions). It's still on YouTube though so I've linked that version below if you are a completionist and need to hear all of the slop. Josh Fawaz' apparently also AI slop entry remains fully available on all platforms. + MDB - Angels Above Me (not available on Spotify) Hall of Fame: Week 1: Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun [29/49] Week 2: Fleetwood Mac - Landslide [27/48] Week 3: Bruno Mars - I Just Might [26/44] Week 4: Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over [23/43] Week 5: Harry Styles - Aperture [30/46] Week 6: Noah Kahan - The Great Divide [21/44] Week 7: sombr - Homewrecker [31/43] Week 8: Charli xcx - Dying For You [23/43] Week 9: twenty one pilots - Drag Path [20/40] Week 10: Gorillaz - Orange County (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar) [16/40] Week 11: Harry Styles - American Girls [20/34] Week 12: beabadoobee - All I Did Was Dream Of You (feat. The Marías) [22/41] Week 13: RAYE - Click Clack Symphony. (feat. Hans Zimmer) [28/43] Week 14: RAYE - I Know You're Hurting. [20/43] Week 15: Ella Langley - Be Her [18/45] Week 16: KATSEYE - PINKY UP [20/45] Week 17: Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead [26/43] Week 18: Olivia Dean - Baby Steps [20/42] Week 19: Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love [20/36] Weeks 20-28 TBC Week 29: Olivia Rodrigo - honeybee [25/36]

And here it is No change to the top 2 but with Hendinia's AQ being comfortably the better performing of the 2 this month, their lead over Bøtanikkä grows from 34 points to 109. They're in a strong position to be end of year champs for the first time but anything could happen, they might even DNQ at some point... I mean they won't, but they might. Hendinia and Bøtanikkä have actually both been EOY #2 twice before without ever topping the list so quite an intriguing battle to potentially play out for the last four contests of the year. Cor Lupus sneak ahead of Fljótavík to 3rd place (also matching their own previous EOY peak currently). Neliönoir's fight to retain their EOY #1 perhaps picks up a gear as they rise 3 places to #5, as do Sovarasma to #6, both pushing down Kluminican Republic two spots to #7. Being outside the YTD top 10 last month was a short-lived aberration for Aeroche as a medal this time around pushes them back up 3 to #8. The Spodic Empire drop two to #9 and Elëdan rise two places to complete the top 10 which are all neatly over the 1,000 points mark for the year. Trifoski lose their top 10 spot but only just as they fall a place to #11 (though being closely chased by this month's winners Skall), Altyr Muunilinst are punished a bit more by a DNQ and fall 7-15. Don't look at where I am, I don't want to talk about it x 1 1 1501 Hendinia 2 2 1392 Bøtanikkä 3 4 1198 Cor Lupus 4 3 1164 Fljótavík 5 8 1124 Neliönoir 6 9 1120 Sovarasma 7 5 1106 Kluminican Republic 8 11 1086 Aeroche 9 6 1084 The Spodic Empire 10 12 1052 Elëdan 11 10 994 Trifoski 12 22 982 Skall 13 14 978 Danæviia 14 19 933 Jadakissnia 15 7 922 Altyr Muunilinst 16 15 906 Cheiron 17 21 824 Pestolia 18 24 808 Zephyra Continuum 19 13 792 Baleghde et al 20 23 790 Terra Avium 21 27 775 Juranabaijan 22 16 753 Scotland 2 23 25 747 Yehesi 24 17 745 Deandria 25 26 745 Ojnoj 26 28 744 Bronzil 27 29 727 République d'Áskorza 28 18 726 Dalisska 29 20 715 Séyetana 30 40 710 Lentyll 31 33 685 Freidland 32 39 635 Ajanaeda 33 42 629 Land of DW 34 36 625 Greenfroze 35 45 617 Kathaldazia 36 37 608 Dobago 37 53 597 FARC 38 41 551 N DNTN 39 50 544 Lookylion 40 30 542 Persephonia 41 31 530 Summericia 42 32 526 Mothertopia 43 34 525 Pagasa 44 35 524 POPHub 45 52 504 Aelandor 46 38 495 East Rukahavian 47 51 490 Taahino 48 43 446 Ennea 49 54 444 A-Konohagakure 50 44 441 Zanmatony 51 46 431 Hushkanukia 52 47 424 New Lexico 53 56 408 Herbilore 54 48 404 Jupiterdonia 55 49 403 FSR Rontvia 56 55 372 Cumulonimbia 57 57 348 Flynnonda 58 62 258 Ben's Sanctuary 59 58 236 Harmonica 60 ** 203 New Helvetica 61 59 180 Utopia 62 60 176 Lotunia 63 61 156 Wholune 64 ** 154 Aesthetica 65 63 131 Thelonia

Not quite! Kathaldazia still hold that record with a 134 contest gap between Eva Simons in BJSC 19 and Snow Strippers in BJSC 154 (Skall's gap was 131 contests). Although Kathaldazia only entered 41/134 of the contests between those two wins - Skall entered 126/131 which does break the record for the most entries between two wins, the only other case of 100+ entries between wins was another pretty recent one, FSR Rontvia's unbroken streak of 114 entries between wins in BJSCs 64 & 179. (I am on 112 entries and counting since my last win ) We love to see the glowup for both Julianna and Mary after DNQing with their previous entries as lead artist - although Julianna kinda sorta nearly won the very same contest she DNQed in as the 2nd placer that month (Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa (Elite Gymnastics Remix)) gives her a featured credit on the non-remixed version! Meanwhile Dani Sylvia now joins Cam, Camden Cox, Elen Levon, Highasakite, Lady Gaga, The Midnight and St. Lucia in the much longer than I thought it was list of artists who have come 2nd twice, none of which have a win. I guess the pop hoe prognosticators were on the money with that one being the strongest pop contender but it just went over my head entirely (and I actually voted for her previous 2nd placer!) Also FARC now up to 5 2nd place finishes since their last win, almost matching FSR Rontvia's 6 2nd places during their aforementioned win drought / Kluminican Republic's 6 2nd places prior to their first winner (but all in a much shorter timeframe, as FARC's last win was still as 'recent' as BJSC 135). Fun stats aside I voted for 5 of the top 10 this month and another 2 were on my short list of commiserations so that's a good showing, fab to see two of my medallists sneaking in the lower half of the top 10 from Elëdan and Jadakissnia <3 although also surprised Elëdan only got one other 18 besides mine! + fab to see Aeroche finally getting a big hit for the year with one of their best entries of the year to date and another nice top 5 finish for Sovarasma. My dark horse prediction on Trifoski didn't quite pan out but yay for them squeaking top half, still a bit better than the predictions I suppose. 2 more of my big faves also making the top 15, 13th is a great debut for New Helvetica, not surprised if it did grow on people since the semis but wow at their improvement to the final anyway! And yay for another good showing for another great entry from Rockæviia. Thought République d'Áskorza may have been a contender this month but seems they fell into the trap of getting a lot of votes but not enough of the higher points aw! And we really didn't do right by our Latin kweens this month, AKRIILA at least doing a little better than when I sent her but still far too low and whaaat is Six Sex doing down there in the bottom 2?! Rude x Here's my very belated voting highlights if anyone may still care to read them - Elëdan's medal tally now stands at 6 golds, 2 silvers and 3 bronzes - they last got our 18 points with KMRU in BJSC 147, proving that 10+ minute glitchy noise Elëdan is best Elëdan, and previously also got golds with 12 pointers Hachioji P in BJSC 61, Taquwami in BJSC 66 & Mr.Kitty in BJSC 67 and 18 pointer Erika Lundmoen in BJSC 114. - Trifoski's medal tally now stands at 8 golds, 2 silvers and 7 bronzes, including 2 golds and a silver in 2026 to date alone as they continue to look like the frontrunner for our top nation of the year. - Jadakissnia's medal tally now stands at 12 golds, 13 silvers and 11 bronzes - unsurprisingly they're 2nd in our most pointed nations of the year but a way behind Trifoski (72 points to 48; would have been a lot closer if VIOLENT VICKIE qualified to be fair). - New Helvetica get off to a strong start with double figure points (11) from us for their first ever main BJSC entry. (We did also vote for their entry to Worldvision VIII, although only 3 points there). - République d'Áskorza get their first points from us since 2 to VTSS in BJSC 176 and their highest points from us since 12 to CLARA in BJSC 171. - Taahino get their first point from us in a final since 12 to Chrissy Costanza (without the rest of Against The Current) in BJSC 168. In the meantime we probably would have voted for Nxdia in BJSC 173 if they had qualified. Shall hopefully get a YTD update posted shortly x

'Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)' didn't leave the top 100 in its original run until October and it re-entered a few times in 2011 and 2012.

All of my >6 minute entries to date have qualified (my longest DNQ was Achillea at 5:58) but only 8/14 of my <3 minute entries have (and 2 of those 8 came last in the final lol)

You might be thinking of YouTube not counting to the Billboard Hot 100 any more - it does still count to the UK charts.

Might be falling to Wham! to break Frankie Laine's record then!

There isn't one, people just speculated that it might be adopted as an England anthem and that idea has permeated on here despite the fact it wasn't. (at least not on any significant level, I don't doubt you could find some people drunkenly singing it at matches if you looked for it)

Last few hours for any further votes in this, thanks Jim for bumping x (I still need to vote in it myself lel)

I'm only commenting on its commercial prospects x 4 the arts not 4 the charts etc.

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This is now probably happening this month! Coming to claim 13th xx (unless someone else sends something even longer lol). And touch wood for a chance to return to the top 10 longest finalists. Lol at 11 of the top 12 coming from just 3 different countries Yes, there were a few of us who did x

Unless I happen to stumble across something else I am thinking it's time to unleash my longest entry to date (and also only my second ever entry from the 20th century). Skall hosting feels appropriate for this x Annoyingly there's no official upload of this song, not even an auto-generated one as far as I can tell despite the fact it is on Spotify, so I am at the whim of a random third party YouTube channel not deciding to delete their upload from last year. Am in half a mind to drop £7.99 on an iTunes download of the album so I can try uploading it myself ddd Also going Japanese

I still haven't got around to listening to the songs from week 31 oops (I made a playlist for myself but didn't find a moment to slot it in during the week) but have caught up with the songs I missed last week to be able to vote in the current poll, I will fill in what I would have voted for in the previous 2 polls at some point! Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes Grandmaster & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now All songs I already knew this time, next best I already knew are The Bluebells, Nik Kershaw, Alison Moyet and Wham! and the best discoveries were Siouxsie And The Banshees, David Sylvian and Elvis Costello & The Attractions' 'Turning The Town Red'.