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Something I voted for to win please Preview of my votes: 😮

Kingdom of Shadow was tombliboo, I believe he was one of the early BJSC mods but he's not been active on the site for a long time.

*Yit Can't Be Christmas

We stan gworls that offend crusty Turkish dictators x (I saw this lore on their Wiki article after I submitted the song lol - they didn't actually go to jail)

I used up my budget for bribes just to make sure I qualified, there's no risk of me winning don't worry x (If I can keep up my run of top 20 or DNQ for 2026 to date I'll be happy x) My heart still says Bronzil to win. I have a feeling whatever wins is going to be either one of my faves or one of my least faves though.

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Not sure if you're really expecting a Dominic Fike album release to give a big enough boost to his 8 year old song for it to go to #1 or if you have merged Dominic Fike and Jamie Miller into one entity in your mind.

Sorry I am really letting the side down with my non participation in this so far oop. I will really try my best to vote in the remaining rounds x

The moment of dread when I realise I'm going to be subjected to an unpopular Tom Grennan deep cut.

YTD update (which is still just about the current one) As we know the turns have tabled a bit following the BJSC 189 semi results xx but a top 10 for Hendinia last month combined with a Bøtanikkä autoqualifier that finished bottom 3 resulted in the YTD top 2 swapping over again with Hendinia back in the lead by 95 points. Neliönoir's win put the 2025 champs onto the podium for 2026, up two places to 3rd (though still 148 points behind the top two) and leapfrogging Cor Lupus who held in 4th. Also just before disaster struck, Aeroche found themselves rising a place to 5th. At least the 6th placed Fljótavík (down 3 places) won't overtake in the next update since they didn't enter this month. The Spodic Empire rose 3 places to 7th and Skall climbed two to 9th, each slightly nudging down Sovarasma and Elëdan while Kluminican Republic's qualification streak breaker also saw them fall out of the YTD top 10, down 4 to 12th. Positive moves in the top 20 for Trifoski, Séyetana, Lentyll and Freidland (who are now in the YTD top 20 without ever placing in the top 20 in any individual contest, ikonik). Ojnoj, Lentyll and Terra Avium became the latest countries to pass 1,000 points for the year. My glorious silver medal was a bit of a leg up but could only do so much to counter my 4 DNQs earlier in the year so I still sit outside the top 30 at the moment (similar story for FSR Rontvia). 1 2 1871 Hendinia 2 1 1776 Bøtanikkä 3 5 1628 Neliönoir 4 4 1587 Cor Lupus 5 6 1570 Aeroche 6 3 1552 Fljótavík 7 10 1469 The Spodic Empire 8 7 1458 Sovarasma 9 11 1392 Skall 10 9 1389 Elëdan 11 13 1327 Trifoski 12 8 1299 Kluminican Republic 13 12 1284 Danæviia 14 14 1266 Jadakissnia 15 16 1248 Séyetana 16 15 1238 Altyr Muunilinst 17 17 1210 Ojnoj 18 20 1126 Lentyll 19 19 1087 Terra Avium 20 25 984 Freidland 21 33 956 Land of DW 22 18 951 Bronzil 23 40 916 POPHub 24 34 908 Scotland 2 25 27 907 Zephyra Continuum 26 21 906 Cheiron 27 22 897 République d'Áskorza 28 35 892 Dalisska 29 38 884 Lookylion 30 37 869 N DNTN 31 23 864 Yehesi 32 24 842 Deandria 33 41 842 FSR Rontvia 34 26 824 Pestolia 35 47 817 Persephonia 36 28 799 Kathaldazia 37 29 792 Baleghde 38 30 786 FARC 39 31 783 Greenfroze 40 32 775 Juranabaijan 41 48 758 Jupiterdonia 42 42 755 Ajanaeda 43 51 711 Herbilore 44 46 707 New Lexico 45 36 706 Pagasa 46 39 683 East Rukahavian 47 52 666 Aelandor 48 53 624 Ennea 49 43 608 Dobago 50 44 600 Taahino 51 45 593 Zanmatony 52 49 530 Summericia 53 50 526 Mothertopia 54 59 488 Harmonica 55 58 466 New Helvetica 56 54 444 A-Konohagakure 57 57 440 Flynnonda 58 55 431 Hushkanukia 59 56 372 Cumulonimbia 60 63 366 Lotunia 61 60 292 Aesthetica 62 65 274 Thelonia 63 61 258 Ben's Sanctuary 64 62 180 Utopia 65 ** 177 Ramrynia 66 64 156 Wholune 67 ** 155 Vaskla 68 ** 125 Daehun

less than a month can still be considered 'soon' right x (link back to my votes for the context) - Lentyll make our medal positions for the first time in style with a gold - only the second time we have voted for them, surpassing the 8 points we gave to Max Lawrence in BJSC 182. - Trifoski's medal tally now stands at 8 golds, 3 silvers and 7 bronzes (including 2 golds and 2 silvers in 2026 alone). - Séyetana's medal tally now stands at 4 golds, 6 silvers and 3 bronzes as their auto-qualifier earns them their first medal and highest points from us since 15 to Igorrr in BJSC 174. - Land of DW get their highest points from us since 12 to Contec in BJSC 176. - Zephyra Continuum get points in the final from us for the first time! (I didn't actually realise this until typing this up now - my 2 favourite previous entries from you (Darkrad and atmos bloom) both DNQed oops so it was overdue) - POPHub get their first points from us since 8 to Hunnygloss in BJSC 178. - Vaskla also get their first point from us in a final, at the first possibility since their previous entries both DNQed. Also as I never posted my customary results ramble - I only voted for 2 of the top 10 on this occasion (and it was nearly only 1, as 'Blitzkrieg' only jumped into my votes after suddenly clicking a lot more on my final relisten). Great to see DJ Shadow giving The Spodic Empire another top 10 finish, songs from 'Endtroducing.....' have now come top 10 in The Best Song Contest In The World... Ever!, Club Bizarre and BJSC, I wonder when there'll next be an excuse for someone to mine another song from it As a couple of others already said though the 11th-15th section here was elite as that included my entire top 3 plus my 5th and 8th favourite songs of the final! Hooray for a well deserved new peak for Herbilore though a shame it still fell a little short of the top 10 (holding out hope they'll do that this month instead x). I thought 'Sherpa' might have challenged to finish a bit higher than 14th but pleasantly surprised at 'Across My Jaw' and 'Zetsuen' joining it in the top 15 as they seemed like potentially smaller niches. Absolutely do not get what happened with Elëdan, I thought that could be a winner contender but it not even being in the top half and only scraping through the semi?! Maybe y'all are just xenophobes x (Sovarasma and Zephyra Continuum were likewise way too low). Happy that Vaskla got a reasonably decent position for their first finalist. And as my previous comment on my own position was while I was still in somewhat bitter mode, I am genuinely very pleased to have been in contention here again, especially having done so via appealing strongly to many countries who do not typically vote for Persephonia so thanks again to all - I may have carried on with sending another pop song in the next contest but still who knows when if ever the perfect storm of finding a pop song that a) I like enough to send, b) I think is unknown enough to send and c) actually does this well will ever happen again! My more likely route to ever getting that elusive third win probably still goes through the alt bloc x (also I sent 'cherry cola' to the Pop Square Song Contest too and it got a grand total of 20 points there barely avoiding the bottom 5 so er... pop fans on here have better taste clearly) Yes, one more bit of unfinished business to post in here rather than this just being a purely self centred bump of a month old results thread. Next post xx although I'd also like to belatedly ask what this was supposed to mean as I have long forgotten any context

Imagine having plenty of potential good options for this round, and also having BJSC votes prepared since Saturday afternoon, but nonetheless having still not submitted yet for either. Hypothetically. x

Justice for the old man x (And not a flops round *_)

When I saw the songs I thought it'd be between MARINA and Zara to go out, pretty quickly became clear MARINA would be fine though and I expect Zara ended up last by quite a lot oops. Hope we get 'Midnight Sun' rather than 'Lush Life' for the Wagner x

1 Fontaines D.C. 2 Depeche Mode 3 New Order 4 Sade 5 Texas 6 Bananarama One of the best Fontaines songs <3 otherwise not the best bunch here (perhaps the first time I think the groups are not the strongest category x), I did give the Depeche Mode song a few points in BJSC and New Order and Sade were both decent if not amazing discoveries. Never been too keen on 'Summer Son' though and the Bananarama song is pretty naff oop ~

Great that most of the new songs have actually held up quite well! Still hard to call which 3 Fontaines songs will be charting by the end of the week with the order switching up from day to day and the numbers all being so close but certainly not holding my breath for 'Where Is Gone?' to get its top 40 moment now :'( at least it charted last week. I guess the Tate song is better than Jamie Miller but feels like it would be an underwhelming song to be a first #1 for her, hope it will grow on me... (Would still be a better first #1 than the song that got her her first and only US #1 to date though lol)

Chappell is credited on 'expectations' in the full top 100 midweek update - iirc Taylor Swift was credited on the First Look chart on 'The Joker And The Queen' but then her credit disappeared in the actual chart, but looks like Chappell's credit will be sticking.

Zach defying the 3 track rule

Nëilferatu is too iconic tbf

So far after hearing 'Babydoll' twice I haven't found it to be catchy or memorable at all. The only thing I remember about it is not really liking his voice. That and the instrumental sounding like a slightly inferior 'Man I Need'. I'm sure it'll be drilled into my head when I've heard it 100 more times in the next few months though.

Removing Nelly from my votes as we speak x

(hi I have been voting in these but not posting x) I do like Hoobastank in a guilty pleasure sort of way but I have provided some very slight balance by voting for McMorrow here, I thought that was a really lovely cover version and certainly 1,000x better than the other version of it that charted a few years later x

What would you know about pop hoetry Mr. "18 points to Julianna Barwick and Great Grandpa"

I'll settle for vetoing them and bringing back Jadakissnia? x