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That was one of the couple of songs I didn't remember from this compilation and yeah I can see why it hasn't stood the test of time as well as a couple of her other hits, it's pretty bland. The Rachel Stevens cover is fine enough but inessential.

^ that would make it easier to swallow if it's true but there's reason to believe it might not be unfortunately

I was also wondering that from when Julian started posting the teasers the other day! (I guess either that or just an executive decision to give it to one of the 21st century mods?) I don't have any immediate ideas for this as I wasn't yet paying attention to music (certainly not anything outside the very mainstream) in 2006 so will need to do a search but hopefully it might be a slightly easier task than having to find a song from 1977 for TBSCITW...E!

Always YouTube x (well I try to have my initial listen via SyncTube when possible but that's just the YouTube playlist with extra steps)

^ actually meant to mention in my ramble post that in retrospect I kind of wish I had voted for Marsha Hunt's 22, it's been stuck in my head a lot in the last couple of days! Was all very hard to order between my 6 pointer and my top few commiserations though.

I have a feeling it'll be a steep hill for this song to climb to convince us to allow it through at this point x

The only really offputting music video for a BJSC song that immediately comes to mind for me is the one for Kenzie May's 'Honey' -shudders- - but yeah, I really don't think it had any bearing on my opinion of the song. More recently there was YOU LOVE HER's 'This Is A Raid' which forced me to look at its really nasty album cover for the whole duration of the listenthrough as it didn't have a video but I gave that 18 points so x

I think a good music video can sometimes enhance a song but a bad video / lack of video doesn't make any difference. (You can always just submit an audio version for the link if you really don't want people to watch the video x)

Ah I didn't check outside Polyhex which ofc only counts the top 75!

Confirmed 🦚

Apologies but my nocturnal tendencies kicked in again and I fell asleep literally right before the results started and woke up just after they finished it appears...! Took my time reading through the thread anyway to appreciate the effort put into all the little write-ups for each song/artist, fun facts aplenty throughout *.* Thrilled to have got the highest finishing 70s song and thanks to a Snake deduction given the decade its only representation in the final top 10 - not surprising that was the toughest decade to find something that would connect with people but managed to find a niche that pulled through in finding a few big fans, nearly all of the people who voted for 'Blackouts' gave it at least 6 points which makes sense. Thanks very much to @Suedehead2 for a gold medal, @Julian_ for a silver, @danG, @Dobbo and @King Rollo for bronzes and @CowTzy, @Chez Wombat, @matto, @nine¾ and @Jade for the rest of the points! I would have predicted Buzzcocks to get the highest 70s song and they obviously weren't far off that. A little gutted though that my own favourite from the decade (minus my own) was the lowest finishing one from The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, I guess a classical instrumental didn't quite attract the same niche but I thought it was a really lovely piece. Although interesting to note that the 70s had both the lowest placing highest song and the highest placing lowest song out of the decades! (Excluding The Andrews Sisters on both counts although if you count that the same analysis holds for the 40s too technically lol). Well done to @dandy* on the win, as I posted in the other thread I'm not particularly enthused by that as a winner unfortunately but can't argue with democracy (it's not bad but it doesn't stick out to me personally as anything particularly special even among The Human League songs). Wow at T-SQUARE coming so close to the win though - I'd have been really gutted if it was a couple of points closer as I dropped it from 10 points to 7 after my second listen but there was nothing in it between it and my other two podium songs, as it were it'd still have been a point off even if I did give it 10 though so phew. (Although I see a couple of other people also saying it just barely missed out on their points so really could have taken a surprise win if the wind had just blown slightly differently whoops!) A really inspired pick there anyway so great to see it in the top 2. I didn't vote for the 3rd or 4th place songs either but also an interesting surprise to see 'Master Jack' placing so highly and being the top 60s song, it is a very nice song that in retrospect maybe should have ranked higher for me. There were 3 more I voted for in the top 10 from The Supremes, XTC and Bob Dylan - the Dylan song needed the second listen to properly click with me but it is quite beautiful. I was never familiar with XTC's music until recently with the weekly (ish) listenthroughs of 80s top 40 hits, ended up really enjoying a lot of their hits and this song was another brilliant discovery. Shame that Supremes track wasn't a UK hit but at least it did the business in the US, stands toe to toe with some of their classics! All of my own medallists finished outside the top 10 sadly - Hooverphonic only just missing out though. The Starseeds really deserved far better, honestly I was half considering throwing their name out as a dark horse winner contender oops, would have been way off there! My guess about who was behind Codeine was correct, slowcore feels like a very @dhwe-coded subgenre - that was an easy favourite and has to be up there with the very best songs I've discovered from this contest to date so nice one there (and glad you did get votes in again even if a bit late - I see it would have just missed the top 20 even without the deduction which is disappointing but ho hum). I admittedly didn't love either of them but ouch at the two city pop songs being the final bottom 2 </3 (and 'Rainy Day Woman' was the better of the two imo, was just short of my list of commiserations). At least T-SQUARE (and POiSON GiRL FRiEND to a lesser extent) brought some glory to Japan x Thanks for hosting Chez, nice concept and was pleased that this produced imo a better quality list of songs than the BJSC Lottery spinoff. (anyway I should probably try and get back to sleep now x)

People coming last multiple times in a row seems to be happening a few times recently oops (Sandénia were last in the semi three times in a row and East Rukahavian in the final twice in a row both within the last year as well) - admittedly I was not keen on 'Eve' but I'm not sure how Orange did so poorly, that was a cute pop song x Wishing you better luck this month

Literally none of these are double barrelled names (and half of them have never charted), I'm not sure what you think the term means. Although I am having a light chuckle at the concept of Lil Uzi Vert being a person named Lil whose parents had the surnames Uzi and Vert.

I hope at least some of the songs from earlier years can do well, there were some very good picks especially from the 70s x

Agreed - write it off based on all the other songs as well!

^ I think Dean is just a middle name there? (also Gil Scott-Heron has never had a hit single sadly x although he has had charting albums) A couple of more obscure recent ones: Daphne Rubin-Vega Katie Gregson-MacLeod Source: I just typed a hyphen into Polyhex. Couldn't find any more digging back to 2000.

The numbers were posted for Tuesday's update - both KNEECAP and Melanie are getting the large majority of their sales from physicals (with KNEECAP doing better), Melanie is doing slightly better on downloads and KNEECAP are doing slightly better on streams but pretty low numbers for both.

Shame it looks like KNEECAP won't be hanging on then especially as it appears to be down to the reallocation of MJ streams. Still very respectable numbers for them though! (An MJ/KNEECAP top 2 is quite a minefield for the BBC for various reasons lmao)

Happy to be moving on quickly when I have an entry planned this time ~ The act I'm sending describe themselves as 'avant-garde jazz' but I think the song is more accessible than that sounds - would say it has Laufey-esque vocals but with much more noisy/chaotic production (and in French x).

Not 1Xtra playlisting The Second Voice

Think the userbase of Spotify in 2018 was also probably a lot younger on average than it is now. I wonder if a Fleetwood Mac biopic could produce a similar domination to this

As you wish the top 10 (or 12 as there's a three way tie for 10th) top 10ers ~ 1 76 Aeroche 2 74 FSR Rontvia 3 71 Hendinia 4 54 Altyr Muunilinst 5 50 Fljótavík 6 45 FARC 7 42 Bøtanikkä 8 38 République d'Áskorza 9 34 Kluminican Republic 10 33 Cor Lupus 10 33 Danæviia 10 33 Jadakissnia 'Mum Does The Washing' being the 50th FLJ top 10 *.*

^ the difference being that the genius of Fe-m@il should have been a multi-week #1 whereas this Kim-Lian song is just ok of course xo

I assume 'The Essential Michael Jackson' is now poaching the streaming sales off the soundtrack album - all a bit of a mess with his compilations with varying tracklists though. Probably is a manual reset for 'Go', it's still rising quickly on streaming anyway so fingers crossed for top 40 next week (if it can't yet scrape in this week).

Each week (aiming for Sunday evenings) I'll post one of these polls and ask you all to select your favourites from the week's new entries in the UK Singles Chart top 100. 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. Most of the songs in last week's poll picked up a respectable number of votes as expected, but there was only ever one winner contender, American singer Olivia Rodrigo with 'drop dead', the new #1 and lead single from her forthcoming third studio album 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love'. It was the only song to cross 20 votes with a total of 26, 12 clear of her closest competition from sombr. And it's truly the sign of a good week when 'none of the above' gets 0 votes! Full week 17 results: 1 26/43 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead (#1) 2 14/43 sombr - Potential (#31) 3 13/43 Tyla - SHE DID IT AGAIN (feat. Zara Larsson) (#40) 4 12/43 Lana Del Rey - First Light (#70) 5 11/43 Sabrina Carpenter - Sugar Talking (#65) 6 10/43 Madonna - I Feel So Free (#90) 7 8/43 KATSEYE - Touch (#88) 8 5/43 Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love (#68) [0/43 none of the above] This week's contenders: Noah Kahan - Doors (#12) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (#31) Ella Langley and Morgan Wallen - I Can't Love You Anymore (#68) Alyssa Grace - picking petals (#90) Jonas Blue and Malive - Edge Of Desire (#91) The Second Voice - LET ME BE (#98) Not as strong a week this time, although still two artist who've won polls already having new entries, with Noah Kahan landing one new song from his album release and Ella Langley making another appearance with a new single now belatedly tagged onto her album as well. Otherwise we have another Olivia Dean track finally escaping being starred out and a handful more songs that scraped into the lower top 100, a couple of names I'm not familiar with (one of which unfortunately is our second fully AI song to chart this year, will see if it follows the 'Papaoutai' cover in being the second song of the year to get 0 votes...) and a months-old Jonas Blue track making a belated impact for some reason or other. 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]