Bror

Well happy to see Fontaines D.C. getting another new top 100 hit I guess but how is it 'Roman Holiday' rather than 'I Love You'?

Missed the listenthrough oops (minus popping in to snoop a bit at the end), I hadn't checked the thread for a few days so didn't know we were planning to do it today otherwise I'd have tried to make sure to be around for it, nevermind!

I have got a list of the hosts as well can send to you when I get home x (Need to catch up with commenting on some of these songs also x)

Without wanting to leak too much, the person who tried Haute & Freddy wasn't in the contest where they won in fairness. But still, the Songs of BJSC thread is there for a reason xx

It's Mulaa *Joans - was going to say surely that's a first time add too but looked her up and apparently she's had a couple of C-List songs before (including one where her name was also spelt wrong on here ), no memory of seeing her name before oops! I have heard a song from her now via the Pop Forum Song Contest and she seems to be another artist in the vein of Skye Newman / SIENNA SPIRO so could well get a breakthrough hit at some point. (edit: was misreading, she only had one previous R1 add but also has been on the Capital Buzz playlist where her name was also misspelt x)

They did reconfirm, yes x (They originally just tried sending 'Doomscroller' again which is still not happening xx)

They passed on hosting 138 - they did theoretically host a contest before that although it was basically Aeroche hosting as Leww had to step in to do most of the actual work due to Travis' laptop issues at the time oop x All veto research is done now so expect a couple of vetoes today, sorry for taking a while again but hopefully won't hold us up too much. As it stands we have an entry from every country who entered last month (minus the banned ones) plus 6 returners - to Beaverdonia, Daehun, Dalisska, Mulgracia, Ramrynia and Thelonia x

I'm sure they're just referring to the chart update. The promo soundbite for the chart show played on Greg's show this morning does feel like a spoiler though... maybe spoiler as it is framing the chart as being a battle between Sam/Olivia and HUGEL with no mention of Ella. Given HUGEL hasn't been leading any of the midweeks I have to assume that means he's probably overtaken at the last minute (surprising if so considering it's been the other way round in recent weeks with Ella overtaking/pulling ahead of HUGEL). Maybe I'm just reading too much into it though like when I thought a few weeks ago that it was hinting at Madonna being #1 x

Yeah I should probably get around to finishing the research (don't think we are going to have a ton of vetoes but there are a couple of you who have been cheap hens and are not going to be getting away with it oop x)

This surge for 'I Love You' being about a year and a half too late for it to chart without a reset. Manifesting the OCC noticing it and letting it chart anyway x

I'd think Ella will get it by at least a few hundred now if not by 4 digits.

That will just be the Wednesday midweeks (the update yesterday was the Tuesday update, there is no Monday update on Bank Holiday weeks). edit: oop didn't realise I was a page behind and this was already posted

Manifesting this becoming a mainstream breakthrough for Model/Actriz

It did chart for quite a while! (Unless you mean in the top 40 in which case yes not quite) 9 weeks in the top 100 although only peaking at #82, I thought I remembered it going a bit higher than that.

Popsephonia's influence is real x

I'm not sure a song that made the top 100 from an artist that had never had a top 40 hit at that point could be said to be 'severely underperforming' x

https://sync-tube.de/room/ApAM3t-I Listenthrough from 8pm ish

Think there are only about 4 artists this time that I've ever heard of before! Hiipe (and sent over my recap timings, good to see you are making one of those - in most recent song contests I've listened to Spotify previews as a makeshift recap but for some reason the embedded Spotify playlists now play the songs in full rather than just clips so that trick doesn't work any more!) I see the longest song being immediately followed by the shortest song again ...that wasn't one of the artists I'd heard of though!

The Sacred Spirit song was sent to BJSC already.

'Godzilla' went to #1 about 2 months after Juice WRLD's death!

A surprise new (old) contender for this has appeared in the current contest o: (to say nothing of their song's chance of winning, just that they are a returning country who haven't won before x)

I do slightly prefer '9 To 5' to 'Jolene' but both are great, fingers crossed they can both hold up well over the week. I'm still not holding my breath for her to hold the #1 spot (regardless of which song) but will be interested to see the sales on Tuesday. I guess this is the kind of thing that might benefit from some media coverage.

Ok so catching up on other people's entry reveals that I wanted to comment on ~ - Not surprised at Jade being one of the people to dig back to the 60s and also not surprised at her bringing out a great hidden gem <3 liked this considerably more than the actual Kate Bush entry in this oop. - Iris DeMent being Chez was another curveball, not the kind of music I am usually into (although I suppose Big Thief/Adrianne Lenker isn't too far off and I enjoy some of their music) but I came very close to giving it a point in the end, oops that it was on 0 as of your votes being announced but at least it did get a few fans in the end x - Gorgeous entry from dhwe and very interesting backstory there so thanks for providing that context! My very first entry to this contest was actually kind of similar in that it was an older recording that was technically not actually released until the 21st century. - Rollo of course being behind the one song that I knew well already (even if it turned out there was another song I had already heard and forgot about), great choice though. And stands to reason that if you weren't Fish then you would be one of the long songs instead, albeit not quite the longest as Laurie Anderson had Elvis beat. - Speaking of Laurie, oof at her song being another to be in last place at the time of its unveiling - I wasn't too kind to it at the SyncTube listenthrough but I don't know what I was thinking after listening a second time, it all clicked with me way more then. Reminds me a bit of Animal Collective's 'Banshee Beat' which I gave high points to in BJSC! - After a number of quite surprising song reveals at least we could count on Nine and Cow to end up actually being predictable hehe. (Both very respectable entries though, as I said before a bold choice to go with a non-English language song for a contest ostensibly focused on the lyrics - and ended up working out very well for Nine!) Thrilled with a top 10 finish for Exuma - my second in a row in this contest which after a quick consult of the archive thread is something I have never managed before. The song certainly stood out as something quite special for me from my first listen but I had absolutely no idea if that would translate to anyone else, I knew it was likely to stand out from the rest of the field but didn't know if that'd be in a largely negative way or not haha! No golds in the end but 4 medals is a good haul, thanks to @CowTzy and @Dobbo for the silvers (and the latter for a bit of unexpected sort of winner hype x), @dhwe and @nine¾ for the bronzes and @dandy*, @King Rollo, @Chez Wombat, @Herbs (!), @Jade, @Julian_, @Popchartfreak, @jimwatts and @matto for the rest of the points! Not sure I'd agree actually about it being the most obscure song in the contest, it does have a 9 figure stream count on Spotify and as I mentioned in my votes the parent album has a pretty sizeable cult following on the RateYourMusic circles of the interwebs, I've certainly dug far deeper for song contest entries before! But I don't think anyone mentioned having already heard it so still rather satisfied to have provided a good discovery to so many x I didn't vote for either of the top 2 in the end and only gave 1 point to the third place finisher whoops - obviously can't begrudge a good result for Dolly Parton here though and happy that Melanie held onto a good result. Great to see Scott Walker in the top 5 and Sibylle Baier and Laura Nyro making the top 10 as well! My 12 pointer Joan Osborne falling a bit short but still top half. Pretty disappointing results for Elvis Costello and PJ Harvey who I'd definitely have expected to do a bit better, and would have wanted better for Laurie Anderson as well but clearly not the most instant song which doesn't help. Poor brave Iris didn't deserve to come last either! Thanks Dandy for the hosting, sorry for indirectly pressuring you to rush into results a day earlier than you planned ooops (although not as sorry for directly pressuring you to correct the scoreboard at the end hehe), was a lot of fun to read through / catch up with after I lost track a bit anyway! And shall very much be looking forward to Jim's hosting next time and what theme he may concoct. x

I mean technically it's not actually written down anywhere so I just take it upon myself to enforce people being consistent across the site BJSC semi-finals are actually the only place that the 12s tiebreak is officially used. (but in all seriousness, certainly in this contest's archive that's always been the tiebreak used, although I forget how many of those were also because of me correcting the hosts hehe)

Time for my semi-regular reminder that tiebreaks are done by number of votes first so I'll take my 8th place please x (I was going to post that before you posted the scoreboard but I figured it'd be too late if you'd already prepared it the other way anyway hehe)