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Agreed with this general sentiment though I'm not quite as enthusiastic about it in general - I found the tropical house sound got played out extremely quickly and Kygo in particular really never put out anything else I liked at all iirc but 'Firestone' still remains a good representative of the genre.

Oop sorry playing catchup with the results again - I did have a feeling I could potentially do quite well this time as the song really grabbed me instantly when I found it (so was glad I came across it quite quickly as it may have been a bit tough to find other candidates for this particular theme hehe), didn't quite top anyone's ranking but was fun to quickly read through and see lots of double figure points *.* soo... thank you to @Iz様 🌟 and @matto for the silver medals (glad to have not let the former down with an anime song pick x), @AllStarBySmashMouth, @Colm, @danG, @NocheLuna and @seven. for bronzes, @CowTzy, @FrankLuck, @pavi and @Chez Wombat for further double figure points and @Jade, @King Rollo, @Klumzee, @Ansel, @awardinary, @Addy!, @Roba., @Silas (:o) and @WhoOdyssey for the rest of my points! In all my years of entering spinoffs I have still never made the podium in one aside from a 2nd place finish in BJFestivalen which is kind of its own thing, this is just another addition to a fairly long list of 4th/5th place finishers, not the worst problem to have tbf x Cannot argue with any of the songs that did make the podium here as I gave double figure points to all three - well done Rollo on finally winning a contest in this forum, definitely a major standout, I also gave high points to 'Bullets' and voted for the sadly DNQing 'We Are The Same' in its semi-final as well so this nicely makes up for those songs not getting the results they deserved! (I thought I did recall you sent another one of their songs to another contest too and indeed just checked and you sent 'Lights' to Unknown Pleasures, which I also voted for and which came 10th so a little better than they did in BJSC but still not as good as this result ofc). 'Coconut Mall' coming 2nd and very close to the win is very much iconic - I take offence to the suggestion that it was a novelty entry, it's a jovial classic xx Follows me coming top 10 in the Japan vs. South Korea spinoff with another bit of music from the Mario franchise ('Gusty Garden Galaxy' from Super Mario Galaxy) so it's a formula that works clearly! And the Summericia entry was an excellent bit of me bait plucked from whatever obscure archives you were plundering (another song I will need to get a local file for to get on my Spotify playlists). Also great to see a top 10 finish here for Ennea after the slow start to their results in the main contest and a couple of tracks I already knew and approved of from Terra Avium and Lotunia making it in too. Sooo close for my 18 from Dobago - I actually only had it as my 13 pointer after my first listen but bumped it all the way up to the top as it slapped even harder second time around, that not quite being enough for it to sneak a top 10 but I did all I could. Thanks @Dobbo for reminding me of Nihiloxica's existence anyway, although I see the song is from 2023 and they've not released anything else since that album, hopefully soon! Hooray for solid top half results for other big faves from Jadakissnia and Trifoski too and decent midtable showings for Zephyra Continuum and Deandria (plus the other iconic pick from Hushkanukia). Danæviia the most robbed here although not exactly surprising, they got a difficult theme draw as any song under 90 seconds has a tough job making enough of an impression to pick up big points and obviously it being a rap song doesn't help with general BuzzJack appeal lol but it did the job for me, banger! Thanks Noche for the hosting, definitely down for doing another one of these at some point!

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Ok well at least the one I hate isn't in the top 5!

Have not been posting in the thread but I was following along for a while and then fell out of the habit of checking this forum as I often do but have been back to see the last few posts at least - I'll try and read back the stuff I missed at some point, much appreciation for the effort that went into all the commentaries and whatnot here as ever anyway!

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. Sorry for tardiness with the poll again, I kinda forgor. Will try my best to get back on schedule with the next one. xx Last week's double poll produced one relatively close-ish result and one three-way nailbiter. From the short list from week 9 American indie duo twenty one pilots prevailed with 'Drag Path', a song that was originally only briefly available as a bonus track for first week purchasers of their 8th album 'Breach' but that became so popular that they decided to belatedly issue it as a single (albeit in an edited form). Not quite sure I understand why but there you go, its popularity translated into it being their first top 30 hit in the UK in a decade and a poll win here, 5 votes ahead of Lana Del Rey. Week 10 had just one vote in it between the entire top 3 but it was ultimately the week's lowest charting new entry that won out, British virtual band Gorillaz alongside Argentine producer Bizarrap, American singer Kara Jackson and British-American-Indian sitar player Anoushka Shankar (who TIL is Norah Jones' half-sister) with 'Orange County', which was the 5th/6th single from their 9th album 'The Mountain' (alongside 'The Hardest Thing' which it is an offshoot of and shares a music video with) although did not sneak into the chart until the album release. It managed to just squeak a win by one vote over two new top 20 hits from Alex Warren and RAYE which took joint 2nd place. It does unfortunately have the distinction of being the first poll winner of the year to not reach at least 20 votes but hey ho! All songs in both polls managed to pace ahead of 'none of the above' this time. Full week 9 results: 1 20/40 twenty one pilots - Drag Path (#23) 2 15/40 Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (#58) 3 7/40 Mumford & Sons and Gracie Abrams - Badlands (#64) 4 6/40 Mumford & Sons - The Banjo Song (#91) [4/40 none of the above] Full week 10 results: 1 16/40 Gorillaz - Orange County (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar) (#94) 2 15/40 Alex Warren - FEVER DREAM (#3) 2 15/40 RAYE - Nightingale Lane. (#20) 4 10/40 BLACKPINK - GO (#44) 5 9/40 Gorillaz - The Moon Cave (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda and Black Thought) (#72) 6 8/40 Bruno Mars - Risk It All (#15) 6 8/40 Olivia Dean - The Hardest Part (#19) 8 7/40 Sonny Fodera and CHRYSTAL - My Loving (#66) 9 6/40 Bella Kay - Steady (#63) 10 3/40 Bruno Mars - Cha Cha Cha (#47) 10 3/40 Skye Newman - Walk (#48) [2/40 none of the above] This week's contenders: Harry Styles - American Girls (#1) Harry Styles - Ready, Steady, Go! (#5) Bebe Rexha and Faithless - New Religion (#43) ANOTR - Talk To You (feat. 54 Ultra) (#53) Bruno Mars - God Was Showing Off (#67) Julia Wolf - In My Room (#97) It's another short list for this week though not quite short enough for me to want to just wait and do another double poll - 6 new entries this time including a couple from Harry Styles' album and a belated third new Bruno Mars song (looking like Harry will likewise get a belated third new entry next week). I can see where the wind will be blowing in this poll but I would like to subtly suggest people give the ANOTR song a chance xo (aside, only just realised 54 Ultra being just one place away from starting his chart career at #54, gah) 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]

Oh I am gutted at 'Guilt' being out already, that's a huge favourite for me </3 I do remember half wondering if I should have given it my top ranking in the nominations to give it a wildcard instead of 'Incredible' though so I suppose considering that it's not bad going that it got to the final. Actually none of the songs that are out so far were in my bottom 10 ('Firestone' and 'Fly On The Wings Of Love' both only just avoided it) - 'Fools Gold' is a very surprising last placer, albeit a song that I really only remember for its instrumental riff (but it's an all time classic riff so x), while Plastic Bertrand and Evanescence were both in my top half, I don't like the other two big hits from that Evanescence album but 'Going Under' is a tune.

Bella closing the gap at all hopefully means that she will finally overtake next week (I was kind of expecting the gap would grow a bit) - though I think I have been saying that for a few weeks now! Love to see James Blake confirmed to have passed 10k opening sales for only the second time in his career (and still hanging onto #2 for today).

'be the girl!' would have been even more of a definite veto as it's also in the Multichart x (I do like 'w-w-w-w-w' more myself though)

Y'all need education xx

The Santigold song was also in BJSC (although one of the very early ones), and iirc the original version of 'Marble House' was in one of the spinoffs.

I'm just confident enough Girlicious will get through anyway even with a randomly picked song!

No Pet Shop Boys or Depeche Mode, I want my money back. Ooh at 'Acolyte', that will be a fun throwback!

Ooh James Blake/Dave returning and with a new peak - bodes well for it hanging onto an official top 100 spot!

I would assume its streams increased last week? Its overall sales were down by ~1.1k but that was with it selling 3.6k in vinyl the week before.

Can I win a Razzie for my very unconvincing performance that I sent anyone other than Girlicious x

Same reason Zara isn't credited on 'Stateside' presumably. The label probably have to actively ask them to change it and I assume they just haven't bothered. (It's not considered to be a different album from when it was only 'Chapter 1' released)

Option A seems good to me x (and I'd like to think that I would think this regardless of whether or not I have a conflict of interest here - genuinely just think it seems possible that there are multiple acts who lost their duels here who have more prospect of a deeper run in the remaining rounds than some of those that got through).

The difference there of course being that 'Release The Pressure' hasn't done well on Apple either! I notice the ANOTR song does seem to be an exception to the usual dance hit pattern, has been doing moderately well on Spotify (although shoved out of the top 200 today) but not charting on Apple.

I mean I wish! But Harry will definitely be miles ahead of everyone else by the end of the week again. I don't think any amount of push is likely to be enough for James to even stay ahead of Olivia, but he is looking pretty safe to be #3 considering he's already sold more than Fleetwood Mac et al. did in the whole of last week, so something else would need to get a currently unforeseen substantial sales spike to knock him out of the top 3. It was #176 on the first day of its release. If it does become a proper hit I'm sure it will take off on Spotify eventually, but it's not unusual for dance hits to at least initially be buoyed mainly by Apple.

Can we cease with the spamming the thread with just naming random old songs with no context please

Wow I didn't realise this had blown up that much on global Spotify!

Oh my Well done Harry, will take a minute to get used to seeing a new name in green x

Just give the wildcards to ROSALÍA, Nadia Oh and Girlicious and be done with it, we don't need to go through the motions of another round xo (seriously though I wouldn't be opposed to that idea...! but don't want to upend your plans if it'd cause hassle x)