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M83 will be vetoed, sorry (but also same x)

2022 Black Country, New Road - The Place Where He Inserted The Blade Everything Everything - HEX (as Savan already covered for me with 'Jennifer' while I was typing these up x) J.I.D and Kenny Mason - Dance Now (as maggotsforbrains already covered for me with 'Surround Sound' x) Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 ROSALÍA - SAOKO

+30 Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth +29 Wolf Alice - Lipstick On The Glass +28 Tyler, The Creator - CORSO +27 Wolf Alice - Delicious Things +26 Go_A - SHUM +25 Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker +24 Dave - In The Fire +23 SZA - Good Days +22 The Weeknd and Ariana Grande - Save Your Tears (Remix) +21 Coldplay - Coloratura +20 Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It OK? +19 Olivia Rodrigo - favorite crime +18 Lana Del Rey - Arcadia +17 CHVRCHES - How Not To Drown (feat. Robert Smith) +16 Doja Cat - Need To Know +15 Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu +14 Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY +13 Måneskin - ZITTI E BUONI +12 Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is A Rider +11 Sam Gellaitry - Assumptions +10 Little Simz - Introvert +9 DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ, Delilah Brao, Luke Markinson and Anyelisax - Try Not To Be Afraid +8 Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open +7 bbno$ - edamame (feat. Rich Brian) +6 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever +5 Wet Leg - Chaise Longue +4 PinkPantheress - Just for me +3 MUNA - Silk Chiffon (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) +2 Cardi B - Up +1 Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license whew Blue Weekend was stacked with faves

Colonel Abrams - Trapped Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) Midge Ure - If I Was Prince And The Revolution - Raspberry Beret Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover Really not a strong week, all songs I already knew. Next best that I already knew would be Huey Lewis And The News 'The Power Of Love', and the best discovery was probably Nik Kershaw I guess but nothing really that sticks out as being particularly memorable. Trans-X for the tiebreak.

...despite still being the best x At least it's got there now!

Buffy point vampires sleighn

You can count them yourself if you want xo (but have you not possibly come 4th in a spinoff before?) Interpreting what I can from the spreadsheet in the absence of the votes being posted for now... if I've got it right then thanks muchly to @Chez VampireBat, @leww and @DaTilthulhu for the gold medals (don't think it's too often I get as many as 3 top scores in any contest! has been nearly 3 years since the last time I did it in the main BJSC at least (Maruja in BJSC 160)), @Ghostly WAPS and @vampavi for the silvers, @Ghoulian for the bronze and @matto, @Jadaver, @Dobbo, @calxyum, @blacksquare and @jimwatts for the rest of the points! And if I've got any of those wrong then I retract my thanks and send curses instead xx edit: have just remembered I did get 3 top scores recently for Trance To The Sun in Bop Idol as well so not been that long but still x edit 2: also somehow only just clocked like an hour later that I did a 12 swap with Leww *.*

Yessss - my 12 pointer winning, well done Leww some quick redemption following the main contest streak ender indeed. Actually the second time in a row Lingua Ignota has got my top points in the Halloween spinoffs lol, I do think this one sounded a bit more wide appealing than 'Woe To All (On The Day Of My Wrath)', though that did do a bit better than I remembered after a quick refresher of the last results anyway (was 6th). And well done to Nine for a new best result in a song contest on here, am sure a win will be around the corner for you but happy bridesmaid coronation until then! It was a good entry, was 17th for me so just short of being mentioned as a commiseration. Phew for Cow that he wasn't costing himself a win (but very close!), a little surprised to see Weird Genius doing that well but I guess it was quite a memorable choice as well. Always fun to see a novel vote reveal concept, until it got going a bit more it did leave the thread with not a whole lot to comment on but interesting nonetheless! Thanks for the hostings @calxyum<3 I trust you will still be dumping the voting PMs now yes 👀 xx as I did a little write-up about my own song and would like to see the rest of the votes if anyone else did commentary and whatnot as ever ~ Have dug through the past Halloween results (as my abandoned national thread is not up to date, still need to make a new one one of these days x) and I see this is my second best result in a Halloween spinoff to date, only behind my first one (SEXWITCH - Kassidat El Hakka coming 4th, which is still probably my favourite of my 6 Halloween entries so fair)! My run to date is 4-19-25-8-20-7 with Suede - Shadow Self providing my other previous top 10. I'd forgotten that I sent quite mainstream artists to each of the first 4 (SEXWITCH was effectively Bat For Lashes, then I sent Denzel Curry/JPEGMAFIA (and ZillaKami), The Smashing Pumpkins and Suede) but dug a lot deeper with the last two (Viuda who I sent to the last one have 2.2k monthly listeners on Spotify and YC-CY have just 125 so feels very rewarding for them to be giving me one of my best results!)

SyncTube crowd being more on point than odds posters for Ennea then. Yay for Patriarchy getting justice after an undeserved main contest DNQ as well, although I didn't like this song quite as much as 'Bite Marks' oops (found it a little bit too much on the repetitive side but I can see why it did so well).

As expected, and yes 4 of those 6 points were from me. 😎 I sent MF DOOM to Bop Idol before and he came last there as well, I don't think this website is the right crowd for his music but thanks Whoddy for introducing me to another song of his anyway - that was actually the song that grew on me and jumped into my points ahead of Siouxsie after my second listen, as I made sure to pay more attention to the lyrics the second time around which is usually quite important to actually enjoying his music as there isn't too much going on production wise compared to most hip-hop music that I enjoy lol Lingua Ignota for the win please!

I know which one of those remaining songs will be coming last and it's not Ennea. x Only two of my votes left to be revealed (my 12 and my 4) - will not be surprised if they're the winner and the last placed song respectively. I liked the Bella Poarch version of '(Don't Fear) The Reaper' more than I expected! Was just a bit outside my commiserations ~

'Random' order leaving the whole top 3 to the last 5 eh x Another two of my votes unveiled there - Vollny got my 7 points, Russian post-punk delivering the goods for me in a surprise to no one <3 and gave 6 points to Darkrad, another great song from him, he really brings the unsettling atmosphere (if anything this song was a little less unsettling than 'When They Scream' despite its jumpscare moments hehe). His main contest entry should never have DNQed so glad he's got another chance in a contest with no semi-finals and got a pretty good top half result out of it, justice served x Me and Jade finishing one point apart in 7th and 8th... I've seen this movie before. (almost the same points totals as well, 80/79 this time compared to 78/77 then! Although we have finished the other way round with me being the one prevailing by one point this time o:)

Eep could our late voter have cost themselves a win? (Probably not, but theoretically could be if the points are close enough).

I'm in this picture. (wow I've come either 7th or 8th then...! was definitely expecting to be one of the lower positions, Sovarasma may have outclassed me in being uncomfortable to listen to apparently as well as being just ahead of me in points but we'll take that x looking forward to seeing where it got those points from!) edit: will be 7th in fact as there was a 79 pointer unveiled earlier x

Btw as I mentioned on SyncTube, it passed my oversight during the confirmations that the Mysterious Art song has actually been in a spinoff before oops (the same 80s spinoff that Youssou N'Dour was sent to and recently showed up in another contest as well which I also forgot about). Nevermind! It only came 18th (out of 38) then so an improvement on the second attempt! (I voted for it in that spinoff but not this one, although in fairness it was 2 points from me under the 18 point system, and if we had used the 18 point system in this contest it'd have got 1 point from me so it's much of a muchness).

4 more of my votes being unveiled there (5 including Boards Of Canada that I already commented on) - very glad Pavi did enter as 'Figures' was fab and my 8 pointer, I think I have actually come across Ductape before but didn't get around to checking them out, clearly should have! Brimheim got 1 point from me, nice to see another top 10 finish for her, certain people were overhyping it a bit on SyncTube () but I did think it sounded like less of a hit than 'Literally Everything' so 10th seems about right for it. Also gave 3 points to Her blood (Cor Lupus delivering in spooky mode again x) and 5 to Kordhell (I think the non sped up version is better and would have done better, but it's still a tune regardless). The rest of my commiserations were all also unveiled there - these were the 6 commiserations I included in my PM (although lots more good songs beyond them too x). 11th Lookylion // Siouxsie And The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo 12th Summericia // Type O Negative - Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) 13th Danæviia // Helloween - Halloween 14th Bronzil // Dani Hagan - Doomed 15th Zanmatony // Mysterious Art - Das Omen - Teil 1 16th Land of DW // ENGST - Dunkelheit felt quite satisfying that Helloween came 13th for me x also iconic that Roba has got to send Type O Negative to both Christmas and Halloween spinoffs now

Top half hen x

Oh what at Boards Of Canada only getting 48 points! I gave them 10 of those. Always here for their music whenever I've heard it, I really must check out the new album x

I keep forgetting what my own cards are but I think I still haven't been unveiled yet x

Well I've only voted for one of the revealed songs so far then - 'Spanish Train' got 2 points from me, I was not sure what to expect from a Chris De Burgh entry but relieved it was something more in line with 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' than 'The Lady In Red', quite an epic storytelling track x (and maintains my streak of voting for every entry with New Helvetica's name attached to it to date). Siouxsie And The Banshees and ENGST were also commiserations for me (the former only just missed out, was knocked out by a grower on my second listenthrough).

Callum disappearing into the dark room (yay Dani Hagan indeed not last x)

Not much of a clash if there's only one song in the poll? (Kernkraft 400 *.*)

I hated both of these when they came out. I still hate Echosmith. Sam Sparro has grown on me a bit over the years so gets my vote x

Dani Hagan was a commiseration for me, hopefully she won't be last. (There is definitely at least one song I can imagine might have got less than 25 points)

I am not sure I follow what the reveal concept is but hiipe anyway x