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01.Oasis - Some Might Say 02.Take That - Back For Good 03.Boyzone - Key To My Life 04.Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game {1995} 05.The Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) 06.Tina Arena - Chains 07.Paul Weller - The Changingman 08.MN8 - If You Only Let Me In 09.Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman? 10.Bjork - Army Of Me 11.Perez 'Prez' Prado And His Orchestra - Guaglione {1995} 12.Weezer - Buddy Holly 13.Brownstone - If You Love Me 14.(MC Sar And) The Real McCoy - Love And Devotion 15.Let Loose - Best In Me 16.The Wildhearts - I Wanna Go Where The People Go 17.Love City Groove - Love City Groove 18.Runrig - An Ubhal As Airde (The Highest Apple) 19.Corona - Baby Baby 20.Joshua Kadison - Jessie {1995} 21.Grace - Not Over Yet 22.Supercat Featuring Jack Radics - My Girl Josephine 23.R Kelly - The 4 Play EP 24.Mark'Oh - Tears Don't Lie 25.Strike - U Sure Do {1995} 26.Deuce - I Need You 27.Pato Banton With Ranking Roger - Bubbling Hot 28.Gems For Jem - Lifting Me Higher 29.The Stone Roses - Fools Gold '95 30.Bucketheads - The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) 31.Portishead - Sour Times {1995} 32.Mark Morrison - Crazy 33.Adina Howard - Freak Like Me 34.Snap! Featuring Summer - The First, The Last Eternity 35.Scarlet - I Wanna Be Free (To Be With Him) 36.Thunder - Castles In The Sand 37.Shabba Ranks - Let's Get It On 38.Winx - Don't Laugh 39.Del Amitri - Driving With The Brakes On 40.Terence Trent D'Arby - Holding On To You

Seeing Sweden high up on the OGAE voting fills with me confidence that Eric Saade will fall flat on his face which he deserves. Hungary up there, fills me with a bit of dread that this could be the Kate Ryan/Charlotte Pirelli of ESC2011, though I would have thought Israel and Austria would have been higher on this.

Shame :( The thing is, people are too interested in party songs like LMFAO and feeble ballads from Bruno Mars who I have to say is the most overrated musician at the moment. WOW to Blue!!! I am confident it'll do well in the charts and Eurovision. We do have an entry to be proud of this year :)

I liked the following when around 9/10: TOvcytygY_M I was very happy it got to #1 as I was so bored of that Wet Wet Wet song being number one for about 16 weeks. I even bought her album!! It wasn't that bad and she had a gorgeous ballad called "Close to you". Other songs from when I was younger: Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You" Shakespere's Sister - "Stay" Plus, this might be bizzare for a ten year old but I LOVED "No More I Love You's" by Annie Lennox. I was always upset every Sunday that she didn't beat Celine Dion off the top as it was #2 for a few weeks. My Dad even bought me the CD "Medusa" which I used to play a lot!! MS1jAvCycCY Shanice - "I Love Your Smile" QGXxcSdsXJ4 My Dad played a lot of Meatloaf, Queen, Guns N Roses, Poison and all the big rock bands of the time, so this rubbed off and I am a fan of all those mentioned. I was even upset when Freddie died although I was around 7 then. I remember my Dad treating it like a member of the family died! By the time I was leaving primary school coming into secondary, I was mad on Gina G's "Ooh Ahh Just A Little Bit" and developed into the Spice Girls craze!

I don't belive this made the top 200 at all!!! I remember it getting attention oddly enough. Perhaps it was released then DQ'd?

I remember that Ginga thing - to me that was the start of the beginnings of "chav culture" as all the chav lads at college liked that song.

I think Speech Debelle was a random vote, even to this day considering the competition she was up against I reckon they didnt listen to the albums. Makes you wonder if Speech sold her p*ssy to the judges. I mean yes we get random votes, but I think with this in the singles charts, it would work.

I have not decided to rank the top 100 for this week, but here is the top 10 being tested as an example. Public 1st, Jury 2nd, Total then pos LMFAO 1+9=10 4th WRETCH 32/EXAMPLE 2+4=6 3rd J-LO 3+2=5 2nd TRACEY CHAPMAN 4+1=5 1st CHRIS BROWN 5+10=15 8th SNOOP DOGG 6+7=13 7th KATY FT KAYNE 7+3=10 5th BEP 8+5=13 6th LADY GAGA 9+8=17 10th 50C 10+6=16 9th

I think a Critics Only Chart would work as it could give unknown artists the chance to shine. On top of that, 50/50 would stop acts going to top 10 just because of their name only regardless of the song. I think Lady Gaga would be punished for her two recent bad singles. It makes me upset that Bruno Mars will go to #1 with his current weak single yet someone like Chase and Status fail to hit the top 10. I would say there is "block sales", but what doesn't help is urban music is just hyped on almost every music channel and radio. Also with 50/50, the Glee stuff would occupy the bottom places.

I would make the album chart 100% public as I feel that has more prestige than the singles charts. 50/50 works in other fields. so why not the singles charts? Perhaps two #1s could be played at the end of the charts if both have different favourites?

As we have too much dominance of one genre in the UK singles charts, would a 50% sales and 50% expert say about 10 people in the music industry who vote 1 to their favourite and 200 to their least favourite decide who is #1? Who do you think would benefit? Would this cause a bit more variance and long stayers? I think a jury panel would favour Adele. Your opinions?

This shows that physicals are more or less a dead format. The HMV in Birmingham City Centre has physicals which are off the X-Factor related acts, the charity single, the awful Haiti one, Peter Kay and Su-Bo plus some obscure ones which no-one bought. Downloads is the future and to be honest, I think you get a better deal with download singles.

15 - KLF ft Tammy Wynette 12 - Madonna - Crazy For You 10 - Amy Grant - Baby Baby 08 - James - Sit Down 06 - Seal - Crazy 05 - KLF - Last Train to Transecentral 04 - Salt N Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex 03 - Scorpions - Wind of Change 02 - Diana Ross - When You Tell Me That You Love Me 01 - 2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This -02 - Heavy D and The Boyz – Now That We Found Love

Techontronic - is that one with the miming model?

My votes: +15 The Adventures of Stevie V – Dirty Cash +12 Toms Diner - DNA ft Sussane Vega +10 Groove is in the heart - Dee-lite +08 Justify My Love - Madonna +06 Black Velvet - Alanaah Myles +05 The B52s - Love Shack +04 Better The Devil You Know - Kylie Minogue +03 Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton +02 Opposites Attract - Paula Abdul +01 I've Been Thinking About You - London Beat -02 Fog On The Tyne - Lindsfradne ft Gazza

WOW! This comeback from Austria was well worth the wait with such a beautiful power ballad which I belive it has the potential to win the Eurovision this year. The song has a positive message, she is a great performer and her voice - WOW!!!!! This easily the best song of ESC11 and the best Austrian entry ever.

Nothing surprises me with Sweden.

Why the complaints? I think this is a decent heat. The songs are bit more adventorous than previous heats but Linda Bengizting, you've sent the same thing the last three times but made it a bit more modern for 2011. Try a rock song or a dance song like Love Generation! I never want to hear Lasse Stefanz again though - it's horrible!! My Rankings: 1. Linda Pricthard (She has an impressive voice and the choir works well with this rock ballad) 2. Melody Club 3. Nicke Borg 4. Love Generation 5. Anders Fernette 6. Julia Alvgard (Improved dramatically, but sadly I can't see it doing anything) 7. Linda Bengzting 8. Lasse Stefanz PREDICTIONS: Globen: 1st Love Generation 2nd Lasse Stefanz (Sorry, after the Playtones shocker last week don't rule this out) Andra Chansen: Linda Bengtzing and Nicke Borg 5th Melody Club (sadly that slapper Linda Bengtzing will make it to Andra Chansen :() 6th Anders Fernette 7th Linda Pritchard (four in a row with my favs missing out :() 8th Julia Alvgard.

"I gotta feeling" by Black Eyed Peas "Some Say" by Kristian Leontinou "I'm in Love" by Alex Gaudino "Sing" by Travis

--- Why didn't Norway send this?!?!?! This had potential to be the next Lordi.

"Kall som is" is a great song. That would have been a worthy winner in 1984 to "Diggiloo Diggiley"

WOW!! Japanese electro in Eesti Laul! Again eliminated :( Shirubi Ikazuchi - St Cabah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=376OGaaJDr8

Two brilliant songs which were eliminated: Sõpruse Puiestee & Merili Varik - Rahu, ainult rahu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzHkH1Bk1LI OK, it wouldn't have done much in ESC but nevertheless a great song. MID - Smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-oNjUxKsmo A bit similar to their 2010 entry, but with a bit more oomph. Good gosh, why can't we go down this route for ESC!!!!

My views on the performances of the four eliminated songs: Sara L - Very well performed and interesting choreogrpahy with the table and the dancers/backing singers following her around. Vocally fine, and this was robbery that it missed out. Seb - Vocally strong which Seb always delivers, I found the four female dancers in black wigs a bit weird, but this should have at least made it to the second chance round easily. A very modern and contemporary song. Linda - Catchy, and I did like the choreogrpahy with the guitars and identikit dancers. Well sung if a bit shakey, but I assume she is quite a young girl around 17-19 yr old. The only downer was this was too competitive a semi-final even if she had a good song. Simon - Standard ballad performance (he has the same haircut as me ;)). Reminded me too much of "Hollow" from MF2010 and Norway's ESC entry in 2010 both of which I dislike. Last was deserved, even if he delivered well vocally.

It seems I curse my favourites in each MF semi: Le Kid - 5th Annelia - 6th Sara L - 7th What's the betting my fave next week is last? I knew Eric would go through, and I kinda knew The Playtones would go through as Sweden does tend to choose the WTFers from time to time. I am very happy for the other Sara to make it to Andra Chansen - do hope she can pull it off in Andra Chasen too,