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WoW73 (Dolly Dots) 12 Nina Simone 10 Tori Amos 08 Sylver 07 Adam Lambert 06 West End Girls 05 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 04 Kelsey Lu 03 Gigi D’Agostino 02 Chicks on Speed 01 Groove Armada Scene (Adam Lambert) 12 Sylver 10 Pentatonix 08 Chicks on Speed 07 Emma Conquest 06 Rachid Taha 05 Dolly Dots 04 Halocene 03 Dinosaur Jr 02 West End Girls 01 Groove Armada Next we reveal the names behind Dolly Dots version of The Exciters '60s number Do Wah Diddy, made famous by Manfred Mann and Adam Lamberts crack at Bonnie Tylers Holding Out For a Hero. Top points go to Nina Simone and Sylver with there Bob Dylan and Abba covers both leaping in to contention. However, Rachid Taha holds on at the top by a mere 2 points. Everyone bar Mr Ed Jumps the Gun and The Fratellis have points now. Scoreboard 25 Rachid Taha 23 Sylver 19 Nina Simone 16 Tori Amos 16 The Breath Of Life 16 Kelsey Lu 15 Clubdrugs 14 Dinosaur Jr 12 Chicks on Speed (Chez Wombat) 11 William Shatner 10 Pentatonix 08 West End Girls 08 Gigi D’Agostino 08 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 07 Adam Lambert (Scene) 07 Emma Conquest (Severin) 06 Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood 05 Dolly Dots (WoW73) 04 Halocene 02 Groove Armada 00 Fratellis 00 Mr Ed Jumps the Gun

Right here we go - Voting will be revealed 2 at a time and we start with myself and Chez Wombat. Respectively we entered Emma Conquest's gothed up Kylie song and Chicks on Speed's faithful reworking of Tom Tom Club's Wordy Rappinghood Severin (Emma Conquest) 12 Rachid Taha 10 Dinosaur Jr 08 The Breath of Life 07 William Shatner 06 Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood 05 Clubdrugs 04 Tori Amos 03 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 02 Chicks on Speed 01 Nina Simone Chez Wombat (Chicks on Speed) 12 Kelsey Lu 10 Clubdrugs 08 The Breath Of Life 07 Rachid Taha 06 Nina Simone 05 Gigi D’Agostino 04 William Shatner 03 Sylver 02 Tori Amos 01 Dinosaur Jr Scoreboard Rachid Taha gained my top marks and Chez Wombat gave a further 7 allowing the Clash track to take an early lead. Kelsey Lu's 10cc cover scored 12 points from Chez. Dinosaur Jr and The Breath of Life's Cure covers both get a solid start too, along with Clubdrugs, Tori Amos, Nina Simone and William Shatner getting points from both of us 19 Rachid Taha 16 The Breath Of Life 15 Clubdrugs 12 Kelsey Lu 11 Dinosaur Jr 11 William Shatner 07 Nina Simone 06 Tori Amos 06 Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood 05 Gigi D’Agostino 03 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 03 Sylver 02 Chicks on Speed (Chez Wombat) 00 Groove Armada 00 Adam Lambert 00 West End Girls 00 Fratellis 00 Pentatonix 00 Emma Conquest (Severin) 00 Halocene 00 Dolly Dots 00 Mr Ed Jumps the Gun

Welcome everyone to the results thread for Volume IX of the Best Song Contest In The World... Ever - Covers Thanks to everyone who entered a song and as a quick reminder these are your entrants. Groove Armada - Crazy For You (Madonna) Pentatonix - Creep (Radiohead) Tori Amos - Losing My Religion (R.E.M) Clubdrugs - Sour Times (Portishead) Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Do You Remember the First Time? (Pulp) Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven (The Cure) Adam Lambert - Holding Out for a Hero (Bonnie Tyler) Fratellis - Yes Sir I Can Boogie (Baccara) Rachid Taha - Rock El Casbah (The Clash) Dolly Dots - Do Wah Diddy (Manfred Man) Halocene - Barbie Girl (Aqua) The Breath Of Life - The Love Cats (The Cure) Kelsey Lu - I'm Not in Love (10cc) West End Girls Feat Magnus Carlsson - What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield) Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazelwood - The Killing Moon (Echo & the Bunnymen) Chicks On Speed - Wordy Rappinghood (Tom Tom Club) Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun - Smoke (Deep Purple) Nina Simone - The Times they are a-Changin' (Bob Dylan) Sylver - Lay All Your Love On Me (Abba) Emma Conquest - Confide in Me (Kylie Minogue) Gigi - D'Agostino - The Riddle (Nik Kershaw) William Shatner - Common People (Pulp)

I like this idea. Thin pickings this week though Wet Leg - Catch These Fists Babymetal feat. Poppy - From Me To U Dogma - Banned

To be fair to Yuki, he only drove the car for the first time yesterday and had been pretty close to Max in every session until Q2 where he made a slight mistake in one corner costing him his best lap. This is despite him having set the car up with a lot more downforce and therefore having much less straight line speed (eyes on the Sunday conditions no doubt). We'll never know what Liam would have done in the Red Bull here (and he does at least know Suzuka) but Yuki at least got more out of it overall so far than Lawson did in his two races. Looking at Tsunoda's times that actually were representative and ignoring Verstappen's stunning pole lap I would have expected him to put it somewhere around 8/9th given an error free run, at the 14th position he will line up in is marked improvement for the 2nd Red Bull. He's been consistently half a second of Max's time all weekend whereas Lawson was almost always double that. Pretty much every driver found five tenths on their Q1 time for their final run. Had Tsunoda done the same and not made the error he'd have qualified around 6th. Whilst his grid position is a fascinating quirk of fate, I wouldn't take it as representative of his speed in the car tomorrow.

Artists Scrobbled 1,211 (+321) Rank/Previous Position/Artist/Plays/Change 01 (01) Lambrini Girls 168 (+9) 02 (04) Manic Street Preachers 144 (+47) 03 (02) Poppy 138 (+2) 04 (03) Dana Dentata 124 (-) 05 (04) Chappell Roan 98 (+4) 06 (05) Taylor Swift 92 (+1) 07 (08) Heartworms 80 (+11) 08 (07) Mimi Barks 71 (-) 09 (12) Delilah Bon 70 (+15) 10 (10) The Clash 70 (+2) 11 (09) The Horrors 70 (+1) 12 (11) Eminem 60 (+4) 13 (11) Curve 62 (+10) 14 (NE) HotWax (53) 15 (NE) Jar of Blind Flies (50) 16 (14) Beyoncé 47 (+2) 17 (30) Projector 49 (+20) 18 (17) Witch Fever 49m(+9) 19 (23) David Bowie 47 (+10) 20 (25) Nova Twins 47 (+13) 21 (15) Billie Eilish 46 (+2) 22 (16) Mudhoney 45 (+3) 23 (18) Killing Joke 43 (+5) 24 (NE) SNAYX 42 25 (27) Betty Boo 40 (+8) 26 (21) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 40 (+3) 27 (19) Peter Gabriel 38 (-) 28 (20) Charli XCX 37 (-) 29 (22) Lady Gaga 37 (-) 30 (28) Britney Spears 35 (+6) 31 (26) Bambie Thug 34 (+2) 32 (24) Cassyette 34 (-) 33 (NE) Doechii 29 34 (29) Du Blonde 29 (-) 35 (31) Sick Joy 29 (-) 36 (32) The Beatles 29 (-) 37 (33) Fleetwood Mac 28 (-) 38 (34) Kid Kapichi 28 (-) 39 (39) Knife Bride 28 (+7) 40 (NE) Oasis 28 OUT THIS MONTH Siiickbrain 27 (+4) The Rolling Stones 26 (-) Eville 24 (-) Elvis Presley 22 (+2) Harpy 20 (-) FORMER TOP 40 ACTS Halsey 26 (+8) Heriot 18 (-) Girls Aloud 18 (+1) Rihanna 17 (-) SONS 17 (-)

Gotta say that forgetting to close your DRS when entering a high speed corner is beyond stupid

I'll kick of the results at 8pm this Sunday. Hopefully more people will be around that evening.

Would people prefer Friday or Sunday night for the results? Will start at 8pm either night

Not to worry there. I'm just preparing the results but am out tomorrow night so it won't be then. More likely at the end of the week but I will announce when beforehand.

Ah brilliant. No, not tonight as I have to just double check everything first and then I'll wait until after the weekend as it's Mother's Day and all that. Plus I'm out at a gig on Sunday too!

Reminder that deadline is tomorrow at 5pm, for the 8 who haven't sent their votes yet. First post is updated and reminder PMs will be sent later.

Rumours suggest that Honda have offered somewhere around £10M to get Tsunoda in the seat by the next race and Red Bull like the sound of that. When Tsunoda tested last year's car at Abu Dhabi in December, he said he liked the way it handled and this may be his only shot to try a Red Bull in competition so it could well be very interesting. I expect he'd have a great race in the RB anyway but you wouldn't blame him for jumping at this opportunity.

Shame to see Forgot About Dre drop out. Don't care for Domino Dancing myself, it's not in the handful of PSB songs I like. Can't bear Toploader at the best of times and not really a fan of the song either so glad that's fallen.

They played a secret show in Brighton under the name 'Uma Thurman' the other night and debuted 7 new songs - titles as shown on the setlist Catch These Fists Jen Bod Lovestruck Dave Nah Dragonfart Beans C3PR I'm guessing that's most of the album

Chic wasn't number one though

Exactly what Julian_ said.

Loads of great answers here. Even more than I expected, some I'd completely forgotten and at least a couple I flat out don't really know.

Fancy a Christmas one? Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again - 'While Bing Crosby sings White Christmas' Also Bon Jovi - It's My Life - 'Like Frankie said, 'I did it My Way' Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream - I had the radio on, I was drivin'. Trees went by, me and Del were singin' 'little Runaway'. I was flyin'

This may have been addressed before but I missed it and wouldn't know where to start looking but with Doechii threatening to have a number one it posed a question in my mind. How many number one hits have been based on a previous number one song but aren't an actual cover? For example Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby taking the framework from Queen and Bowie's Under Pressure is an obvious one. As would Flo Rida's Right Round with Dead or Alive. I don't really follow the charts much anymore so much of the last ten years I'm not that familiar with and there must be a fair few I don't know.

First post has been updated with all votes received. A reminder you deadline is Friday 28th of March 2025, at 17:00pm I can tell you that at the halfway point, as such, it is very tight!

@gooddelta Apologies for that. Have cleared a stack of old messages so should go through this time

Hamilton, Leclerc and Gasly have all been disqualified for being underweight post race.

Very disappointed to see Kirsty and Grandmaster Flash out so soon.

Voted SOFT PLAY My own picks this week - Calva Louise - Aimless Witch Fever - DEAD TO ME! PROJECTOR - The Sham! The Sham! The Sham!