Ghosty.

Séyetyrddia 2013 must happen! :kink: On the whole I really like your entries too! 8/10 of them in fact! ^_^

Eivør! :wub:

November November saw a number of high profile releases that turned out to be fantastic musical highlights. With the rush of albums being released in time for Christmas, these were preceded by some fantastic singles from some of the biggest acts in mainstream UK music. This, mixed with the usual burst of interesting international releases meant November was an incredible month for music. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/SomethingNew_zpse151cd61.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Always_zps59b5df41.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Glow_zps7cb667d8.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Fools_zps7e356f69.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/WaitingAlone_zps6193c7b2.jpg 01 Girls Aloud - Something New 02 Summer Camp - Always EP 03 Retro Stefson - Glow 04 Lauren Aquilina - Fools 05 Shiny Toy Guns - Waiting Alone 06 Gabrielle Aplin - The Power Of Love 07 Chiara - Forget Forgetting Me 08 A*M*E - Play The Game Boy 09 Jeff Wayne feat. Gary Barlow - Forever Autumn 10 Little Mix - DNA Top of November's singles is the first release from the newly reformed Girls Aloud who got back together after three years apart to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Something New harked back to some of their previous material and didn't disappoint fans at all! Indie duo Summer Camp are second here with an EP that had more of an electro sound to it and Icelandic act Retro Stefson are third with a former Caerfyrddian BJSC entry, Glow. Maltese singer Lauren Aquilina is at #4 with Fools which was featured in an episode of Hollyoaks this week and Shiny Toy Guns are at #5 with Waiting Alone. Gabrielle Aplin's gorgeous cover of The Power Of Love which was featured in the Christmas John Lewis advert is at #6 just ahead of former three time Maltese Eurovision entrant Chiara and her hi-energy europop tune Forget Forgetting Me, originally an Icelandic track sung by Pall Oskar. One to watch for 2013, A*M*E is at #8 with Play The Game Boy just ahead of a 2012 version of Forever Autumn by Gary Barlow. Finally, at #10 is the smash hit DNA by Little Mix. 11-20 11 Arlissa vs. Nas - Hard To Love Somebody 12 Timoteij - Jag Kommer Hem Till Jul 13 Monika May - Ghost 14 Of Monsters And Men - Mountain Sound 15 Frida Sundemo - Indigo 16 Mutine - Pose Tes Mains 17 Alphabeat - X-Mas (Let's Do It Again) 18 Stooshe - Waterfalls 19 Amy Macdonald - 4th Of July 20 Lenka - Everything At Once New talent Arlissa is at #11 with her collaboration with Nas and Swedish group Timoteij are at #12 with their Christmas single. Norway's Monika May is at #13 with Ghost ahead of Of Monsters And Men with Mountain Sound and BJSC winner Frida Sundemo with Indigo. Undeserved BJSC DNQ, Mutine are at #16 and Alphabeat's Christmas offering is at #17. Stooshe are at #18 with their cover of TLC's Waterfalls and Amy Macdonald appears at #19 with 4th Of July. Finally, completing the top 20 is Lenka with Everything At Once, a track featured heavily on an advertising campaign during the latter few months of 2012. 21-30 21 Haim - Don't Save Me 22 Olly Murs feat. Flo-Rida - Troublemaker 23 Colbie Caillat - Christmas In The Sand 24 Lana Del Rey - Ride 25 Delta Goodrem - Hunters And The Wolves 26 Linkin Park - Castle Of Glass 27 Zazi - Turn Me On 28 Ell feat. Aligee - I'm Free 29 Javiera Mena - Luz De Piedra De Luna 30 BarlowGirl - Hope Will Lead Us On Promising new act Haim are at #21 with the delightful Don't Save Me and the huge hit from Olly Murs & Flo-Rida, Troublemaker is at #22. Just behind that is Colbie Caillat's summery Christmas tune, Christmas In The Sand and the recent Lana Del Rey single is at #24. Recent BJSC entry from Delta Goodrem, Hunters And The Wolves is at #25 and Linkin Park's Castle Of Glass makes it to #26. Quirky country-pop girl group Zazi are at #27 with Turn Me On and former Eurovision winner Ell is at #28 with I'm Free. Chilean singer Javiera Mena is at #29 with her fantastic pop tune Luz De Piedra De Luna and closing the top 30 are vocal group BarlowGirl. 31-40 31 Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child 32 Matt Cardle - It's Only Love 33 Helena - Paper House 34 Frankmusik - Fast As I Can 35 Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - Alchemy 36 Frost - The Woods 37 Capital Cities - Nothing Compares 2 U 38 Christina Aguilera - Your Body 39 The Wanted - I Found You 40 The Florin Street Band - My Favourite Time Of Year Swedish House Mafia are at #31 with Don't You Worry Child just ahead of a surprisingly brilliant single from Matt Cardle. A randomly nice discovery I made, Paper House by Helena makes it to #33 and Frankmusik's Fast As I Can is at #34. Above & Beyond make it to #35 with Alchemy and BJSC entries from Frost are Capital Cities follow. Recent singles by Christina Aguilera and The Wanted are at #38 and #39 respectively and closing the top 40 is a pleasant Christmas track by The Florin Street Band. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Room_zps7cc028a9.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/DiscoRomancing_zpsfdd80ddf.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Ten_zpsd155ea6f.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/BornToDie-Paradise_zps943d6c96.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LightUpTheWorldAlbum_zpsabc5e621.jpg 01 Eivør - Room Top Tracks: Rain, True Love 02 Elena - Disco Romancing Top Tracks: Midnight Sun, Hot Girls 03 Girls Aloud - Ten Top Tracks: Untouchable, Biology 04 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die - The Paradise Edition Top Tracks: Summertime Sadness, Born To Die 05 Steps - Light Up The World Top Tracks: It May Be Winter Outside, Light Up The World Faeroese singer Eivør tops the album chart for November with her stunning Nordic-Kate Bush esque album, Room. In second place is the long awaited new album from Romanian singer, Elena. It may as well be a Greatest Hits given almost every track on there has been released as single. It makes for a decent listen nevertheless though! Girls Aloud's new Best Of compilation makes it to #3, it would have been higher had it contained Life Got Cold and at #4 is Lana Del Rey with her double album release. Completing the top 5 is Steps with their Christmas album.

I'm not very aware of the Northern Irish music scene tbh, but Silhouette's the best thing I've heard from there in absolutely ages! You're welcome to send me some links to other Northern Irish acts if you want! :D

October October was another exciting month for music with some long-awaited releases coming along as well as there being a very strong and diverse collection of new songs from a variety of different artists. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MyHeartIsRefusingMe_zps38d9a2f3.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LightUpTheWorld_zps50de30af.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/UndoYourMind_zps82de99f1.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/NowOrNever_zpse023b4d8.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/CryingOutYourName_zps6377221e.jpg 01 Loreen - My Heart Is Refusing Me 02 Steps - Light Up The World 03 Eivør - Undo Your Mind 04 Bananarama - Now Or Never 05 Loreen - Crying Out Your Name 06 Fibes, Oh Fibes! feat. Icona Pop - Cerahtonia 07 Stockholm Syndrome - Pretty Girl 08 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share 09 Adele - Skyfall 10 Alexander Rybak - Leave Me Alone It is with no surprise that Loreen comes top of the October top 40 with the new version of her 2011 Melodifestivalen entry, My Heart Is Refusing Me. She is closely followed by the first single release in over a decade from reformed pop act, Steps. Faeroese singer Eivør makes an appearance at #3 with her 2010 release, Undo Your Mind which acted as Caerfyrddia's BJSC entry in the 49th edition of the contest. Bananarama released a wonderful new pop track that could have worked well on Agnes' Dance Love Pop, Now Or Never is at #4 here and the top 5 is rounded off with Loreen's follow up single to Euphoria in Sweden, Crying Out Your Name. Former BJSC winner Cerahtonia by Fibes, Oh Fibes and Icona Pop is at #6 just ahead of the new guise of Love Generation, Stockholm Syndrome at #7. CHVRCHES are at #8 with The Mother We Share, a song that could possibly become a huge hit in 2013 and Adele's James Bond theme, Skyfall is at #9. Finally the top 10 is completed by former Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak and his foray into pure pop with Leave Me Alone. 11-20 11 Whigfield - 4Ever 12 Sandra Kolstad - The Well (We Will Change It All) 13 Tal - Rien N'est Parfait 14 Eva & The Heartmaker - Traces Of You 15 Rebecca Ferguson - Backtrack 16 Leona Lewis - Trouble 17 Honey Ryder - Annie's Song 18 99 Trees - Bright Shiny Colours 19 Mylene Farmer - A L'ombre 20 Fleur & Cutline - Broken Mirror Whigfield just misses out on a place in the top 10 with the fantastic single, 4Ever and an intriguing electro track from Sandra Kolstad makes it to #12. French singer Tal is at #13 with the brilliant Rien N'est Parfait and Danish pop duo Eva & The Heartmaker are at #14 with Traces Of You. Rebecca Ferguson's best single to date, Backtrack makes it to #16 just ahead of a strong release from Leona Lewis. Honey Ryder's gorgeous cover of John Denver's Annie's Song is at #17 ahead of 99 Trees' version of The Shirelles' classic Bright Shiny Colours which was used in an Ikea commercial earlier this year. French electro-pop diva Mylene Famer is at #19 with the fabulous A L'ombre and completing the top 20 is one of the only decent Dubstep songs of 2012 from Fleur & Cutline. 21-30 21 BIGkids - Heart Sing 22 Alesso feat. Matthew Koma - Years 23 SEP - Galaxy 24 Elena - Hypnotic 25 Timoteij - Faller 26 Late Night Alumni - Shine 27 Britt Love - Music Makes You Lose Control 28 Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen 29 Dragonette - Live In This City 30 Patrick Wolf - Overture Rosie Oddie & Mr Hudson, AKA BIGkids are at #21 with the quirky tune, Heart Sing and the great dance track from Alesso & Matthew Koma makes it to #22. The gorgeous ballad, Galaxy from SEP is at #23 ahead of Romanian singer Elena with Hypnotic at #24 and Timoteij at #25. US house group, Late Night Alumni are at #26 and former Mini Viva member Britt Love makes it to #27 with Music Makes You Lose Control. Ellie Goulding returned in 2012 with Anything Could Happen which appears at #28 and Canadian group Dragonette are at #29 with Live In This City. Finally, a wonderful re-working of Patrick Wolf's Overture is at #30. 31-40 31 Josephine - Original Love 32 Radio Killer - Is It Love Out There 33 Khaled - C'est La Vie 34 Scissor Sisters - Let's Have A Kiki 35 Jedward - Luminous 36 Moya - Making Me Fall 37 James Fox - Landlocked 38 Katie Melua - The Walls Of The World 39 Pet Shop Boys - Leaving 40 Alpines - Got Me Wrong New soul artist Josephine is at #31 with Original Love and Romanian dance act Radio Killer are at #32 with Is It Love Out There. Algerian artist Khaled is at #33 with the rhythmic C'est La Vie and the hilariously brilliant Let's Have A Kiki makes it to #34. Jedward are at #35 with a surprisingly brilliant electro track that could have easily slotted onto The Sound Of Arrows' album and a Radio 2 favourite, Making Me Fall by Moya is at #36. Former Fame Academy contestant and UK Eurovision entrant James Fox is at #37 with his Poppy Appeal single just ahead of a wonderful single from Katie Melua. Pet Shop Boys are at #39 with Leaving and closing the top 40 are Alpines with Got Me Wrong. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Heal_zps84695ff6.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Glassheart_zps9759e740.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/III_zps0e4b6e1e.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Heaven_zpscab25d7d.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ShoesForJulia_zpsa5eea06d.jpg 01 Loreen - Heal Top Tracks: Euphoria, Everytime 02 Leona Lewis - Glassheart Top Tracks: Come Alive, I To You 03 Shiny Toy Guns - III Top Tracks: Waiting Alone, The Sun 04 Rebecca Ferguson - Heaven Top Tracks: Backtrack, Glitter & Gold 05 Shoes For Julia - Shoes For Julia Top Tracks: Bringing On The Heartache, Aeroplane Loreen, of course, tops the album chart for October with her stunning debut, Heal. She beats off fierce competition however from Leona Lewis however whose album Glassheart proved to be one of the biggest revelations of the year and was far better than I had anticipated! Shiny Toy Guns' third album is at #3. A strong offering which saw the return of lead female vocalisr Carah. Rebecca Ferguson's Deluxe Edition of Heaven is at #4 and completing the top 5 are Danish country-pop duo, Shoes For Julia

Bic Runga :wub: So happy you liked Hello Hello so much! :D

September September was rather a nice month for singles as many artists started to gear up for releasing their albums in time for Christmas. Great songs came from a vast range of genres and countries making September one of the most musically diverse months of the year. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Rain_zps6ae3afec.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/BringingOnTheHeartache_zps85f1a399.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/BaciaMe_zpsf93a83be.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/AllIWantIsYou_zps8030b278.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/OnSeFeutDeNous_zps51e8a8da.jpg 01 Eivør - Rain 02 Shoes For Julia - Bringing On The Heartache 03 Victor Ark & Daniela - Bacia Me 04 Agnes - All I Want Is You 05 Shy'm - On Se Feut De Nous 06 Amelia Lily - You Bring Me Joy 07 Paloma Faith - Never Tear Us Apart 08 Little Mix - Wings 09 Raw - U Sexy Wo-Ho 10 Bright Light Bright Light - Feel It Faeroese singer Eivør tops the chart in September with the debut single from her album, Room. Rain is a stunningly atmospheric and striking ballad that was in keeping with the rest of the album which was brilliant. Danish country-pop act Shoes For Julia are second here with Bringing On The Heartache and at number 3 is the fantastic dance tune Bacia Me by Victor Ark & Swedish singer, Daniela. Swedish superstar Agnes is at #4 with All I Want Is You and French urban-pop artist Shy'm is at #5 with her dip into electropop, On Se Feut De Nous. Amelia Lily's You Bring Me Joy makes it to #6 whilst Paloma Faith's cover of INXS' Never Tear Us Apart is at #7. X Factor winners Little Mix are at #8 with their first proper release since their victory on the show and the top 10 closes with some brash trashy pop from Swedish act, Raw at #9 and some 90's inspired dance from Bright Light Bright Light at #10. 11-20 11 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 12 The Young Professionals - Be With You Tonight 13 Kosheen - Addict 14 Cover Drive - Explode 15 P!nk - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) 16 Gossip - Move In The Right Direction 17 Andy Burrows - Because I Know That I Can 18 Lucy Spraggan - Tea And Toast 19 The Veronicas - Lolita 20 Young London - Call My Name (Tonight) Icelandic act Of Monsters And Men just miss out on a top 10 placing with Little Talks and Israeli Electro act The Young Professionals are at #12. Kosheen made an impressive return in 2012 with the single Addict and Caribbean act Cover Drive are at #14 with Explode. P!nk's Blow Me (One Last Kiss) is at #15 ahead of Gossip and their fantastic single, Move In The Right Direction. Former Razorlight member Andy Burrows is at #17 and X Factor favourite Lucy Spraggan makes an appearance with Tea And Toast at #18. Australian pop duo The Veronicas came back strong this year with Lolita and American pop act Young London complete what is on the whole the most mainstream top 20 seen in this thread so far! 21-30 21 Medina - Happening 22 Colonia - Laz Za Laz 23 Dasha Luks - Diskoteka 24 The LIPS - (You Make The) Girls Go Wild! 25 Havana Brown - You'll Be Mine 26 Elen Levon - Dancing To The Same Song 27 Rebekka Karijord - Oh Brother 28 Clara Sofie - Husker Du 29 Lana Del Rey - Blue Velvet 30 First Aid Kit - Wolf Danish artist Medina makes another appearance, this time with Happening at #21 and Croatian dance act Colonia released their best single in years, Laz Za Laz, this year at #22. The fabulous BJSC entry from Eledan by Dasha Luks is at #23 just ahead of the equally fabulous Sandeborg entry, (You Make The) Girls Go Wild! There's more from BJSC at #25 and #26 courtesy of Havana Brown and Elen Levon and former Caerfyrddian entrant Rebekka Karijord makes it to #27 with the second release from her album, We Become Ourselves. Danish singer Clara Sofie took a leaf out of Emeli Sande's book at #28 for Husker Du and two great singles from Lana Del Rey and First Aid Kit close the top 30. 31-40 31 Tina Barrett - Fire 32 Skye - Featherlight 33 Montevideo - Castles 34 Venice - Heart That Could Heal 35 Kid Kasio - Telephone Line 36 Ronya - Annoying 37 Kylie Minogue - Flower 38 Bellowhead - 10,000 Miles Away 39 Frida Amundsen - Rush 40 Emilia Mitiku - So Wonderful Former S Club member Tina Barrett made a "so bad it's good" comeback this year with Fire and former Morcheeba singer Skye is one place lower at #32 with Featherlight. Belgian act Montevideo are at #33 with Castles and very good boyband (well better than One Direction anyway), Venice are at #34 with Heart That Could Heal. Former member of The Modern, Kid Kasio is at #35 with the brilliant 80's inspired tune, Telephone Line. Finnish singer Ronya is at #36 with Annoying and the wonderful Flower from Kylie Minogue's Abbey Road Sessions album is at #37. UK folk outfit Bellowhead appear at #38 with 10,000 Miles Away just ahead of Danish artist Frida Amundsen and Emilia Mitiku who attempted to re-launch herself in the UK in 2012 over a decade after her previous smash hit here, Big Big World is at #40 with So Wonderful. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Veritas_zps3fdf68d7.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/WeBecomeOurselves_zps0a994864.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/BewegDichMitMir_zpsf76d89f9.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/12WaysToLaLa_zps937b83e9.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/DifferentPath_zpsfe5623f7.jpg 01 Agnes - Veritas Top Tracks: Human Touch, Into The Sun 02 Rebekka Karijord - We Become Ourselves Top Tracks: Use My Body While It's Still Young, Your Love 03 Glasperlenspiel - Beweg Dich Mit Mir Top Tracks: Freundschaft, Echt 04 Aynur Aydin - 12 Ways To La La Top Tracks: Hurricane, DNA 05 Moa Lignell - Different Path Top Tracks: Whatever They Do, Anything Is Enough The fantastic new album from Agnes is album of the month for September. The stunning LP could only have been further improved had it contained Don't Go Breaking My Heart which was disastrously left off. Norwegian singer Rebekka Karijord comes second with her fantastic follow up to The Noble Art Of Letting Go and in third place is German pop duo Glasperlenspiel with their debut album, Beweg Dich Mit Mir. Turkish singer Aynur Aydin makes it to #4 with her first English language album which featured songs written by and featuring artists such as Loreen and Darin amongst others. Completing a very strong top 5 is the debut album from Moa Lignell.

You should! It's a little misleading as the tracklisting makes it look like a Remix album, but all the songs are just radio edit length UK mixes :D

Quite a lot stuff charting far lower down that I would have expected here! Forever, in particular! Then again, I am loving almost every song here so looking forward to what remains to be revealed!

What has this forum become :drama:

August August was all very much about the Olympics and a number of entries here are from the opening and closing ceremonies. There are also one or two tracks here where you can tell they were written as an attempt to become an official anthem of the games. August was quite a decent month for dance music too with a number of entries in the top 10 coming from the genre. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/BomBom_zpsa7781d9c.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Isporta_zpsa384cd57.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/WhateverTheyDo_zps8b4a05f1.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Lies_zps83a4fd11.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/YoureGonnaLoveAgain_zpsb710d642.jpg 01 Sam And The Womp - Bom Bom 02 Erdem Kınay feat. Aynur Aydın - İşporta 03 Moa Lignell - Whatever They Do 04 CHVRCHES - Lies 05 NERVO - You're Gonna Love Again 06 Thomas Holm - Byen Kalder 07 Amy Macdonald - Pride 08 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) [2012 Remix] 09 ItaLove - Strangers In The Night 10 Kamaliya - Butterflies Topping the chart for August are Sam And The Womp with their Balkan inspired and completely crazy tune, Bom Bom. A surprisingly huge UK hit, it sounded more like something Moldova would send to Eurovision. Proof that Eurovision, if given the right promotion, could produce quite a high number of UK hits. Second to Bom Bom is former Caerfyrddian BJSC entry and one of the finest hits from Turkey this year, İşporta. Swedish Idol contestant Moa Lignell is at #3 with the wonderful Whatever They Do and in 4th place is Scottish act and ones to watch for 2013, CHVRCHES. Australian dance act NERVO are 5th and a similar sounding tune from Danish singer Thomas Holm is at #6. Amy Macdonald's Pride (Surely one of the contenders for Official Olympic Anthem?) is at #7 and a "re-mix" of Running Up That Hill which was used during the Closing Ceremony makes it to #8 - WHY couldn't Kate Bush at least have turned up there?! BJSC favourite Strangers In The Night appears at #9 and closing the top 10 is Ukrainian singer Kamaliya with her opera-dance track, Butterflies. 11-20 11 Michel Teló - Bara Bara Bere Bere 12 Nikos Ganos - Say My Name 13 Delta Goodrem - Dancing With A Broken Heart 14 Noisettes - That Girl 15 Parade - Light Me Up 16 Glasperlenspiel - Freundschaft 17 Alphabeat - Love Sea 18 David Guetta feat. Sia - She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) 19 Elisabeth Carew - The Feeling 20 Emeli Sandé - Read All About It (Part III) Brazilian superstar Michel Teló is at #11 with his follow up single to the huge Ai Se Eu Te Pego and Greek vocalist Nikos Ganos makes it to #12 with a pleasant dance-pop tune. Delta Goodrem's Dancing With A Broken Heart is at #13 - it could easily have been an MF entry for Sanna Nielsen and Noisettes are at #14 with That Girl. Girl group, Parade are at #15 just ahead of German duo Glasperlenspiel. Danish group Alphabeat make it to #17 with Love Sea and a second collaboration from David Guetta & Sia makes it to #18. I actually prefer She Wolf to Titanium, but I know I'm pretty much alone in having that opinion. Norwegian singer Elisabeth Carew is at #19 with The Feeling and the song no-one could escape in 2012, Read All About It, closes the top 20. 21-30 21 Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil 22 Underworld feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Elizabeth Roberts, Esme Smith and Alex Trimble - Caliban's Dream 23 Kate McGill - Cursed 24 Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Through The Night 25 Leslie Clio - Told You So 26 Anda Adam - Say Goodbye 27 Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone 28 PSY - Gangnam Style 29 ItaloBrothers - My Life Is A Party 30 Sinine feat. Sandra Nurmsalu - Sel Teel Norway know how to produce great female vocalists and opening this group is one of their finest, Susanne Sundfør. She appears just above a track from Underworld and a host of other artists that was performed in the Olympic opening ceremony. Kate McGill is at #23 with the very cute track, Cursed and there's some good old Bassline from Drumsound & Bassline Smith at #24. Germany's attempt at recreating Adele is at #25, Told You So is actually a pretty decent tune and Romanian artist Anda Adam is at #26 with the fairly generic but decent Say Goodbye (Not an S Club cover). Two Door Cinema Club appear at #27 with a surprisingly great single and the HUGE hit Gangnam Style makes it to #28. ItaloBrother's My Life Is A Party sampled O-Zone's Dragostea Din Tei to decent effect and is at #29 and the top 30 is completed by a stunning electro track from Estonian act Sinine featuring Urban Symphony vocalist, Sandra Nurmsalu. 31-40 31 Owl City feat. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time 32 Pink Noisy feat. Radio Killer - Mestral 33 Lawson - Taking Over Me 34 Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold 35 Paloma Faith - 30 Minute Love Affair 36 Sarah West - If Pain Could Talk 37 Taio Cruz - World In Our Hands 38 Lemar - Invincible 39 Emeli Sandé - Abide With Me 40 Jennifer Lopez feat. Flo-Rida - Goin' In Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen's collaboration just misses out on a place in the top 30 and Radio Killer are at #32 featuring on Pink Noisy's Mestral. Popular new boyband Lawson are at #33 ahead of other popular UK acts Rebecca Ferguson and Paloma Faith. A former BJSC entry from Greenfroze by Sarah West is at #36 ahead of more possible Olympic anthems from Taio Cruz and Lemar and Emeli Sandé's Abide With Me which was performed at the Opening Ceremony. Finally closing the top 50 is Goin' In by J.Lo and Flo-Rida. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Kamaliya_zpsafa064ad.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Contact_zpsd3aa7207.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MarleysChains_zpsaf99e080.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MyHeadIsAnAnimal_zps233c8f60.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ClublandEurodance_zpsf4352977.jpg 01 Kamaliya - Kamaliya Top Tracks: Arrhythmia, Rising Up 02 Noisettes - Contact Top Tracks: That Girl, Final Call 03 Honey Ryder - Marley's Chains Top Tracks: Marley's Chains, You Can't Say That 04 Of Monsters And Men - My Head Is An Animal Top Tracks: Mountain Sound, Little Talks 05 Various Artists - Clubland Eurodance Top Tracks: Euphoria, Release Me August lacked special albums but was fairly decent at the same time. Topping the pile is Kamaliya's debut which was released free through OK! magazine (iirc) and for a free album, it was actually quite brilliant! Coming second is the third release from Noisettes and it picked up where their excellent second album left off. UK country act Honey Ryder are third with Marley's Chains. Severely underrated here, maybe they'd have more success if they tried their luck across the pond. Icelandic act Of Monsters And Men are at #4 just ahead of the fantastic Clubland Eurodance compilation.

Sue Perb :lol: I nearly died.

kin <3 That album is total perfection.

3 out of 5, chuffed with that! :D

Yay! İşporta :D

Kalifornien! :o I thought that was the least likely of my entries to qualify!

Eivør, Rebekka Karijord and Loreen :wub: Gabrielle being lower than Nicki Minaj is somewhat alarming though!

The nation of Caerfyrddia is awaiting and expecting to flop...again

Nightwish's version of The Heart Asks Pleasure First is fantastic, really pleased to see it here! :D

My likes and selected comments on the singles so far! 99. Tone Damli - Look Back (#7) Such a lovely song from what was a stunning Best Of compilation. Really looking forward to hearing her MF entry! 98. One Direction - One Thing (#8) 96. Whigfield - As I Go (#7) Her album might be very short, but it was also very sweet! Every track on there had it's merits! 93. Pastora Soler - Quédate Conmigo (#10) Spain's best entry in ages, but I think they could top it in 2013! 92. Rihanna - Diamonds (#5) 91. Rumer - P.F. Sloan (#5) 89. Darin - Nobody Knows (#6) His album's been a long time coming! I wonder if this track will get a push in the UK next year? 88. Delta Goodrem - Uncovered (#5) 84. Nora Foss Al-Jabri - Somewhere Beautiful (#5) 83. Loreen - Crying Out Your Name (#6) It made it in then! It remains to be seen whether it can claw it's way into my EOY top 50! 82. Nina Zilli - L'Amore E' Femmina (#4) So glad this was being overhyped by the Eurofans, can you imagine if this had triumphed over Euphoria?! :nocheer: 81. Emeli Sandé - Next To Me (#9) 77. Kylie Minogue - Timebomb (#5) Such a bizarre release, really good song, but I don't understand at all why it wasn't included on the Best Of 76. Timoteij - Stormande Hav (#7) My second favourite from this year's MF, easily. I can't believe they were knocked out at AC :( 74. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (#5) 72. Katy Perry - Wide Awake (#6) 71. Marigold - You & I Know (#5) :cheer: Glad to see Caerfyrddia represented here somewhere! :D 69. Adele - Skyfall (#4) 68. Elisa's - Linjen I Min Hand (#4) Surely this was submitted to MF? It would have been amazing if it had reached the final 32 entries! 67. Jenny Langlo - Million Dollar Signs (#3) 66. Minnie-Oh - You & I (#4) My favourite from the Norwegian selection this year, terribly underrated! 65. Frida Amundsen - Rush (#3) 64. Petra Marklund - Handerna Mot Himlen (#5) 63. Tooji - Stay (#4) 62. Jennifer Lopez feat Pitbull - Dance Again (#4) 61. Olly Murs feat Flo Rida - Troublemaker (#6)

July July was another reasonably strong month for music on the whole but did generally lack in brilliant highlights. Aside from the very top few positions, most of the top 40 singles here could have been placed in any order. July proved to be quite a decent month as far as music from more obscure artists went with very few UK and international hits appearing here. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Raver_zps82c0c088.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Hurricane_zps86640726.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/FeelsLikeSummer_zps351dd0a0.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/CountablyInfinite_zps537861a6.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/SummertimeSadness_zps1ea1d0a9.jpg 01 The Storm - Raver 02 MS MR - Hurricane 03 The Brilliant Things - Feels Like Summer 04 A.G. Trio feat. M. Zahradnicek - Countably Infinite 05 Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness 06 Donkeyboy - Silver Moon 07 ISA - Bomb 08 Little Dragon - Sunshine 09 Mathieu Bouthier feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Beautiful 10 Charli XCX - You're The One Danish metal-pop group The Storm come out on top here with their as yet non-album single, Raver. I'm really hoping we'll see a new album from them in the early part of 2013. Hurricane by MS MR comes second and it is so far the only song I was beaten to when wanting to submit an entry for BJSC. Damn you Umiiruka! :P Irish pop group The Brilliant Things are at #3 with their feelgood summer anthem and Austrian electonica group A.G. Trio are at #4 followed by Lana Del Rey with Summertime Sadness. Lower down the top 10 we have Norwegian pop group Donkeyboy with their brilliant track Silver Moon, Swedish acts ISA and Little Dragon, a fantastic new single from Mathieu Bouthier which featured Sophie Ellis-Bextor and the awfully underrated Charli XCX 11-20 11 Ivy Quainoo - You Got Me 12 David Lindgren - Rendezvous 13 Florence + The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name) 14 Hampenberg feat. Jesper Norhstedt - Glorious 15 Oceana - Endless Summer 16 Marietta Fafouti - Kookoobadi 17 Ask Embla - Father's Eyes 18 Ruby Frost - Porcupine 19 Cinnamon Girl - Devil In Me 20 Us - In The End Winner of the German version of The Voice, Ivy Quainoo reaches number 11 with her jaunty second single and Melodifestivalen favourite David Lindgren is at #12 with a single I actually preferred to his MF entry. The monster hit, the biggest in this month's list, the Calvin Harris produced mix of Spectrum (Say My Name) by Florence + The Machine is at #13 ahead of former DMGP participant Jesper Norhstedt and Hampenberg. The Euro 2012 anthem from Oceana is at #15 and the kooky Kookoobadi from Greek singer Marietta Fafouti is at #16. Norwegian duo Ask Embla reach #17 with the divine Father's Eyes and a sorely underrated BJSC entry from Seyetana is at #18 (WHY did that not make the final?!). Cinnamon Girl is at #19 with electropop track Devil In Me and an acoustic version of Linkin Park's In The End makes it to #20. 21-30 21 Katie Melua - Moonshine 22 Adam Lambert - Never Close Our Eyes 23 Muse - Survival 24 Duran Duran - Before The Rain 25 Lucy Rose - Lines 26 Kerkko Koskinen Kollektiivi - Laura Palmer 27 Milena Vučić - Samo Moj 28 Fredrik - Chrome Cavities 29 Karolina Kozak - Mimochodem 30 Charlotte Qvale - The Beginning Of The End Katie Melua makes an appearance at #21 with the wonderful Moonshine and former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert is at #22 with Never Close Our Eyes. The official Olympic anthem from Muse is at #23 and a fantastic release from Duran Duran's All You Need Is Now album makes it to #24. An intricate and intriguing acoustic track from Lucy Rose appears at #25 just ahead of another fantastically interesting jazzy track from Finnish act Kerkko Koskinen Kollektiivi. Montenegro came up trumps once this year with Milena Vučić's Samo Moj (It really should have been their Eurovision entry) and the song from the Kopparberg advert makes it to #28. Polish singer Karolina Kozak appear at #29 with her mysterious song Mimochodem. An English version was also released called Embrace It and at #30 is BJSC favourite The Beginning Of The End by Charlotte Qvale. 31-40 31 Celine Dion - Parler à mon père 32 Basshunter - Northern Light 33 Alizée - A Cause De L'automne 34 Rachel Platten - Work Of Art 35 Celeste Buckingham - Run Run Run 36 Pet Shop Boys - Winner 37 Newton Faulkner - Clouds 38 Orla Gartland - Devil On My Shoulder 39 Lydmor - Lamppost Light 40 Tal - Je Prends Le Large The final group in July's top 40 is headed up by Celine Dion and her wonderful French track Parler à mon père. Basshunter reaches #32 with Northern Light and another French track from Alizée appears at #33. Former BJSC winner Rachel Platten is at #34 with Work Of Art, a track introduced to me by Eyes as part of the CD swap. Celeste Buckingham is at #35 with Run Run Run, another track that deserved to do better in BJSC and Pet Shop Boys' attempt at a Eurovision entry and Olympic anthem, Winner, makes it to #36. I'm a little relieved it ended up as neither to be honest, far from their best work. Newton Faulkner makes it to #37 with the catchy track, Clouds and Irish singer Orla Gartland is at #38. Danish group Lydmor reach #39 and closing the top 40 is Tal with Je Prends Le Large. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Electroshock_zps263c12f6.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ForeverAlbum_zps2f677318.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Volition_zps0a5d4446.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/BearsRevenge_zpsf24b6484.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Cameleon_zps60a9d45e.jpg 01 Kate Ryan - Electroshock Top Tracks: Little Braveheart, Everytime 02 Medina - Forever Top Tracks: Forever, Black Lights 03 Ruby Frost - Volition Top Tracks: Porcupine, Volition 04 Moulettes - The Bear's Revenge Top Tracks: Sing Unto Me, Unlock The Doors 05 Shy'm - Caméléon Top Tracks: On Se Fout De Nous, Elle July was quite an average month for albums, certainly compared to June anyway! Topping the list this month is the long-awaited new release from Belgian singer, Kate Ryan. Electroshock was a commerical failure in general but it does contain some fantastic pop tunes, some of which are produced by Le Kid. Ruby Frost comes second with Volition and the second English album from Danish singer Medina is third. Folk act, Moulettes pick up 4th place with their second album and French artist Shy'm completes the top 5 with Caméléon

Baku 2014! *.* :kink:

Thanks Rich! About 20 of those 480 were filler tracks admittedly, but there were a HUGE amount of songs I loved in 2012. There will be top 50 singles and top 20 albums charts at the end and those are going to be an absolute nightmare to compile as so many great releases will miss out :drama:

It was so hard to separate the tracks at the top of the charts, I love most of them equally so Jonna does sometimes end up a bit lower than deserved :( For me, it's all about kin. We'll just have to see if it can beat Heal to the top of the EOY albums chart! Glad Moulettes have grown on you since BJSC Iz :D

June June marked a very prominent change in my life which meant I'd be spending a lot of my time travelling by bus across West Wales. This meant my music listening habits changed dramatically and I suddenly had a lot more time to listen carefully to a lot more songs. This means that from June onwards, I tended to fall in love with a lot more songs and therefore the latter half of 2012 contains a huge amount of my favourites tracks across the year. Compiling the chart for June proved to be one of the hardest of the 12 months and lots of tracks here are a lot lower in the chart than deserved. Top 40 Singles: 01-10 http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Goods_zps44547645.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/SingUntoMe_zps2c17b6a7.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LoveStuck_zps2e28dc46.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/UseMyBody_zpsca74f6f0.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/ComeAgain_zpscc066d96.jpg 01 iamamiwhoami - goods 02 Moulettes - Sing Unto Me 03 Dream Beats feat. The Face - Love Stuck 04 Rebekka Karijord - Use My Body While It's Still Young 05 Soluna Samay - Come Again (The Quetzal) 06 Mary N'Diaye - Big Dreamer 07 Cheryl - Call My Name 08 Kamaliya - Arrhythmia 09 Tal - Le Sens De La Vie 10 Timoteij - Tabu The final single of 2012 from iamamiwhoami comes out on top here. goods is a joyous burst of electro-pop divineness and was sensational to see performed live later in the year. The silver medal for June goes to progressive tinged folk act, Moulettes. Sing Unto Me went on to become one of my favourite entries into BJSC in 2012, but sadly it failed to impress the majority of listeners and become on of the five Caerfyrddian DNQs. A huge BJSC hit on the other hand comes third courtesy of Swedish producers Dream Beats and UK pop trio, The Face. Norwegian artist Rebekka Karijord is at #4 with a track similar in sound to that of some of Bjork's previous singles and Danish singer Soluna Samay is at #5 with her bouncy Latin inspired acoustic-pop track Come Again (The Quetzal). Another highly successful BJSC entry from Greenfroze enters at #6. Mary N'Diaye came to notoriety from Sweden's The Voice. Pop megastar Cheryl is at #7 with her huge UK hit, Call My Name and Ukrainian singer Kamaliya is at #8 with a really rather decent dance tune. French singer Tal makes it to #9 with another popular BJSC entry (It was a good edition wasn't it?) and in 10th is Timoteij with Tabu. 11-20 11 Marina And The Diamonds - Power And Control 12 Agnes - One Last Time 13 Kylie Minogue - Timebomb 14 Icona Pop - I Love It 15 Infernal - Love Is All... 16 WTF! - Da Bop 17 Diandra - Outta My Head 18 Clara Sofie - Brænd Mig Helst 19 Woodkid - Run Boy Run 20 Clara Sagström - Kalifornien Although deserving of a top 10 position, Marina And The Diamonds with have to settle with #11 for Power And Control and the wonderful ballad, One Last Time, from Agnes is at #12. Kylie's rather random non-album and non-best of track Timebomb makes it to number 13 and barmy Swedish female duo Icona Pop reach #14 with I Love It, surely they are ones to watch for 2013 as far as the UK charts go? A remix and re-release of Love Is All... by Infernal makes it to #15 followed by WTF! (or Ultrabeat if you like) at #16 with the quirky dance tune, Da Bop. Finnish singer Diandra is at #17 with Outta My Head whilst Danish soloist Clara Sofie makes it to #18 with the edgy Brænd Mig Helst. Former BJSC winner Woodkid appears at #19 and Caerfyrddian BJSC flop (A deserved one in hindsight) Clara Sagström reaches #20. 21-30 21 Alexandra Stan - Lemonade 22 Bright Light Bright Light - A New Word To Say 23 Aiden Grimshaw - Is This Love? 24 Delta Goodrem - Sitting On Top Of The World 25 fun. feat. Janelle Monáe - We Are Young 26 Gathania - Nobody's Breaking Me 27 Timoteij - Ta Mig Till Sommaren 28 Elena - Amar Tu Vida 29 Lacuna Coil - Fire 30 Gabby Young & Other Animals - In Your Head Popular Romanian singer Alexandra Stan is at #21 with her summery, Ace Of Base esque track Lemonade just ahead of another brilliant single from Bright Light Bright Light. Former X Factor contestant, Aiden Grimshaw is at #23 and Australian soloist Delta Goodrem is at #24 with her accidental (we assume) tribute to Arcade Fire. Smash hit We Are Young makes it to #25 and Swedish singer Gathania is at #26. A second entry into this top 40 from Timoteij reaches #27, the intro letting it down somewhat and another Romanian star, Elena is #28. Italian metal group Lacuna Coil appear at #29 with the punchy track, Fire and cooky UK act Gabby Young & Other Animals close the top 30. 31-40 31 Paulina Rubio - All Around The World 32 Alina Devecerski - Flytta På Dej 33 Marquess - Bienvenido 34 Mimi-Oh - Festen Som Vi Hatar Imorrn 35 Kate Ryan - Broken 36 Ane Brun - One 37 Dead By April - Crossroads 38 Orion - In The End 39 Kenza Farah - Quelque Part 40 Sam Sparro - I Wish I Never Met You Mexican singer Paulina Rubio pops up again, this time with All Around The World and the rather intense dance track from Alina Devecerski reaches #32. One has to be in the mood to listen to that song. German latin-inspired group Marquess are at #33 ahead of 80's inspired Swedish singer Mimi-Oh. Belgian chanteuse Kate Ryan is at #35 with Broken and Ane Brun appears at #36 with One. There's more from Sweden at #37 and #38 courtesy of rock group Dead By April and dance act Orion. French singer Kenza Farah enters at #39 and Sam Sparro closes the top 40 with what was comfortably the best song on his second album. Top 5 Albums: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Kin_zpsf67fc35a.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/MakeMeBelieveInHope_zps9da01a42.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/LifeInABeautifulLight_zpsede914d0.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/AmandaMair_zps19fa2bf1.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o166/Ghosthunter233/Union_zpsad69a56c.jpg 01 iamamiwhoami - kin Top Tracks: idle talk, goods 02 Bright Light Bright Light - Make Me Believe In Hope Top Tracks: Waiting For The Feeling, Feel It 03 Amy Macdonald - Life In A Beautiful Light Top Tracks: Pride, Human Spirit 04 Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair Top Tracks: Sense, Doubt 05 Saint Saviour - Union Top Tracks: The Rain Falls On The Just, Tightrope June was a fantastic month for albums. The debut LP from iamamiwhoami was finally released as an entire collection of songs following the gradual release of all the tracks as singles over the previous four months or so. The long-awaited album from Welsh singer Bright Light Bright Light was also released to much praise and Amy Macdonald returned with Life In A Beautiful Light - an album that was a vast improvement on her second release, A Curious Thing. Amanda Mair's self-titled album got it's UK release in June and proved to be a very pleasant listen indeed whilst the almost equally as good album from Saint Saviour capped off what was a fantastic month for music.