Daniel.

So I've moved away from K-Pop this contest, for a song that might be cheaper, but is extremely summery. I hope those that haven't heard it already will love it.

My will power has been truly surprising, considering I haven't listened to either this or The Edge of Glory yet; I am determined to hold on for the album (which I never normally do). Having waited this long, one more week won't kill me, and hopefully HMV will do me a solid and I will get it on the Saturday. I don't know the last time I was more pumped for anything, entertainment wise, apart from maybe the last Harry Potter book and The Dark Knight movie. Music wise this is my most aniticpated album ever. You and I 11 Americano (Acoustic) 11 Born This Way 11 Judas 10 The Edge of Glory (Acoustic) 11 Gah! I'm looning hard, and I just don't care.

For once I actually had the living room to myself, which was a minor miracle and makes up for the nattering that was going on during Graham Norton. I had the volume absolutely blasting!

True, and there's no denying from me that it made fantastic viweing, but I got the sense from the first part that she seemed tipsy, but that could have just been fatigue? I just assumed from when she playfully said to Fern that she was going to get wasted before going on. Maybe saying 'clearly' wasn't the best thing to do, I was very hyper when when I typed that out. Either way, hopefully this will do wonders for her album sales. The Monster Ball is also being shown this Saturday, it will be interesting to see how much of an impact that makes too.

Jark stole my word, there's nothing else to describe how immense the set was; even though she was clearly off her tits. The Edge of Glory reduced me to tears (I still haven't heard the studio version), and the anthemic energy that You and I and Judas created was f***ing epic. A lot of hate on facebook though from people who were pissed at Family Guy being delayed, quite frankly they can suck my dick.

The apparant "betrayals" was just speculation from people who were in denial about the album cover. Bless them.

Can anyone explain to me a method of untagging the info/artwork off iTunes without having to use a blank disk? I'm one of those poor folk who still have a PC.

I wonder how we are going to get the second version of Americano and when?

Yeah Theo got it right haha, and I meant it as a sarcastic little jibe to the recent trend of releasing high profile remixes to boost sales and airplay; ET, S&M, Till the World Ends and apparently now Sleazy.

Radio just aren't playing these two songs in America, which is the cold hard fact. To be fair to Judas however, it got massive updates for it's first few days and reached 38 odd million impressions very quickly. The rolling effect hit and it never really recovered, but if you look back to Born This Way; a 106 million peak for such an initially heavily rotated song is rather subdued compared to the 128 million and 147 million (so far) peaks for S&M and ET. GaGa has never done exceptionally well on radio, BTW being the exception; her biggest radio hit remains Paparazzi, and not even Bad Romance got phenomenal impresssions. She never was as big on radio as she is in sales. As for iTunes; Judas has been lingering in the Top 20 since it experienced its sharp decline from the Top 10, and has since moved back up to #11 after the video release. Plus, Born This Way has been in the Top 20/15 since it fell from the Top 10 on iTunes aswell, and is currently #15. People are still buying her music, regardless of radio plays. Her performance digitally has been nowhere near as dreadful as Beyonce's new single, which has plummeted and is currently #88 (Keri Hilson's Pretty Girl Rock is still higher than her). The Judas video also seems to have been better recieved than the darker and longer Born This Way video was, and if it still shown on AI, then streaming should be great aswell. There's still time yet, and if after her AI performance her sales increase, then radio will cave and start playing Judas more again: On the Floor style. It's got off to a very shaky start, due to reasons I think Hitstastic has already explained, but it could yet stabalise. Or if worse comes to worse, she can always release a remix :kink: As for Beyonce, the article is right in saying this could follow a B-Day pattern, the release date for her next single is reportedly being brought forward (the snippet does sound more radio friendly) and there are talks of further iTunes singles to promote the album. Moving onto album sales, I'm sure both will do fantasically. One dodgy single doesn't undermine their overall selling power or their mega fanbases. The night is still young.

I think out of all her songs this has the best piano melody, in fact I think it's one of my favourite piano melodies full stop, it never fails to move me. I also think these are her most raw and honest lyrics, it pretty much encapsulates the nostalgic feeling you experience when moving on from childhood/teenage years into adulthood. Wonderful.

Lykke Li is on Jools Holand, which is on right now for anyone who is interested; I assume she will be singing Sadness Is a Blessing.

01 Dance In The Dark 02 Summerboy 03 Teeth 04 Starstruck 05 Beautiful Dirty Rich 06 Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) 07 Boys Boys Boys 08 Speechless 09 Disco Heaven 10 Brown Eyes 11 So Happy I Could Die 12 Monster - 13 Again Again 14 Paper Gangsta 15 I Like It Rough 16 The Fame 17 Money Honey This is subject to change on a whim of course...

I Follow Rivers (Tyler, the Creator Remix) Zcz_Uxmjo3Y I swim in your ocean of love, I had a lifejacket coz I'm not that dumb MTV Unplugged (I Follow Rivers; Velvet; Dance, Dance, Dance; Possibility; Sadness Is a Blessing; I Know Places; Jerome): http://www.mtv.co.uk/shows/mtv-unplugged/e...lugged-lykke-li It's probably her most emotional performance of I Know Places yet.

Born This Way. It meant more and is the better made song. I still don't get the hate for it.

I'm LOVING putting my tracklist together, although I'm dreading the point where I have to do the technical stuff. I suck at technical stuff.

To be honest I never gave this a chance because it looked deathly dull from the trailers, however the way you guys are talking, it sounds like I'm missing out.

Is it still possible for me to sign up Ben?

I'm shocked that Xanaga got through :o clearly shows how much I know.

Congratulations Ashton, the best qualifer so far ^_^

Perhaps check the top comment :kink: I love your song! And quite surprised you like my song, let alone think it's amazing. When I read your comments I thought I was somewhere near the bottom :lol:

Quite surprised Ojnoj got through, although I had it marked down as "likely" in my odds, it seemed to slip under people's radar; congratulations for making it to the final!

Bleugh at Make Me, Break Me don't know why it's so universally liked/expected to win. Anyway, come on Eledan!

Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense. Feel kind of stupid for spending so much effort making my votes look fancy though :lol: Oh well, will just copy and paste for the votes in the final haha.

So this is revealed in a different way to the Big Final then? Do we see people's votes?