Bibliogryphon

@Joey Russ takes the bronze as I battle with @ThereWillBeDeaths7 for the Gold in the residual game

30 ATB – 9 P.M. (Till I Come) 28 Fatboy Slim – Praise You 27 Run DMC Vs. Jason Nevins – It´s Like That 26 Spice Girls – Viva Forever 25 All Saints – Never Ever 25 Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha 25 The Tamperer ft. Maya – Feel It 25 Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next 24 Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground 24 Blondie – Maria +2 24 Celine Dion – My Heart Will Go On 24 Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way 23 Madonna – Frozen 23 Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee) 23 B*Witched – C´est La Vie 23 Shanks & Bigfoot – Sweet Like Chocolate 23 Aqua – Turn Back Time 22 Robbie Williams – Millennium +2 22 S Club 7 – Bring It All Back 22 Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle 22 Wamdue Project – King Of My Castle 22 Chef – Chocolate Salty Balls -2 21 Britney Spears – ...Baby One More Time 21 Usher – You Make Me Wanna... 21 All Saints – Bootie Call 21 Geri Halliwell – Mi Chico Latino 21 Armand Van Helden ft. Duane Harden – You Don´t Know Me 21 Cher – Believe 20 Aqua – Dr. Jones 20 Boyzone – All That I Need 20 All Saints – Under The Bridge/ Lady Marmalade 20 Billie – Because We Want To 20 Boyzone – No Matter What 20 B*Witched – Rollercoaster 20 Billie – Girlfriend 20 Spacedust – Gym & Tonic 20 B*Witched – To You I Belong 20 Spice Girls – Goodbye 20 Steps – Heartbeat / Tragedy 20 911 – A Little Bit More 20 B*Witched – Blame It On The Weatherman 20 Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment 20 Boyzone – You Needed Me 20 Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All 20 Westlife – If I Let You Go 20 Five – Keep On Movin´ 20 Geri Halliwell – Lift Me Up 19 Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat 19 Vengaboys – Boom Boom Boom Boom 19 Vengaboys – We´re Going To Ibiza 18 Offspring – Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) 17 Another Level – Freak Me 17 Ricky Martin – Livin´ La Vida Loca 17 Mel B. ft. Missy Elliott – I Want You Back 14 Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away 14 Robbie Williams – She´s The One/It's Only Us 14 Westlife – Swear It Again 13 Lou Bega – Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit Of..) -2 08 Westlife – Flying without Wings 00 Oasis – All Around The World -2

My side bet lost. Thought Cliff would be out on his ear first this round.

24 All Saints – Never ever 24 Celine Dion — My heart will go on 24 Fatboy Slim – Praise you 22 Blondie – Maria +2 22 The Tamperer ft. Maya – Feel it 22 Backstreet Boys – I want it that way 21 B*Witched – C´est la vie 21 Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee) 21 Ricky Martin – Livin´ la vida loca 21 Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds – Three lions ´98 21 Usher – You make me wanna... 21 Cornershop – Brimful of Asha 21 Shanks & Bigfoot – Sweet like chocolate 21 Manic Street Preachers – If you tolerate this, your children will be next 20 Aqua – Dr. Jones 20 Run DMC vs. Jason Nevins – It´s like that 20 Boyzone – All that I need 20 All Saints – Under the bridge / Lady Marmalade 20 Aqua – Turn back time 20 Billie – Because we want to 20 Another Level – Freak me 20 Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground 20 Spice Girls – Viva forever 20 Boyzone – No matter what 20 All Saints – Bootie Call 20 Robbie Williams – Millennium 20 Mel B. ft. Missy Elliott – I want you back 20 B*Witched – Rollercoaster 20 Billie – Girlfriend 20 Spacedust – Gym & Tonic 20 Cher – Believe 20 B*Witched – To you I belong 20 Spice Girls – Goodbye 20 Chef – Chocolate salty balls (PS I love you) 20 Steps – Heartbeat / Tragedy 20 911 – A little bit more 20 Offspring – Pretty Fly (for a white guy) 20 Armand van Helden ft. Duane Harden – You don´t know me 20 Britney Spears - ... baby, one more time 20 B*Witched – Blame it on the weatherman 20 Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat 20 Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment 20 Westlife – Swear it again 20 Boyzone – You needed me 20 Baz Luhrmann – Everybody´s free (To wear sunscreen) 20 S Club 7 – Bring it all back 20 Vengaboys – Boom Boom Boom Boom 20 ATB – 9 p.m. (till I come) 20 Ronan Keating – When you say nothing at all 20 Westlife – If I let you go 20 Geri Halliwell – Mi chico latino 20 Vengaboys – We´re going to Ibiza 20 Christina Aguilera – Genie in a bottle 20 Westlife – Flyin´ without wings 20 Five – Keep on movin´ 20 Geri Halliwell – Lift me up 20 Robbie Williams – She´s the one/It's only us 20 Wamdue Project – King of my castle 20 Cliff Richard – The Millennium Prayer 20 Westlife – I have a dream / Seasons in the sun 16 Madonna – Frozen +2 14 Lenny Kravitz – Fly away 14 Oasis – All around the world 14 Lou Bega – Mambo No.5 (a little bit of...) -6 2 Boyzone – When the going gets tough, the tough get going

Second round in a row where the only song I really cared about fell at the final hurdle. Well it will make voting in the final round easier

I have made a side bet with myself which gets eliminated first for the whole two years not just out of those listed above) Initially summary I have two I will be immediately upvoting So many to down vote but probably 10 I will be happy with in the final qualifying positions

Its like Eurovision 1996 all over again Robbed

Thank you @Drewsky1211 for the heads up because one of those will be my first for down voting

That would certainly split the vegetable vote

Just been reading up about him. Is he there to show that the Republican party does not have a monopoly on nut jobs?

Additional analysis from the last ten years worth of Deathlist results trying to avoid overlap with @openviews data. This looks at the range of dates for the earlies and latest hits for each number hit and the gap between them Hit Spread Earliest Latest 1 51 7th Jan 27th Feb 2 123 10th Jan 13th May 3 131 4th Feb 15th June 4 128 17th Feb 25th June 5 178 5th Mar 30th Aug 6 177 7th Mar 31st Aug 7 159 5th April 12th Sept 8 191 13th April 8th Oct 9 199 12th May 27th Nov 10 194 19th June 30th Dec 11 177 1st July 24th Dec 12 152 26th July 24th Dec 13 98 17th Sept 23rd Dec 14 101 19th Sept 29th Dec Some of these days may be slightly out because of leap years For hits higher than 14 the data set is only two so I have not included this

Patrick Moore always struck me as a surprising omission in the year of his death and I am surprised Tom Baker has not made his debut yet

We are much nicer than the folks on Mumsnet

79 No Doubt – Don’t Speak 47 Spice Girls – Wannabe 47 White Town – Your Woman 41 The Fugees – Killing Me Softly 33 The Prodigy – Firestarter -6 33 The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work 22 Gina G – Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit 12 Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany's +4 Breakfast is the only one of these songs which is on my regular playlist. Everything else is merely OK or Meh

Did anyone have Alexandra Burke?

Just played the overview video on Youtube - Why is Liz Truss representing Lithuania? :-)

I have analyzed the last ten years worth of DLs (2013-2022) and come up with an average date of death for the first 12 hits 29-Jan 1 24-Feb 2 26-Mar 3 13-Apr 4 20-May 5 15-Jun 6 13-Jul 7 14-Aug 8 15-Sep 9 11-Oct 10 23-Oct 11 09-Nov 12 The reason I stopped at 12 was that beyond that the date gets earlier I may use this to produce a simplified version of the graph that I publish after each death. Instead of all the years I will just include the outliers, the averages and the current year

78 No Doubt – Don’t Speak 51 Spice Girls – Wannabe 48 White Town – Your Woman 45 The Fugees – Killing Me Softly 34 Gina G – Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit 26 The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work -2 26 The Prodigy – Firestarter -2 22 Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany's +4 21 Olive – You’re Not Alone -2 09 Mark Morrison – Return of The Mack

Not picked in the DDP this year which is a pity as he had one of the best write ups on the site

Just glanced at a picture of David Tennant from his new play Good and my first thought was that it was Charles Hawtrey

Mean date for the fifth hit is 22nd May but if you eliminate the years where the fifth hit has already happened it goes out to the 21st June I may need to update my data to include all years we have data for

May 24th

I think Nigel Lawson gave up when he kept coming second in the most loathed Nigel competition every year

78 No Doubt – Don’t Speak 50 Spice Girls – Wannabe 46 White Town – Your Woman 42 Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany's +2 41 The Fugees – Killing Me Softly 36 Gina G – Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit -2 33 The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work -3 27 Olive — You’re Not Alone 20 Mark Morrison – Return of The Mack 14 The Prodigy - Firestarter -3 14 Aqua — Barbie Girl 11 Various Artists – Perfect Day