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8/6/2024 52 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 43 Lorde — Royals 41 Coldplay — Paradise 41 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 40 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 38 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 38 Florence & The Machine — Spectrums-2 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 31 Avicii — Wake Me Up 31 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 30 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 27 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) -2 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 26 Rihanna — Diamonds +1 25 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 25 Little Mix — Wings 23 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know +1 23 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 23 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 20 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 OneRepublic — Counting Stars +1 20 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child -2 19 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +1 14 Ellie Goulding — Burn

8/6/2024 35 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 30 Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 28 Donna Summer - Love’s Unkind +1 27 Electric Light Orchestra - Don’t Bring Me Down +1 26 The Jam - The Eton Rifles 26 Lene Lovich - Lucky Number +1 26 The Rolling Stones - Miss You -2 24 ABBA - Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 23 Marshall Hain - Dancing in the City 22 Earth, Wind & Fire - September 22 The Cars - My Best Friend’s Girl 21 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 21 Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 21 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 21 The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper’s Delight 21 ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 20 Frankie Valli - Grease 20 Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven 20 Racey - Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Sex Pistols - C’mon Everybody 20 Sad Café - Every Day Hurts 18 A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie 18 The Three Degrees - Woman in Love -2 16 James Galway - Annie’s Song  16 David Essex - Oh What A Circus +1 14 Rose Royce - Wishing on a Star 14 The Sex Pistols - Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ -2 12 The Bellamy Brothers - If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 08 The Dooleys - Wanted -6

Tory candidate for Hemel Hempstead withdraws about an hour before the nomination deadline

No its inoxfordshire

Nominations close at 4pm today. It is too late to be switching seats now

She will have the party line which is that she says "The Prime Minister has recognised that he made an uncharacteristic error of judgement and has apologised" then follow it up with a selection of weasel words about how much veterans are valued before making a point about Labour not being trusted with the security. She will probably be aware that she is also fighting for the seats of her colleagues and this could effectively be an application for the Leader of the Opposition position if she is still in place after the election

Is this a principled objection to the Bastardisation of South American history by ALW or aggravating rejection of what should be an anthem for this site? It contains the fantastic line "Falling over themselves to get all of the misery right" I always thought Morrissey missed a trick by not providing us with his cover version of that Boney M song.......

The electoral calculus list is ranked according to the predicted difference between the Labour and the Conservative vote. It does not take account of the presence of third parties. They currently have Reform polling at 14% in Portsmouth North which is why they are calling it for Labour. I think these figures will change as Polling Day approaches but even if all those votes go from Reform to the Conservatives then Penny is not out of the woods yet

On the electoral calculus website this seat is number 326 on Labour's list which means if they want a majority this seat needs to fall These things are not always linear so Mordaunt's incumbency and local popularity might be enough to buck the national trend and keep her in her seat

I have just noticed that I awarded five points this morning Please take one away from Rihanna - Diamonds for the next person who updates the list Sorry

Looking at the songs that qualified from the first 8 years of this decade. The only artist to get more than one through so far is David Bowie and you could argue that he has four (as two of the others are with Bowie penned songs) This round no research is needed as so many of these are on my playlist. Lucky for you it is adult me that is voting here and not 9 year old me otherwise I would probably be giving The Barron Knights and The Dooleys points

@Great Uncle Bulgaria and @En Passant submitted simultaneously and so I have updated both scores in with mine 7/6/24 26 Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street 26 Donna Summer- Love’s Unkind +1 25 David Essex - Oh What A Circus +1 23 The Jam- The Eton Rifles 22 Electric Light Orchestra- Don’t Bring Me Down +1 22 Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 22 The Sex Pistols- Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ -2 21 Lene Lovich- Lucky Number +1 21 Earth, Wind & Fire- September 21 The Cars- My Best Friend’s Girl 21 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams- Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 21 Michael Jackson- Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 21 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand- No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 21 The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper’s Delight 20 Rose Royce- Wishing on a Star 20 James Galway- Annie’s Song 20 Marshall Hain- Dancing in the City 20 A Taste of Honey- Boogie Oogie Oogie 20 Bee Gees- Too Much Heaven 20 Racey- Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Three Degrees- Woman in Love 20 The Sex Pistols- C’mon Everybody 20 The Dooleys- Wanted 20 ABBA- Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 20 The Bellamy Brothers- If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 20 Sad Café- Every Day Hurts 20 ABBA- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 19 The Rolling Stones- Miss You -2 14 Frankie Valli- Grease 12 Dean Friedman- Lucky Stars 12 Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley- If I Had Words 06 The Barron Knights- A Taste of Aggro 06 Boney M — Hooray! Hooray It’s A Holi-Holiday -2

7/6/2024 51 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 40 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 39 Lorde — Royals 39 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know +1 38 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 37 Coldplay — Paradise 37 Little Mix — Wings 37 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum -2 34 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball +1 31 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) -2 30 Avicii — Wake Me Up 29 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 28 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 25 Rihanna — Diamonds (edited) 24 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +1 23 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 21 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child -2 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 15 OneRepublic — Counting Stars +1 14 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 14 Cover Drive — Twilight 12 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You

At the current rate of these games the game after this won't start until well into 2026

I love the irony that the woman who sang of the dream sapping drudgery of being a wage slave now goes by the title Dowager Princess Reuss, Countess of Plauen As a child that Heartfelt nature of the first verse struck a chord and I will continue to support this one

Just be thankful it isn't the Blue Peter theme tune

Actually reading the article it becomes quite odd He left his wife on the beach and walked back to his apartment and the police have recovered his phone from the apartment Now assuming he had not just left his phone at the apartment and returned to get it this seems to suggest an element of premeditation (or the intervention of a third party) If he arrived at the apartment why would he leave it again and if so why would he not take his phone with him I might be misreading what is in the BBC article and extrapolating but it is very concerning

Didn't know whether to put this here or on strange things on the internet thread but the lady who has done this has previously done some impressive work but I am not quite sure about this one

He is still the Prime Minister until the election but he is no longer the MP for Richmond

A nautical jig

He has a series on Radio 4 called One Small Thing and they send him on Dead Ringers

William Russell is my first hit for my I Cannot Believe They're Not Deader team

I have never gone for absolute definitive lists for example the Time lists one last time was hell to research as many of the lists were not visible for non-Time subscribers Like with most games there is a balance between getting a hit (that is reported) or getting a unique - because Uniques here have a special place in the game the wider the category possibly the quicker the game but all three way of winning have been acheived in the five games so far. Buffalo Phil got one in each category which on the face of it looks the easiest way to win There was one suggested category that got dropped because of lack of definition - Atheist Musicians

If we can get them sorted before I go away then I will publish them but I will not be around to answer questions and early submitters will not get confirmation until I get back I will see what Buffalo Phil comes up with

6/6/2024 50 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 39 Coldplay — Paradise 38 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know +1 38 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 37 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 36 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum -2 35 Lorde — Royals 35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 35 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) -2 33 Little Mix — Wings 33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 29 Avicii — Wake Me Up 28 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 26 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child -2 25 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 25 Rihanna — Diamonds +1 24 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +1 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 OneRepublic — Counting Stars +1 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 14 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 14 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 14 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wanz — Thrift Shop