TiBB's Top Song of 2019 is "Juice" by Lizzo!
 

Welcome to the Top Song of 2019. If you're not sure of what this whole thing is, here are a few links to competitions of previous years:


RULES (For the Regular Competition)
- For the early rounds, you may only vote for a maximum of two songs per artist. This game gets quite boring when dominated by stans. This'll become defunct in the later rounds when there most likely will only be one per artist remaining in the game.
- You must have 100 posts to participate. I'm not allowing multis :nono:
- Most rounds are just to vote for your favourites, but some will require 'negative' votes. These should be approached voluntarily rather than as mandatory, and members should only vote for songs they actively dislike rather than ones they don't like/might pick tactically.
- The final will consist of ten songs that're ranked by everyone on the basis of "10pts for the 1st place", "1pt for the 10th place" and so on.

Songs originally released prior to January 1 - either as a single, or on an album released before July 2018 - have been removed.
Also, songs that have appeared in previous editions of this game cannot count.
And finally, re-releases of songs don't count (sorry, Mariah Carey and everyone else with a Christmas song).
To save the list from becoming too repetitive, artists are restricted to just their 3 highest-charting songs. In the event of songs charting at the same place, only the song that charted first chronologically was included. This rule has only affected Stormzy, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Lewis Capaldi and Post Malone, this year.

So here's how it will work..

PRELIMINARY ROUND I've compiled a list of 205 songs below, picked from singles that:

• Made the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart
• Made the top 15 of the UK Singles SALES Chart
• Made the top 15 of the Billboard Hot 100
• Made the top 10 of the ARIA Top 50 Chart (Australia's chart)
• Made the top 10 of various publishers' "Best of 2019" lists (including Pitchfork, NME, The Guardian, GQ, Time, Rolling Stone and Vulture) These songs are bolded.

QUALIFYING ROUND We usually start with 200 songs but my collection method means we already have that. Therefore, this year we'll start with 240 :) 35 songs are therefore required to be voted into the game by the forum. EVERYONE can submit 5 songs to be supported by other members, and every member has 5 support votes. This'll be kept tally of in the OP, and will be edited into the main list in blue. A song requires one suggestion, and then support votes from TWO different members to qualify.
Round 1: Out of the full qualified list, each member can choose their favourite TWENTY songs. The songs that get any votes will move onto Round 2. You cannot choose all 3 songs by an artist; a maximum of 2 per artist is enforced in the early rounds to keep it free from the pop stans :p

All later rules are struck-out for now, because we don't know the full numbers of what makes it through Round 1 yet.
Round 2: 50 songs only received one vote in the first round. To prevent them becoming surplus to requirement, only a handful can make it to round 3. Each member can choose their favourite SEVEN of them.
Round 3: Out of the top 128 each member can choose their favourite FIFTEEN songs. NEW RULE PART HOPE YOU'RE READING X: You can also choose THREE songs you dislike and want eliminated from the competition. REMEMBER: only pick songs you actively dislike. Don't go trying to pick the faves of people you want to annoy, or any songs you haven't even bothered to listen to :nono: ONLY songs you dislike. You don't even have to do this if you want to keep it positive! Each "fave" vote is a positive point, each "purple" vote means that song loses a point. All songs with an end-of-round positive score of 1 or more will proceed.
Round 4: Out of the top 78 songs, each member can choose their favourite TWELVE songs.
Round 5: Out of the top 53, each member can choose their favourite TEN songs, and also their LEAST FAVOURITE TWO. In the 'least favourite' voting you can only choose one song per artist.
Round 6: Out of the top 37, each member can choose their favourite EIGHT songs.
Round 7: Out of the top 25, each member can choose their favourite FIVE songs and their LEAST FAVOURITE ONE.
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Round Seven (25 songs remaining)
Round Six (10 songs eliminated)
Round Five (16 songs eliminated)
Round Four (25 songs eliminated)
Round Three (50 songs eliminated)
Round Two (31 songs eliminated)
Round One (81 songs eliminated)

Netta - Bassa Sababa
Passion Pit & Galantis - I Found U

My suggestions are...

I’ll suggest:

City Girls - Act Up
Camelphat x Jake Bugg - Be Someone

For my first two songs

Sorry 3rd suggestion!

Kehlani - Nights Like This (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

That's OK. BTW for everyone participating, please don't edit your old posts with new votes / suggestions, because there's a strong chance I'll miss something in an old post whilst keeping up with everyone's new ones.

Womanizer :skull: I hope all the FMs who voted that in are now banned?

Carly Ray Jepsen - Now That I Found You
The Vamps - Missing You
Jordan Clarke - Freaks

And I’ll support Will Young

I support Sigrid - Never Mine

Suggest
Lana Del Rey - Doin Time

:( Not sure how Girls got that bloody high, either.

I'll Suggest -

Kesha - Raising Hell (ft. Big Freida)
Lana Del Rey - Cinnamon Girl

I’d like to nominate Kesha - Resentment too please

And I'll support Doin' Time

Womaniser is good and it’s even better when you realise it sounds like she sings it in a northern accent tyvm :nono:

Ah yes, I forgot about when she started singing about Oatcakes

Piece of your heart - Meduza, Goodboys
Don’t feel like crying - Sigrid
Bad Guy - Billie Eilish

I will happily support anyone who suggests Lana's NFR, Hope is a Dangerous..., or California.

Doin' Time is good but not as good as those three.

Edit: Liam, those songs all charted high this year and are therefore through to the proper game. This round is just for suggesting songs that flopped in the charts but we still stan :spin2:

:hehe:

Serves me right for skimming :hee:

Ava Max - So Am I

Very tempted to just use all my nominations on the absolute bops Eurovision gave us this year but I'll start with this robbed banger as my first nomination:

Kerrie-Anne - Sweet Lies

Supporting

That charted and is in the first round, Kate :)

support:
Kehlani - Nights Like This
Kesha - Raising Hell

suggestions: