TiBB's Top Song of 2017 is... "Green Light" by Lorde!
 

Welcome to the Top Song of 2017. If you're not sure of what this whole thing is, here are a few links to competitions of previous years:

2017: "Green Light" by Lorde
2016: "Into You" by Ariana Grande
2015: "Run Away With Me" by Carly Rae Jepsen
2014: "Chandelier" by Sia
2013: "Work" by Iggy Azalea
2012: "Pyramids" by Frank Ocean
2011: "Midnight City" by M83
2010: "What's My Name (feat. Drake)" by Rihanna
2009: "Sweet Disposition" by the Temper Trap
2008: "Womanizer" by Britney Spears

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.

We'll begin with a Top 200 of the year, hand-picked through the following methods:

- Any song that has appeared in the Top 15 of the UK single charts at any point from January 1 2017 to December 29 2017 (the last chart date of the year).
- Because streaming has effectively strangled the idea of anything new hitting the charts for a brief fling, I've had to also include anything that made the top 5 in Australia's ARIA 50 and top 10 in the Billboard Hot 100, but then this isn't just a site for Britons so that's not a problem really.
- Of those, songs originally released prior to January 1 - either as a single, or on an album released before July 2016 - 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).
- I've shoved in a handful of songs that did well in critics' "end of the year" lists from the likes of NME, Rolling Stone, Spin and Pitchfork too. I have bolded these.
- 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 Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris, Lorde, Eminem, Taylor Swift and Post Malone.

So here's how it will work..

PRELIMINARY ROUND I've compiled a list of 159 songs below, picked from singles that made the top 15 of the UK charts / other charts this year and songs that did well in critics' end-of-year lists (bolded)
QUALIFYING ROUND 41 songs are 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
Round 1: Out of the top 200, 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
Round 2: Out of the top 162, each member can choose their favourite FIFTEEN songs. You cannot choose all 3 songs by an artist, and please keep them in alphabetical order. THANX.
Round 3: Out of the top 136, each member can choose their favourite TWELVE 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 100, each member can choose their favourite TEN songs. The songs that get more than 1 vote will move onto Round 5. NEW RULE: ONLY VOTE FOR 1 SONG PER ARTIST FROM NOW ON!
Round 5: Out of the top 53, each member can choose their favourite TEN songs AND their THREE LEAST favourite songs. As with round 3, any song with a score of lower than positive one shall be eliminated. Please only vote for songs you actually dislike rather than ones you've not heard.
Round 6: Out of the top 47, each member can choose their favourite EIGHT songs.
Round 7: Out of the top 24, each member can choose their favourite FIVE songs.
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Round 7 (25 Songs)
Round 6 (22 Songs Eliminated)
Round 5 (18 Songs Eliminated)
Round 4 (34 Songs Eliminated)
Round 3 (36 Songs Eliminated)
Round 2 (26 Songs Eliminated)
Round 1 (39 Songs Eliminated)

My five submissions:

St. Vincent - Los Ageless
Sigrid - Don't Kill My Vibe
Bleachers - Don't Take the Money
LCD Soundsystem - Call the Police
Arcade Fire - Everything Now

do we have to nominate 5?

Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same
Katy Perry - Save As Draft
A$AP Ferg - Plain Jane
Eminem - Framed
Eminem - Nowhere Fast

Oh I forgot NF - Green Lights but oh well I don't think it has a shot of getting anywhere on the list anyway. :joker:

Sorry I don't understand

Do we say which songs from the list we like the best?

Nah, just no more than 5 RileyH

I support Everything Now x

Submit:
Cardi B - Bartier Cardi (feat. 21 Savage)
Katy Perry - Bon Appetit (feat. Migos)
Kendrick Lamar - Loyalty (feat. Rihanna)
Paramore - Fake Happy
Paramore - Told You So

Vanessa White - Rotation
Vanessa White - Trust Me
Steps - Neon Blue
Erika Jayne - XXPEN$IVE
Kesha - Learn To Let Go

Louisa Johnson - Best Behaviour
Selena Gomez - Fetish

Right now we're submitting any songs that aren't already in the list, in order to start the game properly with a full 200 rather than an awkward '159' :p

Support Learn To Let Go

Support Cardi B - Bartier Cardi (feat. 21 Savage)

Kesha - Woman
Blondie - Long Time

(I might nominate some more later)

I'll support Los Ageless

Support Never Be The Same

Jason derulo if I'm lucky
Sia Santa's coming for us

Been waiting for this thread to pop up, thanks once again for doing this Shaun :clap1:

My five submissions:

Jorja Smith X Preditah - On My Mind

Bea Miller - Buy Me Diamonds

Rachel Crow - Dime

SZA - The Weekend

Lotto Boyzz (Ash X Lucas) - No Don

SZA - Drew Barrymore

(should all my nominations be in the same post or does it not matter?)

Just a heads-up because I didn't mention it in the OP:

Please don't edit posts with new submissions/supports, this game is mighty-confusing enough to keep updated without subtle little edits that I might not notice :p Just posting them in a new post will be fine (and gives this the impression that Chat and Games is thriving!)

Also, in the event of someone being submitted to the game and making their 3 song entries in the game proper, any other suggestions will be redeemed and voided so you can use your votes on someone else!

support

Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same
Erika Jayne - XXPEN$IVE (RileyHollyoaks)
Jorja Smith X Preditah - On My Mind

Yes @ Never Be The Same being the first qualified :clap1:

We now have 3 Camila songs, so no more suggestions from her thanks (or indeed Calvin Harris, Eminem, Post Malone, Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran :p)

Support

Paramore - Told You So
Paramore - Fake Happy
Kesha - Woman
Kesha - Learn To Let Go
Bleachers - Dont Take The Money

London grammar oh man oh woman