[Shaun]

TiBB'S TOP SONG OF 2019

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:

2019: "Juice" by Lizzo
2018: "No Tears Left to Cry" by Ariana Grande
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
- 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

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 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)

Billie Eilish - everything i wanted
Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I've Found You
Clairo - Bags
DJ Spoony - Flowers (feat. Sugababes)
Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
fka twigs - sad day
Harry Styles - Adore You
Katy Perry - Never Really Over
KEiiNO - Spirit in the Sky
Kim Petras - Do Me
Lana Del Rey - Norman ****ing Rockwell
Lana Del Rey - The Greatest
Lizzo - Juice
Luca Hanni - She Got Me
Mabel - Don't Call Me Up
Mabel - Mad Love
Mahalia - Simmer (feat. Burna Boy)
Megan Thee Stallion - Hot Girl Summer (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign)
Miley Cyrus - Slide Away
Normani - Motivation
Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
Sigala - We Got Love (feat. Ella Henderson)
Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying
Tiesto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual
Zara Larsson - All the Time

Round Six (10 songs eliminated)

Camila Cabello - Liar
Fleur East - Favourite Thing
Jax Jones - This is Real (feat. Ella Henderson)
Jorja Smith - Be Honest (feat. Burna Boy)
Kehlani - Nights Like This (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)
Kygo - Higher Love (feat. Whitney Houston)
Mark Ronson - Don't Leave Me Lonely (feat. YEBBA)
Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter
SaWeetie - My Type (feat. City Girls & Jhene Aiko)
Tame Impala - Patience

Round Five (16 songs eliminated)

Ariana Grande - 7 rings
Ava Max - So Am I
Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
Blackpink - Kill This Love
Doja Cat - Juicy (feat. Tyga)
fka twigs - Cellophane
Georgia - About Work the Dancefloor
Lizzo - Good as Hell
Lizzo - Truth Hurts
Meduza - Piece of Your Heart (feat. Goodboys)
Sharon van Etten - Seventeen
Shura - religion (u can lay your hands on me)
Taylor Swift - Lover
Tiesto & Mabel - God is a Dancer
Tyler, the Creator - Earfquake
Wiley - Boasty (feat. Stefflon Don & Sean Paul)

Round Four (25 songs eliminated)

Beyonce - Brown Skin Girl
Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend
blackbear - Hot Girl Bummer
BTS - Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey)
Dave - Location (feat. Burna Boy)
Dominic Fike - 3 Nights
HAIM - Now I'm In It
James Blake - Barefoot in the Park (feat. Rosalia)
Jax Jones - Harder (feat. Bebe Rexha)
Joel Corry - Sorry
The Jonas Brothers - Sucker
Kesha - Raising Hell (feat. Big Freedia)
Lana Del Rey - Doin' Time
Lauv - I'm So Tired... (feat. Troye Sivan)
Mark Ronson - Late Night Feelings (feat. Lykke Li)
Meduza - Lose Control (feat. Becky Hill & Goodboys)
Niall Horan - Nice to Meet Ya
Rosalía - Aute Cuture
Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race UK - Break Up (Bye Bye)
Selena Gomez - Lose You to Love Me
Sigala - Wish You Well (feat. Becky Hill)
Sigrid - Never Mine
Stormzy - Crown
Stormzy - Vossi Bop
Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall

Round Three (50 songs eliminated)

AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove
Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored
Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey - Don't Call Me Angel
Ava Max - Torn
Bastille - Can't Fight this Feeling
Beyonce - Spirit
Big Thief - Not
Camila Cabello - Living Proof
Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
Cheryl - Let You
Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered
Drake - Money in the Grave (feat. Rick Ross)
Endor - Pump It Up
Ellie Goulding - Hate Me (feat. Juice WRLD)
EUROPA - All Day and Night (feat. Madison Beer)
Freya Ridings - Castles
Halsey - Nightmare
Harry Styles - Lights Up
Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar
Jordan Clarke - Freaks
Kesha - Resentment
Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
Lil Nas X - Panini
Little Mix - Bounce Back
Little Mix - One I've Been Missing
Mabel - Bad Behaviour
Mahmood - Soldi
Maroon 5 - Memories
Marshmello - Here With Me (feat. CHVRCHES)
Megan Thee Stallion - Cash **** (feat. DaBaby)
New Hope Club - Know Me Too Well (feat. Danna Paola)
P!nk - Walk Me Home
Pet Shop Boys - Dreamland (feat. Years & Years)
Post Malone - wow.
Riton & Oliver Heldens - Turn Me On (feat. Vula)
Rosalía - Con Altura (feat. J Balvin)
Ruti - Racing Cars
Sam Feldt - Post Malone (feat. Rani)
Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With a Stranger
Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You
Shawn Mendes - Senorita (feat. Camila Cabello)
Stormzy - Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy)
Taylor Swift - Me! (feat. Brendon Urie)
Taylor Swift - You Need to Calm Down
Tove Lo - Really Don't Like U (feat. Kylie Minogue)
Travis Scott - Highest in the Room
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
Will Young - All the Songs
Young Thug - The London (feat. J Cole & Travis Scott)

Round Two (31 songs eliminated)

Aitch - Taste (Make it Shake)
AJ Tracey - Psych Out
Amy Wadge - Faith's Song
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar
Chris Brown - No Guidance (feat. Drake)
DaBaby - BOP
DaBaby - Suge
Duncan Laurence - Arcade
Florence + the Machine - Jenny of Oldstones
Gesaffelstein - Lost in the Fire (feat. The Weeknd)
Halsey - Graveyard
Headie One - Both
J. Cole - Middle Child
J-Hope - Chicken Noodle Soup (feat. Becky G)
Jonas Blue - What I Like About You (feat. Theresa Rex)
Juice WRLD - Bandit (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again)
Kanye West - Follow God
Kanye West - Selah
Kerrie-Anne - Sweet Lies
Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait
Lil Tecca - Ransom
Miranda Lambert - Locomotive
Polo G - Pop Out (feat. Lil Tjay)
Post Malone - Circles
The Script - The Last Time
Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus
Tones and I - Dance Monkey
Tones and I - Never Seen the Rain
The Weeknd - Heartless
Westlife - Hello My Love
The 1975 - People
21 Savage - A Lot

Round One (81 songs eliminated)

Aitch - Buss Down (feat. ZieZie)
Ariana Grande - Boyfriend (feat. Social House)
Arizona Zervas - ROXANNE
Avicii - Heaven
Avicii - SOS (feat. Aloe Blacc)
Bad Bunny - Caro
Bad Bunny - La Romana (feat. El Alfa)
Blanco Brown - The Git Up
Blueface - Thotiana
Bugzy Malone - Kilos (feat. Aitch)
Calvin Harris - Giant (feat. Rag N Bone Man)
Cardi B & Bruno Mars - Please Me
Carly Rae Jepsen - Too Much
Charli XCX - Gone (feat. Christine and the Queens)
Charli XCX - Shake It (feat. Big Freedia, Brooke Candy, Pablo Vittar & CupcakKe)
Chris Brown - Undecided
Coldplay - Orphans
Dan & Shay - 10,000 Hours (feat. Justin Bieber)
Dave - Disaster (feat. J Hus)
Dave - Streatham
Dean Lewis - 7 Minutes
D-Block Europe - Home Pussy
D-Block Europe - Kitchen Kings
D-Block Europe - Nookie (feat. Lil Baby)
Digdat - New Dior (feat. D-Block Europe)
Digga D - No Diet
Ed Sheeran - Beautiful People (feat. Khalid)
Ed Sheeran - I Don't Care (feat. Justin Bieber)
Ed Sheeran - Take Me Back to London (feat. Stormzy)
Ellie Goulding - River
Ellie Goulding - Sixteen
Fredo - All I Ever Wanted (feat. Dave)
Fredo - Netflix and Chill
George Michael - This Is How (We Want You to Get High)
Gerry Cinnamon - Sun Queen
Guy Sebastian - Choir
Hardy Caprio & Digdat - Guten Tag
Headie One - 18Hunna (feat. Dave)
Idina Menzel & Aurora - Into the Unknown
J Hus - Must Be
James Arthur - Falling Like the Stars
James Blunt - Monsters
Jay1 - Mocking It
Jay1 - Your Mrs
Jess Glynne - One Touch (feat. Jax Jones)
Kanye West - Closed on Sunday
Khalid & Disclosure - Talk
Krept & Konan - I Spy (feat. Headie One & K-Trap)
KSI - Down Like That (feat. Rick Ross, Lil Baby & S-X)
Lewis Capaldi - Bruises
Liam Gallagher - One of Us
Liam Gallagher - Shockwave
Lil Uzi Vert - Futsal Shuffle 2020
Logic - Homicide (feat. Eminem)
Luke Combs - Even Though I'm Leaving
Marshmello - One Thing Right (feat. Kane Brown)
Mist - So High (feat. Fredo)
Molly Hocking - I'll Never Love Again
MoStack - Shine Girl (feat. Stormzy)
MoStack - Stinking Rich (feat. Dave & J Hus)
Mura Masa - Deal Wiv It (feat. Slowthai)
NSG - Options (feat. Tion Wayne)
NSG - OT Bop
Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding
Professor Green - Got it All (feat. Alice Chater)
Regard - Ride It
Roddy Ricch - How It Is (feat. Chip & Yxng Bane)
Russ - Gun Lean
Russ splash & Tion Wayne - Keisha & Becky
Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep
SHAED - Trampoline (feat. Zayn)
Sidhu Moose Wala, MIST & Steel Bangelz - 47 (feat. Stefflon Don)
Skepta - Greaze Mode (feat. Nafe Smallz)
Skepta - What Do You Mean (feat. J Hus)
Solange - Almeida (feat. Playboi Carti)
Steel Banglez - Fashion Week (feat. AJ Tracey & MoStack)
Tom Walker - Better Half of Me
Tom Walker - Just You & I
Westlife - Better Man
Westlife - My Blood
YNW Melly - Murder on my Mind
Young T & Bugsey - Strike a Pose (feat. Aitch)

[Black Dagger]

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

[Shaun]

My suggestions are...

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[Daniel-X]

I’ll suggest:

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

For my first two songs

[Daniel-X]

Sorry 3rd suggestion!

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

[Shaun]

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.

[Marsh.]

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

[Mitchell]

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

[Mitchell]

And I’ll support Will Young

[LukeB]

I support Sigrid - Never Mine

Suggest
Lana Del Rey - Doin Time

[Shaun]

10th Place: When I Grow Up (The Pussycat Dolls)
9th Place: Single Ladies (Beyonce)
8th Place: Disturbia (Rihanna)
7th Place: Dance with Me (Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome)
6th Place: Wow (Kylie Minogue)
5th Place: Broken Strings (James Morrison)
4th Place: Piece of Me (Britney Spears)
3rd Place: Girls (Sugababes)
2nd Place: Paper Planes (M.I.A.)
WINNER: Womanizer (Britney Spears)

Not sure how Girls got that bloody high, either.

[lewis111]

I'll Suggest -

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

[Mitchell]

I’d like to nominate Kesha - Resentment too please

[lewis111]

And I'll support Doin' Time

[Matthew.]

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

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Matthew.

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

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

[Liam-]

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

[Shaun]

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

[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Liam-

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

[Liam-]

Serves me right for skimming

[Kate!]

Ava Max - So Am I

[Headie]

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

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[Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Hayden

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

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Supporting

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Ava Max - So Am I

That charted and is in the first round, Kate

[RileyH]

support:
Kehlani - Nights Like This
Kesha - Raising Hell

suggestions:

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