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Peoples Pop 2024: THE FINAL GROUP
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The results are in! We have a final group of 40 songs to vote on in the WORLD CUP OF 2024, and a handy GOOGLE FORM where you can do just that. The form has details on the scoring system, and it’s open until midnight on Sunday 26th January. So on this post I’ll just put up the playlists and results.

Here’s the Spotify one:

And the YouTube one:

And the results by group (the top 4 qualified automatically)

ARTPOP: 1. DOECHII – “Denial Is A River”. 2. CHARLI XCX & LORDE – “Girl, So Confusing (Remix)”. 3. MAGDALENA BAY – “Death And Romance”. 4. NILUFER YANYA – “Like I Say (I Runaway)”. Also Qualified: JOSHUA IDEHEN – “Mum Does The Washing”, BABYMINT – “Booooooring”

B-SIDES: 1. ARXX – “Crying In The Carwash”. 2. JANE PAKNIA & HAGOP TCHAPARIAN – “Alice In Orchidverse”. 3. ANA PALINDROME – “Sorry A Million”. 4. MABE FRATTI – “Enfrente”

DANCE/ELECTRONICA/MISC.: 1. KABIN CREW ft LISDOONVARNA CREW – “The Spark”. 2. KELLY LEE OWENS – “Dreamstate”. 3. 4AM KRU ft PAPA LEVI – “Ribena”. 4. POPPY – “They’re All Around Us”. Also Qualified: ILLIT – “Magnetic”

GLOBAL: 1. AROOJ AFTAB – “Raat Ki Rani”. 2. SAHRA HALGAN – “Sharaf”. 3. NOA – “Any Angle”. 4. ATMOS BLAQ – “Mfana Wase Dobsi”. Also Qualified: KALI UCHIS – “Como Asi?”

HIP-HOP/R&B/JAZZ: 1. KENDRICK LAMAR – “Not Like That”. 2. DOECHII – “Nissan Altima”. 3. LITTLE SIMZ – “Mood Swings”. 4. TINASHE – “Nasty”

INDIE: 1. THE CURE – “Alone”. 2. KIM GORDON – “Bye Bye”. 3. FONTAINES DC – “Starburster”. 4. VAMPIRE WEEKEND – “Capricorn”. Also Qualified: BOB VYLAN – “Hunger Games”. KIM DEAL – “Crystal Breath”

POP: 1. CHAPELL ROAN – “Good Luck, Babe!”. 2. CHARLI XCX – “Von Dutch”. 3. SABRINA CARPENTER – “Espresso”. 4. JADE – “Angel Of My Dreams”. Also Qualified: ROSE & BRUNO MARS – “Apt.”, THE LAST DINNER PARTY – “The Feminine Urge”

SONGWRITERS: 1. WAXAHATCHEE ft MJ LENDERMAN – “Right Back To It”. 2. KACEY MUSGRAVES – “Cardinal”. 3. BETH GIBBONS – “Floating On A Moment”. 4. ROSIE TUCKER – “All My Exes Live In Vortexes”

THE WORLD CUP OF 2024
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In case you weren’t aware, the Pop Polls are back back BACK on Bluesky, and we’ve started off with the annual year-end poll, The World Cup Of 2024 (hashtag: #peoplespop24 if you want to play along there)

Bluesky doesn’t have polls, so I’m running the whole thing via Google Forms, and this post is where I’m posting the 8 separate Round 1 groups for you to vote on. Voting is open on all these until midnight, January 22nd (UK time) and you can edit your votes until then on any poll.

In each group you get to pick four songs you want to advance, and also allocate a bonus vote, which can be to one of the four or to a fifth deserving track. The top tracks in each group (exact proportions to be determined by a secret formula) will go through to a Final Group of 40 songs, voted on starting on Thursday 23rd.

GROUP 1: ART POP

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 2: B-SIDES (The tracks with the least streams and shazams)

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 3: INDIE

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 4: GLOBAL

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 5: POP

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 6: HIP-HOP/R&B/JAZZ

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 7: DANCE/ELECTRONIC/Misc.

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

GROUP 8: SONGWRITERS

VOTE – Listen on Spotify – see on YouTubeBluesky Thread

And if you want all the nominations at once, here they are:

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