A Year In Pop: 39

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Sweet Christmas it's THIRTEEN new entries, almost a third of the WHOLE CHART. Surely ONE of them must be good!!

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October round-up and Pop Open results to follow - what a day of orgafun content!

The Pop Open: Fifties And Before - RESULTS!

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The votes are IN for last week's Pop Open group.

First Place - Les Paul and Mary Ford - "Smoke Rings" (45% of total points, 12 first-place votes) - stevem78 wins!

Second Place - Odetta - "All The Pretty Little Horses" (26% of total points, 6 first-place votes) - hauntedballroom qualifies.

Third Place - Pink Martini - "Dosvedanya Mio Bombino" (17% of total points, 4 first-place votes) - inhibitorylinks is OUT.

Fourth Place - Esquerita - "Maybe Baby" (12% of total points, 0 first-place votes) - martinskidmore is OUT.

A tough group, this - congratulations to the qualifiers. What do they qualify for? GOOD QN. The details of the third round are being kept a mystery for now (for reasons you can probably intuit). Check back probably tomorrow for the Sixties group.

September RIP

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It's not September any more!

Here's what happened to you last month:

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And here are some things that happened to us:

The Lex 20 Pence Indie Prize (Did this actually happen?)
Skyecaptain's Guide To Teenpop (also here!)
Does every generation need its Kurt Cobain?
Britney on the VMAs
Are babies good for pop?
What are we getting excited about?
The problem with gnu rave
Epic British Indie Angst (continued)
RUN and HIDE its the GREBO CANON