A kung fu fighter in a disco

Official heats for 2006 are now closed! Here is your current list of finalists, we will have a quick mop up of the also-rans tomorrow to get the last few places in the top 40 filled.

In the interests of meta-polling I draw your attention to the two three NOW albums of 2006:
Now 63
Now 64
Now 65

( mathematically safe )

See you next week to review my maths skills innit. [nb: do not review my maths skills]

Heat 4, a battlefield on which many SOLID GOLD TRACKS lie beaten and bloodied, has left us with a four-way tie as this lot haul themselves up for another go. There can be ONLY ONE WINNER; go forth and literally pick some pop.

[Poll #1734913]

[Poll #1734914]

This poll will close TUESDAY 3rd at lunchtime-ish GMT. Effing bank holidays.

Last time we did a qualifying playoff it was discovered, to genuine shock, that Poptimists are not secretly indie after all (we turned this diagnosis round in the next heat, regrettably) as Beyonce, Cascada, Fergie and Blog 27 all sailed through leaving guitar fiends the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to drop out.

Mathematically safe from Heat 3 are the following 5:
Lily Allen - LDN (14 ticks, to my utter astonishment)
Beyonce- Irreplaceable (13 ticks)
Cassie - Me & U (12 ticks)
Nelly Furtado - Maneater (11 ticks)
Camera Obscura (!!!) - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken (9 ticks, good to see we are back on the indie horse)

Which leaves the following two on six ticks each and now in what Chezza Cole would accurately describe as a FITE FOR YR LOVE. Will Lupe Fiasco land a few low blows or will Cassie outrun him? The answer *seems* predetermined but this isn't a match I ever would've expected...

[Poll #1732393]

ETA: this poll will close LUNCHTIME TUESDAY 26th GMT.

ETA2: CASSIE is the winner, with 11 votes to Lupe's 10.

It's Heat #3! It's early because I've got a lot of work to do but the other poll will stay open until midday.

( RULES )

The poll will stay open until lunchtime on THURSDAY 21st APRIL GMT. Or so. My lunchtime works out about 4pm GMT at the minute so basically 'when I get to it.'

Extra ticks in this round go to: lockedintheatti, hoshuteki, credoimprobus, koganbot and redcommieapples

[Poll #1731592]

Time for ANOTHER HEAT. Yes I am being a bit slow about this, sorry; work has got very busy suddenly just when I thought their backs were turned.

Through from the last heat are Christina Aguilera with Aint No Other Man on 12 tix, Gnarls Barkley with Crazy on 10, Kelis ft. Too $hort with Bossy and Lil Chris with Checkin It Out both on 8, Ashlee Simpson with Boyfriend on 7 and the Pussycat Dolls/Snoop Dogg with Buttonz on 6. Now, onwards into D-I!

( them rules again )

You have until lunchtime GMT, Monday 18th April to vote. Get ticking!

Extra ticks this round go to: hoshuteki, askbask, credoimprobus and koganbot

[Poll #1729999]

After 100% positive feedback to the idea, I'm bringing this mothereffer back.

THE PROJECT:
Like all Poptimist projects, the point ultimately is to prove how great Scooter are. No- I mean, it's to work out what our favourite songs of the last decade were. With polls, naturally. You can look at some of the previous ones here -feel free to go back and do some ticking in the poll ones, although obviously nominations closed several years ago now.

THE RULES:
First we nominate top tracks of the year to be included within the POLL PHASE which will happen when I remember to actually renew my paid account next week. You may nominate as many songs which charted in the UK top 40 for the relevant year as you want but only 10 which did not chart in the UK.

Q: BUT WHY?! I want to nominate the entire of this white-label Hawaiian funk compilation!
A: Because there is, even in Poptimists, a limit to the number of things we will eventually include in a poll, also it is more fun if the nominations are things people can actually discuss- 10 extras is a good way to get people to be discriminating about what they nominate. Also there are hundreds of things you can nominate from within the UK charts!

Then we will vote on them in gluts; there is a TICKY BONUS SCHEME for listening to new stuff when it comes to the poll phase, which I will elaborate more on when the time comes.

For now, let the nominations for 2006 commence! ETA: nominations will close at midnight, Friday (25th March)

( a few things that made it to the top of the charts, to kick off )