somehow most devastated that CRJ won't be suiting up again, that's a key player for us (as are many others on the list to be fair). Scotland, all I'm saying is based on this you could still run "Mogwai Fear Satan"

We're clearly going to have to try a different approach than what I'd imagined.

At last, Jane Siberry is poised for Pollhalla!

What I'm seeing here is that Sheena Easton is still in the game

#PWC26 IMPORTANT UPDATE! This is the BANLIST - no nominations from acts on this list are eligible. For most countries, this doesn't matter at all For a few, we lose a handful of acts For Scotland, Canada and Jamaica, a few more For England and the USA... well. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

When the USA manager plays a Geese track

#PWC26 MANAGERIAL PARADE This thread is for the managers who'll be managing each country, Group by Group. They'll be nominating a banger from there as their MAIN nomination. Let the tactical thinking begin!

OK I've closed down the #PWC26 managerial call! There's technically one slot left so if you're a regular who was hoping for a go and didn't see the call, please DM! I just don't want to leave it open overnight and disappoint anyone.

There are now only FOUR open managerial slots in this poll (of course you can still nominate and vote later!) Unpicked nations: Austria, Colombia, Curacao, Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uruguay, USA, Undecided 3

9 slots left (I hope all the regulars have seen this!) Managers needed for: Algeria, Austria, Cape Verde, Colombia, Curacao, Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uruguay, USA, Undecided 3

Preemptively researching Qatari and Saudi pop in the event of managing one of these teams, good luck to future me

9 slots left (I hope all the regulars have seen this!) Managers needed for: Algeria, Austria, Cape Verde, Colombia, Curacao, Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uruguay, USA, Undecided 3

Managerial vacancies still open at: Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Curacao, Germany, Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uruguay, USA, Undecided 3

Still available (deep breath): Algeria, Austria, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Curacao, France, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi, Scotland, S Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uruguay, USA, Uzbekistan, Undecided 1&3

#PWC26 The CALL FOR MANAGERS is now open in the POP WORLD CUP 2026 Here's where you register your interest in managing a country of your choice (or a RANDOM one) in this prestigious pop tournament! Hopefully it all makes sense and the huge table works on phones. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The mystery manager has been found!

The time has come…to RANDOMIZE

Better than the real thing! Be your own Big Sam!

#PWC26 The CALL FOR MANAGERS is now open in the POP WORLD CUP 2026 Here's where you register your interest in managing a country of your choice (or a RANDOM one) in this prestigious pop tournament! Hopefully it all makes sense and the huge table works on phones. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#PWC26 It's the GUIDELINES for the POP WORLD CUP (in the link) These are quite complicated so I've prepared a SHORT VERSION! (in the picture) The call for MANAGERS will open ON FRIDAY docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#PWC26 It's the GUIDELINES for the POP WORLD CUP (in the link) These are quite complicated so I've prepared a SHORT VERSION! (in the picture) The call for MANAGERS will open ON FRIDAY docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thanks for the reminder! Expect an update tomorrow and the CALL FOR MANAGERS to open on Friday

Might be signing up Allister for the commentary box

For anyone who doesn’t know what the Pop World Cup is, it’s songs from the 48 competing countries in the FIFA World Cup playing each other

It's time for the NEW POLL ANNOUNCEMENT - back in a new format after almost a decade it's THE POP WORLD CUP #PWC26 this April Enjoy the thrill of international pop competition WITHOUT sportswashing horrific regimes! Join in as a manager, a nominator or just a voter!

Great news for BANDCAMP ONLY SONGS in the pop polls, we love our Bandcamp Only Songs. Obviously would also be nice if we could actually poll them in-app too...

Peoples pop voters: Zaramentum isn’t real, it can’t hurt you The world:

Chloe Qisha has released a new single (presumably to capitalise on her @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social success) and it's good youtu.be/3p8XaJP0jqA

Wooo yeah!!! Eat that croissant baybeeeeee

#PeoplesPop25 In the thread below is everything that got 1-6 noms for GOLDEN BEAT In this thread - the podium places. Though first the tracks in 4th= with 7 mentions: CAIN CULTO ft XIUHTEZCATL - "Basta Ya!" JIM LEGXACY - "father" ZUCHU - "Amanda"

#PeoplesPop25 They said it could never happen again - it's time for the GOLDEN BEAT RESULTS We have a proper Golden Beat, in fact a bronze, silver and golden beat. But as usual songs that reached Pollhalla can't win, so a shout to CHLOE QISHA, BADGER and ATA KAK who WOULD have been right up there

Happy Lunar New Year! youtu.be/KfD0Xyc-rIU?...

Pssst want to fill in the GOLDEN BEAT FORM? You still can! So far 118 of 256 tracks have got a mention - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What a poll! Have really enjoyed listening to all the tracks and reading all the comments. I struggle to find the words sometimes … so I’ve done a scatter plot instead

We all saw this was where I landed, but I'm still surprised. It was a pretty brutal final. Well done Ciara. I hope his kids would like it

With regret I must announce a new profile pic

This is fair in that Illegal was the second best pop song of 2025 but that's only because the best pop song of 2025 was Illegal + Nia Archives. But CMAT deserves it for the best song + title combo of 2025.

Oh, shout out to @geoffdeburca.bsky.social who nominated this, the highest placed track to actually have a nominator! (the top 2 were challenge week picks)

Absolutely stunned and frankly fucking delighted at the same time. An epic track that I must have listened to about 500 times and I still never ever skip. Amazing work Tom to keep everyone engaged over such a long poll.

I actually like both TJOPS and 'Illegal' about the same but the former has won me over to an artist I wasn't sure about/felt may be overhyped (see also Roan) and by putting a real shift in whereas PP's graceful gliding over samples of some of my favourite tunes ever does feel a bit too easy.

Here is the full list of #PeoplesPop25 rankings, in hott google sheets format

WHAT

Rioting

Surprised and delighted, as I don't think I saw anyone comment that they were voting for this.

Ok, first I'm relieved it's not lost to 'The Subway', thus proving you don't need to be American to win a PPP on Bluesky. However, I have to ask: is it (ahem) illegal for a British act to win a year-end poll? Now lost 5 of 6 eligible finals including 4 RU (23 was USA/South Korea, 24 Charli not RU)

fine, fine, i guess i’ll finally learn who jamie oliver is

😬😬😬😬😬

Bluesky gonna indie, I'm not mad, the CMAT song is good.

#PeoplesPop25 - THE (GRAND) FINAL COUNTDOWN 175 votes (37 above our previous record) Very much a match of two halves - 2/3 of the votes on Day 1 and a solid lead for one, but then a second song dominated Days 2-3. Who, and was it enough? Read on -

I'm happy with any result really, worst would be Chappell Roan as it's a worse song from last year's (deserved) winner, but even that would be fine.