Incredible compilation of 2025 moments, in which “How would the punters get to them?” remains undefeated

Happy Christmas to all my music polls and challenge mutuals and pals who make this place such a haven - especially Tom and Arron for organising xx

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#PeoplesPop25 7/7 Had been planning to boost something but haven't had the time to go through the playlist properly. So I'm chucking this one in instead, as I'm surprised she seems to have had no picks yet Addison Rae – 'Headphones On' youtu.be/XdFpzaM07i0?...

The album Buddy Holly and Yoko Ono made during Lennon’s lost weekend

#PeoplesPop25 6/7 Lucrecia Dalt ft. David Sylvian – 'Cosa Rara' A David Sylvian feature in 2025! Get in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6_b...

Oh jesus, there's a LinkedIn Wrapped

#PeoplesPop25 5/7 Boosting some bangers for the rest of the week Pink Pantheress – 'Illegal' www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWX...

#PeoplesPop25 4/7 Rosalía – 'Divinize' youtu.be/OxDmGz60hws?...

#PeoplesPop25 3/7 Juana Molina – 'Siestas Ahí' youtu.be/A54wqKoOR8A?...

Do any PPP veterans have the playlists for the Final Groups stages of the Xmas poll 2020?

#PeoplesPop25 2/7 Ata Kak – 'Batakari' An absolute joy throughout, but lifts up into a super-high gear from the halfway mark www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFr...

#PeoplesPop25 The WORLD CUP OF 2025 Challenge Week has begun! Post 7 favourite songs, 1/day (you can catch up if you miss today's) Guidelines: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I'll do a playlist on other platforms if I can but the main one is on YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#PeoplesPop25 1/7 HWFG zombie shway shway! Zuchu – 'Amanda' www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9f4...

You may be cool, but you'll never be "Freddie Stone & Larry Graham on Ed Sullivan" cool.

Name that genre

Anyway if YOU feel like the algorithm has eroded your curiosity and you want to hear a bunch of varied and novel new music I strongly recommend taking part in THE WORLD CUP OF 2025 on @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social

Train just crossed the border from England home to Scotland, and I got this notification that feels weirdly menacing

#TheTwen2ie5 50/50 Jessica Pratt – 'The Last Year' (US, 2024) These are bleak times, so I really appreciate Jessica Pratt cooing "I think it's gonna be fine" **12/10** youtu.be/St7PRIJVZ-Q?...

#TheTwen2ie5 49/50 Lia Lia – 'I'm a Moth!!' (2022) This is very convincing **11/10** youtu.be/T7zHk_IQHow?...

#TheTwen2ie5 48/50 Charli XCX ft. Lorde – 'Girl, So Confusing' remix Nothing more Twen2ie5 than this triumphant banger, clawing its way out from the toxic end of the social media era **11/10** youtu.be/0q3K6FPzY18?...

#TheTwen2ie5 47/50 Rina Sawayama – 'This Hell' (2022) A fabulous, inclusive bop, assembled from things I don't otherwise like (shred guitar, bootscooting, Paris Hilton). Get in line **11/10** youtu.be/ekauErew4Bs?...

#TheTwen2ie5 46/50 Taylor Swift – 'Cruel Summer' (2023, you know, sort of) **11/10** www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKIK...

Fell behind with #TheTwen2ie5, sorry, so catching up before bonuses from tomorrow: 43/50 Sault – 'Wildfires' 44/50 Pongo – 'Uwa' 45/50 Rosalía et al – 'Berghain' The Rosalía hasn't been out long enough for me to make up my mind for sure, but I'm definitely not going to forget it

#TheTwen2ie5 42/50 NewJeans – 'Super Shy' (South Korea, 2023) 'Dad, have you heard this?' 'Yeah, it was runner-up in our last pop poll' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArmD...

#TheTwen2ie5 41/50 Ata Kak – 'Batakari' (Ghana, 2025) Ata Kak is back back BACK! After 30 years, and what a delight www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFr...

#TheTwen2ie5 40/50 Ellinoa – 'La Mémoire du Monde' (France, 2022) An old friend, who has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard youtu.be/wu9HHHx_m7c

PPP Polhalla playlist now updated to include the #BPHM8285 inductees open.spotify.com/playlist/1vq...

#TheTwen2ie5 39/50 Chelsea Dinorath – 'Fall' (Angola, 2023) Another incredible find that I first heard listening to other people's picks in this project www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p8R...

#TheTwen2ie5 38/50 Sofia Kourtesis – 'La Perla' (Peru, 2021) Yet another PPP classic discovery www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLoJ...

#TheTwen2ie5 37/50 Wet Leg — ‘Wet Dream’ youtu.be/tjpgJjdk52c?...

#TheTwen2ie5 36/50 Sho Madjozi – 'Chale' (South Africa, 2023) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3l...

#TheTwen2ie5 35/50 Shilpa Ray – 'Manic Pixie Dream C**t' (2020) Only discovered this from the 2020 playlist a couple of days before we started. There's a karaoke instrumental version on YouTube too, if anyone's wondering what to do at their work Xmas party www.youtube.com/watch?v=p81N...

#TheTwen2ie5 34/50 Olivia Rodrigo – 'Bad Idea Right?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9q...

#TheTwen2ie5 33/50 Tems – 'Turn Me Up' (Nigeria, 2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUJ...

Awed at the thought of how much hassle it must've been to get that full orchestra playing inside a bus for the Rosalía video and they then only use 7 seconds of it

#TheTwen2ie5 32/50 Magdalena Bay – 'Chaeri' (2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ben9...

#TheTwen2ie5 31/50 Pink Pantheress – 'Boy's a Liar' (2022) Galaxy-braining the Ice Spice Clause by posting the version she's not on www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUx5...

#TheTwen2ie5 30/50 Rosalía – ‘Saoko’ (Spain, 2022) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o7b...

#TheTwen2ie5 29/50 Peggy Gou – 'I Go' (South Korea, 2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJg...

My name us Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my perfect works from the 90s that are not by Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains

#TheTwen2ie5 28/50 Juniore – 'Ah bah d'accord' (France, 2020) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Ve...

#TheTwen2ie5 27/50 Little Simz ft. Cleo Sol – 'Woman' (2021) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHGf...

RUINED HOMES IN THE WAKE OF THE JAZZ!

#TheTwen2ie5 26/50 But first a word from our sponsor Addison Rae – 'Diet Pepsi' (2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hki6...

#TheTwen2ie5 HM 5/5 Residente ft. Ibeyi — 'This is Not America' (Puerto Rico ft. France, 2022) This is a wow, one of numerous Latin bangers I've first heard via posts from @spacedan.bsky.social

I continue to see Chat notifications popping up that I can't access in the UK because I'm not age-verifying for Bluesky. So if by any chance these are from you, my email is easy to find :)

#TheTwen2ie5 HM 4/5 Reet Talwar — 'Meherbaan' (India, 2023) Indelible Indian pop from Dave's fabulous list of picks

#TheTwen2ie5 HM 3/5 Zuchu — 'Amanda' (Tanzania, 2025) One foolproof way to hit 50 never-heard-this-incredible-banger-before HMs would be to just quote-post Jonathan's whole list

#TheTwen2ie5 HM 2/5 Ozoda — 'Ko'k jiguli' (Uzbekistan, 2024) Boosting this irresistible Uzbek banger, which has already had at least two picks