The profile banner has been updated and it's time for me to leave you alone and go back to bed. The chart shows going back to 2013 will all remain on Mixcloud for another few weeks, and then it'll just be the last few years again. Have a happy eleven months and I'll see you in November.

Last night we revealed the 2025 Festive 50 top 20. You can listen back to it here...

The Cords had the worst split vote as well with 8 tracks in the mix. But they received the most votes overall across all tracks: 1 The Cords 2 CMAT 3 Pulp 4 Little Simz 5 Wet Leg 6 Water From Your Eyes 7 Geese 8 Prolapse 9 Horsegirl 10= Big Thief 10= Wolf Alice

Here’s how the final top 10 changed over time. Note that nobody voted for Jamie Oliver in the entire first week!

So there you go. Spare a thought for The Cords who lead from the 4th vote until the 4th last vote at about 9pm on the last day.

01 Pulp Spike Island www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

02 The Cords Fabulist www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

03 CMAT The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

04 Horsegirl Switch Over www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

05 Water From Your Eyes Playing Classics www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

06 Saint Etienne Glad www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

07 Little Simz ft. Obongjayar & Moonchild Sannelly Flood www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

08 Baxter Dury Allbarone www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

09 Chappell Roan The Subway www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

10 Wet Leg Mangetout www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

11 Prolapse On The Quarter Days www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

12 Charli XCX feat. John Cale House www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

13 Jetstream Pony Bubblegum Nothingness www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

14 Water From Your Eyes Life Signs www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

15 Sprints Descartes www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

16 Self Esteem The Deep Blue Okay www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

17 Caroline Total Euphoria www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

18 Lady Gaga Abracadabra www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

Apologies if anyone had difficulty accessing the show. It should be fully available now. www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

19 Stereolab Melodie Is A Wound www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

20 Suede Disintegrate www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

The 2025 Festive 50 Part 2: 20 to 1 Press play and let battle commence! www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

Another final thank you before we start. For those listening there will be plenty of swearing (probably) so put the kids to bed immediately. I'd forgotten to warn everyone about some of the links last night. ;)

10 minute warning until we start the top 20 countdown.l

Remember it's the final part of the 2025 Festive 50 tonight from 8 o'clock. Counting down the top 20.

For anyone who missed it last night here’s the bumper opening show in this year’s Festive 50 counting down from 50 to 21.

Oh and apologies to Trampled By Turtles for the horrendous allegation made in that post. There's always one fuck up every year isn't there? Anyways I can assure you that nobody was touched by any turtles that I'm aware of and I've checked the Epstein files.

So that was numbers 50 all the way down to 21. Same time (hopefully) tomorrow night for the top 20. That's 8pm on Monday night. See you there!

21 The Telephone Numbers Be Right Down www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

22 Fred Again ft. Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax Victory Lap www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

23 Geese Taxes www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

24 The Tubs Strange www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

25 Matt Berninger Bonnet Of Pins www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

26 Half Man Half Biscuit Falmouth Electrics www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

27 The Laughing Chimes Cats Go Car Watching www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

28 PinkPantheress Illegal www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

29 Prolapse The Fall Of Cashline www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

30 These New Puritans Bells www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

31 Wet Leg CPR www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

32 Wolf Alice Bloom Baby Bloom www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

33 CMAT Take A Sexy Picture Of Me www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

34 Half Man Half Biscuit Jack's Been To The National www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

35 Perfume Genius & Aldous Harding No Front Teeth www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

36 The Cords When You Said Goodbye www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...

37 Lily Allen Madeline www.mixcloud.com/TheFestive50...