If it said "promotional single" on Wikipedia I would have it in the non-singles, e.g. Charli's 'Unlock It' is one of mine.
However there doesn't seem to be any meaningful ambiguity here. And if we're going to deny something on the basis of no physical release, we might as well do #LetsDoIt25 again!
These things are relative - this time last year I was dealing with a heavily oversubscribed #LetsDoIt25 just a week after signing off on #UncoolTwo50...
Most of these were discovered via #20GreatCanadianTunes, @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social polls on the best albums of 1989 and 2000 (technically last year, but I was still sorting through music come January), #PowerPop10Days, and #LetsDoIt25. So special thanks to everybody who participated in those!
Word cloud for this account in 2025, from https://anisota.net/harvest
Interactions on this account in 2025, from https://anisota.net/harvest
It's a sort of Spotify Wrapped for this account in 2025, its busiest year!
(four full challenges by Christmas Eve... and a website)
#LETSDOIT25
#1C000LEST
#ALL50RTS
#THETWEN2IE5
Thanks everyone!
#ALL50RTS
'I Feel Love' was defeated by 'Superstition' in the #1C000LEST finale.
It hasn't been a good year for Donna.
In February, she'd already lost her record for largest winning margin to 'Strange Fruit' in #LetsDoIt25 (117 points).
In June came 'Superstition'.
And now...
#GetBackToTheCountry
#MusicChallenge
Classic Country Songs - 1/7
"Home in San Antone," Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1943)
If there's one takeaway I had from the #LetsDoIt25 countdown (favorite songs from < 1953), it's that not nearly enough people know Bob Wills and the western swing genre.
#All50rts
1958 - Eartha Kitt & Shorty Rogers - St Louis Blues
Discovered during #LetsDoIt25
You got that version of St Louis Blues with Eartha?
Shorty: Sure did, real fuckin camp like you asked
This is my second trot number in these challenges... only 61 years after the first! From Bok Hye-Suk in 1933 for #LetsDoIt25 to Kim Hyeyeon in 1994 for #all50rts.
And this is a @koganbot.bsky.social-inspired choice, after he nominated Southbound Train [남행열차] for the 1994 People's Pop Poll. Thanks!
#LetsDoIt25
#Let5D0It
#UncoolTwo50
#FearofMu21C
#1C000LEST
#ALL50RTS
Arron hosts some of the most engaging - and high maintenance - #MusicChallenge on SM. So if you have enjoyed any of these (and you can afford to do so) please give some money to this worthy cause.
If you're following the various info tabs in the #1C000LEST HITLIST, you'll see a nice* symmetry on the 'Survivors' one...
1 #LetsDoIt25 (pre-1954)
11 #Let5D0It (1954-76)
11 #UncoolTwo50 (1977-99)
1 #FearofMu21C (2000-23)
*well, that depends on your era preference, i guess.
#1C000LEST
Well, after that "controversy", let's cut #FearofMu21C down to size...
25.
OUTKAST
HEY YA!
USA 2003
238 points
1 x 12 (unranked)
6 x 11 (incl me)
One left, same as #LetsDoIt25.
This is, of course, the #1C000LEST anthem.
Just 1000 not 3000.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgv...
That's a bit of a joke but I did complain that much of the picks of #LetsDoIt25 weren't dance based despite that period being a major shift in dancing towards the solo and away from the pairing up.
Five of mine, all #letsdoit25, flushed out there. Worried that an 11 pointer might go tomorrow.
I've been having similar thoughts - though I only picked 3 #LetsDoIt25 tracks, every one was a bonus. I don't feel good about Keep On The Sunny Side going out for a duck, mind.
I bet you're all wondering how anything in the era of #LetsDoIt25 could be eligible for #All50rts.
Well I have a very famous Cab Calloway song that was *never* released as a side. How do I know because I couldn't pick it for the main game.
Get in
#MusicChallenge
#1C000LEST
Stats!
#LetsDoIt25: 6 **
#Let5D0It: 27 ****
#UncoolTwo50: 16 ***
#FearOfMu21C: 1
30s: 3 **
40s: 2
50s: 2
60s: 13 *
70s: 16 *****
80s: 9 *
90s: 4
00s: 0
10s: 1
20s: 0
Original challenge position:
1-10: 9 ***
11-50: 12
51-100: 13 ***
101-150: 6
151-200: 3 *
201-250: 7 **
And I think the best way I can thank Arron... is with some of my #1C000LEST stats!
#LetsDoIt25: 5
#Let5D0It: 12
#UncoolTwo50: 16
#FearOfMu21C: 17
1930s: 2 | 1940s: 3 | 1950s: 1 | 1960s: 6🥇
1970s: 8** | 1980s: 10*🥈 | 1990s: 3🥉
2000s: 12** | 2010s: 4 | 2020s: 1
Neil Kulkarni compliant: 39/50 🕺🏾💃
#1C000LEST
And we now have 200.
To give you the strongest impression yet of how the upper reaches of the countdown will look, those 200 break down as follows:
#LetsDoIt25 - 4 (2%, v 8.1% of points)
#Let5D0It - 71 (35.5% v 32.3%)
#UncoolTwo50 - 98 (49% v 39.5%)
#FearofMu21C - 27 (13.5% v 20.1%)
#1C000lest
#MusicChallenge
My fourth and final 11-pointer:
4️⃣ Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra - "Strange Fruit" (1939).
My 12-point pick from #LetsDoIt25. Credit not just to Billie but also Abel Meeropol, English teacher to James Baldwin, for such a powerful poem/lyric.
youtu.be/U-EhtNjUJAU
#1C000LEST 5️⃣
Billie Holiday | Strange Fruit | 1939 #LetsDoIt25
Bonus 1️⃣1️⃣
Unfortunately this song has lost none of its relevance because race has remained such a bitter issue in the USA.
youtu.be/Web007rzSOI?...
#1C000LEST
6:
The Andrews Sisters
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
1941
11 POINTS
My oldest pick, and one of my 11s from #LetsDoIt25. It locked itself into my brain and would not leave. I belong to the Sisters now.
#1C000LEST has since received the kind of list that:
- increases the share of #LetsDoIt25 by a whole percentage point
- reduces the number of zero-point songs by 19!
#1C000LEST
10:
Eartha Kitt with Henri Rene and His Orchestra
I Want To Be Evil
1953
11 POINTS
A track I nearly gave a bonus to in #LetsDoIt25, and which I've grown ever more fond of over time. Kitt really sells this performance too. Iconic.
#1C000LEST
No song has passed 300 points, but the leader is poised on 297.
Songs passing 200 points: 16, including 7 of the 12 medallists
By challenge:
#Let5D0It & #UncoolTwo50: 7 each
#LetsDoIt25 & #FearofMu21C: 1 each
Points scored since passing 200:
7 LDI songs - 292
7 U250 songs - 293
#1C000LEST
Comparative illustration of songs still to pass 100:
#LetsDoIt25: 8 of the top 10
#Let5D0It: 3 of the top 30 (1 of the top 20)
#UncoolTwo50: 1 of the top 30
#FearofMu21C: 2 of the top 10 (these two have an artist in common)
#1C000LEST
Songs passing 100 points: 137
By challenge (outside original Top 50)
#LetsDoIt25: still 2 (0)
#Let5D0It: 51 (11)
#UncoolTwo50: 63 (25!)
#FearofMu21C: 21 (1)
Juxtaposition of orignal Top 250s:
Lowest-ranked song to pass 100: 245
Highest-ranked song yet to pass 100: 2
#1C000LEST
Total points: 50,053
Total by challenge (%)
#LetsDoIt25 3,834 (7.66%)
#Let5D0It 16,726 (33.42%)
#UncoolTwo50 19,695 (39.35%)
#FearofMu21C 9,798 (19.57%)
Big move towards the middle two since 40,000 points: the earliest/latest both lost over 0.5% (may not sound a lot, but it is).
#1C000LEST
Hello! Fighting bad wifi in the Lake District, so no attachments, but here is your
50,000 POINTS UPDATE
Songs still on zero points: 104
#LetsDoIt25 82
#Let5D0It 6
#UncoolTwo50 0 (Chris Isaak was last to be picked)
#FearofMu21C 16 (includes 2 Top 50 finishers)
