Looking back through Singles Jukebox discoveries past for #PWC26 and realising that all my favourite South American pop is from Chile and all my favourite South American indie is from Venezuela. Unfortunately they both failed to qualify
And DR Congo and Iraq! #PWC26
My #PWC26 research has led me to what sounds like an Italo disco song from 1980, but by Bosnian/Serbian superstar Zdravko Čolić.
Delighted to be managing the DRC at the @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social #PWC26
This is their first trip to the tournament since '74 - they were in blistering form then & have had 52 years getting even stronger.
Bring it on Group K, not even the Tigress of the East can scare the mighty Pop Leopards.
#THETENX5
PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (4/?)
1.4 (4/240)
METRIC
'BLACK SHEEP'
Canada
No bonuses
2 HMs
Not in the manager's thinking for the forthcoming #PWC26 (purely because the manager has his heart set on someone else who'll pop up in Part III).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xcS...
Kosovo’s loss today in the World Cup qualifier means I won’t be able to field this intercontinental collaboration in the #PWC26 music poll—some bedroom indie pop produced partly in San Francisco, partly in Pristina that I kinda dig but most voters surely would not.
Welcome to #PWC26 Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Turkey!
Proud to have been selected as the manager of the great country of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social #PWC26 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦
A nail biting night for all #PWC26 fans, will the land of Max Martin and Robyn hold on? Are we about to learn more about the Kosovar metal scene than we'd like?
New Hellripper CD arrived! A good shout for the Scotland Manager in the #PWC26 - track 5 could be the one to go for!
hellripper.bandcamp.com/album/corona...
#PWC26 GUIDELINES UPDATED
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The main news:
NOMINATIONS DAY is Saturday 11th April
You can choose songs from 2 or 3 countries - doesn't have to be 3
Exciting stuff happening in Bratislava right now. Exciting in that it will ultimately determine which songs I'm promoting in a music poll next month based on which nations have qualifying World Cup teams. #PWC26
Romania's loss means I will NOT be able to field "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)" by The Cheeky Girls up against the other nations of the world in the #PWC26 music poll. I take no pleasure in reporting this.
I've never followed live scores for a football match that didn't involve yard lines & quarterbacks, but I'm super invested in Turkey-Romania right now because it'll determine which country's music I'll be doing a crash course in over the next 2 weeks in preparation for the #PWC26 crazy music thingy.
Exciting day for six managers in the #PWC26 !
on my #PWC26 short (well quite long) list
Lots of banlist-compliant tracks from Belgium (24!), Italy (2) and 12 other countries* (1 each) in my #PWC26 Sp0tify longlist :
bsky.app/profile/trem...
* Netherlands, Egypt, Sweden, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Germany, Argentina, Australia, Switzerland, Norway, France and New Zealand.... + more to come?
Two weeks(?) until Nominations Day for the People's Pop World Cup, so I'm sharing the fruits of my investigative labours to date :
- 24 Belgian Bangers
- 13 additional tracks from Egypt, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Norway and many more!
Anyone else sharing? 😊
#PWC26
open.spotify.com/playlist/4ar...
This new Jorge Drexler album makes me wish I had picked Uruguay for the #PWC26. Paging @isabelagador.bsky.social!
#THETENX5 Day 42
#9 Metronomy - The Look (2011) (UK)
This, [redacted, it's higher on my list], and Best Youth (👀 #PWC26 🤔 ) were on the radio all the time when I was on maternity leave in Lisbon, and so get an extra sheen of happy (and sun-filled) nostalgia.
Guessing we have probably 3 weeks until nominations day for the People's Pop World Cup #PWC26 - anyone fancy a wee Suggestions Box playlist? I'm happy to set one up 😊
(might require the listener to do their own detective work on which tracks relate to which country but that's all part of the fun 😊)
#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...
#TheTenx5 Day 36
Santi & Tuğçe - Oye! (2019)
Country: Turkey, Paraguay
Single: Yes
Oh look it's two countries (maybe) from the upcoming #PWC26
That settls it. My England managing policy in #PWC26 will be to only select songs by trans artists, as a corrective to the English FA's (and indeed country's) anti-trans policies.
#PWC26
My star player when I managed Trinidad & Tobago in the 2006 People’s Pop World Cup!
youtu.be/wH5ue0i3mUA?...
#PWC26 GROUP L
🏴ENGLAND: @thatkomodoprincess.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇭🇷CROATIA: @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social (RANDOM)
🇬🇭GHANA: @centuriesofsound.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇵🇦PANAMA: @andypdavidson.bsky.social (RANDOM)
I am proud to have been trusted with the care and curation of Algeria's #PWC26 entry. I can promise that I will provide a song list that is, as the Algerian motto states, by the people and for the people. That way, when we drop out in the qualifiers, we'll know we did our best.
#PWC26 GROUP K
🇵🇹PORTUGAL: @lotty.bsky.social (1st Choice)
❓UNDECIDED 5 (DRC/JAM/CAL): @geoffdeburca.bsky.social (2nd Choice)
🇺🇿UZBEKISTAN: @spacediscojeff.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇨🇴COLOMBIA: @damjef.bsky.social (1st Choice)
#PWC26 GROUP J
🇦🇷ARGENTINA: @spacedan.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇩🇿ALGERIA: @mjmcg.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇦🇹AUSTRIA: @katstevens.bsky.social (RANDOM)
🇯🇴JORDAN: @carsmilesteve.bsky.social (RANDOM)
#PWC26 GROUP I
🇫🇷FRANCE: @londonlee.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇸🇳SENEGAL: @lokpolokpo1.bsky.social (1st Choice)
❓UNDECIDED 6 (IRQ/BOL/SUR): @leobreebaart.bsky.social (1st Choice)
🇳🇴NORWAY: @ava.foxfort.net (1st Choice)
