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PARADE - DAY 2
2010 (13/?)
2.1 (13/240)
LYKKE LI
'GET SOME'
Sweden
No bonuses
8 x HM
A change from our advertised programmes (i.e. her only entry in #FearofMu21C was 'I Follow Rivers' Magician Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTP...
Inspired by this, here's when I discovered my #THETENX5 picks and HMs - a lot more of my picks came during shortlisting and almost all my HMs were discovered during the challenge.
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Back tomorrow, to see if my home country can open its 2010s account sometime before 2011!
Left: a smiling Lauren Bacall being warmly greeted by Ben Kingsley (right). In the background - left, Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) and right, Little Carmine (Ray Abruzzo) From The Sopranos S6 E7 'Luxury Lounge', tx 23 April 2006
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DAY 2 TV TEASER
This still from a C21 TV episode is a clue to one of tomorrow's 12 songs... but which?
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (12/?)
1.12 (12/240)
CEELO GREEN
'FUCK YOU' (aka 'Forget You')
USA
No bonuses
5 x HM
This was the other Day 1 TV Teaser idea (below).
Real Day 2 teaser in reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0m...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (11/?)
1.11 (11/240)
THE DECEMBERISTS
'DOWN BY THE WATER'
USA
1 x 12
@nealharkness.bsky.social
4 x HM
The only Day 1 song with a 12 apart from DOMO!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR9D...
#THETENX5 QUALIFIERS playlist is now linked from this page.
I have also started adding the country and artist stats for this parade season.
Note that cumulative (Parts I and II) stats will be available in the top menu after parade season closes on 20th April.
mu21cvs.com/2026/01/28/t...
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DOMO also has the most 11s in Part II (9).
This time it's one more than anything in Part I, and four more than anything else in Part II.
Obviously this means:
- Most bonuses (16, next best 8)
- Most points in bonuses (23, next best 11)
It also has most bonuses + HMs combined (24)
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DOMO-nance!
7 x 12
Ranked 1
@markjwray.com
@billybell99.bsky.social
@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social
@damjef.bsky.social
@cubavenger.bsky.social
Ranked 2
Adam MacLaren (list)
Not ranked
@rasher.bsky.social
3 more 12s than anything in Part I.
3 more than anything else in Part II.
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (10/?)
1.10 (10/240)
ROBYN
'DANCING ON MY OWN'
Sweden
7 x 12
(we need at least one reply for tagging)
9 x 11
8 x HM
TV Teaser answer, obviously.
Host's Song Of The Day, obviously.
(we need another reply for stats!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (9/?)
1.9 (9/240)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
'DANCE YRSELF CLEAN'
USA
1 x 11
7 x HM
Not to take anything away from LCD Soundsystem (they will be back), but...
...the hour is almost upon us. We'll be here a while with 1.10 :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZNk...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (8/?)
1.8 (8/240)
JANELLE MONÁE
'COLD WAR'
USA
No bonuses
12 x HM
(the first of 36 songs with 10+ HMs: that's 15% of all qualifiers!)
Also the first video I would urge people to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmO...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (7/?)
1.7 (7/240)
ROBYN
'CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND'
Sweden
1 x 11
4 HMs
The host's quest to get something in from the mighty Body Talk, apart from *that* ...
Progress report...
Main ❌
HMs ✔️❓❓
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Im...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (6/?)
1.6 (6/240)
BEST COAST
'BOYFRIEND'
USA
No bonuses
4 HMs
A title which runs rather neatly into the next reveal...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqph...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (5/?)
1.5 (5/240)
THE NATIONAL
'BLOODBUZZ OHIO'
USA
1 x 11
6 HMs
The first song to return from Ye Olde #FearofMu21C, where it finished 181st for the century.
It also scraped into the original #Uncool500 back in 2022.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyS...
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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...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (3/?)
1.3 (3/240)
KYLIE MINOGUE
'ALL THE LOVERS'
Australia
No bonuses
2 HMs
Are there any MEN here today...?
(yes, and coming soon)
Some consolation for 'Padam Padam' missing out in Part I.
Oh, and you can bet your house again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frv6...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (2/?)
1.2 (2/240)
KELIS
'ACAPELLA'
USA
1 x 11
7 HMs
I wonder how many artists in this parade will be back in Part III.
This is the first one you can bet your house on.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8D9...
Cover shot of PARADE by PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION (1986) by Jeff Katz
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1. PARADE album title, obviously.
2. Prince died in 2016 (in the 2010s) and the album closes with his epitaph 'Sometimes It Snows In April'
3. Parade season runs from:
- the day after PARADE's 40th anniversary
to
- the day before the 10th anniversary of his death.
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The profile picture for this account will be a horizontal version of the cover photograph from
PARADE
by
PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION
throughout.
Three reasons, given in the next reply...
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Side notes:
- Songs will be presented in three nested threads of 4 each day
- My (Arron's, not this account's) profile background picture will be changed once per day, to my favourite song of that day. It's really too much to change it 12 times and I often miss a few.
- Which means...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (1/?)
1.1 (1/240)
ANA TIJOUX
'1977'
France-Chile
No bonuses
7 HMs
Delightfully, this video begins with a countdown...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7...
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in each post:
YEAR (2010-19) - DAY (1-20)
DAY.NUMBER (1-12)
ARTIST
'TITLE'
Country/ies
Bonuses (12s with tags)
HMs
[comment]
YouTube/other link
On the website:
- List of qualifiers here
- Playlist (starting this evening)
mu21cvs.com/2026/01/28/t...
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Good morning. It's April, which means:
*** PARADE SEASON ***
- 12 automatic qualifiers each day for 20 days.
- Chronological by year then alphabetical by title
240 is 2x the number of months in the decade.
So if a year takes more than 2 days, it's above average for qualifiers.
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The PARADE ORDER is set.
Where there's debate over a year, I've gone with Acclaimed Music basically.
Here is the first TV TEASER for Day 1.
⬇️
Everyone's guaranteed a point!
(Peep Show fans can have a bonus if you can work out which 2010 song I *could* have used with another Jez scene)
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The other eight songs on 50 points will qualify automatically and will appear in the parade.
I will flag each one up, just so you know. You'll probably forget by December anyway :)
I shall now disappear to do the big admin.
Back later with the first TV TEASER. I wonder...
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Thrift Shop was 40, sorry I missed that.
10. Fifth Harmony ft Ty Dolla $ign, 'Work From Home' (39)
11. Nadine Shah, 'Holiday Destination' (33)
12. Taylor Swift*, 'Out Of The Woods' (29)
13. Kendrick Lamar* ft Jay Rock, 'Money Trees' (28, and one of mine at 31)
14. Lorde*, 'Team' (26)
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Ranked, in ascending order by rank, then alphabetically by artist.
Warning: will cause grumbling...
6. Beyoncé*, 'Love On Top' (43)
7. Stormzy*, 'Shut Up' (43)
8. Grimes*, 'Flesh Without Blood' (41, and also one of mine at 44)
9. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft Wanz, 'Thrift Shop'
cont...
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UNRANKED (alphabetically by artist, *artist has a qualifier)
1. Billie Eilish, 'Bury a Friend' (*DUH!)
2. Blur, 'Under The Westway'
3. Gorillaz* ft De La Soul & Gruff Rhys, 'Superfast Jellyfish'
4. Margaret Berger, 'I Feed You My Love'
5. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, 'S.O.B.'
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Cut-off was
*** 50 POINTS ***
These are the 14 (FOURTEEN) songs that were tied on 50 points but don't qualify automatically due to the ranking tiebreak.
Artists already represented in the 240 qualifiers are less likely to benefit from discretionary picks in December.
