The Festive 50 thefestive50

Might keep this one handy for December.

* goes back to sleep *

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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.

24.12.2025 13:37 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

Check out who voted for them here and there's a whole new bunch of follows for you!

23.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think most people either heard them first through social media or possibly at gigs. BlueSky has an active music community sharing a lot of new music and lots of them vote here.

I first heard them thru online posts from record shops and music sites.

Their performance here was def a surprise tho.

23.12.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cheers mate, glad you found something.

23.12.2025 14:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Tracey. I do think the live thing really enhances it. Great to have people like yourself contributing to the chat as well.

23.12.2025 10:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheers Graeme, you’re welcome.

23.12.2025 09:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last night we revealed the 2025 Festive 50 top 20.

You can listen back to it here...

23.12.2025 09:45 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Cheers Scott.

23.12.2025 09:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait, are you “real music” ing us?!?

23.12.2025 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a fair comment. Aside from the occasional Welsh language track I’m not sure if there’s been any others. The format probably doesn’t help. Plenty non-English tracks get votes but need 4 or 5 to get in. For something like PPP a single vote gets it heard and then the consensus builds from there.

22.12.2025 23:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Cheers Paul. Have a great Christmas.

22.12.2025 22:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheers Chris. Big Thief were truly robbed. 10th highest overall vote but no tracks in the 50.

Hope you have a good Christmas.

22.12.2025 21:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cheers Peter. Thanks for fully contributing. Always helps when there’s a lot of chat during the live shows.

22.12.2025 21:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cheers mate.

22.12.2025 21:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheers mate.

22.12.2025 21:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheers Natalie. Merry Christmas!

22.12.2025 21:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheers Arron. Yeah that track almost had a clean run at it.

22.12.2025 21:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Leigh, that’s very kind of you to say.

22.12.2025 21:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you. Always works best listening along I think.

22.12.2025 21:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

22.12.2025 21:39 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0