For this week's opening act please welcome the inventor of Halloween, Kim Petras!

i'm so excited for this week it's gonna be absolute chaos

Tonight's Running Order

01) Paige Cavell
02) DAM_FINO
03) Inxs
04) Shakespear's Sister
05) Renan Pitanga
06) Duncan Laurence
07) Aaliyah
08) Eurthymics & Aretha Franklin
09) Beyond The Black
10) Michel Teló
11) DYLAN
12) Michael Jackson
13) The Shadowboxers
14) Jenifer
15) Rick Astley
16) Laura Branigan
17) Lauryn Hill
18) Buranovskiye Babushki
19) John Parr
20) Conan Gray
21) Bonnie McKee
22) Alice Cooper
23) f(x)

All songs this week meet AT LEAST one of the following criteria, based on this year's previous themes.

1. Brand new artists
2. LGBT
3. Eurovision
4. 80's v. 90's
5. Groups
6. <25k views
7. Non-English
8. Covers
9. Dead people (per Johnny's request)

01) Paige Cavell - 'Predators & Monsters'

Theme criteria this song fits:
1. Brand new artists
6. <25k views

02) DAM_FINO - 'Tall Tales'

Theme criteria this song fits:
1. Brand new artists
4. Groups
5. <25k views

01) Paige Cavell - Oh so we’re kicking the week off with Xenomania… sounds about right. This actually went off HARD, who is she? Where did you find her? I really enjoyed this, maybe not the chorus as much as everything else but definitely a strong start to the week. Good vocal, verses are really good, very surprised this has under 25k views.

03) Inxs - 'The Loved One'

Theme criteria this song fits:
1. Brand new artists
2. LGBT (allegedly, according to the sender)
4. 1980's vs. 1990's
5. Groups
8. Covers
9. Dead people

02) DAM_FINO - Started off great and then he started singing, sad. As far as this thing goes it’s not the worst I’ve heard, the chorus is pretty strong instrumentally if not melodically. It’s been done better too for sure, but this was pretty good actually. Grew on me as it went on, I’m kinda wishing this had been kept for a different week because I worry this will get lost among the chaos.

03) Inxs - WE STAN DEAD PEOPLE WEEK!!! Not stanning this song tho, not at all. ://// Trying to fit as many of the themes as possible was always likely to come at a cost of quality though. The song is fine but nothing I was actively into, would come back to or had much of an opinion on. A fine one time listen.

04) Shakespear's Sister - 'Stay'

Theme criteria this song fits:
1. Brand new artists
4. 1980's vs. 1990's
5. Groups

04) Shakespear's Sister - Patrick you missed “8. Covers” as this is a Cher Lloyd original. Wow there’s a reason people only recognise the chorus of this song, the rest of it is such a snore. Kinda disappointed I was really expecting to enjoy listening to this but I didn’t.

05) Renan Pitanga - 'Sax'

Theme criteria this song fits:
1. Brand new artists
7. Non-English

06) Duncan Laurence - 'Love Don't Hate It'

Theme criteria this song fits:
2. LGBT

05) Renan Pitanga - Wow it’s the Luca Hanni nightmare from TWSC! I’ll just take my comment from there since I’m too lazy to write another one: I’ve developed a talent for tuning this kind of garbage out while I instead google the singer. I’m a weak gay.