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  • Dotter takes WMR Fan Mix 40 #1

    Once again we have a really tight race to the top in the second installment of the WMR Fan Mix 40 list. This time, Dotter is the one your votes have crowned as the new #1, with her single No Room for Love becoming the first song to top both the Fan Mix 40 and the WMR 100. Kelly Clarkson and Madison Beer flank her on the podium, only one and two points behind, respectively, in the voting tally.

    Out of the five new challengers who joined the race to the list last week, four have made the cut: the team-up of Walk Off the Earth and Lindsey Stirling in Long Way Home enters at #33, Niall Horan clinches the #28 spot with The Show, Mae Muller debuts at #21 with Me, Myself & I, and Go_A score the hottest new entry of the week, with Rusalochki arriving at the not-so-unlucky #13. Samantha will get another shot this week.

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  • Katie Belle takes back WMR 100 throne; becomes first-ever three-time #1

    Katie Belle just achieved two WMR 100 firsts in one go. Climbing back to the top after losing the #1 spot to Dotter seven days ago, her track The Best You’ll Ever Have is now the first song in WMR 100 history to hold the #1 spot in non-consecutive weeks, and our very first three-time #1. Hot on her heels is newly-crowned Fan Mix 40 #1 Annalisa, who here moves up to #2 from last week’s #4 with Mon Amour, and rounding out the podium is Kelly Clarkson, who drops a spot to #3 with Favorite Kind of High.

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  • All the Amour for her: Annalisa tops inaugural WMR Fan Mix 40

    The people have spoken. You, the WMR readers and fans, have chosen through your votes to crown Italian star Annalisa as the inaugural #1 of the Fan Mix 40 list. Her song Mon Amour will hold the crown this week after coming out on top in a tight race that has seen multiple ties in points, that we had to resolve through tiebreaker criteria based on highest ratings given (that is, if two songs have the same amount of points, the one that received the most amount of 10s goes over the other; if that doesn’t break the tie, then we count the amount of 9s, and so on).

    Annalisa beats Kylie Minogue to the #1 spot by a twenty-point margin, but behind the top two, as mentioned, things are much tighter; Minogue herself only finishes seven points ahead of third-placer Ariadne and her song Better Without You, while two-time WMR 100 #1 Katie Belle lands at #4, falling just three points short of the podium with her track The Best You’ll Ever Have.

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  • Dotter scores Sweden’s first WMR 100 #1

    Turns out there is room for her atop the WMR 100. Dotter becomes the new #1 in this week’s list with the song No Room for Love, unseating Katie Belle, who had topped the WMR 100 #1 for the past two weeks with The Best You’ll Ever Have. Katie slips down to #3 this week, while at #2, Kelly Clarkson is once again completing the podium moving up one spot from last week with Favorite Kind of High.

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  • Voting for the WMR Fan Mix 40

    This is where voting for the WMR Fan Mix 40 happens! In the form at the end of this post, you have the power to rate your favorite songs and suggest up to five wildcard entries for songs we might not have added to the form, but you want to see in the list.

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  • A new list is launching next Thursday: Introducing the WMR Fan Mix 40!

    We decided a while ago that we wanted you, our readers, to have greater power over the content you see on the site. And now we have found a way to that end. Rankings and lists were meant to be the core of our page’s content from the beginning, so why not add another weekly list YOU can control? That’s the idea at the heart of our new section, launching fully next Thursday: the WMR Fan Mix 40 list!

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  • Still the Best: Katie Belle retains WMR 100 #1

    She warns an ex that she’s The Best You’ll Ever Have, and she has now earned a spot among WMR’s all-time greats. Katie Belle holds on to the top place of the WMR 100 for a second straight week with her breakup song, and she’s once again leading an all-female podium: last week’s bronze medalist Dotter upgrades to silver this week, moving to #2 with No Room for Love, while Kelly Clarkson climbs up three places from #6 to claim the third place with Favorite Kind of High. While all three of their tracks are thematically related to love in some way, Clarkson’s is the most upbeat of the trio, while the other two are closer to breakup songs.

    But that’s not every form of love song covered on this week’s list: trailing closely behind the podium is Mimicat at #4 with the highest-ranked non-English-language song of the week in Ai coração, a quirky track that could very well describe an agonizing wait for a loved one to either arrive or sort out their feelings.

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  • Best of the week: Katie Belle takes WMR 100 #1

    Reigns tend not to last very long when it comes to the top spot of the WMR 100. It was just seven days ago when we were proclaiming Athena Manoukian as our #1, and with the Greek-Armenian star slipping to #2 this week, an American queen now sits on the throne. After weeks of climbing her way up the board, Katie Belle claims the highest honor WMR has to offer, as her song The Best You’ll Ever Have is this week’s WMR 100 #1. Aside from the aforementioned Manoukian, Katie and her song about leaving behind a toxic relationship will be joined on the podium by Dotter, who claims bronze with her latest single No Room for Love in only her fourth week in the list. Rounding out the top five are Rosa Linn, down one place from last week to #4 with Never Be Mine, and James Carter, accompanied by Ofenbach and James Blunt, who stay put at #5 with Can’t Forget You.

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  • ‘Gone’ to the top: Athena Manoukian seizes WMR 100 #1

    It’s been a long and winding road to the top of the mountain, but Greek-Armenian star Athena Manoukian has finally laid claim to the WMR 100 #1 in her tenth week in the list with Gone, a beautiful ballad about the loss of someone loved that was dedicated to the victims of a train crash near Tempi, Greece, last February. Sharing the podium with Athena are two other artists who debuted on the list on the same week as her, back on April 7: at #2 is Katie Belle with The Best You’ll Ever Have, moving up six places from #8, while slipping down to the third place from #2 last week is Rosa Linn with Never Be Mine.

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  • Neea River stays on top of the WMR 100

    Last week, she became Finland’s first ever WMR 100 #1. This week, she isn’t giving up the crown just yet. Nobody manages to unseat rising star Neea River and her debut single All the Way from the top spot of the list, although that certainly isn’t due to lack of competition. Last week’s #2, Neea’s fellow countryman Käärijä, slips down to #4 with Cha Cha Cha, the silver medal now belonging to Rosa Linn – who, in turn, was at #4 last week – with Never Be Mine. Brooke stays put at #3 for a third consecutive week with Come Alive, and joins the Double Feature Club as her newest single Being Alone debuts in the WMR 100 at #98, while Athena Manoukian, up from #11 last week, rounds out the top five with Gone.

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