If you would like to vote in the main contest, please keep an eye on !lemmyvision@jlai.lu for the main contest announcements.
Thank you everyone for the nominations, discussion, and for voting in the survey. We will eventually put together a page similar to last time on our website.
I am submitting the songs to the contest now. However, if there are concerns, we likely have until the end of the day (May 3rd) to adjust the submission. You can listen to the winning songs below:
Boy Golden — 'Suffer' (2026-02-13)
Angine de Poitrine — 'Fabienk' (2026-02-05)
Elisapie — 'Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass)' (2025-09-24)
Related:
Playlists for all nominated songs
How were the winners calculated
In order to calculate the winners, I decided on the Borda count, normalized by the number of choices ranked, so that voters who ranked fewer songs are not disadvantaged compared to those who ranked all of them. Thus, if a user ranked n songs, the score for the i^th song would be score = (n - i) / (n - 1), giving 1.0 for a first-place vote and 0.0 for last place. Ballots ranking only one song were given a score of 1.0.
In the French category, there was a clear winner regardless of the ranking method used. In the English category, Boy Golden: Suffer (BG) ranked first when using a normalized Borda count, a regular Borda, and when using a fixed set of points for the top 3 choices in each submission. Meanwhile, The Beaches: Last Girls At The Party (TB) ranked first when using an inverse rank and when counting appearances, while BG still ranked second and third with those methods respectively.
When looking at the raw data, this seems to have happened because BG ranked high in a number of submissions, while TB ranked lower on average but was mentioned in more responses. Since we had a small sample size, and a lot of people only selected a few songs, I chose to use this normalized Borda method as the final ranking seems to capture the intent of the votes the best.
I also explored average ranks, which is what Formbricks survey summary UI uses, but this method crowned a winner based on a single response since that response ranked every song.
Using this normalized Borda count, we get the following rankings:
1 Boy Golden: Suffer 4.36
2 The Beaches: Last Girls At The Party 3.56
3 Shad: Slanted 2.78
4 Dan Mangan: Diminishing Returns 2.72
5 BRKN LOVE: Pulling Leeches 2.69
6 The Free Label: DANCING ON YOUR OWN 2.48
7 Men I Trust: To Ease You 2.28
8 REZZ: Glass Veins 1.99
9 Headstones: An Effort to Forget 1.83
10 Aysanabee: Embers 1.50
11 Wolf Castle: Go Time 1.33
12 William Prince: On Rolls the Wheel 1.17
13 Cenzina: Citizen4 1.00
14 Sloan: Live Forever 0.68
15 Emma Alves: The Gardener 0.44
16 Maya Jade: Heart on the Line 0.37
17 Akintoye: In Due Time 0.22
18 ilysm: burnouts 0.11
19 Anne Murray: Rest Easy (In My Love) 0.00
1 Angine de Poitrine: Fabienk 11.60
2 Angine de Poitrine: Sarniezz 4.50
3 Thick Glasses: ELIZA 4.40
4 Ariane Roy: Dogue 3.20
5 Jérôme 50: Anarcolique 1.80
6 oui merci: Stable 1.00
Yup, I found an old comment of mine but unfortunately that post was deleted. The numbers are different but its the same riddle