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• Teatime & Trending Topics - A thread for sharing pop music tea & daily music-related updates
• Popheads Charts - The most popular songs on Popheads each week, based on Last.fm data
• Main Pod Girl: The Popheads Podcast (Spotify link) - The official Popheads podcast, with a mix of music analysis and artist interviews
• Reintroducing... The Popheads Jukebox - Similar to Rate Your Music, we round up new and classic songs alike and have users rate and review them
• Games - Setup + Punchline games every 5th/12th/19th/26th!
• Self Promo Sunday - Promote your own work here
• Other Music Communities - Places to discuss specific artists/genres

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Rates and Other Activities

September:

• Latin Monarch-Off - Bad Bunny vs. Karol G. vs. Kali Uchis [Due October 18th]
• 2025 Eurosummer It-Girls Rate - JADE vs. Pinkpantheress vs. Zara Larsson vs. Rose Gray [Due October 9th]

October:

• Bedroom Pop EPs - beabadoobee vs. Billie Eilish vs. Clairo vs. Conan Gray vs. Kali Uchis vs. King Princess vs. PinkPantheress vs. Ravyn Lenae vs. Remi Wolf [Due November 14th]
• Late '90s Minivan Rock - '90s Alt-Rock Hits [Due TBA]

Rate Wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/popheads/wiki/index/rate-threads/

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If you use last.fm, you can create a collage here or here to display what you have listened to this week! Make sure you upload your collage to an image hosting site, or it will change over time.

Hello, popheads!

This is the minirate that was given away as a perk for our Charity Drive benefitting Casa Marianella (and you can still donate to support them today, wink!)! Without further ado, let’s get to the rate!

WHAT IS A FALSE START?

You might have seen a very gorgeous gorgeous discussion post a few days ago, talking about when for some reason, initial singles are released but don’t end up kickstarting an era even when they’re trying. Those songs usually end up delegated to a deluxe release, or just end up as a random loose song that goes nowhere for the fans to enjoy. This rate chooses to uplift all those releases, find if they were unfairly treated and should have actually been pushed further, or if they were rightfully rejected and ignored!. That’s what your scores are for!

IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THIS

BALLOT / PASTEBIN / SPOTIFY / APPLE MUSIC / TIDAL / DUE NOV. 2ND

THE TRACKS

• Alicia Keys - In Common
• Ariana Grande - Focus
• Britney Spears, Iggy Azalea - Pretty Girls
• Camila Cabello - Crying in the Club
• Carly Rae Jepsen - Let's Be Friends
• Charlie Puth - Girlfriend
• Charli xcx (feat. Lil Yatchy) - After the Afterparty
• Chlöe - Have Mercy
• Conan Gray - Telepath
• Demi Lovato - I Love Me
• Gwen Stefani - Baby Don't Lie
• Iggy Azalea - Mo Bounce
• Jesy Nelson (feat. Nicki Minaj) - Boyz
• Khalid - Skyline
• Kim Petras - Future Starts Now
• Lil Nas X - J CHRIST
• Lizzo (feat. Cardi B) - Rumors
• Miley Cyrus - Slide Away
• Normani (feat. 6LACK) - Waves
• Raye - Call On Me
• Rihanna, Kanye West, Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds
• Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down
• Selena Gomez (feat. Gucci Mane) - Fetish
• Sky Ferreira - Don't Forget
• SZA (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) - Hit Different
• Tinashe - Throw a Fit
• The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
• The Weeknd - Dancing in the Flames
• Usher - Good Kisser
• will.i.am, Mick Jagger, Jennifer Lopez - T.H.E (The Hardest Ever)

BORING STUFF

If this is the start of your rating era, welcome! Here’s everything you need to know!

• Rates explained by video: 30 second rundown - 6 minute guide
• Listen to every song listed and assign each of them a score from 1 to 10. Decimals are allowed, but refrain from going past one decimal place - 7.5 is fine, 7.75 is not!
• You may give ONE song a 0 and ONE song an 11. These should be reserved for your favourite track and least favourite track! You do not have to give these scores.
• Rate all songs! If you skip any, your ballot won’t be counted (I will let you know if you do so you can remedy that).
• I highly recommend that you add a comment to your song ratings! It makes everything a lot more fun during the reveal, plus if your comment is good enough you might even be lucky and get featured on a banner in the reveal thread!
• To leave a comment, add a space after the score and then type to your heart’s desire, like this:
  • Ariana Grande - Focus: 7 fuckazombie
• Please use the pre-prepared link to submit your scores! Note that if you're trying to access on a mobile device or on the new reddit layout it may not work - as such, I made it so the link will take you to old.reddit.com, and you should use a computer to send in your scores if possible! If you still run into issues, a pastebin with the submission form is at the bottom of this post and may be copy/pasted into a DM too!
• If you want to change any scores or comments after you’ve already submitted, just message me, the host (u/CrimsonROSET) and I’ll be happy to help! You can also reach me on the Popheads Discord (corona), so if you have Discord, pop into the #rates channel, there's a lot of fun conversation over there!

TL;DR

BALLOT AND PASTEBIN

SPOTIFY / APPLE MUSIC / TIDAL

The rate will be due Monday, November 2nd and reveal that weekend, November 7th-8th!

And if you want to keep the rating streak going, do one of our other open rates!

• Latin Monarchs, due Oct. 18th
• Bedroom Pop EPs , due Nov. 14th
• Late 90s Minivan Rock, due…!