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It took a lot longer than expected, but after almost a year, we're finally in a position to start posting some rankings! ...Tomorrow.

SHORT VERSION:

784 songs. List of songs can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QfNa-zf09__z-Om4WO40ocRPWhEeE_83voAt_s-tXLI/edit?usp=sharing

Scores are between 0 and 100. Songs with tied scores are considered to share the same ranking.

Five songs eliminated per day to start with. Will increase to 10 at some point.

Scores and placements are not completely finalized until the winning song (or songs) have been crowned and may be revised even after being posted.

Vast majority of songs have very short writeups. Please keep expectations low.

Thank you.

And now, an overly long and redundant introudction post that restates the above in an overly tedious manner, as is our ancient tradition.

INTRODUCTION POST:

First, a very large thank you to everyone who nominated. For the past few years these topics have been a place for me to basically be and say whatever I wanted, enjoying unrestrained freedom. I can't tell you all how amazing it felt to just "be"--bouncing between various forms and identities, without much of a care what anyone thought. The fact that last year's song won because it made me identify as an 8-year old pink hedgehog and people just rolled with the insanity--not just allowing me to say something that ridiculous, but actively coming back & spending so much of their own time choosing songs so that I get to do it all again--is amazing. This series is my happy place; I still don't entirely understand what you people get out of this arrangement, but I remain as grateful as ever.

For health reasons, this shall be the last massive ranking topic. Physically, I just can't sit here typing for as many hours as I use to, so trying to get through this many songs is... a bit much. Any future topics will likely be much smaller in scope--think around the 200 song cap from my first ranking, instead of the push for infinite songs of this topic & last year's. Don't worry too much, I'm not doing especially *poorly*. I just need to take more frequent breaks and limit how much time I spend at a keyboard each day. Thank you for your understanding with all the delays.

But that's enough serious, "real world" talk..

Standard disclaimer from last year:

All songs are incredibly welcome. The songs I hate offer an opportunity to think about why I hate them and to experience music that I wouldn't normally hear, so while I may complain a lot more than I should, to be quite honest, I do treasure all of the terribly ranked songs. Even the middle of the road songs that fail to inspire any reaction have their place, serving as a divider between things I liked & things I didn't.

Also, my opinion on songs fluctuates constantly. Songs bounce up and down hundreds of ranking positions constantly, so even if I say I hate a song now, its quite possible that I would learn to appreciate it at some point in the future. So please, know that no matter what I say, I do legitimately appreciate every nomination here and sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Moving along, it's the scoring system!

SCORING SYSTEM:

All songs are scored between 0 and 100 points. Songs with the same score are considered tied and share a ranking. Points are awarded based only on my personal enjoyment and roughly correlate to the following tiers:

90.00 to 100: I love these songs!

80.00 to 89.99~: Not quite top tier songs, but I kinda love them.

70.00 to 79.99~: I really like these songs.

60.00 to 69.99~: I like these songs enough that I can just leave the writeup as "I like this" and move on.

55.00 to 59.99~: I kinda like these songs.

50.0000001 to 54.99~: My feelings towards these songs are more positive than negative.

Exactly 50: These songs failed to inspire any reaction, positive or negative.

45.00 to 49.99~: It's fine. These songs are fine.

40.00 to 44.99~: I'm not a fan of these songs.

30.00 to 39.99~: I did not like these songs.

20.00 to 29.99~: I quite actively disliked these songs.

10.00 to 19.99~: Well, I mean... I don't hate them...

0 to 9.99~: Thanks, I hate it!



The scoring is a bit harsher this year; expect most songs to drop before the 60 point tier. On the plus side, reaching the "I like this" tier is a tremendous accomplishment!

WARNING(S)

I'm still working on assigning songs their final scores while this is going on, so expect things to get a bit... messy. We'll be going slow with only five eliminations a day to start with because there's a large clump of songs separated by fractions of points and the topic might sorta implode if I don't get that completely sorted out before the rankings catch up to it. We'll ramp things up to 10 eliminations a day once things are more clear on my end. Again, thank you for your understanding through the delays and the slower roll out of rankings.

Also, expect a lot of writeups that are so short and insubstantial that they might not count as writeups. With full apologies, I have to be a bit more considerate of how much time I spend typing, so if I don't have a lot that I actually want to say then I'll probably just move along to the next song. It is what it is, but I can promise that all songs will be ranked and have at least one sentence--even if that sentence is "I don't have much to say".

Also also, if a song does have a writeup, don't expect it to be coherent. Expect a lot of unrelated tangents, multiple fursonas, and... spirited debate between said fursonas. (Don't think about it too hard and assume things are exaggerated for comedic effect). If you're a regular, you already know what to expect. If you're a newcomer... ummm... well, you still have a chance to flee this topic before things get too crazy and none of the voices in my head will take it personally. </.<

Also*3: I reserve the right to alter any song's score at any time. You know how it is; you eliminate a song and then a week later it gets stuck in your head and you're all, "aww, I wish I gave it a higher score"? Or a song has a score that keeps fluctuating between the low 20s and high 90s on an almost daily basis, so you have absolutely no idea what placement it's actually going to get until the topic ends? As such, nothing is finalized until the very end. I'm not *expecting* things to come to it, but... well... think of the "final scores" and "final placements" as more provisional suggestions. </.<

...Eh, it's the final MEGA RANKING, so I have even less reason to care about coherency or preserving my reputation. Chaos, chaos, I can do anything, Jevil laugh and what not.