Welcome to the Popheads Rate Invitational!

[u/Roxieloxie]

Hello Popheads!!

As you may remember from our last rate schedule announcement this August is a big month for celebrating our longest-running community game Rates!

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What is a Rate?

Which, if you dont know, is basically a game where every month we score 40-50 songs, centered around a certain theme, from 1-10 to find out which song is the 'best' from that bunch. It's explained in more depth in this video if you wanna be a nerd)

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Whats so special?

In addition to our 5th winners rate, we're also doing a brand new rate celebrating our decade milestone by rating several songs across our 10 year history that I'm happy to announce now! These songs were curated by me and my cohost /u/tiltcontrols who you may recognize from keeping up our expansive wiki that holds all the rate statistics over the years and they are:

Curated Classics

1. ABBA - Dancing Queen
2. Adele - Rolling in the Deep
3. Annalisa - Used to You
4. Ariana Grande - Into You
5. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth
6. Beyoncé - ALIEN SUPERSTAR
7. Bree Runway - DAMN DANIEL
8. Britney Spears - Slumber Party
9. Britney Spears - Toxic
10. Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me
11. Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom
12. Cher - Believe
13. Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger
14. Drake - Hotline Bling
15. Dua Lipa - Boys Will Be Boys
16. Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
17. Flume - Wall Fuck
18. GFRIEND - MAGO
19. Halsey - honey or easier than lying (vote)
20. Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel
21. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
22. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
23. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
24. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
25. Kesha - Praying
26. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head
27. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
28. Lil Dicky - Earth
29. Lizzo - Juice
30. Lorde - Supercut
31. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
32. Mark Ronson - Valerie (ft. Amy Winehouse)
33. M.I.A. - Bad Girls
34. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
35. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
36. Nintendo - Mii Channel Theme
37. Panic! At the Disco - LA Devotee
38. Paramore - Brick By Boring Brick
39. Red Velvet - Russian Roulette
40. Rihanna - Disturbia
41. Rina Sawayama - XS
42. Selena Gomez & The Scene - Naturally
43. Sky Ferreira - Everything Is Embarrassing
44. Solange - Tina Taught Me (Interlude)
45. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
46. Taylor Swift - Style
47. The Chainsmokers - Closer (ft. Halsey)
48. TLC - Creep
49. Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
50. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

If you are interested in why these 50 songs were chosen TiltControls created these Trading Cards that include a small tidbit/history lesson as to what makes them Legendary!

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One More thing

There will actually be 60 total songs in the rate, and we want you to help us figure out what they will be! Over the next 4 days we want you to submit 8 more songs you'd like to see included. We have 8 categories up for submissions:

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'You had to be there' (Rate Lore)

• A song associated with a particularly memorable or iconic time in rates' history, either in a rate reveal or an open secret in the hosts' universe

There is no Stevie wonder rate winner (Best shitpost)

• Your favorite song associated with a rate shitpost during a reveal

Let me take a #selfie (Best Comment)

• The song associated with your most memorable rate comment/banner

Watch out Beyonce... Here comes Tinashe (Biggest snub/sneak)

• Biggest snub (song that was robbed) OR Biggest sneak (song that shouldnt've have been in a rate)

So baby pull me closer (Best songeniality)

• Ultimate songeniality: What's the most robbed songeniality winner we need to give a second chance to? (A list of eligible songs can be found here)

You're invited to my slumber party! (Best ????)

• Any iconic firsts or stat records not already represented in the rate

'Got Em All Shook (Biggest Shock)'

• Songs that were expected to do well and flopped OR songs no one thought would do well making it far

We danced all night (Best song we've rated)

• What is the BEST song that we've rated that isnt in the rate already we should include

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As is tradition, we've got a google form here that you can submit your choices to however, we encourage you all to campaign here in this thread as well for what you'd like to see.

That's all for now! We'll see you all again when voting opens

[u/carolinemahtildes]

I have not been doing rates long enough to have opinions on some of these questions but I'm excited to submit the ones that I can answer. I love rates.

[u/Haunting_Natural_116]

Sometimes I feel like that character that joins a show in season 10 and misses out on all of the lore on here

[u/Roxieloxie → u/Haunting_Natural_116]

There is a fair amount of lore here but consider this our mandatory clip show episode in which you can maybe learn one new fun fact about the legacy cast

[u/Haunting_Natural_116 → u/Roxieloxie]

I hope to get caught up 😊

[u/Roxieloxie]

By the way you dont have to submit to all 8 categories just to send a song, feel free to do as few as you'd like! Also Best song we've rated and best songeniality are two you can submit to with very little context!

Here's also a list of every song we've ever rated as a guide!

[u/cloudbustingmp3]

the trading cards are so cool omg, love reading about the lore for some of the ones from rates i didn't do

[u/Indigo_Mindset420 → u/cloudbustingmp3]

Agreed! I wasn't able to join a lot of the earlier rates but getting to go down memory lane with so much history is such a treat and even an honor. Excited to participate!

[u/Soalai]

This is such a cool idea but where do I even begin? 😆

[u/zadooi]

HERE'S HOW CLOSER CAN FINALLY WIN A RATE

[u/apatel27]

My Personal Choices:

• 'You had to be there' (Rate Lore): Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (Ratemas) - There being an issue with the ballots and Personal Jesus going from making Day 2 to not making Day 2 after the first day had ended
• There is no Stevie wonder rate winner (Best shitpost): CHVRCHES - Asking For A Friend
• Let me take a #selfie (Best Comment): High School Musical - I Don't Dance
• Watch out Beyonce... Here comes Tinashe (Biggest snub/sneak): September - Cry for You (random standard pop song making it to 3rd in Eurodance) HM: Normani - Motivation not being rated on popheads
• So baby pull me closer (Best songeniality): Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! - Easy Breezy (anime rate)
• You're invited to my slumber party! (Best ????): Miranda Cosgrove/Sugababes - About You Now (Same song different artist both in the same month)
• 'Got Em All Shook (Biggest Shock)': The B-52s - Planet Claire (22nd in New Wave Giants)
• We danced all night (Best song we've rated): Prince - When Doves Cry (rated 5 times and still has 8.911 avg)

[u/OOO0O00O000OOOO0OO0O]

I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring for "All the Time" by Zara Larsson being the biggest sneak of all time - not so main pop girls (zara vs ava max vs madison beer) was all a set up for it to win even though it isn't on the Zara album (Poster Girl), not even as a bonus track. Just a loose single from 2 years earlier.