Now we get to the eliminations. We have 616(!) songs in this tournament; they have been broken up into 19 groups of either 32 or 33. For the group stage, vote for as many songs as you like! The top 8 songs of each group will automatically advance to the knockout rounds. Additionally, the top 104 songs across all groups outside the top 8 will advance as “wild cards”. 1For you non-sports fans, wild cards aren’t treated any differently than group winners, the term only refers to how the song qualified

We’ll be “feathering” groups; voting on group 2 will be active until Wednesday January 15th at 10:00PM Pacific. Group 1 is still active until 10:00 pm tonight; vote here. Group 3 will start Wednesday and be active until Thursday, and so on. Please listen to every song! Don’t just vote name recognition.

You can listen to all songs in group 2 in this handy YouTube playlist!  (Don’t worry, songs will also be linked in the comments, where voting will take place)

You can work ahead if you like:

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Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Group 11

Group 12

Group 13

Group 14

Group 15

Group 16

Group 17

Group 18

Group 19

Or listen to every nominee here

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Again, voting for group 2 is open until Wednesday January 15th at 10:00PM Pacific.