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It is that time again: Talossas most succesful and longrunning cultural tradition is about to start!

For reference:
http://wiki.talossa.com/Talossan_Music_Top_20 _{(Unfortunately I notice the results from 2025 and the 2026 special edition aren't on the wiki yet. I don't have time to update these at the moment, but maybe later.)}
https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=3765.0

The past couple of years this has been very succesfully organised by @Sir Ian Plätschisch. However, after very quickly talking to him it appears I will be doing this one as Sir Ian is rather busy outside of Talossa. Of course we are all very grateful to him for all the past editions he's organised and I'm very much hoping for his participation in this edition as well.

2026 TMT20 Nomination Rules

Nominations are now open. Everyone (including guests and prospective citizens) is invited to nominate songs to make up the 2026 edition of the Talossan Music Top 20.

The competition will consist of 150 songs. 100 songs have qualified automatically based on their performance in the 2025 TMT20. Additionally 6 songs are nominated based on this years special edition. Therefore, there will be a total of 44 new nominations.

We have somewhat of a tight schedule this time. For now we will start with 3 nominations per person. If we don't have enough songs by Noon TST on July 11th, everyone will be free to nominate one new song every 12 hours.

We are voting on the written combination artist (or composer) + title, rather than the specific version that is being linked to, in case people do not like that version.

If you can, please include a link to YouTube or some other video or audio file of the song. Otherwise I will find a link myself, but I might not always find the best version.

All genres of music are welcome. Nominating an entire classical symphony is probably not a good idea, however, because it doesn't really work with the song-format and some voters may decide to skip it.

Do not worry about nominating songs because they are not popular enough (or because they are too mainstream). You do not get a prize if your song wins. If you get someone to listen to a song or genre he did not know or like before, that is nice too. We all seem to love our 70s rock classics, and if your all time favorite song happens to fall in that category, go for it! But if it does not, adding some diversity to the list is just as good. Just nominate whatever song you think deserves to be in the list for whatever reason.

Existing Nominations
3Teeth - Slum Planet
Aerosmith - Dream On
Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
Apocalyptica - Stroke
Ásgeir - Nýfallið regn
Ásgeir - Sugar Clouds
B-52's - Private Idaho
B-52's - Roam
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
Blur - The Universal
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Coldplay - Fix You
Dan Tyminski - Southern Gothic
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
David Bowie - Starman
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Depeche Model - Enjoy the Silence
Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Desireless - Voyage, Voyage
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Donkeyboy - Ambitions
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
Eiffel 65 - Blue (da ba dee)
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Der Kommissar
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Fighters - Walk
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
Ghost Hounds - Last Train to Nowhere
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
House of Pain - Jump Around
Jefferson Starship - Jane
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Justin Johnson - Ghost of the Mountain
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement
Madrugada - Majesty
Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Matia Bazar - Ti Sento
Matia Bazar - Vacanze Romane
Men At Work - Down Under
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Muse - Uprising
New Order - Blue Monday
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Nolwenn Leroy - Tri Martolod
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Peter Gabriel - My Body is a Cage
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
Prozac+ - Acida
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Queen - Innuendo
Queen - Killer Queen
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rammstein - Haifisch
Renato Zero - Triangolo
Robert Wyatt - Alife
Rush - Subdivisions
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Stromae - Papaoutai
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Supertramp - Fool's Overture
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld - A Quiet Life
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles - Taxman
The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The Cure - A Forest
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
The Police - Message in a Bottle
The Police - Roxanne
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Tom Waits - Step Right Up
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Toto - Africa
Toto - Hold the Line
Whiskey Myers - On The River

Decided to add one more rule: no AI-generated music allowed.

Thanks for doing this!

Deodato - Also sprach Zarathustra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKsp9_L24Q&t=20s  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKsp9_L24Q&t=123s)