2003 is done and dusted! Thanks to a last minute vote, Dandy Warhols beat Dido to join this year's qualifiers: tATu - All The Things She Said Girls Aloud - No Good Advice Mis-Teeq - Scandalous Beyonce - Crazy In Love R Kelly - Ignition (remix) Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River White Stripes - 7 Nation Army Outkast - Hey Ya Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex Electric Six - Danger High Voltage...

The girls emerge victorious from heat #7 - Mis-teeq, Rachel, Jamelia, and Kylie are joined by a dark horse in the form of The Postal Service. On to our final heat of 2003, which has its fair share of (sharp intake of breath) indie . Don't say I didn't warn you! You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you played the investigation game on the previous heat and told us all...

Girls Aloud comfortably through along with tATu and Justin; Missy and Lumidee fend off the rest of the competition. Today: double Mis-teeq, double Shut Ups and dead cartoon children rapping from the afterlife. Waah! It's heat #7! You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you played the investigation game on the previous heat and told us all your new favourite (and why). Put...

Panjabi MC emerged victorious from heat #5, narrowly beating Junior Senior into second. They're joined in the next round by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kelly Clarkson and Girls Aloud 's worst single ahem . Heat #6 features some big hitters - nine top 5 hits! Today's tracks include a Depeche Mode cover, a Eurovision entry, and some construction workers with scant regard for health and safety regulations....

R Kelly, Sugababes 2.0, Fiddy Pence and Johnny Cash are through, with some last minute vote-switching giving Will Young the last spot. On to heat #5! You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you played the investigation game on the previous heat and told us all your new favourite (and why). Put your new favourite in the box below and get an extra tick for the next heat - do...

Dizzee, Outkast, Xtina, Sean Paul and the Lil' Jon posse all through. I'm superbusy today so without further ado, on to heat #4! You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you played the investigation game on the previous heat and told us all your new favourite (and why). Put your new favourite in the box below and get an extra tick for the next heat - do this on five or more...

Massive shock and horror in heat #2 as... ok never mind, Beyonce, Justin & Electric Six are all comfortably through. Evanescence and Blu/Sean whizz past the Frank Fergusons to get the last two spots. Perhaps we'll have an upset in today's heat instead - will Outkast bear the brunt of the 2003 ubiquity tick fatigue? Let's find out! You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless...

Heat #1 saw tATu storm ahead with the best tick-turnout of the decade so far; Yulia and Lena are joined in the final by the White Stripex, Xtina, Jay-X & Beyonxe and RicharX-v-LibertX. On to heat #2, in which the wailing/gnashing of teeth may rise to new heights. But only five can go through, and it's up to you lot to pick which ones! Choose wisely, o Poptimists... You get SIX TICKS over...

Russian faux-lesbians, Knightrider bhangra and countless remixes by Richard X: welcome to 2003! You get SIX TICKS over the three bits of the poll, unless you played the investigation game on the previous heat and told us all your new favourite (and why). Put your new favourite in the box below and get an extra tick for the next heat - do this on five or more of the eight heats and get an...

Missy, Shakira, Eminem, The Streets and Brandy are all through in a close heat, with Jimmy Eat World beating Las Ketchup by one tiny vote in the run-off; koganbot , meserach , justfanoe and myself get an extra tick for heat #1 in 2003. So who are our qualifiers? Sugababes - Freak Like Me Missy Elliot - Work It Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground Aaliyah - More Than...