The Strictly Scoreboard

2024 Week One: New week-by-week charges, and judges insights

Hey everyone! We have some exciting news. We've just added week-by-week charts and data to the Strictly Scoreboard.

You can now see how the judges score, on average, each week for each year. You can also see at a glance how each dance type fares. For example, did you know that this is the lowest scoring week one since our four judges started together. An average score of just 22.60, down from the height of 25.13 in 2022.

Toyah and Neil have the lowest week one score (12 points) since 2019.

Motsi is the only judge to be scoring week one higher on average over 2021.

AJ & Kai scored 34 points for their Week One Jive in 2021.

It won't surprise anyone to know that Craig is the lowest scoring judge - coming in with an average of 5.0 for Week One this year. In 2021 Craig was at 5.53, that's a drop of over half a point. (It was even higher at 5.67 in 2022) In fact, comparing 2021 to 2024, only Motsi has a higher average (from 5.87 to 6.0)

Looking across the pairs for week one, Toyah and Neil unfortunately have the accolade of the lowest week one score since 2019, coming in lower than Tony & Katya from 2022 and Les & Nancy from 2023.

Week One has a specific set of dances which the pros like to use to give the celebs an easy start. Did you know, we've never seen an Argentine Tango, Charleston or a Salsa in Week One! We last saw a Rumba in Week One in 2009! The Cha-Cha is the most popular Week One dance, we've seen it 15 times since 2021.

You can dive into all the Week 1 stats here - StrictlyScoreboard:Week One

Week One Averages

Judge Craig Revel Horwood Motsi Mabuse Shirley Ballas Anton Du Beke
20215.535.876.076.53
20225.676.406.406.67
20235.406.336.336.20
20245.006.005.536.07
Year 2021202220232024
Average score 24.0025.1324.2722.60

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Articles, Deep dives, Insights

We love to analyse the Strictly Come Dancing scores and leaderboard, looking for some super interesting facts and figures which we then write about.

  • 01 Oct, 2024

    Week Two 2024 - Deep Dive
    One pairing scores higher from Craig and Anton, than Motsi and Shirley, going against the Week Two trend.
  • 27 Sep, 2024

    Week Two 2024 - Look Ahead
    Which dance is making a Week Two comeback, and what paddles can we expect to see from the judges.
  • 23 Sep, 2024

    Week One 2024 - Deep Dive
    Only one judge is scoring higher than previous years! Who is it? Find out in our dive into week one scores.

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How does adding my own score work?

We've recently added the ability for you to add your own score for each dance, so you can compare your score against the judges score. As soon as the pairing have been announced to the dance floor we turn on an "Add Score" button, and you have until all the judges scores are all added.

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The Live Strictly Come Dancing Scoreboard started as a side project between a husband-and-wife team. They found that whilst watching Strictly they wanted to see the live leaderboard as the judges' scores came in but there was nowhere that offered this.

After a bit of thought and development, the live scoreboard was born! And now you too can watch the leaderboard as it changes throughout the Saturday evening show.

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