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The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual top 100 list, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. Voting is conducted by text message and the internet and begins on the new year for the previous year's songs. The 100 most popular songs are then counted down on Australia Day weekend - usually Australia Day itself, January 26.
The poll had been conducted by 2JJJ in Sydney starting in the 1980s, before Triple J became a national broadcaster. It was originally called the Hot 100 and ran on New Year's Day. The Brisbane independent radio Station 4ZZZ had run the survey under the same name and on the same day since 1977 and owned the rights to the name Hot 100. Triple J was legally required to change the name of its annual survey.
The poll attracts over half a million votes every year (500,000 in 2004, 600,000 in 2005). It began as a write-in poll; it then progressed to phone in, then they started listing the songs for the year so it could be done automatically via SMS and web voting. In 2003, it was only possible to vote on the Triple J web site; registration was required and limited to 10 votes. In 2004 this was expanded to 10 internet votes, and 10 SMS votes.
A compilation CD featuring about 35 of the songs in the countdown is released a few months after the count - it is massively popular and a huge moneyspinner for the station. To give some idea of their popularity, the first CD is still available a decade after its release in 1993.
Popular tracks from previous Hottest 100s - there have been thirteen to date, 1993-2005 - are listed below:
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Hottest 100, 2005
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Top five:
- Bernard Fanning - "Wish You Well"
- Ben Lee - "Catch My Disease"
- Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
- Foo Fighters - "Best of You"
- Gorillaz - "DARE"
- Wolfmother scored a record breaking six tracks.
- Green Day now have the longest song ever in a Hottest 100 with "Jesus of Suburbia".
- Bernard Fanning has now topped the Hottest 100 three times - twice with Powderfinger and once solo.
- Gorillaz manages to get 2 songs in the Top 5 (with a third song, Dirty Harry, reaching #52).
- The Living End achieved a Hottest 100 position for 9 years running, starting in 1997.
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Hottest 100, 2004  Volume 12 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
- Missy Higgins - "Scar"
- Eskimo Joe - "From The Sea"
- The Killers - "Somebody Told Me"
- Spiderbait - "Black Betty"
- John Butler Trio and the Scissor Sisters scored four tracks each; Missy Higgins had two of her three tracks reach the top 10.
- Two versions of "Take Me Out" were in this year's list - the Franz Ferdinand original, and the Scissor Sisters cover.
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Hottest 100, 2003  Volume 11 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?"
- OutKast - "Hey Ya!"
- The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
- Powderfinger - "On My Mind"
- Coldplay - Clocks (Royksopp Remix)
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Hottest 100, 2002  Volume 10 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
- Grinspoon - "Chemical Heart"
- The Waifs - "London Still"
- 1200 Techniques - "Karma"
- The Vines - "Get Free"
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Hottest 100, 2001  Volume 9 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Alex Lloyd - "Amazing"
- Something for Kate - "Monsters"
- System of a Down - "Chop Suey!"
- Basement Jaxx - "Where's Your Head At?"
- John Butler Trio - "Betterman"
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Hottest 100, 2000  Volume 8 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Powderfinger - "My Happiness"
- U2 - "Beautiful Day"
- Powderfinger - "My Kind of Scene"
- Wheatus - "Teenage Dirtbag"
- Coldplay - "Yellow"
- Powderfinger became the first artist to have two Hottest 100 #1 tracks, in 1999 and 2000.
- Rage Against The Machine scored three tracks.
- Machine Gun Fellatio's "Mofo On A Motor Cycle" is entered a second time and reaches #67 where in 1999 it placed #59.
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Hottest 100, 1999  Volume 7 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Powderfinger - "These Days"
- Killing Heidi - "Weir"
- The Tennants - "You Shit Me To Tears"
- Fatboy Slim - "Praise You"
- Placebo - "Every You Every Me"
- Powderfinger and Silverchair scored four tracks each.
- #2 and #3 tracks are both Triple J Unearthed winners.
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Hottest 100, 1998  Volume 6 CD Cover
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Top five:
- The Offspring - "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"
- Ben Lee - "Cigarettes Will Kill You"
- Custard - "Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)"
- Hole - "Celebrity Skin"
- KoЯn - "Got The Life"
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Hottest 100, 1997  Volume 5 CD Cover
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Top five:
- The Whitlams - "No Aphrodisiac"
- Blur - "Song 2"
- Chumbawamba - "Tubthumping"
- The Verve - "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
- Pauline Pantsdown - "Back Door Man"
- The most variety in a Hottest 100 to date, with no single artist getting more than two tracks in the list.
- Radiohead scored the highest double, at positions #7 and #9.
- Pauline Pantsdown's track "Back Door Man", banned by a court injuction from Pauline Hanson, is voted #5.
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Hottest 100, 1996  Volume 4 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Spiderbait - "Buy Me a Pony"
- Tool - "Stinkfist"
- Ben Folds Five - "Underground"
- Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"
- Bush - "Glycerine"
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Hottest 100, 1995  Volume 3 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Oasis - "Wonderwall"
- Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
- Coolio - "Gangsta's Paradise"
- Presidents of the United States of America - "Kitty"
- Björk - "It's Oh So Quiet"
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Hottest 100, 1994  Volume 2 CD Cover
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Top five:
- The Cranberries - "Zombie"
- Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
- The Offspring - "Self Esteem"
- The Offspring - "Come Out & Play"
- Silverchair - "Tomorrow"
- Soundgarden scored four tracks, Counting Crows scored three.
- The Offspring scored back to back tracks at positions #3 and #4.
- Tom Jones reached position #9 with "If I Only Knew".
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Hottest 100, 1993  Volume 1 CD Cover
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Top five:
- Denis Leary - "Asshole"
- Radiohead - "Creep"
- The Cranberries - "Linger"
- Blind Melon - "No Rain"
- The Breeders - "Cannonball"
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