Video Hits Australia Top 100 Video Clips

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Video Hits, the Australian music video program, celebrated twenty years on air in 2006. To celebrate this feat, a poll was conducted by internet and SMS voting to find the Top 100 music videos of the past twenty years. The Top 100 was counted down over four episodes of the show:

The complete countdown is shown below from number 100 to 1.

Contents

[edit] The Top 100 Video Clips

[edit] Artists With Multiple Entries

  • Michael Jackson (13)
  • Coldplay (6)
  • Green Day (6)
  • Shannon Noll (4)
  • Madonna (3)
  • U2 (3)
  • Black Eyed Peas (2)
  • Britney Spears (2)
  • Fatboy Slim (2)
  • Foo Fighters (2)
  • Lee Harding (2)
  • Linkin Park (2)
  • Nirvana (2)
  • The Living End (2)
  • The Veronicas (2)
  • The Verve (2)
  • Will.I.Am featured in the chart three times, twice as a member of the Black Eyed Peas and once as a feature artist with the Pussycat Dolls on "Beep".
  • Justin Timberlake featured twice in the Top 100, once as a solo artist on "Cry Me A River" and once as a feature artist on the Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is The Love?"
  • David Grohl makes four appearances on the list, two in Nirvana and two in Foo Fighters

[edit] Chart Trivia

  • Network Ten, the broadcaster of Video Hits, also broadcasts Australian Idol. Contestants from the show fared quite well in the Top 100, with eight Idol-related songs on the chart. These songs came from four male artists - Shannon Noll, Lee Harding, Anthony Callea and Guy Sebastian.
  • Australian artists on the whole were well-represented in the countdown, with eighteen songs by Australians in the Top 100. The twelve Australian artists which made the cut are The Living End, Powderfinger, Shannon Noll, silverchair, The Veronicas, Lee Harding, Guy Sebastian, Anthony Callea, AC/DC, Youth Group, Kylie Minogue and John Farnham. Farnham was the highest-placed Australian entry with "You're The Voice" at number sixteen.
  • The chart seems to lean slightly towards a more alternative style of music, reflecting a new direction that Video Hits has taken in the lead-up to the countdown. While mainstream pop artists such as Britney Spears and The Pussycat Dolls are listed in the countdown, artists including Coldplay, Greenday, Massive Attack, The Living End, Foo Fighters, Fatboy Slim, Peter Gabriel and Nirvana feature prominently. Most of these artists were not heavily promoted by Video Hits during its 20-year history, and their inclusion in the chart could be slightly puzzling to long-time viewers of the program. There was also an absence of several iconic R&B artists, including TLC, Diddy, 50 Cent, Missy Elliott and Snoop Dogg, who all produced notable video clips over the past decade.
  • The countdown coincided with two major competitions. The first offered a chance to see Coldplay live in concert in Sydney with Video Hits host Axle Whitehead. Everybody who voted in the countdown was entered into the draw for this competition, with the winner announced during the countdown on Sunday May 28, 2006. The second competition offered a chance to see Madonna in concert in London, and could be entered via the Video Hits website. The winner was announced on June 5, 2006.
  • On some websites, it is falsely claimed that Robbie Williams' "Rock DJ" made the countdown, in place of "Let Me Entertain You". The former video probably did not make the list because of its explicit content. However, the video for Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" did make the countdown.

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