This year’s Triple J Hottest 100 is now underway, counting down the 100 best songs of the past 12 months, as voted by the public.
Stay with us through the afternoon as we cover all the highlights – and upsets – in the race to this year’s number one song.
Fans fume over Triple J’s big change
The ABC announced some surprising news in August last year: The national broadcaster would be shutting down almost all their official Twitter accounts, among them Triple J, followed by more than half a million people.
Fast forward five months, and that makes for a very quiet Hottest 100 on Twitter, now X.
Without an official Triple J account to announce each new entry, there’s a distinct lack of buzz on the social media platform - and a lack of that old Hottest 100 favourite reply, “Shoulda been higher.”
Fans have noted how strange this new post-Twitter Hottest 100 feels:
Repeat offenders
At 3:30pm we’re approaching the halfway mark of the countdown, and already this afternoon, there have been a lot of repeat entries: Lana Del Rey, G Flip, The Kid Laroi and Genesis Owusu are among the acts who’ve already placed two songs. Aussie pop princess Peach PRC is having a killer year, with three songs already, and UK metal act Bring Me The Horizon pulled off a rare double, with songs charting at 57 and 58.
Aussie acts dominate first quarter
A quarter of the way through the countown, and Aussies have dominated so far, with 15 Australian acts among the 25 announced: Big hitters include The Kid Laroi at 78 with Bleed, G Flip at 80 with 7 Days and Peach PRC at 81 with Like A Girl Does.
The hosts have teased that this year, 52 Aussie acts in total make it into the Hottest 100. That’s actually down on last year, when 57 Australian acts placed in the countdown.
A very poppy surprise entry
Canadian pop star Tate McRae has scored a couple of big hits in the past 12 months with her very pop-heavy new material, complete with tightly-choreographed dance routines. She was a commercial radio and ARIA chart mainstay - but it was perhaps a bit more of a surprise to see her placing on the Hottest 100. Her single Exes was 82 - does that mean her much bigger hit Greedy will place further up the countdown?
A little higher up the list, another very poppy entry: Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s Aqua-sampling Barbie World, from the Barbie soundtrack, at 66.
Last year’s winner makes an appearance
Sydney singer-songwriter MAY-A won the Hottest 100 last year, as the featured vocalist on Flume’s hit single Say Nothing. One year on, and she’s placed at 94 with her own solo single, the rocky Sweat You Out My System. Will she have more entries on the list as the day goes on?
Coming in at number 100...
...Is Lost The Break-Up by English singer-songwriter Maisie Peters. And one spot higher, at #99, we have our first Like A Version entry: Aussie pop punk band Slowly Slowly with their cover of Blink-182’s I Miss You. And two more Aussie entries come in quick succession after that: Genesis Owusu’s Stay Blessed at 97 and Aussie rapper Chillinit at 96 with his Australian Crawl-sampling Boys Light Up.
This year’s favourites to win
Sportsbet has Doja Cat’s Paint The Town Red listed as the favourite to win this year’s poll – which makes sense, seeing as the song was one of the biggest hits of 2023.
But an Aussie act could still take it out for the third year in a row: Also in the running according to Sportsbet are MK and Dom Dolla’s dance floor filler Rhyme Dust and Troye Sivan’s banger Rush.
Previous winners
Here’s who won the Hottest 100 the past few years:
2022: Flume featuring May-a – Say Nothing
2021: The Wiggles – Elephant (Like a Version)
2020: Glass Animals – Heat Waves
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2019: Billie Eilish – Bad Guy
2018: Ocean Alley – Confidence
More to come …
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