TRIPLE J HOTTEST 100

The 'Triple J Hottest 100' is an annual music poll, 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 SMS 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 2JJ 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 a 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, 671,024 in 2006). 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 a popular and effective source of income for the station. The first CD is still available over a decade after its release in 1993.
During the poll's first few years (1989 to 1991), the eligible songs were not restricted to a particular year. The winner in the first two years (1989 and 1990) was "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division, and 1991's favourite song was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. After a hiatus, the poll returned in 1993, but was limited to songs released in that year.
The top five most popular tracks from previous ''Hottest 100s'' – there have been seventeen to date – are listed below:

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'Hottest 100, 2006'	Top five:#Augie March - "One Crowded Hour"#Eskimo Joe - "Black Fingernails, Red Wine"#Hilltop Hoods - "The Hard Road"#The Killers - "When You Were Young"#Scissor Sisters - "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" ★ Hilltop Hoods had 5 songs in the list; Lily Allen and The Grates had 4 each. ★ The Living End were in the Hottest 100 for the tenth year running.
'Hottest 100, 2005'	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 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 #41), the first time this has been done since Powderfinger in 2000. ★ ★ Ben Lee finishes at #2 for the second time, having never reached #1.
'Hottest 100, 2004'	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.
'Hottest 100, 2003'	Top five:#Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?"#OutKast - "Hey Ya!"#The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"#Powderfinger - "(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind"#Coldplay - Clocks (Royksopp Remix) ★ The White Stripes and Powderfinger scored five tracks each - Powderfinger's include 3 in the top 10. ★ The Cat Empire, Jack Johnson, Placebo and Muse scored three tracks each.
'Hottest 100, 2002'	Top five:#Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"#Grinspoon - "Chemical Heart"#The Waifs - "London Still"#1200 Techniques - "Karma"#The Vines - "Get Free" ★ Queens of the Stone Age and Silverchair scored five tracks each. ★ Machine Gun Fellatio scored 2 tracks in the top 10. ★ Salmon Hater came in at #26. ★ Dave Grohl was involved with ten tracks: five Queens of the Stone Age, four Foo Fighters, and one Nirvana.
'Hottest 100, 2001'	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" ★ Something for Kate, The Strokes, Eskimo Joe and Muse scored three tracks each. ★ Ben Harper's cover of The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work" reached #22, the exact same position as the original several years earlier.
'Hottest 100, 2000'	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 "MotheFucker On A Motor Cycle" is entered a second time and reaches #67 where in 1999 it placed #59.
'Hottest 100, 1999'	Top five:#Powderfinger - "These Days"#Killing Heidi - "Weir"#The Tenants - "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.
'Hottest 100, 1998'	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" ★ Regurgitator scored four tracks in the list. ★ Jebediah, The Living End, Grinspoon, The Whitlams, Pearl Jam and Garbage scored three each.All-Time Hottest 100# Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit# Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me# Pearl Jam - Alive# Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye# Radiohead - Creep
'Hottest 100, 1997'	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.
'Hottest 100, 1996'	Top five:#Spiderbait - "Buy Me a Pony"#Tool - "Stinkfist"#Ben Folds Five - "Underground"#Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"#Bush - "Glycerine" ★ The first time an Australian track has been voted #1. ★ Bush, Powderfinger, The Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam scored three tracks each.
'Hottest 100, 1995'	Top five:#Oasis - "Wonderwall"#The Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"#Coolio - "Gangsta's Paradise"#Presidents of the United States of America - "Kitty"#Björk - "It's Oh So Quiet" ★ TISM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Live, You Am I, Alanis Morissette and Green Day scored three tracks each. ★ Two of TISM's tracks reached positions #9 and #10.
'Hottest 100, 1994'	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".
'Hottest 100, 1993'	Top five:#Denis Leary - "Asshole"#Radiohead - "Creep"#The Cranberries - "Linger"#Blind Melon - "No Rain"#The Breeders - "Cannonball" ★ The Cruel Sea scored three tracks in the list.
'Hottest 100, 1991'	Top five:#Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"#Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"#Nirvana - "Lithium"#Hunters And Collectors - "Throw Your Arms Around Me"#Andy Prieboy - "Tomorrow Wendy" ★ The third of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year. ★ The Cure had nine songs in the 1991 list, ranging from "A Forest" at #8 to "Love Cats" at #74.
'Hottest 100, 1990'	Top five:#Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"#Hunters And Collectors - "Throw Your Arms Around Me"#The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now?"#The The - "Uncertain Smile"#New Order - "Blue Monday" ★ The second of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year.
'Hottest 100, 1989'	Top five:#Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"#Hunters And Collectors - "Throw Your Arms Around Me"#The The - "Uncertain Smile"#The Jam - "That's Entertainment"#New Order - "Blue Monday" ★ The first of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year.

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★ Hottest 100 section of the Triple J website

★ Hottest 100 history website