Today’s the day, music lovers. It’s time for triple j’s Hottest 100 for 2016. We’ve already discovered that this year is going to be a record for Australians in the countdown, but the question now is ‘where exactly will those Aussies place?’
After checking out some of the songs we reckon could make the countdown, we’re pretty excited for what is going to be an amazing day of music.
So stick with us today as we give you a live update of the songs that are being played throughout the day, and be sure to check out our Spotify playlist for the countdown too!
Triple J’s Hottest 100 For 2016
#100: ‘Brace’ – Birds Of Tokyo
#99: ‘Too Good (feat. Rihanna)’ – Drake
#98 ‘Season 2 Episode 3’ – Glass Animals
#97 ‘You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me’ – Alex Lahey
#96 ‘Hanging By A Thread (feat. Natalie Foster)’ – Elk Road
#95 ‘Lose It (feat. Vic Mensa)’ – Flume
#94 ‘Fading’ – Vallis Alps
#93 ‘High And Low’ – Empire Of The Sun
#92 ‘How To Taste’ – Violent Soho
#91 ‘Subways’ – The Avalanches
#90 ‘Anything Near Conviction’ – Luca Brasi
#89 ‘Over You’ – SAFIA
#88 ‘Me And Your Mama’ – Childish Gambino
#87 ‘Uptown Folks’ – DOPE LEMON
#86 ‘Dopamine (feat. Thief)’ – Bliss N Eso
#85 ‘My Love Is Gone’ – SAFIA
#84 ‘Pink + White’ – Frank Ocean
#83 ‘Simulation’ – Tkay Maidza
#82 ‘Think About It (feat. Peta & The Wolves)’ – Thundamentals
#81 ‘Panda’ – Desiigner
#80 ‘Gemini Feed’ – Banks
#79 ‘Burn The Witch’ – Radiohead
#78 ‘Settle’ – Vera Blue
#77 ‘Soundcheck’ – Catfish And The Bottlemen
#76 ‘This Could Be Heartbreak’ – The Amity Affliction
#75 ‘Because I’m Me’ – The Avalanches
#74 ‘Lost: Season One’ – Camp Cope
#73 ‘No Shade’ – Violent Soho
#72 ‘Famous (feat. Rihanna)’ – Kanye West
#71 ‘Free’ – Broods
#70 ‘Wolfie (feat. Julia Stone)’ – Golden Features
#69 ‘So Sentimental’ – Violent Soho
#68 ‘Next To You (feat. Savoi)’ – L D R U
#67 ‘I Bring The Weather With Me’ – The Amity Affliction
#66 ‘Hold Up’ – Beyoncé
#65 ‘All Fucked Up’ – The Amity Affliction
#64 ‘Alaska’ – Maggie Rogers
#63 ‘Life Itself’ – Glass Animals
#62 ‘Marinade’ – DOPE LEMON
#61 ‘Gamma Knife’ – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
#60 ‘Drinkee’ – Sofi Tukker
#59 ‘Solo’ – Frank Ocean
#58 ‘Girlie Bits’ – Ali Barter
#57 ‘Twice’ – Catfish And The Bottlemen
#56 ‘Keeping Score (feat. Guy Sebastian)’ (Like A Version) – Paces
#55 ‘Say A Prayer For Me’ – RÜFÜS
#54 ‘Bored To Death’ – Blink-182
#53 ‘Blanket’ – Violent Soho
#52 ‘Love Yourself’ (Like A Version) – Halsey
#51 ‘Outcast At Last’ – Sticky Fingers
#50 ‘Strange Diseases’ – Gang Of Youths
#49 ‘Higher (feat. James Chatburn)’ – Hilltop Hoods
#48 ‘Creepin’ – Kingswood
#47 ‘Walrus’ – D.D Dumbo
#46 ‘Dang! (feat. Anderson .Paak)’ – Mac Miller
#45 ‘Dumb Things (feat. Paul Kelly & Dan Sultan)’ (Like A Version) – A.B. Original
#44 ‘Satan’ – D.D Dumbo
#43 ‘Final Song’ – MØ
#42 ‘Heartlines’ – Broods
#41 ‘I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)’ – The Weeknd
#40 ‘Surfin’ (feat. Pharrell Williams)’ – Kid Cudi
#39 ‘Step Up The Morphine’ – DMA’s
#38 ‘Youth’ – Glass Animals
#37 ‘Smoke & Retribution (feat. Vince Staples & Kučka)’ – Flume
#36 ‘Sad Songs’ – Sticky Fingers
#35 ‘World Of Our Love’ – Client Liaison
#34 ‘Scott Green’ – Dune Rats
#33 ‘Bullshit’ – Dune Rats
#32 ‘Notion’ – Tash Sultana
#31 ‘One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla)’ – Drake
#30 ‘Innerbloom (What So Not Remix)’ – RÜFÜS
#29 ‘Our Town’ – Sticky Fingers
#28 ‘Frankie Sinatra’ – The Avalanches
#27 ‘Drive’ – Gretta Ray
#26 ‘Make Them Wheels Roll’ – SAFIA
#25 ‘Because I Love You’ – Montaigne
#24 ‘Come On Mess Me Up’ – Cub Sport
#23 ‘Catch 22 (feat. Anne-Marie)’ – Illy
#22 ‘Ultralight Beam (feat. Chance The Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price & Kirk Franklin)’ – Kanye West
#21 ‘Death To The Lads’ – The Smith Street Band
#20 ‘On Hold’ – The xx
#19 ‘7’ – Catfish And The Bottlemen
#18 ‘All Night (feat. Knox Fortune) (Kaytranada Extended Joint)’ – Chance The Rapper
#17 ‘The Opposite Of Us’ – Big Scary
#16 ‘January 26 (feat. Dan Sultan)’ – A.B. Original
#15 ‘Genghis Khan’ – Miike Snow
#14 ‘Viceroy’ – Violent Soho
#13 ‘Love$ick (feat. A$AP Rocky)’ – Mura Masa
#12 ‘Cocoon’ – Milky Chance
#11 ‘Chameleon’ – Pnau
#10 ‘Starboy (feat. Daft Punk)’ – The Weeknd
#9 ‘Stranger (feat. Elliphant)’ – Peking Duk
#8 ‘Say It (feat. Tove Lo)’ – Flume
#7 ‘Papercuts (feat. Vera Blue)’ – Illy
#6 ‘Believe’ (Like A Version) – DMA’s
#5 ‘Redbone’ – Childish Gambino
#4 ‘1955 (feat. Montaigne & Tom Thum)’ – Hilltop Hoods
#3 ‘Jungle’ – Tash Sultana
#2 ‘Adore’ – Amy Shark
#1 ‘Never Be Like You (feat. Kai)’ – Flume
Facts For The Day:
With The Avalanches coming in at #91 with ‘Subways’, they set the record for longest gap between appearances. After last appearing in 2001 with ‘Since I Left You’ and ‘Radio’, it’s been a 15 year gap for the Melbourne musos. However, this record was beaten later in the countdown, due to Paul Kelly making an appearance on A.B. Original’s Like A Version performance of ‘Dumb Things’. This appearance, his first since 2000’s ‘Every Fucking City’, was his first in 16 years.
Radiohead made it in at #79 with ‘Burn The Witch’. They’ve been making steady appearances in Hottest 100 countdowns since the first one back in 1993, one of the few artists from that countdown still making an appearance.
When L D R U made it into the countdown with ‘Next To You’, it became the 1,000th Australian song to make a Hottest 100 countdown.
At #66, Beyoncé made the countdown for, as triple j put it, ‘the first time’. Beyoncé actually made it into the countdown a few spots earlier at #84 as a guest on Frank Ocean’s ‘Pink + White’.
By featuring as a guest vocalist on Paces’ Like A Version performance of L D R U’s ‘Keeping Score,’ Guy Sebastian has managed to beat Shannon Noll (again) into a Hottest 100 countdown, and also become the first Australian Idol winner to feature in a countdown.
Mura Masa’s appearance at #13 with ‘Love$ick’ means that this is the first time we’ve seen an artist in a Hottest 100 countdown from Guernsey, a Crown dependency located in the English Channel.
Hilltop Hoods appearing at #4 with ‘1955’ mean that they almost matched their highest position of #3, which they’ve reached a total of 3 times before.
The top 3 is the first Australian top 3 since the 2014 countdown, but is amazingly the first all triple j Unearthed top 3! This is an absolutely amazing achievement for independent Australian music.
Violent Soho appeared the most in the countdown, with 5 entries, Flume reaching 4 entries and topping the countdown, while The Amity Affliction, The Avalanches, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Glass Animals, SAFIA, and Sticky Fingers all appeared 3 times.
Likewise, 23 other artists have appeared twice, with A.B. Original, Broods, Chance The Rapper, Childish Gambino, Daft Punk, Dan Sultan, DMA’s, DOPE LEMON, Drake, Dune Rats, Frank Ocean, Glass Animals, Hilltop Hoods, Illy, Kanye West, Montaigne, Nick Littlemore, Rihanna, RÜFÜS, Tash Sultana, Vera Blue, and The Weeknd all featuring in the countdown twice.
Final Facts
100 songs from 10 countries, including 66 from Australia, 16 from the USA, 5 from England, 4 from Canada, 3 from Wales, 2 from New Zealand, and 1 each from Sweden, Norway, Guernsey, and Germany.
If we expand that a bit though, we see entries from 3 more countries, including Rihanna from Barbados, Wizkid from Nigeria, and Kyla from the Philippines.
We managed to see 4 covers coming from triple j’s Like A Version sessions, with the highest one, DMA’s ‘Believe’ at #6, reaching a new high for Like A Versions.
We saw 26 feature artists from triple j’s Unearthed initiative, with 4 extra artists featuring on songs, bringing that to a huge total of 30 tracks. The countdown also saw the very first Unearthed top 3, which just goes to show how much Australian are loving independent music and supporting Aussie musicians.
