The poll regularly attracts about 200,000 voters. 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 the most recent poll, it was only possible to vote on the Triple J web site, and registration was required.
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.
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Hottest 100, 2003
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Top five:
- Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
- OutKast - Hey Ya!
- White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Powderfinger - On My Mind
- ColdplayColdplay is a British rock band, formed in 1997. The band's members, Chris Martin ( guitar, lead vocals, piano/ keyboards), Guy Berryman ( bass), Jonny Buckland (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Will Champion ( drums, backing vocals), met each other and f - Clocks (Royksopp Remix)
- The White Stripes and Powderfinger score five tracks each - Powderfinger's include 3 in the top 10
- The Cat EmpireThe Cat Empire is a jazz/ rock/ hip hop band from Australia. Their debut album, self titled, features among the traditional guitar, drums and vocal sounds, jazzy brass and funky keyboard tunes. It was released in October 2003 and went platinum in Australi, Jack JohnsonThis page is about Jack Johnson, the boxer. For information about the musician, see Jack_Johnson_(musician). Arthur John Johnson ( March 31, 1878 June 10, 1946), better known as Jack Johnson was arguably the best heavyweight boxer of his generation. He wa, PlaceboPlacebo is a rock band founded in 1994. They enjoyed early success in Britain thanks to the high interest in British rock music at the time, sparked in particular by Oasis and Blur. Band History Placebo was founded when former Luxembourg schoolmates Brian, MuseMuse is a British rock band formed in Teignmouth, Devon in the mid 1990s. Its three members are Matt Bellamy ( singer, guitarist and keyboardist), Chris Wolstenholme ( bassist) and Dominic Howard ( drummer and percussionist). Bellamy is the principal song score three tracks each
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Hottest 100, 2002The 2002 Triple J Hottest 100 announced on January 26, 2003, was the tenth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. As in previous years, a CD featuring 39 (not necessarily the
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Top five:
- Queens of the Stone AgeQueens of the Stone Age was formed in 1996 under the name Gamma Ray . Seeking to outgrow the stoner rock label that had begun to envelop previous band Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age (at the time singer/guitarist Josh Homme, and drummer Alfredo Hernandez) - No One Knows
- GrinspoonGrinspoon are an Australian alternative/metal/hard rock/punk rock band from Lismore. Founded in 1995, they came to fame when they were Unearthed by Triple J thanks to their track Sickfest''. This won them the competition for the Lismore area. As a result - Chemical Heart
- The Waifs - London Still
- 1200 Techniques - Karma
- The Vines - Get Free
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Hottest 100, 2001
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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
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Top five:
- Powderfinger - My Happiness
- U2 - Beautiful Day
- Powderfinger - Not My Kinda Scene
- Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
- Coldplay - Yellow
- Powderfinger become the first artist to have two Hottest 100 #1 tracks, in 1999 and 2000.
- Rage Against The Machine scores three tracks.
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Hottest 100, 1999
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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 score four tracks each.
- #2 and #3 tracks are both Triple J Unearthed winners.
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Hottest 100, 1998
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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
- Korn - Got The Life
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Hottest 100, 1997
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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 scores 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
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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
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Top five:
- Oasis - Wonderwall
- Smashing Pumpkins - 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
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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 scores four tracks, The Counting Crows score three.
- The Offspring scores back to back tracks at positions #3 and #4.
- Tom Jones, reaches position #9 with If I Only Knew
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Hottest 100, 1993
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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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