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{{Short description|Triple J's annual listener-voted countdown poll}}
{{Redirect|Hottest 100|other uses|Hot 100 (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}}
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{{Infobox award
| name = Triple J Hottest 100
| current_awards = Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs
| image = Triple J Logo.png
| caption = ''"The world's greatest music democracy"''
| date = Fourth Saturday in January
| awarded_for = The year's top 100 songs as voted by listeners
| presenter = [[Triple J]]
| country = [[Australia]]
| holder = [[Chappell Roan]] – "[[Good Luck, Babe!]]" ([[Triple J Hottest 100, 2024|2024]])
| most_wins = [[Powderfinger]] and [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] (2 wins each)
| year = {{start date and age|1989|3|5|df=y}}
| website = [https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/ Triple J Hottest 100]
}}

The '''Triple J Hottest 100''' is an annual music poll presented by the Australian youth radio station [[Triple J]] since 1989. Listeners are invited to vote for their favourite songs of the year in an online ballot conducted before the new year.

In its early years, the Hottest 100 was broadcast in March, then on various days in January and February. From 1998, it was consistently held on [[Australia Day]] (26 January), before moving to the fourth weekend of January starting in 2017. Generally the Hottest 200 (songs 200–101) is also held on this weekend.

The poll has grown from 500,000 votes in 2004 to a peak of over 3.2 million in 2019, and it has been referred to as "the world's greatest music democracy".<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=McCann |first=James |date=11 February 2020 |title=Time to shake off Triple J's great injustice against Taylor Swift |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/time-to-shake-off-triple-j-s-great-injustice-against-taylor-swift-20200207-p53ym0.html |access-date=15 January 2025 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref> American singer [[Chappell Roan]]'s song "[[Good Luck, Babe!]]" is the latest song to top the Hottest 100. A special [[Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs|Hottest 100 of Australian Songs]] was broadcast on 26 July 2025 to celebrate Triple J's 50th anniversary.

Since 2015, the countdown has raised at least $3.3 million for various Australian charity partners, including [[Lifeline (crisis support service)|Lifeline]], through merchandise sales. [[ABC Music]] issued [[compilation album|compilation CD]]s following each year's countdown until 2022. In 2023, Triple J launched [[Triple J#Hottest 100|Triple J Hottest]], an [[Internet radio|online radio station]] featuring a playlist of tracks from all previous Hottest 100 countdowns.<ref>{{cite web |date=10 July 2023 |title=Triple J Hottest – here's what you need to know about the new Hottest 100 station |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/triple-j-hottest-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-hott/102484224 |access-date=15 January 2025 |website=[[Triple J]] |place=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref>

==History==
===1988–1991: The Hot 100===
In 1988, [[Triple J]] producer Lawrie Zion had the idea to run a poll to determine his listeners' 100 favourite songs of all time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How Hottest 100 started (mp3) |url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/30years/audio/hot100_1989.mp3 |access-date=20 November 2021 |website=Abc.net.au}}</ref> The idea was taken from Brisbane [[community radio]] station [[4ZZZ]], which developed the original Hot 100 in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/4zzz-celebrates-40th-birthday-20151208-glia70.html|title = 4ZZZ celebrates 40th birthday|date = 8 December 2015}}</ref> 4ZZZ themselves borrowed the idea from an Adelaide radio station and British magazine ''[[NME]]''.<ref>4ZZZ Radio Times, Volume 1 No 7, Page 10 </ref>

For the Hot 100, before Triple J had become a national broadcaster, Sydney listeners were required to write their 10 favourite tracks on the back of an envelope.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Alex |date=22 January 2020 |title=This Year's Triple J Hottest 100 Broke A New Record For Listener Votes |url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/triple-j-hottest-100-broke-record-votes/ |access-date=21 July 2025 |work=[[Music Feeds]]}}</ref> Some entries were sent into the station written on a variety of items, including paintings, sculptures, and hand-rolled cannabis cigarettes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=5 March 2019 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 is 30 years old – is it time for another all-time countdown? |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/triple-j-hottest-100-30-all-time-countdown/ |access-date=21 July 2025 |website=Tone Deaf |publisher=Brag Media}}</ref> The results of the first poll were counted down on Sunday, 5 March 1989.

The station repeated the event the following year when it started broadcasting to other capital cities besides Sydney. In 1991, Triple J was forced to change the poll's name to Hottest 100 to avoid legal action with 4ZZZ.

In the poll's first two years ([[Triple J Hottest 100, 1989|1989]] and [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1990|1990]]), the winner was "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" by [[Joy Division]], while [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1991|1991]]'s favourite song was "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], which had been released that year.

===1992–1995: The Hottest 100===
[[File:Denis Leary 2008.jpg|thumb|right|American comedian [[Denis Leary]] topped the first annual Hottest 100 in [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1993|1993]]|257x257px]]
Realising that the poll's results were unlikely to significantly change from year to year, Triple J rested the Hottest 100 in 1992 and relaunched it as an annual poll the following year.<ref name="ABCJ">{{cite web |title=History {{!}} Hottest 100 Archive |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/history/ |access-date=18 March 2016 |publisher=ABC}}</ref> The new system required listeners to vote for their favourite songs of that year. [[Denis Leary]]'s comedy anthem "[[Asshole (song)|Asshole]]" was voted number one in [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1993|1993]].<ref name="ABCJ"/>

The inaugural Hottest 100 compilation CD, ''Triple J Hottest 100 (The Hottest Of The Hottest)'', was released by [[ABC Music]] in 1994.

=== 1996–2016: Rise in Australian music ===
In [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1996|1996]], [[Spiderbait]] became the first Australian act to reach number one. Since [[Triple J Hottest 100, 1999|1999]], Australian acts have made up the majority of the polls.<ref name="abc.net.au">{{cite web |title=History {{!}} Hottest 100 Archive |url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/history/ |website=www.abc.net.au |access-date=23 July 2018 |language=en-AU |date=11 November 2017}}</ref>

The first Hottest 100 DVD, ''Triple J Hottest 100: The Hottest Videos For 2002'', was released in [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2002|2002]]. [[Queens of the Stone Age]]'s "[[No One Knows]]" was voted into the top position in that year, while [[Grinspoon]], [[Motor Ace]], [[Darren Hanlon]], [[Machine Translations]] and [[Ms Dynamite]] were other Hottest 100 artists featured on the release.<ref>{{cite web|title=Various – Triple J Hottest 100 - The Hottest Videos For 2002|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Triple-J-Hottest-100-The-Hottest-Videos-For-2002/release/3235437|website=Various on Discogs|publisher=Discogs|access-date=21 January 2015|date=2015}}</ref>

In [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2003|2003]], [[Powderfinger]] became the first act to be featured three times within the top 10 of the countdown, with "[[(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind]]", "[[Sunsets (song)|Sunsets]]" and "[[Love Your Way]]" being voted in at No.&nbsp;4, No.&nbsp;7, and No.&nbsp;10, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|title=hottest 100 2003|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_08/history/2003.htm|website=Triple J Hottest 100|publisher=ABC|access-date=26 January 2015|date=2015}}</ref>

After its beginnings as a write-in poll, the Hottest 100 progressed to phone-in voting, which then progressed to [[SMS]] and online voting. In 2003, only web votes through the Triple J website were accepted, with registration required and a limit of 10 votes applied. In [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2004|2004]], the guidelines were expanded so that voters were entitled to 10 internet votes and 10 SMS votes.

In 2014, [[Chet Faker]] repeated Powderfinger's achievement from 2003 by placing three times in the top 10 positions. Faker reached the number one spot with "[[Talk Is Cheap (Chet Faker song)|Talk Is Cheap]]" and the seventh and eighth positions respectively, with "[[Gold (Chet Faker song)|Gold]]" and "[[1998 (Chet Faker song)|1998]]". All three songs came from Faker's 2014 album ''[[Built on Glass]]''. Chet Faker placed a total of four times in the entire poll, with a ''[[Like a Version]]'' cover of [[Sonia Dada]]'s "[[You Don't Treat Me No Good]]" in the 22nd position. The [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2014|2014 Hottest 100]] poll received a record of 2,099,707 million votes, cast by 258,762 voters from 188 countries.<ref name="Chet">{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/chet-fakers-talk-is-cheap-wins-triple-j-hottest-100-20150126-12ykg4.html|title=Chet Faker's Talk Is Cheap wins Triple J Hottest 100|date=26 January 2015|access-date=26 January 2015|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref>

====2015: Taylor Swift controversy====
[[File:Taylor Swift at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards 4.png|thumb|252x252px|[[Taylor Swift]]'s hit 2015 single "[[Shake It Off]]" was notably banned from that year's [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2015|Hottest 100]].]]
Following a 13 January 2015 article on [[BuzzFeed]], the "#Tay4Hottest100" [[hashtag]] campaign began during the voting period for the Hottest 100 poll for 2014 to promote [[Taylor Swift]]'s hit single "[[Shake It Off]]". According to those critical of the campaign, the Hottest 100 is reserved for non-mainstream artists who were "discovered or fostered by Triple J" and provides valuable exposure for artists in the outer circles of the music industry.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Peter Vincent|title=Triple J Hottest 100: Has Taylor Swift been dumped from contention due to KFC ad?|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/triple-j-hottest-100-has-taylor-swift-been-dumped-from-contention-due-to-kfc-ad-20150120-12u1gi.html|access-date=23 January 2015|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=20 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Sarah Smith|title=Flight Facilities weigh in on Taylor Swift Hottest 100 furore|url=http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/59825/Flight_Facilities_weigh_in_on_Taylor_Swift_Hottest_100_furore|website=inthemix|publisher=inthemix Pty Ltd|access-date=23 January 2015|date=20 January 2015}}</ref>

The campaign led to discussion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/search?search=taylor%20swift%20hottest%20100&any=on|title=NEWS {{!}} radioinfo|website=www.radioinfo.com.au|access-date=2017-12-23}}</ref> about the broader cultural implications of the controversy generated by Swift. The ''[[Guardian Australia|Guardian]]''{{'}}s Elle Hunt wrote: "... the virulent response to #Tay4Hottest100 has revealed the persistence of a dichotomy I'd thought we'd thrown out long ago: that of high art versus low."<ref>{{cite news|author1=Elle Hunt|title=#Tay4Hottest100: Taylor Swift campaign shows it's time for Triple J to shake off cultural elitism|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/tay4hottest100-taylor-swift-campaign-shows-its-time-for-triple-j-to-shake-off-cultural-elitism|access-date=21 January 2015|work=The Guardian|date=19 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Mark Di Stefano|title=Why Isn't Everyone Voting For "Shake It Off" In The Hottest 100?|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/tay-4-hottest100#.gmLzd8y1p|website=BuzzFeed|publisher=BuzzFeed, Inc|access-date=21 January 2015|date=13 January 2015}}</ref> Writing for ''[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]'' on 23 January 2015, [[Charles Darwin University]] academic Gemma Blackwood concluded:

<blockquote>
The cultural and economic meanings attached to the celebrity-sign of "Taylor Swift" seems antithetical to Triple J's self-representation as a place for exciting new music, with a supposed focus on emerging Australian talent. This perhaps explains why Swift is excluded from the playlist when other "mainstream" American artists and chart toppers ... are still played on the station heavily: the alignment and transfer of values of what is considered "cool" and "hip" between the station and its chosen artists ... It raises the question: what responsibility does a national youth broadcaster have in the shaping and the adapting of young musical interests?<ref name="Gem">{{cite news|author1=Gemma Blackwood|title=Taylor Swift, Triple J and what the youth market really wants to hear|url=http://theconversation.com/taylor-swift-triple-j-and-what-the-youth-market-really-wants-to-hear-36643|access-date=1 February 2015|work=The Conversation|date=23 January 2015}}</ref></blockquote>

Station manager Chris Scaddan told the media that the Swift campaign was within the rules of the poll, later instructing Triple J employees not to comment to "media, friends, family" about the campaign, as "it will all become clear when we get to the countdown next Monday." The station said: "we don't comment on voting campaigns whilst Hottest 100 voting is open. It draws attention to them and may influence the results of the poll."<ref>{{cite web|author1=Joe Harris|title=The Guardian Says Triple J Are "Sexist" For Ignoring Taylor Swift, & That's Just Dumb|url=http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/432757/guardian-triple-j-sexist-taylor-swift.htm|website=Tone Deaf|access-date=21 January 2015|date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Marketing website Mumbrella suggested on 20 January that a Facebook post by [[KFC]] incorporating the "#Tay4Hottest100" hashtag was against the Hottest 100 rules and could see Swift disqualified.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Christensen|first1=Nic|title=KFC Facebook post may have disqualified Taylor Swift campaign from Triple J Hottest 100 list|url=http://mumbrella.com.au/abc-coy-taylor-swifts-hottest-100-eligibility-kfc-tries-jump-tay4hottest100-bandwagon-271943|website=Mumbrella|access-date=22 January 2015|date=20 January 2015}}</ref> The ''Guardian'' submitted a freedom of information request to the ABC in regard to the station's response to the campaign.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Elle Hunt|title=Taylor Swift fans have spoken – but will Triple J's Hottest 100 listen?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/20/taylor-swift-fans-have-spoken-but-will-triple-js-hottest-100-listen|access-date=21 January 2015|work=The Guardian|date=20 January 2015}}</ref>

After journalist Peter Vincent reported that the Swift campaign had "swallowed" the Hottest 100 for 2014, citing research from the [[University of Queensland]] that showed that over 7,341 Hottest 100 posts in a 30-day period leading up to the poll results related to Swift, "Shake It Off" was eventually disqualified by the radio station in an announcement on 26 January 2015. The official announcement read: "it became pretty clear, pretty quick that a lot of people just wanted to prod some 'hipsters' for the [[LOL|lulz]]", acknowledging that the station "had a heap of fun" with the campaign, while also acknowledging Swift is "smart", "cool" and "successful". The song would have placed in 12th position if it had been allowed to compete.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-01-26 |title=Triple J bans Taylor Swift from Hottest 100 |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-26/taylor-swift-banned-from-2015-hottest-100/6046156 |access-date=2023-03-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Peter Vincent |date=23 January 2015 |title=Taylor Swift campaign has swallowed Triple J Hottest 100 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/taylor-swift-campaign-has-swallowed-triple-j-hottest-100-20150123-12wfs1.html |access-date=26 January 2015}}</ref>

On the inside cover of the ''Triple J Hottest 100 Volume 22'' CD, bold capital initials spell out "TAYLOR SWIFT BAN".<ref>{{Citation |title=Various - Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 22 |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/2929786-Various-Triple-Js-Hottest-100-Volume-22 |language=en |access-date=2023-01-15}}</ref>

=== 2017–present: Announcement of date change ===
{{See also|Triple J Hottest 100, 2017#Announcement date}}[[File:Invasion Day Protest Swanston St Melbourne 2019.jpg|thumb|231x231px|The Hottest 100 was moved from [[Australia Day]] from 2017, in response to [[Australia Day debate|growing controversy]] surrounding its marking of [[History of Australia (1788–1850)|colonisation]].]]
In mid-2016, support grew for a campaign calling on Triple J to change the date of the Hottest 100 due to [[Australia Day debate|ongoing debate]] about the meaning of the date of [[Australia Day]] to [[Indigenous Australians]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 December 2018 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 to be held on the Sunday after Australia Day again |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-07/triple-j-hottest-100-to-day-after-australia-day/10591168 |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rychter |first=Tacey |date=27 October 2016 |title=Triple J Hottest 100 May Move From Australia Day |url=https://www.broadsheet.com.au/national/entertainment/article/triple-j-hottest-100-may-move-australia-day |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[Broadsheet (website)|Broadsheet]]}}</ref> Calls were led by Indigenous activists, with [[Australian hip-hop]] duo [[A.B. Original]] and their protest single "[[January 26 (song)|January 26]]" playing a particularly instrumental role in drawing support to the cause. Triple J responded to the campaign in September 2016, announcing a review over whether the date of the Hottest 100 should be changed.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harmon |first=Steph |date=13 September 2016 |title=Triple J to hold 2017 Hottest 100 on Australia Day, but 'future years under review' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/13/triple-j-hottest-100-australia-day-future-years-under-review |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[Guardian Australia]]}}</ref>

The review of the date continued into 2017, including consultation with [[Reconciliation Australia]], the [[National Congress of Australia's First Peoples]], and the [[National Australia Day Council]], while [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2016|the 2016 Hottest 100]] was held on Australia Day without change. In August 2017, Triple J launched a survey asking for public opinion on whether the date should be changed.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 August 2017 |title=Triple J opens online poll asking if Hottest 100 should be moved off Australia Day |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/02/triple-j-opens-online-poll-asking-if-hottest-100-should-be-moved-off-australia-day |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=Guardian Australia}}</ref> 60% of participants voted in support of moving the date; 39% responded to not change it.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Sargeant |first=Chloe |date=27 November 2017 |title=Triple J is changing the date of its Hottest 100 |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/triple-j-is-changing-the-date-of-its-hottest-100/datfo75hk |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[SBS World News]]}}</ref>

In 2017, Triple J announced that they would no longer hold the Hottest 100 on 26 January. Instead, the Hottest 100 would be held on the fourth weekend of January each year, beginning with the [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2017|2017 countdown]] on 27 January 2018.<ref name=":1" />

Some organisations offered alternatives to Triple J's Hottest 100 in response to the date change. These include nationwide rock radio station [[Triple M]] broadcasting an ''Ozzest 100'' countdown of only [[Music of Australia|Australian songs]] on 26 January,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/triple-ms-wil-anderson-hits-out-at-ozzest-100/news-story/1b9dd959a758d385e3e86f72607c422d |title=Triple M's Wil Anderson hits out at 'Ozzest 100' |work=news.com.au |last=Graham |first=Ben |date=22 December 2017 |access-date=21 January 2018}}</ref> and Senator [[Cory Bernardi]]'s [[Australian Conservatives]] publishing an ''AC100'' playlist of Australian music on [[Spotify]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/01/18/13/10/cory-bernardi-hottest-100-australia-day-darren-hayes |title=Cory Bernardi creates his own 'alt Hottest 100' playlist for Australia Day |work=Nine News |date=18 January 2018 |access-date=21 January 2018}}</ref>

==Top tens and summaries==
{|
| style="width: 15px; height: 15px; color: black; background: #ffd; border: 1px solid #000000;" |
|'''Note''': All-time countdowns
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;"
|+ List of Triple J Hottest 100 countdowns by year, with top tens and highlights
! style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:center; width:50px;"|Year
! width=55%|Top ten
! Highlights
|- style="background:#ffd;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1989|All time (1989)]]'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Hottest 100 1989 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/search/?year=1989+(All-time) |work=[[Triple J]] | date=11 November 2017 |accessdate=September 7, 2024}}</ref>
|
#[[Joy Division]] – "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" (1980)
#[[Hunters & Collectors]] – "[[Throw Your Arms Around Me]]" (1984)
#[[The The]] – "[[Uncertain Smile]]" (1983)
#[[The Jam]] – "[[That's Entertainment (The Jam song)|That's Entertainment]]" (1980)
#[[New Order (band)|New Order]] – "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]" (1983)
#[[Dead Kennedys]] – "[[Holiday in Cambodia]]" (1980)
#[[The Smiths]] – "[[How Soon Is Now?]]" (1985)
#Hunters & Collectors – "[[Talking to a Stranger (song)|Talking to a Stranger]]" (1982)
#[[The Sugarcubes]] – "[[Birthday (The Sugarcubes song)|Birthday]]" (1987)
#[[The Cure]] – "[[A Forest]]" (1980)
|
*The first of the original series of Hottest 100s, in which songs could be selected from any year.
*The list included two versions of the song "[[Kiss (Prince song)|Kiss]]". The original by [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] at No. 34 and [[Art of Noise]] and [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones's]] cover at No. 24.
*[[Elvis Costello]], [[The Cure]], [[Hunters & Collectors]] and [[The Smiths]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
|- style="background:#ffd;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1990|All time (1990)]]'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Hottest 100 1990 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/search/?year=1990+(All-time) |work=[[Triple J]] |accessdate=September 7, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729134526/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history/1990.htm |archive-date=July 29, 2012}}</ref>
|
#[[Joy Division]] – "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" (1980)
#[[Hunters & Collectors]] – "[[Throw Your Arms Around Me]]" (1985)
#[[The Smiths]] – "[[How Soon Is Now?]]" (1985)
#[[The The]] – "Uncertain Smile" (1983)
#[[New Order (band)|New Order]] – "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]" (1983)
#[[The Stone Roses]] – "[[Fools Gold/What the World Is Waiting For|Fools Gold]]" (1989)
#The Smiths – "[[This Charming Man]]" (1983)
#[[The B-52's]] – "[[Rock Lobster]]" (1979)
#[[R.E.M.]] – "[[It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (1987)
#[[The Jam]] – "[[That's Entertainment (The Jam song)|That's Entertainment]]" (1980)
|
*The second of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year.
*[[The Cure]] scored seven songs in the countdown.
|- style="background:#ffd;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1991|All time (1991)]]'''
|
#[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] – "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" (1991)
#[[Joy Division]] – "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" (1980)
#Nirvana – "[[Lithium (Nirvana song)|Lithium]]" (1991)
#[[Hunters & Collectors]] – "[[Throw Your Arms Around Me]]" (1985)
#[[Andy Prieboy]] – "[[Tomorrow Wendy (song)|Tomorrow Wendy]]" (1990)
#[[The Smiths]] – "[[How Soon Is Now?]]" (1985)
#[[The Stone Roses]] – "[[Fools Gold/What the World Is Waiting For|Fools Gold]]" (1989)
#[[The Cure]] – "[[A Forest]]" (1980)
#[[Violent Femmes]] – "[[Blister in the Sun]]" (1982)
#[[New Order (band)|New Order]] – "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]" (1983)
|
*The third of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year.
*[[The Cure]] scored nine tracks in the countdown. Although not a part of the official countdowns, this record remains unbroken as of 2024. The closest artists to approach the record are [[Charli XCX]] and [[Billie Eilish]] who both had eight tracks in the 2024 countdown.
|- style="text-align:center;
| style="vertical-align:middle;"|'''1992'''
| colspan="2"|'''''No Hottest 100 Held'''''
|-
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1993|1993]]'''
|
#[[Denis Leary]] – "[[Asshole (song)|Asshole]]"
#[[Radiohead]] – "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]"
#[[The Cranberries]] – "[[Linger (The Cranberries song)|Linger]]"
#[[Blind Melon]] – "[[No Rain]]"
#[[The Breeders]] – "[[Cannonball (The Breeders song)|Cannonball]]"
#[[Rage Against the Machine]] – "[[Killing in the Name]]"
#[[U2]] – "[[Lemon (U2 song)|Lemon]]"
#[[Pearl Jam]] – "[[Go (Pearl Jam song)|Go]]"
#[[The Cruel Sea (band)|The Cruel Sea]] – "[[The Honeymoon Is Over (song)|The Honeymoon Is Over]]"
#[[Atomic Swing]] – "Stone Me Into the Groove"
|
*Return after list hiatus in 1992.
*The new format only allowed songs released as singles within the previous calendar year.
*[[The Cruel Sea (band)|The Cruel Sea]] and [[Michael Stipe]] (twice with [[R.E.M.]]) scored three tracks in the countdown.
|-
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1994|1994]]'''
|
#[[The Cranberries]] – "[[Zombie (The Cranberries song)|Zombie]]"
#[[Nine Inch Nails]] – "[[Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)|Closer]]"
#[[The Offspring]] – "[[Self Esteem (song)|Self Esteem]]"
#The Offspring – "[[Come Out and Play (The Offspring song)|Come Out and Play]]"
#[[Silverchair]] – "[[Tomorrow (Silverchair song)|Tomorrow]]"
#[[Veruca Salt]] – "[[Seether (song)|Seether]]"
#[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] – "[[About a Girl (Nirvana song)#MTV Unplugged version|About a Girl]]"
#[[Max Sharam]] – "[[Coma (EP)|Coma]]"
#[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] – "If I Only Knew"
#[[Severed Heads]] – "[[Dead Eyes Opened]]"
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*[[Soundgarden]] scored four tracks in the countdown. Setting the record for most appearances in a single countdown.
*"[[Zombie (The Cranberries song)|Zombie]]" becomes the first No. 1 song with a female vocalist.
*[[The Offspring]] scored back to back tracks at positions No. 3 and 4; the first time in an official countdown that a band scored two songs in the top 5.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1995|1995]]'''
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#[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] – "[[Wonderwall]]"
#[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] – "[[Bullet with Butterfly Wings]]"
#[[Coolio]] featuring [[L.V. (singer)|L.V.]] – "[[Gangsta's Paradise]]"
#[[The Presidents of the United States of America (band)|The Presidents of the United States of America]] – "[[Kitty (The Presidents of the United States of America song)|Kitty]]"
#[[Björk]] – "[[It's Oh So Quiet#Björk version|It's Oh So Quiet]]"
#[[Everclear (band)|Everclear]] – "[[Heroin Girl]]"
#[[Custard (band)|Custard]] – "[[Apartment (Custard song)|Apartment]]"
#[[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] and [[Kylie Minogue]] – "[[Where the Wild Roses Grow]]"
#[[TISM]] – "[[(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River]]"
#TISM – "[[Greg! The Stop Sign!!]]"
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*[[Alanis Morissette]], [[Green Day]], [[Live (band)|Live]], [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], [[TISM]] and [[You Am I]] scored three tracks each in the countdown.
*Alanis Morissette scored three songs without a single song of hers being played on Triple J that year.{{citation needed|date=March 2012}}
*[[Grinspoon]] are the first [[Triple J Unearthed]] artist to appear in the Hottest 100.
*At No. 5, [[Spiderbait|Björk]]'s cover of "[[It's Oh So Quiet]]" becomes the highest ranked [[cover version]] in a Hottest 100 countdown.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1996|1996]]'''
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#[[Spiderbait]] – "[[Buy Me a Pony]]"
#[[Tool (band)|Tool]] – "[[Stinkfist]]"
#[[Ben Folds Five]] – "[[Underground (Ben Folds Five song)|Underground]]"
#[[Butthole Surfers]] – "[[Pepper (song)|Pepper]]"
#[[Bush (British band)|Bush]] – "[[Glycerine (song)|Glycerine]]"
#[[Powderfinger]] – "[[Pick You Up]]"
#[[The Prodigy]] – "[[Breathe (The Prodigy song)|Breathe]]"
#[[Allen Ginsberg]] – "Ballad of the Skeletons"
#[[Weezer]] – "[[El Scorcho]]"
#[[Babybird]] – "[[You're Gorgeous]]"
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*The first time an Australian track had been voted No. 1.
*[[Bush (British band)|Bush]], [[Pearl Jam]], [[Powderfinger]] and [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] scored three tracks each in the countdown.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1997|1997]]'''
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#[[The Whitlams]] – "[[No Aphrodisiac]]"
#[[Blur (band)|Blur]] – "[[Song 2]]"
#[[Chumbawamba]] – "[[Tubthumping]]"
#[[The Verve]] – "[[Bitter Sweet Symphony]]"
#[[Pauline Pantsdown]] – "Back Door Man"
#[[Blink-182]] – "[[Dammit]]"
#[[Radiohead]] – "[[Paranoid Android]]"
#[[Marilyn Manson]] – "[[The Beautiful People (song)|The Beautiful People]]"
#Radiohead – "[[Karma Police]]"
#[[Jebediah]] – "[[Leaving Home (Jebediah song)|Leaving Home]]"
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*Former Prime Minister [[Gough Whitlam]] announced the winning song, sung by "his eponym", [[The Whitlams]].
*[[Pauline Pantsdown]]'s track "Back Door Man", which was banned by a court injunction from [[Pauline Hanson]] only 11 days after being first broadcast by the station,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/1998/QCA/306|title=StackPath|website=Sclqld.org.au|access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref> was voted No. 5.
*[[Arkarna]], [[Bloodhound Gang]], [[Everclear (band)|Everclear]], [[Faith No More]], [[Grinspoon]], [[Jebediah]], [[The Living End]], [[Radiohead]], [[Silverchair]], [[The Verve]], [[The Whitlams]] and [[Ween]] scored two tracks each in the countdown.
*1997 had the highest number of different artists represented of any Hottest 100.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 1998|All Time (1998)]]'''
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# [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] – "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" (1991)
# [[Hunters & Collectors]] – "[[Throw Your Arms Around Me]]" (1985)
# [[Pearl Jam]] – "[[Alive (Pearl Jam song)|Alive]]" (1991)
# [[Jeff Buckley]] – "[[Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley song)|Last Goodbye]]" (1994)
# [[Radiohead]] – "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]" (1992)
# [[Led Zeppelin]] – "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" (1971)
# [[Metallica]] – "[[One (Metallica song)|One]]" (1988)
# [[Queen (band)|Queen]]  – "[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]" (1975)
# Metallica – "[[Enter Sandman]]" (1991)
# Pearl Jam – "[[Black (Pearl Jam song)|Black]]" (1991)
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* Compiled and played in August 1998.
* Hosted by [[Robbie Buck]], who played the wrong song by [[Led Zeppelin]] for No. 6, which was supposed to be "[[Stairway to Heaven]]".{{citation needed|date=March 2012}}
* [[Grinspoon]]'s "[[Just Ace]]", and the [[Ben Folds Five]]'s "[[Brick (song)|Brick]]" are the only songs to chart in an All Time countdown before an official yearly countdown.
* [[The Cure]] scored five tracks in the countdown.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1998|1998]]'''
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#[[The Offspring]] – "[[Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)]]"
#[[Ben Lee]] – "[[Cigarettes Will Kill You]]"
#[[Custard (band)|Custard]] – "[[Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)]]"
#[[Hole (band)|Hole]] – "[[Celebrity Skin (song)|Celebrity Skin]]"
#[[Korn|KoЯn]] – "[[Got the Life]]"
#[[Regurgitator]] – "[[! (The Song Formerly Known As)]]"
#[[Jebediah]] – "[[Harpoon (Jebediah song)|Harpoon]]"
#[[Powderfinger]] – "[[The Day You Come]]"
#[[You Am I]] – "[[Heavy Heart (song)|Heavy Heart]]"
#[[The Living End]] – "[[Save the Day (The Living End song)|Save the Day]]"
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*[[Regurgitator]] scored four tracks in the countdown; equaling the record for most appearances in a single countdown set by [[Soundgarden]] in 1994
*Regurgitator frontman [[Quan Yeomans]] was involved with six tracks (including three in succession from No. 26 to No. 28): four with Regurgitator and twice with [[Happyland (band)|Happyland]].
*The list included two versions of the song [[Harpoon (EP)|Harpoon]]: the original by [[Jebediah]] at No. 7 and [[Something for Kate]]'s cover at No. 85.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1999|1999]]'''
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#[[Powderfinger]] – "[[These Days (Powderfinger song)|These Days]]"
#[[Killing Heidi]] – "[[Weir (song)|Weir]]"
#[[The Tenants (band)|The Tenants]] – "You Shit Me to Tears"
#[[Norman Cook|Fatboy Slim]] – "[[Praise You]]"
#[[Placebo (band)|Placebo]] – "[[Every You Every Me]]"
#[[Bloodhound Gang]] – "[[The Bad Touch]]"
#[[Rage Against the Machine]] – "[[Guerrilla Radio]]"
#[[Limp Bizkit]] – "[[Nookie (Limp Bizkit song)|Nookie]]"
#[[Pearl Jam]] – "[[Last Kiss#Pearl Jam version|Last Kiss]]"
#[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] – "[[Scar Tissue]]"
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* [[Powderfinger]] and [[Silverchair]] scored four tracks each in the countdown, equaling the record for most appearances in a single countdown set by [[Soundgarden]] in 1994 and [[Regurgitator]] in 1998.
* The 1999 countdown held the record for the most Australian artists in a countdown, with 52. This record was equaled in the 2007 countdown, and later broken in the 2014 countdown.
*[[Killing Heidi]] set the record for the highest ranking song by an Unearthed artist.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2000|2000]]'''
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#[[Powderfinger]] – "[[My Happiness (Powderfinger song)|My Happiness]]"
#[[U2]] – "[[Beautiful Day]]"
#Powderfinger – "[[My Kind of Scene]]"
#[[Wheatus]] – "[[Teenage Dirtbag]]"
#[[Coldplay]] – "[[Yellow (Coldplay song)|Yellow]]"
#[[The Avalanches]] – "[[Frontier Psychiatrist]]"
#[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] – "[[Californication (song)|Californication]]"
#[[Foo Fighters]] – "[[Generator (Foo Fighters song)|Generator]]"
#[[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]] – "Every Fucking City"
#[[The Dandy Warhols]] – "[[Bohemian Like You]]"
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*[[Rage Against the Machine]] scored three tracks in the countdown.
*[[Powderfinger]] became the first artist to have two Hottest 100 No. 1 tracks, in 1999 and 2000.
*Powderfinger became the second band to achieve two songs in the top five, the first Australian band to do so.

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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2001|2001]]'''
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#[[Alex Lloyd]] – "[[Amazing (Alex Lloyd song)|Amazing]]"
#[[Something for Kate]] – "[[Monsters (Something for Kate song)|Monsters]]"
#[[System of a Down]] – "[[Chop Suey!]]"
#[[Basement Jaxx]] – "[[Where's Your Head At]]"
#[[John Butler Trio]] – "Betterman"
#[[Alien Ant Farm]] – "[[Smooth Criminal]]"
#[[Weezer]] – "[[Island in the Sun (Weezer song)|Island in the Sun]]"
#[[The Avalanches]] – "[[Since I Left You (song)|Since I Left You]]"
#[[Gorillaz]] featuring [[Del the Funky Homosapien|Del tha Funkee Homosapien]] – "[[Clint Eastwood (song)|Clint Eastwood]]"
#[[Cake (band)|Cake]] – "[[Short Skirt/Long Jacket]]"
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*[[Eskimo Joe]], [[Muse (band)|Muse]], [[Something for Kate]] and [[The Strokes]] scored three tracks each in the countdown.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2002|2002]]'''
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#[[Queens of the Stone Age]] – "[[No One Knows]]"
#[[Grinspoon]] – "[[Chemical Heart]]"
#[[The Waifs]] – "[[London Still]]"
#[[1200 Techniques]] – "Karma"
#[[The Vines (band)|The Vines]] – "[[Get Free (The Vines song)|Get Free]]"
#[[Machine Gun Fellatio]] – "Pussy Town"
#[[Eminem]] – "[[Lose Yourself]]"
#Machine Gun Fellatio – "Rollercoaster"
#[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] – "[[By the Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)|By the Way]]"
#[[Silverchair]] – "[[The Greatest View]]"
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*[[Queens of the Stone Age]] and [[Silverchair]] scored five tracks each in the countdown. Setting the record for most appearances in a single countdown.
*[[Dave Grohl]] was involved with ten tracks (including three in succession from No. 11 to No. 13): five with Queens of the Stone Age, four with the [[Foo Fighters]], and one with [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]].
*[[Grinspoon]] equal [[Killing Heidi]]'s record of the Highest placing of a Triple J Unearthed artist at No. 2.
*[[Mark Lanegan]] became the oldest person to win the Hottest 100. He was 42 when it was announced that "[[No One Knows]]" won the countdown.
*2002 had the lowest number of different artists represented of any Hottest 100.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2003|2003]]'''
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#[[Jet (Australian band)|Jet]] – "[[Are You Gonna Be My Girl]]"
#[[Outkast|OutKast]] – "[[Hey Ya!]]"
#[[The White Stripes]] – "[[Seven Nation Army]]"
#[[Powderfinger]] – "[[(Baby I've Got You) On My Mind]]"
#[[Coldplay]] – "[[Clocks (song)|Clocks]] ([[Röyksopp]] Trembling Heart Mix)"
#[[The Cat Empire]] – "[[Hello (The Cat Empire song)|Hello]]"
#Powderfinger – "[[Sunsets (song)|Sunsets]]"
#[[John Butler Trio]] – "[[Zebra (The John Butler Trio song)|Zebra]]"
#[[Hilltop Hoods]] – "[[The Nosebleed Section]]"
#Powderfinger – "[[Love Your Way]]"
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*[[Powderfinger]] and [[The White Stripes]] scored five tracks each in the countdown, equaling the record for most appearances in a single countdown set by [[Queens of the Stone Age]] and [[Silverchair]] in the previous year
*Powderfinger became the first band to achieve three tracks in the top ten.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2004|2004]]'''
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#[[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]] – "[[Take Me Out (song)|Take Me Out]]"
#[[Missy Higgins]] – "[[Scar (song)|Scar]]"
#[[Eskimo Joe]] – "[[From the Sea]]"
#[[The Killers]] – "[[Somebody Told Me]]"
#[[Spiderbait]] – "[[Black Betty#Spiderbait version|Black Betty]]"
#Missy Higgins – "[[Ten Days (song)|Ten Days]]"
#[[John Butler Trio]] – "[[Something's Gotta Give (The John Butler Trio song)|Something's Gotta Give]]"
#[[Little Birdy]] – "[[Beautiful to Me (Little Birdy song)|Beautiful to Me]]"
#[[Powderfinger]] – "[[Bless My Soul]]"
#[[The White Stripes]] – "[[Jolene (song)#The White Stripes version|Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)]]"
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*[[John Butler Trio]] and the [[Scissor Sisters]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
*The list included two versions of the song "[[Take Me Out (song)|Take Me Out]]": the original by [[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]] at No. 1 and Scissor Sisters' cover at No. 44.
*At No. 5, [[Spiderbait]]'s cover of "[[Black Betty#Spiderbait version|Black Betty]]" ties with [[Björk]]'s cover of "[[It's Oh So Quiet]]" as the highest ranked [[cover version]] in a Hottest 100 countdown.
*[[Missy Higgins]]'s "[[Scar (song)|Scar]]" is the equal highest ranking song by an [[Triple J Unearthed|Unearthed]] artist. It is tied with [[Killing Heidi]] in 1999 and [[Grinspoon]] in 2002.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2005|2005]]'''
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#[[Bernard Fanning]] – "[[Wish You Well (Bernard Fanning song)|Wish You Well]]"
#[[Ben Lee]] – "[[Catch My Disease]]"
#[[Gorillaz]] featuring [[De La Soul]] – "[[Feel Good Inc.]]"
#[[Foo Fighters]] – "[[Best of You]]"
#Gorillaz featuring [[Shaun Ryder]] – "[[Dare (song)|Dare]]"
#[[Wolfmother]] – "[[Mind's Eye (song)|Mind's Eye]]"
#[[The White Stripes]] – "[[My Doorbell]]"
#[[End of Fashion]] – "[[O Yeah (End of Fashion song)|O Yeah]]"
#Wolfmother – "[[Joker & the Thief]]"
#[[Franz Ferdinand (band)|Franz Ferdinand]] – "[[Do You Want To]]"
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*[[Wolfmother]] scored six tracks in the countdown, at that point setting the record for most appearances in a single countdown (equaled by [[Spacey Jane]] in 2022).
*[[Gorillaz]] became the third band to place twice in the Top 5.
*[[Bernard Fanning]] achieves a Hottest 100 No. 1 for the third time (the only artist to do so to date), including twice with [[Powderfinger]] in 1999 and 2000.
*[[Ben Lee]] achieves No. 2 for the second time.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2006|2006]]'''
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#[[Augie March]] – "[[One Crowded Hour]]"
#[[Eskimo Joe]] – "[[Black Fingernails, Red Wine (song)|Black Fingernails, Red Wine]]"
#[[Hilltop Hoods]] – "[[The Hard Road (song)|The Hard Road]]"
#[[The Killers]] – "[[When You Were Young]]"
#[[Scissor Sisters]] – "[[I Don't Feel Like Dancin'|I Don't Feel Like Dancin{{'-}}]]"
#[[Gnarls Barkley]] – "[[Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)|Crazy]]"
#[[Snow Patrol]] – "[[Chasing Cars]]"
#[[Gotye]] – "[[Hearts a Mess]]"
#[[Muse (band)|Muse]] – "[[Starlight (Muse song)|Starlight]]"
#[[The Grates]] – "19-20-20"
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*[[Hilltop Hoods]] scored five tracks in the countdown.
*[[The Living End]] featured in the Hottest 100 for the tenth consecutive year.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2007|2007]]'''
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#[[Muse (band)|Muse]] – "[[Knights of Cydonia]]"
#[[Silverchair]] – "[[Straight Lines (song)|Straight Lines]]"
#[[Kings of Leon]] – "[[On Call (song)|On Call]]"
#[[John Butler Trio]] – "[[Better Than]]"
#[[Faker (band)|Faker]] – "[[This Heart Attack]]"
#[[Foo Fighters]] – "[[The Pretender (Foo Fighters song)|The Pretender]]"
#[[Daft Punk]] – "[[Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger#Live performances|Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Alive 2007)]]"
#[[Cold War Kids]] – "[[Hang Me Up to Dry]]"
#[[Soko (singer)|Soko]] – "I'll Kill Her"
#[[The Panics]] – "[[Don't Fight It (The Panics song)|Don't Fight It]]"
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*[[Bloc Party]], [[Harry James Angus]], [[John Butler Trio]], [[Josh Pyke]], [[Kings of Leon]] and [[Silverchair]] scored three tracks each in the countdown.
*2007 was the closest Hottest 100 ever, with [[Muse (band)|Muse]] winning by only 14 votes.<ref name="closeresult">{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/alltime/20years/countdown/#90|title=Countdown: Twenty Years of Triple J's Hottest 100|date=9 June 2013|publisher=[[ABC Online]]|access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2008|2008]]'''
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#[[Kings of Leon]] – "[[Sex on Fire]]"
#[[MGMT]] – "[[Electric Feel]]"
#Kings of Leon – "[[Use Somebody]]"
#[[Empire of the Sun (band)|Empire of the Sun]] – "[[Walking on a Dream (song)|Walking on a Dream]]"
#MGMT – "[[Kids (MGMT song)|Kids]]"
#[[The Presets]] – "[[Talk Like That]]"
#[[Pez (musician)|Pez]] featuring [[360 (rapper)|360]] and [[Hailey Cramer]] – "The Festival Song"
#The Presets – "[[This Boy's in Love]]"
#[[The Ting Tings]] – "[[That's Not My Name]]"
#[[Drapht]] – "[[Jimmy Recard]]"
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*[[Kings of Leon]], [[Nick Littlemore]] and [[Vampire Weekend]] scored four tracks each in the countdown
*Both Kings of Leon and [[MGMT]] placed twice in the Top 5, the fourth and fifth artists to do so. This is also the first time where two separate artists appeared twice in the Top 5.
*The 2008 countdown marked the first time since 1995 that no Australian artist has featured in the Top 3 songs.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, 2009|All Time (2009)]]'''
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#[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] – "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" (1991)
#[[Rage Against the Machine]] – "[[Killing in the Name]]" (1992)
#[[Jeff Buckley]] – "[[Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song)#Jeff Buckley|Hallelujah]]" (1994)
#[[Joy Division]] – "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" (1980)
#[[Radiohead]] – "[[Paranoid Android]]" (1997)
#[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – "[[Bohemian Rhapsody]]" (1975)
#Jeff Buckley – "[[Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley song)|Last Goodbye]]" (1994)
#[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] – "[[Under the Bridge]]" (1991)
#[[Foo Fighters]] – "[[Everlong]]" (1997)
#[[Led Zeppelin]] – "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" (1971)
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*Voting was held in June 2009, results were broadcast from 7 to 12 July 2009.
*[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana's]] "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" was voted No. 1 for the third time in a row in the Hottest 100 of All Time (previous years 1991 and 1998).
*[[Jeff Buckley]] and [[Radiohead]] scored four tracks each in the countdown. 
*[[Dave Grohl]] was involved with five tracks appearing three times with [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], once with the [[Foo Fighters]] and once with [[Queens of the Stone Age]]. 
*Only two songs in the countdown featured a female lead vocalist: [[Elizabeth Fraser]] and [[Shara Nelson]], both guest vocalists on songs by [[Massive Attack]].
*Radiohead swapped the No. 5 and No. 13 positions that they had held in the 1998 all time countdown with "[[Creep (Radiohead song)|Creep]]" and "[[Paranoid Android]]".
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2009|2009]]'''
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#[[Mumford & Sons]] – "[[Little Lion Man]]"
#[[Art vs. Science]] – "[[Parlez Vous Francais?]]"
#[[Hilltop Hoods]] – "[[Chase That Feeling]]"
#[[Phoenix (French band)|Phoenix]] – "[[Lisztomania (song)|Lisztomania]]"
#[[Bluejuice]] – "[[Broken Leg]]"
#[[La Roux]] – "[[Bulletproof (La Roux song)|Bulletproof]]"
#[[Lisa Mitchell]] – "[[Coin Laundry (song)|Coin Laundry]]"
#[[Lily Allen]] – "[[Not Fair]]"
#[[Muse (band)|Muse]] – "[[Uprising (song)|Uprising]]"
#[[Florence and the Machine]] – "[[Dog Days Are Over]]"
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* [[Florence and the Machine]] and [[Muse (band)|Muse]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
* This is the first Hottest 100 not to feature an American artist in the Top 10.
* [[Art vs. Science]]'s "[[Parlez Vous Francais?]]" is the equal highest ranking song by an [[Triple J Unearthed|Unearthed]] artist. It tied with [[Killing Heidi]] in 1999, [[Grinspoon]] in 2002 and [[Missy Higgins]] in 2004. 
* The 2009 winner was leaked on 22 January by [[ABC Commercial]].<ref name="crikeyleak">{{cite magazine|url=http://crikey.com.au/2010/01/22/oz-day-spoiler-abc-leaks-hottest-100-victor/|title=Oz day spoiler: ABC leaks Hottest 100 victor|date=22 January 2010|magazine=[[Crikey]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125000848/http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/22/oz-day-spoiler-abc-leaks-hottest-100-victor/|archive-date=25 January 2010|url-status=live|access-date=22 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="abcleak">{{cite web|url=http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/22/2799089.htm|title=Spoiler alert: Hottest 100 winner leaked|date=22 January 2010|publisher=[[ABC Online]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124092216/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/22/2799089.htm|archive-date=24 January 2010|url-status=dead|access-date=22 January 2010}}</ref>
* [[Hilltop Hoods]] achieves No. 3 for the second time.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2010|2010]]'''
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#[[Angus & Julia Stone]] – "[[Big Jet Plane]]"
#[[Little Red (band)|Little Red]] – "[[Rock It (Little Red song)|Rock It]]"
#[[Ou Est le Swimming Pool]] – "[[Dance the Way I Feel]]"
#[[Birds of Tokyo]] – "[[Plans (Birds of Tokyo song)|Plans]]"
#[[Boy & Bear]] – "[[Fall at Your Feet]]"
#[[Adrian Lux]] – "[[Teenage Crime (song)|Teenage Crime]]"
#[[CeeLo Green|Cee-Lo Green]] – "[[Fuck You (CeeLo Green song)|Fuck You]]"
#[[The Wombats]] – "[[Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)]]"
#[[Art vs. Science]] – "[[Magic Fountain (song)|Magic Fountain]]"
#[[Mark Ronson|Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.]] featuring [[Boy George]] and [[Andrew Wyatt]] – "[[Somebody to Love Me (Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. song)|Somebody to Love Me]]"
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* [[Arcade Fire]], [[Birds of Tokyo]], [[Bliss n Eso]], [[Gorillaz]], [[Gypsy & The Cat]], [[Mark Ronson|Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.]], [[Pendulum (drum and bass band)|Pendulum]] and [[Megan Washington|Washington]] scored three tracks each in the countdown.
* This is the first countdown since 1994 that features a female vocalist in the No. 1 song, and the first time since 1996 for any female member of the winning artist.
*[[Boy & Bear]]'s cover of [[Crowded House]]'s "[[Fall at Your Feet]]" is the equal highest cover song. It is tied with [[Björk]] in 1995 and [[Spiderbait]]' in 2004.
*[[Little Red (band)|Little Red]] equal the record of [[Killing Heidi]], [[Grinspoon]], [[Missy Higgins]] and [[Art vs. Science]] as the highest placing song by a Triple J Unearthed artist.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011|Australian Albums (2011)]]'''
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#[[Powderfinger]] – ''[[Odyssey Number Five]]'' (2000)
#[[Silverchair]] – ''[[Frogstomp]]'' (1995)
#[[AC/DC]] – ''[[Back in Black]]'' (1980)
#[[The Living End]] – ''[[The Living End (The Living End album)|The Living End]]'' (1999)
#[[INXS]] – ''[[Kick (INXS album)|Kick]]'' (1987)
#Powderfinger – ''[[Internationalist (album)|Internationalist]]'' (1998)
#[[The Presets]] – ''[[Apocalypso (The Presets album)|Apocalypso]]'' (2008)
#[[Wolfmother]] – ''[[Wolfmother (album)|Wolfmother]]'' (2005)
#[[The Avalanches]] – ''[[Since I Left You]]'' (2000)
#[[Regurgitator]] – ''[[Unit (album)|Unit]]'' (1997)
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* Compiled in June 2011, and counted down between 28 June and 10 July.
* The first Hottest 100 countdown that is not based on single tracks.
* This is now the third Hottest 100 won by [[Powderfinger]] and the fourth won by [[Bernard Fanning]].
* [[Silverchair]] and Bernard Fanning both appeared five times in the countdown. Fanning appeared once solo and four times with Powderfinger.
* Every one of Silverchair's studio albums reached the countdown.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2011|2011]]'''
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# [[Gotye]] featuring [[Kimbra]] – "[[Somebody That I Used to Know]]"
# [[The Black Keys]] – "[[Lonely Boy (The Black Keys song)|Lonely Boy]]"
# [[Matt Corby]] – "[[Brother (Matt Corby song)|Brother]]"
# [[Boy & Bear]] – "[[Feeding Line]]"
# [[M83 (band)|M83]] – "[[Midnight City]]"
# [[Lana Del Rey]] – "[[Video Games (Lana Del Rey song)|Video Games]]"
# [[San Cisco]] – "[[Awkward (song)|Awkward]]"
# [[360 (rapper)|360]] featuring [[Gossling]] – "[[Boys like You (360 song)|Boys like You]]"
# [[The Jezabels]] – "Endless Summer"
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] featuring [[Sia]] – "[[I Love It (Hilltop Hoods song)|I Love It]]"
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*[[The Wombats]] and [[Kimbra]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
*This is the first collaboration between artists to win the Hottest 100.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2012|2012]]'''
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# [[Macklemore]] and [[Ryan Lewis]] featuring [[Wanz]] – "[[Thrift Shop]]"
# [[Of Monsters and Men]] – "[[Little Talks]]"
# [[Alt-J]] – "[[Breezeblocks (song)|Breezeblocks]]"
# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] – "[[Holdin On (Flume song)|Holdin On]]"
# [[Mumford & Sons]] – "[[I Will Wait]]"
# [[Major Lazer]] featuring [[Amber Coffman]] – "[[Get Free (Major Lazer song)|Get Free]]"
# [[Tame Impala]] – "[[Elephant (Tame Impala song)|Elephant]]"
# [[Frank Ocean]] – "[[Lost (Frank Ocean song)|Lost]]"
# Tame Impala – "[[Feels Like We Only Go Backwards]]"
# [[The Rubens]] – "[[My Gun]]"
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* [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] scored four tracks in the countdown.
* "[[Thrift Shop]]" is the first hip-hop song to top the chart in Hottest 100 history. It also breaks the record of highest ranking hip-hop song, which was previously set by [[Coolio]], [[Gorillaz]] & [[Hilltop Hoods]]. All of whom managed to place third in 1995, 2005, 2006 & 2009.
* For the first time since 2008 no Australian artist featured in the Top 3.
* The four highest charting artists in this year's countdown were all debutantes. This is the first time this has happened since the first countdown in 1993.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, 2013|20 Years of the Hottest 100 (2013)]]'''
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# [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] – "[[Wonderwall (song)|Wonderwall]]" (1995)
# [[The White Stripes]] – "[[Seven Nation Army]]" (2003)
# [[Jeff Buckley]] – "[[Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley song)|Last Goodbye]]" (1994)
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] – "[[The Nosebleed Section]]" (2003)
# [[The Verve]] – "[[Bitter Sweet Symphony]]" (1997)
# [[Foo Fighters]] – "[[Everlong]]" (1997)
# [[The Killers]] – "[[Mr. Brightside]]" (2004)
# [[Powderfinger]] – "[[These Days (Powderfinger song)|These Days]]" (1999)
# [[Gotye]] featuring [[Kimbra]] – "[[Somebody That I Used to Know]]" (2011)
# Powderfinger – "[[My Happiness (Powderfinger song)|My Happiness]]" (2000)
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*Voting was held in May 2013, results were broadcast on the 8 and 9 June 2013.
*[[Daft Punk]], [[Damon Albarn]], [[Dave Grohl]], [[The Killers]] and [[Silverchair]] scored three tracks each in the countdown.
*Four tracks in the countdown had not been charted in an annual Hottest 100.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2013|2013]]'''
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# [[Vance Joy]] – "[[Riptide (Vance Joy song)|Riptide]]"
# [[Lorde]] – "[[Royals (song)|Royals]]"
# [[Daft Punk]] featuring [[Pharrell Williams|Pharrell]] – "[[Get Lucky (Daft Punk song)|Get Lucky]]"
# [[Arctic Monkeys]] – "[[Do I Wanna Know?]]"
# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] & [[Nick Murphy (musician)|Chet Faker]] – "[[Drop the Game]]"
# Arctic Monkeys – "[[Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?]]"
#[[Lana Del Rey]] – "[[Young and Beautiful (Lana Del Rey song)|Young and Beautiful]]"
# [[Matt Corby]] – "[[Resolution (Matt Corby song)|Resolution]]"
# [[The Preatures]] – "[[Is This How You Feel?]]"
# [[London Grammar]] – "[[Strong (London Grammar song)|Strong]]"
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*[[Daft Punk]] and [[Ezra Koenig]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
*Two versions of "[[Get Lucky (Daft Punk song)|Get Lucky]]" appeared in the countdown, the original by Daft Punk at number 3 and [[San Cisco]]'s cover at number 39; this is the first time it has happened since 2004.
*[[Vance Joy]] is the first [[Triple J Unearthed]] artist to place first in the Hottest 100.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2014|2014]]'''
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# [[Nick Murphy (musician)|Chet Faker]] – "[[Talk Is Cheap (song)|Talk Is Cheap]]"
# [[Peking Duk]] featuring [[Nicole Millar]] – "[[High (Peking Duk song)|High]]"
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] – "[[Cosby Sweater]]"
# [[Milky Chance]] – "[[Stolen Dance]]"
# Peking Duk featuring [[Safia (band)|Safia]] – "[[Take Me Over (Peking Duk song)|Take Me Over]]"
# [[Mark Ronson]] featuring [[Bruno Mars]] – "[[Uptown Funk]]"
# Chet Faker – "[[Gold (Chet Faker song)|Gold]]"
# Chet Faker – "[[1998 (Chet Faker song)|1998]]"
# [[Sia]] – "[[Chandelier (song)|Chandelier]]"
# [[Ásgeir Trausti|Ásgeir]] – "King and Cross"
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* [[Nick Murphy (musician)|Chet Faker]] scored four tracks in the countdown.
* Chet Faker became the second artist to chart three times in the top 10 places after [[Powderfinger]] achieved the feat in 2003.
* The 2014 countdown featured 55 Australian entries, breaking the previous record of 52, set in 1999 and equaled in 2007.<ref name="Chet" />
* [[Peking Duk]] are the sixth band to appear twice in the Top 5, the first to do so since [[Kings of Leon]] and [[MGMT]] in 2008.
* [[Zack de la Rocha|Zach de la Rocha]]'s appearance with [[Run the Jewels]] marks his first return to a Hottest 100 since 2001. His 13-year absence equals the record set by [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]] in 2010 and [[Ben Folds Five]] in 2012.
* [[Hilltop Hoods]] finish No. 3 for the third time.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2015|2015]]'''
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# [[The Rubens]] – "[[Hoops (The Rubens song)|Hoops]]"
# [[Kendrick Lamar]] – "[[King Kunta]]"
# [[Major Lazer]] & [[DJ Snake]] featuring [[MØ]] – "[[Lean On]]"
# [[Tame Impala]] – "[[The Less I Know the Better]]"
# Tame Impala – "[[Let It Happen]]"
# Marcus Marr & [[Nick Murphy (musician)|Chet Faker]] – "[[The Trouble with Us]]"
# [[Jarryd James]] – "[[Do You Remember (Jarryd James song)|Do You Remember]]"
# [[Hermitude]] featuring Mataya & [[Young Tapz]] – "The Buzz"
# [[The Weeknd]] – "[[Can't Feel My Face]]"
# [[Disclosure (band)|Disclosure]] featuring [[Lorde]] – "[[Magnets (song)|Magnets]]"
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* [[Tame Impala]] and [[Courtney Barnett]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2016|2016]]'''
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# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] featuring [[Kai (Canadian singer)|Kai]] – "[[Never Be Like You]]"
# [[Amy Shark]] – "[[Adore (Amy Shark song)|Adore]]" 
# [[Tash Sultana]] – "[[Jungle (Tash Sultana song)|Jungle]]"
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] featuring [[Montaigne (musician)|Montaigne]] and Tom Thum – "[[1955 (song)|1955]]"
# [[Donald Glover|Childish Gambino]] – "[[Redbone (song)|Redbone]]"
# [[DMA's]] – "[[Believe (Cher song)|Believe]]" (''[[Like a Version]]'')
# [[Illy (rapper)|Illy]] featuring [[Vera Blue]] – "[[Papercuts (Illy song)|Papercuts]]"
# Flume featuring [[Tove Lo]] – "[[Say It (Flume song)|Say It]]"
# [[Peking Duk]] featuring [[Elliphant]] – "[[Stranger (Peking Duk song)|Stranger]]"
# [[The Weeknd]] featuring [[Daft Punk]] – "[[Starboy (song)|Starboy]]"
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* [[Violent Soho]] scored five tracks in the countdown.
* 2016's countdown featured 66 Australian entries, breaking the previous record of 59 set in 2014.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/triple-j-teases-tomorrow-hottest-100-results-juicy-stats/#/slide/1|title=Triple J Teases Tomorrow's Hottest 100 Results With Some Juicy&nbsp;Stats|author=Tom Williams|date=25 January 2017|magazine=Music Feeds|access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref> 
* This countdown set a new record for the longest Australian winning streak in the Hottest 100 (2013–2016), beating the previous streak between 1999 and 2001.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2017|2017]]'''
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# [[Kendrick Lamar]] – "[[Humble (song)|Humble.]]"
# [[Gang of Youths]] – "[[Let Me Down Easy (Gang of Youths song)|Let Me Down Easy]]"
# [[Angus & Julia Stone]] – "[[Chateau (Angus & Julia Stone song)|Chateau]]"
# [[Methyl Ethel]] – "Ubu"
# Gang of Youths – "[[The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows]]"
# [[Lorde]] – "[[Green Light (Lorde song)|Green Light]]"
# [[Pnau]] – "[[Go Bang (song)|Go Bang]]"
# [[Thundamentals]] featuring Mataya – "Sally"
# [[Vance Joy]] – "[[Lay It on Me (Vance Joy song)|Lay It on Me]]"
# Gang of Youths – "[[What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out?]]"
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* [[Kendrick Lamar]], [[Gang of Youths]], [[Lorde]] and [[The Jungle Giants]] scored four tracks each in the countdown.
* Gang of Youths became the third artist to chart three times in the top 10, joining [[Nick Murphy (musician)|Chet Faker]] (2014) and [[Powderfinger]] (2003), and the seventh artist to place twice in the top 5.
* Kendrick Lamar is the first African-American person to top the Hottest 100.
* Kendrick Lamar becomes the first artist to place first in a countdown after previously coming second.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2018|2018]]'''
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# [[Ocean Alley]] – "[[Confidence (Ocean Alley song)|Confidence]]"
# [[Fisher (musician)|Fisher]] – "[[Losing It (song)|Losing It]]"
# [[Travis Scott]] – "[[Sicko Mode]]"
# [[Donald Glover|Childish Gambino]] – "[[This Is America (song)|This Is America]]"
# [[Amy Shark]] – "[[I Said Hi]]"
# [[Dean Lewis]] – "[[Be Alright (Dean Lewis song)|Be Alright]]"
# [[Mallrat]] – "[[Groceries (song)|Groceries]]"
# [[Billie Eilish]] – "[[When the Party's Over (song)|When the Party's Over]]"
# [[Ruby Fields]] – "[[Dinosaurs (song)|Dinosaurs]]"
# [[Ocean Alley]] – "Knees"
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* [[Ocean Alley]] scored four tracks in the countdown, and became the second artist to be voted into No. 1 and No. 100 during the same countdown, after [[Powderfinger]] in 1999.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2019|2019]]'''
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# [[Billie Eilish]] – "[[Bad Guy (Billie Eilish song)|Bad Guy]]"
# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] featuring [[Vera Blue]] – "[[Rushing Back]]"
# [[Mallrat]] – "[[Charlie (Mallrat song)|Charlie]]"
# [[Tones and I]] – "[[Dance Monkey]]"
# [[Denzel Curry]] – "[[Bulls on Parade]]" (''[[Like a Version]]'')
# [[G Flip]] – "[[Drink Too Much]]"
# [[Lime Cordiale]] – "[[Robbery (Lime Cordiale song)|Robbery]]"
# [[The Jungle Giants]] – "[[Heavy Hearted (song)|Heavy Hearted]]"
# [[Thelma Plum]] – "[[Better in Blak (song)|Better in Blak]]"
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] featuring [[Illy (rapper)|Illy]] and [[Ecca Vandal]] – "[[Exit Sign (song)|Exit Sign]]" 
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*[[Billie Eilish]] scored five tracks in the countdown. The highest total from a female artist. 
*[[Billie Eilish]] becomes the youngest artist and the first female solo artist to top the Hottest 100.
*[[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] mark their first appearance in a Hottest 100 since 2000, their 19-year absence breaking the record for the longest in Hottest 100 history at the time.
*[[Denzel Curry]]'s [[Like a Version]] cover of [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s "[[Bulls on Parade]]" is the equal highest cover song. It is tied with [[Björk]], [[Spiderbait]] and [[Boy & Bear]] who achieved the feat in 1995, 2004 and 2010 respectively.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 of the 2010s|2010s (2020)]]'''
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# [[Tame Impala]] – "[[The Less I Know the Better]]" (2015)
# [[Gotye]] featuring [[Kimbra]] – "[[Somebody That I Used to Know]]" (2011)
# [[Arctic Monkeys]] – "[[Do I Wanna Know?]]" (2013)
# [[Violent Soho]] – "[[Covered in Chrome]]" (2013)
# [[Rüfüs Du Sol]] – "[[Innerbloom]]" (2015)
# [[Gang of Youths]] – "[[Magnolia (Gang of Youths song)|Magnolia]]" (2015)
# [[Foster the People]] – "[[Pumped Up Kicks]]" (2010)
# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] featuring [[Kai (Canadian singer)|Kai]] – "[[Never Be Like You]]" (2016)
# [[Angus & Julia Stone]] – "[[Big Jet Plane]]" (2010)
# [[Matt Corby]] – "[[Brother (Matt Corby song)|Brother]]" (2011)
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*Voting took place between 11 February and 9 March 2020, results were broadcast on 14 March 2020.
*Tracks placing between 101 and 200 were aired between 10 and 13 March 2020.
*[[Flume (musician)|Flume]] scored five tracks in the countdown and also was featured on two remixes with a total of seven appearances in the countdown.
*[[Rüfüs Du Sol]] were the first artist to have a song and its remix by [[What So Not]] to appear in the same countdown.
*[[Kanye West]] scored five tracks in the countdown.
*Tame Impala's win marks the first time since 1991 that the winning song hadn't previously won any countdown.
*Nine tracks in the countdown had not charted in a previous Hottest 100.<ref>{{cite web |title=Justice is served: here's the number of songs making their Hottest 100 debut 
|url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/musicnews/justice-served-hottest-100-decade-debut-countdown-songs/12049416 |website=Triple J |date=13 March 2020 |access-date=13 March 2020}}</ref>
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2020|2020]]'''
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# [[Glass Animals]] – "[[Heat Waves]]"
# [[Spacey Jane]] – "[[Booster Seat]]"
# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] and [[Toro y Moi]] – "[[The Difference (Flume and Toro y Moi song)|The Difference]]"
# [[Ball Park Music]] – "[[Cherub (song)|Cherub]]"
# [[Tame Impala]] – "[[Lost in Yesterday]]"
# [[Cardi B]] and [[Megan Thee Stallion]] – "[[WAP (song)|WAP]]"
# [[G Flip]] – "Hyperfine"
# [[The Jungle Giants]] – "[[Sending Me Ur Loving]]"
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] – "I'm Good?"
# [[Billie Eilish]] – "[[Therefore I Am (song)|Therefore I Am]]"
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*[[Lime Cordiale]] scored five tracks in the countdown.
*[[Flume (musician)|Flume]] becomes the first artist to have placed in each of the top 5 spots of the countdown.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2021|2021]]'''
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# [[The Wiggles]] – "[[Elephant (Tame Impala song)#The Wiggles version|Elephant]]" (''[[Like a Version]]'')
# [[The Kid Laroi]] and [[Justin Bieber]] – "[[Stay (The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber song)|Stay]]"
# [[Spacey Jane]] – "[[Lots of Nothing]]"
# [[Olivia Rodrigo]] – "[[Good 4 U]]"
# [[Billie Eilish]] – "[[Happier Than Ever (song)|Happier Than Ever]]"
# [[Gang of Youths]] – "[[The Angel of 8th Ave.]]"
# [[Doja Cat]] and [[SZA]] – "[[Kiss Me More]]"
# [[Lil Nas X]] and [[Jack Harlow]] – "[[Industry Baby]]"
# [[Rüfüs Du Sol]] – "[[On My Knees (Rüfüs Du Sol song)|On My Knees]]"
# Lil Nas X – "[[Montero (Call Me by Your Name)]]"
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*[[Olivia Rodrigo]] and [[Doja Cat]] scored five tracks each in the countdown.
*[[The Wiggles]]' "[[Elephant (Tame Impala song)#The Wiggles version|Elephant]]" becomes the first [[Like a Version]] cover to place first in the Hottest 100.
*Original Wiggles member [[Jeff Fatt]] becomes the oldest artist to top the Hottest 100.
*[[The Kid Laroi]] becomes the highest ranking [[Indigenous Australian]] artist in Hottest 100 history.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2022|2022]]'''
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# [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] featuring [[May-a]] – "[[Say Nothing (Flume song)|Say Nothing]]"
# [[Eliza Rose]] and [[Interplanetary Criminal]] – "[[B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)]]"
# [[Spacey Jane]] – "[[Hardlight (song)|Hardlight]]"
# [[Steve Lacy (singer)|Steve Lacy]] – "[[Bad Habit (Steve Lacy song)|Bad Habit]]"
# Spacey Jane – "[[It's Been a Long Day]]"
# Spacey Jane – "Sitting Up"
# [[Lizzo]] – "[[About Damn Time]]"
# [[Ball Park Music]] – "Stars in My Eyes"
# [[Gang of Youths]] – "[[In the Wake of Your Leave]]"
# [[Joji (musician)|Joji]] – "[[Glimpse of Us]]"
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* [[Spacey Jane]] scored six tracks in the countdown, including three songs in the top 10 – a feat only achieved three other times in the countdown's history (most recently, [[Gang of Youths]] in [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2017|2017]]). The band also became the eighth artist to have two songs poll in the top 5.
* [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] became the second artist after [[Powderfinger]] to top the Hottest 100 a second time, having previously had the No. 1 song in 2016.
* Spacey Jane are the first artist to feature in the top 3 of a countdown for the third consecutive year. They also finished third for the second year in a row. 
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 of Like a Version|Like a Version (2023)]]'''
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# [[DMA's]] – "[[Believe (Cher song)|Believe]]" (2016)
# [[Denzel Curry]] – "[[Bulls on Parade]]" (2019)
# [[Ocean Alley]] – "[[Baby Come Back (Player song)|Baby Come Back]]" (2018)
# [[Lime Cordiale]] – "[[I Touch Myself]]" (2019)
# [[A.B. Original]] featuring [[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]] and [[Dan Sultan]] – "[[Dumb Things]]" (2016)
# [[Gang of Youths]] – "Blood" (2017)
# [[King Stingray]] – "[[Yellow (Coldplay song)|Yellow]]" (2022)
# [[Thundamentals]] – "[[Brother (Matt Corby song)|Brother]]" (2012)
# [[Chet Faker]] – "[[(Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good]]" (2014)
# [[The Wiggles]] – "[[Elephant (Tame Impala song)|Elephant]]" (2021)
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* Celebrating 20 years of Triple J's live music segment, ''[[Like a Version]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Patterson |first1=Sarah |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 of Like A Version is on the way |url=https://radiotoday.com.au/triple-js-hottest-100-of-like-a-version-is-on-the-way/ |website=Radio Today |date=18 May 2023 |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
* [[Gang of Youths]] and [[Paul Dempsey]] both scored three tracks in the countdown.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2023|2023]]'''
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# [[Doja Cat]] – "[[Paint the Town Red (Doja Cat song)|Paint the Town Red]]"
# [[G Flip]] – "[[The Worst Person Alive]]"
# [[Dom Dolla]] – "[[Saving Up]]"
# [[MK (DJ)|MK]] and Dom Dolla – "[[Rhyme Dust]]"
# Cassö, [[Raye]] and [[D-Block Europe]] – "[[Prada (Cassö, Raye and D-Block Europe song)|Prada]]"
# [[Fred Again]].. and [[Obongjayar]] – "[[Adore U]]"
# [[Billie Eilish]] – "[[What Was I Made For?]]"
# [[Troye Sivan]] – "[[Rush (Troye Sivan song)|Rush]]"
# [[Jack Harlow]] – "[[Lovin on Me]]"
# [[Post Malone]] – "[[Chemical (Post Malone song)|Chemical]]"
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* [[G Flip]] scored a record seven tracks in the countdown. Breaking the record set by [[Wolfmother]] in 2005 and [[Spacey Jane]] in 2022.
* [[Doja Cat]] becomes the first female African-American artist and rapper to top the Hottest 100.
* [[Kylie Minogue]] marks her first appearance in the countdown since 1997, breaking the record for the longest gap between entries in Hottest 100 history with her 26-year absence.
* [[Dom Dolla]] is the ninth artist to have two songs poll in the top 5. He also equals [[The Offspring]]'s record set in 1994 for the highest consecutive appearances in a Hottest 100. 
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 2024|2024]]'''
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# [[Chappell Roan]] – "[[Good Luck, Babe!]]"
# [[Royel Otis]] – "[[Murder on the Dancefloor]]" (''[[Like a Version]]'')
# [[Billie Eilish]] – "[[Birds of a Feather (Billie Eilish song)|Birds of a Feather]]"
# [[Lola Young (singer)|Lola Young]] – "[[Messy (Lola Young song)|Messy]]"
# [[Gracie Abrams]] – "[[That's So True]]"
# [[Charli XCX]] featuring Billie Eilish – "[[Guess (song)|Guess]]"
# [[Dom Dolla]] – "[[Girls (Dom Dolla song)|Girls]]"
# [[Kendrick Lamar]] – "[[Not Like Us]]"
# [[G Flip]] – "[[Cruel Summer (Taylor Swift song)|Cruel Summer]]" (''[[Like a Version]]'')
# [[Fred Again]] and [[Baby Keem]] – "[[Leavemealone]]"
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* [[Charli XCX]] and [[Billie Eilish]] both had eight appearances in the countdown, setting the current record for the most appearances by an artist in a single countdown.
* The 2024 countdown featured 29 Australian entries, the lowest since 1996.
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|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs|Australian Songs (2025)]]'''
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# [[INXS]] – "[[Never Tear Us Apart]]" (1987)
# [[Hilltop Hoods]] – "[[The Nosebleed Section]]" (2003)
# [[The Veronicas]] – "[[Untouched (song)|Untouched]]" (2007)
# [[Missy Higgins]] – "[[Scar (song)|Scar]]" (2004)
# [[Crowded House]] – "[[Don't Dream It's Over]]" (1986)
# [[Powderfinger]] – "[[My Happiness (Powderfinger song)|My Happiness]]" (2000)
# [[Cold Chisel]] – "[[Flame Trees]]" (1984)
# Cold Chisel – "[[Khe Sanh (song)|Khe Sanh]] (1978)
# [[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]] – "[[How to Make Gravy]]" (1996)
# [[Gotye]] featuring [[Kimbra]] – "[[Somebody That I Used to Know]]" (2011)
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* The first Hottest 100 specifically for Australian songs.
*[[Bernard Fanning]] scored fours tracks on the countdown; three with Powderfinger and one as a solo artist.
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== Impact ==
The Hottest 100 has been branded a "national institution" and "the world's greatest music democracy".<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Clarke |first=Tom W. |title=Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100 |publisher=Melbourne Books |year=2023 |isbn=9781922779076 |location=Melbourne}}</ref> The countdown receives millions of votes every year— in 2019, a record of 3.2 million were cast.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 January 2020 |title=Hottest 100 Voting Record Smashed: 'We Didn't Think It Was Possible' |url=https://themusic.com.au/news/triple-j-hottest-100-2019-voting-record/0kLOxMfGycg/22-01-20 |access-date=26 January 2025 |work=[[The Music (magazine)|The Music]]}}</ref> In 2022, one in two Australians engaged with the Hottest 100 campaign, and 3.6 million people listened on the day, according to national ratings.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 March 2022 |title=1 in 2 Australians engaged with the Hottest 100 in a record-breaking year |url=https://radioinfo.com.au/news/1-in-2-australians-engaged-with-the-hottest-100-in-a-record-breaking-year/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |work=RadioInfo}}</ref> 
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| author = Mitch Galbraith of [[Ocean Alley]]<ref name="SMHhouse" />
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Musicians who have taken out the number one spot have often seen a popularity boost after the annual countdown. Following [[Alex Lloyd]] winning the [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2001|2001 countdown]] with "[[Amazing (Alex Lloyd song)|Amazing]]", it became the most played song on [[List of radio stations in Australia|Australian radio]] for the next year. The singer said [[Commercial broadcasting|commercial stations]] only started playing it after his win on Triple J; from royalties then received, he was able to buy a house.<ref name="SMHhouse">{{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Thomas |date=24 January 2025 |title='Helped me buy a house': What does it mean to win the Hottest 100? |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/helped-me-buy-a-house-what-does-it-mean-to-win-the-hottest-100-20250123-p5l6ta.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250124055014/https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/helped-me-buy-a-house-what-does-it-mean-to-win-the-hottest-100-20250123-p5l6ta.html |archive-date=24 January 2025 |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref> Alternative rock band [[the Rubens]] won the [[Triple J Hottest 100, 2015|Hottest 100 of 2015]] and immediately had to upgrade the venues for their upcoming tour due to an influx of new fans.<ref name="SMHhouse" />

== Voter turnout and fundraising ==
Since the 2015 countdown, Triple J has annually partnered with an Australian organisation to donate all funds raised from Hottest 100 merchandise, usually a [[T-shirt]] branded with the countdown's logo. In total, these fundraisers have raised over $3.3 million for a variety of causes that the broadcaster deems most important to listeners each year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moskovitch |first=Greg |date=2015-12-08 |title=Triple J Announce First-Ever Hottest 100 Partnership |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/triple-j-announce-first-ever-hottest-100-partnership/ |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=Tone Deaf |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-12 |title=Here's what your Hottest 100 donations can do |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/hottest-100-donations/11757994 |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=Triple J |language=en-AU}}</ref>{{Table alignment}}
{| class="wikitable defaultcenter sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ List of votes counted and fundraising history
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Votes cast
! class="unsortable" scope="col" | {{Abbr|VR|Voting Record}}?
!Charity partner
!Amount raised
! class="unsortable" scope="col" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|1990 (All Time)
|10,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|rowspan="25" {{N/A}}
|rowspan="25" {{N/A}}|
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Casimir |first=Jon |date=21 May 1990 |title=JJJ Fans show their attitude |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |quote=Six weeks ago, listeners were asked to list of their 10 favourite tunes. More than 10,000 songs were nominated.}}</ref>
|-
|1993
|50,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Doughty |first=Clayton |date=27 Dec 1993 |title=Radio Highlights |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |quote=TRIPLE J informs The Guide that more than 50,000 people cast their vote in their Hottest 100 Songs for 1993 Poll, making it probably Australia's biggest music poll.}}</ref>
|-
|1995
|100,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=MACDONALD |first=EMMA |date=13 January 1997 |title=Australian Band Spiderbait Traps Triple J's Top Title |work=[[The Canberra Times]] |quote=Triple J's "Hottest 100", when the songs are played one after the other, drew a record number of votes - 300,000, compared with last year's 100,000 - and even more listeners.}}</ref>
|-
|1996
|300,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref name=":10" />
|-
|1997
|250,000
|
|<ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Chapman |first=Heather |date=25 Jan 1999 |title=On The Air |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |quote=TRIPLE J says it has received more than 500,000 votes for listeners' favourite 1998 songs for tomorrow's Hottest 100 Day - more than double the number last year.}}</ref>
|-
|1998
|500,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref name=":8" />
|-
|1998 (All Time)
|100,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chapman |first=Heather |date=8 Jun 1998 |title=On The Air |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |quote=Network manager Ed Breslin says 100,000 listeners voted by phone, fax and the Internet in the Hottest 100 Hits Of All Time survey.}}</ref>
|-
|1999
|650,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 Jan 2001 |title=Australia Day a hot one for Triple J |work=[[Illawarra Mercury]] |quote=Voting for the 2000 selection was stronger than ever, with more than 830,000 nominations collected. This was a dramatic jump of more than 180,000 votes on the 1999 total.}}</ref>
|-
|2000
|900,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vale |first=Byron |date=27 Jan 2001 |title=Powder fans put their happy fingers on No 1 |work=[[The Courier-Mail]] |quote=More than 900,000 votes were cast in the Triple J Hottest 100, the annual eight-hour countdown of the most popular tunes played on the national youth broadcaster.}}</ref>
|-
|2001
|350,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Scatena |first=Dino |date=24 January 2002 |title=The truth, the whole truth & nothing but gossip |work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |quote=Part of the festivities at Saturday's BDO will include a live on- site broadcast by Triple J, slowing down the counting of results of the station's annual Hottest 100 poll. This year's election drew 350,000 votes.}}</ref>
|-
|2003
|383,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=McCabe |first=Kathy |date=26 January 2004 |title=Home-grown band soars to top of poll |work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)]] |quote=A phenomenal 13 local artists featured in the top 20 of the world's biggest publicly-voted music poll, which attracted 383,000 online votes for the 2003 list.}}</ref>
|-
|2004
|475,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=2021-12-13 |title=Revisiting triple j’s Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2004 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2004/ |access-date=2025-10-03 |website=Tone Deaf |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2005
|606,060
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eliezer |first=Christie |date=2006-01-27 |title=Fanning Hit Hottest On Aussie Poll |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/fanning-hit-hottest-on-aussie-poll-1358587/ |access-date=2025-10-03 |website=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|2006
|671,024
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Augie March win Hottest 100 {{!}} NEWS.com.au |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21124724-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071226224130/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21124724-2,00.html |archive-date=2007-12-26 |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=www.news.com.au |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2007
|700,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=2021-12-16 |title=Revisiting triple j’s Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2007 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2007/ |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=Tone Deaf |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2008
|800,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=2021-12-17 |title=Revisiting triple j’s Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2008 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2008/ |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=Tone Deaf |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2009
|1,100,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=2021-12-18 |title=Revisiting triple j’s Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2009 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2009/ |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=Tone Deaf |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2009{{Br}}{{Small|(All Time)}}
|500,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-21 |title=The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time 2009 and the Dominance of the Rock Canon |url=https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-triple-j-hottest-100-of-all-time-2009-and-the-dominance-of-the-rock-canon/ |access-date=2025-09-26 |website=Meanjin |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2010
|1,260,000
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=2021-12-19 |title=Revisiting triple j’s Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2010 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2010/ |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=Tone Deaf |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2011
|1,378,869
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jenke |first1=Tyler |title=Revisiting triple j's Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2011 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2011/ |website=Tone Deaf |date=20 December 2021 |access-date=7 August 2025}}</ref>
|-
|2011{{Br}}{{Small|(Australian Albums)}}
|47,000
|
|<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Brandle |first1=Lars |title=Powderfinger Tops Triple J Hottest Australian Albums Poll |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/powderfinger-tops-triple-j-hottest-australian-albums-poll-1177137/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=7 August 2025}}</ref>
|-
|2012
|1,516,765
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jenke |first1=Tyler |title=Revisiting triple j's Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2012 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2012/ |website=Tone Deaf |date=21 December 2021 |access-date=7 August 2025}}</ref>
|-
|2013
|1,490,000
|
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Page |first=Emma |date=27 January 2014 |title=Northern Beaches music artist Flume caps off successful year, taking fifth place in Triple J's Hottest 100 with Drop The Game |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/northern-beaches/northern-beaches-music-artist-flume-caps-off-successful-year-taking-fifth-place-in-triple-js-hottest-100-with-drop-the-game/news-story/0d5f44c0f600783be8f0556f52a13860 |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
|-
|2013{{Br}}{{Small|(Past 20 Years)}}
|940,000
|
|<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Brandle |first1=Lars |title=Oasis Take Out 20-Year Song Poll Down Under |magazine=Billboard |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/oasis-take-out-20-year-song-poll-down-under-1566376/ |access-date=7 August 2025}}</ref>
|-
|2014
|2,099,707
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenke |first=Tyler |date=22 December 2021 |title=Revisiting triple j's Hottest 100s of years gone by: 2014 |url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/revisiting-triple-j-hottest-100-2014/ |access-date=15 January 2025 |website=Tone Deaf |publisher=[[Brag Media]]}}</ref>
|-
|2015
|2,094,000
|
| rowspan="3" |Australian Indigenous{{Br}}Mentoring Experience
|$100,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Ruby |date=26 January 2016 |title=Triple J Hottest 100 voters set record for 2016 music poll |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-26/triple-j-hottest-100-voters-set-new-record/7112504 |access-date=15 January 2024 |work=ABC News |publisher=}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Napier |first=Kim |date=2016-09-13 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 partners with AIME |url=https://radioinfo.com.au/news/triple-js-hottest-100-partners-aime/ |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=RadioInfo Australia |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|2016
|2,255,110
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|$250,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 January 2017 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100: Everything you need to know |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-25/everything-you-need-to-know-about-triple-js-hottest-100/8211272 |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=ABC News}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2016-09-13 |title=Triple J to keep 2017 Hottest 100 on Australia Day, but 'future years under review' |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/13/triple-j-hottest-100-australia-day-future-years-under-review |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2017
|2,286,133
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|$250,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Zanda |date=23 January 2018 |title=2017 is officially Triple J's most voted-in Hottest 100 of all time |url=https://radiotoday.com.au/2017-triple-j-hottest-100-officially-participated-countdown-ever/ |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=Radio Today}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Mack |first=Emmy |date=2018-03-12 |title=Here's How Many People Tuned Into The Triple J Hottest 100 This Year |url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/heres-many-people-tuned-triple-j-hottest-100-year/ |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=Music Feeds}}</ref>
|-
|2018
|2,758,584
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|[[Lifeline (crisis support service)|Lifeline]]
|$631,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 January 2019 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2018: Live Updates |url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/triple-js-hottest-100-of-2018-live-updates/ |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[Music Feeds]]}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=2019-01-27 |title=Hottest 100 By The Numbers |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/triple-j-hottest-100-2018-countdown-by-the-numbers-stats-facts/10746010 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=Triple J |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
|2019
|3,211,596
|{{MaybeCheck}}
|[[Greening Australia]]
|$250,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 January 2020 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 cracks 3 million votes |url=https://radioinfo.com.au/news/triple-js-hottest-100-cracks-3-million-votes/ |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=RadioInfo Australia}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2020-01-30 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 raises $250k for Greening Australia |url=https://mumbrella.com.au/triple-js-hottest-100-raises-250k-for-greening-australia-615042 |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=Mumbrella |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|2020{{Br}}{{Small|(2010s)}}
|1,869,659
|
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Samantha |date=14 March 2020 |title=Tame Impala's The Less I Know The Better wins Triple J Hottest 100 of the Decade |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/music/tame-impalas-the-less-i-know-the-better-wins-triple-j-hottest-100-of-the-decade-ng-b881489614z |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=[[PerthNow]]}}</ref>
|-
|2020
|2,790,224
|
| rowspan="2" |Lifeline
|$653,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Newstead |first=Al |date=23 January 2021 |title=Hottest 100 by the numbers: Stats fakin' me out |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/hottest-100-of-2020-by-the-numbers-stats-facts-trivia/13085394 |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=Triple J}}</ref>
|-
|2021
|2,700,000
|
|$1,200,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Neal |first=Matt |date=20 January 2022 |title=The changing face of Triple J's Hottest 100 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-20/the-changing-face-of-triple-js-hottest-100/100705764 |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=ABC News}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=9 March 2022 |title=2021 Triple J Hottest 100 breaks records for the station |url=https://www.mediaweek.com.au/2021-triple-j-hottest-100-breaks-records-for-the-station/ |website=Mediaweek}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|2,436,565
|
|[[Australian Conservation Foundation|Australian Conservation]]{{Br}}[[Australian Conservation Foundation|Foundation]]
|$550,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Winter |first=Velvet |date=28 January 2023 |title=Flume and May-a take out the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022 — as it happened |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-28/hottest-100-live-blog-triple-j-2022/101887152 |access-date=15 January 2025 |work=ABC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=10 October 2023 |title=Hottest 100 supports Australian Conservation Foundation |url=https://www.abc.net.au/gives/hottest-100-acf/102957284 |access-date=26 January 2025 |website=ABC Gives}}</ref>
|-
|2023
|2,355,870
|
|[[Headspace (organisation)|Headspace]]
|$502,000
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fry |first=Courtney |date=27 January 2024 |title=Movers, shakers and history makers: Here's your Hottest 100 in numbers and trends |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/hottest-100-2023-trends-overview/103397316 |access-date=15 January 2025 |website=Triple J}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Welsh |first=Caitlin |date=27 January 2024 |title=Triple J Hottest 100: Doja Cat tops poll with Paint the Town Red as G Flip breaks record for most entries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/27/triple-j-hottest-100-doja-cat-tops-poll-with-paint-the-town-red-as-g-flip-sets-record-most-entries |access-date=6 February 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
|-
|2024
|2,489,446
|
|We Are Mobilise
|$312,000
|<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 January 2025 |title=Chappell Roan tops triple j's Hottest 100 |url=https://radiotoday.com.au/chappell-roan-tops-triple-js-hottest-100/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |work=Radio Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Winter |first=Velvet |date=25 January 2025 |title=Chappell Roan voted number one in the 2024 Triple J Hottest 100 countdown — as it happened |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-25/triple-j-hottest-100-2024-live-updates/104855230 |access-date=26 January 2025 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]}}</ref>
|-
|2025{{Br}}{{Small|(Australian Songs)}}
|2,655,826
|
|{{N/A}}
|{{N/A}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Perry |first=Kevin |date=25 July 2025 |title=Triple J's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs: Countdown set to ignite the nation this Saturday |url=https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2025/07/25/triple-js-hottest-100-of-australian-songs-countdown-set-to-ignite-the-nation-this-saturday/ |access-date=25 July 2025 |work=TV Blackbox}}</ref>
|}

==Notable artists==
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{{Original research section|date=January 2020}}

Since its inception, the artists who have been featured the most in the annual countdown are [[Billie Eilish]] and [[Hilltop Hoods]], who have both appeared 25 times; [[Powderfinger]], with 22 songs between 1996 and 2009; [[Foo Fighters]], who charted 22 times between 1995 and 2014<ref name="archive">{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/archive/search/|title=Search &#124; Hottest 100 Archive|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=11 November 2017}}</ref> (in 2011, it was incorrectly stated that Foo Fighters had the most appearances<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hottest100.org/fingervsfoo.html|title = Powderfinger vs. Foo Fighters &#124; Hottest 100 - an Unofficial Database}}</ref>); and [[Tame Impala]], [[Kanye West]] and [[G Flip]], with each appearing 19 times.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fry |first1=Courtney |title=G Flip breaks record for the greatest number of entries in a single Hottest 100 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/g-flip-most-entries-single-hottest-100-record-broken/103397256 |website=Triple J |date=27 January 2024 |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=3 February 2024}}</ref> Powderfinger's frontman, [[Bernard Fanning]], has taken the top spot on three occasions, twice with [[Powderfinger]] in 1999 and 2000, and once as a solo artist in 2005; only one other artist, [[Flume (musician)|Flume]] (twice) has topped an annual countdown more than once. [[Dave Grohl]], frontman of the Foo Fighters, has appeared in annual countdowns 32 times, including five times with [[Queens of the Stone Age]] in 2002, four times with [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], and once with [[Them Crooked Vultures]].

If charting the number of countdowns an artist has appeared in, rather than the number of their songs that have been voted in, the Foo Fighters still hold the record; their songs have featured in 13 of the annual countdowns, including a streak of six consecutive appearances between 1995 and 2000. However, the record for the most consecutive appearances belongs to [[The Living End]], who had at least one song appear in every annual countdown for ten years, between 1997 and 2006.

When including all of Triple J's countdowns (adding the five Hottest 100 of All Time countdowns, the [[Triple J Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time, 2011|2011 Australian Albums countdown]], and the 2013 Twenty Years countdown), [[The Cure]] has made more appearances than any other band, with 31 entries in the All Time countdowns and five in the yearly countdowns. Powderfinger and [[Silverchair]] have been featured 30 and 28 times, respectively, in total. As for individuals, Dave Grohl has achieved 47 entries (24 with Foo Fighters, 15 with Nirvana, seven with Queens of the Stone Age, and one with Them Crooked Vultures), Bernard Fanning has 33 (30 with Powderfinger, three as a solo artist), and [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]] has 32 (31 with The Cure, one from a solo collaboration with [[Crystal Castles (band)|Crystal Castles]] in 2010).<ref name="archive" />

==See also==
{{Portal|Music|Australia}}
*[[KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns]]
*[[Festive Fifty]]
*''[[Top 2000]]''
*[[Top 100 Books of the 21st Century]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/ Hottest 100 section of the Triple J website]
*[https://bl.ocks.org/cpudney/raw/06a28f9454d7e389b676/ Chart of artists with most Hottest 100 entries 1993 – 2015]

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