Editing Triple J Hottest 100 (section)

==Hottest 100 top tens and summaries==
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|'''Note''': All-time countdowns
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|+ List of Triple J Hottest 100 countdowns by year, with top tens and highlights
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! Highlights
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| 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]] |accessdate=September 7, 2024}}</ref>
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#[[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)
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*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.
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| 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>
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#[[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)
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*The second of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year.
*[[The Cure]] scored seven songs in the countdown.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1991|All time (1991)]]'''
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#[[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)
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*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.
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| style="vertical-align:middle;"|'''1992'''
| colspan="2"|'''''No Hottest 100 Held'''''
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1993|1993]]'''
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#[[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"
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*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.
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| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|'''[[Triple J Hottest 100, 1994|1994]]'''
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#[[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 (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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#[[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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# [[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, 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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#[[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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#[[Alex Lloyd]] – "[[Amazing (Alex Lloyd song)|Amazing]]"
#[[Something for Kate]] – "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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#[[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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#[[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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#[[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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#[[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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#[[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']]"
#[[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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#[[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]], [[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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#[[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]] 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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#[[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 (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]]" (2000)
# [[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 [[Arctic Monkeys]] 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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# [[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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# [[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]] and Billie Eilish – "[[Guess (song)|Guess featuring Billie Eilish]]"
# [[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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