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. The first Hottest 100 DVD, triple j Hottest 100: The Hottest Videos For 2002, was released in 2002. Since 1999, Australian acts have made up the majority of the polls. In 1996, Spiderbait became the first Australian act to reach number 1. Denis Leary's ' Asshole' was voted in the number-one position in that year, while the radio-edited version of Ween's 'Push the Little Daisies', featuring a sample of musician Prince howling in place of the word 'shit', appeared on the CD. The inaugural Hottest 100 compilation CD, triple j Hottest 100 (The Hottest Of The Hottest), was released by ABC Music in 1994. Denis Leary's comedy anthem 'Asshole' was voted number 1 in 1993. The newly launched poll required listeners to vote for their favourite songs of that year. 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. In 1991, triple j was forced to change the poll's name to 'Hottest 100' to avoid legal action with 4ZZZ.ĭuring the poll's first few years - from 1989 to 1991 - the winner in the first two years was ' Love Will Tear Us Apart' by Joy Division, while 1991's favourite song was ' Smells Like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana, which had been released that year.ġ992–1995: The Hottest 100 American comedian Denis Leary topped the first annual Hottest 100 in 1993 The station repeated the event the following year when it started broadcasting to other capital cities besides Sydney. The results of the first poll were counted down on Sunday 5 March 1989 between 10am and 6pm. Some entries were sent into the station written on a variety of items, including paintings, sculptures, and hand-rolled cannabis cigarettes. įor 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. The idea was taken from Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ, which developed the original Hot 100 in 1976. During this time, he conceived the idea of running a listener poll to determine their 100 favourite songs of all time. The idea for the poll came from triple j producer Lawrie Zion in late 1988.

In 2023, triple j launched triple j Hottest, an online radio station featuring a playlist of tracks from all previous Hottest 100 countdowns. Australian musician Flume's song ' Say Nothing' featuring May-a, is the latest song to top the Hottest 100. ABC Music issued physical compilation albums following each year's countdown until 2022. Since 2015, the countdown has raised at least $3.3 million for various Australian charity partners, including Lifeline, through merchandise sales. 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'. Typically, on the day after the Hottest 100, triple j has played the Hottest 200 ('the songs that didn't quite make it') from 10 am. Since then, the countdown has been held on the fourth weekend of January due to increasing controversy about Australia Day regarding its marking of the colonisation of Australia and dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.

įrom the mid 1990s, the 100 most popular songs were counted down on Australia Day. Members of the public are invited to vote for their favourite Australian and alternative music of the year in an online poll conducted two weeks prior to the new year. The triple j Hottest 100 is an annual music listener poll hosted by the publicly funded national Australian youth radio station triple j. The 4th Saturday in January (formerly 26th January) The year's top 100 songs as voted in a music listener poll

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